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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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AED 221 - Practicum in Art Education An introduction to art education theories and processes through readings, writings, discussion, and observation. The examination of the relationship between art-making and learning is relevant to prospective art and classroom teachers. All AED students (k-12 certification and community arts) are required to successfully complete a minimum of 2 semesters of Art Lab prior to their capstone.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above and art foundation. Co-requisite(s): AED 222 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
AED 222 - Art Lab This on-campus teaching practicum examines the relationship between art education theory and practice. All AED students (both the k-12 certification and community arts program) are required to successfully complete a minimum of two semesters of Art Lab prior to their capstone.
Prerequisite(s): HRD 200 . Co-requisite(s): AED 221 , AED 321 . Credits: 1-3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Art Education
AED 230 - Teaching Through the Arts This course focuses on integrating art-based teaching and learning across the p-12 curriculum. It will give insight to comprehending a visual language in both students and teachers, by using developmentally appropriate art practices, which foster creative connections and studio habits of mind. This course requires arts-based field experiences to be arranged during the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
AED 321 - Principles and Procedures in Art Education History and philosophy of art education, theories of child art, relationship of goals to art education strategies, development of a workable set of beliefs about art education through readings, writings, discussion, observation. All AED students (k-12 certification and community arts) are required to successfully complete a minimum of 2 semesters of art lab prior to their capstone. Intended for the art education major.
Prerequisite(s): AED 221 , minimum 1 credit of AED 222 , and art foundation. Co-requisite(s): AED 222 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
AED 324 - Student Teaching in Art Education The student teaching year consists of two semesters. During the fall semester, students are in an elementary school half-time for eight weeks and in a secondary school half-time for the remaining eight weeks. During the spring semester, experiences are in the same schools, full-time for eight weeks each. Students are under direct supervision of supervising teachers and a university supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
AED 400 - Community Art Education Internship (CAED) Students work in areas that pertain to community-based arts education and that are related to their individual career aspirations. Internship sites include: galleries, public and private art organizations, museums, nonprofit organizations, and cultural institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status or above, HRD 200 , AED 221 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 12 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
AED 421 - Seminar in Art Education This seminar examines art curriculum design and evaluation. Critical issues in art education for the emerging art education professional today are explored through discussion, writings, and readings. This course is to be taken while student teaching.
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of AED 222 (minimum of 2 credits) and AED 321 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
AED 428 - Independent Study in Art Education An opportunity for the student who has demonstrated competence in a specific area of study to work independently, with scheduled tutoring from a faculty member of the student’s choice.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and Art Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art Education
ARH 111 - Art History: Prehistoric through Medieval Examination and discussion of the painting, sculpture, and architecture from prehistoric cultures to the late Middle Ages. The course emphasizes the relationship of the visual arts to social, political, religious, and cultural trends, and introduces students to various methods of art-historical interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): ENG 102 . Preference given to candidates for matirculation in the Department of Art, or those with permission of the instructor. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 112 - Art History: Renaissance to the Present Examination and discussion of the painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. The course emphasizes the relationship of the visual arts to social, political, religious, and cultural trends and introduces students to various methods of art-historical interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): ENG 102 . Preference given to candidates for matriculation in the Department of Art, or those with permission of instructor. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 310 - Art History: Cross-Cultural Perspectives The course covers global issues in art history. Major topic areas include a) how art conveys cultural values and biases, b) why foreign styles are adopted, c) why different values produce different forms.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 111 or ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 311 - Gender Identity and Modern Art This course examines the construction of gender and sexuality in Western visual arts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Students will analyze both the art and art criticism of the period, focusing on the work of female, feminist, and gay artists.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 312 - Art as Social Action This course will study art as social action and the artist’s social roles and responsibilities. The primary focus will be on modern and contemporary art and related theoretical issues that address the role of art in society.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of an upper-level art history course with a grade of C or higher. Any three of Creative Expression, Cultural Interpretation, Science Exploration, or Social-cultural Analysis. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 318 - History of Photography This course studies photography from its invention in the 19th century to the present day. It considers photography from historical, theoretical, social, and artistic perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 321 - Classical Art A survey of ancient art and architecture with special emphasis on the key monuments of Greek and Roman art and their influence on later artistic periods.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 322 - Medieval Art A survey of the various medieval styles from the Early Christian through the Gothic period with a special section on Islamic art. The relationship of culture to art will be examined for architecture, painting, and sculpture.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 323 - Renaissance Art An examination of the art and architecture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries both north and south of the Alps. Emphasis will be given to the cultural traditions, historical events and theoretical foundations that contributed to the development of Renaissance art.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 112 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 325 - American Art Survey of North American painting, sculpture, and architecture from the sixteenth century to 1940. The art will be examined in the context of aesthetic and cultural ideals, historical events, and multiculturalism. Field trips to local museums and architectural sites.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 326 - Nineteenth-Century European Art Examination and discussion of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from neoclassicism through post-impressionism (1790-1900). The course will focus on the relationship between the visual arts and the political, social, and aesthetic revolutions of the century.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 327 - Modern Art Examination of modern art and artistic movements from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the history and theories of modern art in social and cultural context.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 112 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 328 - Art after 1945 Examination of developments in the visual arts from World War II to the present.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 112 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 329 - Asian Art A survey of some major styles in Asian art (India, China, Japan). The course emphasizes the cultural and religious factors that influenced the art.
Prerequisite(s): ARH 111 or ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art History
ARH 410 - Seminar in Art History This course is a requirement for students concentrating in art history. Designed for the advanced student, the course probes different methodological and theoretical approaches to the study and interpretation of the visual arts. Students will examine the writings of pioneers in the field, long-standing art historical methods, and the “new” art history. This course is also a research seminar.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 412 - Topics in Art History A seminar on a selected topic in art history that will be the focus of in-depth research and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ARH 418 - Independent Study in Art History An opportunity for the student who has demonstrated competence in a specific area of study to work independently with scheduled tutoring from a faculty member of the student’s choice.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and Art Department chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art History
ART 124 - Cre8: The Art of Creativity Explore the concepts, tools and strategies for innovation, the creative process and creative problem solving through selected hands on exercises, readings, discussions, project based work and creative assignments in a variety of media and approaches. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking as students analyze, compare, and contrast problem-solving tools and techniques employed by creative makers and thinkers from artists to scientists and entrepreneurs. Students adopt these concepts, tools and strategies to self-defined tasks for creative activity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 141 - Surface, Space, Time (2D) Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of 2-D design and color theory through a series of exercises and applied problems in visual organization.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 142 - Surface, Space, Time (3D) Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of 3-D design through a series of projects, demonstrations and discussions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 151 - Fundamentals of Perceptual Drawing Introduction to basic skills and approaches to perceptual drawing. This course develops students’ visual awareness and understanding of the range of drawing materials and techniques. Students will develop responses to the visual environment employing varied stylistic and technical approaches. Exercises include still life, figure study, portrait, and landscape.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 170 - The Power of Amateur Photography This is an introductory course designed for the amateur photographer to develop one’s personal vision and expand the understanding of technical and aesthetic possibilities of mobile photography. Through specific assignments and presentations from historical and contemporary photographic works and practices, students will explore the powerful possibilities of amateur photography using a mobile device.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 222 - Digital Art & Design The course provides an overview of elements, principles and theories of digital art and design. The class moves from basic principles of 2-D design to animation, interactivity and principles of time-based art.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Semesters Course Type: Art
ART 231 - Introduction to Ceramics I An introduction to methods and processes of clay forming, including historical context, modeling, press molding, hand-building, and the potter’s wheel. Emphasis on form and texture, with aspects of glaze composition and firing procedures.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 232 - Introduction to Ceramics II This course focuses on the exploration of materials and ceramic processes. The emphasis is on creating sculptural forms with aspects of glaze composition and firing procedures. Students will engage in glaze and clay formulation and loading and firing kilns.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 241 - Introduction to The Visual Book This course will use the visual artist’s book as a medium for personal expression. Students will incorporate 2D and 3D skills to create a collection of unique books. A variety of traditional and nontraditional books, arts, and techniques will be used to develop both form and content.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 251 - Drawing: Media and Strategies Course explores various drawing processes combining media, color and colored grounds and supports to expand students’ conceptual image-making skills. Emphasis will be placed on the role of subject matter and imagery through projects and through examination of historical and contemporary art.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 261 - Introduction to Painting Students will gain a working knowledge of the materials and techniques of painting, its various supports, grounds, and pigments. Work is primarily from observation and will include still life, figure, and landscape. Studies will focus on physical properties of color and color mixing, principles and concepts of spatial organization, and pictorial form.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 271 - Photography: Analog to Digital An introduction to historical developments and evolution of imaging technologies from traditional black and white photography and other experimental analog processes, extending to introduction of digital applications and multimedia possibilities.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 281 - Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio and Relief This course introduces intaglio and relief printmaking techniques. The class includes traditional dry and wet processes for intaglio such as drypoint, engraving, etching, and aquatint. It also addresses color printing methods for linoleum and woodcut.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 282 - Introduction to Printmaking: Lithography and Screen Printing This course introduces planographic methods of printing. Students will explore traditional lithography on stone as well as direct hand methods and photomechanical methods for screen printing.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 291 - Sculpture: Additive and Subtractive Processes An introduction to fundamental processes of sculptural expression employing additive and subtractive processes. These will include observational modeling, aggregate forming and casting, basic mold-making and carving and studio safety. Students will become acquainted with contemporary and historical approaches through ongoing studio work, process centered projects, demonstrations, critiques, individual and group discussions, and readings.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 292 - Sculpture: Altered and Constructed Processes An introduction to fundamental processes of sculptural expression employing altered object and construction forms. Topics and processes will include basic wood and metal fabrication techniques, acquired objects and site based works, and studio safety. Students will become acquainted with contemporary and historical approaches through ongoing studio work, process centered projects, demonstrations, critiques, individual and group discussions, and readings.
Prerequisite(s): ART 141 ; ART 142 ; ART 151 ; ARH 111 ; ARH 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 312 - Topics in Studio Art A course on selected topics in studio arts.
Prerequisite(s): Two ART 200-level courses, and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 321 - Exploring Time-Based Art & Design This course uses digital media to explore creative concepts, tools and processes in time-based art and design. The focus will be on broadening the concept of digital media through experimentation with interactivity and installation.
Prerequisite(s): ART 222 and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Art
ART 332 - Intermediate Ceramics Students combine several methods of forming clay in one work and explore the complex use of nature and design. Students engage in historical research and presentation, develop continuity in personal practice and explore alternative firing methods.
Prerequisite(s): ART 231 , ART 232 , and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 341 - The Visual Book II: Historical Influences on Contemporary Artists’ Books With attention to content and design, students will create a group of Artist’s Books with specific historical references inspired by research into particular cultures and contemporary art movements. The Special Collections of USM Libraries and other local university and college libraries will be important course resources.
Prerequisite(s): ART 241 and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 342 - Book Arts Summer Workshop This course begins with a series of workshops during a seven-day session. Students will study skills and techniques that give them insights into design, history and aesthetics specific to Book Arts. Each student creates an artist’s book for a September exhibition at the USM Glickman Family Library.
Prerequisite(s): ART 241 and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be taken multiple times as the workshop changes each summer. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 352 - Experimental Drawing Course explores an expanded notion of drawing that engages issues of time, space, process, and emerging media. Students will study contemporary developments and applications of drawing in areas outside of traditional drawing.
Prerequisite(s): ART 251 and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Art
ART 361 - Intermediate Drawing and Painting: The Figure Course focuses on the study and depiction of the human figure working directly from the model. Students explore naturalistic drawing and painting techniques and are encouraged to develop personal interpretations.
Prerequisite(s): ART 251 , ART 261 , and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 372 - Digital Photography This class will give students a thorough understanding of the digital workflow, from capture to process to print. Students will be introduced to the principles of color photography, color theory, and color management. Students will work extensively in image processing techniques and methods while working on their own original projects.
Prerequisite(s): ART 271 and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Semester Course Type: Art
ART 382 - Experimental Printmaking This course introduces methods of printmaking that are experimental, photographic, and digital in nature. Students will learn contemporary approaches to topics such as photogravure and duotones, non-toxic photomechanical methods, and experimental traditional and non-traditional means of generating prints and multiples.
Prerequisite(s): ART 281 , ART 282 , or ART 222 , and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Art
ART 393 - Topics in Sculpture Students will develop a deepening sculptural capacity through projects/readings/discussions and presentation around specific sculptural approaches to issues in contemporary art and society. These will be semester long projects that engage subject matter, content, design and technique.
Prerequisite(s): ART 291 , ART 292 , and successful completion of the Foundation Portfolio review, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Semesters Course Type: Art
ART 400 - Internship in the Visual Arts The purpose of the internship is to allow students to work in an area that pertains to the visual arts and is related to their own activities and career intentions. Possibilities for internships include, but are not limited to, galleries, arts-related businesses, museums, practicing artists, scholars, nonprofit organizations, and cultural institutions. Pass-fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status or above and permission of the Art Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 401 - Senior Seminar in Studio Art Designed for BFA graduating senior students, this course will provide a cross-disciplinary critique of the student’s project and will culminate in a senior exhibition. Questions regarding current theoretical practices and strategies will be examined through readings, slides, and visiting artist lectures in order to provide a basis for understanding the student’s artistic choices.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status/BFA degree students and at least one 4xx level studio course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 407 - Advanced Problems in Art An opportunity for the student to do advanced work in the discipline of his/her choice, culminating in a related project.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and Art Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 408 - Independent Study in Art An opportunity for the student who has demonstrated competence in a specific area of study to work independently with scheduled tutoring from a faculty member of the student’s choice.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and Art Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 412 - Topics in Studio Art A course on a selected topic in the studio arts.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once a year Course Type: Art
ART 431 - Advanced Ceramics I Students work in series, research and present information on a ceramic artist, and perform tests and experiments in forming clay, firing kilns, and glazing. Students are expected to fire all kilns, mix glazes, and keep accurate records of their development.
Prerequisite(s): ART 332 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 432 - Advanced Ceramics II Students focus on the evolution of earlier studies into a series of work that may be used for the senior exhibition. Students research and present information about a ceramic artist, load and fire all kilns, mix glazes, and are encouraged to enter competitions and arrange a portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): ART 431 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated three times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 441 - Advanced Studio in Book Arts This course creates an opportunity for in-depth study and personal exploration with the Artist’s Book. Every student will create a collection of Artist’s Books while simultaneously gaining confidence with and a strong aesthetic for the medium.
Prerequisite(s): ART 341 , ART 342 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 461 - Advanced Drawing and Painting I This course for advanced drawing and painting students encourages individual vision and a committed approach to making art. Thematic projects are developed by each student and the course is devoted to expanding expressive, conceptual, and technical abilities. A reflective writing component will accompany the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 352 , ART 361 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 462 - Advanced Drawing and Painting II Continued investigation of drawing and painting processes to express personal themes. Emphasis is on individual content and personal expression. Work will be directed towards a thesis project and all of the particulars that entails. Work will be shaped by reflective writing as well as critiques with fellow students, faculty, and visiting artists.
Prerequisite(s): ART 461 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated three times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 471 - Advanced Studio in Photography and Digital Art I Students will work with the instructor to develop photography and/or digital art and design projects based upon their interests and goals. Aesthetic, theoretical, and historical issues related to photography and digital art and design will be discussed. A reflective writing component will accompany the course.
Prerequisite(s): ART 321 , ART 372 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 472 - Advanced Studio in Photography and Digital Art II Students will further refine the skills acquired in the first semester of advanced studio in photography and digital art. A semester-long project will be designed and completed by each student.
Prerequisite(s): ART 471 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated three times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 481 - Advanced Printmaking I This class is intended for students who are proficient in two or more methods of printmaking (relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, or experimental methods). Students will refine their technical skills while pursuing in-depth investigation of subject matter and imagery. Knowledge and practice of image-making as both an aesthetic and conceptual activity will be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor, or two courses from ART 281 , ART 282 and ART 382 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 482 - Advanced Printmaking II This class is for the student who can work proficiently in two or more methods of printmaking. Students are expected to develop their imagery based on well-conceived ideas, which can be successfully expressed in one or more printing techniques. Experimentation with new techniques is encouraged, as is an exploration of combining several methods of printmaking effectively in one print. Students develop and pursue independent portfolio projects.
Prerequisite(s): ART 481 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated twice for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 491 - Advanced Sculpture Continuation of Intermediate Sculpture with emphasis on the pursuit of personal imagery.
Prerequisite(s): ART 393 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
ART 492 - Advanced Sculpture Continuation of Intermediate Sculpture with emphasis on the pursuit of personal imagery.
Prerequisite(s): ART 393 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated three times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Art
Biological Sciences
BIO 101 - Biological Foundations An introduction to the areas of current biological interest: molecular and cellular biology, genetics and development, and evolution and population biology. Intended primarily for students selecting a laboratory science to satisfy the Core curriculum or for those students not intending to take other courses in the biological sciences. This course cannot be used as a prerequisite for other biology courses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 102 - Biological Experiences Laboratory studies to complement and illustrate the concepts presented in BIO 101 .
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in BIO 101 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 103 - Introduction to Marine Biology Selected groups of marine plants and animals are used to develop an understanding of biological processes and principles that are basic to all forms of life in the sea. Integrated in the course are aspects of taxonomy, evolution, ecology, behavior, and physiology. Intended primarily for students selecting a laboratory science to satisfy the Core curriculum or for those students not intending to take other courses in the biological sciences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 104 - Marine Biology Laboratory An examination of prototype organisms will be used to illustrate their varied roles in the ocean.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in BIO 103 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 105 - Biological Principles I: Cellular Biology This is an introduction to the scientific principles of molecular biology, cell biology, and genetics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 106 - Laboratory Biology Laboratory experiences illustrating concepts and principles introduced in BIO 105 . Concurrent enrollment in BIO 105 is highly recommended.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 105 , and grade of C or higher in MAT 101 or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 107 - Biological Principles II: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ecology This is an integrated lecture-laboratory course introducing students to the scientific principles of evolution, biodiversity, and ecology. The lecture and laboratory each meet three hours weekly.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C- or higher in BIO 105 and BIO 106 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 109 - Biological Principles III: Functional Biology This course is an introduction to the scientific principles of structure and function in plants and animals.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 111 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I The course is the first semester of a two-semester sequence concerning the structure and function of the human body. The course focuses on the study of cell chemistry, cell physiology, tissues, integumentary system, skeletal system, muscle system, and nervous system. It is appropriate for nursing and allied health majors and does not fulfill requirements of the biology major.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 101 or higher level MAT course, or appropriate placement score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 112 - Practical Human Anatomy and Physiology I Laboratory experiences illustrating concepts and principles introduced in BIO 111 and BIO 221 . The course will cover the following topics: metrics, language of anatomy, cell physiology, tissues, integumentary system, skeletal system, muscular system, and nervous system.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 111 or BIO 221 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 113 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II This course is a continuation of BIO 111 . The structure and function of the endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems will be discussed. It is appropriate for nursing and allied health majors and does not fulfill requirements of the biology major.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 114 - Practical Human Anatomy and Physiology II Laboratory studies of the structure and function of the endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive, digestive, and urinary systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 112 ; BIO 113 or BIO 223 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 201 - Genetics A study of the organization, transmission and expression of genes and genomes.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 105 or BIO 111 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 203 - Ecology A scientific study of interactions determining the distribution and abundance of organisms.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 217 - Evolution A study of the fossil record, adaptive changes in genes and traits by natural selection, and the evolution of diversity and complexity.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 and BIO 201 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 221 - Human Anatomy and Physiology for Biology Majors I This course is the first of a two-semester sequence that introduces how the human body functions from the subcellular to the whole-individual level. It is designed for biology majors and students wanting to enter graduate programs in medicine or physiology.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 223 - Human Anatomy and Physiology for Biology Majors II This course is a continuation of BIO 221 . It is designed for biology majors and students wanting to enter graduate programs in medicine or physiology.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 221 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 231 - Botany A study of structure, function, development, reproduction, and environmental adaptations of representative non-vascular and vascular plants. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 281 - Microbiology for Health Sciences This course is a basic introduction to the structure and function of prokaryotes, with some consideration of viruses and parasites. It is appropriate for nursing and allied health majors and does not fulfill requirements of the biology or biochemistry majors.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in CHY 107 or CHY 113 and grade of C- or higher in BIO 105 or BIO 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 282 - Microbiology Laboratory The laboratory explores basic techniques of isolation and cultivation of microorganisms, primarily bacteria and fungi. In addition, biochemical, molecular, and genetic analyses of microorganisms are introduced.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 281 or BIO 311 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 291 - Ornithology This course studies the basic biology of birds: their life histories, migration, ecology, and economic importance, with emphasis on species found in Eastern North America. Numerous field trips to a variety of habitats will be taken for purposes of field identification. Students are responsible for their own appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear and for binoculars. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 305 - Developmental Biology An analysis of the cellular and molecular interactions leading to normal development.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 306 - Developmental Biology Laboratory This laboratory course is designed to illustrate principles of animal development introduced in BIO 305 using genetic, histochemical, and molecular analyses.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in BIO 305 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 309 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy The comparative study of vertebrate organ systems from an adaptational and evolutionary point of view. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: three hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 109 or BIO 223 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 311 - Microbiology This course is a comprehensive introduction to cellular, biochemical, and genetic aspects of prokaryotes. Viruses and some eukaryotic microorganisms are also considered. This course is designed for biology majors but open to all who have successfully completed the prerequisites. The companion lab course is BIO 282 .
Prerequisite(s): CHY 115 and grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 or BIO 113 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 321 - Neurobiology This course presents an overview of nervous system function, structure, and development. Content focuses on the cellular and molecular properties that underlie normal function.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 109 , BIO 111 , or BIO 221 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 322 - Neurobiology Laboratory This laboratory course is designed to enable students to gain experience with a range of experimental techniques used in neurobiology research. These include cell culture, electrophysiology, histochemistry, microscopy, and behavioral analyses.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in BIO 321 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 335 - Entomology Integrated lecture-laboratory course on the biology of insects and their impact on humanity.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 337 - Marine Ecology A comparative ecological study of coastal and oceanic environments. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: four hours per week including field trips.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 203 or ESP 125 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 345 - Pathophysiology A study of the physiological, genetic, biochemical and environmental basis of noninfectious diseases.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 109 , BIO 113 , or BIO 223 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Biology
BIO 351 - Invertebrate Zoology The morphology, physiology, and evolution of invertebrate animals. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: four hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 353 - Vertebrate Zoology This course is a survey of the vertebrate animals, focusing on classification, morphology, physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of each group. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: four hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 109 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 361 - Parasitology The life histories and host-parasite relationships of animal parasites, with emphasis on those of humans.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 362 - Parasitology Laboratory The morphology and life cycles of parasitic protozoa, helminths, and arthropods.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 361 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 383 - Plant Ecology This course is a study of plant distribution and abundance across local, regional, and global scales. How plants are impacted by and in turn impact environmental and biotic factors will be discussed at the individual, community, and ecosystem levels. The influences of environmental stress and anthropogenic disruptions will also be examined. Students design and implement a field based research project and weekly field trips are required. Lecture: three hours per week; laboratory: four hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 203 or ESP 125 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 401 - Animal Physiology A study of physiological processes and their regulation in animals.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 115 ; either PHY 111 or PHY 121 ; grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 or BIO 113 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 402 - Animal Physiology Laboratory Laboratory examination of physiological mechanisms in animals.
Prerequisite(s): Grade or C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 401 ; MAT 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 405 - Animal Behavior This course is a study of the principles of behavioral organization in vertebrate and invertebrate animals, with emphasis on behavior under natural conditions.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 or BIO 113 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 406 - Animal Behavior Laboratory This course is a laboratory and field examination of behavioral principles in animals.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 405 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 407 - Environmental Modulation of Developmental Mechanisms This is a molecular genetic analysis of development focusing on an integrative approach toward understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C- or higher in BIO 201 and BIO 305 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 409 - Cell and Molecular Biology A study of the eukaryotic cell at the level of organelles and molecules. The biochemical aspects of cell growth and reproduction are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 115 and either grade of C- or higher in BIO 201 or concurrent enrollment in BIO 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 410 - Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory A course in which the techniques of cell fractionation and biochemical analyses are applied to the eukaryotic cell.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 409 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 413 - Applied Biostatistics This course is an introduction to the application of classical and modern statistics to biological problems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 220 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 415 - Microbial Ecology The course begins with an examination of microbial evolution and biodiversity. It then explores the interactions of microorganisms in populations and within communities, and their interactions with other organisms and the environment, including an examination of physiological adaptations and biogeochemical cycles.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C- or higher in BIO 203 or ESP 125 and in BIO 311 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 416 - Microbial Ecology Lab This is the companion lab course to BIO 415 , designed as a hands-on project lab to introduce students to a variety of methods used in microbial ecology. There will be a field, lab, computing and written component to the projects that will be completed during the semester. Microscopic, cell culture, molecular and bioinformatics methods will be employed.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 415 (or equivalent) or concurrent enrollment, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 417 - Issues in Evolution This course surveys major issues that motivate current research in evolutionary biology, providing an historical analysis of areas of controversy and alternative points of view within the field. The course is based on selected readings in the theoretical and experimental literature of the field, from primary and classical sources.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 201 and BIO 217 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 419 - Human Evolution This course explores the fossil, genetic, and paleoanthropological evidence for current reconstructions of the history and evolution of all primates and of one primate in particular, Homo sapiens. Students will retrace the emergence of hominins and Homo sapiens in Africa, out of Africa, and across the world.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 201 and BIO 217 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 421 - Biology Seminar Weekly oral reports and discussions by students and staff on biological topics of current interest.
Prerequisite(s): 16 hours of biology coursework or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 423 - Topics in Genetics This course covers selected topics in genetics, including chromosomes, transposons, genetic regulation, genomics, genomic and karyotypic evolution, break repair, meiotic recombination, gene conversion, and some quantitative genetics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 201 or concurrent, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Biology
BIO 431 - Principles of Immunology An introduction to the fundamentals of immunology, especially as they relate to human diseases. Topics include history of immunology, basic elements of immune systems, principles of natural and acquired immunity, cellular and molecular basis of B cell and T cell development and diversity, and clinical aspects of immunology.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 107 or CHY 115 ; junior standing; grade of C- or higher in either BIO 107 or BIO 113 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 432 - Immunology Laboratory This laboratory course is designed to enable students to gain experience with immunological techniques. Course emphasis will be on experimental design and the clinical and research applications of the procedures used.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher or concurrent enrollment in BIO 431 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Biology
BIO 441 - Problems in Biology (Independent Studies) Independent library or laboratory studies on a special topic as mutually arranged by instructor and student.
Prerequisite(s): By arrangement. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 442 - Honors Thesis in Biology This class is a continuation of the independent studies on a special topic started in BIO 441 . This final semester includes a mid-semester thesis draft, a substantive revised thesis based on feedback, and a concluding public, oral defense.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 441 ; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Core Requirement, and approval by Biology Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
BIO 443 - Internship In this course, students apply their learning to a practical context under supervision of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s): By arrangement. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Biology
Business
ACC 110 - Financial Accounting Information for Decision Making This course is designed to help students appreciate the role of accountants in providing information helpful to the decisions of investors, creditors, government regulators, and others, and how that information can be used. Emphasis is on understanding the meaning and value of the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. The role of the auditor, internal controls, and ethical issues are examined. The annual report is used to explore how corporations apply accounting principles in presentations to the public.
Prerequisite(s): Minimum of 12 earned credit hours, MAT 101 (C or higher), or appropriate placement test scores (SAT Math score >= 570 or Accuplacer QAS>=263) or C- or higher in MAT 108 or MAT 140 or MAT 148 or MAT 152 , or C- or higher in MAT 120 or MAT 210 or other approved statistics course . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 211 - Managerial Accounting Information for Decision Making This course will provide students with the opportunity to learn basic concepts and accounting systems involved in the use of managerial accounting information in making planning and control decisions in organizations. Basic concepts include different types of costs (e.g., direct, indirect, fixed, variable, and relevant costs). Basic accounting systems include systems for cost allocation (e.g., job-order costing, activity-based costing), planning (e.g., cost-volume-profit analysis, master budget), and control (e.g., flexible budgets, variance analysis, responsibility accounting, performance measurement).
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 (C- or higher), sophomore standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 295 - Internship in Accounting An internship course in accounting. Enrollment is normally limited to accounting majors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; this course counts for general elective credit only. Pass/Fail
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing, School of Business major, 2.5 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: Variable credit, 1-3 credits, 47 internship hours/credit hour
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 3 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 301 - Financial Reporting I An examination of the conceptual framework, the primary financial statements, and the methods and rationale for recording and reporting assets. Emphasis is on the effect of present and potential economic events on the financial statements. The course discusses the advantages, limitations and deficiencies associated with generally accepted principles in connection with presenting decision-useful information.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 (C- or higher), ACC 211 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall and spring Course Type: Accounting
ACC 302 - Financial Reporting II An examination of the methods and rationale for recording liabilities and equity. The course also examines the statement of cash flows. Emphasis is on the effect of present and potential economic events on the primary financial statements. The course discusses the advantages, limitations, and deficiencies associated with generally accepted principles in connection with presenting decision-useful information.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 301 , FIN 320 (C or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall and spring Course Type: Accounting
ACC 329 - Accounting Information Systems This course explores the theory and tools needed to select, use, set up internal controls for, and obtain information from accounting systems. The basic debits and credits of double-entry accounting are reviewed using a manual practice set that includes preparing typical business documents. The business activities performed in the expenditure, production, and revenue cycles are covered together with the documents, internal controls, and reporting needs relevant to each cycle. Significant emphasis is placed on the effects of error on financial reports, the controls needed to prevent and detect errors in accounting systems, and the correction of system errors. The use of small business accounting software is introduced. Students use accounting software to set up accounts, process transactions and produce managerial and standard financial accounting reports.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 211 (C- or higher), ACC 301 (or concurrent), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall and spring Course Type: Accounting
ACC 395 - Internship I The first internship course in accounting is described in the general School of Business catalog text. Enrollment is normally limited to accounting majors or minors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors could use 3 internship credits as part of their 15-credit major (if applicable) as well as 3 internship credits as part of their required 9-credits of SB 300+ elective courses. Students can receive a maximum of 6 internship credits which count toward SB requirements. Other internship credits would be counted as general electives. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; and minors are limited to a maximum of three internship credits. Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.5 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 396 - Internship II This is the second internship course in accounting. Enrollment is normally limited to accounting majors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree. See ACC 395 for more information. Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): 2.5 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 405 - Cost Management Systems This course is designed to explore how cost management systems can be used to support competitive strategy in global markets. This is accomplished by providing an understanding of the underlying and fundamental concepts in cost accounting. The theory of Cost Accounting is applied through homework assignments and class discussions.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 211 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring only Course Type: Accounting
ACC 410 - Auditing and Assurance This course examines the public accounting profession, auditing standards, and professional ethics. The course explores the process by which an auditor forms an opinion as to the “fairness of presentation” of financial statements, giving an overview of audit evidence and audit evidence accumulation methodology. The course exposes students both to the demand for and supply of the profession’s flagship service, financial statement audits and to the nature of the value-added assurance and attestation services decision-makers demand in the information age. The course illustrates with real companies, links class discussion and assignments to student skills, and encourages unstructured problem-solving. This course provides an opportunity for students to study auditing concepts and theory at an advanced level by examining a number of issues, with extensive reading from the auditing research literature, in addition to the textbook material.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 302 (or concurrent), ACC 329 , senior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall and spring Course Type: Accounting
ACC 413 - Concepts and Strategies of Taxation This course provides a conceptual understanding of the federal tax system, and its impact on individuals, corporations, and partnerships. The primary emphasis is on fundamental income tax concepts and principles, with an overview of other taxes. Detailed technical coverage and return preparation are minimized. The economic, political, social, and judicial reasoning underlying tax provisions are explored. Tax issues and changes under current consideration at the national, state, local and international levels are discussed. Basic research skills and methodology are introduced.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall and spring Course Type: Accounting
ACC 416 - Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting An analysis of the environment and characteristics of government and nonprofit organizations, with an in-depth study of the basic concepts and standards of financial reporting for such entities. Financial management and accountability considerations specific to government and nonprofit organizations are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 301 , junior standing. Majors in fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See the School of Business enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Accounting
ACC 418 - Principles of Fraud Examination This course examines the subject of fraud from both management and accounting perspectives. Utilizing a variety of techniques including text, lecture, case studies, guest speakers, and occasional videos, the course seeks to familiarize students with the conditions that facilitate fraud; the profile of the fraud perpetrator; common types of fraud; and methods of prevention, detection, and resolution. Numerous historical cases of fraud are examined. Students are brought to appreciate the prevalence of fraud in current society as well as the almost innumerable ways in which it can be committed. Students entering the business world are provided a perspective for understanding.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See the School of Business enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Accounting
ACC 490 - Independent Study in Accounting Selected topics in the various areas of accounting, auditing, and income taxes may be studied and researched on an independent basis. Enrollment is normally limited to accounting and finance degree candidates.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of instructor and program chair. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See the School of Business enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
ACC 499 - Special Topics in Accounting Prerequisite(s): Vary by topic. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See the enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting
BAN 300 - Foundations of Data Management Data Management is the art of acquiring data and preparing it for analysis. This course serves as the entry course for the Business Analytics major at USM and will provide students with hands-on experience extracting, tidying, analyzing data, and communicating results through reports and visualizations. Data management is a core skill for all business analysts that is highly valued by industry.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course . Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business Analytics
BAN 340 - Data Mining for Business Analysts Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in data to obtain actionable insights. This course will use real-world data and popular analytic techniques, including clustering and decision trees, to solve business problems and support managerial decisions.
Prerequisite(s): BAN 300 . Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business Analytics
BAN 350 - Data Visualization In this course, students will learn to create charts, maps, and other visualizations to tell stories and to create effective graphical displays of evidence. Students will learn to critically evaluate examples from print media and the internet while learning the foundations of data visualization.
Prerequisite(s): BAN 300 . Majors in fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business Analytics
BUS 188 - Introductory ICE Topics This course explores topics in Innovation, Creativity, or Entrepreneurship. Primarily intended for non-majors.
Prerequisite(s): Vary by topic. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 200 - Introduction to Business This course is designed to introduce the student to the contemporary business environment and the variety of typical activities engaged in by business professionals. It explores how different business functions are integrated to accomplish the goals of the business within an increasingly competitive business environment. It is designed for anyone interested in becoming knowledgeable about successful business practices. Students with credit for BUS 101 or another introductory business course may not enroll. This course is intended for non-majors and is restricted to students with fewer than 9 credits in business, finance, and accounting. Business and accounting majors may not enroll without the approval of their academic advisor. Those with credit for BUS 101 may not enroll.
Prerequisite(s): Fewer than nine credits in BUS, FIN and ACC. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 203 - Career Planning and Development Students in this course identify and develop career goals and plans while improving their writing skills. Students engage in activities relating to personal and professional interest profiling, interest and employment inventories, interview preparation, resume construction, job searches, and business writing.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing, ENG 100 /ENG 101 or equivalent course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 210 - Managing Sport for Society This course provides an overview of the business of sports, including career opportunities. The value of professional management to sports organizations is examined.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 241 - Applied Business Modeling Applied business modeling course is designed to think about structuring varied business situations for quantitative analysis using excel. It will be a hands-on case method-based course wherein several business challenges, which do not specifically fall in any of the typical quantitative methods area courses, will be modeled using excel. Since the course is focused on thinking and doing, we will spend less time on learning the tool. We will use several advanced features of excel which are seldom known to excel users. It will cover a wide range of excel functions for business case analysis using scenario building, What-If, Goal Seek, Look Up functions, Database function, Excel Tables, Array formula’s, Data Analysis Tool Pack, Statistical Analysis functions, Regressions etc.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 (C- or higher) or MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 260 - Marketing This course is an introduction to the field of marketing. Topics include marketing strategy for products and services, market segmentation, targeting, and positioning, product issues, pricing, promotion, distribution, consumer behavior, marketing research and information systems, international marketing, and nonprofit marketing.
Prerequisite(s): Minimum of 24 earned credit hours. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 280 - Legal Environment of Business This course introduces students to the legal system, tort law, product liability, consumer law, labor law, equal employment law, intellectual property law, and other topics. It stresses the social responsibility of business and the legal and ethical framework in which businesses must function.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 284 - Enactus Project Participation in (but not the leadership of) Enactus social entrepreneurship project.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
May be repeated up to a total of 3 credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 295 - Internship in Business Administration An internship course in business administration. Prerequisites: sophomore standing, School of Business major, 2.33 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Enrollment is normally limited to majors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; this course counts for general elective credit only. Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing, School of Business major, 2.33 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: Variable credit, 1-3 credits, 47 internship hours/credit hour.
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 3 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 300 - Entrepreneurial Thinking This course provides students an inside view of how entrepreneurial thinking can be applied in many environments including social ventures, corporations, venture capital and new ventures. Students will develop a basic knowledge of identifying opportunities, assessing required resources, planning and executing an entrepreneurial venture while developing an understanding of value propositions and risks.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 301 - Business Analytics Analytics is the scientific process of transforming data into insights for making better decisions. This course introduces students to all three areas of business analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. Emphasis is placed upon developing students’ abilities to recognize the need for analytics, formulating business problems, selecting and testing analytics models, and interpreting the implications of results.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 241 (C- or higher, or test-out option ) or BUS 195 (C or higher) or EGN 304 (C or higher); MAT 108 (C- or higher); and MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course . Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 311 - Sport Marketing Basic marketing concepts are applied to sport organizations, both amateur and professional. Topics include promotions and public relations, sport consumer behavior, strategic marketing planning, marketing information management, marketing communications, and sponsorship.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher). Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Business
BUS 312 - Sport Law This course examines the legal system, its terminology, and principles in the context of professional and amateur sports. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing legal issues, the ramifications of those issues, and the means of limiting the liability of sport organizations.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 280 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring only Course Type: Business
BUS 314 - Sport Media & Communication This course examines the strategic use of media and communication within the sports industry and provides students the opportunity for application through multimedia projects. Students will develop an understanding of the functional role of media and communication in its various forms throughout the sport industry, including but not limited to public relations, community relations, social media, and mass media.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Spring only. Every spring Course Type: Business
BUS 315 - Revenue Generation in Sport This course exposes students to a broad range of topics related to revenue generation in the sport industry, including ticket sales, sponsorship, fundraising, and public funding. Students will study current issues, and explore future directions, trends, and innovations in the field.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Taught yearly Course Type: Business
BUS 316 - Sport Event & Facility Management This course will investigate the functions of sport managers in the design, operation, and financing of facilities and venues as well as provide practical involvement in managing a sport event. Students will examine the issues pertaining to the management of public and private arenas, stadiums, theatres, galleries, festivals, racetracks, and multipurpose facilities. Additionally, students will be assigned to committees for which they will plan, organize, publicize and manage all aspects of event operations during the semester. A required component of the course will include a commitment to work with the actual event.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring only Course Type: Business
BUS 318 - Sport Governance & Policy This course helps the student understand the modern administrative issues in the administration of sports-related businesses. The course will focus on many of the most demanding legal concerns of running sports businesses, with a particular focus on intercollegiate athletics and professional team sport in the U.S.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in fall Course Type: Business
BUS 319 - Sport Tourism This course introduces students to the nature, structure, and complexity of the sport tourism industry. Topics covered include economic, sociocultural and environmental impacts, motivations, marketing, and development principles. Limited offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Bus course. Please see enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 321 - Independent Projects in Marketing This course is designed to give marketing students an opportunity to conduct independent research and projects with a faculty mentor. Students will meet regularly with their mentor during the semester to discuss their independent studies progress. At the end of the semester, students submit a written report and present their findings to their faculty mentor and the business client (if applicable).
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing, and permission of instructor. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 322 - Sport Consumer Behavior This course will examine the personal, psychological, and environmental factors which influence sporting events and related product consumption. We will consider the determinants of both participate and spectator consumption behaviors at recreational, collegiate, and professional levels of sports. The course will utilize both a theoretical and applied approach to explain and demonstrate sport consumer behavior and its application to sport managers and marketers in developing marketing communications, enhancing the consumption experience, and identifying key elements of the consumer decision-making process. Students may earn credit for BUS 322 or BUS 365 , but not both.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 334 - Introduction to Organizational Change This course focuses on understanding the nature of organizational change, both proactive and reactive, and both slow and fast (e.g., crisis mode).
Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Offered once every two years. Course Type:
BUS 335 - International Business Introduction to the global economy and the political and cultural environments of international business. Topics include financial, marketing, and human resource issues in international business.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 or ECO 102 , junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 336 - Approved International Experience An educational activity while outside the U.S. that contributes to the student’s understanding of international business and which has been approved by one of the international business faculty members. Examples of activities which normally will be approved include, without limitation: (1) courses qualifying for 3 or more credits when transferred to USM in economics, law, history, political science, geography, political science culture and skills in languages other than English, (2) an independent study done outside the U.S. qualifying for 3 or more credits, (3) a USM travel course qualifying for 3 or more credits and (4) an international study tour offered by a reputable organization which in the opinion of a USM international business faculty member qualifies for 3 or more credits. BUS 336 may be used either as a course in the International Business Track or International Business Concentration or as a 300-level or higher BUS course.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 337 - Approved International Business Experience An educational activity while outside the U.S. that directly contributes to the student’s understanding of international business and has been preapproved by one of the international business faculty members. Normally limited to a 300-level or higher course in a business discipline, including economics and/or law, taken at an educational institution outside the U.S. which qualifies for 3 or more credits when transferred to USM. Approval for BUS 337 may be denied if the student lacks the necessary foundational course(s) in the relevant discipline. BUS 337 may be used either as a course in the International Business Track or International Business Concentration or as a 300-level or higher BUS course. (BUS 336 is not a prerequisite for BUS 337.)
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 338 - Strategic Management of Technology & Innovation Focuses on the strategic management of technology-based innovation in the firm. Specific topics include assessing the innovative capabilities of the firm, managing the corporate R&D function, managing the interfaces between functional groups in the development process, managing the new business development function in the firm, understanding and managing technical entrepreneurs, building technology-based distinctive competencies and competencies and competitive advantages, technological leadership versus followership in competitive strategy, institutionalizing innovation, and attracting and keeping corporate entrepreneurs.
Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years. Course Type:
BUS 339 - Business Ethics The content of the course draws on multiple disciplines including philosophy, applied ethics, management, organization theory, and economics. The course offers a series of conversations aimed at viewing ethical decision making at the individual, organizational, and societal levels of analysis. At the individual level, the focus is on the foundational concepts of moral reasoning such as rights, justice, utilitarianism, virtue, and moral intuitions. At the organizational level social influences on ethical decision making, such as conformity, and obedience, and building ethical organizations are discussed. Finally, at the societal level the relationship between law and business ethics, stakeholder theory, and strategic approach to addressing grand ethical challenges will be covered.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course.See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: At least once every two years. Course Type: Business
BUS 340 - Managing Organizational Behavior A survey of the disciplines of management and organizational behavior, and of the practices managers employ in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizations. Topics include self-awareness, perception and decision making, individual differences and diversity, motivation, group dynamics, communication, stress, power and politics, organizational design, and change. The environmental context, workforce diversity, the global economy, and managerial ethics are core integrating themes.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 341 - New Product Development This course reviews the fundamentals of product development and commercialization, offering students from two different disciplines the chance to explore what it takes to bring a new product to market. Students will gain real world insights into the process of developing and screening an idea, testing a product concept, creating a product prototype, performing business analysis, exploring test marketing, writing a marketing plan, and bringing a product to market through the commercialization process.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 342 - Leadership The purpose of this course is to help students be more effective exercising leadership. To do this, the course will first teach the distinction among leadership, authority, and management, and also among different leadership situations. The course will then provide experiential exercises and exposure to tools and techniques appropriate to the various challenges.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 340 (C or higher); junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 343 - Management Skills This course focuses on building critical skills for managers and employees to work effectively and efficiently in organizational settings. The course is organized so that students will have the opportunity to develop and practice managerial skills that are deemed by scholars and practitioners to be crucial for organizational success in today’s business world. Particularly, at the personal level, the course focuses on building skills pertaining to self-awareness, well-being, and analytical and creative problem solving. At the interpersonal level, the focus is building skills related to developing relationships, influencing and motivating others, and conflict resolution. Finally, at the group level, learn and develop skills with regard to empowering others, building effective teams, and leading change.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: BUS 340 (min. C) and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once a semester. Course Type:
BUS 344 - Business Negotiation This course offers an introduction to negotiation and more broadly, conflict resolution, which are skills vital to managers, professionals, and entrepreneurs. It helps students develop a deeper understanding of the preparation, motivation, processes, and outcomes of negotiation and conflict resolution activities. Students build competencies in communicating and achieving their own interests in light of bounded understanding of the interests and motivations of the other parties. In this process, students are expected to develop written, oral, and non-verbal communication skills.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 340 (min. C) and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher. before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once an academic year. Course Type:
BUS 345 - Technology Management Surveys information/systems technology for the management of corporate information as a resource. Managerial and technical dimensions of information systems are blended in a framework of information technology. Specific topics will evolve with the field but may include data communications, information systems theory, database concepts, and decision support systems.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 346 - Strategic Human Resource Management Students gain a contemporary and comprehensive strategic HR perspective and learn how to make a significant contribution by managing any organization’s human resources in line with strategic goals and objectives. Students will learn to develop solutions for sourcing talent, selecting for high performance, managing performance, selective retention, and leveraging diversity. Key functions are examined.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 241 (min. C-) or test-out option or BUS 195 (min. C); BUS 340 (min. C) and Junior Standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business.
Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 347 - Triple-Bottom-Line Business How can firms pursue profits without harming the planet or the ‘way life should be’? This course explores sustainable business strategies and practices that can be used to manage the triple bottom line of financial, environmental, and social performance. Ethical action is a recurring theme. Students with credit for BUS 357 may not enroll.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, BUS 260 (C- or higher), BUS 280 (C- or higher). Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 348 - Sustainable Business Practicum Working on self-directed projects, students carry out a sustainable business auditing project to meet the goals of a partner in the business community. Students will interview small businesses to gather information and data about their business sustainability practices. Students will learn how the general principles of sustainability can be applied in specific business situations. Students will create a best practices case study and Sustainability Action Plan for one business. As part of the course, students are to generate publicity for the school and formally present the results of the project to their external partners. The course emphasizes problem-based learning and the development of professional skills.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 347 , junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 351 - Cross-Cultural Management This course addresses the challenges and opportunities that managers experience in international or multicultural environments. The purpose is to develop students’ understanding and behavioral skills relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business settings. Using a variety of methods – experiential learning, case studies, research, and hands-on activities in the classroom – the ultimate goal is to assist students in developing cross-cultural competencies to be future global managers. These competencies include cultural knowledge and sensitivity, conflict resolution, tolerance of ambiguity, and cognitive complexity.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 340 (min. C) and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once per academic year. Course Type:
BUS 356 - Digital Marketing Students will develop skills required to meet the challenges of a 21st century promotional marketplace. Digital marketing will address topics such as search engine optimization (SEO), content strategy, campaign development, and display advertising. Working within an online simulation, students learn promotional best practices by writing targeted advertisements, creating business landing pages and management of online media investments.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Typically fall. Course Type: Business
BUS 358 - E-Commerce This course examines various business models used in electronic commerce, provides an understanding of how an e-presence is established, and explores the strategic use of e-commerce in a global environment. Students will develop skills in establishing a Web presence for a business and business planning.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), BUS 345 (C or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 359 - Social Media Marketing enrollment policy Students will explore best practices for maximizing marketing returns using social media outlets. Students learn and apply different strategies for earned, owned, and paid social media platforms in class exercises and a social media marketing simulation. Credit as marketing elective OR experiential class. Non School of Business students please see enrollment policy for eligibility.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 and Junior Standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Course Typically Offered: Typically spring Course Type:
BUS 360 - Marketing Strategy This course prepares students to evaluate strategic marketing options, make informed marketing decisions, and formulate strategic marketing policies, based on quantitative and qualitative analysis. Basic skills emphasized in this class are situation analysis, management by profit and loss, implementing marketing strategies, brand management, positioning, and market segmentation. This is a foundation course for marketing majors.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), sophomore standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 361 - International Marketing This course addresses the critical marketing skills required for business survival in today’s world economy. Students learn to apply global marketing and financial management concepts and techniques during a semester-long, simulated global market program. Students analyze and manage international product lines and adapt to cultural differences while working in a computer simulated global marketplace.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Fall only Course Type: Business
BUS 362 - Market Opportunity Analysis In this course, student teams work with a local business to develop a market opportunity. Areas of analysis include target-market identification, industry trends, demand analysis, capacity and fit issues, competitive analysis, and forecasting.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Students are encouraged to take BUS 365 and BUS 369 before BUS 362. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 363 - Branding and Advertising This course develops the necessary knowledge and skills to create a clear and compelling portrayal of the brand offering, whether it involves small businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, corporations or not-for-profit organizations. It uses a mix of different marketing communication methods to create a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. Please see enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 364 - Professional Selling This course is designed to equip students with the fundamental understanding of the role of professional selling within all types of organizations, with an emphasis on development of communication, relationship building, and presentation skills. The course is interactive/”hands on” and will include: video case studies, role playing, sales presentations, guest lectures, use of PowerPoint, use of sales management software, group presentations, mini lectures, and Internet research.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 365 - Consumer Behavior This course examines alternative explanations of consumer behavior. Emphasis is placed on cultural, sociological, and psychological influences on consumption. Other topics include consumer decision processes and the way managers use consumer characteristics to segment the market and develop marketing plans.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Students with credit for BUS 165 or BUS 322 may not enroll. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 366 - Sales Management This course will introduce students to sales management and the role, necessary skills, and the objectives of successful sales management. Students will also explore team characteristics through the understanding of the influence of team personalities, communicating to different personalities, motivating different personalities, and the development life cycle of team development. Setting goals and objectives will also be addressed with various experiential activities such as setting daily/weekly/monthly targets and objectives. Coaching and feedback will be addressed by understanding how coaching helps maintain and improve performance. Finally, how to deal with underperforming sales team members, proactively identifying potential drops in performance, effective under performance discussions, setting targets for improvement, and using personal improvement plans.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Business
BUS 367 - Marketing Management Students gain experience making marketing decisions as members of teams. The emphasis is on applying a management perspective to marketing decision making. Students must integrate knowledge from other functional disciplines into a strategic marketing planning framework.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), any 300-level marketing course, junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 369 - Marketing Research Students learn the process of marketing research as they work on a semester-long project with community businesses and organizations. Students learn how to produce a secondary data report, how to design and conduct a qualitative research study, and how to design and analyze the results of an online survey. Students will also acquire key secondary data research techniques, one-on-one interview skills, questionnaire design principles, and data analysis skills. The course has a significant PC lab component to encourage hands-on learning.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course (or concurrent), BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Business
BUS 372 - Supply Chain Management This course introduces supply chain management as it examines the products-to-services spectrum in terms of various transformation processes and their impact upon the supply chain. In addition, the course considers how supply chain strategy relates to other organization functions and focuses on all strategic areas impacting supply chain decision making. Some of the important topics include but not limited to Supply Chain Management, Forecasting, Sustainability in Supply Chain, Location Strategies, Supply Chain Analytics, Aggregate Planning, & Business Analytics Modules: Decision-Making Tools, Linear Programming and Transportation Modeling.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 301 (min. C) or ( MAT 380 (min. C) and EGN 304 (min. C) ); and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once a year Course Type: Business
BUS 373 - Project Management This course addresses the managerial concepts and technical tools required for evaluating, planning, managing, and controlling projects. The topics include but not limited to strategic issues, project selection, risk analysis, work, breakdown structures, PERT/ CPM, resource management, conflict issues, and managing people.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 241 (min C- or test-out option ) or BUS 195 (min C) or EGN 304 (min C); MAT 108 (C- or higher); MAT 210 (C- or higher) or MAT 120 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course ; junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Business
BUS 374 - Purchasing and Procurement This course develops on the idea of managing supply chains with a focus on the purchasing process. It covers the managerial concepts, frameworks, and tools associated with purchasing. The topics include the purchasing process, strategic sourcing, supplier evaluation and selection, quality management, worldwide sourcing, and negotiation and conflict management.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 241 (min C- or test out option) or BUS 195 (min. C) or EGN 304 (min. C); and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once a year Course Type: Business
BUS 375 - Production/Operations Management This course undertakes an examination of the role of operations within manufacturing and service organizations. Emphasis is placed upon recognizing operational opportunities and tradeoffs and employing quantitative and qualitative tools and decision support systems to assist strategic and operational decision-making. The general functions of operations management as applied to the transformation process are covered. Operations management concepts and analytical methods of handling problems in manufacturing and service operations are presented. Some of the important topics include but are not limited to Project Management, Quality Control, Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, Aggregate Planning and Short-Term Scheduling.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 301 (min. C) or (MAT 380 (min. C) and EGN 304 (min. C); and junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 376 - Advanced Topics in Strategy An exploration of the topics and tools available for assessing and making strategic decisions. This course focuses on structured - often mathematically-based - ways to model and analyze important business decisions and on how to optimize choices while also appreciating the practical constraints and issues involved. Specific topics may vary by semester, given the strategic challenges occurring at that time.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years. Course Type:
BUS 377 - Information Visualization In this course, students will learn to create charts, maps, and other visualizations to tell stories and to create effective graphical displays of evidence. Students will learn to critically evaluate examples from print media and the internet after learning the foundations of information visualization.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and successful completion of the University’s Core requirement in Quantitative Reasoning. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 378 - Sport Management Practicum This course provides students with the opportunity to apply learned sport management skills, theories, and ideas in a sport industry setting. The course will allow a student to bridge the gap between classroom learning and practical application. This course is optional. The practicum will be a minimum of 140 hours and may be completed full or part-time. This course is open to students in the Sport Management General Track Major only who have not completed degree requirements. May not be taken pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 311 , junior standing and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 380 - Advanced Legal Issues in Business This course will cover negotiable instruments, contract law, trusts and estates, property law, and other legal topics. This course is intended to provide detailed study of many important legal issues facing businesses.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 280 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 382 - International Business Law An examination of legal issues affecting international business transactions. Topics include contracts, sale of goods, letters of credit, regulation of imports and exports, business competition law, protection of intellectual property rights, and ethical issues. Non School of Business students please see enrollment policy for eligibility.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 280 (C- or higher) or equivalent, junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Business
BUS 383 - Social Entrepreneurship Focuses on the theory and practice of social enterprise using readings and case studies, and identifying and implementing social entrepreneurship Enactus projects. The projects aim to increase awareness and understanding of business and economic issues. The course will help students understand how social enterprises benefit from free market principles.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing (BUS majors and minors). Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 384 - Enactus Project Leadership Project leadership of Enactus social entrepreneurship project.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated up to a total of 6 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 385 - Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation This course is about starting a business and about the benefits and costs, both personal and professional, of an entrepreneurial career. Students learn how to establish start-up teams, identify opportunities, and obtain resources. The course involves written self-appraisals, case analyses, team work, and presentations of comprehensive business plans.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 386 - Creative Strategies for Entrepreneurs This course explores strategies for innovation and creative problem solving as well as a framework for entrepreneurial planning. Through experiential activities, readings, and discussions, students learn creative techniques employed by creative makers and thinkers from artists to scientists and entrepreneurs. Students apply what they have learned to generate and assess an entrepreneurial idea.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, BUS 260 (recommended). Students with credit for EYE 199 (same topic) will not earn credit. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 387 - Design Thinking This course introduces students to process of design thinking. Students will use design tools and activities to stimulate thinking and analysis of business challenges. Through experiential activities, creative thought and problem solving, experimentation, and iteration, prototyping, storytelling, scenario and situational analysis, and networking, students learn to use the power of design thinking to solve “wicked” challenges. Students will apply what they learn to create, develop, and assess an innovative, entrepreneurial idea.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 388 - Launching a Global Social Enterprise This course provides an inside view and application opportunity on a global scale in the rapidly developing entrepreneurship field of social enterprise. Opportunities, challenges, necessary resources, risks, value propositions and strategies of launching a global social enterprise with an emphasis on scalable ventures will be addressed through guest speakers, research, lecture, and student presentations. Students will develop a detailed business model and pitch deck for a mission driven social enterprise.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 389 - Self-directed Innovation Project This course provides prior learning credit for work completed in USM’s Ci2 Studio (Creative Intelligence, Innovation Collaboration). Full tuition is a condition of Ci2 participation.
Prerequisite(s): Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. Please see enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 390 - Internship in Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship See BUS 395 description for requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 391 - Internship in Sustainable Business See BUS 395 description for requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 392 - Internship in Marketing See BUS 395 description for requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 394 - Internship in International Business See BUS 395 description for requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 395 - Internship I This is the first internship course in business administration. Enrollment is limited to School of Business majors and minors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors could use 3 internship credits as part of their 15-credit major (if applicable) as well as 3 internship credits as part of their required 9-credits of SB 300+ elective courses. Students can receive a maximum of 6 internship credits which count toward SB requirements. Other internship credits would be counted as general electives. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; and minors are limited to a maximum of three internship credits. Pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.33 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 396 - Internship II This is the second internship course in business administration. Enrollment is limited to baccalaureate School of Business majors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree. See BUS 395 for further information. Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 395 , 2.33 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 397 - Internship in Sport Management/Advance Field Experience The internship requirement is considered one of the most critical components of the Sport Management Program. Students will undertake a 12-15 week, full-time (40 hours per week) supervised internship. This opportunity is expected to enhance the student’s academic experiences via a required industry analysis paper, a research project, weekly logs and a portfolio, as well as provide additional work experience and networking opportunities. Internship experiences may take place in any of the varied sport industry settings. Students may obtain internships in any region of the country and in some cases, may receive financial compensation. Enrollment is normally limited to sport management (internship track) majors who have not completed degree requirements. Students can receive a maximum of 6 internship credits which count toward SB requirements. Other internship credits would be counted as general electives. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; and minors are limited to a maximum of three internship credits. May not be taken Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, BUS 311 , 2.33 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 398 - Professional Selling Practicum An introduction to professional sales in a real-world setting, including servicing existing accounts, obtaining orders, establishing new accounts, and submitting activity reports such as daily daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses. Students learn to plan and organize their daily work schedule while simultaneously adjusting the content of their sales presentations by customer type, order type, existing and potential sales volume. Other topics include customer service, product knowledge, territory management, and prospecting, presenting, and closing skills.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 399 - Special Topics in Business Prerequisite(s): Vary by topic. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Limited Course Type: Business
BUS 450 - Business Policy and Strategy An in-depth examination of the strategic management process in large complex organizations. This course uses case study analysis, discussion and integrative capstone projects to provide students with opportunities to learn and to apply strategic management theories and concepts. These include competitive analysis, value-chain analysis, generic business strategies, corporate strategy, and global strategy. Students matriculating fall 2011 and later must fulfill the University Core Requirement of “Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility and Citizenship” prior to enrollment.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 260 (C- or higher), BUS 340 (C or higher), FIN 320 (C or higher), satisfied EISRC core requirement, GPA 2.0 or higher, and senior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. Please see enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
BUS 485 - Managing the Growing Entrepreneurial Venture An interdisciplinary course emphasizing the application of entrepreneurial management concepts and strategies to the growth-oriented small business beyond the start-up stage to eventual maturity and harvest. Topics include venture opportunity analysis, stages of small business growth, making the transition from entrepreneur to entrepreneurial manager, formulating and implementing growth strategies, building an effective organization, marshaling organizational and financial resources for growth, managing under adversity, and managing rapid growth. Non School of Business students please see enrollment policy for eligibility.
Prerequisite(s): BUS 385 (C or higher), senior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring only Course Type: Business
BUS 490 - Independent Study Selected topics in business administration may be studied and researched on an independent basis. Enrollment is normally limited to business administration degree candidates.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and permission of instructor and department chair. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Business
FIN 201 - Personal Finance The primary emphasis is to teach students how to become more knowledgeable and independent over personal financial matters. Topics such as obtaining financial aid, managing student loans, career and education planning, budgeting, credit cards, stock market investing, real estate, behavioral finance, retirement planning, and insurance will be covered. Upon completing the course, students will be able to make better financial decisions using computer-based simulations and software that facilitate financial planning methods such as what-if analysis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario planning. Offered every semester. This course is open to all USM students. When taken by business or accounting majors, this course will give general elective credit. Do not take if previously completed BUS 201 Personal Finance as this is the same class. Repeat rules apply. Cr 3
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
FIN 295 - Internship in Finance An internship course in finance. Enrollment is normally limited to finance majors who have not completed degree requirements. Majors are limited to a maximum of nine internship credits toward the degree; this course counts for general elective credit only. Pass/Fail.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing, School of Business major, 2.5 GPA or higher, and permission of a School of Business advisor and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: Variable credit, 1-3 credits, 47 internship hours/credit hour
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 3 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting and Finance
FIN 320 - Basic Financial Management This course is a balanced introduction to the theory and practice of financial management. It prepares students to make basic financial decisions and understand the decisions of others. Topics include time value of money, capital markets, risk and return, stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 (C- or higher), ECO 101 or ECO 102 , MAT 210 (C- or higher) or other approved statistics course , junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting and Finance
FIN 321 - Personal Financial Planning This course begins to prepare students for a career as a professional financial planner by providing fundamental concepts and principles of personal financial planning, applied with a quantifiable approach to achieving client objectives. Topics include general principles of financial planning, the changing nature of the financial services environment, code of ethics and professional responsibility, credit and debt management, budgeting, personal taxes, employee benefit planning, goal attainment, investment planning, risk management through the purchase of insurance, retirement planning, and estate planning. The course will include casework and current financial planning problem scenarios.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 320 (C or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Accounting and Finance
FIN 323 - Financial Engineering This course explores the markets and valuations methods for futures, options, and swaps contracts. Hedging and speculating techniques using derivatives are stressed. Financial engineering techniques are developed using derivatives which can adjust the risk and return offered by traditional assets. Topics include: Forward contracts, stock futures, interest rate futures, stock index futures, stock options, interest rate options, and swaps.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 320 (C or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher. before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Accounting and Finance
FIN 326 - Financial Modeling Introduces principles and techniques for building and implementing financial models. Topics are drawn from a variety of areas: financial planning, investments, derivatives, and corporate finance. The course emphasizes the application of financial modeling techniques in identifying and implementing business solutions. The course will be of special interest to students seeking hands-on experience constructing financial models.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 320 (C or higher), junior standing. Majors in the fall 2020 or later catalog must complete the pre-bus core with a min. of a C- or higher before taking any 300/400 Business course. See enrollment policy for eligibility or contact the School of Business. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
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Chemistry
CHY 107 - Chemistry for Health Sciences A one-semester introduction to general, organic, and biological chemistry for the health sciences. Topics include acids and bases, pH, chemical kinetics and equilibria, the chemistry of organic compounds; carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids. This course is not suitable for chemistry majors, biology majors, or pre-professionals (pre-dental, pre-medical, pre-veterinary).
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 113 - Principles of Chemistry I A presentation of fundamental principles of chemical science. These principles will be presented in quantitative terms and illustrated by examples of their applications in laboratories and in ordinary non-laboratory experience. This course and CHY 114 (normally taken concurrently) provide the basis for further study of chemistry.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 108 (or concurrent) or MAT 140 (or concurrent) or MAT 152 (or concurrent) or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 114 - Laboratory Techniques I A project-based laboratory experience to illustrate the principles presented in CHY 113 . One recitation and two laboratory hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 113 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 115 - Principles of Chemistry II A continuation of CHY 113 . This course is designed to provide the foundation for all further studies in chemistry and is a prerequisite for all upper-level chemistry courses.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 113 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 116 - Laboratory Techniques II A project-based laboratory experience to illustrate the principles presented in CHY 115 . One recitation and two laboratory hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 114 ; CHY 115 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 233 - Analytical Chemistry with Lab A survey of principles and applications of modern analytical chemistry and related calculations. Topics include volumetric and gravimetric analysis, electroanalysis, spectrophotometry, separations, statistics, and error analysis. Quantitative experimental determination by means of classical and instrumental methods. Techniques used include titration, gravimetric analysis, spectrophotometry, electroanalysis, and chromatography. Precision, accuracy, and statistical error analysis of results are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C or higher in CHY 115 and CHY 116 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 5
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 251 - Organic Chemistry I An intensive treatment of organic chemistry. Topics include: nomenclature; structure and stereochemistry; reaction types: substitution, addition, and elimination; reaction mechanisms and factors influencing them; spectroscopic techniques of structure determination (mass, nuclear magnetic resonance, and infrared).
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 115 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 252 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory I Students undertake a multi-step synthesis of a series of compounds and characterize the physical and chemical properties of these target compounds. Proficiency in synthetic methods, chromatography, and spectroscopy will be developed.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 116 ; CHY 251 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 253 - Organic Chemistry II A continuation of CHY 251 , but with a more comprehensive (and intensive) investigation of the principal categories of organic reactions. Extensive problem solving and critical thinking in such areas as predicting products of multi-step synthesis, deducing mechanisms, retrosynthesis, and spectroscopy will be explored. The structures and fundamental chemical reactions of alkenes, alkynes, and carbonyl-containing compounds will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 251 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 254 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory II Students will apply the skills they developed in CHY 252 to explore reactions of various functional groups and develop critical thinking skills through inquiry based experiments. Students will learn experimental design and how to search the primary literature.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 252 ; CHY 253 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 345 - Polymer Chemistry We live in a plastic society. During the past 90 years plastics (synthetic polymers) have become an integral part of daily life. This course will survey the past, present, and future of the chemistry of these essential materials. Students will discuss preparation of polymers under radical chain, step-reaction, ionic, and coordination conditions. Methods of characterization of polymers, both experimental and theoretical, will be considered. Finally, students will examine commercial polymers and polymer technology.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C or higher in CHY 253 and CHY 373 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 371 - Quantum Chemistry Principles of theoretical chemistry: quantum mechanics and spectroscopy. Topics include: quantization of translational, rotational, vibrational, and electronic energy; hydrogen orbitals; variational method and peturbation theory; multielectron atoms; chemical bonding; group theory; spectroscopy; and introductory statistical mechanics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 115 , MAT 152 , and PHY 123 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 373 - Chemical Thermodynamics Principles of theoretical chemistry: classical thermodynamics, molecular energetics, equilibrium, reaction kinetics, statistical thermodynamics, and electrochemistry.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 115 , MAT 152 , and PHY 121 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 374 - Chemical Thermodynamics Laboratory Experiments illustrating material presented in CHY 373 . One recitation and three laboratory hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 116 ; CHY 373 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 377 - Spectroscopy This course focuses on the structural elucidation of molecules through the use of mass spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry. A thorough consideration of the operation of the instrumentation used to obtain the spectra will also be addressed. Additional topics may include ultraviolet-visible and fluorescence spectroscopies and x-ray diffraction techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or better in CHY 233 and CHY 253 ; CHY 371 (or concurrent); or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 378 - Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Experiments will be performed in mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography, and UV-Vis, NMR, AA, and fluorescence spectroscopy. One hour of pre-lab recitation and three laboratory hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 233 , CHY 253 , and CHY 254 ; CHY 377 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 385 - Pickles to Pints: Fermentation Science Investigation into a variety of fermentation products and the chemical and biological processes that are involved in creating these products.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 233 , CHY 251 , BIO 281 , or BIO 311 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 410 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 411 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 412 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 413 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 414 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 415 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 416 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 417 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 418 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 419 - Special Topics Faculty mentored independent laboratory research on advanced subjects or special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 421 - Inorganic Chemistry Descriptive chemistry of the inorganic compounds, structure, bonding, and ligand field theory.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 115 ; CHY 371 (or concurrent); or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 461 - Biochemistry I Application of chemical methods and principles to understanding biological processes. Topics include structure and action of nucleotides, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates; enzyme kinetics and mechanisms; membranes and transport; and metabolism and energy conversion. This one-semester course provides a survey of the major areas of biochemistry, except for nucleic acids.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 253 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 462 - Biochemistry Laboratory I Basic experimental methods in modern biochemistry. Experiments include detecting, purifying, crystallizing, and characterizing proteins; analyzing protein structure; and measuring enzyme kinetics. Techniques include ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometry; ion-exchange, gel, and high-pressure liquid chromatography; electrophoresis; and analysis of protein structure by computer graphics. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 254 ; CHY 461 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 463 - Biochemistry II Continuation of CHY 461 . Topics include selected biosynthetic pathways, including photosynthesis; signal transduction applied to hormones, nerve transmission, and the five senses; and methods for structural analysis of macromolecules, including X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, and homology modeling. Participants present a seminar on a topic of current biochemical research.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in CHY 461 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 470 - Chemistry in Perspective Capstone course requiring both oral and written presentation of a current topic in chemistry or biochemistry with a laboratory component. This course includes an interdisciplinary component, as well as ethical, economic, and political considerations of the research topic. Required of all senior majors in the Chemistry BS and BA, and Biochemistry BS programs. Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of faculty advisor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chemistry
CHY 490 - Senior Research Project Open to senior majors. 15 credits maximum.
Prerequisite(s): 2.0 GPA in chemistry, CHY 233 , CHY 253 , CHY 254 , and permission of the department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-15
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Chemistry
Communication and Media Studies
CMS 102 - Introduction to Communication This course provides students with an overview and brief history of the field of communication, introduces them to theory development and the research process, and illustrates how communication theories can be applied to everyday life. Students will explore communication in a variety of contexts, including intrapersonal, organizational, intercultural, and mass communication.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 103 - Introduction to Media Studies This course examines the historical, philosophical, technological, economic, political, and social aspects of print (book, magazine, and newspapers) and electronic media (radio, television, film, sound recordings, and the Internet). In addition, the effects of mass media will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 150 - The Writing Process This course provides students with professional writing skills through practice in techniques and strategies used in a variety of media writing applications. There is a strong emphasis on the utility of writing as a tool of communicating information, interpreting media content, and constructing meaning.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 190 - Nonverbal Communication An introduction to the fascinating study of nonverbal communication. Researchers tell us that the majority of social meaning is communicated nonverbally. Facial expression, body movement, eye contact and other nonverbal channels significantly affect the creation of meaning among people. In addition, many of these channels are key to understanding cultural variations during communication. Students will explore nonverbal elements in their daily lives and examine ways to reduce miscommunication in a variety of settings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 200 - Research Methods in Communication This course introduces students to methods of inquiry found in the communication and media studies research literature. These methods include experimental design, survey research, textual analysis, and ethnography. The course examines the underlying philosophical assumptions associated with these methodologies as well as their unique strengths and limitations. Students’ conceptual understanding of these methodologies and their ability to become critical consumers of research findings are the major objectives of the course.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 or CMS 103 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 201 - Introduction to Public Relations This course examines the issues, tasks, and responsibilities of public relations practitioners in a variety of professional settings. Public relations encompass strategic communication processes aimed at building mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics. This course covers the theories and foundations of public relations and provides an overview of the principles, strategies, and practices of the profession.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 202 - Writing for Popular Print Media This introduction to magazine writing provides students an opportunity to conceive, craft, and publish original work in different genres for different markets There is a strong emphasis on the utility of writing as a means of organizing and communicating information, as in reporting, and also as a medium for more expressive and entertaining content.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 203 - Introduction to Video Production This course will examine the phases of video production associated with field and studio productions. Course content will also explore media aesthetics.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): CMS 204 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 204 - Introduction to Video Production Lab Various production exercises and assignments to illustrate the principles and theories presented in CMS 203 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): CMS 203 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 205 - Topics in Media Writing I A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 210 - Topics in Media Criticism I A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 215 - Journalism Reporting and Writing This course cultivates journalistic/public affairs research and writing. Students learn how to find and develop human and textual primary sources. Likewise, they learn and practice journalistic form and concise, accessible written expression. And students learn to appreciate and model the liberal ideals of public dialogue, debate, and democratic engagement.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 220 - Topics in Media Production I A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 222 - Digital Radio & Audio Production Students will learn the fundamental skills necessary for digital radio and audio production. Learning applications include hosting and producing a radio music program and a public affairs talk show, and producing promotional pieces with digital editing software.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 223 - Communication Law This course is intended to introduce students interested in media, journalism, and law to the basic rules, structures, and regulations that make up media law. It surveys the changing laws of journalism and mass communication, including defamation, privacy, reporting access, obscenity and indecency, media ownership, intellectual property, and commercial speech.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 103 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 225 - Screenwriting In this course, students will learn the process of writing scripts for films. A variety of concept development strategies, writing exercises, script examples, and screenings will be used to encourage students to develop their creative writing skills. Emphasis will be placed throughout the class on the process of screenwriting, from idea formation through writing and revision. Each student will produce a detailed outline/beat sheet for a feature-length film.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 235 - Communicating Security This course focuses on communicating security in a digital context. While online security is seen as technical (computer code and algorithms), such an understanding is an oversimplification. Rather, security is a social process of communication. Students explore communication in the digital context and gain skills for digital security.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 242 - Communication and Social Media Social media have influenced and altered patterns of human communication and interaction. This course explores social media dynamics including communication in a networked public culture, interpersonal communication online, privacy and information security, social media production and work, media ecologies, and managing media and information in a networked and highly connected world.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 255 - Business and Professional Communication Designed to provide students with essential communication skills for business and other professional settings, the course covers interpersonal, group, and public communication. These skills include listening actively, giving and receiving constructive feedback, interviewing others, leading groups, negotiating, and making effective public presentations. The course also includes discussions of gender, cultural diversity, and ethics in the workplace.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 265 - Intrapersonal Communication This course examines our ability to use what we know and feel in order to send, receive, and store information. Whether stimuli come from an external source or from within the self, the focus of intrapersonal communication is on the ways in which we process those stimuli, our ability to make sense out of our experiences, to remember, to retrieve information from memory, and to create messages at whatever level of consciousness, and no matter how many people are involved, in face-to-face or mediated communication.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 272 - Persuasion A course designed to help students understand the basic principles of persuasion. The course deals with persuasion as a social phenomenon. The perspective from which the course is offered is the analysis of persuasion as a behavioral process. As such, the course will investigate the social science research that relates to persuasion. Students will examine the attempts made by others to persuade them, as well as the attempts they make to persuade others. Further, the course will deal with the issue of ethics in persuasion.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 274 - Writing for the Media This writing-intensive course is designed to provide students with an overview of media writing. Students will be introduced to radio and television commercial writing, broadcast journalism, and fiction and non-fiction scriptwriting.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 284 - Introduction to Cinema Studies This course offers an introduction to the analysis of film. It examines movies from diverse historical periods, nations, and cinematic traditions, including narrative, documentary, and the avant-garde. In addition to providing a foundation in close analysis, the course also introduces students to fundamental issues in film history and film theory.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 286 - History of International Cinema to 1945 This course surveys the history of cinema from its emergence through World War II. It considers the development of Hollywood cinema in conversation with alternative approaches to filmmaking both within and outside the U.S. Paying close attention to film style, it also explores cinema’s economic, social, and technological history.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 288 - History of International Cinema Since 1945 This course surveys the history of cinema since World War II. Examining cinema’s metamorphoses in the face of social, economic, technological, and geopolitical changes, the course addresses the emergence of international art cinema, developments in politically critical filmmaking, cinema’s role in globalization, and its confrontation with new media.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 290 - Intercultural Communication This course concerns communication within different cultures (cross-cultural) and between different cultures (intercultural). We examine the values, beliefs, and assumptions that people hold as they interact with different people. The course combines communication theory and research, and involves the application through activities, papers, and group discussions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 294 - Visual Communication Our culture is arguably the most prolific visual culture in history. Visual messages bombard us from magazine and TV ads, paintings, music videos, concert shows, shopping mall displays, social media, informational graphics, images on T-shirts, web pages, and profoundly moving images in photojournalism. Visual Communication will introduce you to the principles of visual literacy to help you navigate this flood by learning to read visual messages as you do verbal ones.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 or CMS 103 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 298 - Topics in Communication I A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult MaineStreet for a listing of current topics courses and the CMS homepage for detailed course descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 300 - Topics in Media Writing II A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 301 - Public Relations: Cases and Campaigns Cases and Campaigns-Students will use the principles and techniques of public relations to critically analyze case studies and campaigns, as well as track current public relations issues.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 302 - Writing the Feature Story Students generate story ideas according to their own interests and target them for publication in specific markets. Class time focuses on perfecting writing and editorial skills, developing style and a field of interest, building an accomplished portfolio, and examining the practical and philosophical challenges of writing professionally. There is a strong emphasis on taking the initiative and working independently.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 303 - Media Effects This course will examine the effects of mass media upon individuals and societies. It will explore such questions as who is affected, what effects occur and how much, which media content is involved, and what situations make effects more or less likely to take place.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 or CMS 103 and CMS 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 305 - Writing Opinion: Editorials and Columns This is a writing intensive course that provides students with the basic skills for writing editorials, columns, and journalistic essays. The emphasis is on economical, persuasive, and strongly argumentative styles of writing. Students will read, analyze, and discuss throughout the semester the work of a leading U.S. essayist/columnist.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 306 - Managing Media Relations The news media’s influence on public policy, public opinion, and consumer behavior plays a critical role in companies’ and organizations’ communication strategies. Relying on theories of the mass media, this course will advance student writing, editing, and speaking in the context of media relations. Through discussion of current issues, case studies, and guest speakers, the course will cover such topics as media contact identification, relationship building, crisis management, interview preparation, effective media relations strategy construction, public relations plan evaluation, and the tools, methods, and ethics of media relations.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 310 - Topics in Media Criticism II A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 315 - Broadcast Newswriting This course introduces the basics of newswriting for television. It stresses brevity and conversational style of writing. Students will learn how to write TV news story scripts, beginning with simple news scripts (readers) and closing with complex scripts (packages). By providing the basics, the course prepares students for an internship with a broadcast news organization. It also offers practical advice on obtaining a job in broadcasting.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 , CMS 103 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 320 - Topics in Media Production II A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult their media studies advisor for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 322 - Digital Audio Storytelling Students will learn the craft of creating compelling audio stories with high production values, and how to use Adobe Audition software. Learning applications include: interviews with everyday people, public service announcements, and news feature stories.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 323 - Understanding Technology This course will examine the relationship between media, technology, and society from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Through readings and discussions students will develop an understanding of a variety of frameworks and theories that explain technological change and the fundamental relationship between humankind and technology.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 103 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 324 - Photojournalism This course introduces students to photojournalism norms, aesthetics, ethics, and practices through critical assessment of the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographers and applied photography and photographic editing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 326 - Special Effects and Animation This course combines an exploration of the history of Special Effects and Animation with hands-on real-world projects. Students will work with flip-books, stop-motion and rotoscope animation as well as special effects techniques such as masking, multi-plane, green screen, and motion tracking. Students will be using After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere. Some experience with Photoshop is recommended.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 330 - Interpersonal Communication A study of the current thinking in interpersonal communication which emphasizes specific theories of human interaction. Students will be exposed to research in the interpersonal setting and will apply findings to their personal relationships. The course will help students foster effective traditional and nontraditional relationships with a variety of people.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 332 - Communication in the Family This course examines the role of communication in various family types. Students will be introduced to research and theory on the family and will apply findings to their own lives. Topics covered will include family satisfaction, communication rules, decision making, values, structures, autonomy, and conflict. Students will be asked to draw upon their family backgrounds for analysis and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted Fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 335 - Public Relations: Special Topics This course might focus on a current or timely topic in public relations, an area of public relations not regularly taught, or a one-time offering based on the availability of specialized personnel. Please see the class notes for specifics.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 201 or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 340 - Narrative Filmmaking This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn the basic concepts and principles of professional narrative filmmaking in the creation of quality single-camera style video programs recorded in the field. This course also stresses the continued development of critical media skills and aesthetic sensibilities as they relate to professional film and video productions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): CMS 341 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 341 - Narrative Filmmaking Lab This lab will provide students with hands-on experience with professional digital video cameras, production equipment, and non-linear editing software.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): CMS 340 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 345 - Small Group Communication This course is designed to familiarize students with the theories and techniques associated with group behavior. The course explores the topics of leadership, conflict resolution, group climate, and decision making. Through simulations and exercises students learn methods for analyzing group process and their own behavior. Students’ findings are reported in preliminary and final papers.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 350 - The Internet in Society This course explores the worldwide network of computers linked to form a new medium of communication and the Internet. Course content will include the computer as a tool of communication, and how the Internet influences communication in such ordinary areas of life as work, interpersonal relations, and education. Students must have access to the Internet to participate in this course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 360 - Ethical Dilemmas in the Digital Age This course is about understanding ethical and value choices we make as we communicate in the digital age. We will examine the underlying reasons given for choices we make. Your graded assignments focus upon writing papers and leading and participating in discussion.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 374 - Media Criticism and Aesthetics This course introduces students to the variety of critical approaches applied to the analysis of media. The content of this course will focus on traditional and contemporary analysis of media. The aim of this course is to provide a critical context for the consumption of media content.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 103 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 375 - Meaning and Communication This course examines the assignment of meaning to verbal behavior, especially conversational exchange. Researchers have paid special attention to the ways in which words and actions take on meaning in context. We will focus on the full communicative event involving talk, i.e., context, pragmatics, grammatical structures, conversational structures, and types of meaning. A central question of the course is: How do people interpret what other people say? The course makes use of close reading and discussion of theory as well as the collection and analysis of naturally occurring spontaneous spoken and written discourse.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 380 - Film Genres This course will explore a genre found in film history. The genre selected for any given semester could be taken from such established ones as science fiction, horror, screwball comedies, musicals, or film noir.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 384 - Topics in Cinema Studies This course explores a key topic in the field of Cinema Studies. The focus for a given semester could be on a particular national cinema, directorial oeuvre, genre, technology, aspect of film style, or issue in film theory.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 390 - Organizational Communication This course is designed to introduce students to organization theory and behavior through the medium of metaphor. Using different metaphors, the course draws attention to significant aspects of the process of organizing, and provides a means for understanding and managing organizational situations. Students are responsible for conducting on-site field studies and preparing written and oral presentations of their findings.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 393 - Internships in Media Studies This course offers students the opportunity to develop media expertise by working with professionals in the field. Typically, the intern will work closely with a mentor in a sponsoring organization to gain practical skills and to develop strategies for transitioning from college to professional placement. An application process is required.
Prerequisite(s): Media studies major, junior or senior standing or by permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 398 - Topics in Communication II A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. Students should consult MaineStreet for a listing of current topics courses and the CMS homepage for detailed course descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 400 - Senior Project Workshop This course offers seniors in Media Studies an opportunity to complete a culminating ‘signature work’ that integrates knowledge and skills gained as a media studies major and demonstrates career or postgraduate readiness. Students will present their work to an audience of faculty and peers.
Prerequisite(s): Media Studies major and senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 401 - Launching into Life After College This seminar focuses on the multifaceted nature of the transition into life after college. Interactive class sessions and course assignments are designed to illuminate the social, psychological, emotional and academic aspects of leaving college to advance smoothly and successfully toward this new life phase. The aim is to help students grow and consolidate gains by developing personal insights and planning strategic actions that will aid in transcending barriers to living the kind of life desired after college. Students engage in self-sharing with peers throughout the course to increase awareness about the meaning of this life transition, face and overcome internal or external challenges, improve decision-making and explore future possibilities. It is an aim of this course to build confidence and skill in interpersonal communication, a vital aspect of work environments.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 423 - The First Amendment This seminar examines the philosophy, court cases, and issues relevant to the First Amendment right to free expression. In this class, students will learn functions of speech in society, the development of communication policy, and current communication laws and rules.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 430 - Communication Internship The Communication Internship Program is designed to give students the opportunity to gain experience in their field of interest. Given the broad scope of the Communication major, students work with experts in a variety of organizational settings including, business, education, media, health care, and government. The program strives to find positions that enhance a student’s career objectives. Three credits of an internship can be used to fulfill an elective in the major.
Prerequisite(s): Communication major, junior or senior standing or by permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 440 - Advanced Narrative Filmmaking This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn advanced principles and techniques of professional narrative filmmaking including pre production planning, production and post-production practices. This course also stresses the continued development of critical media skills and aesthetic sensibilities as they relate to professional film and video productions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): CMS 441 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 441 - Advanced Narrative Filmmaking Lab This lab will provide students with advanced hands-on experience with professional digital video cameras, production equipment, and non-linear editing software.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): CMS 440 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 450 - Service Learning Practicum This course gives students the opportunity to work with organizations outside the University in a professional context. Students will be divided into groups and will work with nonprofit organizations to develop projects, such as a multimedia presentation, a video, or a research report.
Prerequisite(s): Communication or Media Studies major and senior standing or by permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 460 - Topics in Media Production III A selection of courses varying in content from term to term.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 203 , CMS 204 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 480 - Gender Communication Gender is a central organizing principle in society, and ideas about gender are expressed through communication. How are language and communication gendered? What does research say about gender in the workplace, media, and educational settings? Such questions will be explored with the goal to increase awareness of gender communication.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 , junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 485 - Senior Seminar in Media Studies This course is a senior seminar designed to explore a particular topic in media studies. This course satisfies a senior-level course requirement in the media studies major. The focus for a given semester will be based on the expertise of the media studies faculty. Class sizes are limited in order for students to participate in discussion and contribute to the group’s synergy.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 491 - Independent Study A concentrated program of research or study on a particular topic approved and guided by a Department faculty member. The student and faculty member will have periodic conferences throughout the semester to discuss the progress and outcomes of the student’s work.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and faculty approval. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 493 - Advanced Internship and Professional Portfolio in Media Studies This advanced experiential learning course matches seniors with mentors to develop professional skills and strategies for transitioning to career in the field. Additionally, advanced interns collaborate with the Career Hub to develop an online presence by building a professional portfolio and transition plan.
Prerequisite(s): Media Studies major, senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 495 - Communication Capstone This course is the capstone senior seminar designed for graduating Communication majors who have completed most of their coursework. The course appraises different theoretical genres within the traditional levels of analysis taxonomy. One objective of the course is to further critical thinking skills. Another is to provide a framework for integrating knowledge acquired in earlier Communication courses. Overall, the course takes an advanced look at communication theory and the process of inquiry.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 , CMS 200 , junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 497 - On Bullshit This seminar explores the concept “bullshit.” It asks what does the concept “bullshit” mean to people, how do we decide that something is bullshit, and what sorts of questions can we ask about bullshit that we can empirically study? There is reason to believe that “bullshit” is an important concept, with connections to far-reaching, important parts of our lives, e.g., how we reason and make judgements.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 , junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
CMS 498 - Topics in Communication III A selection of seminars varying in content from term to term. Students should consult MaineStreet for a listing of current topics courses and the CMS homepage for detailed course descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): CMS 102 , junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Communication & Media Studies
Computer Science
COS 160 - Structured Problem Solving Java An introduction to the use of digital computers for problem solving, employing the Java programming language as a vehicle. Content includes elementary control structures and data representation methods provided by Java and the object-oriented programming methodology. Course requirements include a substantial number of programming projects.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 108 or appropriate placement score. Co-requisite(s): COS 170 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 161 - Algorithms in Programming The development of algorithms and their implementations in a higher-level programming language, with emphasis on proper design principles and advanced programming concepts. Introduction to the performance analysis of algorithms. Course requirements include a substantial number of programming projects.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 160 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 170 - Structured Programming Laboratory Computational experiments will be designed to teach students how to construct reliable software using Java. Topics to be covered include: Windows system, conditional program flow, iteration, procedures and functions, and symbolic debugging.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): COS 160 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 184 - Python Programming A first introduction to computer programming for solving practical problems, taught in Python, a modern object-oriented, dynamic computer language. The course teaches how to represent aggregates of data, process data selectively and repetitively, structure programs with functions and use predefined libraries with an eye towards acquiring, managing, visualizing and performing basic analysis of sets of data. Students will conduct hands-on programming, both at home and in the lab.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 108 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 246 - Programming Topics Topics to be covered may include programming languages not otherwise offered (e.g., Ada, Smalltalk), different programming methodologies (e.g., object-oriented programming), assembly languages, and other specific areas of programming.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 161 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 250 - Computer Organization The basic hardware, architecture, and software of computer systems are covered. Subjects include digital logic design, microprogramming, machine languages, assembly languages, and operating systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 161 . Co-requisite(s): COS 255 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Computer Science
COS 255 - Computer Organization Laboratory Students design, build, and test combinational and sequential logic circuits and write assembly language programs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): COS 250 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Computer Science
COS 280 - Discrete Mathematics II Concepts of modern algebra, set theory, Boolean algebra and predicate logic, elements of graph theory, and their application to computer science. This course emphasizes a syntactic approach to proof discovery.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 160 and MAT 145 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Computer Science
COS 285 - Data Structures Basic abstract data types and their representations, fundamental algorithms, and algorithm analysis. Consideration is given to applications. Specific topics include linked structures, trees, searching and sorting, priority queues, graphs, and hashing. Course requirements include a substantial programming component.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 161 , MAT 145 or MAT 152 or their equivalents, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Computer Science
COS 350 - Systems Programming A study of systems programming concepts and software, including the C programming language and the Unix programming environment and operating system interface. Students develop their abilities in these areas through programming exercises and projects.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 250 and COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 360 - Programming Languages Principles and techniques of high level programming language specification, including syntax and semantics, and implementation methods. Languages are considered as formal constructs representing computable functions and the course presents basic results of computability theory. Methods of recognition for regular and context free languages, the functional alternative to the state based imperative paradigm, use of parse trees as control constructs, and concurrent programming synchronization primitives are also covered.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 280 and COS 285 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Computer Science
COS 368 - Graphical User Interface Design Principles of graphical user interface design are utilized to build working interfaces. The programming language used may vary. Possible languages include Java and C. Students will work in an object-oriented, event-driven environment.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 374 - Numerical Analysis A study of the theory and application of computational algorithms for interpolation, equation solving, matrix methods, integration; error analysis.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C or higher in COS 160 , MAT 252 , and MAT 295 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 375 - Web Applications Development This course focuses on development of well-designed web applications. Students will learn how to build rich user interfaces using client-side frameworks, develop web services, and use design patterns in their software applications. Course requirements include a substantial number of programming projects.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 389 - Programming Autonomous Robots Introduction to the programming concepts involved with autonomous robotic systems. Using off-the-shelf “robot kits” students will design a simple robotic platform to meet specific goals. Then, using a common platform for the remainder of the course, students will develop their programming capabilities. Simple open-ended, feedback, and artificial intelligence systems will be explored throughout the course. Several benchmarks and robot competitions will be used to demonstrate the platform and programming learned in the course.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 398 - Professional Ethics and Social Impact of Computing A study of ethical perspectives and social responsibilities of computer professionals. Assigned readings provide the basis for class discussions of such issues as social control and privacy, computer viruses, ACM code of professional conduct, hacking, limits of correctness in computer software, military influence on computer science research and education.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 161 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 420 - Object-Oriented Design This course will focus on the construction of object-oriented software. Students will learn conceptual models for organizing objects and object hierarchies, an object-oriented design notation, the application of design patterns, and the use of software development methodologies such as the Agile development process. The capabilities will be used to solve relatively complex problems in a group setting.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in either COS 350 or COS 360 or any COS 400 level course, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 422 - Computing for Data Science This course provides a practical introduction to the data science workflow using Python. Successful completion of the course will involve using advanced features of Python, retrieving information in data files, working with numpy and pandas library, visualizing information and completing an end to end data science project.
Prerequisite(s): COS 160 , and MAT 152 or MAT 210 or MAT 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
COS 425 - Mobile Development This course addresses the peculiarities of software development for small, portable devices such as phones or tablets with their distinctive user interfaces and operating systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 427 - Computational Text Analytics This course provides students with a broad exposure to concepts, theories, underlying algorithms, and methodologies in computational text analytics. In this course, students are introduced to the landscape of computational linguistics and text analytics; natural language understanding; topic modeling; sentiment analysis; quantitative and probabilistic explanation in linguistics; word embeddings; and state-of-the-art tools, methods and computational strategies so they can turn text data to information.
Prerequisite(s): COS 160 or COS 184 and COS 161 or COS 422 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
COS 430 - Software Engineering Study of methods applied to large-scale software development, including topics such as requirements analysis and specification, design, validation and verification, and project management, with emphasis on principles of design. Students use methods on a large programming project.
Prerequisite(s): COS 285 or COS 360 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 432 - Deep Learning An introduction to the theory and applications of deep learning. Topics include basic neural networks, convolutional and recurrent networks, and applications in computer vision and language interpretation. Students will learn to design neural network architectures and training procedures via hands-on assignments.
Prerequisite(s): COS 285 or COS 422 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 444 - Software Project Management This course covers project life cycle, including developing the charter, plans and justification, outsourcing and procurement decisions, scope management, time and cost estimation, quality control, personnel management, risk assessment, and the critical role of communication, both internal and external, to the project. Students will learn to lead and participate in significant software projects. Experienced professionals from industry will visit the class.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and some programming experience. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 450 - Operating Systems Bottom up construction of a layered operating system beginning with the hardware interface and ending with the user interface. Specific topics covered include concurrent processes, process management, I/O, virtual memory, file management, resource scheduling, and performance measurement. Students are assumed to be familiar with general machine architecture, functions of system software (compilers, loaders, editors, etc.), data structures, and have some experience with UNIX or other multiprogramming operating systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 250 and COS 350 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 452 - Computer Graphics A study of the techniques involved in computer graphics systems. Topics include: point-plotting and line drawing in two- and three-dimensional space; clipping and windowing; geometric modeling; algorithmic solutions to the hidden line and hidden surface problems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 457 - Database Systems Study of the methods and principles of database management systems (DBMS). Topics addressed include DBMS objectives and architecture, data models, the SQL data definition and data manipulation language, and providing Internet access to databases. The entity-relationship and relational models are emphasized and their use required in a design project.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 280 and COS 285 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 460 - Computer Networks An introduction to computer networks, computer network architecture is described. Other topics include digital data communication, local area networks, wide area networks, internetworks, and the Internet. Specific technologies, including Ethernet and ATM, and protocols, including TCP/IP, will be considered in detail.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 465 - Distributed Systems An introduction to the design and operation of distributed systems. Topics include client-server models, interprocess communications, RPC, replication and consistency, online transaction processing, error and fault recovery, encryption and security. Examples will be taken from extant distributed systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 450 and COS 460 or their equivalents, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 469 - Compiler Construction Definition of languages via context-free grammars. Organization of a compiler into phases of lexical analysis, parsing, code generation, and optimization. Students will implement a compiler for a Pascal-like language.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 360 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 470 - Topics in Computer Science Topics to be covered may include philosophy of computers, history of computers, computers and society, simulation, graphics, and other advanced topics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 472 - Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining An introduction to the underlying concepts and applications of intelligent systems. Topics include heuristic search techniques, pattern matching, rule-based systems, computer representations of knowledge, and machine learning and data mining techniques. Course work includes regular labs and large projects. Students will learn to conduct research in artificial intelligence and will complete a modest research project.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Once every two years Course Type: Computer Science
COS 475 - Machine Learning The basic theory, algorithms, and applications of Machine Learning are covered in this course. Students will develop an understanding of learning theory, supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and reinforcement learning techniques. The course will also explore recent practical applications of machine learning.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 or COS 422 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 485 - Design and Analysis of Computing Algorithms An introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms. Techniques for designing algorithms, such as divide-and-conquer, greedy method, dynamic programming, and backtracking are emphasized and illustrated. Many problems of practical importance are covered including: minimum spanning tree, single source shortest path, traveling salesperson, and graph search. The concepts of NP-completeness are also considered. Substantial programming in a high-level language.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in COS 285 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Computer Science
COS 497 - Independent Study in Computer Science An opportunity for juniors and seniors who have demonstrated critical and analytical capability to pursue a project independently, charting a course and exploring an area of interest within their major field. At most, three credits of COS 497 can be used to satisfy degree requirements.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and permission of the Department chair and instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
COS 498 - Computer Science Internship An opportunity for students to gain practical experience in computer science-related employment. The University’s internship program provides placement. This course is offered on a pass/fail basis only and does not fulfill any computer science requirement.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Computer Science
Criminology
CRM 100 - Introduction to Criminology This course focuses on the nature of crime and problems concerning its measurement and distribution. The course examines some of the popular images of crime in the media and elsewhere, the creation and utility of official and unofficial crime statistics, and theories about the causes of crime. A grade of C or better is required in this course in order to continue in the major.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 216 - White-Collar Crime This course provides an analysis of different criminological perspectives on white-collar crime, and focuses on some specific types of white-collar crime: occupational crime, corporate crime, and political crime.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 217 - Crime in Maine An introduction to crime and penal policies in Maine, including official and unofficial crime statistics; common crimes; white-collar crimes; and selected aspects in crime control. The course presents interstate comparative analysis, and several guest lectures by Maine speakers.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 220 - Research Methods in Criminology This course is an introduction to methodological issues in criminology. The emphasis is on critical evaluation and application of the basic instruments of inquiry. Students will learn how to “do” criminology, as well as how to assess existing criminological literature.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 225 - Crimes Against the Environment This course is designed to expose students to many of the prominent controversies and challenges associated with defining, measuring, and responding to crimes against the environment. Central to the course is an examination of the relationship between socioeconomic power and its effect on responses to environmental change.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 230 - Introduction to the Criminal Justice System This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the criminal justice system in the United States from a sociological perspective. Students will become familiar with criminal justice functions such as policing, trials, defense and prosecution of cases, and corrections. Also, students are required to prepare a mock trial of a criminal case.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 310 - Classical Theories of Social Order This course will examine how the concept of social order and the invention of criminology arose simultaneously. Classical social theories of the Enlightenment and Modernity will be used to study the origin of the modern state and the criminalization of various social groups.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 317 - Gender and Crime In this course, we will examine the politics of gender and crime through an intersectional lens of power and inequality. We will explore how notions of masculinity and femininity shape, and are reinforced by, narratives about victimization and offending. In doing so, we will focus on the intersections of race, class, citizenship status and sexual orientation. Particular attention will be given to the role of gender in the following contemporary contexts: the criminalization of poverty and work, street masculinities and femininities, sexual violence, hate crimes, state/political crimes, mass incarceration, bias in the criminal justice system, and alternative approaches to justice.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 320 - Film and Social Order The intent of this course is to engage in a cross-cultural study of the relationship of film to social order and crime. Films construct images about social reality. The ways in which these images present and interpret this relationship will be examined from various analytical standpoints, including ethno-methodology, semiology, and post-modernism.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 325 - Domestic Violence This course explores contemporary theoretical and policy debates on domestic violence as a social problem and crime. Topics include partner abuse, child abuse, and elder abuse. The definition and measurement of domestic violence are analyzed. Comparison of legal and community responses to domestic violence is emphasized. Special attention is given to economic and ethnic diversity as they relate to domestic violence.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 330 - Crime and Social Control This course explores theoretical and practical issues of modern systems of social control, including punishment, policing, prisons, parole, probation, and the role of the state in social control. The history of Western social control systems is stressed, with emphasis on race, gender, and class effects. Students are required to engage in experiential learning.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 334 - Law and State This course explores the relationship between the United States’ social welfare policies and contemporary crime control problems and practices. It includes an examination of the United States’ residual welfare state, theories on social welfare development, and the Nordic model of crime prevention, which is based on the premise that crime can be reduced through social policies designed to lessen structural inequalities.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 337 - Youth Crime This course provides an overview of justice issues as they affect juveniles. Theoretical explanations for youth crime as well as the emergence of both “adolescence” and “delinquency” as socially constructed concepts will be examined. In general, the course adopts a historical approach to youth crime.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 340 - Criminal Law This course offers students an intensive study and review of statutory law, case law, and criminal procedure. Substantive topics covered include responsibility; insanity; grand jury; 4th, 5th, 8th and 14th Amendment issues; pre-trial; trial; sentencing and appeals. Materials are drawn from U.S. Supreme Court and Maine Judicial Court opinions.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 345 - Criminology in Sweden This special summer course in Sweden provides students with the opportunity to live in, study, and experience another culture and to gain an understanding of crime, criminology, and social control in another country. Visits will be made to the police department and court system in Stockholm and to several prisons in other cities. Lectures will be provided by sociologists at the Criminology Institute at the University of Stockholm, as well as by a variety of lawyers, judges, and political party leaders.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Type: Criminology
CRM 350 - Topics in Criminology Specially developed courses exploring areas of interest and concern in depth. Topics which may be considered include war crimes, race and crime, ethno-methodology, homicide, visual criminology, film and crime, self and crime, sexuality and crime, and social theories of non-violence.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 365 - Race and Punishment The objective of this course is to examine the racial history of the American legal system and its relationship to the United States criminal justice system. The course focuses on the inherent contradiction due to the absence of social justice between the constitutional promise of human rights and their actual suppression, the contradiction between personal ethics espousing racial justice and emancipation, and the ethics of political power, which legitimate their suppression.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 375 - Media, Crime, and Criminality It is important to examine how the media assemble, select, and disseminate “crime knowledge” to audiences and thus influence their understanding of crime. The course uses a social constructionist approach to explore structural, institutional, and interactional contexts of media production.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 380 - Restorative Justice This course explores theory and research on restorative justice, which is an international movement of “progressive” reform that claims to reduce social inequalities generating crime. Students explore theoretical and empirical developments in restorative justice and examine programs claiming restorative components, such as victim-offender mediation and diversionary conferences.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 390 - Independent Projects Individually or collectively arranged reading and/or research for juniors and seniors under the direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 395 - Internship The course is designed as a field experience/reflection opportunity for upper-level criminology majors with substantive background or coursework in the area of internship placement. It also provides a work/action experience and insight into professional roles in a variety of community agencies and organizations. The emphasis is on the application of social science perspectives, substantive knowledge, and methodologies to understand a particular organizational situation. In addition to field placement, students are expected to meet for a series of internship seminars, for which readings and reports will be required. Also, students must have completed 53 or more credit hours by the end of the semester in which they register for the course. Contact Department internship coordinator for details.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
CRM 402 - Senior Seminar This course is intended to furnish junior/senior criminology majors with an opportunity to reflect on and integrate the material in their other courses. Its focus is a major research project. The research project culminates in a research paper that investigates how a specific social inequality (or inequalities)–such as class, race, gender, age, sexuality, and nation–are related to a particular crime. The course combines individualized instruction, small group meetings, and seminars.
Prerequisite(s): CRM 100 , CRM 220 and junior or senior class standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Criminology
Economics
ECO 100 - Introduction to Economics Ideas and Issues An introduction to basic economic ideas, issues, and theories for non-majors. The course surveys microeconomic and macroeconomic theories and analyzes current topics and problems of the economy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 101 - Introduction to Macroeconomics An analysis of the basic characteristics, institutions, and activities of modern market economies. Topics discussed include inflation, unemployment, government monetary and fiscal policy, full employment and economic growth.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Economics
ECO 102 - Introduction to Microeconomics Introduction to the analysis of individual markets: the functioning of prices in a market economy, economic decision making by producers and consumers, and market structure. Topics discussed include consumer preferences and consumer behavior, production theory and production costs, the monopoly firm, and resource pricing. Additional topics are determined by individual instructors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Economics
ECO 103 - Critical Thinking About Economic Issues This course aims to develop critical thinking skills through the study of competing interpretations and analyses put forward by economists. Students will use a variety of texts, media, and activities to better understand controversial topics in economics. The specific thematic focus of ECO 103 may vary from section to section. Examples of topics which may be examined include the economics of health care, economic inequality, the global economy, and the economics of the environment.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Economics
ECO 120 - Lying with Graphs: Reading, Writing and Interpreting Graphs in the Social Sciences If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a graph’s worth a thousand numbers. Graphs can be used to explain, present, and-yes-distort information. During this course, you will learn how to correctly interpret, critique, and construct graphs, as well as avoid the pitfalls often encountered in using graphs to communicate.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 220 - U.S. Economic and Labor History This course examines labor issues in the U.S. economy, combining analytical and historical perspectives. The course surveys the evolution of labor in the U.S. economy from the industrial revolution to the present, considers the history of the American worker and of the U.S. labor movement, and analyzes labor markets and their relationship to the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 301 - Intermediate Macroeconomics A theoretical analysis of the basic forces that cause inflation, growth, and fluctuations in economic activity. The effects on employment and other factors are thoroughly treated. Stabilization policies are examined and evaluated.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 and ECO 102 , or ECO 100 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Yearly Course Type: Economics
ECO 302 - Intermediate Microeconomics Analysis of individual markets, choice, and exchange theory: the functioning of prices in a market economy, rational decision making by consumers and producers, cost and production analysis, market structure, and theory of public goods and market failures.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 and ECO 102 , or ECO 100 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Yearly Course Type: Economics
ECO 304 - Research Methods in Economics This course introduces students on how to conduct original research on economics questions. Basic issues regarding the formulation of research questions, research design, and data collection and analysis are addressed. The course introduces ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches.
Prerequisite(s): Quantitative Reasoning requirement; ECO 101 ; ECO 102 ; ECO 301 or ECO 302 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 305 - Econometrics Measures of central tendency, basic probability theory, and hypothesis testing will be discussed. With a focus on economic data, the relationship between random variables will be examined using linear regression models and computer software.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 and proficiency in Microsoft Excel™ or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 310 - Money and Banking This course examines the structure and operation of the financial system with major emphasis on commercial banking, reviews the structure of the Federal Reserve System and analyzes the tools of policy, develops alternative monetary theories, and discusses major issues in monetary policy.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 , ECO 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 312 - U.S. Economic Policy This course examines currently perceived problems of the U.S. economy. A range of views of these problems and associated policy proposals are considered including: free market, traditional monetary and fiscal, as well as new policy approaches.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level ECO course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 315 - Economic Development The theories and practices of interregional and international economic development. Special attention is given to developmental problems of emerging nations.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level ECO course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 316 - Case Studies in International Development This course provides case studies of the issues, problems, and policies of economic development. The development experience of various countries is examined in a comparative context.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level ECO course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 321 - Understanding Contemporary Capitalism This course analyzes the character and dynamics of leading contemporary capitalist economies, emphasizing historical, comparative, and institutional perspectives. These perspectives are used to address a wide range of contemporary economic issues, including national R&D policy, financial regulation, public and private human resource investments, and organizational strategies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 323 - U.S. Labor and Employment Relations This course considers the evolution of 20th-century U.S. labor relations, particularly the competing fortunes of union and non-union labor relations models, as well as the impact of changing institutions on labor markets. It also surveys the evolving perspectives of industrial relations theorists and practitioners.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 326 - Environmental Economics This course considers the economic aspects of environmental issues, such as pollution and environmental degradation, environmental justice, and global climate change. In addressing each of these issues we will investigate the implications of various public policy responses such as regulation, marketable permits, and tax incentives.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Semester, Even Years Course Type: Economics
ECO 327 - Natural Resource Economics In this course, we will consider the economic aspects of natural resource management and use, including the economically sustainable management of fisheries, forests, water resources, and biodiversity, with applications to Maine and beyond. We will investigate the implications of public policy responses such as regulations, marketable permits, and tax incentives.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Semester, Odd Years Course Type: Economics
ECO 333 - Economics and Happiness Presents the limited relationship between economic well-being and happiness. Students will learn differing assessments and determinants of happiness as presented by economists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In addition, they will examine the influence of ethics, altruism, and cooperation on well-being and will conclude by examining policy implications.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 or ECO 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester, Even Years Course Type: Economics
ECO 335 - The Political Economy of Food This course examines the inter-relatedness of production, distribution, and consumption of food in a global economy. Topics include the role of government policies in the U.S. and India, the impact of multinational agro-corporations on traditional methods of food production, and the subsequent impact on income and entitlements to food.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level ECO course and College Writing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Semester, Odd Years Course Type: Economics
ECO 340 - History of Economic Thought A survey of the development of modern economic theories, focusing in particular on Smith, Ricardo and Malthus, Marx, the marginalists, and Keynes. Consideration is also given to contemporary debates which exemplify historical controversies among theories.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 , ECO 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 370 - International Economics Analysis of international markets and exchange theory, functioning of prices in the international economy, international finance, tariffs, quotas, and other instruments of international economic policy.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 , ECO 102 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 399 - Special Topics in Economics Prerequisite(s): Depends on topic. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 400 - Capstone in Economics In this one-credit seminar, taken in conjunction with a companion course, students reflect on and integrate learning in the major. Emphasis is on learning at the individual level, as students explore connections among their courses, and collectively as students explore what they have in common as economists despite different academic trajectories.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 450 - Readings in Economics A series of readings and discussions of important books and articles of a socio-economic and politico-economic nature.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
ECO 490 - Independent Readings and Research in Economics Independent study and research of various student-selected areas of economics.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 or ECO 102 or permission of a faculty sponsor, junior or senior-level standing, a completed Independent Study Approval Form and sponsorship by an economics faculty member. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Economics
Education and Human Development
EDU 100 - Exploring Teaching as a Profession An introduction to the study of education and teaching, this course provides opportunities for students to examine and evaluate their interest in and aptitude for a career in teaching. The structure of the course combines faculty-directed seminars with coordinated field-based experiences in school settings. In addition to examining and reflecting upon their field-based classroom experiences in their seminar sessions, students will examine the following topics: current initiatives and issues in education and teaching, the diverse needs of students, the multiple roles of teachers, the professional and ethical expectations of teachers, school curriculum, culture and organization, and teacher certification programs and professional development options. Part of the course will be field based school experiences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 222 - Foundations of Language and Literacy Development This course is designed to examine theories and processes related to language and literacy development, and the implications of these theories and processes for curriculum and instruction, grades preK-12. The course includes a 24-hour school-based field experience. All students are required to be fingerprinted prior to enrolling in a course with an accompanying field experience and/or internship placement.
Prerequisite(s): HRD 200 , EDU 225 , or program permission, and students are required to be fingerprinted and to provide proof of Criminal History Record Check (CHRC) approval to USM prior to enrolling in this course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 225 - Multicultural Child and Adolescent Development This course introduces foundational child developmental theories that inform the field of education. Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive, biological, and social psychology, emphasis will be placed on how educators can support the growth and learning of school age populations through applying principles of child development within the teaching praxis. The influence of culture, beliefs, ideologies, values and environment on identity development will be considered. The educator’s role as advocate, trauma-informed practices, socio-emotional learning, and multicultural child development frameworks will be discussed. The connection of interpersonal, family, school, community and society relations on patterns of development, teaching and learning will be explained.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 100 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Education
EDU 230 - Teaching Through the Arts This course focuses on integrating art-based teaching and learning across the p-12 curriculum. It will give insight to comprehending a visual language in both students and teachers, by using developmentally appropriate art practices, which foster creative connections and studio habits of mind. This course requires arts-based field experiences to be arranged during the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 300 - Educational Media and Technology This is a foundational course designed for pre-service teachers to explore digital tools that support the learning process and assist teachers with instructional design and management. Topics include critical review of how technology has been used, survey current uses, explore issues of access and equity, assistive technology, curriculum integration, administration and management of technology. This online course will model different strategies for engagement, instruction and assessment.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 305 - Foundations of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity This course supports students in exploring and critically analyzing topics, themes, and issues related to cultural and linguistic diversity and helps them build a strong theoretical and practical foundation for becoming successful multicultural educators. 12 hours of fieldwork will be required.
Prerequisite(s): HRD 200 , or EDU 225 , or program permission, and students are required to be fingerprinted and to provide proof of Criminal History Record Check (CHRC) approval to USM prior to enrolling in this course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 310 - Education, Schooling, and Democracy This course is designed around three essential questions: What are the historic and current purposes of education in the United States?; What is the relationship between school and society?; and Do schools function as a site of democracy? Through the examination of texts, videos and the use of discussion and simulation, students will study foundational theories of progressive education, and consider what it means to participate in an education system and schooling within a democracy. They will explore who within society historically has had educational access, who has access in the 21st century, and why this is the case. Through interrogation of resources, deliberative discussion, and focused, supported writing, students will explore issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools. This course satisfies the USM Core requirements for a WRI 3 course. As such, students will develop and adapt their existing skills to meet the demands of collegiate study and of new writing situations and diverse audiences. Students will become rhetorically versatile and purposeful readers and writers, harnessing the power of language as a means to discover and cultivate ideas and to communicate clearly, productively, and ethically within academic, workplace, and civic communities.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 323 - Independent Study in Teacher Education This course provides students the opportunity to pursue a project independently, planning and exploring an area of interest within the field of teacher education. Most independent study projects are library based; all are intellectually sound and reflect a high caliber of performance. Specific content and methods of evaluation are determined in conjunction with the instructor. An approved proposal is a necessary prerequisite to registration.
Prerequisite(s): Matriculation in an education program and junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 336 - Children’s Literature In this course, educators will examine the role of literature in literacy learning. EmphasisEmphases will be on the promotion of wide reading in a variety of genres and attending to the appropriate selection of literature to meet reading interests, needs, and abilities of elementary students. In addition to examining criteria for evaluating and selecting materials, participants will consider curriculum implications and learn creative strategies for teaching children’s literature and enhancing reading for elementary students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 401 - Secondary Science Methods for All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course has an interactive laboratory/discussion field-based approach, modeling and focusing on the teaching and learning aspects of science in the high school and middle school. The emphasis is on content, process, and methodology and will help interns develop knowledge of how to teach (pedagogy) and, more specifically, knowledge of how to teach science (pedagogical content knowledge). Students will learn strategies for planning and providing core academic and behavioral experiences to all learners.
Prerequisite(s): Preservice teachers matriculated in a USM teacher education pathway and in a classroom placement concurrent with this course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 402 - Secondary English Methods This course focuses on ways to organize and teach English Language Arts classes at the middle and high school levels based upon current research in literacy and national and state standards in English Language Arts. Students will examine various strategies involved in designing and managing a student-centered English Language Arts class. They will explore and apply different theories for teaching English and create classroom activities to develop and expand upon students’ capacities to read, write and speak effectively. Students will learn to see the necessary and important connections between reading and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Open to matriculated interns in the Undergraduate Teacher Education program and interns in the ETEP program or by program permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 403 - World Language Methods for all Learners Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of teaching and learning world languages at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. It is based upon current research and national and state standards with a central focus on communicative language teaching. Students examine theories of second language acquisition, techniques for teaching interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication, as well as literature and culture. The course explores task-based instruction, the use of culturally authentic materials, the integration of technology as well as means of performance-based assessment and grading.
Prerequisite(s): Open to matriculated undergraduate students in a USM teacher education pathway or by Teacher Education permission. Co-requisite(s): Concurrently placed in a student-teaching internship. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 404 - Secondary Social Studies Methods for All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course focuses on ways to organize and teach social studies courses at the middle school and high school levels. Students will examine various theories for teaching social studies, current research and national/state standards in order to link theory and practice and create a vision of social studies that promotes student-centered pedagogy, interdisciplinary thinking, issues of diversity, and relevance to students’ lives.
Prerequisite(s): Open to matriculated undergraduate students in a USM teacher education pathway and concurrently placed in a student-teaching internship. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 405 - Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Methods for All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds MAT 232 This course is designed for those preparing to be elementary and middle school mathematics teachers and provides experiences to develop and apply mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. The primary focus is on how to create positive learning communities that support all students in developing a deep understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. Major areas of focus include: creating problem-based learning experiences; creating effective, supportive learning environments; using appropriate and effective models and tools for promoting understanding of mathematical ideas, including the use of technology and manipulatives; understanding learning progressions of important mathematical ideas; promoting the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Process Standards; supporting students’ understanding of the Common Core Standards and Practices; assessing and building on students’ mathematical understandings; and creating adaptive learning materials to differentiate instruction for individuals and groups of learners.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credit hours in mathematics, which includes two of the following courses for elementary school teachers (or equivalent courses at another institution): MAT 131 , MAT 132 , MAT 231 , and MAT 232. Co-requisite(s): This course is taken concurrently with an internship experience. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 410 - Creating Positive Learning Environments This course emphasizes creating, building, and sustaining a positive classroom environment as a foundation for learning. We will examine frameworks from a variety of disciplinary traditions including behaviorist multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and restorative justice practices. In the interest of meeting the needs of both group dynamics and the individual needs of K-12 students, the course emphasizes organization of the physical classroom, creating universal standard operating procedures (SOPs), and the importance of universal high expectations. Students will explore social frameworks, including culturally responsive teaching, teacher-student relationships, school-family partnerships, and community building. Students will gain strategies to promote motivation for learning by empowering K-12 students to engage in self-directed learning in inclusive, democratic classrooms.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Enrollment in USM teacher education internship/student teaching course. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Seminar
EDU 414 - Improving Teaching in the Content Areas through Literacy for All Students Including Those with Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This content area literacy course focuses on helping students develop strategies for strategic, independent learning. All students, including those with diverse abilities and culturally diverse backgrounds, will come to understand that learning is an active, constructive process. Therefore, teachers of all subjects and grade levels will demonstrate knowledge and application of sound reading and writing strategies to enhance learning in the classroom. These strategies will create readiness for learning, use reading and writing to promote content understanding, and provide a means for assessing what has been learned. Major emphasis is given to comprehension instruction, vocabulary acquisition, and metacognition.
Prerequisite(s): Matriculated into a teacher education pathway or department permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 442 - Professional Seminar in Teaching The purpose of this pre-internship seminar is to build a learning community among undergraduates pursuing teacher certification through all pathways. Students in this learning community will be introduced to lesson planning (including basic elements, technology applications, and formative assessment of learning outcomes) and basic classroom management, build relationships with K- 12 students, work with families, and collaborate with professionals. Students in this course will plan and implement at least three lessons in a school-based “residency” setting. They will observe, reflect on, and engage in basic classroom management techniques and systems. In their residency settings, they will build teaching relationships with students and work with families to support K-12 student success. Students will prepare themselves for the responsibilities of the internship, the year following this course. The course is designed to be carried out in conjunction with a 36-hour field-based placement in designated residency sites and for students to design and deliver a family-related service learning project.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of EDU 222 , SED 235 , and 75 credits in Elementary Education major, or Secondary Teacher Education Pathway, or Accelerated Pathway; or with program permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 445 - Internship in General Education This course is a two semester supervised internship experience in applying knowledge and skills to the practice of teaching. An intern is assigned to a mentor teacher in an elementary, middle, or high school classroom, ideally in a partner district. The internship is completed in conjunction with teaching methods courses and includes a site-based seminar that meets throughout the year.This course may be repeated for up to 9 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate teacher certification pathway matriculation and eligible for student teaching, or permission of program. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 9 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 451 - Elementary Social Studies Methods for All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course focuses on ways to organize and teach social studies courses at the elementary level. Students will examine various theories for teaching social studies, current research and national/state standards in order to link theory and practice and create a vision of social studies that promotes student-centered pedagogy, interdisciplinary thinking, issues of diversity, and relevance to students’ lives.
Prerequisite(s): Open to matriculated undergraduate students in a USM teacher education pathway and concurrently placed in a student-teaching internship. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 452 - Teaching Elementary Science to All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course has an interactive laboratory and field-based approach that models the teaching and learning of science at the elementary and middle school levels. The emphasis is on content, process, and methodology. Students will learn how to promote diverse children’s proficiency in state standards by implementing multiple strategies to support scientific understanding of systems in the natural and designed world. Open to matriculated undergraduate students in a USM teacher education pathway and concurrently placed in a student-teaching internship
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 454 - Secondary Mathematics Methods for All Students Including Those of Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds This course focuses on research-based, best practices in teaching mathematics in grades 7-12. It is designed for those preparing to be middle school and secondary mathematics teachers and provides experiences to develop and apply mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. A primary focus is on how to create positive learning experiences that support all students in developing a deep understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. Major areas of emphasis include: creating problem-based learning experiences; implementing high-level mathematical tasks; creating effective, supportive learning environments; the appropriate and effective use of models, other representation, and tools for promoting understanding of mathematical ideas, including the use of technology; promoting the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Process Standards; supporting students’ understanding of the Common Core Standards and Practices; and assessing and building on students’ mathematical understandings.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in college-level mathematics. Co-requisite(s): This course should be taken concurrently with an internship experience. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 465 - Teaching Reading for All Students in Grades K-8, Including Those with Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds Course Description: In this course, students will learn to use evidence-based instruction to teach reading in grades K-8. Students will examine theories and current research on reading development and process in order to effectively instruct and assess all readers, including students with special needs and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Students will learn how to implement multiple strategies to support reading development and promote children’s proficiency in state standards. Additionally, digital literacies, reading across the curriculum, and ways to engage and motivate readers will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Must be concurrently enrolled in a student teaching internship, or LLC Department approval. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
EDU 466 - Teaching Writing for All Students Including Those with Diverse Abilities and Backgrounds. In this course, students will learn to use evidence-based instruction to teach writing for all students. Students will examine theories and current research on writing development and process in order to effectively instruct and assess all writers, including students with special needs and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Students will learn how to implement multiple writing strategies across various genres to support writing development and promote children’s proficiency in state standards. Additionally, students will explore the use of technology and participate in writing sessions to develop as writers and teachers of writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Must be concurrently enrolled in a student teaching internship, or LLC Department approval. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Education
ESL 006 - Intensive Grammar This course (2-3 sections) focuses on building a stronger foundation in the grammatical and editing skills necessary for more natural and accurate English, both oral and written. Through a series of grammatical exercises, meaningful drilling, and analysis of the structure of the English language, students will become more adept at producing a wider variety of language with a higher knowledge of use and form. The course will not only introduce new structures in language but also review and expand upon those already learned. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 007 - Listening and Oral Communication/US Culture This course focuses on cultural awareness and US culture as well as the improvement of the listening and oral skills that are necessary for the university classroom. The primary goals of the course are to introduce students to various aspects of US culture and intercultural communication via oral discussions and listening activities. Additional goals are to assist students in achieving comprehensible pronunciation and gaining confidence in listening comprehension and speaking skills. Students will also be exposed to a wide variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures in context. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 008 - Reading, Writing & Vocabulary This course (3-4 sections) focuses on the improvement of the reading and writing skills that are necessary for the university classroom. The readings are from authentic sources and promote use of strategies for writing short reaction papers, summaries, and essays which are based on these readings. Informal journal writing is an integral part of the course. Students will also be exposed to a wide vocabulary and systematic overview of grammatical structure. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 009 - Intensive Reading and Speaking Fluency Intensive Reading and Speaking Fluency (2 sections) focuses on improving students’ fluency in both reading and speaking while learning about topics in United States culture, history and current events. Emphasis is on developing speed and comprehension in reading and listening to material drawn from texts, news sources, film and popular culture. Students will learn strategies for speaking in front of a group, compensating for accent, and conducting informational interviews. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 016 - Intensive Grammar This course (3-4 sections) focuses on building a stronger foundation in the grammatical and editing skills necessary for more natural and accurate English, both oral and written. Through a series of grammatical exercises, meaningful drilling, and analysis of the structure of the English language, students will become more adept at producing a wider variety of language with a higher knowledge of use and form. The course will not only introduce new structures in language but also review and expand upon those already learned. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 017 - Listening and Oral Communication/US Culture This course (2 sections) focuses on cultural awareness and US culture as well as the improvement of the listening and oral skills that are necessary for the university classroom. The primary goals of the course are to introduce students to various aspects of US culture and intercultural communication via oral discussions and listening activities. Additional goals are to assist students in achieving comprehensible pronunciation and gaining confidence in listening comprehension and speaking skills. Students will also be exposed to a wide variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures in context. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 018 - Reading, Writing & Vocabulary This course (3-4 sections) focuses on the improvement of the reading and writing skills that are necessary for the university classroom. The readings are from authentic sources and promote use of strategies for writing short reaction papers, summaries, and essays which are based on these readings. Informal journal writing is an integral part of the course. Students will also be exposed to a wide vocabulary and systematic overview of grammatical structure. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
ESL 019 - Intensive Reading and Speaking Fluency Intensive Reading and Speaking Fluency (2 sections) focuses on improving students’ fluency in both reading and speaking while learning about topics in United States culture, history and current events. Emphasis is on developing speed and comprehension in reading and listening to material drawn from texts, news sources, film and popular culture. Students will learn strategies for speaking in front of a group, compensating for accent, and conducting informational interviews. (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as a Second Language
ESL 099 - Intermediate Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary This is an intermediate-level English language course for students whose first language is not English. This is a developmental ESL course designed to help students compose fluent and accurate writing as used in academic settings. Students will develop a greater sense of confidence in using written English as a method of communication. Emphasis will be placed on achieving unity and coherence in written compositions and on understanding the mechanical aspects of the essay. Students will learn to read for meaning and to analyze authentic texts. Through reading, writing, and specific exercises, students will expand their grasp of vocabulary and idiom needed for academic work and progress into ESL 103 . (The credit for this course does not apply toward a baccalaureate or an associate degree.)
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 100 - College Writing This is a section of College Writing which is intended for multilingual writers and/or non-native speakers of English only. ESL 100 will serve as the first course in the required three-course USM writing sequence. Throughout the course, students learn several fundamental ideas about writing: that writing is a process; that writing always involves reading; that writing is situational and involves specific rhetorical elements (purpose, audience, text, genre, style, mode); that writing is recursive and therefore always in-process; and that writing requires metacognitive thinking. ESL 100 students engage in a series of essay assignments that reflect points of view, engage with readings, and focus on a central thesis or project. Through these writing practices, students develop a metalanguage to articulate their writing and rhetorical choices and to demonstrate an understanding of sentence structure and syntax as central to meaning. By the end of the course, students should be able to assess a writing situation and then successfully write for that situation. Coursework includes significant opportunities to improve grammar and usage, build academic vocabulary, and practice techniques involved in conducting secondary research, including using databases and MLA/APA documentation. ESL 100 is the final course in the Admissions Pathway Program (APP) sequence. Per CORE requirement policies, it is considered the equivalent of ENG 100, ENG 101, ENG 104, HON 100, LCC 110, LCC 111, RSP 100 and RSP 104.
Prerequisite(s): ESL 104 & ESL 102 or program assessment and permission and college readiness in writing; Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 101 - Admissions Pathway Program Level I: Intermediate/Advanced Grammar and Writing This is an intermediate/advanced-level English language course for Admissions Pathway Program (APP) students who are non-native speakers of English/ multilingual writers. This course focuses on strengthening the foundation of English grammatical skills and applying them in academic writing. Emphasis is on understanding the meaning, use, and form of common grammar structures needed for college level writing. Students will work on accurate production of English, both oral and written, through a series of grammar practice exercises, and they will apply this knowledge to their own writing and editing. This course prepares students for the more advanced ESL 102 .
Prerequisite(s): Program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as a Second Language
ESL 102 - Admissions Pathway Program Level II: Advanced Grammar and Writing This is an advanced-level English language course for APP, multilingual writer students that focuses on building a stronger foundation of grammatical skills that will aid students in producing more natural and accurate writing skills in the English language. Emphasis is placed on understanding and using advanced grammar structures needed for academic writing and discussion at the university level. Through a series of grammatical exercises, meaningful drilling, both written and oral, short essay writing, and analysis of the structure of English, students will improve their academic writing and editing skills.
Prerequisite(s): ESL 998 or program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 103 - Admissions Pathway Program Level I: Intermediate/ Advanced Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Designed for Admissions Pathway Program (APP) multilingual writers, this is a mid-advanced-level English language course which focuses on helping students produce grammatical, well-constructed, coherent English, in both written and spoken form. Based on the writing process, students will write and rewrite paragraphs and essays drawn from topical and academic reading, works of fiction, and class discussion. Students learn to read and analyze for content and style a variety of authentic works of fiction and non-fiction. A strong focus will be on enhancing the students’ academic vocabulary.
Prerequisite(s): ESL 099 or program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated once. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
ESL 104 - Admissions Pathway Program Level II: Advanced Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary This is an advanced-level English language course for APP, multilingual writer students that focuses on fine-tuning their reading and writing skills prior to taking College Writing. Much of the work done in this class will focus on reading academic literature, fiction and nonfiction, as well as on mastering the academic writing skills necessary for university work. Additional focus will be on vocabulary extension and the use of idioms. Students will be required to write short essays, keep a written journal, and make oral presentations in class.
Prerequisite(s): ESL 103 or program assessment and permission. Co-requisite(s): ESL 101 Credits: 3
May be repeated once. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English as Second Language
HRD 200 - Multicultural Human Development This course introduces developmental theory and research which encompasses the entire life span. Emphasis will be on prenatal development through adolescence, with an overview of adult development. A multi-disciplinary view of human development will be taken which considers stability as well as change throughout the life cycle. The interaction of hereditary and environmental factors will be considered in studying physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Human Resource Development
HRD 310 - Aging and the Search for Meaning This course explores psychosocial and spiritual aspects of successful human aging. Multidisciplinary perspectives on aging will be examined including historical, psychological, sociological, cultural and religious. Learners will discuss key issues related to aging and the search for meaning through the lens of various genres (e.g., research, theory, fiction) as well as their own personal experiences.
Prerequisite(s): HRD 310 students will be expected to have taken one college-level writing course and one sociology or psychology course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Human Resource Development
HRD 312 - The Spiritual Challenges and Opportunities of Aging This course explores the dynamic role spirituality plays in navigating the aging process. Within a holistic context spirituality provides a frame of reference for understanding both who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Learners will develop a basic frame of reference for the nature of spiritual experience, including theory of adult spiritual development. But given the subjective nature of spirituality, it will be important for learners to develop tools for assessing the role spirituality plays in providing meaning for people as they age as individuals. Learners will begin this process by examining their own spiritual journey from psychosocial, cultural and religious perspectives. They will then use a parallel process to interview an older individual and assess the role spirituality plays in their aging process.
Prerequisite(s): HRD 312 students will be expected to have taken one college-level writing course and one sociology or psychology course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Human Resource Development
PHE 106 - NCAA Life Choices This course is designed for student athletes in their first or second year at USM. The goal of the course is to enable students to develop their academic potential and to realize their personal and athletic goals during their college experience. Through large and small group work, topical readings, and community service projects, students will clarify goals, values, healthy lifestyles, leadership, and study skills.
Prerequisite(s): Open to first- and second-year students only. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 203 - Athletic Training for Coaches This introductory course in sports medicine/athletic training will provide the student with information about prevention and management of sports-related injuries. The course is geared toward individuals involved in or pursuing allied health professions as well as coaching or teaching fields. Pertinent anatomy and common injuries will be discussed. This course will also include topics prescribed by the American Red Cross including respiratory emergencies, artificial respiration, wounds, poisoning, water accidents, drugs, burns, sport safety issues, and CPR. Successful completion will result in First Aid & CPR/AED certification.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 302 - Coaching Philosophy and Fundamentals This course covers various approaches to planning, organizing, and implementing practice sessions in preparation for athletic competition. The psychological and emotional aspects of coaching are also investigated. One segment of the course will be concerned with society’s view of coaching as illustrated by today’s literature.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 303 - Coaching and Officiating Basketball Coaching philosophy, coaching style, choosing a team, individual fundamentals, team play development, and the ability to organize and maintain a quality program will be stressed. The course will also cover rules of basketball and techniques of officiating.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 309 - Coaching and Officiating Track and Field Part of the University of Southern Maine’s coaching certification program, this course is designed to prepare students for track and field, and cross country coaching at the high school and/or middle school levels. Particular aspects of the sport will not be discussed in detail. Rather, the course is intended as an overview of coaching philosophies, sports science, and the training required for each event. Students will have an opportunity to explore areas of interest in depth.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 311 - Coaching and Officiating Soccer The course will cover individual techniques and team tactics, drills to implement these techniques and tactics, practice and season organization and methods of starting, maintaining and improving programs at various levels. The course will also cover rules of soccer and techniques of officiating.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 312 - Coaching and Officiating Football Emphasis on the methods of teaching and coaching football. Offense and defense, player-coach relationship, team selections, planning of practice sessions and game situations will be areas of concentration. The course will also cover rules of football and techniques of officiating.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 314 - Organization and Administration of Athletics This course covers the principles and practices of athletic administration as related to middle schools, junior, and senior high schools.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 315 - Coaching and Officiating Field Hockey Emphasis on the methods of teaching and coaching field hockey. Offense and defense, player-coach relationship, team selections, planning of practice sessions, and game situations will be areas of concentration. The course will also cover rules of field hockey and techniques of officiating.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 316 - Coaching and Officiating Volleyball Emphasis on the methods of teaching and coaching volleyball. Offense and defense, player-coach relationship, team selections, planning of practice sessions, and game situations will be areas of concentration. The course will also cover rules of volleyball and techniques of officiating.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 335 - Coaching and Officiating Baseball The course will cover individual and team techniques, drills to implement these techniques, practice organization and methods of starting, maintaining and improving programs at various levels. The course will also cover rules of baseball plus techniques of umpiring.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 336 - Coaching and Officiating Softball The course will cover individual and team techniques, drills to implement these techniques, practice organization and methods of starting, maintaining and improving programs at various levels. The course will also cover rules of softball plus techniques of umpiring.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 391 - Field Experience/Internship Practical field work in a coaching area. The student will be assigned as an assistant coach in a sport for a season. Supervision, evaluation, and guidance of the student will be provided by a staff member who is responsible for that coaching area.
Prerequisite(s): PHE 203 , PHE 302 , PHE 314 . Restricted to students in coaching certificate program and the Athletic Coaching minor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
PHE 398 - Independent Study in Physical Education Provides students who have demonstrated critical and analytical capability an opportunity to pursue a project independently, charting a course and exploring an area of interest, bearing upon it previous course experience and emerging with an intellectually sound, coherent synthesis reflecting a high caliber of performance.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physical Education
SED 235 - Students with Exceptionalities in General Education The primary goal of this course is to construct an understanding and knowledge of the range of exceptionalities, including students with disabilities and those identified as gifted and talented. The course is based on the premise that students with exceptionalities should be educated and socially interact to the greatest extent possible with their peers in the general education curriculum and program. The general educator’s role in teaching learners who are exceptional will be emphasized. Topics include characteristics of areas of exceptionality; classroom management; assistive technology; state and federal legislation regarding exceptional students; Response to Intervention (RTI); Universal Design for Learning (UDL); individual education programs (IEP); building relationships with parents; students who are culturally and linguistically diverse; and inclusion and collaboration philosophy and practices. This course includes a 6 to 8-hour field placement.
Prerequisite(s): Students are required to be fingerprinted and to provide proof of Criminal History Record Check (CHRC) approval to USM prior to enrolling in this course.t, or program permission Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Special Education
SED 300 - Ethics and Serving Individuals with Disabilities This course will focus on: (1) how school-aged children and youth with diverse abilities and cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been provided, or not provided, access to education and equal protection under the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution and (2) ethics as a framework of moral principles that guide the actions of people individually and collectively as society. The course will explore the multidisciplinary nature of schools and agencies which serve individuals with disabilities, including planning, assessment, services, their obligations, and the challenges that arise due to diverse points of view.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Special Education
Engineering
EGN 101 - Introduction to Engineering Project-based learning to introduce the process of engineering design through team design projects and hands-on laboratory activities. Throughout, the historical, societal, cultural, and ethical impacts of good design are examined. A major portion of the course is learning to form and communicate designs using CAD software. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MAT 152 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 160 - Introduction to Programming: The C Language The C language has been used extensively for performance intensive tasks required in engineering and has found increased usage in embedded systems. C and its dialects (e.g. C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python) are employed in the vast majority of programming tasks and applications. As such, it is one of the few programming languages that is defined as an ANSI/ISO standard. This course will cover the fundamentals of programming and the C language. No prior knowledge of C is required. This is a 4-credit course and includes a laboratory component. Engineering students may use this course to satisfy the Computer Programming requirement. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 181 - Engineering Tools: Mathematica An introduction to Mathematica as a general-purpose computational and visualization tool. Topics covered include symbolic and numerical computations, graphics and visualization, and basics of the Mathematica programming language. Students will use Mathematica in several hands-on exercises to solve typical computational problems. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 182 - Engineering Tools: SolidWorks An introduction to SolidWorks and its use as a design tool for engineering. Students will use hands-on labs to create three dimensional solid models together with their orthographic views and convert them to computer design files. Students will learn the basics of building parts, dimensioning, tolerances, manufacturing drawings, assemblies, assembly drawings, and bills of material. They learn best practices, essential parametric sketching techniques, and time-saving shortcuts for making three dimensional parts and assemblies. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 183 - Engineering Tools: LabView An introduction to LabView and its use as a GUI programming tool for automated data acquisition, computer-instrument interfacing and control, and data processing. Students will learn the basics of LabView programming and use it in hands-on lab exercises to gain enough experience to start their own data acquisition and measurement project. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 184 - Engineering Tools: Industrial Power An introduction to hydraulics, pneumatics, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Students will work with input and output components and learn the basics of PLC programming and downloading. During these hands-on lab exercises, Allen Bradley PLCs will be interfaced and control pneumatic power systems. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 185 - Engineering Tools: C++ Programming C and its dialects (e.g. C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python) are employed in the vast majority of programming tasks and applications. As such, it is one of the few programming languages that is defined as an ANSI/ISO standard. This course will cover the fundamentals of programming using the C++ language. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 186 - Engineering Tools: MATLAB An introduction to the MATLAB and Simulink environments. Topics include basic calculations, variables, arrays and matrix operations, solution of linear algebraic equations, graphs, mesh and surface plots, basic programming in MATLAB, MATLAB functions, mfiles, calculus with MATLAB, Simulink, rational and logic operators, solution of nonlinear algebraic equations, case studies and applications. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 187 - Engineering Tools: Circuit Simulation An introduction to a circuit simulation tool such as PSpice or Multism and its use as a GUI schematics entry tool for circuit simulation, including DC, small signal AC, sinusoidal and transient analysis. Students will learn the basics of circuit simulation and use it in hands-on lab exercises to gain enough experience to draw, simulate and do virtual testing of their circuit designs. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 188 - Engineering Tools: Materials Processing An introduction to material processing operations. Topics include safety considerations, casting and metal forming techniques, material selection, material removal technology; lathes, milling machines, saws, drills, tool and parameter selection. Materials joining technology, welding, brazing, soldering. Heat treatment and metallographic examination. Lecture 1 hr., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 182 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 248 - Introduction to Differential Equations and Linear Algebra Introduction to linear algebra and differential equations for engineering and science students. Standard methods for solving differential equations as they arise in engineering and science, linear algebra concepts needed to solve linear algebraic systems and linear systems of differential equations, and computational skills in matrix theory needed in computational linear algebra. Topics will include matrix algebra, determinants, linear independence, linear systems, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, vector spaces, first-order ODEs, higher-order linear ODEs, linear systems of ODEs, Laplace transform, and mathematical modeling and numerical methods. May be replaced by MAT 295 and MAT 350 . Lecture 4 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 260 - Materials Science for Engineers This introductory course will provide students with the conceptual perspective for origin of materials behavior- structure/property/performance interrelationships. Students will learn about materials selection and use of familiar materials- metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites in engineering applications. Laboratory sessions will accompany selected lessons to illustrate the application of theoretical concepts in practice. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 113 , MAT 153 , PHY 123 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 304 - Engineering Economics Introduction to the approaches and methodologies associated with making engineering economic decisions while considering the ethical implications and dilemmas associated with these decisions. Methodologies and techniques covered include Pareto analysis, investment and cost analysis, time value of money, cash flow analysis, rate of return, cost-benefit and breakeven analysis, evaluation of alternatives under budget constraints, sensitivity analysis, expected value, replacement analysis and economic decision-making under uncertainty. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 152 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 317 - Introduction to Robotics Kinematic modeling of serial manipulators. Trajectory, path and motion planning. Actuators and sensors, artificial intelligence, and programming of robotic devices. Examples of multiple platforms in the Robotics and Intelligence Systems Laboratory. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 160 or COS 160 , EGN 248 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 325 - Control Systems Laplace transform, transfer function, modeling control systems by block diagrams, transient and steady-state responses of SISO systems in time domain, error analysis, frequency-response analysis using Bode and Nyquist diagrams, root-locus and Routh’s stability methods, analysis and design of control systems using root-locus analysis, operational amplifiers, compensation and design of feedback control systems using lead-lag compensators and PID controllers, state space method for analysis of MIMO systems. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , ELE 217 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 329 - Electromechanical and Control Systems Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of electromechanical and control systems in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 219 , ELE 323 . Co-requisite(s): EGN 325 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 394 - Engineering Internship Work experience in engineering. An opportunity for students to obtain credit for a project or study sequence completed while employed. The activity must have both components of design and analysis. Project.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all sophomore engineering classes in the respective major, permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 401 - Senior Design Project I and the Engineering Profession The first in a two-course engineering capstone sequence. Students will learn the fundamentals of the engineering design process to formulate and actualize a design project in a guided experience. Topics include problem statement formulation, flowcharting, project management, and design review processes incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints. Professional issues such as ethics, intellectual property, interview skills, and resume preparation are explored. The student is challenged to consider the work of the engineer in the broader context of societal, personal, and professional responsibility. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 182 , ITP 210 , THE 170 , EGN 304 , permission of faculty advisor, graduating in 2 semesters. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 402 - Senior Design Project II The second in a two-course engineering capstone sequence. Design and implementation of a device or system to perform an engineering function. May be done individually or in small groups, but the contribution is evaluated on an individual basis. Project outcomes include an oral presentation, a demonstration of the device or system, and a final report. The final report must contain a description of the engineering standards that were investigated and/or applied and how the realistic constraints were observed.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 401 , and project supervisor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 403 - Advanced Design Project In-depth design and implementation of a device or system to perform an engineering function, or an engineering research project. May be done individually or in small groups, but the contribution is evaluated on an individual basis. Project.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 402 with a grade of B or higher, permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 446 - Micro Electromechanical Systems Topics include microfabrication, principles of electromechanical energy conversion and transduction, sensors and actuators, materials used for MEMS and their thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties. Standard MEMS fabrication processes and MEMS design. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 260 or ELE 262 , ELE 217 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 481 - Engineering Statistics A second course in statistics focused on applications relevant to engineering. The theory of probability and statistics learned in MAT380 is expanded and developed for applications such as measurement uncertainty, manufacturing quality methods, and data analysis. Topics include confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance (ANOVA), regression analysis, and an introduction to control charting. The course includes instruction in a modern statistical analysis software tool such as MiniTab or JMP. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 380 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 482 - Engineering Problem Solving This course will focus on the science of Engineering Problem Solving developed by the aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor industries over the last 25 years. These industries have developed set protocols on all facets of problem solving, from process and product development, through product failures in the field. This course will focus on the Eight Disciplines: Eight disciplines problem solving is a method developed at Ford Motor Company used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by engineers or other professionals. Focused on product and process improvement, its purpose is to identify, correct, and eliminate recurring problems. Additionally this course will utilize the statistical methods for process and product characterization and the Design of Experiments statistical protocol. These combined skill sets of problem solving will allow the engineer (of any discipline) to be more successful at the onset of their careers once they graduate. The laboratory segment of this course will directly coincide with the lectures to allow the student to immediately apply the learned concepts. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): EGN 481 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 484 - Lean Six Sigma This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Students will learn and apply statistically-based process improvement through the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) process. The course focuses on tools for applying lean thinking, lean principles and lean methods in manufacturing and service systems such as value-stream mapping, continuous improvement and six-sigma. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 481 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 497 - Independent Study An opportunity for the student to explore topics not covered in available courses or to pursue a topic of interest in-depth. Project.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
EGN 498 - Advanced Topics in Engineering Topics in engineering at the advanced (junior or senior) level not regularly covered in other courses. The content can be varied to suit current needs. The course may, with advisor permission, be taken more than once. Consult the Department for current offerings and prerequisites.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: General Engineering
ELE 172 - Digital Logic Introduction to the design of binary logic circuits. Combinatorial and sequential logic systems. Design with small and medium scale integrated circuits and programmable logic devices (PLDs). Registers, counters, and random access memories (RAMs). The algorithmic state machine (ASM). Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 145 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 179 - Digital Logic Laboratory Introduction to the design of binary logic circuits. Combinatorial and sequential logic systems. Design with small and medium scale integrated circuits and programmable logic devices (PLDs). Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): ELE 172 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 216 - Circuits I: Steady-State Analysis An examination of laws, theorems, and analysis techniques applied to DC and AC circuits operating in steady-state. Physical properties and modeling of sources, resistors, inductors, and capacitors. Phasors, impedance, AC power, magnetic coupling. Introduction of engineering standards applicable to electric circuits and components. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 , PHY 123 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 217 - Circuits II: System Dynamics Time-domain analysis of first- and second-order systems based on electric circuits, but drawing analogy to mechanical, fluid, thermal, and other dynamic systems. Frequency-domain analysis, resonance, Bode plots, frequency response design. Study and application of the Laplace transform for the solution of differential equations governing dynamic systems. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 216 . Co-requisite(s): ITP 210 , EGN 248 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 219 - Circuits Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of circuits in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): ELE 217 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 262 - Physical Electronics Basic characteristics and properties of materials of importance in solid-state engineering. Particular emphasis is placed on atoms, crystal structures, electronic conductivity, semiconductor theory, P-N junctions, bipolar- and field effect transistors with applications in electronic circuits, sensors and photovoltaics.
Prerequisite(s): CHY 113 . Co-requisite(s): ELE 217 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 271 - Microprocessor Systems The organization of microprocessor-based computers and microcontrollers. Architecture and operation, flow of digital signals, timers, and memory systems. Assembly programming, instruction sets, formats and addressing modes. Input-output concepts: programmed I/O, interrupts and serial communication. Microprocessor arithmetic. Laboratory experience programming the Texas Instruments MSP430 16-bit microcontroller in assembly and in C. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 160 or COS 160 , ELE 172 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 314 - Signals and Systems Introduction to the theory of signals and linear systems. Linear time-invariant system properties and representations; differential and difference equations; convolution; Fourier analysis; and Laplace transform. Selected topics in sampling, signal processing, filtering and filter design. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , ELE 217 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 323 - Electromechanical Energy Conversion Basic concepts of magnetic circuits and transformers. Three-phase system and power transmission. Conversion between electrical and mechanical energy through magnetic fields. Study of direct current motors and generators. Study of alternating current machines: induction motors, synchronous machines, and single-phase motors. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): ITP 210 , ELE 217 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 327 - Energy and Power Systems Energy sources for power generation. Polyphase and HVDC systems, power transformers, transmission lines, power flows, simulation tools for power system analysis and design. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 323 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 342 - Electronics I: Devices and Circuits Operation, terminal characteristics and circuit models of p-n junction diodes, bipolar-junction and field-effect transistors. Nonlinear circuit analysis methods: piece-wise-linear, small-signal and SPICE. Biasing and bias stability. Rectifiers, clipper, clamper, Zener regulator circuits, and small signal BJT and FET amplifiers. Analysis, design, and SPICE simulation of such circuits. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 187 , ELE 217 , ELE 219 , ELE 262 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 343 - Electronics II: Electronic Design Analysis and design of electronic circuits with BJTs, FETs and OpAmps for applications in signal generation, amplification, wave-shaping, and power control. Topics include differential, multi-stage, linear and power amplifiers; real operational amplifiers and OpAmp applications; design for frequency response, active filters; feedback, stability and oscillators. Simulation and design verification with SPICE. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 342 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 351 - Electromagnetic Fields Static electric and magnetic fields; properties of dielectric and ferromagnetic materials; time varying fields, Faraday’s law, Maxwell’s equations; plane waves in dielectric and conducting media; calculation of the fields and other properties of common transmission lines and other devices. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , ELE 217 , MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 367 - Optoelectronics Properties and applications of optoelectronic devices and systems. Topics include radiation sources (LEDs and semiconductor lasers), photo detectors and detector circuits, solar cells, fiber optics, and electro-optical system components. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 217 , ELE 262 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 444 - Analog Integrated Circuits and Design Principles of internal circuit operation and design of analog integrated circuits with emphasis on CMOS technology. Topics include analog CMOS processes, devices and device models, bias and reference sources, differential and high gain amplifiers, OTAs and operational amplifiers, power stages, frequency response, feedback, stability and internal compensation applied to the design of CMOS operational amplifiers and other CMOS analog integrated circuits. SPICE simulation, layout and electronic design automation tools are demonstrated and used in homework and design projects. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 343 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 471 - Real-Time and Embedded Systems Introduction to both fundamentals and practical knowledge in efficient embedded systems design and programming, including hardware and software design basics, interrupts, timers, analog interfacing and serial communication. Foundational real-time operating system (RTOS) concepts for embedded applications, including task scheduling, memory allocation and resource management. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 271 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 483 - Communications Engineering Basic principles of modern communication engineering. Analog and digital signals and systems; analysis methods. Modulation techniques: AM, FM, and carrier modulation of digital signals. Baseband signaling and coding. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 314 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 486 - Digital Signal Processing Basic principles of processing digital signals. Sampling and quantization. Time and frequency domain representation and analysis of discrete-time signals and systems: convolution, difference equations, DTFT, and z-transform. Finite-length transforms and their algorithmic implementations. FIR and IIR systems. Digital filter design. Multi-rate systems. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 160 or COS 160 , ELE 314 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 487 - Digital Image Processing The theory and practice of digital processing of images by computer. Introduction to two-dimensional signal processing theory: sampling, transforms, and filters. Image acquisition and representation; enhancement methods; image coding; image analysis; and image processing hardware. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 160 or COS 160 , ELE 314 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
ELE 489 - Analog and Digital Signals Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of analog and digital signals in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): ELE 219 . Co-requisite(s): ELE 486 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Electrical Engineering
MEE 150 - Applied Mechanics: Statics Equilibrium of particles, moment of a force, couple, equilibrium of rigid bodies, centroid and center of mass, analyzing trusses, frames and machines, shear force and bending moment in beams, dry friction, wedges, area moment of inertia, parallel axis theorem, mass moment of inertia, Mohr’s circle for moments of inertia, method of virtual work. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 152 , PHY 121 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 230 - Thermodynamics I: Laws and Properties Basic concepts and definitions; thermodynamic properties of gases, vapors, and gas-vapor mixtures; energy and energy transformations; the first and second Laws of thermodynamics; first and second law applied to systems and control volumes; thermodynamic properties of systems. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 , PHY 121 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 251 - Strength of Materials Normal and shear stress and strain in structural members under axial, torsion, bending and transverse loadings, calculation of combined stresses, transformation of stress and principal values of stress and strain, deflection of beams. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 , MEE 150 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 259 - Statics and Strength of Materials Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of statics and strength of materials in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MEE 251 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 270 - Applied Mechanics: Dynamics Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies using Newton, impulse/momentum and work-energy methods. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 150 . Co-requisite(s): MAT 252 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 331 - Thermodynamics II: Flows and Cycles Thermodynamic properties of system; energy system analysis including power cycles, and refrigeration systems; energy availability; general thermodynamic relations, thermodynamics of mixtures; Introduction to chemical thermodynamics; thermodynamics of fluid flow; design and optimization of thermal systems. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 230 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 339 - Thermodynamics Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of thermodynamics in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MEE 259 , MEE 331 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 352 - Composites This course will cover the science of the materials utilized in a broad range of composite applications, with a focus on polymeric materials, reinforcements, applications and the techniques of analytical characterization. Topics include fundamentals of composites manufacturing, relevant organic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, polymeric chemistry of thermosets and thermoplastics, reinforcements, glass transition (theory and characterization), materials characterization methodologies, and relevant manufacturing processes. This course will utilize the advanced analytical capability of the Composites Engineering and Research Laboratory (CERL) extensively throughout the laboratory section. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 260 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 353 - Applied Stress Analysis Shear center and transverse shear in thin-walled beams, torsion of thin-walled open and closed members, warping restraint and torsion of multicell sections, stresses in rotating disks and cylinders, yield criteria, residual stresses, plastic hinges in beams, yield lines in plates, ultimate load carrying capacity of beams and plates, plastic deformation and metal forming under compression, deep drawing, wire drawing, rolling, and extrusion. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , EGN 260 , MEE 251 , MEE 259 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 356 - Introduction to the Finite Element Method This course will use a mix of theory and computer-modeling to lay down the fundamentals of the FEM, and equip students with the tools necessary to successfully utilize FEM. Fundamental concepts such as spring elements, bar elements, assembling of global matrices, solving for nodal values, interpolation functions for 1D and 2D elements and isoparameterization will be discussed. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 160 or COS 160 , EGN 248 , MEE 251 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 360 - Fluid Mechanics Fluid statics, fluid kinematics, Bernoulli equation, energy equation, viscosity, control volume analysis, differential analysis, dimensional analysis, laminar flow and turbulent flow, internal flow, external flow, boundary layers, lift and drag, numerical methods, computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , MEE 270 , MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 361 - Physical Metallurgy Introduction to the current state of metallurgical technology. It builds on basic principles, particularly crystal structure and phase equilibria, to introduce students to contemporary metallurgical literature. Topics such as defect structures and the effect of heat treatment are introduced in a “just in time” fashion. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 260 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 372 - Computer-Aided Design of Machine Elements Elements of mechanical engineering design, introduction to computer aided drafting, stress analysis, deflection and stiffness analysis, Castigliano’s theorem, Euler buckling, static failure criteria, fatigue failure criteria, design of shafts and bearings, limits and fits, critical speed of shafts, detachable and permanent joints and springs. Design is performed by available formulas and standards as well as computer aided design by simulation software. Includes a student design project. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 182 , MEE 251 , MEE 259 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 373 - Design of Machines and Mechanisms Mobility and degrees of freedom in mechanisms, review of kinematics, instant centers, cam and follower design, gears, gear trains, interference and undercutting, synthesis of linkages, static and dynamic force analysis, measuring mass moment of inertia, free and forced vibrations, dynamics of reciprocating engines, static and dynamic balancing, Euler’s equations of motions, rolling-contact bearings, journal bearings, flywheels, gyroscopes, governors, clutches and brakes. Design is performed by available formulas and standards as well as computer aided design by simulation software. Includes a student design project. Lecture 4 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 182 , EGN 160 or COS 160 , EGN 248 , MEE 270 , MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 374 - Theory and Applications of Vibrations Free undamped and damped vibrations of one degree of freedom (DOF) systems, forced vibrations of one DOF systems with harmonic and nonharmonic excitations, resonance, free vibrations of multi DOF systems, mode shapes, forced vibrations of multi DOF systems and dynamic vibration absorber. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , EGN 260 or ELE 262 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 375 - Engineering Acoustics Vibrating systems, acoustic wave equation, waves in solids and fluid media, reflection and transmission at interfaces, absorptions and dispersion, Green’s function, waveguides, resonators and filters, noise, ultrasonics, nondestructive evaluation, acoustical imaging, selected topics in ocean acoustics, noise control, environmental and architectural acoustics. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): EGN 248 , ELE 217 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 379 - Dynamics and Vibrations Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of dynamics and vibrations in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 259 , MEE 270 . Co-requisite(s): MEE 374 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 432 - Heat Transfer Study of fundamental laws of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Steady heat conduction, thermal circuit modeling, fins, transient heat conduction, forced convection, natural convection, radiation heat transfer, heat exchanger, boiling and condensation, and numerical methods in heat transfer. Lecture 3 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 230 , MEE 360 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 439 - Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Laboratory Exploration of theory and applications of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in the laboratory. Lab 2 hrs.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 259 . Co-requisite(s): MEE 432 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
MEE 463 - Aerodynamics This course is an extension of the first course in fluid mechanics to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in both subsonic and supersonic flow regimes. The governing equations of aerodynamics are derived and then applied to a variety of scenarios. Topics include potential flows, panel methods, boundary layer theory, turbulence modeling, compressible flow, and an introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) using ANSYS. Aerodynamics problems will be solved analytically, experimentally, and computationally. Programming in MATLAB will be used extensively in this course. Lecture 3 hrs., Lab 1 hr.
Prerequisite(s): MEE 360 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mechanical Engineering
English
ENG 100 - College Writing ENG 100 is the first course in a three-course writing sequence. Throughout the course, students learn several fundamental ideas about writing: that writing is a process; that writing always involves reading; that writing is situational and involves specific rhetorical elements (purpose, audience, text, genre, style, mode); that writing is recursive and therefore always in-process; and that writing requires metacognitive thinking. ENG 100 students engage in a series of essay assignments that reflect points of view, engage with readings, and focus on a central thesis or project. Through these writing practices, students develop a metalanguage to articulate their writing and rhetorical choices and to demonstrate an understanding of sentence structure and syntax as central to meaning. By the end of the course, students should be able to assess a writing situation and then successfully write for that situation. Every semester. Cr 3.
equivalents meeting the same outcomes as College Writing and will not be allowed for additional credit, but instead will follow the USM Repeat Policy and count as a repeat of the previous grade: ENG 100, ENG 101 , ENG 104, ESL 100 , HON 100 , LCC 110, LCC 111, RSP 100 and RSP 104.
Prerequisite(s): College readiness in writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 101 - Independent Writing This course is offered as an alternative college writing course for students who prefer to work independently on academic writing with an instructor’s guidance. The main business of the course is conducted in individual conferences; therefore, the course is more intensive than ENG 100 . This course emphasizes style, sentence structure, organization, and development. The major challenge of the course is the self-discipline that students will need to work independently.
The following courses are considered equivalents meeting the same outcomes as College Writing and will not be allowed for additional credit, but instead will follow the USM Repeat Policy and count as a repeat of the previous grade: ENG 100 , ENG 101, ENG 104, ESL 100 , HON 100 , LCC 110, LCC 111, RSP 100 and RSP 104.
Prerequisite(s): College readiness in writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 102 - Academic Writing Building on the fundamentals learned in ENG 100 (the writing process, revision, and critical reading), ENG 102 focuses on argumentative and research-based writing. Students learn that academic work is a process of inquiry by engaging in academic modes of reading and writing (analysis, synthesis, critique, and argument) to address questions about critical issues. Students engage in independent research, learning how to make connections between sources and how to add to those connections by articulating their own perspectives and positions. Students develop a comprehensive information literacy that they can apply throughout their college career.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 2 Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: English
ENG 103 - A Modular Approach to the Writing Process This course for college writers in various disciplines is divided into three units or modules, each of which earns one credit hour. Each unit runs for approximately one-third of a semester. Students may enroll in one, two, or all three modules and receive separate grades for each module they complete. The second and third units do not require the earlier unit(s) as prerequisites. Any or all of the units may be taken in conjunction with ENG 100 College Writing. The first unit, “Practical and Descriptive Grammar for College Writers,” gives students a thorough knowledge of traditional “prescriptive” grammar and introduces them to modern “descriptive” grammar. The second unit, “Editing, Revising, and Rewriting,” focuses on skills in proofreading, editing, revising, and rewriting, and also covers the use of computer programs for writing assistance. The third unit, “Research Skills Across the Disciplines,” studies the use of library resources (especially online and other computer databases), documentation and bibliography formats from a range of disciplines, and other techniques crucial to writing analytic research papers.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 140 - Reading Literature This course is an introduction to the premises and techniques of literary analysis. The course emphasizes the close reading of texts from different historical periods and introduces students to literary conventions and terminology as well as library and Internet resources available for research. In this course, students will learn to use concepts of the discipline and conventions of academic discourse with an emphasis on critical writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 145 - Topics in Literature This course emphasizes oral and written analysis and interpretation of literary and other cultural texts within and across historical contexts. Though topics vary, each provides a broad introduction to the concepts of literary history and periodization as these are understood within the discipline and familiarizes students with the basic terms and methods of literary analysis.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 201 - Creative Writing This course is an introduction to the principles and practices of writing fiction and poetry; other genres may be added at the discretion of the instructor. Students will be exposed to a variety of writing modes through exercises and engagement with literary texts. Emphasis is on using imaginative and precise language, on developing critical skills through workshops, and on assembling a portfolio of revised student writing.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 202 - Memoir and Autobiography This course offers orientation in the technique of narrative autobiographical writing. Using journal writing, observational writing, and free writing techniques, students will learn to access story material from memory and develop a personal writing practice. They will be assigned readings in memoir and autobiography, and will assemble a portfolio of essays and personal writings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 204 - Professional Writing This course introduces students to public and professional writing and communication and provides practice in its different forms, such as business writing, grant writing, public relations, interviews, blogs, and speeches.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 205 - Sentence Style This course develops students’ knowledge of sentence parts, patterns, and effects. Through writing and revision, students will explore the relation between sound, structure, context, genre, and meaning. Course readings in rhetoric, linguistics, and poetics will provide terminology and conceptual background. Students will also seek out samples of literary, academic, and professional texts to identify the sentence conventions and patterns used in particular contexts.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent); OR permission Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 220 - World Masterpieces I This course is a study of the major works of Western and non-Western literature from the classical, medieval, and early modern eras. Readings may include The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales, and selections from the Bible and the Qur’an.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 244 - Introduction to Cultural Studies This course introduces students to the history, concepts, and methods of cultural studies. Students will read a variety of critical texts from a number of different theoretical perspectives, including semiotics, Marxian theory, psychoanalytic theory, gender studies, and cultural anthropology, and will also read selected texts from specific areas of cultural analysis, such as television studies or film theory. The course examines specific aspects of past or present popular cultures.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 245 - Introduction to Literary Studies This is a required course for all English majors. It may be taken concurrently with other 200-level courses in the Department, but is a prerequisite for all 300- and 400-level courses except those in creative writing. The course will have a double focus. Students will be introduced to a variety of methodologies important to an insightful analysis of literature and other cultural texts. They will also learn research procedures and techniques of effective critical writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 262 - Poetry This course studies poetry as a way of knowing and experiencing the world, introduces important concepts in analyzing and appreciating poetry, and offers the opportunity for students to develop skills in interpretation, literary analysis, and discussion. While primary attention will be on poetic forms, figurative languages and the poetic “canon,” it will also consider the relationship between historical context and changes in poetic form in various periods.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 263 - Fiction This course will introduce important concepts in analyzing fiction and enable students to develop skills in interpretation, literary analysis, and discussion. It will focus on narrative forms and rhetorical structures (such as voice, plot, diction, figurative language) in various historical periods, and will both examine and challenge the concept of genre.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 264 - Performance Genres This course will study dramatic performance from its roots in cultural ritual to its historical development in drama as well as its more contemporary manifestations in television and film. Students will investigate the social functions of performance in several cultures and epochs, focusing on conventions of language and stagecraft, dramatic experimentation, and technical innovation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 300 - Fiction Writing This is a course for those who, in a creative writing course or on their own, have written several pieces of fiction and are ready for more advanced work. Emphasis will be on writing well-developed short stories and on understanding the basic elements of fiction. A better-than-average competence in using English is required.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 301 - Poetry Writing This is a course for those who, in a creative writing course or on their own, have developed basic skills of reading and revising poetry, and who are interested in developing a sense of how poetry has been written in the past by major poets and how it is being created in the present. Emphasis will be on imitation of past and present writers, exercises that stress the elements of poetry, and the development of personal approaches.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 302 - Fiction Workshop This is an advanced course requiring the completion of at least two short stories or a substantial part of a novel.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 300 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression May be repeated for three additional credits with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 303 - Poetry Workshop This is a course for advanced students who, after experimenting with different approaches and styles, are developing their own themes and voices as poets. Work toward a completed chapbook-length manuscript or portfolio of poems will be the basis for the course grade.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 301 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression May be repeated for three additional credits with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 304 - Advanced Memoir This course offers orientation and practice in the fundamentals of narrative autobiographical writing. We focus on the use of memory-key scenes, remembered characters, and evocative seasons of life-as source material for the writing of personal essays and autobiographical stories. We work with prose narrative material only (prose material that tells a story, as opposed to analytical essays or expository articles), and the boundaries between fact and invention in this course will necessarily sometimes blur. Readings will be drawn from the works of contemporary writers prominent in the field, from period journals and diaries, and from texts on memoir as a literary genre.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 202 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for three additional credits with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 305 - Rhetoric, Syntax, and Style This course focuses on the fundamentals of sentence-level writing, teaching students the possibilities of English style both for their own prose and for textual analysis. By examining contemporary texts in the context of traditions of rhetoric, students will develop a theoretical grasp of rhetoric, syntax, and style as a basis for editing and revision.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 306 - Writing the Novel This course offers instruction in the preliminary stages of writing a novel, including the uses of synopsis outlines, building well-developed scenes, and experimenting with style, narrative voice, and point of view. Work in class will involve lectures on craft, the critique of student work, and discussions of published texts. Using an expanding synopsis outline, students will produce 50 pages of revised work.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 300 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for three additional credits with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 307 - Topics in Professional Writing This is a course for students interested in studying the relationship between rhetoric, writing, and design. Students will learn about aspects of craft, technique, and the creative process through a close and focused inspection of contemporary writing and rhetorical practices. Areas of study will vary from semester to semester, but will include close textual reading and practice in creative, multimodal, and expository writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 309 - Newswriting This course covers the basics of news-story writing for the print media with intensive practice in news gathering, background research, interviewing, covering a beat, covering social and political issues, and consideration of ethical and legal issues related to American journalism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 310 - Topics in Journalism Under this rubric the English Department will offer a variety of advanced courses that have journalistic writing as a major component of the course work. Topics include American culture and world communication, and the right to privacy. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 315 - Ancient Literature This course will vary between being focused on Greek and Roman literature and on literatures outside the Mediterranean/Aegean ancient world.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 319 - Studies in Genre and Form The content of this course is flexible, but will focus upon some aspect or dimension of genre studies not treated through other course rubrics. Topics may include women and the romance, the vampire novel and popular culture, or the novel of sensation. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 320 - Continental Literature This course examines readings in major works from the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Texts typically include some or all of the following: Augustine’s Confessions, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Petrarch’s Sonnets, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron, Montaigne’s Essays. All texts are read in modern translations.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 321 - Modernisms This course will focus on some aspect or aspects of American, British, Continental, and international literary modernisms. Students should expect to explore writing from the first half of the twentieth century and to investigate issues of literary innovation, modernity and historical change, self-understandings as “modern,” competing literary versions of modernism, and theoretical/historical versions of modernism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 322 - Modern Autobiography The concept of the self has undergone critical changes in the history of autobiography. Many modern autobiographical writers have completely dispensed with traditional notions of the self, expanding the genre and giving it a strong literary focus. By comparing a selection of autobiographical texts by modern authors such as Rilke, Stein, Barthes, and H. D. with more traditional forms of autobiography, the course investigates the historical vicissitudes in the conceptualization of a “self.”
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 324 - Studies in Canadian Literature and Culture This course offers students an in-depth study of specific regional, cultural, or political developments in Canadian literature and film. Students may investigate the works of ethnic minorities, women, or particular authors. They may also focus on formative historical periods in the social development of Canada and the literature these periods have inspired (e.g. Quebec literature, literature of the Great Depression). Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 325 - Epic and Romance This course will focus on the emergence and development of Epic and Romance. Possible topics include “the Epic,” “Arthurian Romance,” and “Medieval Epic and Romance.” Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 326 - Studies in International Literature Since 1900 Literature since 1900 has become increasingly international especially because of expanded availability of translated texts. This course explores topics in literature that are international in scope whether through specific influences or in response to historical, philosophical, political, and aesthetic developments. Although the range and focus of the course will vary, topics will include studies in Commonwealth and European literatures as well as literatures of specific regions such as Africa, the Caribbean, and/or South America. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 328 - Modern Novel: Themes and Methods This course explores works by six or more distinguished novelists expressing contemporary subject matter and technique. Among representative themes students will consider those of dream and illusion, revolution and personal revolt, alienation and anxiety, crime and self-assertion; among narrative techniques, ellipsis and adaptations of stream-of-consciousness. The list of novelists will vary, but may include Knut Hamsun, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Andre Malraux, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Christina Stead, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 330 - History of the English Language This course includes a survey of the prehistory of the language as well as a detailed study of Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English and the forces that shaped these stages. Some methods of modern linguistic science are utilized in examining current usage. Change and development of the language are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 334 - Topics in Literacy Studies This course examines specific topics in the history, practices, and theories of reading and writing, and surveys changing concepts of literacy, orality, illiteracy and theoretical debates over the meaning of the word “literacy” itself. Each section of the course includes a core of readings introducing the central concepts of literacy studies drawn from a variety of related fields such as socio-linguistics, the history of literacy and of print culture, the sociology and history of education, and the psychology of reading. Specific topics will include diverse areas of study such as the history of Anglo-American literacy practices in working-class autobiographies and slave narratives, the history and practices of digital literacies, and multilingual literacies.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 337 - Studies in Rhetoric Students will be introduced to the many ways of thinking about rhetoric historically and the value of rhetorical criticism in analyzing texts, discourse, and language. Topics will vary but may survey theories of rhetoric from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theoretical approaches to rhetoric, including theories of digital rhetoric and multimodality. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 338 - Studies in Language This course may offer a variety of topics on language that include the following: linguistic approaches to literary analysis; language and culture; grammatical structure in English and related languages; and the history of linguistic thought. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 340 - History of Literary Criticism and Theory This course is an historical study of the key critics and theorists from Plato and Aristotle to the present day.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 341 - Contemporary Critical Theories This course is an introduction to major schools of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on identifying points of agreement and divergence between various theories and methods for interpreting literature. Specific theories to be studied may include (but are not limited to) structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, Marxist criticism, deconstruction, feminist theory, and the new historicism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 342 - Topics in Contemporary Theory This course studies in-depth selected theoretical approaches to literature and culture. It will focus either on a single current theory or, through a comparative method, two to three different theories (e.g., structuralism and formalism, Marxism and cultural criticism, or deconstruction and feminism). Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 344 - Sex/Gender and Sexuality This course will investigate sex/gender and sexuality as analytic categories for understanding culture. Through a consideration of both history and theory, the course will explore different models for understanding sex/gender and sexuality, including their interaction with other categories of difference such as race and class. It will also explore the effect of these models on our understanding of literature, mass culture, theories of identity, and contemporary social life.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 345 - Racial Formations Guided by the concept of “racial formations,” this course will foreground the definition of “race.” It will ask questions about whether race is a biological or discursive category, about the relationship between race and identity, and about how racial identity is informed by class, gender, sexuality, and other socio-historical “formations.” Course materials may include literature, film, criticism and theory, scientific and historical readings, and popular culture texts such as television, video, and music.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 346 - Language, Literature and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Ireland This course is an examination of the relations among literature, language and the politics of identity in Ireland today. Readings will include political, historical, and cultural materials from various communities of discourse competing to shape Irish identity for the twenty-first century, including traditional republicanism and unionism, new nationalism, historical revisionism, feminism, and consumer capitalism.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 347 - Topics in Cultural Studies This course explores specific cultural practices of the past and present. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the different ways in which popular culture has been analyzed and the ways in which different popular cultures have sustained themselves. Although topics courses will vary in subject matter, they will all share the common objective of examining the ways in which a given culture makes sense of itself. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 348 - Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies This course investigates literature in relation to other disciplines, with an emphasis on how various fields of knowledge contextualize and elucidate our understanding of literary production. Topics may vary and include, for example, anthropology and drama, Freud and literature, literature and technology, and parallel movements in art and/or music and literature. Because of the diverse range of interdisciplinary studies, material is drawn from film, video, music, and art, as well as from printed texts. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 350 - Medieval English Literature This course is a survey of genres popular from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries (including debates, lyrics, romances, allegories, drama), with emphasis on literature of fourteenth-century England. Major readings will typically include Chaucer’s Troilus, The Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 351 - Chaucer and the Medieval World This course is an exploration of Chaucer’s historical, philosophical, and literary world through his major comic narrative, Canterbury Tales.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 352 - Medieval Drama This course will introduce the theater of the medieval world, which ranges from the liturgical, ritual drama of the church, to the morality plays-performed by traveling companies-and the mystery cycles in the fifteenth century. Tudor plays of the early sixteenth century may also be read. Attention will be paid to the aesthetic and theological principles underlying the conjunction of farce and high seriousness in the plays, as well as to distinctly medieval techniques of staging and production.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 353 - Medieval Women Writers This course focuses on women writing in various discursive milieux during the long period between the third and the sixteenth centuries. Writers include literate nuns, female courtly love lyricists, laywomen mystics, the first professional woman writer Christine de Pizan, and women dramatists. Non-English texts will be read in modern translation.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 354 - Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture This course explores literature and culture ranging from the fifth and sixth centuries through the late fifteenth century. Some topics that may recur include Anglo-Latin and Anglo-French literature and scholarship; feminist studies of medieval culture; and allegory, symbol, and sign. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 355 - English Renaissance Literature and Culture This course is a survey of major genres and writers of the English Renaissance. The course is concerned with the historical context of the production and reception of Renaissance texts. Emphasis is on how sixteenth and seventeenth century innovations in formal techniques are related to cultural and institutional change. Typical writers will include More, Spenser, Marlowe, Wroth, Sidney, Shakespeare, Lanier, Donne, and Milton. Topics and issues covered include gender and the erotic, humanism and power, religion, imperialism, social hierarchy, and notions of selfhood.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 357 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama This course is a study of selected plays from the English Renaissance. The course may focus on a particular theme, genre, sociopolitical issue, or author. Typical topics include theater and the state, unruly women, magic and witchcraft, the construction of the “other,” and rebellion. Playwrights typically included are Kyd, Marlowe, Dekker, Webster, Middleton, and Jonson.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 360 - Shakespeare ENG 360 and 361 each feature close reading of five to seven of Shakespeare’s plays, and focus attention both on theatrical and philosophical meanings. Both courses include tragedies and comedies; neither is introductory nor prerequisite to the other. ENG 360 often includes a section on Shakespeare’s history plays, while ENG 361 includes a section on Shakespeare’s “romances.”
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 361 - Shakespeare ENG 360 and ENG 361 each feature close reading of five to seven of Shakespeare’s plays, and focus attention both on theatrical and philosophical meanings. Both courses include tragedies and comedies; neither is introductory nor prerequisite to the other. ENG 360 often includes a section on Shakespeare’s history plays, while ENG 361 includes a section on Shakespeare’s “romances.”
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 362 - Studies in Shakespeare This is an advanced course in Shakespeare that emphasizes the application of various critical and scholarly approaches to important aspects of the poet and dramatist’s work. Typical subjects include allegorical elements in Shakespeare’s plays; Shakespeare and the daemonic; Shakespeare and computers; Shakespeare and popular culture; Shakespeare, theater, and the state; Shakespeare’s sources; Shakespeare, gender, and sexuality. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 363 - Studies in the Renaissance This course examines selected topics and writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course may focus on an author, genre, historical moment, socio-historical problem, or discursive practice. Typical topics include popular culture, the “New Science,” pastoral and politics, literature of “New World” exploration and colonization, the market, or the English Civil War. Courses will typically study the relation of diverse practices of writing or generic conventions to the social and political order of Renaissance England. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 365 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Focusing mostly upon representative or canonical texts, this is a multi-generic course intended to provide an overview of British literature and culture in the “long” eighteenth century, 1660-1800. Readings will be organized around several of the following cultural and historical issues: political and religious controversies; the role of science and experimentation; the creation of the literary professional; women and the domestic sphere; the growth of the British Empire.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 366 - Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century More specialized than ENG 365 , this course offers the opportunity for intensive focus upon a single genre, author, issue, or historical moment to be determined by the instructor. Typical topics include satire and the politics of “wit,” the cult of sensibility, theater and anti-theatricality, the eighteenth-century long poem, and seduction and the scandalous memoir. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 367 - Literature and Culture of the Early Republic Focusing upon representative early American texts, this course considers questions of revolution, the transition from colonialism, emergent nationalisms, and constructions of citizenship within the context of the American War for Independence and the ensuing years of the Early Republic.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 368 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century American Literature and Culture More specialized than ENG 367 , this course offers the opportunity for intensive focus upon a single genre, author, issue, or historical moment, to be determined by the instructor. Typical topics include science in/and the New World, American nationalisms, the rise of slavery in the colonies, witchcraft and public order, the French Revolution in America, The Great Awakening and women’s public life, and colonial autobiography. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 369 - Emergence of the Novel This course explores the emergence of the novel as a new literary mode, one both dependent upon and distinguishable from the kinds of prose narrative that are usually described as its origins: journalism, scandalous memoirs, Puritan autobiographies, conduct books, etc.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 370 - Literature of Discovery, Exploration, and Colonialism Focusing upon literatures of the Atlantic, this course examines literary, historical, and discursive connections between European, Creole, and indigenous cultures in the early period of European expansion. Topics to be explored include the commercial, religious, and scientific origins of European exploration, “New World” representations, and the social organization of colonialism. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for specific descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 371 - Romantic Writing This course is a study of major British poets of the Romantic period (1790-1832). Readings will be selected from among the works of William Blake, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Clare, John Keats, Byron, and Percy Shelley.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 373 - Studies in Romantic Literature and Culture This course will explore themes and issues unique to the Romantic Period. Although the content of the course will vary, it will generally include a mixture of literary and cultural forms, including poetry, fiction, nonfictional prose, painting, and drama. Possible themes will include women and Romanticism; Romantic writing and the French Revolution; Romanticism and popular culture; forms of Romantic autobiography; Romantic fiction. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 375 - Nineteenth-Century British Novel This course is a study of the canonical novels produced during the nineteenth century, including texts by the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, and Hardy. The course will examine narrative forms, narrators, audience, plots and stories; cultural forms such as the literary pen name; the material production of books, serials, and newspaper stories; the cultural predominance of fiction during the period; the cultural production of subjectivity and readership; and the uses and readings of history in fiction.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 376 - Victorian Literature and Culture This course explores Victorian writing, including poetry, novels, plays, autobiography, and non-fiction by writers such as the Brontes, the Brownings, Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Hopkins, John Stuart Mill, the Rossettis and the pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Pater, Tennyson, Wilde. Readings will be organized around several of the following Victorian intellectual, ideological, and cultural issues: the relation of Victorianism to neo-classicism, Romanticism, and modernism; the situation of women; theories of gender and sexuality; industrialism; materialism; aestheticism; decadence; scientific and religious controversies; the emergence of psychoanalysis.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 377 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture This course explores various topics, including fin de siècle literature and culture; nineteenth-century intellectual history and culture (e.g., Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud); Victorian poetry and the visual arts; nineteenth-century psychology and culture; contemporary film appropriations of Victorian fiction. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 379 - Earlier Women Writers This course focuses upon the efforts of women writers in the early modern period to create, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing literary culture. Instructors will attend to the successes and limitations of gender as a category of analysis. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 380 - Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture This course examines the literature and culture of the United States to the Civil War. While particular writers, works, and theoretical emphases may vary with the instructor, the course will consider historical context and may include canonical and non-canonical texts in a variety of literary and cultural forms: long and short fiction, poetry and song, non-fiction essays, slave narratives, political pamphlets and journalism, and paintings. Possible topics include the growth of female authorship; social reform movements; and the formation and interpretation of the American literary canon.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 382 - The Earlier American Novel This course explores the American novel to 1900 with attention to historical context, generic development, and thematic connections between texts. The course may include various types of novels, such as epistolary, gothic, romance, domestic, and realist, as well as canonical and noncanonical writers.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 383 - Studies in African-American Literature and Culture This course will explore various topics in African-American literature and culture. Specific courses may focus on literary traditions, genres, and themes; literary and cultural periods or movements; theoretical issues in the development or study of African-American literature; or the work of a single author. Possible topics include the slave narrative, African-American non-fiction prose, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, African-American women’s writing, African-American literary and cultural theory, Black popular culture. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for specific descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 384 - Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture This course covers the historical period associated with the rise of realism and naturalism in American literature that is traditionally marked by the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. While the course’s focus may vary, it will explore the definitions of realism and naturalism with regard to both historical context and aesthetic agendas. In testing definitions of American realism and naturalism, the course may ask questions about whose reality, whose America, and whose intellectual and cultural traditions have shaped our understanding of the literary movements that arose in response to major changes in American society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 385 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture This course examines specific themes, works, or writers prominent in nineteenth-century American literature and culture. The course may focus on a particular literary tradition, genre, or theme; a literary and cultural movement; a theoretical issue in the development or study of nineteenth-century American literature; or the work of a single author. Possible topics include slavery and abolition in American literature, nineteenth-century popular culture, the domestic novel, American Renaissance, and Whitman and Dickinson. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 387 - Women Writers Since 1900 This course introduces students to the diverse concerns of modern and contemporary women writers. It could be organized around a thematic, theoretical, or historical question or could be devoted to two or three figures. It may include writers from First and Third world countries, immigrant writers, and writers of the African Diaspora.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 390 - British Poetry Since 1900 This course will focus on poetry written in Britain since 1900, with emphasis on such questions as the development of modernism, poetic forms and strategies, links to political and cultural developments, and new forms and strategies after modernism. The course will usually focus on three or four specific poets read against a broader poetic and historical context. Poets may include T. S. Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmid, D. H. Lawrence, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, Maeve McGuckian, or writers associated with the “New British Poetries.”
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 391 - American Poetry Since 1900 This course will focus on American poetry written since 1900. While primary texts and historical or theoretical emphases will vary with the semester, the course will consider poetic forms and strategies, and relations to literary modernism and to American thematics and traditions. In most semesters, the course will focus on three or four major poets, examining their poetry against a broader poetic and historical context.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 393 - The American Novel Since 1900 This course will study various types of novels, such as the realist novel, the social protest novel, the modernist novel, the Gothic novel, and the autobiographical novel, with attention to social and historical contexts and to thematic connections between texts. It is not purely a survey of “Great American Novels” but may include both canonical and non-canonical writers.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 394 - Studies in American Literature and Culture Since 1900 This course will be organized around different literary periods, geographical regions, fields of study, and intellectual and cultural movements. Possible topics include the Harlem Renaissance, literature and the left, literature of new social movements (Black power, feminism, lesbian and gay rights), youth cultures, the Vietnam era, immigrant writers, American Indian writers, southern writers, Caribbean writers in the USA, and Maine writers. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 395 - Irish Literature and Culture Irish literature in English and Irish culture will be studied in relation to three phases in the political and cultural development of Ireland as a nation: 1) the period of Irish nationalism prior to independence in 1922; 2) the formative years of nation building and its myth-making from independence to 1960; 3) 1960 to the present.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 396 - James Joyce This course is an examination of Joyce’s major texts, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and selections from Finnegans Wake. Emphasis will be on Ulysses. The course also will include relevant biographical, critical and contextual material.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 397 - Studies in Irish Literature and Culture This course explores topics in Irish literature and culture, often set in the context of Irish history and politics. Sample topics include: Irish drama, Irish film, Yeats and Joyce, Joyce and Beckett, and women and Irish culture. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 398 - Studies in British Literature and Culture Since 1900 This course will focus on the interrelated literatures of Britain’s distinctive cultures in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It will be organized around different literary periods, cultures, theoretical and historical emphases and social movements. Possible topics include British modernism, the Scottish Renaissance, race and writing in Britain, writing and nationalism. Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 400 - Independent Study in Creative or Expository Writing See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent and Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 401 - Creative Writing Minor Thesis The student, working in collaboration with a faculty advisor, produces a thesis of 10-15 poems or 25-50 pages of fiction or memoir. The thesis may be multi-genre, by the student’s choice.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 302 , ENG 303 , ENG 304 , or ENG 306 and permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 409 - Internship in Professional Writing By application to the Department and arrangement with campus or local newspaper or journal.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 309 or ENG 310 , or permission of the Department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: English
ENG 410 - Independent Study in Journalism See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent and Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 411 - Seminar in Journalism Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: English
ENG 415 - Independent Study in Ancient and Biblical Literature and Culture See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 418 - Independent Study in Genre and Form See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 419 - Seminar in Genre and Form Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 431 - Seminar on Literacy Studies and the Teaching of Writing This seminar will consider topics in composition theory and practice within the broad context of histories and theories of literacy. Participants will be asked to make connections between curricular design or pedagogical practices and such issues as the history of public education and English studies, theories of discourse, writing and language use, and definitions of literary language and textuality. There will be consideration of contemporary research debates on the teaching of writing. This seminar is required for students enrolled in the Internship on the Teaching of Writing.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): ENG 432 Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 432 - Internship in the Teaching of Writing This Internship will provide qualified upper-class English majors with supervised experience in the teaching of writing. There is also the possibility of placement in tutoring and in community literacy programs. Students registering for the internship must also register for ENG 431 Seminar on Literacy Studies and the Teaching of Writing. Application and screening for the internship take place through the College Writing Committee.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): ENG 431 Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 440 - Independent Study in Literary Criticism and Theory See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 441 - Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 444 - Independent Study in Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 445 - Seminar in Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 450 - Independent Study in Medieval Studies See Department for application form.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: var.
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: English
ENG 451 - Seminar in Medieval Studies Students should consult the Department’s Course Guide for detailed descriptions.
Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours in English, including ENG 245 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: EnglishPage: 1
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Environmental Science and Policy
ESP 101 - Environmental Science and Sustainability This course is an examination of the science of environmental problems, processes, and solutions. Students will explore the interrelationships of the natural world, the environment, and impacts from humans. Specific topics will include land, air, and water pollution; biodiversity; global climate change; energy; public health; and sustainability.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): ESP 102 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 102 - Fundamentals of Environmental Science Laboratory This laboratory is designed to provide applied experience with some of the tools and techniques used in environmental science. Students will apply the scientific method to examine a variety of environmental issues using field kits, lab equipment, and computers.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): ESP 101 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 123 - Quantitative Reasoning and the Environment This course focuses on how to understand and manipulate quantitative environmental information with tools to describe, model, and analyze data. The course will cover rotating topical content emphasizing numeracy and critical thinking in the following quantitative areas: measurement and units, ratios and percentages, charts and graphs, introductory statistics, functions and regression, and mathematical modeling. Microsoft Excel will be used extensively. Meets the tools requirement for ESP majors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 125 - Introduction to Environmental Ecology This course is an introduction to the study of interactions between organisms and their environments. Students will explore the basic principles of ecology and systems with emphasis on forests, wildlife, freshwater, marine, and urban habitats. Environmental physiology and evolution will be a central theme throughout the course.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 and ESP 102 , or BIO 105 and BIO 106 . Co-requisite(s): ESP 126 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 126 - Introduction to Environmental Ecology Laboratory This laboratory surveys the identification, measurement, and function of various ecosystems. A focus will be on the impact of human activity on ecosystems.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 and ESP 102 , or BIO 105 and BIO 106 . Co-requisite(s): ESP 125 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 131 - Northern Forest Canoe Trail This field course is self-guided and self-paced. Participants spend the equivalent of ten days of canoe or kayak trips exploring northern New England waterways. They set their own schedule, provide periodic on-line check-ins, and submit assignments designed to foster a contemplative experience that builds independent learning skills. The course introduces environmental data gathering and assessment, aspects of environmental management, and critical thinking about personal, social, and ecological implications of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail and adjacent watersheds. This course is suitable for military veterans, advanced high school students, non-traditional learners, and anyone who wants an independent learning experience.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 150 - Environmental Science Field Immersion Session This field immersion session is designed to teach basic environmental science field skills and build community in a long weekend format. The course includes components on forest, land use, aquatic, wildlife, and human systems. Basic orienteering and map reading, topographical surveying, GPS operation, and dichotomous key use are emphasized. This course is required for all new majors and transfer students. Students must be present for the entire immersion session.
Prerequisite(s): ESP major, ESP minor, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 197 - Research Skills Lab This ten-week, lab-style course is designed to develop students’ study and research skills to foster academic success as a major in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. Topics will include literature searching, website evaluation, peer review process, critical thinking, finding articles and books, plagiarism, proper citation, primary and secondary sources, and the writing process. The final project is an annotated bibliography on a selected environmental topic.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 200 - Environmental Planning This course introduces the central concepts of environmental planning theory and practice, including components of rural, regional, and community planning. Concepts and issues studied include planning history and regulations, natural resources inventory, spatial patterns and analysis, zoning techniques, growth management, and planning research.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 and ESP 102 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 203 - Environmental Communication Students study environmental communication to understand the influence of socio-economic, political, and scientific factors on the social construction of environmental problems. Topics include basic communication theory and its application to the social definition of environmental problems and the perception and communication of risk, how communication is used to persuade/dissuade the public regarding environmental problems, and how the environment is used to manipulate consumer behavior. Students also engage in the basics of research applied to environmental communication.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing, ESP 101 , ESP 102 , and ESP 197 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 207 - Atmosphere: Science, Climate, and Change Students will be introduced to the physical and chemical processes active in the earth’s atmosphere. Specific topics include atmospheric circulation, atmospheric chemistry, climate patterns, storms, natural atmospheric change in recent geologic time, human-induced atmospheric change, and atmospheric pollution.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher CHY lecture. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 220 - Introduction to Environmental Policy What does it take to address environmental problems? Why does it seem so hard to do so? This course examines the complexity of environmental policy making by exploring the wide range of perspectives and entities that are involved in creating environmental policies. Students apply that knowledge to several environmental policy issues, such as food, climate, environmental justice and energy. The goal is to better understand the constraints and opportunities for environmental protection in the United States.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 203 or permission of instructor Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 250 - Soils and Land Use Study and description of soils as natural materials in the landscape. The course includes an examination of physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils as they affect soil-plant-water relations. Other topics include soil classification and suitability for agriculture, urban development, contaminant remediation, field examinations of soils, and physical and chemical soil analyses.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 , ESP 102 , one semester of chemistry lecture and lab, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 260 - Soil and Water Conservation Engineering A study of the utilization, improvement, and protection of two essential resources-soil and water. Primary focus is on applying scientific and engineering principles to the problem areas of soil erosion and flood control. Students will design practical solutions to remediate these problems.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the University’s Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 275 - Energy Use and Societal Adaptation This course focuses on the topic of energy, its utility, its use, and its impact on society and the environment. Subjects include: 1) traditional, modern and future energy resources; 2) energy consumption; 3) energy technologies; 4) energy and the environment and 5) sustainable development. The class will consist of lectures and a variety of media, including textbooks, technical articles, print, and video. This course culminates in an international country energy analysis using government and industry statistical data.
Prerequisite(s): Science Exploration course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 280 - Research and Analytical Methods A focus on research and analytical techniques for environmental science, policy and planning. The course is centered on the use of instrumentation and investigative research to address a thematic environmental issue. Topics include defining research problems, hypothesis construction, experimental design, measurement, sampling, and analysis. Students will complete group research projects.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 , ESP 102 , ESP 197 , ESP 125 , and ESP 126 , or any 100-level or higher CHY lecture. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 303 - Wetlands Ecology This lecture course examines wetlands from the perspectives of science and policy. Topics will include basic wetlands ecology and biology, wetland definitions, classification, and regional and national trends in habitat destruction and management.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 125 or BIO 203 , one semester of chemistry lecture and lab, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 304 - Wetlands Ecology Laboratory An introduction to wetlands types and field methods, with an emphasis on field visits, wetlands species identification, and projects.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 303 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 305 - Community Planning Workshop This course provides a practical approach to local community planning problems. Students will conduct field work to explore community decision-making processes regarding the use of natural, social and economic resources. Basic planning concepts are refined and applied to real-world problems in a collaborative manner.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 and ESP 102 , and GEO 209 or GEO 210 or ESP 210 or ESP 200 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 308 - Global Environmental Problems and Sustainability This course is a thorough examination of global environmental problems and the need for the principles of sustainability to solve these problems. Topics will include frameworks, tools, and applications of sustainability including sustainability science, life cycle assessment, zero waste, industrial ecology, pollution prevention, natural step, and community-based social marketing.
Prerequisite(s): Science Exploration course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 311 - Energy Efficiency This course provides students with an understanding of how to analyze and identify opportunities for energy savings in all economic sectors. Emphasis will be placed on energy balancing, life cycle analysis, economic payback and energy efficiency policies. The course culminates with a Maine-based case study.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 275 or ESP 280 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 313 - Renewable Energy This course will equip students with knowledge of renewable energy systems (including solar, wind, water, geothermal, and biomass), their underlying physical and technological principles, their environmental impact, their economics, and how they can be integrated into current energy infrastructures. The course culminates with a renewable energy design project.
Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher CHY lecture and MAT 108 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 326 - Environmental Economics This course considers the economic aspects of resource and environmental issues, such as pollution, the use and management of natural resources, environmental justice, and global climate change. In addressing each of these issues students will investigate the implications of various public policy responses such as regulation, marketable permits, and tax incentives.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 327 - Natural Resource Economics This course considers the economic aspects of natural resource management and use, including the economically sustainable management of fisheries, forests, water resources, and biodiversity, with applications to Maine and beyond. Students will investigate the implications of public policy responses such as regulations, marketable permits, and tax incentives.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 340 - Environmental Regulations This course is an intensive introduction to the federal and Maine environmental regulatory structure. This course is designed to provide basic competency in the knowledge and application of environmental laws and regulations, including air, surface water, drinking water, spill reporting, land use, and hazardous and solid waste.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 341 - Freshwater Science The study of inland waters with emphasis on the identification and ecology of aquatic organisms. This course meets on Fridays to allow time for extended field trips to local streams and lakes. Students will conduct independent research projects as part of the course.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 125 or BIO 203 , one semester of chemistry lecture and lab, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 350 - Environmental Entomology This course covers fundamental topics in entomology including environmental physiology, arthropod borne disease, biological indicators and sentinel species, invasive species, and integrated pest management (IPM). It includes topics in forest and urban entomology. Students gain experience in monitoring insect diversity, estimating populations, chemical ecology, and measuring physiological adaptations. Environmental entomology topics are applicable to a wide range of disciplines including biology, chemistry, environmental science, medicine, veterinary sciences, ecology, forensic science, and general science education.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in BIO 107 or ESP 125 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 360 - Water Quality Assessment and Control A study of water-related legislation, methods for determining compliance with statutes, and control methods used for water quality attainment. Regional topics addressed include: waste-water treatment, drinking water standards, storm water runoff, eutrophication, best management practices, and biomonitoring for water quality assessment.
Prerequisite(s): One semester of chemistry lecture and lab, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 375 - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management The focus of this course is to provide students with competency in quantitative human health risk assessment-an organized, multidisciplinary approach to evaluating scientific data by studying basic toxicology and fate and transport of contaminants using generally accepted principles and terminology used in the field. Students will also study the scientific, political, social, ethical, and economic dimensions of managing risks.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 , ESP 102 , and ESP 203 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 389 - Teaching Practicum Students in this course are mentored by a faculty member and provide assistance in teaching and delivery of an ESP course.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 400 - Internship The internship provides professional experience related to a student’s chosen option within the major. The emphasis is on understanding the host organization’s structure and function within the environmental area. In addition to satisfactory work experience, an oral presentation and written report are required. Offered as pass/fail only. Intended to be taken between the junior and senior year.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher, faculty approval of host organization, work plan, completed Internship Approval Form, and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 401 - Environmental Impact Assessment and Lab An overview of methods used to analyze the environmental impact of human decisions. The course will emphasize U.S. requirements for impact assessment as outlined in NEPA. Federal documents (DEIS, EIA, EIS, FONSI, and ROD) filed for past and ongoing projects are reviewed. A laboratory session is taken concurrently and is writing-intensive. Focus is on a hands-on application of assessment procedures to a thematic environmental issue.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, ESP 280 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 412 - Field Ecosystem Ecology This course provides a fundamental understanding of ecosystem ecology, with an emphasis on forested and aquatic ecosystems and impacts of the physical and chemical environment on ecosystem functioning. The course is writing intensive and includes hypothesis generation, field research, computer analysis, and journal article interpretation and writing. The laboratory is field intensive and includes local field trips, team research exercises, and independent field research projects.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 125 and ESP 126 , or BIO 203 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 413 - Forest Ecology This course provides students with an understanding of what constitutes a healthy forest ecosystem and a sustainable forest environment. Special emphasis is placed on the function, spatial variability, evolution of forest ecosystems, and the need for forest ecology as the foundation of forest management. The laboratory session is field-intensive.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 125 and ESP 126 , or BIO 203 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 417 - Site Planning and Assessment An introduction to environmental planning and assessment concepts and skills associated with the development of sites for human use. Emphasis is given to the development of particular tracts or parcels of land in Maine.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 209 or ESP 200 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 421 - Natural Resource Policy Natural resource policy is a subset of environmental policy that is focused on balancing competing uses of natural resources such as land, water, and animals. Thus, natural resource use inherently includes conflict over how environmental resources should be used in the pursuit of economic and social goals. Throughout this course, students explore difficult natural resource policy questions such as: What type of policy would best achieve our goals? How do we assess if policies adequately balance different interests? How can we collaborate across our differences to develop more innovative and successful policy? The course concludes with a comprehensive application of course concepts to a natural resource policy issue in Maine.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 445 - Environmental Education and Interpretation Students explore the basics of classroom and non-formal environmental science education and interpretation using an inquiry-based approach. Topics include teaching ecosystem and environmental science principles, selecting and designing environmental curricula, and assessment.
Prerequisite(s): ESP 101 , ESP 102 , ESP 125 and ESP 126 , or BIO 105 , BIO 106 and BIO 107 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 450 - Research Practicum Organized research experiences in ongoing faculty research projects or a mutually arranged special topic involving substantial skills development. Research will be conducted under the direct supervision of the faculty member. Permission of instructor required in semester prior to registration.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated up to a total of 6 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 475 - Topics in Environmental Science Topics in environmental science not regularly covered in other courses. The content will vary based on current local and regional environmental issues.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
ESP 489 - Grant Writing Seminar This course is for juniors and seniors in all disciplines who plan on entering professional careers requiring knowledge of grant writing to successfully submit competitive corporate and foundation proposals, and state and federal grant applications. Developing effective grant writing skills offers a competitive edge for job-seekers across many disciplines and is essential to acquiring competitive funding from government agencies and private foundations. Writing a successful grant proposal is a blend of art and science. It requires basic know-how, content knowledge, writing proficiency, strong research skills, creativity, organizational ability, patience, and a great deal of luck. This course provides the background necessary to develop a competitive funding proposal.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Environmental Science & Policy
Exercise, Health, and Sport Sciences
HIH 201 - Fundamentals of Homeopathy I This course introduces the history, philosophy, and practice of homeopathy, exploring the nature of disease and restoration of health from the holistic perspective. This course will introduce the homeopathic case-taking process and the clinical application of more than 25 homeopathic remedies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 202 - Fundamentals of Homeopathy II This course builds upon the content of HIH 201 , delving further into the history of homeopathy and the finer points of homeopathic philosophy and practice. This course will explore constitutional homeopathic care, the comprehensive use of homeopathic remedies in cases of chronic conditions.
Prerequisite(s): HIH 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 203 - Mind Body Stress Reduction Mindfulness is about paying attention without judgment to what is being presented to us in our lives. The core of this course will be mindfulness and meditation practices taught by a myriad of practitioners including renowned pioneers in the field Jon Kabat Zinn and Dr. Herbert Benson. Students will study the results of research that show benefits of practicing Mindfulness. Students will learn a variety of techniques increasing awareness around the stress response, relaxation response leading to the cultivation of a meaningful mindfulness meditation practice. After learning these practices, students will explore ways to integrate mindfulness into work, family, health, and relationships, particularly into teaching, nursing, social work, and counseling health professions building resilience and eliciting the relaxation response.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 261 - Introduction to Naturopathic Medicine This course offers a comparative study of conventional and naturopathic medical models. Naturopathic medicine integrates current medical science with traditional natural therapies to promote health and to prevent disease. Students will gain an understanding of naturopathic principles, philosophy, and treatment modalities including nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine, mind-body techniques, and environmental medicine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 270 - Holistic Approaches to Reproductive Health This course will enable the student to look critically at reproductive health options through the lifespan. Through readings, podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, and online discussions, we will weigh evidence related to alternative, complementary, and natural approaches to managing reproductive health issues. The course will follow a life span, growth, and development approach. Course topics will include natural family planning methods, holistic contraception, infertility and pregnancy issues, holistic birth support skills, and holistic care of the newborn after birth. In addition, adult reproductive issues will be covered including menopause, erectile dysfunction, and sexuality in aging. The student will participate online via the discussion board, online quizzes, short essays, and complete an assignment to create a holistic teaching page related to a reproductive health topic.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 280 - Holistic Health I This course explores the realm of holistic health, emphasizing the integration of body, mind, and spirit. Specific techniques and therapies will be introduced including, but not limited to, nutrition, stress management, meditation, therapeutic movement and massage, music, and others. The primary goal is to bring greater self-confidence, increased knowledge, and self-responsibility about health into each student’s life.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 281 - Holistic Health II This course explores the realm of holistic health in greater depth. A strong component will focus on approaches to healing, including such topics as nutrition, meditation, forgiveness, energy, and thought communication. Spiritual and metaphysical dimensions will be integrated as they relate to the total well-being of the individual. The primary goal is to become conversant with holistic approaches that are widely used in promoting and supporting self-healing and transformation in both self and others.
Prerequisite(s): HIH 280 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 283 - Healing and Spirituality This course will explore the links between spiritual understandings and physical and mental health. Focusing on global spiritual and religious traditions, the course will examine the determinants of health and the healing techniques utilized in each faith. We will also examine the ways in which religious values and expectations become internalized and affect the ways in which we interpret our wellness and our discomforts. This course is designed to offer an opportunity to become familiar with the world’s faith traditions and to explore spirituality as it relates to healing, both personally and institutionally.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 284 - Botanical Therapies The use of medicinal plant remedies can offer a rich, effective, and safe addition to health care for a variety of common illnesses and conditions. With a dramatic increase in the use of herbal preparations, however, questions of effectiveness and safety arise for both health care consumers and their providers. This course will give the historical background on the use of medicinal plants in the U.S. and Europe, examine the current legal status of plant remedies and herbal practitioners, review the most commonly used botanical remedies available, and discuss the benefits and risks that attend the use of these and other medicinal plant preparations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 288 - Reiki: Energy Medicine This class will provide the student with Reiki Level I and II certification. Reiki is an ancient form of healing from Tibet. Rei means universal life, Ki means energy. Reiki means life for energy and is based on the idea that we are energy. Reiki is a hands-on, light touch, healing energy. Many health care organizations are interested in alternative or complementary approaches to care and are offering services such as Reiki to help decrease pain, anxiety, depression, and aid in the comfort and well-being of their clients. To provide these services there are additional training and certifications required. The class will combine both lecture and hands-on experiences. In addition, the class will engage in service learning by providing Reiki treatments to the community.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 300 - Sustainable Compassion Training This course will provide evidence-based, actionable tools for educators and professional caregivers to prevent burnout and renew energy. The course will use a conceptual framework that integrates insights from developmental, clinical, and moral psychology along with contemporary neuroplasticity research and ancient contemplative practices. The course will be centered on the concept of caring relationships as the foundation for enhancing ethical sensitivity and sustaining high care for both the giver and the receiver. Students will learn how to cultivate a sense of inner safety and deep replenishment through the study and practice of three modes of care: receiving care from others, self-care, and extending care to others.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
HIH 490 - Therapeutic Touch This course will introduce the theory and practice of the Krieger-Kunz method of Therapeutic Touch. Concentration will be on the practice of Therapeutic Touch as an intentionally directed process of energy exchange, using the hands to facilitate the movement of energy and restoring balance to the energy system of the human body. The course will focus on the understanding of the basic principles of the human energy field, intuition, intentionality, benefits, theory, principles, process, and experiential learning of the Therapeutic Touch technique. Through readings, lecture, demonstrations, and practice, students will integrate the Therapeutic Touch process with considerations of creating a healing environment, the ethics of practice, and integrating holistic health and self-care.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Holistic & Integrative Health
REC 110 - Foundations of Recreation and Leisure Studies This course addresses the concepts of leisure, play, and recreation, emphasizing the role that leisure should play in modern society. Lectures and discussions on societal attitudes toward work and leisure stress the need to keep these activities in proper perspective. Students will concentrate on psychological aspects of optimal experience and quality of life. Community leisure services will be addressed. Assignments will encourage students to explore leisure lifestyle attitudes. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will begin their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Recreation
REC 121 - Introduction to Therapeutic Recreation Services An overview of therapeutic recreation, including historical and philosophical foundations, service models, professional functions, and service settings. The psychology of disability will be included as well as an introduction to disabling conditions. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Therapeutic recreation major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 190 - Yoga and Nutrition A recipe for transformation through yoga, meditation, and healthy nutrition. This course combines mindful eating with in-depth reflection for personal education, stress release, and body movements to create a balanced life.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 223 - Introduction to Nature Tourism This course covers the basics of nature tourism, a broad category that includes ecotourism, adventure tourism, and a variety of activities and programs involving the outdoors. An emphasis is placed on Maine and northern New England nature tourism. REC 223 is required for the nature tourism minor. Equivalent to TAH 250 - Nature Tourism .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 226 - Lifetime Leisure Activities Through participation in a variety of recreational pursuits, students will explore the rules, techniques, strategies, and adaptations for successful participation by those individuals with disabilities. Youth sport development, leadership techniques for teaching physical recreation activities, and basic motor learning concepts will also be addressed. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 231 - Expressive Arts Programming Students will learn about the therapeutic benefits of the arts and how to plan, adapt, organize, and lead arts based programming and activities. The course will require students to participate in a variety of fine arts activities such as collage, painting, poetry, book making, storytelling and other appropriate projects. No prior art knowledge needed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 232 - Methods in Therapeutic Recreation Program Design Using a systems approach to therapeutic recreation program development, students will learn how to develop group-oriented treatment and educational programs. Leisure assessment, documentation, and individualized treatment plan development will be introduced. Students will be required to meet together outside of class to work on group program development projects. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): REC 121 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 233 - Outdoor Recreation This course focuses on safe, sustainable, nature-based recreation with an emphasis on “leave no trace” principles. The role of park systems and wilderness environments relative to recreation in modern society will be examined. A variety of outdoor recreation activities will be introduced. Several class trips will be required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 241 - Recreation Leadership This course provides students with the basic knowledge and methods necessary for effective leadership in recreation settings. Students will be required to participate in projects, presentations, and discussions that are aimed at helping them to develop and analyze leadership skills in a variety of recreation program areas such as special events, expressive arts, passive recreation, outdoor recreation, and sports. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 253 - Implications of Disabling Conditions for Therapeutic Recreation This course provides an overview of physical and developmental disabilities with emphasis on etiology, clinical descriptors, rehabilitation, and educational concerns. Examination of the impact of disability on leisure and therapeutic recreation programming will be addressed, as will barriers that affect communication and interactions between persons with and without disabilities. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 285 - Perspectives on Animal-Assisted Therapy This course explores the human-animal bond in contemporary society with a special emphasis on understanding the role animals can play in the physical, psychological, and rehabilitation of persons with a variety of disabilities. In addition, the course will demonstrate how animals can benefit community health at large. Students will gain a real-world view of animal-assisted therapy through engaging with invited guest speakers, conducting a site visit, and creating a group program intervention. Additional topics to support content include animal behavior, roles that animals play in disaster relief and in the criminal justice system, and how an appreciation of wildlife habitats can be therapeutic for all audiences. Students from many fields will find this course useful to future careers in Recreation and Leisure, Nursing, Health Sciences, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Biology, Criminology, Teacher Education, and anyone with a strong interest in companion animals.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 311 - Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults This course will explore the normal aging process in addition to a variety of chronic conditions experienced by older adults. The focus of the course will be on nonpharmacological intervention strategies for older adults residing in community and clinical agencies. Intervention examples include stress management, animal-assisted therapy, storytelling, autobiographical writing, bibliotherapy, adventure-based activities, air mat therapy, and “simple pleasures” activities. Other topics of study will include attitudes, stereotypes, and social issues that affect older adults today. Off-campus service learning experiences will be expected along with in-class discussions. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 314 - Wellness Education and Counseling This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of how to plan, implement, and evaluate wellness education programs. Teaching and learning styles will be addressed. Counseling skills will be practiced. Teaching techniques and tips will be highlighted. The course follows a learning-by-doing and reflection-in-action approach to education. Students will participate in experiential group and individual processes and be expected to apply personal insight when working with others. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 324 - Inclusive and Special Recreation This course will explore how to include persons with disabilities into non-treatment focused recreation programs and services. Disability awareness and history plus physical and program access will be explored with a focus on requirements specified by federal ADA legislation. Recreation and sport organizations for persons with disabilities as well as assistive devices that enable access will also be examined. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): REC 110 , REC 253 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 367 - Adventure Based Counseling The course focuses on how to facilitate and then process outdoor, adventure, and recreation activities as a means to improve self-concepts, develop group cohesion and uncover feelings, among others. Course objectives will be met through experiential as well as theoretical methods, thus allowing the student to acquire the skills necessary to lead groups through similar activities. Class format will be lectures, discussions, group activities, field trips, and presentations by class members. The course will address how to plan, implement, lead, debrief, and evaluate adventure experiences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 382 - Assessment and Documentation in Therapeutic Recreation This course examines therapeutic recreation services in a variety of settings. Emphasis will be on assessment and documentation within healthcare settings. Students will learn assessment, individual treatment planning, intervention strategies, and the development of treatment protocols. Students will be required to work in groups and participate in class leadership. A 24-hour practicum experience in a therapeutic recreation program is required. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Recreation and Leisure Studies major or Recreation Leadership minor, REC 232 , and HRD 200 or SBS 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 383 - Facilitation Techniques in Therapeutic Recreation Exploration of the processes and techniques used in Therapeutic Recreation practice. A focus on evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence will facilitate the learning of various recreation and leisure activities, modalities, and interventions. Therapeutic Recreation processes, approaches, leadership roles and tasks, communication skills, and therapeutic relationships will be addressed. A 24-hour clinical practicum is required. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): REC 232 and REC 382 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 386 - Recreation Facility Design and Maintenance This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of design management and maintenance for future recreation and leisure service professionals. It offers a detailed look at the foundations of the profession, including defining characteristics of recreation facility management and descriptions of the duties of a recreation facility manager and areas within the facilities. The course also covers common indoor and outdoor elements of facilities, including sites, spaces, lighting, surfaces, utilities, landscaping, walkways, and parking areas.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 390 - Topics in Recreation and Leisure Studies This course includes topic areas in recreation and leisure studies not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Recreation
REC 398 - Independent Study This course is open only to students majoring or minoring within the program who have identified a topic, relevant to their course of study, that they want to study in depth and for which there is no existing appropriate course. Students must obtain a faculty supervisor and negotiate a written independent study contract with this person. Independent study forms can be obtained from the program.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Recreation
REC 494 - Professional Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation Practice This course will prepare students for an extended internship experience. Students will complete all tasks necessary to secure an internship placement. Serious study and discussion of topics such as professional conduct, ethics, safety, and risk management will be required. This course must be taken immediately prior to REC 495 Internship. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): All REC core courses and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
REC 495 - Internship Students are required to work a minimum of 560 hours in an agency that provides therapeutic recreation services. During this period students will apply the knowledge, methods, and leadership techniques that they have learned in academic courses. Students will be directly supervised by qualified agency personnel and indirectly supervised by faculty. This course is taken in the senior year. Health insurance is required. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): All required REC courses, REC 494 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation
REC 498 - Management and Professional Development in Therapeutic Recreation An overview of management roles in therapeutic recreation settings with major focus on comprehensive program development, supervision of professional and volunteer personnel, policy and strategy development, and quality assurance. Each student is required to develop a comprehensive program and policy manual. Students will apply the information learned during internships to course assignments and discussions. This course culminates in convening a professional conference for Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists. Recreation and Leisure Studies majors will include this class in their academic career portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): REC 495 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation
RHF 106 - Ballroom Dance This class is designed to teach the basic steps in many popular ballroom dances. Students will begin with slow, smooth dances and progress into Rhythm dances. In addition to dance steps, students will cover a variety of dance related topics, including dance floor etiquette, lead and follow technique, and exercises designed to help students dance in a partnership. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 109 - Beginning Weight Training The course is a study of the basic principles of weight training and the physiological responses and adaptations to weight training exercises. Specifically, the subject matter will focus on the safe and proper execution of different weight training exercises. In addition, students will study basic aspects of weight training programs, i.e., sets, repetitions, intensity, frequency, duration, progression, specificity, and overload. This course will assist students in developing awareness and appreciation of the role of exercise for a healthy lifestyle and injury prevention. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 118 - Yoga In this course, students will explore various postures and styles of yoga, breathing techniques, and meditation. Students also will discuss ancient yogic philosophy and examine how it applies to their individual lives and yoga practice. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 121 - Self Defense Emphasizing the importance of personal mastery and good decision making over technique, this course focuses on risk scenarios and developing strategies for those scenarios through discussion and analysis, emphasizing the importance of customizing strategies to the individual. The course examines shortcomings of traditional “techniques based” approaches and instead focuses on specific risks we face such as road rage, the role of alcohol and drugs in social settings and society, as well as simple high impact techniques easily adaptable by most students for those rare instances when they must take a physical stand. Each class incorporates a “Self Defense Current Events” review to look at real life events in Portland, Maine and around the country to serve as examples to discuss and analyze. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 122 - Aerobic Kickboxing Blending boxing, kicking techniques, aerobics, pilates, yoga, and a dash of middle school gym class, this course integrates these elements into a fast paced cross training program. Fundamentals are first introduced via a “techniques” format set to music. Later in the semester, students transition to impact striking, using target pads to develop power, speed, and accuracy. The course embraces several mantras, including “know the thing, do the thing” and importance of focusing on each activity and technique to maximize the benefit of the work out. Proper warm up, stretching and cooling down techniques are also incorporated. Because skill and fitness development is an objective of the course, students must attend and participate in class activities in order to pass. The Department reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 123 - Introduction to Kayaking This course is designed to provide education and skill development in sea kayaking. Because skill and fitness development is an objective of the course, students must attend and participate in class activities in order to pass. The Department reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation. Students are required to pay vendor charges for equipment and parking.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 124 - T’ai Chi Qigong In this course, students will become acquainted with essential biomechanics, applied mental intention, and internal energy development methods required to build gong and establish foundations for Taiji forms; learn basic history of Taijiquan and about yin/yang theory; learn efficient and integrated use of body and the roles of breath, heart/mind, and intentionality on physicality and personal harmony; explore relationships among mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual experiences; explore differences among physical, mental, and mind/body learning; and learn to appreciate relationships between healing arts and martial arts aspects of Taiji. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 126 - Stability and Physio-Ball Exercise This class will use the physio ball to design a total fitness program to build a long, lean, and agile body. Students will concentrate on strengthening and lengthening muscles of the torso. The program will include elements of core strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, and cardiovascular fitness. Because skill or fitness development are objectives in all RHF courses, students must attend and participate in class activities to pass the course. The program reserves the right to request written medical clearance for participation in courses that require high intensity exercise.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 131 - Indoor Cycling Instructor Preparation This interactive course prepares students for an entry-level instructor position for indoor cycling. Students will receive detailed instruction on all aspects of teaching a group indoor cycling class emphasizing biking fundamentals, terminology, ride design, the role of music, and the long lasting impact of indoor cycling on your health. Relevance will be made to teaching all types of group fitness instruction. Each class is held on the Portland Campus, Sullivan Gym in the indoor cycling studio. Students will be graded on their ability to apply cycling skills and knowledge by demonstrating competency in teaching techniques as they gain experience while leading the class, with a focus on collaboration. Students will create a portfolio of indoor cycling programs and other materials. Attendance is required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
RHF 218 - Yoga Fusion Through the unique Yoga Fusion style, students will advance and deepen their understanding of the practice of yoga. Students will learn to guide the body-mind-spirit from an introduction of yoga to an intermediate practice. The relationship to health will be analyzed through various systems of the body.
Prerequisite(s): RHF 118 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Spring and summer Course Type: Recreation, Health & Fitness
SPM 100 - Introduction to Exercise, Health, and Sport Sciences This course introduces students to a variety of career options and opportunities in the health sciences and surveys topics important to all health-related disciplines. Topics include: reading and interpreting the literature in health science, exercise physiology, epidemiology, athletic training, exercise and sport nutrition, biomechanics, motor control and learning, and sport and exercise psychology.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 101 - Basic Life Support and First Aid 1 This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to assess, recognize and care for patients who are experiencing respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, airway obstruction or opioid overdose. Upon successful completion, students will receive American Red Cross Basic Life Support and First Aid certifications.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 102 - Basic Life Support and First Aid 2 This refresher course provides participants with a review of the knowledge and skills they need to assess, recognize and care for patients who are experiencing respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, airway obstruction or opioid overdose. Upon successful completion, students will receive their American Red Cross Basic Life Support and First Aid recertifications.
Prerequisite(s): Current American Red Cross Basic Life Support and First Aid recertifications. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 210 - Clinical Athletic Training Principles I An introduction to the principles of prevention, examination, treatment, and reconditioning of physical activity injuries. Lecture information prepares students for supervised clinical experiences. Completion of a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 50 clinical observation hours required.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; 24 University credit hours completed; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50; SPM 100 or concurrent; BIO 111 and BIO 112 or SCI 170 and SCI 171 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): SPM 211 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 211 - Protective Taping and Wrapping An introduction to the principles of taping and wrapping as they pertain to preventative, protective, and post injury situations. In addition, basic skills in stretching will be taught. Laboratory course in which the completion of competencies prepares students for supervised clinical experience.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 100 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): SPM 210 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 219 - Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness The primary emphasis of this course is to introduce students to a variety of tools that can be used to assess health, physical fitness, and well being. If students aspire to a career in the health sciences, these tools can be used to assess individuals fitness and wellness as well as the fitness and wellness of others. Major topics will include nutrition/weight management, fitness training techniques, flexibility, coronary risk factor management, muscular strength/endurance, stress management, and other wellness-related topics. Class content will include readings, discussions, self-assessment activities and labs, and development of personalized nutrition and physical activity plans. Equivalent to REC 219 - Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 230 - Psychology of Physical Activity and Sport This course presents an overview of concepts, theories, principles, and research related to exercise and sport behaviors. Practical application of psychological principles and techniques that help facilitate behavior change during exercise and sport activities will be covered.
Prerequisite(s): ALT, EXS, or HLS major; sophomore level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 260 - Introduction to Personal Training An overview of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by fitness instructors to plan, implement, and evaluate safe and effective exercise programs. Emphasis is on exercise programs for individuals and groups. A 45-hour field experience is incorporated into the course to provide students with practical application related to course work.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grade of C- or higher in SPM 219 (or concurrent), sophomore level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 265 - Therapeutic Modalities An exploration of the physical principles, physiological effects, indications, contraindications, safety precautions, and operating procedures of therapeutic modalities. Includes application of modalities in the laboratory setting. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 100 , SPM 210 , and SPM 211 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 270 - Athletic Training Clinic I Completion of a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 175 clinical hours applying proficiency knowledge and skills in an athletic training clinical setting. The first clinical course for students enrolled in the athletic training major.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 100 , SPM 210 , and SPM 211 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 302 - Pharmacology for Athletic Training and Exercise Science This course covers the general concepts and principles of pharmacology as it relates to the profession of athletic training and disciplines within the exercise sciences. An explanation of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles are covered as are the indications, contraindications, precautions, dose information, allergies, and adverse side effects of prescription and nonprescription drugs commonly used by the physically active person. Governing regulations including storing, transporting, dispensing, and recording of medication will be discussed. Performance-enhancing substances and drug testing in sports will also be covered.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; BIO 113 or SCI 172 ; CHY 107 or CHY 113 ; junior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 310 - Athletic Training Principles II This is an intermediate study of principles for the prevention, examination, treatment, and reconditioning of physical activity injuries. Lecture and laboratory competencies prepare students for supervised clinical experiences. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 100 , SPM 210 , and SPM 211 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 325 - Methods of Resistance Training and Conditioning Theoretical and practical study of practices and methods involved in developing and implementing resistance training and conditioning programs for physically active populations. A 45-hour field experience is incorporated into the course to provide students with practical application related to course work.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grades of C- or higher in BIO 113 and BIO 114 or SCI 172 and SCI 173 , SPM 260 ; junior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 330 - Physiology of Exercise An investigation of the acute and chronic effects exercise incurs on the body. Muscle physiology, respiration, cardiac function, circulation, energy metabolism and application to training will be emphasized and applied in laboratory activities. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT, EXS, or HLS major; grades of C- or higher in CHY 107 or CHY 113 , BIO 113 and BIO 114 or SCI 172 and SCI 173 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 340 - Therapeutic Exercise A study of the basic components of a comprehensive therapeutic exercise program including functional anatomy, joint mobilizations, and rehabilitation programs will be discussed for the appendicular and axial skeletons. In addition, the physiological effects, safety precautions, indications, contraindications, modes of resistance, and specific rehabilitation protocols will be covered. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 370 , SPM 410 ; SPM 325 , SPM 330 , SPM 381 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 350 - Health Promotion Programs This course examines the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs in a variety of settings. Theoretical and practical concepts are discussed. Specific health promotion programs to be addressed include cardiovascular disease prevention (blood pressure and cholesterol control), physical fitness, nutrition and weight control, stress management and relaxation, substance abuse prevention, financial fitness, and occupational safety and health.
Prerequisite(s): EXS or HLS major; junior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 352 - Nutrition for Physical Performance The in-depth study of general nutritional practices applied to athletes and other individuals who are physically active. The course will emphasize basic cellular metabolism as it relates to energy production and expenditure during the course of preparation and training for athletics and physical activity. Weight control, use of ergogenic aids, and nutritional supplements will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grades of C- or higher in CON 252 and SPM 330 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 370 - Athletic Training Clinic II Completion of a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 175 clinical hours applying proficiency knowledge and skills in an athletic training clinical setting. The second clinical course for students enrolled in the athletic training major.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 265 , SPM 270 , SPM 310 ; BIO 113 and BIO 114 or SCI 172 and SCI 173 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 371 - Athletic Training Clinic III Completion of a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 175 clinical hours applying proficiency knowledge and skills in an athletic training clinical setting. The third clinical course for students enrolled in the athletic training major.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 370 , SPM 410 ; SPM 325 , SPM 330 , SPM 381 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 381 - Kinesiology Structural and functional anatomical analysis of human movement. Course will also incorporate principles of mechanics as they apply to the analysis of human movement. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT, EXS, or HLS major; grades of C- or higher in BIO 113 and BIO 114 or SCI 172 and SCI 173 , PHY 101 and PHY 102 or PHY 111 and PHY 114 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 390 - Biomechanics Evaluation, analysis, and application of anatomical and mechanical factors that influence human movement.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C- or higher in PHY 101 and PHY 102 or PHY 111 and PHY 114 (or concurrent), SPM 381 ; junior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 398 - Independent Study This course is intended to provide majors in the Department of Exercise, Health, and Sport Sciences with an opportunity to pursue a project independently. Students should select a faculty advisor and develop a course proposal with their advisor. A final written paper is required.
Prerequisite(s): ALT, EXS, or HLS major; junior level standing; permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 410 - Athletic Training Principles III This is an advanced study of principles for the prevention, examination, treatment and reconditioning of physical activity injuries. General medical concepts are also discussed. Lecture and laboratory competencies prepare students for supervised clinical experiences. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 265 , SPM 270 , SPM 310 ; BIO 113 and BIO 114 or SCI 172 and SCI 173 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 430 - Exercise Testing, Assessment, and Prescription This course focuses on knowledge and skills necessary for assessing health-related components of physical fitness. The course will also focus on prescription and design of programs to develop health-related fitness that will be applied in the laboratory setting. Lecture 2 credits, Lab 1 credit.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grades of C- or higher in SPM 330 , SPM 325 , and SPM 381 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 431 - Advanced Exercise Physiology An advanced study of the whole-body and cellular responses and adaptations to exercise related to human performance limitations, training effects, and health related benefits. Emphasis is on human bioenergetics, metabolism, cardiovascular structure and function, and cardiopulmonary responses to exercise.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grade of C- or higher in SPM 330 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 440 - Manual Therapy This course will take a detailed approach into the principles, theories, and evidence concerning the use of manual therapy for the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. Students will be taught and asked to demonstrate specific skills and techniques that enhance efficient and effective treatment of a wide range of clinical presentations pertaining to the spine and extremities using multiple manual therapy strategies.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 230 , SPM 302 , SPM 325 , SPM 330 , SPM 340 , SPM 352 , SPM 381 ; SPM 430 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 450 - Exercise for Special Populations The focus of this course is on exercise programming guidelines and recommendations for a variety of special populations that includes but is not limited to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, the elderly and pediatric conditions.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grade of C- or higher in SPM 430 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 470 - Athletic Training Clinic IV Completion of a minimum of 225 and a maximum of 275 clinical hours applying proficiency, knowledge, and skills in traditional athletic training and general medical (up to 15 clinical hours) settings. A minimum of 50 and a maximum of 75 traditional setting hours will be completed during the month of August within an athletic pre-season venue. The fourth clinical course for students enrolled in the athletic training major.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major; SPM 230 , SPM 302 , SPM 325 , SPM 330 , SPM 340 , SPM 352 , SPM 371 , SPM 381 ; SPM 430 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 477 - Health Research Methods Introduction to health research methods with a focus on understanding the basic application of the qualitative and quantitative research process. Review and evaluation of health-based studies with an emphasis to translate and communicate research to improve professional practice.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or HLS major; grade of C- or higher in LOS 120 or MAT 120 or PSY 201 ; senior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 480 - Organization and Administration of Athletic Training Administrative components of an athletic training program. Facility design; supply ordering, budget, and inventory; insurance, personnel, and athletic training educational considerations.
Prerequisite(s): ALT major, SPM 230 , SPM 302 , SPM 325 , SPM 330 , SPM 340 , SPM 352 , SPM 371 , SPM 381 ; SPM 430 or concurrent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 485 - Senior Thesis I Introduction to health-related research with an emphasis on understanding the research process and becoming a consumer of research. Critique of health-related research findings to exercise and health professions and their application to professional practice is a major component of this course.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grades of C- or higher in MAT 120 or PSY 201 , SPM 330 , SPM 430 ; senior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 486 - Senior Thesis II A continuation of SPM 485 . Students will be introduced to various research-related issues such as design, methodology, statistics, and writing scientific manuscripts involved in conducting research in exercise science. Students will be required to conduct a research experiment using learned techniques.
Prerequisite(s): ALT or EXS major; grade of C- or higher in SPM 485 ; senior level standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
SPM 495 - Clinical Internship This culminating experience for athletic training and exercise science majors provides the opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills gained through didactic, practicum, clinical, and laboratory experiences in a work setting.
Prerequisite(s): ALT, EXS, or HLS major; completion of all major requirements with grades of C- or higher (or concurrent); permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sports Medicine
Food Studies
FSP 100 - Introduction to Food Systems Using social science perspectives, this course introduces students to food systems and their components (e.g., agricultural production, food processing, consumption, regional linkages, food and agricultural policies), to alternative food movements and issues of social justice, and to the field of food studies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 200 - Food, Power and Social Justice This course explores social as well as environmental dimensions of sustainability in today’s globalized food system. We use conceptual frameworks, including food justice and food sovereignty, to analyze power and justice in relation to farmers and agro-ecological systems, farm and food industry workers, business owners and policymakers, as well as communities and consumers.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 215 - Entrepreneurship and the Business of Food This course examines the entrepreneurial activities associated with the development, launch, and growth of food-based businesses. This class uses local case studies, lecture, and experiential learning to introduce students to the role entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking play in business success.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 225 - Topics in Food Studies Topics courses are designed to explore specialized theoretical and substantive topics related to food and agriculture.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 300 - Food: History, Culture, Politics This course will explore the history, culture, and politics of food in America with a special emphasis on New England and regional differences. The course will examine colonial food ways including diet, food theft, trade patterns, and regional diversity; 19th century health, sanitation and temperance reforms; the rise of cooking schools, food writing, and regional cuisine; and contemporary issues such as fast and slow food, terminator seeds, organic farming and the diet industry.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 310 - Food and the Environment This course examines the relationship between the physical environment and human-made food systems and the environmental impacts of food production, processing, distribution, and disposal. We explore how different frameworks and different analytical methods help us to identify strategies for making the food system more sustainable and resilient. Students will research and analyze a food system related environmental problems and prepare a report with recommendations to address that problem.
Prerequisite(s): FSP 100 (or concurrent), junior or senior standing, student within the Honors Program, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 311 - Food Planning and Policy This course is designed to build knowledge of food systems: their development, function and interaction with the economy, public policy and planning. The course introduces students to basic issues in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, marketing, consumption and disposal of food, especially with regard to those elements that can be influenced by civic action and public regulation. Upon course completion, students should have an increased understanding of forces shaping food systems, dimensions of conventional and alternative models, food systems policy and planning with community development, and their own relationship and choices with regards to the contemporary American food system.
Prerequisite(s): One of the following: FSP 100 , FSP 200 or FSP 310 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Semester Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 320 - Poverty and Hunger One paradox of the contemporary food system is that it generates both hunger and obesity at the same time; in this course, we examine the extent of hunger, malnutrition and starvation in the world. This course examines societal structures of inequality as key determinants of access to food and the links between agricultural technologies, trade, hunger, and the reconfiguration of the global agri-food system. Finally, we evaluate solutions to problems of hunger, starvation and malnutrition.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 395 - Internship in Food Studies The course is designed to provide real-world experience of and insight into food system-related professional roles through work in a community food-based business, organization or agency. The primary objective of the internship is the application of the perspectives, substantive knowledge, and methods studied in the Food Studies Minor curriculum to a particular organizational setting. In addition to field placement responsibilities, students are expected to regularly reflect and report on their experience. Students may do a second 3-credit internship pending funding availability. Students may take no more than 6 credits of internship. Contact the MEIF Internship Coordinator in the Career and Employment Hub for details. Graded pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): FSP 100 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Course Type: Food Studies Program
FSP 396 - Food Studies Independent Study and Research Independent study and research of various student-selected areas of food studies.
Prerequisite(s): Sponsorship by a Food Studies Program faculty member, FSP 100 or permission of a faculty sponsor, junior or senior-level standing, and completed Independent Study Approval form (accessed at Food Studies Program website). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Food Studies Program
Geography-Anthropology
ANT 101 - Anthropology: The Cultural View This course is a basic introductory survey of cultural anthropology. It examines the differences between cultures as well as cultural universals, and the relationship between social organization, ideology, economics, and political structure in different types of societies. It reviews the various theoretical approaches in cultural anthropology’s attempt to explain human behavior, presenting examples from foraging, farming, and contemporary industrial societies through readings and films.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 102 - Biological Anthropology This course examines our place in nature; the relationship between human biology and culture; the relevance of primate behavior and human evolution to understanding contemporary human society; human biological adaptations, including a discussion of population and nutrition; and contemporary human variation with an evaluation of the concept of race. The course includes a required 2-hour lab each week that provides practical experience with materials and research methods used by biological anthropologists.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 103 - Introduction to Archaeology This course describes the methods and theories used by modern archaeologists to uncover information about past human life ways. Attention is given to techniques of survey and excavation of archaeological materials; concepts of space and time in archaeology; and detailed analysis of artifacts and organic residues. Some attention will be given to specific topics such as the archaeology of New England, the Caribbean, and Japan.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 104 - Archaeological Science Archaeological science presents principals and methods used by modern archaeologists to uncover information about past human life ways. Attention is given to techniques of survey, excavation of archaeological materials; concepts of space and time in archaeology; and detailed analysis of artifacts and organic residues. Issues in world prehistory concerning the development of agriculture, and preservation of the past will be covered. An integral laboratory component each week will focus on data analysis, conservation methods, maritime resource utilization, environmental degradation and sustainability in the Gulf of Maine. Some attention will be given to specific topics such as the archaeology of New England, Caribbean, Japan and Peru and the Isles of Shoals in the Gulf of Maine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 105 - Society, Environment, and Change This course examines the complex and changing relationship between communities, cultures, and the environment over time and across multiple geographic scales. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the course considers the drivers behind societal and environmental change from early hunter-gatherer and farming communities to more complex contemporary landscapes across the world. The course concludes with a focus on identifying options to build sustainable, resilient, and adaptive social-ecological systems.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 201 - Human Origins This course focuses on the fossil and cultural evidence for human evolution. Topics to be covered include evolutionary theory, primate behavior, hominid origins, the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of fossil hominids, Pleistocene cultural adaptations, and the origin of modern Homo sapiens. The relationship between biology, geography, and culture is explored using the skeletal and archaeological evidence for human evolution.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 202 - Origins of Civilization This course traces the evolution of human culture from the origins of farming and domestication, to the development of complex societies. General processes of urbanization and social stratification will be investigated, and examples will be drawn from throughout the Old and New Worlds, including the classical civilizations of the Near East, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Peru.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 204 - The Gulf of Maine: Archaeology, Ecology, and Environmental Change The Gulf of Maine class describes the methods and theories used by archaeologists, geologists, marine scientists, environmental scientists and policy makers to understand changes in human life ways and environmental conditions over time. Attention is given reconstruction of changes in sea-level over time: excavation and interpretation of archaeological materials from maritime sites; understanding of species distribution and interaction over time; and policy making related to environmental change of the Anthropocene Issues in coastal erosion, declining cod stocks, predator-prey relations, environmental restoration and cultural heritage be covered. An integral laboratory component will focus on proxy and modern evidence for the dynamic and changing ecosystem. Some attention will be given to specific topics such as regional climatic change, the Casco Bay Estuary Project and research institutes focused on marine environments in the Gulf of Maine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 213 - Human Ecology This course examines interactions between human societies and their natural environments. Human adaptation is viewed as a problem-solving process, involving the development of strategies for maximizing energy efficiency and reproductive success, for warding off environmental stress, and for reducing conflicts. These management strategies are examined for a number of human societies, and are used to gain insight into modern decision-making processes.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 or 102. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 220 - Indigenous Communities of North America This course provides an ethnographic perspective on the history and traditional cultures of native North Americans. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of aboriginal native cultures to their environments, and the evolution of complex societies in certain regions of North America. Also included is discussion of the fragmentation of indigenous societies that followed the European invasion of North America.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 224 - Ancient Mesoamerica An introduction to the archaeology and ethnohistory of the indigenous peoples of Mexico and adjacent parts of Central America, from the beginning until the sixteenth century. Primary attention will be to the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 230 - Hunters and Gatherers Hunting and gathering is a way of life, not simply a subsistence technique. Ninety-nine percent of human evolutionary history involved this kind of life, and our biology as a species was created through this mode of existence. In this ethnographically oriented course we will study several hunter-gatherer societies including the Ju’/hoansi, the Mbuti, the Australian aborigines, and the Inuit. Special attention will be given to understanding the traditional life and world view of hunter-gatherers, but we will also focus on how recent political and economic events are changing their lives.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 232 - The Anthropology of Sex and Gender Gender is a fundamental platform for the organization of society. The social meanings given to bodies, sexuality, procreation, parenting, and work extend beyond notions of identity, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, and households. Gender also involves economics, government, religion, politics, science, technology, war, and globalization. This course rests on the premise that sex and gender are both “culturally constructed” and explores how gendered practices and beliefs serve as “systems” of differentiation. The “politics of difference” is explored across a variety of Western and non-Western cultures.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 233 - Food and Culture This course focuses on food as an essential and central part of human experience. We will examine the anthropology of food and food habits, including an evolutionary-ecological perspective, the reconstruction of past human diets from archaeological evidence, and a cross-cultural examination of the diversity of human food preferences and avoidances. An important goal of the course will be to try to understand appreciate cultural differences in food habits from both an ecological and a societal point of view.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 255 - Cultures of Africa Africa is a vast continent rich in cultural diversity. This course will explore a variety of African people and cultures south of the Sahara. Students will read ethnographic case studies about small-scale communities that focus on interrelated issues such as music, religion, politics, economics, geography, ethnicity, and gender. The course will consider the effects of colonial periods on indigenous populations but will emphasize post-independence Africans. Students will learn to challenge negative Western representations of Africa by focusing on the power and perseverance of African people and their cultures.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 262 - Women, Arts & Global Tourism All over the world women are improving their socioeconomic status, investing in their families, and contributing to community development through involvement in tourism arts and crafts production. We will learn about the historical and contemporary experiences of women from North and South America, Africa, Asia and other international settings. The course will explore themes of cultural heritage, culture change, traditional versus tourist art, gender inequality, empowerment and community development.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 280 - Prehistoric Art This course takes a combined anthropological, historical, and critical approach and focuses on two case studies: 1) the Palaeolithic (Ice Age) art of Eurasia (ca. 32,400-10,000 years ago); and 2) the pre-colonial rock art of southern Africa (prior to 1652 AD). It reviews the diversity of forms and activities constituting prehistoric image making, and their numerous interpretations, including: “art for art’s sake,” magico-religion, structuralism, neo-evolutionary functionalism, and shamanism. It also considers the sociopolitical climate within which these theories have been proposed and identifies problematic assumptions and biases. The term “prehistoric art” is a major topic of discussion as students evaluate the relevance, appropriateness, and limitations of a western (European) definition of “art” for understanding non-Western image making.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 295 - Topics in Anthropology This course provides in-depth analysis of relevant topics not available in regular course offerings. The topics vary depending upon current issues of significance and the special background of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 302 - Medical Anthropology This course considers the interface between medicine and anthropology in terms of both human biology and society. The course develops concepts of health as effective adaptation to environmental stresses, including infectious disease, nutritional stress, and psychosomatic illness, among others. It traces the history of health and disease in human society from hunter-gatherers to modern urban, industrial communities, and examines the way in which human populations have attempted to deal with various agents of disease. The course examines the diversity of human theories of disease causation and explores the role of modern medicine in effective health care delivery to persons of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 , 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 305 - Gender, Race, and Health This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to learn about the embodiment of societal systems like gender and race in human biology and health. We will study societal systems using theory from women and gender studies, sociology, and associated fields. Students will learn about variation in gender (including masculinities) and health across societies, how racism and societal systems of race impact biology and well-being, and examine evidence that poverty becomes embodied. In this course, students will also gain an understanding of how societal stress becomes embodied, through learning the stress-related endocrine response, including how stress hormones impact immune function and metabolic function. We will also include an introduction to epigenetics. Throughout the course, students will read papers from the scientific literature that provide evidence for how hormones, immune function, and health are related to societal factors.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 or ANT 102 or WGS 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 306 - Analysis of Archaeological Materials This course provides an opportunity for in-depth study of methods used in the analysis of archaeological materials after they are recovered from excavations. Students will work in teams to apply analytical techniques to archaeological site collections including ceramics; stone, bone, and shell artifacts; and archaeological soils and faunal remains. Credit will vary with the range of techniques covered in a particular semester.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 103 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 308 - Environmental Archaeology Students will be introduced to the analytical techniques that are commonly used in the archaeological study of past environments and environmental change. Topics to be covered include archaeological soils, preservation conditions, the reconstruction of past climates and landforms, and the analysis of plant and animal communities from archaeological evidence. In semesters when this course carries more than three credits, requirements will include a substantial research project.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 103 or GYA 300 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 315 - Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and Practice This course offers students an overview of the methods of ethnographic observation and analysis, and of the ethical considerations of conducting such research. Students will be required to carry out ethnographic fieldwork, employing appropriate methods of data collection and analysis. Credit will vary depending on the scope of the fieldwork project, as determined by the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): SCA course or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 350 - International Development The aim of this course is to understand the global and local aspects of the social, cultural, economic, and political development processes in nations and societies of the Global South. It will highlight how social scientists approach the complex issues involved in international development. The first part of the course will cover mainstream international development theory whereby we will analyze basic assumptions underlying competing economic and social theories of international development. The second part of the course will explore the environmental and social dimensions of development often overlooked by mainstream international development theory and practice. In relation to the environment, we will focus on issues of environmental degradation and sustainability. Course materials will cover global trends in climate change, but we will focus on case studies to elucidate sustainable development issues. Under social aspects of development, we will investigate contemporary trends that emphasize local ownership and participation. Among other topics, this section will look at the role of NGOs and gender in development of the Global South.
Prerequisite(s): Socio-cultural Analysis course or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 360 - Public Archaeology This course introduces students to the interpretation of archaeological information for the public benefit. Topics to be covered include museum exhibits, collection management, federal and state legislation, ethics, site conservation database management, and GIS. Students will work in teams to produce a finished product for presentation during Archaeology Awareness Week. The course includes prehistoric excavation and a trip to two museums. Credit varies with specific substantial topics and project breadth.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 103 or ANT 104 , or ANT 204 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 380 - African American Historical Archaeology In this course, we look at how the identities of African Americans have been constructed over time by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, geographers, and journalists. The course explores both regional and personal identities and the interrelationships between these two aspects of identity, and examines the effects of racism, ethnocentrism and sexism on identity construction. The course considers economy, historic environmental and geographical factors and how the construction of identity is affected by the experience of place. It concludes by examining contemporary race relations, the relationship to social scientists, and the public at large.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 395 - Topics in Anthropology This course provides in-depth analysis of relevant topics not available in regular course offerings. The topics vary depending upon current issues of significance and the special background of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 410 - Japan: Archaeology, Environmental History and Multicultural Perspectives This course will focus on understanding select aspects of ethnicity and the cultural character of Japan. A multi-disciplinary approach will examine archaeology, cultural anthropology, environmental history and modern and postmodern historical research and writings. The archaeological investigations will focus on ethnicity and long-term adaptations of the Japanese and Ainu people. The cultural anthropology component will examine Japanese cultural identity and rice agriculture. Further, it will examine social inequity within Japan. A case study focused on wolves revealed a complex environmental history and offers a perspective on human-animal relations in a deteriorating global biosystem. A multicultural perspective on the recent past examines the changing dimensions of national identity from an internal and external perspective.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 495 - Topics in Anthropology This course is designed to undertake detailed, in-depth analysis of important topics and issues in such subfields of anthropology as sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology. Topics vary from semester to semester. Research papers are required.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 508 - Environmental Archaeology Students will be introduced to the analytical techniques that are commonly used in the archaeological study of past environments and environmental change. Topics to be covered include archaeological soils, preservation conditions, the reconstruction of past climates and landforms, and the analysis of plant and animal communities from archaeological evidence. In semesters when this course carries more than three credits, requirements will include a substantial research project.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 103 or GYA 300 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 515 - Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and Practice This course offers students an overview of the methods of ethnographic observation and analysis, and of the ethical considerations of conducting such research. Students will be required to carry out ethnographic fieldwork, employing appropriate methods of data collection and analysis. Credit will vary depending on the scope of the fieldwork project, as determined by the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
ANT 560 - Public Archaeology This course introduces students to the interpretation of archaeological information for the public benefit. Topics to be covered include museum exhibits, collection management, federal and state legislation, ethics, site conservation database management, and GIS. Students will work in teams to produce a finished product for presentation during Archaeology Awareness Week. The course includes prehistoric excavation and a trip to two museums. Credit varies with specific substantial topics and project breadth.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 103 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Anthropology
GEO 101 - Human Geography This course examines social, economic, and political processes that shape the contemporary global landscape, with particular emphasis on the relationships between developed and developing regions of the world. Cartography, population trends, agricultural systems, migration, urbanization, and industrialization are among the topics covered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 102 - Physical Geography This course examines the physical processes of the environment as they relate to human endeavors. Climate, soil, vegetation, land form, water, and mineral resources are among the topics covered. Laboratory exercises acquaint the student with the materials and methods of physical geography. Climate data, topographic maps and field observations are employed to solve practical problems of human interaction with the environment.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 103 - Human-Environmental Geography Using geographic perspectives, this course focuses on the changing nature of the earth’s environment and the human role in these changes. Both direct and indirect human impacts on the biosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere are considered, including tropical deforestation and the loss of biodiversity, the human role in global climate change, and the impact of human actions on world fisheries. Local and regional examples will be incorporated.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 104 - World-Regional Geography This course will familiarize students with the diversity of people and places in the world by examining the physical, political, and cultural geography of different regions of the world. Emphasis will be given to development of regions within a global framework. This course will add to the general education of students by developing their geographic skills and by enhancing their geographic awareness and knowledge of the world through various aspects of global diversity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 105 - Society, Environment, and Change This course examines the complex and changing relationship between communities, cultures, and the environment over time and across multiple geographic scales. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the course considers the drivers behind societal and environmental change from early hunter-gatherer and farming communities to more complex contemporary landscapes across the world. The course concludes with a focus on identifying options to build sustainable, resilient, and adaptive social-ecological systems.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 107 - Maps and Math Maps are accurate drawings of the world. They are scale models produced by locating, measuring, and surveying landscapes. A map is a picture made of numbers. In this course students will learn how maps are made, and how math is embedded into every aspect of the cartographic process.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 108 - Introduction to ArcGIS An introduction to the ArcGIS software, stressing basic operation of this popular GIS package. Topics covered include system navigation, data display, data download, and printing public domain and user-created geographical data sets.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 120 - Geography of Maine This course will examine Maine as a geographic region. Physical and cultural attributes of the state will be analyzed. Political, economic and demographic factors will be emphasized in viewing the assets and problems of the Maine environment and in planning Maine’s future.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 170 - Global History: Mapping the World Across Cultures World history, from the classical through the modern eras, embracing the cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, examined through the maps that different cultures have made of their worlds. Students analyze maps from the collections of USM’s Osher Map Library to reveal how world maps have variously embodied cultural preconceptions, religious convictions, scientific findings, and political concerns. Special attention to the processes of early modern and modern imperialism and globalization.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 203 - Urban & Regional Development Students will survey contemporary patterns of urban and regional development through comparative analysis. Students will examine links between urbanization, employment, and social welfare in different political and economic contexts as the course moves from the global scale to the local. Students will be introduced to a series of research skills including the use of computer databases and spreadsheet programs, many of which will be of use in other courses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 204 - Coastal and Marine Geography Coastal borders and broader marine regions are the vanguard for issues of global change, development pressures, competing uses, and conflicting claims. The course aims to explore, integrate, and synthesize information about physical, biological, socio-political, and economic aspects of coastal and marine environments to understand impacts of natural change and human activities over multiples scales and time periods.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 209 - Introduction to Land Use Planning This course offers an overview of human/land relationships as they influence contemporary patterns of settlement and use of the land. It will discuss the logic of a planning process as a method of decision making; the formulation of goals and evaluation of alternative courses of action; standards and requirements for specific planning objectives (such as land use, energy, recreation, transportation); and the place of the planning function in government and the role of citizens and private groups. Introduction to basic planning tools and techniques including PERT, aerial photography, and methods of land inventory and classification will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 210 - Planning Maine Communities: Current Issues & Directions This course will examine the issues facing Maine communities such as providing affordable housing, maintaining and improving the community’s physical facilities such as streets, sewers, playgrounds, etc., disposing of solid and hazardous wastes, stimulating jobs and economic development, providing adequate transportation facilities, and preserving Maine’s environment and lifestyle in the face of growth. It will also address how these issues can be addressed through the use of the planning process and sound planning techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 255 - Making a Living: Workers in a Global Economy Our daily experiences shape and are shaped by changing economic landscapes through our patterns of work, consumption, and leisure. The course addresses the prospects and challenges for making a living in a global economy. We will examine a variety of perspectives on work, both paid and unpaid. We will pay particular attention to the connection of workers between and across places. The course discusses both new and old geographical divisions of labor and the restructuring of work and workplaces at the international, regional, local and household scales.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 270 - Mapping Environments and People: Data Visualization and Analysis The history and practice of analytical mapping - of environmental and social phenomena - introduces students to basic concepts in quantitative reasoning and in the visual display of quantitative information. Students will study early analytic maps from the collections of USM’s Osher Map Library (from magnetism to ethnography to economics) to determine how the data were collected and analyzed; students will map data to implement the principles discussed in class.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 295 - Topics in Geography This course provides in-depth analysis of relevant topics not available in regular course offerings. The topics vary depending upon current issues of significance and the special background of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 302 - Gender, Work, and Space Students will examine the ways in which the workforce is divided by gender, race, class, and ethnicity and how location and space shape and sustain such divisions. Competing explanations for why women and minorities hold jobs that differ distinctly from jobs held by other workers will be examined. Students will learn how a geographic understanding of gender, race, ethnicity, and class can help explain more fully the current position of women in the economy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 303 - Economic Geography This course examines the intersection between economies and geography. Emphasis is placed on the social, cultural, and political contexts within which economies develop and are regulated and restructured. Students are introduced to the skills which allow them to interpret and understand the present economic landscapes and to evaluate the factors and trends that anticipate the future.
Prerequisite(s): One of the following: ANT 101 , GEO 101 , GEO 203 , GEO 255 , ECO 101 , ECO 102 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 304 - Arctic and North Atlantic Regions The Arctic and the adjacent North Atlantic region have received much recent attention due to climate change and the global economy. Further, changes and events are linking these distant regions more closely with Maine. The course will address the many facets of these regions and their changes and highlight and explore the evolving connections with Maine.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 204 or GEO 204 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 305 - Remote Sensing Theory and techniques of image processing and analysis for remotely sensed digital data acquired from airplane and satellite platforms. Topics include image enhancement and classifications, spectral analysis, and landscape change detection techniques. Practical applications of natural and built landscapes are considered using remotely sensed datasets and techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 308 - GIS Applications I Students are introduced to vector-based geographical information systems (GIS). Topics include overviews of geospatial technologies, spatial analysis, GIS data, system operation, the interpretation of results, and professional practices. The course comprises a weekly lecture and laboratory. Students are evaluated with tests, laboratory assignments, and on the basis of a substantial project.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 320 - Conservation of Natural Resources This course examines the geographical approaches to natural resource use and management. It will offer the study of the geographic distribution and physical attributes of natural resources, their role in economic development, and the socio-political factors governing decision making about their use. Management strategies for forests, soils, wetlands, and energy resources are assessed.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 101 , GEO 102 , or GEO 103 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 340 - Digital Mapping Students are exposed to the latest digital survey gear and integrated techniques with applications in geoscience, geography, and environmental science. Instrumentation includes both static and real-time kinematic GPS (global positioning system) and auto-lock servo-driven electronic total station. Detailed precision survey data are combined with geo-referenced maps and imagery in GIS software.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory course in GEY, GEO, or ESP, and additional 200-level course in any of the above areas. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 370 - Maps, Territory, Power Modern mapping developed in concert with modern states and empires, as administrators have sought to understand and control provinces and regions. This course explores the roles of maps in creating, consolidating, and communicating knowledge of, and control over, territory. The course focuses on the West, including the U.S., and especially on the role of the state in the development of modern cartography, GIS, and modern GIS databases. Comparative studies will be made of “state” mapping practices in the classical (Hellenistic and Roman) era, medieval Europe, and traditional Asia (SW Asia, India, China, Korea, and Japan). Also considered is the role of mapping in resistance to exertions of state power. This course uses the rare and reference collections of USM’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education [OML] - together with online resources - to explore the interrelations of maps, territory, and power.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 395 - Topics in Geography This course provides in-depth analysis of relevant topics not available in regular course offerings. The topics vary depending upon current issues of significance and the special background of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 408 - GIS Applications II Students explore the use of geographical information systems (GIS) in research and professional environments. Building upon knowledge and skills developed in GEO 308 , students design and execute a substantial project. Project design focuses on generating hypotheses, planning time lines and individual work assignments, and identifying technical and data resources. Projected execution is undertaken using a variety of raster, vector, and graphical user interface (GUI) software, as appropriate.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 308 /GEO 508/GEO 608, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 438 - Independent Study in GIS Students will work closely with a faculty member to develop and complete a course of study in a specialized aspect of GIS or remote sensing.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 308 /GEO 508/GEO 608 or permission of instructor, and also program approval. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 445 - Drone Mapping This course will introduce students to the use of sUAS (small unmanned aircraft systems), known as remote-controlled quadcopter drones, as the latest digital mapping tool available today. Drone-based overlapping photo sets and the latest photogrammetric software are used to generate custom high resolution orthomosaic maps and 3D models. Tools and techniques will be combined in a precision drone mapping project targeting a local area field site.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 340 /GEO 540/GEO 640 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 448 - GIS Internship Students work with a public agency, private firm, municipality, nonprofit organization, or research unit, using geospatial technology to complete a clearly defined project under the direct supervision of an on-site professional. A USM faculty advisor who is directly involved with USM GIS oversees the internship. At the course’s conclusion, students submit a portfolio including a log, samples of the work completed, and an evaluation from the on-site supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 308 /GEO 508/GEO 608, or permission of instructor, and also program approval. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 455 - Gender, Race, and Class in the City This course will focus on the relationships among gender, race, and class and urban spaces in twentieth century U.S. cities. The course will explore how urban spaces reflect and perpetuate different relations of power, inequality, and identity. First, we explore how different frameworks for urban analysis help to explain the social and spatial organization of U.S. cities. We will develop a framework for urban analysis that integrates race, class, and gender, and draws upon the geographic concepts of place and scale. Second, we will apply our integrated framework to contemporary metropolitan processes and problems.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 302 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 458 - Research Applications in GIS This course is a workshop in spatial analysis in which students undertake an original research project. The objective of the course is to generate a product which meets professional standards for publication or presentation at a professional meeting, allowing students to build resumes and gain exposure to a professional audience. A variety of software will be used in the course, as projects demand. The starting point will be the opensource geospatial analysis software GeoDa. This tool provides state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis, spatial econometrics, and geo-visualization. Topics covered will include: exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial autocorrelation statistics for aggregate data, basic spatial regression analysis for point and polygon data, univariate and multivariate local cluster maps, principal components analysis, k-means, hierarchical clustering, and spatial econometrics.
Prerequisite(s): GEO 308 /GEO 508/GEO 608 or permission of instructor, and GEO 408 /GEO 518/GEO 618 (prior or concurrent registration). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 481 - Megacities and Global Planning Issues This course provides an overview of the interactive factors that shape the socio-economic and physical structures of megacities around the world. Students will examine the processes that influence urbanization and gain an understanding of the contemporary state of the world’s cities, with a particular focus on megacities. Students will be exposed to issues confronted by citizens, policy makers, and planners in those megacities. The course is organized geographically and will focus on selected megacities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, in addition to Europe, and the United States.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEO 495 - Topics in Geography This course provides in-depth analysis of relevant topics from the perspective of an economic, political, cultural, regional or other focused approach to geographic study. The topics vary depending upon current issues of significance and the special background of the instructor. Research papers are required.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography
GEY 100 - Volcanoes, Earthquakes & Moving Plates This course is an introduction to minerals, rocks, and the processes that have continually shaped the earth over hundreds of millions of years of geologic history. The course also explores how the movements of crustal plates generates earthquakes, volcanoes, continental rifting, sea floor spreading, subduction, and continental-scale mountain ranges. For core science course credit, registration in GEY 101 is required; concurrent registration is recommended.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geology
GEY 101 - Lab Experiences in Geology This course has weekly lab sessions will focus on the basic skills of mineral identification, rock classification, and interpretation of topographic and geologic maps. Field trips to local geologic sites of interest will help illustrate rock types and geologic processes that shape our world. Traditional map, compass, and modern GPS techniques will be utilized. For core science course credit, registration in GEY 100 is required; concurrent registration is recommended.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geology
GYA 215 - Culture and Place This course provides an introduction to the ways in which basic principles of ethnography, ethnohistory, and material culture studies can be used to understand the cultural landscape. Normally offered during either the Winter Session or the Summer Session, the course will usually be conducted in a setting outside Maine. The emphasis will be on collaborative research skills, understanding of other cultures, and appreciation of the interrelationship of anthropology and geography.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography/Anthropology
GYA 300 - Archaeology Field School The summer field school is designed to combine training in research methods of archaeology and geography. Students will receive intensive training in methods of site survey excavation and materials analysis. Several weeks will be spent at selected sites, mapping features and landscape features, and investigating potential food resources in site areas. This will be followed by some laboratory analysis of recovered materials.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning May be repeated twice with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography/Anthropology
GYA 350 - Internship in Applied Geography-Anthropology Internships offer the student practical experience in working with public agencies, private firms, and municipalities engaged in applied geographical-anthropological activities including, but not limited to, planning, transportation, delivery of human services, and natural resources. A written contract will be drawn up by advisor and student for each internship, specifying the number of credits sought and work required for these credits. As a general rule, internships will require at least eight hours of actual work per week. Interns will be expected to meet at least once every two weeks with instructor to discuss experiences and/or problems. In addition, a major paper will be required from each student intern discussing an aspect of the internship or the work performed during the internship. Offered pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing in Geography- Anthropology and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography/Anthropology
GYA 400 - Independent Study in Anthropology or Geography The Department faculty offers independent study in a topic in anthropology or geography for upper-level students (junior and senior status). Students must have had at least one course from the faculty member supervising the independent study; the proposal is subject to departmental approval.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Geography/Anthropology
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History
HTY 101 - Origins of Mediterranean Civilizations to 750 CE This course explores the necessary components required for creating human civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea from the Paleolithic to 750 CE. Topics considered include constructed realities, religion, gender systems, human violence, political models, and more.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: History
HTY 102 - World History 750 CE to Present This is an introductory survey of global history from 750 CE to the present. The course examines the political, economic, and cultural exchanges among peoples, states, civilizations, and empires over time. Our sources will include written records such as legal documents, novels, letters, and material culture such as maps, paintings, prints, and advertisements. We will trace how processes of globalization shifted over time from early Silk Road trade networks to the present day.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: History
HTY 131 - United States History to 1877 A basic survey and introduction to the field of United States History, covering the political, social, and economic development of the United States through Reconstruction.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 132 - United States History Since 1877 A thematic treatment of the United States and its peoples from 1877 to the present. Chronological coverage of the nation’s political, social, economic, intellectual, institutional, and diplomatic development provides the context for addressing the personalities and events of the country and its relations with the larger world.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 141 - African American History to 1865 Topics covered in this survey course include the persistence of African culture in the Americas, the Atlantic slave trade, an in-depth analysis of slavery as it impacted women and children, and the early African American voice as found in primary sources. The course will use various forms of media in instruction and research.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 142 - African American History from 1865 A continuation of HTY 141 . This course will cover such topics as Black leadership, lynching, the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans abroad, civil rights, and popular culture. The course will use various forms of media in instruction and research.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 143 - Native American History, 1450-2000 This course examines the historical experiences of North America’s indigenous peoples with respect to their cultures. It focuses upon Native Americans as active agents in producing their history both before and after European contact, not just victims of white oppression and/or abstract social forces. Topics include Native cultural diversity on the eve of European contact; the dynamics of early Indian-European encounters; the political, spiritual, and gendered dimensions of Native accommodation and resistance; the construction and reconstruction of Indian identities in the era of the American Revolution; forced Indian Removal; the nineteenth-century struggles for the Great Plains; and the systematic placement of Native children in boarding schools and foster care during the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be given to the Wabanaki and other Native peoples whose traditional homelands make up the land we now call Maine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 144 - Indigenous Peoples in the Atlantic World This course places indigenous (Native) cultures, experiences, and perspectives at the center of Atlantic World history, a field that explores interactions between the peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Europe as these regions came to constitute a single, integrated system joined by the Atlantic Ocean. Topics include the migration of people, cutures, commodities, and diseases; war and slavery, cross-cultural diplomacy, race gender, and religion. Students will learn how indigenous peoples changed the course of world history while protecting their autonomy and independence, even as their ways of life were challenged by colonialism.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 152 - The Islamic Near East This is a basic, introductory survey of the history of the eastern Mediterranean/Near Eastern region ca. 600 C.E. to the present. The course emphasizes the origin and development of Islamic religion and the establishment, spread, and evolution of Islamic institutions in Arabia, Egypt, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Palestine-Syria, and Anatolia (Turkey). Attention is given to the historical and continuing interaction between the Islamic people of the Near East and non-Islamic people both within and without the region.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 161 - Survey of Ancient and Medieval Africa HTY 161 is designed to introduce students to African history and its place in the world from prehistoric to early modern times. Students will gain an overview of some of the most significant developments in the African past, including early state-building, Silk Road trade, the growing influence of Islam and Christianity, and the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, as well as how these developments have shaped current debates over identity and economic development. We will interpret the evidence left behind by African societies including written records such as letters, legal documents, and poems, as well as material culture such as sculptures and artwork. Pre-colonial Africa will be examined as a continent long at the crossroads of global interactions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 162 - Modern Africa This survey begins in pre-colonial Africa and moves through the colonial period to decolonization and the present day. This course examines political, economic, social, and cultural developments in African history by region, including changing patterns of kinship, government, colonialism, and anti-colonial nationalism.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 171 - Traditional East Asia The history and culture of China and Japan from earliest times to about 1700, with emphasis on the composition of the “traditional” societies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: History
HTY 172 - Modern East Asia China and Japan since about 1700, emphasizing contrasting moves toward modernization in two traditional societies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: History
HTY 200 - Reference, Research, and Report Writing An introduction to research and writing, designed to prepare undergraduates for the requirements of upper-level courses in history and the social sciences with emphasis on practical methods of utilizing a library, locating materials, taking and organizing notes, and writing and rewriting research papers and reports. History majors are strongly encouraged to take this course in the sophomore year, but no later than the first semester of the junior year. Preference to history majors.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: History
HTY 300 - History Internship The course introduces students to practices in public history. They apply those skills to a supervised internship in organizations dedicated to public history and/or preservation of historic materials. Students collaborate with staff to work on a project chosen in consultation with their supervisor. Students complete 120 hours at their internship site.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Every Spring semester Course Type: History
HTY 303 - History of the Ancient Near East and Greece This course surveys the early history of the eastern Mediterranean region from ca. 4000 to ca. 300 B.C.E. The evolutions of Near Eastern civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel/Palestine, and Anatolia are examined and related to the development of Greek civilization in the Aegean area. Special attention is given throughout to social and religious issues, e.g., the early history of Judaism.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 304 - History of Rome This course surveys the political, social, and religious history of the Roman state from the eighth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E. Emphasis is given to the period of the Roman Republic (509-31 B.C.E.) and to the rise of Christianity within the Roman Empire.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 305 - The Historical Jesus This course is a “workshop” wherein the participants analyze and evaluate a variety of documents (both ancient and modern) which purport to describe the life and career of Jesus of Nazareth. The goal is to develop historiographical skills (including writing) as well as to illuminate the subject’s life.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 308 - Polytheists, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire This course, an exploration of the nature and function of religion in human society, uses the Roman Empire as a sample environment. The course will examine these independent religious communities as well as their interactions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 311 - Medieval Civilization Europe from late antiquity through the Carolingian Empire, Islamic Empire, Byzantine Empire, Medieval Church and State, and the coming of the Renaissance and Reformation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 324 - World Wars I and II: European War and Diplomacy A study of the causes, course, and consequences of the First and Second World Wars. The questions of inevitability and responsibility, the nature of total war, the workings of alliances, the effect of the military upon politics, the wisdom of the peace settlements, and the impact of war upon European society are among the subjects to be considered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 326 - History of the British Empire Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea? This course explores Britain as it functioned within its empire, a vast web of connections which enabled Britain to shape the empire and also allowed the empire to shape Britain in return. The course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the empire starting with Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and moving through the American colonies, Scramble for Africa, the World Wars, and decolonization.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 330 - Germany: Bismarck To Hitler A study of the formation of the German Empire, the rise of a powerful industrial state, Weltpolitik and defeat in World War I, the Weimar Republic, Nazism and the Third Reich, Germany in World War II, and the partition of Germany in 1945. The course analyzes nationalism and examines cultural, social, and economic factors which help clarify Germany’s role in the modern world.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 334 - The Holocaust: Policy, Practice, Response An examination of the roots of anti-Semitism in European history, the development of the policy of the extermination of the Jews and others in Nazi Germany, and the implementation of the policy throughout Europe during the Second World War. The varied aspects of the response of individuals and governments to the experience of the Holocaust are also considered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 335 - Genocide in Our Time This course will analyze the nature of evil/genocide by examining examples of governmentally or ideologically initiated murder. It will seek to understand the historical background and reality of victim, bystander, and victimizer. It will use a number of approaches, namely psychological, philosophical, religious, sociological, and political to help our understanding.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 339 - Global Women’s History A survey of women’s lives in historical context, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Emphasis is placed on various themes over time and across cultures, including those of work, family, political involvement, aspects of gender and class differences, and intellectual and cultural contributions. The field of women’s history and its methodology are also considered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 345 - African Americans and American Justice This course is an exploration and analysis of selected U.S. Supreme Court rulings on cases related to African American citizenship, civil rights and equal treatment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course also explores the changing boundaries and content of state and national citizenship, from the early national period (during the slavery era) to the mid-twentieth-century.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 346 - The Civil Rights Movement This course examines the creation of legalized discrimination in the United States and the process used by selected individuals and organizations to dismantle segregation. By illuminating the fight for social justice, economic opportunities, and educational advances, the course analyzes how the dynamics of the Civil Rights Movement changed the face of America.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 347 - Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration This course examines the cultural, political and institutional dynamics that produced and sustain mass incarceration in the United States. The course takes a short-range historical approach to studying linkages between the intersection of mass incarceration, racism, sexism, and poverty, and how these forces impact individuals, families, and communities of color.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 350 - Colonial and Revolutionary America This course is an intensive study of American history exploring the social, cultural, and political developments that shaped the coming of the American Revolution. It examines the growing maturation of colonial society and the resulting breakdown of Anglo-American relations. It focuses on the ideological underpinnings of the Revolution, the conflict itself, and the struggle to ratify the Constitution. Thorough coverage is given to Indigenous-European relations and Native American perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 353 - Gender in Native North America, 1450-1850 This course uses gender as a lens to investigate the history of North American’s Native peoples from the pre-Columbian era through the mid-nineteenth century. It will explore how Native and Euro-American notions of gender, shaped through societal behaviors, community and familial expectations, and political rules, influenced first encounters and the subsequent development of cross-cultural interactions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 354 - From Jefferson to Jackson This course explores the complex dynamics that shaped American society and culture from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses the conflicting sociopolitical, ideological, and economic views of Hamilton and Jefferson to investigate the development of party politics, the spread of slavery, religious revivals, the market revolution, westward expansion, and Indian removal. Thorough coverage is given to U.S.-Native American relations and President Jackson’s Indian policies. The semester concludes by investigating the growing sectionalism between North and South that will eventually culminate in the Civil War.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 356 - Civil War and Reconstruction An examination of the period 1850-1877, dealing with the background and causation of the war; Lincoln and the secession crisis; the military, political, diplomatic, and economic aspects of the Civil War; and the challenges and ultimate failure of reconstruction after 1865.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 357 - The Gilded Age in America, 1869-1898 The United States in the age of enterprise with emphasis on the development of political and economic radicalism, the commercialization of agriculture, the rise of the American city, new directions in social thought, concentration of industrial wealth and financial power, and American foreign policy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 358 - Early Twentieth-Century United States, 1898-1938 The United States from 1898 to 1938. Analysis and interpretation of cultural, economic, and political developments of the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, and the Depression and New Deal.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 360 - History of Maine A survey of Maine’s social, economic, cultural and political life from pre-history to the present.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 364 - History of Women in the United States A chronological survey of the evolving role of women in the development of the United States from the colonial period to the present.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 366 - History of Religion in America A history of religion in American society from the colonial era to the present, examining theology, organization, leaders, critics, and the religious contribution to the American experience.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 374 - Photographing American History This course focuses on how the invention of photography in 1839 forever altered the ways humans understood and made sense of both their past(s) and their present(s). Students analyze major historical events and moments in American history as captured through a camera, learn to read photographs as texts, and explore how the photograph has shaped American history and culture.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 375 - History of American Popular Culture This course presents selected examples of American popular arts and entertainments from 1830 to the present and places them in their historical and critical contexts. The course emphasizes that the production and transmission of culture is a reaction to social, political, and economic forces and events.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 377 - Chinese Thought: Confucianism, Daoism, and Zen Buddhism Prior to the modern era, the Chinese interpreted their world through traditional idea systems, the most prominent of which were Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. This course will explore these traditions: their assumptions and values, their varieties and internal tensions, and their relationships to the larger social system.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 380 - The 1960s This course examines social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the United States in the period from 1960 to 1970. It also looks at events worldwide, and the contested meaning of “The Sixties.”
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 388 - Revolution of Modern China A course on the political history of modern China from the 1840s to the present. Focusing on the political, social, and cultural revolutions, this course will examine their causes, courses, and consequences, particularly the ways in which these revolutions shaped the course of the political development of modern China.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 390 - Traditional Japan: Court and Warriors This course examines Japanese history before 1800. The primary focus will be on major political and social trends that led to the transformation of state and society. Attention will also be given to religious beliefs, rituals, art, and literature.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 391 - Japan’s Rise and Fall as a World Power, 1868-1945 This course examines Japan’s reaction to the expansion of Western powers in East Asia in the 19th century and discusses how Japan’s remarkable modernization gave rise to imperialist ambitions. It explores the interplay of domestic, regional and international events and trends that led to empire and war.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 394 - Selected Topics in History An analysis of a selected historical problem not already covered by regular course offerings in history will be offered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 398 - Independent Study in History An independent research course offered only in fall or spring semester, primarily for juniors and seniors. The course material should not be part of regular department offerings. To enroll for the course, the student, in the prior semester, must present a proposal to an appropriate professor who will agree to mentor and evaluate the project. The normal outcome is a research paper. Application forms are available in history offices on both campuses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: History
HTY 400 - Senior Seminar The capstone to the major and required for the degree, this seminar explores the nature and the craft of history. The topic will vary but will always be a particular theme or set of issues to which the student will be expected, through discussion and writing, to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in previous history courses.
Prerequisite(s): HTY 200 and senior status, preference to history majors. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: History
RCE 100 - Introduction to Race & Ethnic Studies To understand existing and emergent forms of racism and trajectories of racial formation, Race & Ethnic Studies will interrogate when and how the concept of race was created in the US, and the connections of race with other forms of difference that shapes our experiences, identity and sense of self.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Race and Ethnic Studies
RCE 150 - Introduction to Race This course is designed to provide an introductory overview on what race is in the United States. We will analyze documents and artifacts from the Talbot Collection and the African American Collection to examine how race functions at individual and group-level entities, and organizing principles in social institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Race and Ethnic Studies
RCE 200 - Introduction to Critical Race Theory This course will consider one of the newest intellectual currents the American Legal Theory- Critical Race Theory. We will probe their claims of race and racial inequality in the law, and the marginalization of racial minorities, and how we might dismantle race and other hierarchies with social justice and praxis.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Race and Ethnic Studies
RCE 330 - Perspectives on Father Involvement What does it mean to be an involved father? Historically, fathers have been far away from the family but today we frown on that behavior. We will present work by sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists showing differences in father involvement by race/ethnicity, classes, occupation, countries changing across the life course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Race and Ethnic Studies
Honors
HON 100 - Honors College Writing This course combines the basic mechanics of a college writing course with the development of skills fundamental to all other work in Honors. The course is recommended for all entering Honors students.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 102 - Honors Cultural Interpretation Cultural Interpretation courses engage students in the close analysis and interpretation of cultural representations to learn how people make sense of themselves and their world. Students critically evaluate and develop arguments about cultural representations or the contexts that produce them or give them meaning.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 103 - Honors Socio-Cultural Analysis Socio-cultural Analysis courses engage students in the examination of sociocultural systems and phenomena over time and across cultures. Students learn to use conceptual frameworks that shed light on human behavior in social contexts. This includes examination of influences on and effects of behavior associated with public and private roles students may experience.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 105 - Interdisciplinary Introduction to Logic & Mathematics This course is an introduction to logic and mathematics. It is an unusual introduction, since it transforms history, philosophy, social thought, literature, and the arts into paths for understanding logical and mathematical concepts and systems. Therein lies the course’s interdisciplinarity. These concepts and systems will be deployed to solve basic problems in everyday life and in academic research, from formally representing arguments found in scholarly texts to determining the odds of winning a hand in a game of chance to assessing scientific hypotheses. Special emphasis will be placed on developing the skill of detecting logical and statistical fallacies. Finally, the scope and limits of logical and mathematical systems will be studied.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the University’s mathematics proficiency requirement. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 107 - Honors Creative Expression Creative Expression courses engage students in learning the value of the creative process, using it for developing talents and interests in the arts, and learning a set of skills that will enable them to engage in creative thinking in non-arts aspects of their lives.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 113 - Honors Principles of Chemistry I A presentation of fundamental principles of chemical science. These principles will be presented in quantitative terms and illustrated by examples of their applications in laboratories and in ordinary non-laboratory experience. This course provides the basis for further study of chemistry.
Prerequisite(s): HON 115 (or concurrent), and MAT 108 (or concurrent) or MAT 140 (or concurrent) or MAT 152 (or concurrent) or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 115 - Introduction to Honors Each instructor uses a theme to engage students in exploration of significant questions about human culture and the natural world. The course facilitates student transition to college by engaging students in active and collaborative learning that enhances their inclination and ability to view complex issues from multiple perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): College Writing, first year student, Honors Minor or permission. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 195 - Honors in Iceland Honors short-term travel courses are interdisciplinary and engaged learning opportunities that help students become global learners who can situate international social, political, economic and cultural issues in appropriate contexts. Courses help students develop functional learning, knowledge of cultural relativism, cultural sensitivity, interpersonal communication, etc. Students strengthen their knowledge and skills in relation to international issues of relevance to the course topic and focus. Each iteration of the course privileges experiential and applied learning opportunities. These courses are interdisciplinary, and are team taught by USM Honors faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor and completion of at least 2 Honors courses. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 200 - Honors Science Exploration To think like a scientist, students must know how science knowledge is created and interpreted. In a Science Exploration course, content serves as a vehicle to illustrate how experiment, observation, and critical evaluation drive scientific understanding and progress. Science literacy and quantitative reasoning skills will be developed as tools to interpret and apply to natural processes. The course gives the student an appreciation of the applications and limitations of a science that investigates natural processes. It combines concepts and methods of inquiry from multiple disciplines such as biology, chemistry, psychology, anthropology, ecology, history, or public policy. These explorations are synthesized by students in an independent project. To satisfy the Science Exploration requirement, the student must successfully complete the lecture and corresponding lab.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 201 - Honors Science Exploration (Lab) To think like a scientist, students must know how science knowledge is created and interpreted. In a Science Exploration course, content serves as a vehicle to illustrate how experiment, observation, and critical evaluation drive scientific understanding and progress. Science literacy and quantitative reasoning skills will be developed as tools to interpret and apply to natural processes. The course gives the student an appreciation of the applications and limitations of a science that investigates natural processes. It combines concepts and methods of inquiry from multiple disciplines such as biology, chemistry, psychology, anthropology, ecology, history, or public policy. These explorations are synthesized by students in an independent project. To satisfy the Science Exploration requirement, the student must successfully complete the lecture and corresponding lab.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 202 - Honors Cultural Interpretation Cultural Interpretation courses engage students in the close analysis and interpretation of cultural representations to learn how people make sense of themselves and their world. Students critically evaluate and develop arguments about cultural representations or the contexts that produce them or give them meaning.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 203 - Honors Socio-Cultural Analysis Socio-cultural Analysis courses engage students in the examination of sociocultural systems and phenomena over time and across cultures. Students learn to use conceptual frameworks that shed light on human behavior in social contexts. This includes examination of influences on and effects of behavior associated with public and private roles students may experience.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 207 - Honors Creative Expression Creative Expression courses engage students in learning the value of the creative process, using it for developing talents and interests in the arts, and learning a set of skills that will enable them to engage in creative thinking in non-arts aspects of their lives.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 215 - Academic Writing: Thinking and Writing in Honors Students will attain critical reading, writing, revision, and presentation skills and be introduced to the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge creation and production. Students will use a variety of research methods to craft independent projects. They will attain an understanding of different disciplinary conventions, audiences, and rhetorical modes. By the end of the semester, students will be able to conduct independent academic research, critically review literature, and understand the practices and conventions of research-based writing. In short, this course offers an extended exploration of how we learn and communicate what we need to know and share that learning in a variety of venues. Our hope is that students in this course will develop a supportive group of intellectual peers and a deeper understanding of how knowledge is created and disseminated, both inside and outside of the academy.
Prerequisite(s): Honors Minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 2 Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 299 - Honors Topics Honors program topics courses include departmental courses that embody the Honors experience. Honors students typically share the course with students majoring in course-related disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): Vary by course topic, but include Honors Minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Core designations vary by topic May be repeated for credit when topics vary Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 310 - Honors Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship courses focus on a theme that engages students in critical reflection on their responsibilities for informed decision-making and action in their public and private roles. They require students to frame, analyze, and evaluate ethical issues, as well as to articulate and evaluate their own viewpoints and actions in relation to the ethical frameworks introduced.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 311 - Honors Community-Based Learning Interdisciplinary seminars with a significant service-learning component. With the support of the faculty of record and the Office of Service Learning and Volunteering, these courses provide deep, meaningful opportunities for community-based learning. Students from across the university are welcome to enroll in these courses, regardless of major.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 315 - Advanced Writing in Honors In this writing intensive course, students continue to explore why and how we write. Students will have several opportunities to practice both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary writing. They will expand their thinking about the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge creation and dissemination. Writing projects will provide opportunities to synthesize their learnings in a series of writing assignments and projects from a variety of rhetorical situations. This course offers both a learning and a writing community: we will develop cohorts of intellectual peers to support our writing.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent registration in HON 215 and Honors Minor; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 321 - Honors Internship Students receive permission from the honors director, locate an internship placement with support from Career Development, and develop a learning contract.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 330 - Mental Health Nursing This course examines the theory and practice of psychiatric/mental health nursing. Assessment of clients and intervention strategies are explored. Interdisciplinary aspects of mental health care delivery and current issues in mental health nursing are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 302 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 323 , NUR 325 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 331 - Honors Directed Research This optional course allows an Honors student with interests in a particular subject area to research that area under the direction of a faculty supervisor. The research may be carried out in any subject area.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor and permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 335 - Working with Writers I This seminar provides an introduction to writing center pedagogy and composition theory and practice. It is designed to provide content and technical training for Writing Assistants (tutors) and students who are interested in working with writers. Class meetings also provide a venue for group discussion of tutoring experiences.
Prerequisite(s): HON 100 or ENG 100 , permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated three times for credit Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 338 - Working with Writers II This one-credit practicum provides an intermediate level examination of writing center theory and practice. It is designed to provide content and technical training for experienced Writing Center tutors. Class meetings also provide a venue for group discussion of tutoring experiences. Upon completion of the course, students are eligible for Level 3 College Reading and Language Association (CRLA) certification. Meets 1 hour a week.
Prerequisite(s): HON 335 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
May be repeated three times for credit Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 362 - Understanding Regulation: Applying Scissors to Red Tape Every industry and profession in the United States is caught in a vast net of regulations; federal, state, and local governments all have policies that influence and determine the infrastructure of organizations and how they function. From the Food & Drug Administration through Equal Opportunity laws, local ordinances, and professional organization standards and requirements, this course will examine how and why regulations arise; how to research and decipher their essential elements; how to determine what regulations apply to product, idea, or profession (PIP) and how to think about and manage risks associated with regulations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 363 - Human Factors in Regulatory Compliance and Social Policy Introduces classic and contemporary theory within psychology, sociology, anthropology, and legal studies to understand why regulations exist and how human beings create, respond to, and navigate them. Students learn about core constructs that impact both individual and group-level (e.g., corporate) decision-making and policy making, and to use these analytical frameworks to understand the role of poverty, affluence, education, and governmental structure on how regulatory control is created and sustained within social systems.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 387 - Design Thinking This course introduces students to the process of design thinking. Students will use design tools and activities to stimulate thinking and analysis of business challenges. Through experiential activities, creative thought and problem solving, experimentation and iteration, prototyping, storytelling, scenario and situational analysis, and networking, students learn to use the power of design thinking to solve “wicked” challenges. These “wicked” challenges are the big, difficult problems that businesses and the world face that require creative and innovative solutions, including issues associated with climate change, gender and race discrimination in employment, and an aging workforce. Students will apply what they learn to create, develop, and assess an innovative, entrepreneurial idea.
Prerequisite(s): Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 410 - Honors Thesis Writing Workshop Honors students have the option to complete a multiple-semester Honor thesis project. In the first-semester workshop, each student develops research skills, shapes a preliminary idea into a formal thesis proposal, and organizes a faculty committee to advise the student in HON 411 /HON 412 .
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, and Honors minor; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 May be repeated twice for credit Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 411 - Honors Thesis I In the second semester, students independently execute the plan developed in HON 410 , under the guidance of the thesis committee. The emphasis is on in depth reading, field work as applicable, and completion of the introductory thesis chapter and literature review. Note: it is possible to complete the thesis in HON 411, without proceeding to HON 412 .
Prerequisite(s): Grade of B- or higher in HON 410 , and Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 412 - Honors Thesis II In the third and final semester, still working with their thesis committee, students write their remaining chapters; submit a completed draft; substantially revise that work based on feedback; and present their work in an oral, public defense.
Prerequisite(s): HON 411 and Honors minor or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
HON 415 - Honors Capstone This course provides students with extended opportunities to reflect on their learning at USM: in their Honors courses, in their major, and in other Core Curriculum courses. In addition, students will have opportunities to consider how they will use their undergraduate education as participants in future academic, professional, and civic communities. In partnership with the Career & Employment Hub, students will attend events (job fair, etc.) and also participate in mock interviews, in preparation for the job market and graduate school applications. The coursework culminates in public presentations of learning and growth for an audience composed of friends and family in the Honors community.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and Honors minor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Academic Honors Program
Leadership Studies
LOS 112 - Microsoft Excel This course uses a problem-solving approach to electronic spreadsheets. Students will learn advanced data analysis and formulas, and create graphs to interpret data. This course should be completed prior to taking a financial management, economics, or budgeting course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 114 - PowerPoint In this course, students will explore the software application PowerPoint as an electronic means of creating presentations for various audiences. Additionally, students will learn how to create electronic slides using written, graphic, and sound materials. The slides can then be formatted in several different ways: 35 mm slides, overhead transparencies, and handouts. This course will benefit students who are required to give presentations in academic courses as well as those considering careers in teaching, marketing, or public relations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 120 - Statistics for Informed Decision Making In this course, students are introduced to tools of quantitative analyses that may be used to address world questions: descriptive statistics, sampling and significance testing, correlation, and regression. Students in this course will have opportunities to use these tools in decision-making processes and increase their understanding of data misconceptions and misuses.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in any MAT 100+ course, or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 210 - Creative Critical Inquiry This writing instruction course introduces students to criteria for identifying and constructing well-reasoned arguments, fosters the discovery and use of students’ critical/analytical voice in their writing, and develops skills for incorporating, interpreting and integrating the views of others. It provides the opportunity to refine critical thinking abilities by analyzing everyday life experience, including how culture shapes our sense of reality and ourselves. The course highlights the importance of generating good questions and tolerating ambiguity when seeking to understand complex issues.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100 , ESL 100 , HON 100 , or RSP 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 270 - Introduction to Leadership This course explores effective leadership on campus and beyond and offers an overview of leadership models and leadership development tools, including self-development, strengths-based leadership, and group dynamics and roles. Complex organizations are introduced and discussed. Students are expected to implement leadership concepts and practice leadership skills through engagement in campus and community activities and service learning.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 299 - Writing in the Major This course provides instruction and practice in academic thinking and writing applicable to leadership and organizational studies. As those in leadership positions should strive to be excellent communicators, the goal of this course is to strengthen learners’ written communication skills and knowledge of academic writing, writing tools, and APA style, as well as critical thinking skills. LOS majors should take the course during their first semester of the program.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100 , ESL 100 , HON 100 , or RSP 100 with a grade of C- or better. Co-requisite(s): For LOS majors, LOS 299 is a co-requisite of LOS 300 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 300 - Organizational Theory This course provides an overview of organizational theories in a leadership context. Organizational issues, such as structure, leadership, power, and change are introduced and analyzed. This is an excellent course for students interested in how organizations work. Students in LOS majors must complete this required course with a grade of a B- or better as a condition of their degree.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100 , ESL 100 , HON 100 , or RSP 100 with a grade of C- or better. Co-requisite(s): For LOS majors, LOS 299 Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 301 - Group Dynamics In this course, students acquire an understanding of human behavior, communication, and interaction in groups and the skills needed to participate effectively in group activities. Through a focus on group process and development, this course provides a theoretical foundation for how groups function and discusses how these theories can be applied to a wide range of group settings. This course uses experiential and service learning to develop critical skills in understanding the shared leadership necessary to create effective group dynamics.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100, ESL 100, HON 100, or RSP 100 with a grade of C- or better is required for LOS majors and preferred for all other students. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 302 - Organizational Behavior Students in this course will examine human behavior in organizations: individual, group, and organizational processes that impact workplace behaviors and organizational life. The focus of this course is understanding factors that contribute to organizational effectiveness and the major challenges facing organizations today. Students will explore and discuss individual and organizational learning, individual values and motivation, interpersonal communication and work team dynamics, leadership and emotional intelligence, power and influence, and organizational culture and change. Additionally, students will engage in experiential and skill-building activities, and apply conceptual frameworks to their real-life work experiences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 304 - Organizational Budgeting and Finance This course contributes to future leaders’ capacity to meaningfully develop, monitor, and interpret budgets as they relate to organizations’ and individual financial wellbeing. Students are introduced to budgeting, budget analysis, cost-benefit analysis, decision making in organizations, and an overview of basic accounting principles. They learn to effectively communicate matters of budget and financing to their respective constituency and stakeholders. Assignments use Excel for analysis and presentation of fiscal and budget data. Students will learn to present budget information to knowledgeable but non-technical audiences using tables and graphs.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 310 - Science, Technology, and Society Students in this course will examine the history and effect of science and technology on social change. Additionally, students will examine the impact of science and technology on ethical and religious beliefs, social institutions such as education, family, and work, and on larger sociopolitical entities and relations. Students in this course will also explore the effects of science and technology on natural and human-made environments.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 312 - Human Resource Management This course focuses on the procedures and processes of management of human resources within organizations. Topics include recruitment, staff development, job analysis, personnel systems, and training.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 314 - Employee Relations This course provides an understanding of the trends in legal, social, and economic aspects of labor-management relations within the United States. Topics include a historical overview of labor law, grievance procedures, the negotiation process, equal opportunity, and personnel rules. Includes case studies and simulated bargaining and arbitration exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 316 - Diversity in Organizations Students in this course will develop an understanding of the benefits and challenges of diversity in organizations. The course takes a historical, socio-economic, and psychological approach to the challenges of diverse and marginalized populations in the U.S. Students learn how the workplace may affect diverse peoples and how others can learn to make the workplace more hospitable. A primary focus of this course is on examining beliefs, behaviors, or unconscious attitudes that perpetuate the oppression and subordination of diverse members of society in the workplace, while also looking at how increased diversity is adding to workplace productivity, creativity, and learning. Readings are drawn from the social sciences and humanities to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 317 - New Media and Social Networking: Identity and Expression Online Students in this course will explore how private and public entities are established online as well as how political and social movements are built, organized, and undermined by social networking and online cultures. Additionally, students will explore the impact of online communities on global communication, language, and thought. Students are also introduced to critical theory on new media and will explore technological and cultural associations with this nascent but pervasive phenomenon.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 327 - Leading through Conflict Students in this course will explore conflict management as an essential leadership tool analyzed as a necessary component of healthy systems and innovations. We will investigate techniques that help individuals and groups mediate and negotiate differences encountered in a variety of situations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 329 - Research Methods This course is an introduction to research methods in the social and behavioral sciences, organizational planning and leadership, and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on critically evaluating, designing, conducting, and communicating research. Students in this course will develop conceptual and practical knowledge as well as the ability to apply knowledge capably, ethically, and to good effect in a variety of private, nonprofit, and public organizations and in community service settings.
Prerequisite(s): LOS 120 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 330 - Cultural Contexts Students in this course will explore the multifaceted diversity of the world, the impact of culture on leadership, and interactions between individuals in the global context (at the international, national, organizational, and social strata). Additionally, students will investigate the construct of cultural intelligence and apply it to real-life scenarios in order to develop a cultural mindset essential to effective functioning in today’s global and interconnected world.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 336 - Dealing with Difficult People and Behaviors Students in this course will consider different scenarios of interacting with individuals who may be characterized as difficult. These individuals may be people we work with, sell to, depend on, and live with. There are intimidators, manipulators, analyzers, know-it-alls, overly friendly, accommodators, chronic complainers, and whiners. The actions of these individuals may consume time, energy, and emotion at the expense of productivity and morale. This course provides fresh insights and immediately usable skills needed to quickly, confidently, and assertively identify and deal with various types of people, difficult or not, in a variety of contexts while maintaining our own self-confidence.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 345 - Leadership and Film Students in this course will utilize the medium of film to explore various themes and experiences of leaders and leadership. Topics investigated include, but are not limited to, the portrayal of power, influence, oppression, ethics, and service, in film.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 350 - Leadership This foundational course provides learners with a review of major leadership concepts and theories. It incorporates scholarship, theory to practice, critical perspectives, skill-building, and direct application to real-world scenarios. Major topics include power and influence, ethics, decision making, and leader traits, skills, behaviors, and characteristics. An experiential design enables students to critically reflect on personal leadership styles and examine approaches to leading others in diverse organizational settings. LOS majors must complete this course with a grade of B- or better as a condition of their degree.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100 , ESL 100 , HON 100 , or RSP 100 with a grade of C- or better is required for LOS majors and preferred for all other students. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 360 - Innovation in Organizations Students in this course will develop the creative and innovative thinking skills leaders use to identify opportunities, generate value-creating ideas, and overcome barriers to successfully bringing new concepts to life. Additionally, students will learn about creative thinking tools and how to practically apply them; develop an appreciation of the personal and organizational factors that influence creativity and innovation; and explore the leadership and facilitation skills that will prepare them to lead teams through creative problem solving.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 361 - Entrepreneurship This course focuses on why people become entrepreneurs, the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, the changing demographics of entrepreneurs, and the importance of entrepreneurship to the economy and society. In this class, students will examine the entrepreneurial process from the decision to become an entrepreneur through idea generating, writing a business plan, competitor analysis, getting financing, marketing, team building, considering ethical and legal issues, and developing strategies for growth.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 387 - Collegiate Leadership Competition Students in this course are immersed in an intentional team-based learning experience that culminates in participation in the Collegiate Leadership Competition. Like the training regimen of athletes and musicians, students in this course will participate in a robust “practice field” where, as student leaders, they can apply what they’re learning in a context that challenges and stretches them to the boundaries of their leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 398 - Independent Study Prerequisite(s): LOS 300 or junior standing and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 399 - Special Topics The scope of topics vary and may include current special issues related to leadership and organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 400 - Senior Seminar: Global Citizenship In this research-based course, students will develop an understanding of current global challenges and their effects on local communities, as well as the major stakeholders involved in addressing these challenges. They will learn about the role of international organizations and the processes these organizations use to design and implement effective solutions for global challenges. They will explore how proposed solutions may be affected by the intersection of cultural perspectives and sovereign interests. As an outcome of the course, students will identify a global issue/challenge that they care deeply about and will develop an actionable “Commitment to Action Proposal” to address a manageably-sized piece of that larger issue.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 422 - Leadership in the Public/Nonprofit Sectors This course prepares leaders who can work for the common good across public, nonprofit and private sectors, and lead and manage in a diverse world. Students gain an understanding of the unique nature and challenges of leadership in public service and roles for leaders. Theories of public and nonprofit leadership and their application in complex and inter-sectoral settings are considered.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 436 - Risk, Public Policy, and Society This course considers the variety of ways in which risks, especially risks to the environment and health, are measured, perceived, communicated, and acted upon in our society. Perspectives will be drawn from health fields, natural sciences, and political science, as well as from the social sciences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 439 - Women’s Ways of Leading: Building Partnerships, Creating Change This course offers historical and multi-disciplinary perspectives on women leaders, systems of power and privilege, cultural shifts, and the psychology of bias. Our investigations will range from the private corporate sector to government and nonprofits, both within our country and abroad. Learning will be enhanced by facilitated discussions and interviews with community leaders.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 440 - Leading Organizational Change Organizations face a challenging, fast-paced, and global environment in which leading and managing change is necessary for survival. An organizational systems framework is used for implementing change processes using case studies, consulting simulations, and discussions to analyze an organization’s emergent change processes. This course focuses on the major challenges and leadership orientations associated with initiating and implementing change. Students investigate theories, concepts, research, and their applications to better understand why and how organizations change.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 462 - Community Leadership and Civic Engagement Students in this course will develop an understanding of the key theories, principles, and practices of community leadership and civic engagement. Additionally, students will gain knowledge of skills for promoting and sustaining community change and improvement. Topics include social justice, developing citizenship, community building, mobilization and advocacy, visioning, and strategic action planning.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
LOS 470 - Leadership Study Abroad Students in this course are introduced to key issues in leadership across cultures and provided with tools for effective leadership in a global environment. Through international travel, a variety of readings, and reflection exercises, students will examine a range of leadership situations and cultural factors that influence the quality of a leader’s performance. To help apply theory to experience, students will be given a number of opportunities to articulate ideas about the concepts explored through presentation, group discussion, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; International Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Leadership & Organizational Studies
Liberal Studies-Humanities
LSH 240 - Introducing the Humanities This course examines the origins, development, and future of the humanities through the texts and methods of the following disciplines: classics, history, literary studies, philosophy, religion and the Arts.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every Semester Course Type: Liberal Studies in Humanities
LSH 340 - Topics in the Humanities Consideration of selected problems, approaches, issues or themes in the humanities.
Prerequisite(s): LSH 240 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Spring Semester Course Type: Liberal Studies in Humanities
LSH 398 - Independent Study in the Humanities The course provides students with an opportunity to design a set of readings and learning objectives on an interdisciplinary topic of interest in the humanities. Students must complete an independent study proposal and obtain permission of a faculty mentor and the program coordinator. Students must meet regularly with the faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): LSH 240 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Liberal Studies in Humanities
LSH 440 - Capstone in the Humanities This course probes the relationship between humanism and the humanities in the 21st century, the recent crisis of the humanities in higher education, and new directions in digital and global humanities.
Prerequisite(s): LSH 240 , and senior status in a humanities major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Liberal Studies in Humanities
Linguistics
ARA 101 - Beginning Arabic I This beginning course in Arabic stresses the acquisition of cultural information and introduces students to the four skills of language learning: listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Arabic
ARA 102 - Beginning Arabic II Continuation of ARA 101 .
Prerequisite(s): ARA 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Arabic
ARA 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Arabic
ARA 201 - Intermediate Arabic I Review of grammatical structures with further development of listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills. The emphasis will be on understanding cultures and contemporary life of Arabic-speaking countries through reading and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): ARA 102 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Arabic
ARA 202 - Intermediate Arabic II Continuation of ARA 201 .
Prerequisite(s): ARA 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Arabic
ASL 101 - Beginning American Sign Language I This is a beginning course in American Sign Language (ASL). It will include extensive study of receptive and expressive use of ASL, as well as an introductory discussion of Deaf culture. Course content covers basic principles in the use of sign, sign vocabulary, and aspects of the grammar of ASL. In addition to class sessions, students will use written materials and other media outside of class. This course has a community interaction requirement of four hours over the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 102 - Beginning American Sign Language II This is the second beginning course in American Sign Language (ASL). This course has a community interaction requirement of nine hours over the semester.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 101 or departmental permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring and Summer Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 201 - Intermediate American Sign Language I This is the third in a four-course sequence in American Sign Language (ASL). The course includes extensive work on receptive and expressive use of ASL. It emphasizes the grammatical structure of ASL, particularly its morphology, syntax, and semantics. In addition to class sessions, students will work with media from external resources. This course has a community interaction requirement of 14 hours over the semester.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 102 or departmental permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 202 - Intermediate American Sign Language II Continuation of ASL 201 . This course has a community interaction requirement of 19 hours over the semester. Toward the end of the course, students will take the ASLA, an external assessment of ASL skills.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 201 or departmental permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 305 - Practical American Sign Language I This course focuses on use of American Sign Language (ASL) at an advanced level with a focus on the use of ASL in conversational settings not only with an ASL instructor but also with a variety of community members fluent in ASL in class and in community settings. In addition, ASL grammar and discourse skills will be honed.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 202 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 306 - Practical American Sign Language II This course is a continuation of ASL 305 with a focus on the use of ASL in conversational settings not only with an ASL instructor but also with a variety of community members fluent in ASL in class and in community settings, and over 2 dimensional electronic platforms like Skype and Videophone on laptops and smart phones (e.g., Glide, Marco Polo). In addition, ASL grammar and discourse skills will be further honed in the context of interview and conversational venues.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 305 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 398 - Independent Study In preparation for this course, the student selects a topic in American Sign Language that is substantially different from that of any regular course and finds an instructor to serve as faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 401 - Advanced American Sign Language I This is the fifth in a sequence of courses in American Sign Language. This course focuses on advanced expressive skills, including explaining, rephrasing, demonstrating, and persuading. Grammatical principles and functions will be emphasized. Aspects of grammar that will be expanded include classifiers, conditional sentences, rhetorical questions, and relative clauses. Appropriate cultural behaviors and conversational regulators in ASL will continue to be an important part of class. This course has a community interaction requirement of 24 hours over the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of B or higher in ASL 202 or ASL 306 , or equivalent, and score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 402 - Advanced American Sign Language II Continuation of ASL 401 . This course has a community interaction requirement of 29 hours over the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in ASL 401 , and score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, or departmental permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 415 - ASL Literature in ASL This course, conducted in ASL, introduces Deaf and hearing students to American Sign Language literature, including introductions and face-to-face narratives, as well as literary genres such as the ASL epic poem, stream of consciousness poetry, allegory, and historical fiction. Structural characteristics of the ASL platform narrative and the written English essay are compared and contrasted. Emphasis is on the production and comprehension of academic ASL.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 401 and LIN 203 (or concurrent), score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in fall Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 416 - ASL Linguistics in ASL This course focuses on advanced aspects of ASL grammar including complex co-reference, the scope of non-manual grammatical markers, quantification, complex classifier choice, verbs of motion and location, and complex aspectual marking and agreement. Students receive diagnostic feedback throughout the course and are given specific remedial studies to pursue independently. Emphasis is on the production and comprehension of academic ASL.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 401 , score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, LIN 105 , LIN 185 ; or permission of instructor for students with native-level competency in ASL. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: American Sign Language
ASL 417 - Deaf Art, Film, and Theatre in ASL This course will examine Deaf culture as expressed in art, film, and theatre. Selections of Deaf art, film, and theatre from the 1900s to the present based on the Deaf experience will be discussed in the context of social and cultural history. The course will be taught in ASL. Emphasis is on the production and comprehension of academic ASL.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 401 and LIN 203 (or concurrent), score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in fall Course Type: American Sign Language
CHI 101 - Beginning Chinese I This is a beginning level Chinese language course. The course will cover listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chinese
CHI 102 - Beginning Chinese II A continuation of CHI 101 . The course will develop the student’s listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): CHI 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chinese
CHI 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Chinese
CHI 201 - Intermediate Chinese I Review of grammatical structures with further development of listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills. The emphasis will be on understanding cultures and contemporary life of Chinese-speaking countries through reading and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): CHI 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Chinese
CHI 202 - Intermediate Chinese II Continuation of CHI 201 .
Prerequisite(s): CHI 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Chinese
FRE 101 - Beginning French I This beginning course in French stresses the acquisition of cultural information and introduces the student to the four skills of language learning: listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: French
FRE 102 - Beginning French II Continuation of FRE 101 .
Prerequisite(s): FRE 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: French
FRE 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: French
FRE 201 - Intermediate French I Review of grammatical structures with further development of listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills. The emphasis will be on understanding cultures and contemporary life of French-speaking countries through reading and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 102 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: French
FRE 202 - Intermediate French II Continuation of FRE 201 .
Prerequisite(s): FRE 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: French
FRE 300 - Building Fluency in French This course is a bridge between basic language proficiency and more advanced levels. Although other skills may be practiced, the emphasis is on listening and speaking, and students will use reading and other strategies to build fluency.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 202 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: French
FRE 301 - Practical French I Students will practice effective listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in French using a communicative approach. Students who have successfully completed the course will demonstrate emergent communication and critical thinking in the target language. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 202 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: French
FRE 302 - Practical French II This course is a continuation of FRE 301 . Students will practice effective listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in French using a communicative approach. Students who have successfully completed the course will demonstrate intermediate or advanced communication and critical thinking in the target language. Taught in French.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 301 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: French
FRE 398 - Independent Study In preparation for this course, the student selects a topic in French that is substantially different from that of any regular course and finds an instructor to serve as faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: French
FRE 416 - The Linguistic Structure of French This course focuses on where French fits into the typological classification of the world’s languages. This course primarily covers morphological and syntactic typology, surveying the type of patterns that are found across languages of the world. Assignments will focus on the structure of French, with some comparison across French dialects and with other Romance languages.
Prerequisite(s): FRE 301 , LIN 312 , LIN 313 , and LIN 317 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: French
GER 101 - Beginning German I This beginning course in German stresses the acquisition of cultural information and introduces the student to the four skills of language learning: listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: German
GER 102 - Beginning German II Continuation of GER 101 .
Prerequisite(s): GER 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: German
GER 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: German
GER 201 - Intermediate German I Review of grammar. Further development of listening comprehension, reading, and speaking skills. The emphasis will be on understanding German culture and contemporary life through reading and discussion of short stories, articles and essays.
Prerequisite(s): GER 102 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: German
GER 202 - Intermediate German II Continuation of GER 201 .
Prerequisite(s): GER 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: German
GER 300 - Building Fluency in German This course is a bridge between basic language proficiency and more advanced levels. Although other skills may be practiced, the emphasis is on listening and speaking, and students will use reading and other strategies to build fluency.
Prerequisite(s): GER 202 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: German
GER 398 - Independent Study In preparation for this course, the student selects a topic in German that is substantially different from that of any regular course and finds an instructor to serve as faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: German
ITA 101 - Beginning Italian I A beginning course in Italian in the four skills of language learning: listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Italian
ITA 102 - Beginning Italian II Continuation of ITA 101 .
Prerequisite(s): ITA 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Italian
ITA 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Italian
ITA 201 - Intermediate Italian I Review of grammatical structures. Further development of listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing skills. The emphasis will be on understanding Italian culture and civilization through reading and discussion of literary and historical texts as well as frequent reference to contemporary customs and events.
Prerequisite(s): ITA 102 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Offered every two years in fall. Course Type: Italian
ITA 202 - Intermediate Italian II Continuation of ITA 201 .
Prerequisite(s): ITA 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Offered every two years in spring. Course Type: Italian
LAN 101 - Beginning Language I A beginning course in a language. Emphasis is on skills of language learning. For modern languages, skills are comprehension and production. If a modern spoken language has a standardized writing system, comprehension includes both listening and reading, and production includes both speaking and writing. For ancient/classical languages, the emphasis is on reading. For all languages, students also learn about the culture of the language’s users.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation May be repeated for credit with a different language. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Languages I
LAN 102 - Beginning Language II Continuation of LAN 101 .
Prerequisite(s): LAN 101 (in the corresponding language). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation May be repeated for credit with a different language. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Languages I
LAN 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Languages I
LAN 201 - Intermediate Language I Review of grammatical structures with further development of language skills and study of culture.
Prerequisite(s): LAN 102 (in the corresponding language). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation May be repeated for credit with a different language. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Languages I
LAN 202 - Intermediate Language II Continuation of LAN 201 .
Prerequisite(s): LAN 201 (in the corresponding language). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation May be repeated for credit with a different language. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Languages I
LAT 101 - Beginning Latin I Fundamentals of classical Latin. The emphasis will be on acquisition of reading knowledge.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Latin
LAT 102 - Beginning Latin II Continuation of LAT 101 .
Prerequisite(s): LAT 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Latin
LAT 201 - Intermediate Latin I Selected readings from masters of Latin prose and poetry.
Prerequisite(s): LAT 102 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Latin
LAT 202 - Intermediate Latin II Continuation of LAT 201 .
Prerequisite(s): LAT 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Latin
LIN 105 - Contrastive Analysis: ASL and English This course examines the major linguistic features of ASL and English. Students will gain an understanding of the basic similarities and differences in morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as the values, beliefs, and norms of the Deaf and non-Deaf communities. Some knowledge of ASL is recommended, but not required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 112 - The Birth of a Language The goal of this course is to explore the many factors that impact the use, development, and emergence of language by focusing on one unique case of language emergence in Nicaragua and the social and political context in which it arose. The emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language is the first case in which any language, spoken or signed, has been documented in the process of its emergence. Students will engage in critical thinking and exploration of controversial debates concerning the nature of language as a human trait, the evolution/emergence of language in the human species, and the historical factors that converge to set the stage for the emergence of a language. The course is highly interdisciplinary, relating the linguistic concepts to history, psychology, political science, philosophy (particularly ethics), neuroscience, Latin American Studies, and Spanish. No prior knowledge of a signed language is required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Once a year Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 130 - Language Revitalization and Reclamation Methodologies This course is a practical, hands-on introduction to language revitalization and reclamation methods. A key aim is to support students involved in Wabanaki community language reclamation, but also similar efforts by other communities, families, and individuals, e.g., people wishing to (re)learn, share, and maintain Somali, Maine French, Irish, or other home language. The primary question is: what does it take to genuinely bring the language back into the home, and from there to reclaim public and community space for it? Students will examine language-teaching approaches and what it takes to understand the language itself in a non-technical but accurate way for accessible and effective teaching. Students also will look at essential issues such as language anxiety and avoidance, learning technologies, and core ethical questions in reclamation work, which will enable them to develop a service-learning project that applies the principles and approaches learned in this course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 185 - Language, Mind, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistics This course approaches language as a biological and psychological phenomenon central to an adequate understanding of human nature. It provides an overview of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It deals with linguistic questions concerning language variation, as well as questions about how the human mind and brain both provide for and constrain linguistic ability. The course also addresses questions about how language develops in children, how it deteriorates under the influence of disease and injury, how it evolved in the history of the species, and how it fundamentally shapes modern life. The course does not assume any background in linguistics or language study. In order for this course to satisfy the Science Exploration requirement, students must also take the corresponding laboratory course, LIN 186 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Science Exploration; Socio-cultural Analysis May be repeated by Linguistics majors one time. Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 186 - Introduction to Linguistics: Lab Laboratory studies to complement and illustrate the concepts presented in LIN 185 .
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent registration in LIN 185 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 203 - Introduction to the Deaf World A Deaf instructor presents the culture and history of Deaf communities from a national and international perspective. Deaf communities are examined as cultural and linguistic minorities, with all the tensions and conflicts that arise within such minority groups and with the stresses that arise when outsiders interact with such minority groups. Some exposure to ASL is recommended, but not required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 211 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism The basic principles of the structure and function of the neuromuscular mechanism necessary for spoken language will be presented. These include six major topics: respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, the nervous system, and the auditory system. Mastering these fundamentals will enable students to better understand normal and pathological processes involved in the production and reception of speech.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 212 - Speech Science This course covers the acoustical, articulatory, perceptual, and physiological aspects of speech. It considers the acoustic contributions of the movements and postures of various articulators. It will also examine the neurophysiology of speech, including timing, control, and interactions among articulators.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 213 - Introduction to Audiology This course introduces the anatomy, physiology, and function of the auditory system, focusing on those central auditory nervous system functions, including cognitive functions, that are most relevant to audiologists and speech/language pathologists. This course provides a foundation for understanding aural rehabilitation and diagnosis of auditory pathology, as well as a practical introduction to the measurement and assessment of auditory function.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 236 - Not Yet Ready for Prime Time Interpreter This course is designed to provide a safe and systematic way for students in the ASL/English Interpreting Concentration to gain experience in the actual practice of interpreting. Students will practice interpreting at community events as members of a team that will include trained consumers acting in a mentorship role. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 309 - Language Acquisition An introductory overview of the phenomena of language and communication development. The course covers the acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon, as well as the development of communicative competence. Each of these areas will be discussed with respect to production, comprehension, and knowledge.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 185 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Every year in fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 310 - Signs of Language in the Brain This course looks at language as a capacity of the human brain. Models of language breakdown for spoken languages are reviewed, and the remainder of the course focuses upon signed language aphasia, the effects of Parkinson’s disease on articulation and motor planning, and how spatial and attentional deficits caused by right hemisphere damage affect the processing and production of signing.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 185 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 311 - Phonetics An introduction to speech sounds, including the elements of articulatory and acoustic phonetics and of speech perception. The course covers the phonetics of English varieties, as well as sounds of the world’s languages.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 185 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 312 - Phonology and Morphology An introduction to phonological and morphological theory. Topics include phonological rules, features, prosodic structure, and derivational and inflectional morphology.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of B or higher in LIN 185 , and LIN 311 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 313 - Syntax An introduction to syntactic theory. The course takes a generative approach to the analysis of a variety of structures, including constituent structure, anaphoric relationships, and wh-movement, and considers the principles that underlie them.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of B or higher in LIN 185 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 316 - Language Variation The topic of this course is linguistic typology, in which the languages of the world are classified in terms of the grammatical features that they have in common. This course will focus primarily on morphological and syntactic typology, surveying the types of patterns that are found across the languages of the world. Each student will focus on a particular language or language family for their assignments.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 312 and LIN 313 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 317 - Two Languages, One Mind: Introduction to Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism This is a survey course that acquaints students with the phenomenon of bilingualism by studying second language acquisition (SLA) and heritage language acquisition. This course is designed for students with little to no background in bilingualism but presents opportunities for students of all levels to develop their skills as linguists.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 185 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 331 - ASL/English Interpreting This course offers the beginning interpreting student an introduction to the field of interpreting, its code of ethics, and several models and approaches to the interpreting process. Students will become familiar with the complex processing required to provide a nuanced interpretation through learning a form of text analysis called discourse mapping.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of B or higher in ASL 202 or equivalent; or grade of B or higher in ASL 201 or equivalent and ASL 202 concurrently; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 332 - Consecutive Interpreting and Deaf/Hearing Interpreter Teams This course covers the mechanics of the consecutive interpreting process, as well as hands-on training in the consecutive method for both Deaf and hearing interpreters. Emphasis is placed upon teaming, particularly teaming of Deaf and hearing interpreters. Consecutive interpreting will be taught in the context of a variety of typical interpreting situations as well as situations involving special populations. Demand-Control Schema is introduced and explored as a means of process management.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 and rating of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 333 - Interpreting: Source Language ASL Students focus on interpreting from ASL into English with emphasis on word choice, register, and affect. The interpreting process is dissected, examined with emphasis on the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI), and practiced.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 and rating of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 334 - Interpreting: Source Language English Interpreting students study both formal translation and interpretation from English into ASL. Emphasis is placed upon appropriate sign choice, register, and affect. The interpreting process is dissected, examined, and practiced.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 and rating of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once with permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 336 - Observational Internship Interpreting students will be supervised in a 60-hour internship where they observe working interpreters or specialized settings (legal, medical, educational, etc.) and journal their observations. They will analyze these observations using Demand-Control Schema and will present at least one formal case presentation during the semester.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 394 - Teaching Internship Students will work closely with a faculty member on a course. They will be involved in all aspects of the course that do not involve grading, including class preparation and tutoring. Students should contact the Department chair for details. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 395 - Research Internship Students will work closely with a faculty member on a research project. They will be involved in experimental design, data collection, data entry, and data analysis, and will attend regularly scheduled lab meetings. Enrollment in LIN 395 will depend on needs determined by current research projects. Selection is made by the faculty. Students should contact the Department chair for details.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 398 - Independent Study In preparation for this course, the student selects a topic in linguistics that is substantially different from that of any regular course and finds an instructor to serve as faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 401 - Foundations of Interpreting I The first module of the Foundations of Interpreting Series introduces the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI). Participants learn what constitutes a message and how goal, affect, culture, and sociolinguistic factors influence understanding of that message. Graduated ASL texts and collaborative analysis protocols allow students to develop tools for understanding and improving their interpretation processes and developing the language necessary to discuss the interpreting task. Brief source texts on topics related to the Deaf community are presented live in ASL. Students are encouraged to allow a consecutive mode for extended processing time.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 402 - Foundations of Interpreting II The second module of the Foundations of Interpreting Series continues the development of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI). Consecutive interpreting will be used for all practice activities. Analysis criteria are expanded to include register and perspective. Focus is placed upon decision-making regarding appropriate retention versus release of form. Activities are expanded to include back translation exercises and collaborative construction of target texts. Brief source texts in English cover highly familiar topics.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 401 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 403 - Foundations of Interpreting III The third module of the Foundations of Interpreting Series continues the development of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI). Consecutive interpreting will be used for practice activities with a gradual reduction of processing time. Source texts in ASL are monologues, covering a variety of non-technical subjects. Focus is placed upon decision-making regarding the interpretation of formal and consultative register. Students collaborate to perform discourse analysis on source texts as well as to construct equivalent target messages.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 401 , LIN 402 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 404 - Foundations of Interpreting IV The fourth module of the Foundations of Interpreting Series continues the development of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (IMI). Consecutive interpreting will be used for practice activities with a gradual reduction of processing time. Source texts in English are monologues, covering a variety of non-technical subjects. Focus is placed upon decision-making regarding the interpretation of formal and consultative register. Students collaborate to perform discourse analysis on source texts as well as to construct equivalent target messages.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 402 , LIN 403 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 409 - Educational Interpreting This course is designed for interpreting students and working interpreters, and it focuses upon skills training in K-12 settings, with some attention to university-level interpreting. Topics address appropriate classroom configurations, teacher/interpreter interaction, role/responsibilities of the educational interpreter, and the code of ethics. Working educational interpreters are offered the option of a diagnostic session where classroom skills are directly observed and evaluated with specific and individualized constructive feedback.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 331 or Maine interpreter license. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 410 - Ethical Decision Making in ASL/English Interpreting This course explores critical thinking skills regarding ethical decision making using a number of approaches within the set of models that explore “right versus right” dilemmas. Students learn to identify ethical issues, gather information, identify principles that may inform decisions, generate lists of possible decisions and examine them in terms of consequences, determine best alternatives based upon reflection and reason, make choices that direct action, and evaluate the outcomes of the actions they take. Working as a community of inquiry and practice, members of the class engage in dialogue with others examining ethical dilemmas, learning to appreciate the viewpoints of others, and broadening their perspectives. Among a variety of principles that influence ethical decision making, students examine the RID-NAD Code of Professional Conduct. They compare it with similar documents within the field of interpreting as well as codes from other fields.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 332 , LIN 333 , or LIN 334 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission of instructor (for students without ASL or interpreting background who can demonstrate experience in other areas involving ethical decision making). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 413 - Supervised Mentoring Interpreting students apprentice with a program-approved mentor and submit a weekly journal entry, attend a series of skills improvement workshops, and/or engage in laboratory-based research to complete 90 contact hours of interpreting-related skills improvement activities. Students attend a biweekly meeting with interpreters to address current issues and difficult situations encountered. Special arrangements will be made for mentoring partnerships at remote sites.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 333 and LIN 334 , and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 423 - Seminar in Syntax This course considers a topic in syntax from a variety of perspectives: crosslinguistic variation, signed and spoken languages, language evolution, first and second language acquisition, and language processing. The course will be team-taught by faculty members with different areas of expertise.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 313 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated once when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 425 - Special Topics in ASL/English Interpreting This seminar centers around a single topic, for example, legal interpreting, interpreting for special populations (deaf-blind, oral, cued-speech, minimal language skills assessment and interpreting), ethical issues, medical and mental health interpreting, interpreter assessment, and interpreting the 12 steps. The course will be offered in response to student interest in a given topic.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Irregularly, depending on demand Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 426 - Special Topics in Theoretical Linguistics This seminar focuses on one area of theoretical linguistics, e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics. It will offer a more in-depth and advanced discussion than is presented in the 300-level courses on these topics. The course will be offered in response to student interest in a given topic.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 431 - Medical Interpreting I: The Essential Piece This is the first in a series of three courses for medical interpreters that qualifies students to stand for written credentialing exams within the field (including the IMIA Medical Interpreting Written Test). This course focuses upon knowledge about the field of medical interpreting including body systems, ethical issues, laws related to medical interpreting, health disparities, precautions, the components of taking a medical history, and identification of situations when medical interpreting takes on legal ramifications.
Prerequisite(s): ASL 202 ; LIN 331 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Irregularly, depending on demand Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 432 - Medical Interpreting II: Interpreting Medical Terminology and Body Systems This is the second in a series of three courses for medical interpreters. This course focuses upon medical terminology and body systems. Students study medical terminology in English (Greek and Latin forms, word breakdown, etc.) as well as the process of interpreting this information into their languages of interpretation. The instructor for this course is both a medical interpreter and language coach for American Sign Language. Interpreters of other languages will be assigned a language coach in their language areas.
Prerequisite(s): Score of 2 or higher on ASLA, ASLPI (for ASL) or ACTFL (for other languages) interview, LIN 331 ; LIN 431 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Irregularly, depending on demand Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 433 - Medical Interpreting III: Hands-on Observation and Experience in Medical Contexts The course is a hands-on experience with role play, simulation labs, interviews with medical interpreters and medical personnel, and job shadowing to be held on-site at a variety of simulation labs and medical settings. Students will include both medical students and medical interpreters, and they will be expected to develop understanding of interpreted encounters as peer professionals. Certified interpreters working in the medical field can enroll with permission of instructor. Medical students and nursing students should be at or above the level of rotations or internship.
Prerequisite(s): For interpreting students: LIN 431 , LIN 432 , Maine Licensure, CCHI certification or evidence of passing the IMIA written test, score of 3 or higher on the ASLA, ASLPI, or ACTFL interview. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 434 - Pre-practicum This course prepares students for LIN 435 Advanced Interpreting and Practicum I by focusing to fulfill prerequisites for entry into Practicum I: Completion of a portfolio of competencies in ASL and English, fingerprinting, ASLA/ASLPI testing, and national interpreting knowledge tests (NIC Written, CDI Written, optionally EIPA Written). Polishing ASL language skills is customized to each student but also puts particular attention on articulation, facial grammar, classifier use, and appropriate semantic word choice. Interpreter preparation focuses on consecutive, simultaneous, and team interpreting, as well as talking about the work and journaling.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 332 or LIN 333 or LIN 334 , and score of 2 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 435 - Advanced Interpreting and Practicum I This capstone course requires completion of the student’s professional interpreting portfolio and a 120-hour practicum supervised by certified interpreters. Students will demonstrate competence interpreting a range of dialects and registers of ASL and English produced by both children and adults and will journal their assignments with a focus upon Demand-Control Schema, analysis of the interpreting process, and ethical considerations. Students may take this course for up to 12 credits. Each credit beyond six adds 15 hours of practicum.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 332 , LIN 333 , LIN 334 , LIN 410 (or concurrent), passing grade on the NIC Knowledge Exam, score of 3 or higher on the ASLA or ASLPI, and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6-12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 436 - Practicum II This course is a second 120-hour practicum supervised by certified interpreters at a more advanced level. Students in Practicum II are more likely to be placed in agency environments and as apprentices in specialized settings. Over the course of the practicum, students are expected to demonstrate increasing evidence of work-readiness. While they may eventually accept assignments for pay as deemed appropriate by their supervisors, they may not count paid hours toward practicum. All assignments will be journaled with a focus upon Demand-Control Schema, analysis of the interpreting process, and ethical considerations. Students may take this course for up to 12 credits. Each credit beyond six adds 15 hours of practicum.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 435 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6-12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 490 - Introduction to Language Research An introduction to basic aspects of the experimental study of human linguistic abilities. These aspects will include discussion of research questions, research design (sampling, validity, reliability), task choice, data handling, analysis and interpretation, and reporting conventions. Where relevant, students also will be introduced to computer resources used in Linguistics.
Prerequisite(s): LIN 313 and two other LIN courses in the 310-317 range (one of which may be taken concurrently), or permission of instructor; MAT 120 or PSY 201 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Linguistics
LIN 498 - Thesis The topic for the thesis must be selected in consultation with the student’s advisor and approved by the linguistics faculty. Students will meet regularly with their advisor as they work on the project. The final product will include a finished thesis that is approved by the linguistics faculty, as well as a public presentation. The thesis ideally should be completed by the end of the fall semester of the student’s senior year.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Linguistics
SPA 101 - Beginning Spanish I A beginning course in Spanish in the four skills of language learning: listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing. In addition, audiovisual work is required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Spanish
SPA 102 - Beginning Spanish II Continuation of SPA 101 .
Prerequisite(s): SPA 101 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Spanish
SPA 150 - Language Table Students will participate in a one-hour weekly language table where they will practice conversational skills in a group. Students of all levels are welcome. This course is taken as pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: SpanishPage: 1
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Mathematics and Statistics
MAT 100 - Mathematics Bridge A course covering foundational math concepts. Topics include study skills, numeracy, ratio and proportion, basic algebra and graphing, rational and radical expressions, and an introduction to probability. Students will engage in active learning in the classroom. A grade of C or higher is necessary to take subsequent math courses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 101 - Algebraic Bridge This course reviews and reinforces the basic arithmetic and algebra skills and concepts needed for entry into the University’s general education pathways. The course is based on student learning outcomes and uses mastery learning pedagogy.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 100 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 105 - Mathematics for Quantitative Decision Making This is an introductory course in quantitative literacy that, through lecture and lab, emphasizes critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and technological tools. Topics are selected to develop an awareness of the utility of mathematics in life and to instill an appreciation of the scope and nature of its decision-making potential.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 100 or MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 108 - College Algebra A survey of the mathematics needed for Pre-Calculus and related analytical coursework. The topics include linear, quadratic, and absolute value equations and inequalities; graphs; and functions (linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic).
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 120 - Introduction to Statistics An introduction to probability and statistics through lecture and lab. Particular topics include random variables and their distributions, methods of descriptive statistics, estimation and hypothesis testing, regression, and correlation.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 100 or MAT 101 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 131 - Number Systems for Elementary Teachers This is the first course in a three-course sequence in mathematics recommended by the Committee on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program of the Mathematical Association of America for prospective primary and elementary teachers. Major emphasis is placed on an intuitive approach to the real number system and its subsystems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 100 , or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 132 - Quantitative Reasoning for Elementary School Teachers This course focuses on probability and statistical content for elementary school teachers. It is designed to help future teachers see the relevance of mathematics and statistics to their and their future students’ world and in becoming critical, questioning citizens in an increasingly quantitative world.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 131 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 140 - Pre-Calculus Mathematics A brief review of elementary algebra followed by a study of the algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 108 or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 145 - Discrete Mathematics I This course is an introduction to discrete mathematics necessary for a study of computer science. Topics will include a study of functions, sets, basic logic systems, and combinatorics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 108 or MAT 140 or MAT 152 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 148 - Applied Calculus An introduction to limits and differential and integral calculus of algebraic and transcendental functions of one variable. Applications of derivatives and definite integrals with an emphasis on problems from the fields of technology will be introduced. Graphing calculators and computer technology will be used when appropriate.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 140 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 152 - Calculus A The first course in a three-semester sequence covering basic calculus of real variables, Calculus A introduces the concept of limit and applies it to the definition of derivative and integral of a function of one variable. The rules of differentiation and properties of the integral are emphasized, as well as applications of the derivative and integral. This course also includes an introduction to the transcendental functions.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 140 or appropriate placement test score. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 153 - Calculus B The second course in a three-semester sequence covering basic calculus of real variables, Calculus B includes techniques of integration, indeterminate forms and L’Hopital’s Rule, improper integrals, infinite series, conic sections, parametric equations, and polar coordinates.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 152 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 210 - Business Statistics This course investigates graphical and numerical methods of descriptive statistics; basic probability; discrete and continuous random variables and their distributions (binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, uniform, exponential, and normal); sampling distributions; estimation; tests of hypotheses; and other selected topics. Applications will be chosen primarily from business.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 108 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 220 - Statistics for the Biological Sciences This course treats basic statistical methods as applied to the biological sciences. The topics emphasized are descriptive statistics, discrete and continuous distributions, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing procedures, chi-square methods (goodness of fit and two-way tables), analysis of variance, and simple and multiple regression. Students will use at least one computer-based statistical package.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 152 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 231 - Algebra for Elementary Teachers The second course in a three-course sequence in mathematics recommended by the Committee on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program of the Mathematical Association of America for prospective primary and elementary teachers. Emphasis is upon the properties of operations in several different algebraic systems. Equations are studied in finite systems as well as in conventional algebra.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 131 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 232 - Geometry for Elementary Teachers The third course in a three-course sequence in mathematics recommended by the Committee on the Undergraduate Mathematics Program of the Mathematical Association of America for prospective primary and elementary teachers. Emphasis is upon constructions, congruence, parallelism, and similarity. Direct and indirect methods of proof are studied, but the main approach is intuitive.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 131 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 242 - Applied Problem Solving This course is designed to examine mathematical concepts and apply them to solving modeling problems in various contexts. The focus will be on the Common Core State Standards mathematical concepts and practices, in particular, mathematical modeling. Students will formulate essential questions, gather and organize data, discover patterns, and interpret and communicate information verbally and in writing.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 108 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 252 - Calculus C The third course in a three-semester sequence covering basic calculus of real variables, Calculus C includes vectors, curves and surfaces in space, multivariate calculus, and vector analysis.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 153 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 264 - Statistical Software Packages The overall objective of the course is to enable students to develop the ability to use SAS and R for basic statistical analyses, and to prepare for more advanced uses of SAS and R. A number of topics concerning computing and statistics will be covered in both SAS and R. Topics include data acquisition, cleaning, and management using SAS; reading data into SAS from various sources, recoding variables, subsetting and merging data, exporting results in other formats. Graphical procedures, basic descriptive and inferential statistics. Introduction to SAS macros. Data acquisition, cleaning, and management in R; use of regular expressions; functional and object-oriented programming; graphical, descriptive, and inferential statistical methods; random number generation; Monte Carlo methods including resampling, randomization, and simulation.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 281 - Introduction to Probability This course will cover basic concepts of probability, including discrete and continuous random variables and their distributions, moment generating functions, and bivariate random variables and their distributions. Some basic sampling distributions will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 153 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 282 - Statistical Inference This course will examine various statistical methods and applications such as point and interval estimation; methods of estimation including methods of moments, maximum likelihood and least-squares method; hypothesis testing; simple and multiple linear regression; and one-factor and two-factor ANOVA. Some statistical packages may be used throughout the course.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 281 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 290 - Foundations of Mathematics Selected topics in set theory, symbolic logic, and methods of proofs needed in more advanced mathematics courses.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 153 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 295 - Linear Algebra An introduction to the theory of vector spaces and linear transformations. Particular topics will include the study of systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, Euclidean vector spaces, inner product spaces, and theory of diagonalization.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in MAT 153 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 350 - Differential Equations A study of various methods for solving ordinary differential equations, including series methods and Laplace transforms. The course also introduces systems of linear differential equations, Fourier series, and boundary value problems.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 352 - Real Analysis Limits, continuity, differentiation, and integration of functions of one or more real variables, infinite series, uniform convergence, and other selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 252 and MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 355 - Complex Analysis A study of the complex number system and its applications: differentiation and integration of complex-valued functions, the Cauchy integral theorem and formula, Taylor and Laurent series, singularities and residues, conformal mappings.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 252 and MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 364 - Numerical Analysis A study of the theory and application of computational algorithms for interpolation, equation solving, matrix methods, integration, and error analysis.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 252 , MAT 295 , and COS 160 ; or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 366 - Deterministic Models in Operations Research Formulation and analysis of mathematical models for the optimal solution of decision-making problems under certainty. Linear programming; the simplex method, duality and sensitivity analysis. Network analysis: shortest paths, minimal spanning tree, network flows. Introduction to nonlinear optimization: convex programming, Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Applications to pricing, allocation, production planning, transportation, and scheduling problems.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 and MAT 295 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 371 - College Geometry Selected topics from Euclidean geometry.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 380 - Probability and Statistics This course explores concepts and techniques of collecting and analyzing statistical data, examines some discrete and continuous probability models, and introduces statistical inference, specifically, hypothesis testing, and confidence interval construction. Not for mathematics major credit.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 153 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 383 - System Modeling and Simulation This course is designed to introduce the fundamental elements of successful system modeling using simulation. Applications to computer, communications, and inventory systems, as well as to traditional engineering problems, will be discussed. Topics include model validation and verification, input/output analysis, and the generation of various types of random data. Students are required to conduct a simulation project in their area of interest using a simulation language.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 281 or MAT 380 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 386 - Sampling Techniques Simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, sampling for proportions, estimation of sample size, systematic sampling, multistage sampling, regression and ratio estimates, non-sampling error.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 387 - Introduction to Applied/Biostatistical Methods This is an introductory statistical methodology course with emphases on applications in biological and health sciences. Topics include distributional theory, estimation and testing hypotheses, rank-based and related distribution-free tests, large sample chi-squared tests, analysis of rates and proportions, paired sample methods, permutation and re-sampling methods. Writing formal statistical reports of projects based on real-life data is a key component of the course.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 392 - Theory of Numbers Basic course in number theory, including such topics as divisibility properties of integers, prime numbers, congruences, multiplicative number-theoretic functions, and continued fractions.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 395 - Abstract Algebra Algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, integral domains, and fields.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 460 - Mathematical Modeling An introduction to the process of formulating problems in mathematical terms, solving the resulting mathematical model and interpreting the results and evaluating the solutions. Examples will be chosen from the behavioral, biological, and physical sciences.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing, some elementary calculus including differentiation and integration, elementary probability, and some computer programming experience. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 461 - Stochastic Models in Operations Research This course applies probabilistic analysis to such non-deterministic models as queuing models, inventory control models, and reliability models. Additional topics include simulation, elements of dynamic programming, and Markov decision analysis.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 281 or MAT 380 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 470 - Non-Euclidean Geometry Development of one or more of the non-Euclidean geometries.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 371 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 484 - Design and Analysis of Experiments This course is intended to acquaint students with such standard designs as one-way, two-way, and higher-way layouts, Latin-square and orthogonal Latin-square designs, BIB designs, Youdeen square designs, random effects, and mixed-effect models, nested designs, and split-plot designs.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 485 - Introduction to Applied Regression This is an introduction to linear regression and time series analysis. Topics include model building, model diagnostics using residual analysis, choice of models, model interpretation, linear time series models, stationary processes, moving average models, autoregressive models, and related models. Technical writing for project reports is required for this course.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 486 - Introduction to Big Data Analytics This is an introductory course of big data and predictive analytics covering foundational techniques and tools required for data science. The course focuses on concepts, principles, and techniques applicable to industry and establishes a baseline that can be enhanced by further formal training and additional real-world experience. Topics include basic database management systems, data pre-processing, association rules, decision trees, naive Bayes, clustering, and memory-based reasoning. The class follows a learning-by-doing approach in which the students will complete projects on real-world data sets.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 488 - Introduction to Data Mining This is an introductory course in statistical data mining. The course emphasizes the understanding and application of data mining methods and algorithms. Topics include data preparation, exploratory data analysis and visualization, cluster analysis, logistic regression, decision trees, association rules, model assessment, and other topics. Applications to real-world data will be illustrated using standard computer packages.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 282 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 490 - Topology An introduction to fundamental concepts in topology, including topological spaces, mappings, convergence, separation and countability, compactness, connectedness, metrization, and other selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 252 and MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 492 - Graph Theory and Combinatorics This course is designed to acquaint students with some fundamental concepts and results of graph theory and combinatorial mathematics. Applications will be made to the behavioral, managerial, computer, and social sciences.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 496 - Introduction to Data Science This is an introductory course in data science. It will cover three major components in data science: database management, analytics, and communication and visualization. Topics include data manipulation at scale, machine learning and data mining algorithms, statistical modeling, and information visualization. After completing this course, students will be able to work with large datasets and perform predictive analytics using a range of tools. Course projects will cover all phases of producing data products from the raw data.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 281 and MAT 282 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 497 - Independent Study in Mathematics An opportunity for juniors and seniors who have demonstrated critical and analytical capability to pursue a project independently, charting a course and exploring an area of interest within their major field.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing, permission of instructor and Department Chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MAT 498 - Topics Selected topics in advanced mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics
MME 400 - Elementary Mathematics Methods This course is designed for those preparing to be elementary and middle school mathematics teachers and provides experiences to develop and apply mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. The primary focus of this course is on how to create positive learning communities that support all students in developing a deep understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. Major areas of focus include: creating problem-based learning experiences; creating effective, supportive learning environments; the appropriate and effective use of models and tools for promoting understanding of mathematical ideas, including the use of technology and manipulatives; understanding learning progressions of important mathematical ideas; promoting the National Council of Teachers’ Process Standards; supporting students’ understanding of the Common Core Standards and Practices; assessing and building on students’ mathematical understandings; creating adaptive learning materials to differentiate instruction for individuals and groups of learners.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics Education
MME 434 - Secondary Mathematics Methods This course focuses on research-based, best practices in teaching mathematics in grades 7-12. It is designed for those preparing to be middle school and secondary mathematics teachers and provides experiences to develop and apply mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. A primary focus of this course is on how to create positive learning communities that support all students in developing a deep understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures. Major areas of emphasis include: creating problem-based learning experiences; implementing high-level mathematical tasks; creating effective, supportive learning environments; the appropriate and effective use of models and tools for promoting understanding of mathematical ideas, including the use of technology; promoting the National Council of Teachers’ Process Standards; supporting students’ understanding of the Common Core Standards and Practices; assessing and building on students’ mathematical understandings.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Mathematics Education
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MUE 110 - ProSeminar I Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Students will complete fieldwork, interact with field specialists and practitioners, study emerging topics and contemporary practices in music education. Students will begin to develop their professional portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MUE 111 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 111 - Professional Foundations for Music Education The course will survey the cultural and historical contexts of American music education and the philosophies that underpin its practice. Issues of arts advocacy will also be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 113 - Vocal Techniques for Instrumentalists Students will learn the fundamentals of healthy vocal production including posture, breathing, resonance, diction and expression. Basic vocal anatomy, terminology related to vocal production, and techniques for fostering good singing in school-based settings will be addressed. Demonstration of healthy vocal performance will be required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 150 - ProSeminar II Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Students will explore the uses of technology in education through fieldwork and other experiences. Students will continue the development of their teaching portfolios.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 110 , MUE 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 151 - Brass Techniques Students will learn brass instrumental techniques and methods to provide instruction on brass instruments to students in grades 4-12. The demonstration of proper performance techniques on trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba will be required.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 110 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 152 - Percussion Techniques Students will learn techniques and methods to provide instruction on percussion instruments to students in grades 4-12.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 110 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 210 - ProSeminar III Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Fieldwork will focus on the application of instructional strategies for guiding critical and creative music listening in a variety of educational contexts.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 150 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 211 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 211 - Teaching and Creative and Critical Listening PK-12 Application of music education methods and contemporary learning theory to music education curricula. An investigation of standards, teaching for musical understanding and the design of lesson plans and assessment strategies will empower students to define and demonstrate a comprehensive pedagogical approach as music educators.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 111 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 210 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 250 - ProSeminar IV Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Fieldwork will focus on the application of classroom and rehearsal strategies for developing young vocal musicians.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 210 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 251 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 251 - Teaching Vocal Music PK-12 Students will develop personal singing skills as they learn to engage PK-12 singers in the study of vocal music. Students will study vocal pedagogy and group vocal techniques. Students will create PK-12 curriculum and assessment materials and learn how to organize and administer a school- based vocal music program.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 210 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 250 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 252 - Choral Conducting Introduction to conducting gestures and development of non-verbal gestures through choral conducting, including score analysis and rehearsal techniques.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 210 and MUT 211 or permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 310 - ProSeminar V Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Fieldwork will focus on the application of classroom and rehearsal strategies for developing young instrumentalists.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 250 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 312 , MUE 313 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 311 - Research and Evaluation The course will introduce philosophical, historical, descriptive, correlational, causal-comparative, experimental, and arts-based research methods as utilized in music education contexts. Students will develop skills to facilitate formalized inquiry, including student assessment and program evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admistted Fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 312 - Teaching Instrumental Music PK-12 The course will acquaint students with methods and procedures of teaching instrumental music in grades PK-12. Teaching techniques and methods, rehearsal techniques, ensemble literature, program administration and organization, recruiting, budgets, public relations, advocacy, ensemble literature, scheduling, and performance will be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 250 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 310 Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 313 - Instrumental Conducting Advanced development of non-verbal gestures through the art of instrumental conducting. Score reading analysis, rehearsal techniques, and performance preparation.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 210 and MUT 211 or permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 314 - Guitar Techniques An introduction to basic guitar skills. Emphasis is placed upon those skills that lead to playing effective accompaniments.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 315 - Woodwind Techniques Students will learn instrumental techniques and methods to provide instruction on flute, single, and double reeds to students in grades 4-12. The demonstration of proper performance techniques will be required.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 250 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 350 - ProSeminar VI Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Fieldwork will include both the observation and leadership of improvisation activities in a variety of educational settings.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 310 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 351 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 351 - Teaching Improvisation in Music PK-12 Students will investigate improvisation in various styles of music and learn how its application can foster creativity in students of all grade levels. Pedagogical methods, materials and standards incorporating jazz and various styles will be reviewed and applied to the music classroom.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 310 . Co-requisite(s): MUE 350 and a jazz ensemble (MUS 406 or 407 by audition). Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 352 - String Techniques Students will learn string techniques and methods to provide instruction on bowed instruments to school aged students. The demonstration of proper performance techniques on violin, viola, cello, and bass will be required.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 310 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 410 - ProSeminar VII Provides a professional community for emerging music educators. Fieldwork will include both observation and leadership of composition activities in a variety of educational settings.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 350 ProSeminar VI. Co-requisite(s): MUE 411 ; Composer’s Ensemble. Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 411 - Teaching Music Composition PK-12 Students will develop personal composition skills as they learn to engage young musicians in the study of music composition. Students will study composition pedagogy including individual and group techniques. Students will create PK-12 curriculum and assessment materials and learn how to organize and administer a school-based music composition program.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 350 ProSeminar VI. Co-requisite(s): MUE 410 , MUS 406 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 412 - Woodwind Techniques Students will learn instrumental techniques and methods to provide instruction on flute, single, and double reeds to students in grades 4-12. The demonstration of proper performance techniques will be required.
Prerequisite(s): MUE 250 - ProSeminar IV Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
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MUE 450 - Professional Internship Full-time student teaching during the senior year is provided for one semester under direct supervision in off-campus situations for all who meet the requirements. Students will experience classroom and ensemble teaching experiences.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MUE 451 . Credits: 8
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUE 451 - Professional Portfolio Creation of an electronic portfolio aligned with the USM Teacher Certification Standards. The portfolio will contain evidence of preparation, implementation and reflection on music education practices.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MUE 450 . Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Education
MUH 105 - Multi-Cultural Perspectives of American Popular Music and Jazz An overview of selected styles and traditions of jazz and American popular music, as well as World music that has influenced those styles. Developing critical thinking and writing skills, the course stresses close analysis and interpretation of selected works.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 206 - Jazz History This course provides an in-depth examination of the historical evolution of jazz, as well as a familiarity with the major and secondary figures in the idiom. Emphasis is placed on detailed listening assignments and class discussions.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 103 , music major, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 220 - Twentieth/Twenty-First Century Music This course covers the history of Western music from 1900 to the present. The elements of musical language and style are traced through representative composers’ works. Listening, analysis, independent research, and writing are required.
Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 222 - Music History Survey 1 An historical study of the language and style of music from antiquity to 1850. Significant composers, major genres, and representative musical compositions are studied.
Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 223 - Music History Survey 2 An historical study of the language and style of Western art music from 1850 to the present day. Significant composers, major genres, and representative musical compositions are studied.
Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 320 - Seminar in Music History A concentrated study of selected topics in music history based on individual research.
Prerequisite(s): MUH 105 , MUH 222 , MUH 223 . For music majors or minors; others with permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 321 - Classical and Romantic Music This course covers the history of Western music from 1750 to 1900. The elements of musical language and style are traced through representative composers’ works. Listening, analysis, independent research, and writing are required.
Prerequisite(s): MUH 222 , MUH 223 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 325 - The History of Musical Theatre in America A study of the development of the musical and its relationship to American social history.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUH 329 - Devils, Dwarves and Dragons This course will consider anti-Semitism in music from multiple perspective including that of the performer, composer and audience member. Students will analyze works from musical, cultural, and ethical perspective to understand how they were performed and perceived.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music History
MUP 101 - Applied Music An opportunity to continue at the college level the private study of piano, voice, organ, guitar, any orchestra or band instrument or composition. One half-hour lesson per week for twelve weeks. Restricted to non-majors and certain music students. Special fee assessed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 102 - Applied Music An opportunity to continue at the college level the private study of piano, voice, organ, guitar, any orchestra or band instrument or composition. One hour lesson per week for twelve weeks. Restricted to non- majors and certain music students. Special fee assessed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 201 - Applied Music May be taken in piano, voice, organ, guitar, any orchestra or band instrument or composition. One half-hour lesson per week for twelve weeks in the minor performance area in fulfillment of applied music requirements. Restricted to music majors and minors. Special fee assessed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 202 - Applied Music May be taken in piano, voice, organ, guitar, any orchestra or band instrument or composition. One hour lesson per week for twelve weeks in the major performance area in fulfillment of applied music requirements. Restricted to music majors and minors. Special fee assessed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 203 - Applied Music May be taken in piano, voice, organ, guitar, any orchestra or band instrument or composition. One hour lesson per week for twelve weeks in the major performance area in fulfillment of applied music requirements. Restricted to B.M. performance majors. Special fee assessed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 390 - Recital Public performance in the area of applied study for junior performance majors. Graded pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 490 - Senior Recital / Seminar This seminar focuses on the final creative project in each student’s major applied area. The major portion of the course is the preparation and presentation of a public applied recital or project. The course itself addresses issues of entrepreneurship in music and research in the historical elements of the applied recital/project.
Prerequisite(s): Graduating senior in performance or bachelor of arts degree program and be eligible to present the applied recital/project in the student’s major area. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUP 491 - Recital Public performance in the area of applied study for music education majors. Graded pass/fail.
Prerequisite(s): Music Education Major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Performance
MUS 100 - Music Appreciation and History A survey of music from the Gregorian chant to the modern times, covering musical practices of the renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary periods. Representative works by the outstanding composers of each period. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 101 - USM Choir: University Chorale The University Chorale is an auditioned ensemble of mixed voices open to all University students. Rehearsals are designed to enhance musical and vocal development in order to sing expressively and with musical understanding a broad spectrum of choral music from a variety of historical eras and musical cultures.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing (or concurrent), audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 102 - Music of the Portland Symphony A course designed to increase the student’s understanding and appreciation of the music scheduled for the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s regular concerts of the semester. Attendance is required at the concerts in addition to regularly scheduled classes. Historical background, biography of composer, musical analysis, rehearsal and performance techniques, and music criticism. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 103 - Introduction to Jazz A survey of jazz from its inception to the present day. Involves a study of the origins and stylistic development of jazz. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 110 - Fundamentals of Music A background study of concepts and skills essential to an intelligent reading of music. The development of natural music abilities through participating in singing, rhythmic activities, and instrumental work. An appreciation of music through awareness of basic structures. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 150 - Piano Class 1 This is a piano class for MUE and MUP students not majoring in a keyboard instrument. Topics covered include sight-reading, basic technique, scales, chord progressions, harmonization, transposition and performance of elementary to intermediate piano literature.
Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 151 - Piano Class 2 This is a continuation of MUS 150 .
Prerequisite(s): MUS 150 or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 202 - Music in America A survey of the important trends in music from colonial days to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the Native American composer in the development of sacred music, concert music, jazz, musical comedy, and pop music. Open to all students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 204 - Rock and Roll: Subversive or Submissive? This course surveys popular musical styles from the Pre-Rock era to the early 21st century, from Rhythm and Blues to Hip hop, and examines how this music reflected or rejected societal norms of the times.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 209 - Dynamic Posture and Alignment Provides students with a practical understanding of anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics in order to improve ease and freedom of motion while in a stationary position. This course is designed for musicians, as well as other performers and creative artists, athletes, and computer users.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 210 - Songwriting This course will focus on the development of the compositional voice of each student to cultivate comfortable and confident songwriting artists. Activities will include analysis of songs from a variety of style and genres, composition of original songs, individual and shared performance, and critique and feedback to further students’ compositional skills.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 244 - Basic Conducting Practical conducting experiences: score reading, basic beat patterns, gestures, and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 210 and MUT 211 or permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 250 - Piano Class 3 This is a continuation of MUS 151 .
Prerequisite(s): MUS 151 or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 251 - Piano Class 4 This is a continuation of MUS 250 .
Prerequisite(s): MUS 250 or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 252 - Jazz Piano Class 1 This is a jazz piano class for MUP Jazz Studies Concentration students not majoring in a keyboard instrument, as well as non-jazz keyboard majors and other instrumentalists who meet the prerequisite. Topics covered include chord voicing for the ii-v-i progression, arrangements of standard tunes, jazz scales and modes, and accompaniment styles.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 151 or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 253 - Jazz Piano Class 2 This is a continuation of MUS 252 .
Prerequisite(s): MUS 252 or permission of School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 256 - Diction for Singers 1: Italian and French A study in the principles of Italian and French diction through the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). An application of these basic principles to vocal literature through written, singing, and aural transcription exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 257 - Diction for Singers 2: French and German A continuation of study in the principles of French diction and the principles of German diction through the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). An application of these basic principles to vocal literature through written, singing, and aural transcription exercises.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 256 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 271 - Principles of Digital Audio and Music Production This course will explore skills in music production. It will provide ear training pertinent to audio and music production. The student will have hands-on experience with recording equipment.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 310 - Organ Improvisation 1 This course will cover the basics of improvisation at the organ. The goal is to equip the student with the skills needed in church situations. Hymns, chorales, and plainsong melodies will form the basis for learning to improvise preludes, postludes, and interludes in a variety of styles. This course will be scheduled as an additional applied music time with an organ specialist.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 112 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 311 - Organ Improvisation 2 This course is the continuation of MUS 310 . It will be scheduled as an additional applied music time with an organ specialist.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 112 and MUS 310 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 321 - Literature of the Major Instrument A survey of the literature for voice or a specific instrument. Except for piano or voice, which are offered in class sessions when the number of registrants warrants it, this will be scheduled as private study. Normally the piano and voice sessions will be offered in alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): For performance majors; other music majors with permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 322 - Piano Literature 2 A survey of keyboard literature from 1890 to the present.
Prerequisite(s): For piano majors, others with permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 323 - Organ Literature 2 A survey of organ literature from 1800 to present.
Prerequisite(s): For organ majors, others with permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 337 - Jazz Arranging Study and analysis of music written for small and large jazz ensembles. Practice in writing for a variety of instrumental combinations in the jazz idiom.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 210 and MUT 211 or permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 360 - Advanced Keyboard Skills 1 This course provides practical instruction in the advanced keyboard skills of score reading, transposition, harmonization of melodies, and realization of continuo. These performance skills will be taught with emphasis on the preparation of examples outside the class as well as the active participation by students in class.
Prerequisite(s): Keyboard performance major and MUT 112 , or permission of the School director. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 361 - Advanced Keyboard Skills 2 The second semester continuation of Advanced Keyboard Skills 1.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 360 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 371 - Advanced Principles of Digital Audio and Music Production This course will further skills in music production. It will provide ear training pertinent to audio and music production. The student will have hands on experience with recording equipment and will learn techniques of muti-track recording.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 271 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 372 - Pedagogy of the Major Instrument A study of the teaching methods and materials for voice or instruments. Except for piano and voice, which are offered in class sessions when the number of registrants warrants it, this will be scheduled as additional applied music time with an instrumental specialist. Normally the piano and voice sessions will be offered in alternate years.
Prerequisite(s): For performance majors; other music majors with permission of the School. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 373 - Piano Pedagogy 2 This course is the second-semester continuation of MUS 372 in piano. The course focuses on the teaching of child beginners. Students observe a weekly group lesson, research and prepare repertoire and lesson plans, and evaluate their peers’ teaching. Each student teaches at least one group lesson.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 372 in piano, piano major, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 374 - Jazz Pedagogy A study of the teaching methods and materials in the jazz performance area. Emphasis will be placed on large and small jazz ensemble literature and conducting techniques, jazz improvisation pedagogical techniques, and writing techniques. This course will also address the topic of securing and maintaining employment within the jazz field.
Prerequisite(s): Open to music majors of junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 376 - Class Piano Teaching 1 This course provides an overview of teaching group piano to adult beginners. Students spend the semester observing the teaching of Piano Class 1 (MUS 150 ) and meet weekly with the teacher for discussion and additional instruction.
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUP 202 or MUP 203 , piano major or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 377 - Class Piano Teaching 2 This course is the second-semester continuation of Class Piano Teaching I. Students observe the teaching of Piano Class 2 (MUS 151 ) and meet with the teacher weekly for discussion and additional instruction. Students have the opportunity to teach the class under the instructor’s supervision.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 376 . Restricted to piano majors. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 378 - Practicum in Piano Pedagogy 1 This course provides practical teaching experience in individual piano instruction. Under the supervision of piano pedagogy faculty, students teach private lessons to three or four child beginners. Students also observe piano lessons given by master teachers and do outside readings and research.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 373 , four semesters of MUP 202 or 203, piano major, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 379 - Practicum in Piano Pedagogy 2 This course is the second-semester continuation of MUS 378 .
Prerequisite(s): MUS 378 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 380 - Jazz Improvisation 1 A course designed to teach the student to improvise in the jazz idiom. Studies include jazz theory and standard jazz literature. Recommended for instrumental music majors.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 112 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 381 - Jazz Improvisation 2 A performance course designed to expand upon the improvisation principles presented in Jazz Improvisation 1. Students will learn advanced jazz theory and use that knowledge to perform in the jazz language both in class and in lab situations.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 380 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 400 - Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra A string, wind, and percussion ensemble open to all University students and community members through audition. The ensemble focuses on the fundamentals of ensemble performance, dealing with a variety of literature, and performs at least one major concert per semester.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 401 - University Chorale A choral ensemble for mixed voices open to all University students through audition. The Chorale sings repertoire from all historical periods and performs locally and on a spring tour. The purposes of the ensemble are to develop musical expression and precision of intonation and rhythm and to promote the musical development necessary for excellence in ensemble singing.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 402 - University Concert Band A wind and percussion ensemble open to all University students through audition. The ensemble focuses on the fundamentals of ensemble performance dealing with a variety of literature. The University Concert Band performs at least one major concert per semester and is active in presenting school assembly programs.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 404 - Opera Workshop This ensemble will focus on the union of musical ideas with dramatic situations and will explore the ways in which singers must convey the essence of a dramatic situation. Performances of scenes from operas, operettas, and musical theater.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 405 - Chamber Singers An ensemble of mixed voices selected by audition. The ensemble specializes in a cappella repertoire, notably of the Renaissance era and the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 406 - Chamber Music A performance course open to all qualified students interested in forming chamber groups: duets, trios, quartets, quintets, etc., under faculty supervision.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 407 - Jazz Ensemble An ensemble specializing in the study and performance of jazz for large and small groups. Open to all students by audition.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 408 - Wind Ensemble The Wind Ensemble offers a unique musical experience to its members. The versatility of the Wind Ensemble, based upon the solo performer premise, has established a tradition of performing chamber and large instrumentations, traditional or experimental combinations, and early through contemporary literature. The membership of the Wind Ensemble is selected from Concert Band personnel.
Prerequisite(s): Audition. Co-requisite(s): MUS 402 . Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 440 - Studio Class Studio class is a series of master classes covering a wide variety of performance related and pedagogical topics. Particular emphasis will be placed on instruction and discussion of repertoire, technique, pedagogy, and performance practice. Student performances are an integral part of the class. Guest lecturers and performers may be invited to visit the class on a regular basis.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): MUP 101 , MUP 102 , MUP 201 , MUP 202 , MUP 203 , 603, or 604. Credits: 0.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 442 - Recital Class Performance in major field, stage deportment, and evaluation of performances.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 452 - Accompanying A workshop course in applied accompanying under faculty supervision. One-half credit is awarded for each twenty hours of University-supervised accompanying, with a maximum of two credits in any academic year.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5-2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 480 - Bibliography and Research in Music A study of music reference and research tools, use of library resources and networks, and bibliographic style and technique.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted Fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUS 498 - Independent Study in Music To provide juniors and seniors who have demonstrated critical and analytical capability an opportunity to pursue a project independently, charting a course and exploring an area of interest within their major field.
Prerequisite(s): Music majors, permission of the School required. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music
MUT 110 - Music Theory 1 The first semester of the four-semester Music Theory sequence. This course covers music theory fundamentals, fundamentals of species counterpoint, principles of notation, and instrumentation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 111 - Sight Singing and Aural Skills 1 The first semester of the four-semester Sight Singing and Aural Skills sequence. This course covers solfege, music transcription, and sight singing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 112 - Music Theory 2 The second semester of the four-semester Music Theory sequence. This course covers the concepts of diatonic harmony, cadences, phrase level form and a brief introduction to chromaticism. This material will be explored through the analysis, transcription, and composition.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 110 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 113 - Sight Singing and Aural Skills 2 The second semester of the four-semester Sight Singing and Aural Skills sequence. This course covers solfege, music transcription, and sight singing.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 111 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 210 - Music Theory 3 The third semester of the four-semester Music Theory sequence. This course covers chromatic harmony and musical form. This material will be explored through the analysis, transcription, and composition.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 112 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 211 - Sight Singing and Aural Skills 3 The third semester of the four-semester Sight Singing and Aural Skills sequence. This course covers solfege, music transcription, and sight singing.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 113 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 212 - Music Theory 4 The fourth semester of the four-semester Music Theory sequence. A grounding in the materials of 20th and 21st century music from analytical, compositional, and listening perspectives. Students will undertake analyses and model composition exercises involving: modes, synthetic scales, extended tertian harmony, poly harmony, rhythm and meter, atonality, twelve-tone serialism, chance music, and minimalism. As students learn the abstract theoretical concepts, they will be guided to connect them to real music through copious listening, singing, and transcription exercises. Special attention will be paid to the historical contexts of the various techniques and styles covered during the semester, and students will also attend and critique in writing two performances of contemporary art music.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 210 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Music Theory
MUT 213 - Sight Singing and Aural Skills 4 The fourth semester of the four-semester Sight Singing and Aural Skills sequence. This course covers solfege, music transcription, and sight singing.
Prerequisite(s): MUT 211 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
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SCI 104 - Basic Photography This course is an introduction to black and white photography, designed to help students gain understanding through “hands-on” photographic work. Lectures include classroom discussions concerning the history and aesthetics of photography, and techniques include camera and lens functions, exposure methods, basic black and white film processing, printmaking, print finishing, and presentation techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 105 - Biological Principles I An introduction to scientific principles underlying the unity and diversity of life.
Prerequisite(s): Proficiency requirements in writing and mathematics. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 106 - Laboratory Biology I Laboratory experiences illustrating concepts and principles introduced in SCI 105 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): SCI 105 . Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 107 - Biological Principles II w/ Lab This is an integrated lecture-laboratory course introducing students to biological diversity. The lecture and laboratory each meet three hours weekly.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 105 and SCI 106 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 108 - Chemistry for Health Sciences This is a one-semester introduction to general, organic, and biological chemistry that is specifically tailored for students in the health sciences. The course lays a foundation for the interactions that take place between small molecules, large molecules, and biological molecules. The class will initially focus on the language of chemistry and qualitative description of how chemical reactions take place. This includes a basic model for the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, and extending to the physical/chemical properties of a material. This foundation serves as a basis for the descriptive chemistry of functional groups of interest in biology, biochemistry and biological molecules such as carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. This course is not suitable for chemistry majors or biology majors. This course meets the chemistry requirements for entry into the USM Nursing program.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 113 - Principles of Chemistry I A presentation of fundamental principles of chemical science. These principles will be presented in quantitative terms and illustrated by examples of their applications in laboratories and in ordinary non-laboratory experience. This course and SCI 114 (normally taken concurrently) provide the basis for further study of chemistry.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in MAT 108 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 114 - Laboratory Techniques I Laboratory experiments to illustrate the principles that are presented in SCI 113 lectures. Three laboratory hours per week combining recitation and practical lab work.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): SCI 113 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 115 - Principles of Chemistry II A continuation of SCI 113 . This course is designed to provide the foundation for all further studies in chemistry and is a prerequisite for all upper-level chemistry courses.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 113 or CHY 113 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 116 - Laboratory Techniques II Laboratory experiments to illustrate the principles that are presented in SCI 115 lectures. Three laboratory hours per week combining recitation and practical lab work.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 114 . Co-requisite(s): SCI 115 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 130 - The Biology of Human Health with Lab This course introduces basic concepts of biology and explores how these concepts relate to human health. It also explores natural scientific methods of inquiry and applies these methods to complex issues involving the creation and maintenance of human health. Further, the course explores the importance of societal factors in health maintenance.
Prerequisite(s): Quantitative Reasoning. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 140 - Medical Terminology This course presents a survey of basic medical terminology for students who are pursuing careers in the health professions and related health care fields. Students will learn how to understand root words, suffixes, and prefixes for naming body systems and pathologies, as well as learning contextual terminology for effective communication in the health care work place.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 170 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I This is the first course in a two-semester sequence in human anatomy and physiology. It introduces basic principles of physiology and anatomy through chemistry, cellular structure and function, genetics, and embryology. This course discusses several physiologic systems including the muscular, skeletal, nervous and integumentary systems.
Prerequisite(s): An understanding of basic biology and chemistry from high school courses or GED. Should be taken concurrently with SCI 171 . Co-requisite(s): SCI 171 recommended. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 171 - Practical Human Anatomy and Physiology I Laboratory experiences illustrating topics introduced in SCI 170 . Should be taken concurrently with SCI 170 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 172 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II This is the second course in a two-semester sequence in human anatomy and physiology. Topics in this course will include the special sense organs, blood and circulatory system, immune function, respiratory system, digestion and metabolism, endocrine function, renal function, and electrolyte balance.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 170 and SCI 171 . Co-requisite(s): SCI 173 recommended. Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 173 - Practical Human Anatomy and Physiology II Laboratory experiences illustrating topics introduced in SCI 172 . Should be taken concurrently with SCI 172 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 190 - Beer: The Science & Art of Brewing Students will immerse themselves in the world of craft beer through the history of this ancient beverage and the science of creating it in a modern brewery. Course participants will experience beer’s creation, the chemical, biological, and physical processes central to fermentation and brewing, and beer’s many sensory subtleties while also developing ideas central to the business of marketing and operating a brewing business. The course will meet in a working brewery, providing hands-on opportunities to observe and participate in the brewing process. To put their new knowledge and skills to work, students will work with professional brewers to design and create their own beers on a small, homebrew-scale system, and with one of Maine’s leading brewery owners, work to conceive marketing and sales plans for them. Brewery personnel and USM faculty from the relevant fields will bring the many facets of the world of beer together in this truly interdisciplinary course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 199 - Special Topics This is a class that has topics that vary from year to year and is meant to be taught at the introductory level with a minimum of prerequisites.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 209 - Human Genetics This course examines the role of heredity in human growth, development, and behavior. Decision making, ethical issues and societal responsibilities related to genetic disorders will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 130 or SCI 105 or SCI 170 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 230 - Environmental Science, Policy, and Sustainability with Lab This course presents a multidisciplinary survey of the scientific principles underlying energy utilization, nutrient cycles, global warming, population, and natural resource policy and management. The lectures will be comprised of Socratic interactions and group discussions relating regional, national, and global components that encompass ecology, economics, politics, and social endeavors. This course includes a laboratory involving field and lab work and service learning efforts.
Prerequisite(s): Quantitative Reasoning. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 231 - Digital Photography Working with digital cameras, students will learn to see photographically in color. They will gain a better understanding of color relationships using color as design elements and the overall artistic and aesthetic uses of color photography. Students will learn controls of their camera’s software. Adobe Photoshop software will be the primary tool used for image control and manipulation.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 240 - Applied Botany w/Lab The growth, structure, reproduction, and physiology of plants will be studied, and the role of plants in human affairs will be discussed in this combined lecture and laboratory/field course.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 105 and SCI 106 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 250 - Applied Physics w/ Lab This physics-based course explores the mechanical and anatomical principles of human movement. Students examine the interaction of the body with the environment through sports, performing arts, and everyday activities. Areas of study include stability, stress and strain, mechanical properties of connective tissue, therapeutic application, practice of preventive health and disease control, and the formulation of public health policy. Lecture, problem solving, and laboratory experiments serve to strengthen the understanding of classical mechanics, and its applications to occupational therapy, physical therapy, sports medicine, epidemiology, and education.
Prerequisite(s): LOS 120 or MAT 120 or PSY 201 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 281 - Microbiology for Health Sciences This lecture course introduces basic medical microbiology and focuses on the viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and multi-cellular organisms which cause human diseases. It also discusses biotechnology, epidemiology, and the immune system. This course and the associated laboratory course meet the requirements of nursing and allied health programs.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 107 or SCI 170 and SCI 171 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 282 - Microbiological Laboratory This laboratory is designed to run concurrently with the associated lecture content of SCI 281 Microbiology for Health Sciences. The laboratory will cover the essentials of sterile technique, culture and growth requirements of mesophilic bacterial species, microscopy and staining, pure culture, biochemical assays, and unknown identification. This course and the associated lecture course meet the requirements of nursing and allied health programs.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 281 or BIO 281 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 299 - Special Topics This is a class that has topics that vary from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 305 - Molecular Physiology w/ Lab This lecture and lab course examines the linkage between cellular and organismal events and those at the molecular level. Particular attention is given to DNA replication, signal transduction and the control of transcription, genomics, proteomics, metabolism, and the compartmentalization of cellular functions.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 209 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Odd-numbered spring semesters Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 315 - Environmental Health This course explores issues in environmental health from the dual perspectives of environmental issues and human health. A healthy environment includes species diversity, bountiful resources, and the absence of pollutants. Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect human health.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory biology course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Even-numbered spring semesters Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 336 - Fundamentals of Public Health This course provides an overview of the public health system and examines the purpose, history, organization, approach, functions and determinants of health. The course places special emphasis on current health issues from our daily lives to highlight the relevance of public health. Trends, successes and challenges from a population perspective will be discussed as well as various tools and techniques used to address public health issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 337 - Introduction to Epidemiology This seminar course introduces the student to epidemiology as a utility for the establishment and maintenance of public health. In essence, epidemiology involves the observation and statistical analysis of the occurrence of health and disease in human populations. This science informs the practice of preventive health/disease control and the formulation of public health policy. Seminar topics will be drawn from both infectious and chronic disease epidemiology ranging from the historical plagues such as the Black Death to the modern plagues of AIDS, cancer, and obesity.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory Biology and Statistics recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 345 - Pathophysiology This course examines the physiologic, biochemical, genetic, and environmental bases of noninfectious diseases. The cardiovascular, endocrine, and respiratory systems will be studied closely with emphasis on inflammation, immunity, cancer, fluid distribution, electrolytes, and acid-base balance. This course meets the pathophysiology requirement for entry into the USM Nursing program.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 108 or SCI 113 /SCI 115 , SCI 170 /SCI 171 and SCI 281 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 350 - Science Projects This course is an independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Students develop and complete a laboratory or library project.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 351 - Emerging Infectious Diseases: From AIDS to Zika Due to unprecedented emergence rates, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) have taken center stage in our society over this past decade. These diseases include SARS, MERS, Ebola, chikungunya, avian flu, AIDS and most recently, Zika. The emergence of these diseases is multifactorial in nature. Our approach in confronting these diseases needs to be dynamic, systemic, and critical, and must include the collaboration of basic scientists, clinicians, social scientists, and epidemiologists. Course content will range from molecular scientific phenomena to public health and social policy issues encountered by individuals, families, and society. This course is particularly relevant for NAS, SBS, and Public Health Students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 355 - Ecology w/ Lab This lecture and laboratory course examines the theoretical bases upon which ecological investigations are based. The laboratory portion of the course consists primarily of fieldwork during which students complete an ecological assessment of local habitat.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 105 /SCI 106 and SCI 230 or ESP 101 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4.5
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 359 - Cancer and Society This course will use an epidemiological framework to explore the scientific background and genetic, social, physical, and biological determinants of cancer. The course will examine the response of individual, family, and society to a diagnosis of cancer. Traditional and non-traditional medical approaches to a diagnosis of cancer will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 209 or SBS 200 /HRD 200 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 360 - Sustainability Issues Sustainability is one idea that shapes the past and future of the human race. The goal of this course is to allow students to develop a comprehensive worldview from which to evaluate current environmental issues and problems. Students will discuss concepts and data derived from the disciplines of ecology, biology, ethics, sociology, and politics and application of those concepts to sustainable development and the sociopolitical ramifications of environmental issues.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 230 and SCI 107 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 365 - Marine and Coastal Biology w/Lab A field-based course examining three major coastal habitats: the rocky shore, the sand beach, and the salt marsh along with the interactions among the living organisms in the earth’s oceans. The course will focus on the relationships between the different aquatic trophic levels. Topics include species systematics and adaptations, ecosystem structure, and the relationship between humans and the biological systems. Where possible, local field examples will be utilized to illustrate these points.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 107 and SCI 230 or ESP 101 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 398 - Independent Study Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 399 - Special Topics This is a class that has topics that vary from year to year and is meant to be taught at the junior or senior level and may include prerequisites.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 421 - Natural Resource Policy Examination of natural resource policies and evaluation procedures used by natural resource decision makers. Case studies focus on topics such as forest industry regulations, the Endangered Species Act, the Maine Environmental Priorities Project, transboundary ecosystems, aquatic and estuarine areas, and marine resources. Emphasis is on natural resource policy processes, conflict resolution through consensus building, and comparative risk assessment as it pertains to policy.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 230 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 431 - Principles of Immunology An introduction to the fundamentals of immunology, especially as they relate to human diseases. Topics include history of immunology, basic elements of immune systems, principles of natural and acquired immunity, cellular and molecular basis of B cell and T cell development and diversity, and clinical aspects of immunology.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in SCI 281 or BIO 281 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 440 - Sustainability Projects Students completing Sustainability Projects will develop understanding of the depth and meaning to the term “sustainability” and its differentiation from “sustainable development”. This may include topical material on Sustainability Principles, Local and Global Climate Change, and Consumption Patterns in the developed and developing world with an eye towards local and regional consumption patterns. Also topics of Environmental Refugees, population transitions and migration, utilizing Maine examples, may be explored as well as general ecosystem threats and challenges. Topics will center on the Human Animal as a sustainable individual and species and local food production (fad or changing marketplace). Outcomes include: Relevant literature review and problem awareness, challenge determination, proposal writing and presentation, community-based challenge protocol formulation; field experiences and report writing and community presentation.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 360 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 450 - Science in the Classroom This integrated lecture and laboratory course is designed for secondary teachers, summer camp counselors, parents, and others who wish to interest children in science. The course discusses the history of science teaching, science reform movements, and the development of science lesson plans. It provides knowledge of basic science and gives examples of inexpensive experiments which children can perform. Emphasis is placed on integrating science with the arts, math, humanities, and with social sciences. Maine State Department of Education, Division of Certification and Placement, accepts this course as an elementary science methods course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Natural Science
SCI 470 - Neurophysiology This course examines the functional processes of human neurophysiology at the molecular, cellular, and system levels. Through referencing scientific literature and engaging with in-class manipulatives, students actively will construct their knowledge of neural principles ranging from the kinetics of excitable membranes to the summative activity of neural networks. Course content will be directed towards preparing students for success in OTH 520 Neuroscience for Occupational Therapists.
Prerequisite(s): SCI 172 or SCI 305 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Type: Natural Science
Nursing
CON 252 - Human Nutrition This course examines the basic concepts of human nutrition and their application to the needs of human beings throughout the life cycle. Discussion of factors affecting food practices and attitudes is included.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 113 or SCI 172 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: College of Nursing
NUR 100 - Introduction to Professional Nursing This course orients students to the expectations of a baccalaureate education in nursing. Academic communication and critical thinking skills within the context of professional nursing are emphasized. Issues of ethical and professional accountability related to the role(s) of the nurse are explored. Historical and contemporary perspectives on the nature and scope of nursing practice are examined.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 200 - Introduction to Professional Nursing for Advanced Students This course has been specifically designed for advanced students with 60 or more completed credits. The course introduces career opportunities in health care as well as how prior learning and work experiences might build on and blend into a career in nursing. The historical and contemporary perspectives on the nature and scope of nursing will be investigated through utilization of online resources, advanced library skills, writing, and online discussion. Other topics will include skills of communication, critical thinking, and the relationship between professional nursing and the broad base of theoretical and empirical knowledge derived from the behavioral and physical sciences and the humanities.
Prerequisite(s): 60 or more completed credits and NUR major or department permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 211 - Nursing Role for Accelerated B.S. Students This seminar introduces Accelerated B.S. nursing students to content in nursing history, theory, and research. Students will consider the major constructs of nurse, health, and caring practice. It is a transitional course that seeks to prepare students for the accelerated programs of study at USM, to provide a framework for understanding professional education, and to explore the transition into nursing.
Prerequisite(s): Accelerated NUR major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 300 - Health Assessment This course provides knowledge and skills essential to conduct in-depth bio-psycho-social-cultural health assessments of well individuals throughout the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on data collection through effective communication and physical skills followed by data analysis and identification of nursing diagnoses.
Prerequisite(s): All required nursing major science courses with grades of C or higher (BIO 111 or SCI 170 , BIO 112 or SCI 171 , BIO 113 or SCI 172 , BIO 114 or SCI 173 , BIO 281 or SCI 281 , BIO 282 or SCI 282 , BIO 345 , CHY 107 or CHY 113 , CON 252 ), nursing science GPA of 2.67, and NUR major. Co-requisite(s): NUR 301 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 301 - Health Assessment Lab This laboratory course provides knowledge and skills essential to conduct an in-depth bio-psycho-social-cultural, holistic health assessment of well individuals through the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on data collection through development of communication and physical examination skills. Data will be analyzed and nursing diagnoses developed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): NUR 300 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 302 - Pharmacology This course provides an overview of the principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. The major drug categories are reviewed with emphasis placed on the therapeutic use, action, and adverse reactions of selected prototype drugs. Emphasis is placed on the benefits and risks of drug therapy, thereby preparing the health professional for safe, therapeutic pharmacologic interventions. There is no clinical component to this course. For nursing majors, NUR 302 must be taken within two years of enrolling in NUR 323 and NUR 325 .
Prerequisite(s): BIO 113 or SCI 172 , and sophomore standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 305 - Fundamentals in Nursing Lab for Accelerated B.S. students This course focuses on the cognitive basis, scientific principles, and manipulative component of psychomotor skills used when implementing foundational nursing therapeutics, which promote, maintain, and restore the health of the client.
Prerequisite(s): Accelerated NUR major. Co-requisite(s): NUR 306 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Type: Nursing
NUR 306 - Nursing Arts and Science This course introduces the student to concepts and skills basic to the art and science of nursing. The nursing process is introduced as a problem-solving tool and is used along with scientific principles in the teaching of foundational nursing therapeutics used in most practice settings.
Prerequisite(s): All required nursing major science courses completed with grades of C or higher (BIO 111 or SCI 170 , BIO 112 or SCI 171 , BIO 113 or SCI 172 , BIO 114 or SCI 173 , BIO 281 or SCI 281 , BIO 282 or SCI 282 , BIO 345 , CHY 107 or CHY 113 , CON 252 ), nursing science GPA of 2.67, and NUR major. Prerequisite or concurrent: NUR 300 , NUR 301 , NUR 302 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 305 or NUR 307 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 307 - Fundamentals in Nursing Lab This course focuses on the cognitive basis, scientific principles, and manipulative component of psychomotor skills used when implementing foundational nursing therapeutics, which promote, maintain, and restore the health of the client.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): NUR 306 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 308 - Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice This course will explore the historical foundations, current issues, and future direction of professional baccalaureate nursing practice within the context of the current healthcare system. An emphasis is placed on the continued development of critical thinking, written, and oral communication skills for the baccalaureate nurse.
Prerequisite(s): RN licensure (or permission of instructor) and ENG 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 309 - Health Assessment for RNs This course provides the RN student with knowledge and skills essential to conduct in-depth bio-psycho-social-cultural health assessments of well individuals. The course includes examination of the concepts of wellness and health promotion across the life span.
Prerequisite(s): RN licensure. Co-requisite(s): NUR 310 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 310 - Health Assessment Lab for RNs This course provides the opportunities for the RN to apply knowledge and skills necessary to conduct total health assessments.
Prerequisite(s): RN licensure. Co-requisite(s): NUR 309 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 313 - Intermediate Nursing Skills Lab This laboratory and simulation course builds on the theory, scientific principles, and psychomotor skills introduced in prerequisite courses. Its focus is to develop basic psychomotor and communication skills through kinetic learning in simulated clinical scenarios built from protocol cases from adult and older health course and clinical work. Demonstrations, role-playing, critical thinking and decision-making will be the framework for skill building. Active and independent laboratory participation will permit the student to demonstrate self-direction as a learner.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): NUR 323 , NUR 325 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 314 - RN Credit Option RNs graduating from accredited AD nursing programs will have 30 of their nursing credits accepted as equivalent to NUR 314. RNs who graduated from a diploma program will be awarded 30 basic nursing credits upon successful completion of NUR 308 Concepts of Professional Nursing Practice.
Prerequisite(s): RN licensure and NUR 308 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: maximum 30
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 318 - Evidence-based Practice in Nursing This online course introduces the student to evidence-based practice in nursing. Using models of critical appraisal, students learn competencies in the synthesis, integration, and evaluation of current best evidence for decision-making in advancing evidence-based nursing practice. With department permission, this course is open to transfer students and accelerated students who have taken a research course in quantitative methodology. The student must submit the prior course syllabus to the School of Nursing for evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): Department permission and NUR major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 319 - Qualitative Inquiry in Nursing This online course introduces the student to qualitative health-related research methodology. Students learn the qualitative research process, different approaches to research design, and the distinctive features of each qualitative design. Using models of critical appraisal of qualitative health-related research findings, students learn competencies in the synthesis, integration, and evaluation of qualitative inquiry for decision-making in advancing evidence-based nursing practice. With department permission, this course is open to transfer students and accelerated students who have taken a research course in quantitative methodology. The student must submit the prior course syllabus to the School of Nursing for evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): Department permission and NUR major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 321 - Health-Related Research Introduction to health-related research with an emphasis on understanding the research process and becoming a consumer of research. Critique of health-related research findings to health professions and their application to professional practice is a major component of this course. NUR 321 must be completed before taking any 400-level nursing course, with the exception of NUR 424 .
Prerequisite(s): LOS 120 or MAT 120 or PSY 201 , and NUR major, or department permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 323 - Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing During this course, students will explore evidence-based nursing therapeutics that support both the adult and the older adult client experiencing health problems. The course considers major health problems in the United States, focusing on nursing knowledge needed for care of adults and older adults experiencing acute and chronic alterations in health in a variety of care settings. This course will encourage students to develop and practice critical thinking skills necessary for delivery of family-centered care in today’s complex health care system. The roles of collaboration, advocacy, and teaching are introduced as the student nurse interacts with clients and their support systems across the continuum of care.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 100 , NUR 200 , or NUR 211 , NUR 300 , NUR 301 , NUR 302 (within two years), NUR 306 , NUR 307 or NUR 305 , 2.75 GPA, and NUR major. Co-requisite(s): NUR 313 , NUR 325 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 325 - Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing Clinical Students will intervene therapeutically with adults and older adults experiencing health problems. Students will practice problem-solving skills and critical thinking as they perform nursing roles in acute care settings. Concurrent with NUR 313 and NUR 323 .
Prerequisite(s): Compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 326 - Dominican Republic Community Nursing Partnership I Clinical Over two or three semesters, students will engage in partnership with an international community. This sequence of courses incorporates the concepts of partnership building, risk identification, and health promotion within a community-based context. Students will collaborate with community partners to develop an understanding of both short and long term needs of the community. Problem posing and problem solving will come from the community. Students will engage in ongoing community assessment, support communities in developing long term interventions/approaches, and engage in evaluation of community level practice. Students will identify individuals and families within their communities who would benefit from individual and family based nursing assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Students will work with health care providers in these communities to assess the need for and to augment the services available. Students will engage in both formative and summative evaluation over the course of their interaction with the community. Students will consider issues of termination and continuation as they work with individuals, families, fellow students, and community partners over a two-year period. Advancing students will mentor entering students in the roles of community partner, advocate, and care provider.
Prerequisite(s): NUR major, accepted application to the Dominican Republic Community Nursing Partnership I Clinical, and compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 327 - Dominican Republic Community Nursing Partnership II Clinical This international service learning course incorporates the concepts of partnership building, risk reduction, and health promotion in communities. Students will actively explore international health issues specific to Latin American countries and gain a more thorough understanding of environmental, socio-cultural, and political factors that affect health in a developing nation. Students will participate in partnership building with an international community-based organization to assess health risk factors and plan health promoting activities specific to identified health issues. Students will gain understanding of physical assessment, risk assessment, unique health needs, problem posing, and formulation of solutions as part of their coursework. During the course of this semester, students also participate with students from various disciplines in learning, planning, and preparing for and resource development towards the Dominican Republic International Service Learning program.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 326 and compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 328 - Dominican Republic Community Nursing Partnership III Clinical See NUR 326 for description.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 330 - Mental Health Nursing This course examines the theory and practice of psychiatric/mental health nursing. Assessment of clients and intervention strategies are explored. Interdisciplinary aspects of mental health care delivery and current issues in mental health nursing are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 323 , NUR 332 , NUR 339 , NUR 424 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 331 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 331 - Mental Health Nursing Clinical This course offers students an opportunity to focus nursing practice on promotion, maintenance, and restoration of mental health. Clinical experience is provided in a mental health-psychiatric nursing setting. The emphasis is on application of concepts of mental health-psychiatric nursing.
Prerequisite(s): Compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): NUR 330 . Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 332 - Nursing Care of the Older Adult in the Community The focus of this course is the family-centered care of older individuals in the community. Emphasis is on nursing assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions with individuals and families coping with chronic illnesses. Health promotion/risk reduction strategies are applied. The roles of the nurse in interdisciplinary community settings are explored. Ethical issues unique to community settings are analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 323 (or concurrent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 339 - Community Nursing Partnerships I Clinical This course is the first in a two-course series (NUR 339 and NUR 341 ). Over two semesters students will engage in a partnership with a specific community. This sequence of courses incorporates the concepts of partnership building, risk identification, and health promotion within a community-based context. Students will collaborate with community partners to develop an understanding of both short- and long-term needs of the community. Problem-posing and problem-solving will come from the community. Students will engage in ongoing community assessment, support communities in developing long term interventions and approaches, and engage in evaluation of community level practice. Students will identify individuals and families within their communities who would benefit from individual and family-based nursing assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Students will work with health care providers in these communities to assess the need for services and augment the services available. Students will engage in both formative and summative evaluation over the course of their interaction with the community. Students will consider issues of continuation and termination as they work with individuals, families, fellow students, and community partners.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 306 (or concurrent), NUR 356 (or concurrent), and compliance with undergraduate nursing clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 341 - Community Nursing Partnerships II Clinical This course is the second in a two-course series. See NUR 339 for description.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 339 and compliance with undergraduate nursing clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 356 - Concepts in Community Health This course introduces the concepts and principles basic to the development and maintenance of the community’s health. The epidemiological process guides the survey of current major health issues. The course focuses on the health issues of groups in the community at local, state, national, and global levels. Must be completed prior to or concurrent with NUR 339 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: College of Nursing
NUR 370 - Theory for Clinical Practice This course focuses on the nursing profession and the process of knowledge development within the profession. The intent is to provide participants with opportunities to explore the processes of inquiry in nursing. Participants will have opportunities to explore various modes of nursing inquiry, including scientific, philosophical, and historical. Praxis, or the development of knowledge through the cycle of acquiring experience, reflecting on experience, and enhancing practice is central to understanding what influences nursing. Relationships between practice, theory, and research are explored. Four foundational concepts: personal meaning, ways of knowing, time/transitions, and context/culture serve to focus critical reflections in this course. In recognizing multiple ways of developing knowledge, participants have the opportunity to explore how practice may differ within varying perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): RN to BS students or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 386 - Geary Clinical Cooperative This course is a combination of a two-credit elective nursing course offered during the summer and a paid summer experience (10 weeks full time with a Registered Nurse preceptor at Maine Medical Center). Students are socialized into the professional role of the nurse through hands-on experience, mentoring, observational experiences, and seminar discussions focused on evidence-based nursing practice. There are seminar meetings with the instructor and assignments to complete throughout the summer.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 323 , NUR 325 , 3.0 GPA, compliance with undergraduate nursing clinical health and background check requirements, and accepted application for the Geary Cooperative Internship at USM. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 413 - Advanced Nursing Skills Lab This course builds on the theory, scientific principles, and psychomotor skills introduced in NUR 306 and NUR 307 or NUR 305 and NUR 306 to promote role development in the core competencies of nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 330 , NUR 420 , NUR 421 , NUR 424 , and NUR 427 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 423 , NUR 425 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 419 - Community Nursing Partnerships for RNs Clinical This course incorporates the concepts of partnership building, risk identification, risk reduction, and health promotion within a community based context. Students work with selected communities that are developing long-term solutions to previously identified health problems. Open to RN students only.
Prerequisite(s): RN-BS major, NUR 308 , NUR 309 , NUR 310 , NUR 356 , RN licensure, and compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 420 - Reproductive and Pediatric Nursing Lab This simulation course focuses on developing nursing communication, psychomotor skills, and critical reasoning through kinesthetic learning in simulated clinical scenarios for childrearing and childbearing families. Demonstrations, return demonstrations, role playing, clinical reasoning and debriefing serve as the framework for knowledge and skill development.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): NUR 421 and/or NUR 427 . Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 421 - Reproductive and Sexual Health Nursing This course focuses on theory and research in reproductive and sexual health care. While emphasis is placed on holistic nursing care of diverse healthy families from preconception through the childbearing process, high risk conditions, including end of life care for neonates, and the interventions necessary for successful adaptation are also discussed. Male and female reproductive health issues and nursing care across the lifespan will be presented.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 313 , NUR 323 , NUR 325 , NUR 332 , and NUR 424 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 422 - Reproductive and Sexual Health Nursing Clinical This course offers students experience in providing holistic nursing care to individuals and families engaged in childbirth experiences. Emphasis is placed on health needs and alterations during the childbearing process, as well as promotion and maintenance of health before, during, and after childbirth.
Prerequisite(s): Compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): NUR 421 . Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 423 - Management of the Critically Ill Adult/Older Adult This course will examine evidence-based therapeutic nursing interventions that support adult and older adult clients experiencing complex health problems. The course will encourage students to practice critical thinking skills necessary for delivery of ethical care to individuals and families experiencing high acuity illnesses. The roles of leader, collaborator, and coordinator are discussed as the nurse interacts with clients who are viewed as holistic beings.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 330 , NUR 420 , NUR 421 , NUR 424 , and NUR 427 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 413 , NUR 425 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 424 - Clinically-Applied Genetics This course explores the genetic basis of human health and disease. It examines the specific mechanisms by which genetic differences give rise to altered body function and influence disease risk, and how these differences are inherited. It emphasizes the advances in genetics that impact the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses and conditions. In so doing, it both addresses the basic science of genetics and explores related clinically-applied topics such as the ethical implications of genetics, genetic screening, genetic risk assessment, and gene therapy.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 323 (or concurrent) or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 425 - Management of the Critically Ill Adult/Older Adult Clinical Students will intervene therapeutically with adults and older adults experiencing complex health problems. Students practice problem-solving skills and critical thinking as they perform nursing roles in acute care settings.
Prerequisite(s): Compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): NUR 413 , NUR 423 . Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 427 - Child Health Nursing In this course, students examine family-centered nursing care in the health promotion and health care of children. Class discussions focus on theories, research, and literature related to health needs and common health problems of children. Family, heredity, environment, and socioeconomics are among the factors examined in discussions of nursing in child health.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 313 , NUR 323 , NUR 325 , NUR 332 , and NUR 424 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 428 - Child Health Nursing Clinical Child health lab provides an opportunity for the student in various health care settings to apply the theoretical concepts of health promotion, maintenance, and restoration with children and their families who are at risk or may be experiencing alterations in health.
Prerequisite(s): Compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): NUR 427 . Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 436 - Community Nursing Partnerships I for Accelerated B.S. Students Clinical In this course, students work within a community partnership to care for individual clients and families and work with residents in developing community-based health programs. This experience provides students with an opportunity to care for culturally diverse individuals, families, and groups. Leadership roles, including ongoing community partnership development, will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 313 , NUR 323 , NUR 325 , NUR 332 , NUR 356 (or concurrent), NUR 424 , and Accelerated BS in Nursing student. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 437 - Community Nursing Partnerships II for Accelerated B.S. Students Clinical Building on NUR 436 , this course continues to focus on the experiences of partnership building with a diverse population in a community setting. The concepts of risk reduction and health promotion are applied to the development of an intervention with a segment of the community. Evaluation of the intervention is considered part of continuous community assessment as well as partnership development.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 436 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 470 - Leadership and Ethics Students explore professional and ethical issues that affect the delivery of health care as well as the complexity of the nurse case management role using theories related to complex systems, leadership, and change. This course also provides an overview of the management and leadership roles in nursing practice with a major focus on organizational analysis, leadership and change theories, and quality improvement. This course must be taken the last semester in the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): NUR 480 , NUR 490 . Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 474 - Professional Issues: Leadership, Management, and Organizations for RNs This course provides the RN student with an overview of the theoretical frameworks of management and leadership roles in nursing practice with a major focus on organizational analysis. Focus is on leadership and change theories, conflict management, and quality improvement for the delivery of health care services.
Prerequisite(s): RN to BS major, NUR 308 , NUR 309 , and NUR 310 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 476 - Theory Related to Clinical Specialty for RNs This course allows the RN student to develop and enhance clinical theory, knowledge, and practice using a self-designed study with a focus on a self-selected clinical specialty. An overview of current theoretical models of care, nursing therapeutics, and evidence-based practice is provided and then used to develop a broader understanding of practice and care issues unique to the clinical specialty.
Prerequisite(s): RN to BS major, NUR 308 , NUR 309 , and NUR 310 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 480 - Practicum/Care Management Seminar and Clinical This practicum provides a culminating intensive clinical experience that provides students with an opportunity to refine their clinical practice. The course emphasizes the integration of the multiple roles of nursing and serves as a vehicle for enhancing critical thinking and communication. The primary purpose of the course is to develop competency in nursing care, including organizational, prioritization, and decision-making skills. End of life issues and professional ethics as applicable to a wide range of settings will be explored. To the degree possible, students select a practicum site consistent with their area of special interest with seminar sharing of the issues of diverse roles, clients, settings, and philosophies of practice. All students will present orally and demonstrate competency utilizing technical presentation applications. NUR 480 is the final clinical course.
Prerequisite(s): NUR 413 (or concurrent), NUR 423 (or concurrent), NUR 425 (or concurrent), and compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): NUR 470 , NUR 490 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 490 - Capstone in Nursing The purpose of this course is to provide a platform for students to create and disseminate a final capstone project in the nursing major. In this course, students further develop their expertise in the identification, review and analysis of current research evidence on an important clinical topic. Students complete the capstone experience with a reflection on the impact their liberal baccalaureate education has had on their achievement of a college degree in professional nursing. This course is taken in the final semester of the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent: NUR 413 , NUR 423 , and NUR 425 . Co-requisite(s): NUR 470 , NUR 480 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
NUR 497 - Dominican Republic Directed Study This course offers independent study opportunities for students who wish to pursue additional health-related work in the Dominican Republic.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and compliance with nursing undergraduate clinical health and background check requirements. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Nursing
Philosophy
PHI 105 - Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy Through Its History An introduction to philosophy through its history and development, i.e., through an examination of central texts in the history of philosophy, up to and including contemporary works. Specific readings may vary from semester to semester, but will always include some canonical works by classic Western philosophers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant).
Prerequisite(s): College Writing Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 106 - Why Philosophize? The course centers about the exploration of a single question: what it means to think philosophically. In the context of this question, we will examine what are the sources of philosophical thought and whether philosophy can justify its claim to be the foundation of all reflective endeavor.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 107 - World Philosophy This course presents the world views of philosophers from ancient to contemporary times. The thinkers will be chosen from a broad range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Emphasis will be placed on the wide diversity and historical background of philosophical positions.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 200 - World Philosophy Day The World Philosophy Day course picks a new philosophical theme to focus on each year. The course consists of weekly discussions on the assigned readings, in addition to completing a term paper.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 201 - Public Philosophy This course uses social media and other tools to inform our weekly discussions on a key topic of public concern that culminates in a civic engagement project. Topics may include: the question of democracy, civic responsibility, free speech, technology and work, Black Lives Matter and racial justice.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 205 - Logic Techniques to distinguish good from bad reasoning through the study of formal and informal logic including fallacies, inductive and deductive arguments, truth tables, evidence, and rules of implication.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 210 - Ethical Theories Critical evaluation of major ethical theories and systems. Extensive reading in original texts. Analysis of contemporary ethical issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 211 - Media Ethics In the information age, media play an increasingly large role in our lives. Our notion of living in a global society is largely shaped by media. What is responsible journalism? Does violent programming contribute to violence in America? What are professional ethics and how should they guide media practitioners? We will discuss these questions by examining key ethical values in media such as: privacy, confidentiality, truth telling, conflicts of interest, and social responsibility. We will also explore some fundamental issues in ethical theory such as: Why be ethical? What is ethics? How do ethical theories differ? What are the best ways to evaluate and apply ethical theories to media controversies today? The course is designed for majors in philosophy, media studies, and communication as well as other interested students.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 212 - Environmental Ethics This course analyzes the relations between human beings and the environment in terms of the concepts of justice, the good, and human responsibilities. It attempts to provide a new cosmological model for adjudicating between conflicting rights and duties. Issues to be discussed include animal rights, environmental protection, and ecological harmony.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 215 - Philosophy of Literature While many cultures accord a vital role to stories, myths, and poetry in the cultivation of wisdom, traditional European philosophy has tended to marginalize them. This course seeks to investigate the historical roots for this separation between philosophy and literature in European thought. It will then consider the perspectives of several contemporary thinkers (e.g., Robert Coles, Michael Ende, Martha Nussbaum, and Martin Heidegger) who are convinced that literature plays an indispensable role in the pursuit of wisdom.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
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PHI 220 - Philosophy of Art and Visual Culture What makes a person creative? What do artists think about their art? How do critics evaluate a work? If art is created for a cultural ritual or healing, is it to be understood differently? How do the circumstances of a work’s creation and reception influence its evaluation? How do a person’s class, ethnicity, and gender influence the artwork and its reception? Philosophers in the field of Aesthetics attempt to answer questions which artists, art historians, anthropologists, and critics ask about art. The works of art and philosophy considered will be drawn from a wide variety of cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 221 - Philosophy of Film This course concentrates on the construction of meaning in the context of cinema. Major emphasis is placed on cinema as a product of social construction. Issues to be discussed include perception, memory, images, and the use of social stereotypes.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 225 - Philosophy of the Mind An analysis of the major philosophical issues facing the science of psychology: language and the unconscious, body-mind interaction, freedom and determinism. Major figures to be studied include Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and Skinner. Thematic emphasis will be on the historic interaction between psychology and philosophy in the development of Western thought.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 230 - Philosophy of Religion Analysis of the nature of religious experience, knowledge, and language. Special attention given to problems, classical and contemporary, exhibited in religious experience and relevant to areas of common concern in the sciences, humanities, and philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 235 - Philosophy, Social Media, and Security The course examines the moral and communicative dimensions of social interaction in a digital context that presumes adequate security. The focus is how social media transforms traditional ethical issues such as: truth, trust, privacy, autonomy and security.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 240 - Political Philosophy Critical evaluation of political philosophies, classical and contemporary; extensive reading in original texts; analysis of contemporary political issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 241 - Philosophy & the Politics of Work This course is an examination of work that is situated at the intersection of personal identity and social structure. Philosophical perspectives on work and labor from such writers as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Smith, Hegel, Marx, and Arendt will be examined. Work in contemporary society will be examined through sociology, economics, and politics. Student will be expected to attend film screenings outside of class.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 245 - Africa, Social Justice, and Exile Why are people forced to leave Africa, where do they go, what makes it difficult to return? This course examines exile, its effect on men, women, and children. Looking at theories of social justice, personal narratives, short stories, and visual culture, will help us consider moral issues in the post-colonial landscape of Africa.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 250 - Philosophy of Science An examination of two different models generally used in approaching scientific activity philosophically: the logical model and the historical model. Questions to be raised include whether these two approaches are mutually exclusive or whether one can subsume the other, and at what cost. Issues to be covered include description vs. explanation; scientific vs. non-scientific explanation; the issue of whether to include pragmatic and psychological dimensions of meaning in scientific explanations; the question of whether all facts are “theory-laden”; and the relationship between facts, laws, and theories in science.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 260 - Philosophy of Law Critical evaluation of select issues in the philosophy of law. Possible topics include: the nature of law (positivism, natural law, legal realism); judicial decision making; constitutional adjudication; the justification of punishment; the legal enforcement of morality; legal responsibility; the judicial system. Readings are drawn from the disciplines of both philosophy and law, and include contemporary as well as historical selections.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 270 - Epistemology An analysis of various theories of knowledge in reference to their methodologies and consequences. Texts to be read include Berkeley, Hume, Descartes, Kant, and Hegel.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 285 - Biology, Technology, and Ethics An examination of key ethical controversies in biology including regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, genomics, and reproductive technologies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 290 - Problems in Philosophy Consideration of selected problems or systems of philosophical significance, including general problems of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, specialized areas, etc.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 291 - Death and Dying Recent success in life-prolonging techniques has resulted in the creation of new disagreements over the proper definition of death. Which definition of death is the most adequate? Some have argued that dying, not death, is the vitally important topic. Has the term death changed its meaning from time to time and place to place in human history? This course will deal with these and similar epistemological issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 295 - Medicine, Madness, and Disease Recent advances in modern medicine and medical technology challenge traditional notions of health, sanity, and the social order. The course will examine some of the controversial ethical dilemmas that patients, families, and health care providers confront, such as informed consent, truth-telling, prenatal screening, abortion, involuntary commitment for the mentally ill, drug testing, and patient rights.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 310 - History of Ancient Philosophy Philosophic thought from the pre-Socratics to the late Hellenistic period, with major emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 312 - Morality in African Literature and Film Intellectual, cinematic and literary movements will be examined through generations of thinkers in African national, cultural and geographical settings. The course will look at texts from West Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa dealing with theory, fiction, and visual culture. Important recent controversies in Postcolonial theory are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 315 - Eastern Philosophy This course examines the major texts of the great Asiatic religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen. Special emphasis is placed on the ethical and metaphysical dimensions of these traditions as well as their significance for contemporary theories of the person, social justice, and human fulfillment.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 320 - History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy This course critically examines the merger of philosophical with the religious stream of thought by examining the ideas and text of Augustine, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Maimonides, Averroes, Dane, Ibn Kahldun, Erasmus and others.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 330 - The Enlightenment: Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant In the seventeenth and eighteenth century the basis of knowledge and authority were challenged and overturned. The emerging sciences challenged the authority of tradition and scripture, and this challenging began to affect other forms of authority. This class examines the central texts and debates of the period, focusing on the intersection of the transformation of knowledge and society.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 340 - Individual and Society: Politics and Economics in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy One of the many themes underlying the conflicts of the nineteenth century is the relationship between the individual and society. The philosophical project of this century defined the ideals and limitations of communism, anarchism, liberalism, and fascism, defining the political and philosophical conflicts for decades to come. Readings include Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Stirner.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 350 - American Philosophy History and background of the origin of philosophical ideas in America; particular emphasis given to Peirce, James, Royce, Dewey.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 355 - Contemporary Feminism This course examines recent work in feminist political and social philosophy by American and European feminist philosophers related to the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. We will explore the unique contributions of philosophy to feminist theory.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 360 - Existentialism An examination of the historical development and basic themes of existentialism as found in the writings of its major representatives: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Buber, Marcel, and others.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 370 - Analytic Philosophy An historical approach to twentieth-century linguistic philosophy. This course will begin with logical atomism, continue through the era of logical positivism, and end with ordinary language analysis. Extensive reading of primary sources and major commentators.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 380 - Contemporary Philosophy What does it mean to do philosophy today? To discuss truth in a society permeated by media fictions? To consider ethics in a world defined by different cultures and values? To ponder politics on a globe defined by economic power? This course will examine contemporary philosophers, and more importantly what it means to do philosophy today.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 395 - Philosophy Teaching Internship In working closely with faculty teaching one of the department’s history of philosophy courses, undergraduate teaching assistants will gain insight into course materials and into all aspects of college teaching including reviewing materials for course use; lecturing and supervision of student groups; and providing feedback to students on their work.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 398 - Independent Study This course provides students with an opportunity to design a set of readings and learning objectives concerning a topic in the history of philosophy or a specific issue in philosophy. Students must complete an independent study proposal, and obtain permission of a faculty mentor and the Department chair. Students must meet regularly with the faculty mentor.
Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level philosophy courses plus written permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 400 - Philosophy Topics Seminar This is a seminar course dealing with a specific topic, philosophical problem, or major question in the history of philosophy or a contemporary philosophical issue. Examples of possible topics include: free will and determinism, relativism and the meaning of life. Topics will change from year to year and the course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level philosophy courses or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 405 - Major Figure Seminar in Philosophy This is a seminar course on a major figure in the history of philosophy. Major figures may include: Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, James, and Beauvoir, among others.
Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level philosophy courses or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): The prerequisite for any 400-level seminar course is two (2) 300-level courses in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone May be repeated for credit when figures vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 409 - Research Seminar A research seminar designed to provide senior level students an opportunity to participate in the research efforts of individual faculty and collaborate with each other in the design, methodology and completion of their tutorials.
Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level philosophy courses or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
PHI 410 - Senior Thesis Designed to furnish senior philosophy majors with extensive training, under tutorial supervision, in analysis of a philosophical problem or system or philosopher, with a view to producing and presenting a senior paper for oral defense.
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing as a philosophy major, successful completion of PHI 400 and permission of the department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Philosophy
REL 240 - Meaning, Morality, and Religion This course surveys religion’s relationship to meaning, morality, and death, and it also examines different conceptions of theism.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Religion Studies
Physics
AST 100 - Astronomy A descriptive survey of modern astronomy. Topics include theories about the origin and development of the universe, stellar evolution, the solar system, galaxies, observational methods, and recent discoveries.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Astronomy
AST 103 - Exercises and Experiments in Astronomy This course includes exercises on the Moon’s orbit, Earth’s orbital motion, rotation of Saturn’s rings, the Sun, the Crab Nebula, variable stars, pulsars, Hubble’s law, and galaxies. Two planetarium sessions.
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in AST 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Course Type: Astronomy
PHY 101 - Introduction to Physics An elementary approach to the study of mechanics, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, light, and modern physics, intended for the student who desires a one-semester introduction to the subject with emphasis on concepts as opposed to problem solving. Students desiring laboratory work should also register for PHY 102 . Students planning to major in any of the natural sciences are not directed to this course but rather to a more advanced introductory course.
Prerequisite(s): High school algebra. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 102 - Introduction to Physics Laboratory Laboratory experiments and additional material designed to supplement the topics considered in PHY 101 .
Prerequisite(s): Prior or concurrent enrollment in PHY 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 111 - Elements of Physics I The first of a two-semester non-calculus sequence in introductory physics, intended particularly for life-science majors. Topics to be covered include mechanics, waves, sound, and thermal physics. Lectures, demonstrations, and problem solving will help the student to develop an understanding of physical phenomena. Mathematical treatment is at the level of algebra and trigonometry. This course is not recommended for students planning to major in the physical sciences or engineering. Three hours of lecture and one hour of recitation per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher, or concurrent enrollment in MAT 108 or MAT 140 or MAT 152 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): PHY 114 . Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 112 - Elements of Physics II A continuation of PHY 111 , intended particularly for life-science majors. Topics to be covered include electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics. Lectures, demonstrations, and problem solving will help the student to develop an understanding of physical phenomena. Mathematical treatment is at the level of algebra and trigonometry. This course is not recommended for students planning to major in the physical sciences or engineering. Three hours of lecture and one hour of recitation per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in PHY 111 or equivalent. Three hours of lecture and one hour of recitation per week. Co-requisite(s): PHY 116 . Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 114 - Introductory Physics Laboratory I Experiments designed to illustrate the concepts studied in PHY 111 and PHY 121 . Two hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): PHY 111 or PHY 121 . Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 116 - Introductory Physics Laboratory II Experiments designed to illustrate the concepts studied in PHY 112 and PHY 123 . Two hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): PHY 112 or PHY 123 . Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 121 - General Physics I The first of a two-semester sequence introducing the fundamental concepts of physics, using calculus. Topics to be covered include mechanics, waves, sound, and thermal physics. This course is recommended for students who plan further study in physical sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hours of recitation per week.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of MAT 152 or equivalent (highly recommended) or concurrent enrollment. Co-requisite(s): PHY 114 . Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 123 - General Physics II A continuation of PHY 121 , introducing the fundamental concepts of physics, using calculus. Topics to be covered include electricity, magnetism, and light. This course is recommended for students who plan further study in physical sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hours of recitation per week.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C or higher in PHY 121 and MAT 152 . Co-requisite(s): PHY 116 . Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 211 - Modern Physics I The first of a two-semester sequence covering the principal topics that show the departure of physics from its classical roots. Topics will include special relativity, Bohr models of the atom, Schrodinger’s equation, the hydrogen atom, and atomic structure.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 123 or PHY 112 , PHY 261 , and MAT 152 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 213 - Modern Physics II A continuation of PHY 211 , covering the physics of spin, multielectron atoms, molecules, semiconductors, nuclear physics, and particle physics.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 211 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 240 - Intermediate Laboratory I A selection of experiments designed to illustrate the more important principles of classical and modern physics. This team-oriented experimental course is modeled after how research teams work, with a strong emphasis on reproducible results. Typical experiments include measurement of Planck’s constant, the charge to mass ratio of the electron, the speed of light, acceleration due to gravity, and the Universal Gravitational constant. Students will be expected to make oral presentations, write journal-quality laboratory reports using LaTeX. Six hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 121 , PHY 123 , PHY 211 , and PHY 261 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 242 - Intermediate Laboratory II A continuation of PHY 240 . Students will have the time to pursue a selection of experiments illustrating the important principles of classical and modern physics in greater depth.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 240 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 251 - Principles of Electronics An introduction to electronics including DC and AC circuits, transistors, operational amplifiers, and combinatorial and sequential logic devices. The laboratory will cover the use of electronic instrumentation as well as illustrate principles.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 152 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 261 - Computational Physics This project-oriented course uses the Python programming language and introduces methods of computer simulation and their diverse applications in the physical world. Examples of projects include projectile motion, planetary systems, chaotic systems, and thermal systems. Methods include numerical solutions to differential equations and Monte Carlo techniques. The course emphasizes structured programming, although no background in computer programming is required.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in PHY 121 and prior or concurrent enrollment in MAT 153 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 281 - Astrophysics An intermediate-level course in the physics of the astronomical universe. Topics covered include classical astronomy, celestial mechanics, the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and cosmology. No previous background in astronomy is required.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 261 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 314 - Statistical and Thermal Physics The fundamentals of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics covered include the laws of thermodynamics, heat engines and refrigerators, the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, the statistical concepts of temperature and entropy, the Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions with applications to blackbody radiation, phonons, electrons in solids, and the Ising model.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 123 , PHY 261 and prior or concurrent enrollment in MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 321 - Classical Mechanics I The first of a two-semester sequence offering an intermediate-level treatment of the principal topics of classical physics. Topics include particle motion, air resistance, energy and momentum conservation, oscillations, the calculus of variations, and Lagrangian Mechanics.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in PHY 121 , PHY 261 , and prior or concurrent enrollment in MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 323 - Classical Mechanics II A continuation of PHY 321 . This course discusses orbital mechanics, mechanics in non-inertial reference frames, rigid body motion, coupled oscillators and normal modes, Hamiltonian Mechanics, scattering theory, and continuum mechanics.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 321 and MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 331 - Electrodynamics I This course covers static electric and magnetic fields, their interactions with electric charge and current, and their transformation properties; the effect of special relativity is incorporated. Macroscopic fields in material media are described.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PHY 123 , PHY 261 , and prior or concurrent enrollment in MAT 252 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 333 - Electrodynamics II This course covers time-dependent fields, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic wave propagation in various media and structures, electromagnetic radiation from charge and current distributions, and relativistic covariance of Maxwell’s equations.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 331 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 341 - Quantum Mechanics A study of the quantum physics of atoms, nuclei, and particles. Topics covered include wave particle duality, the Schrodinger Wave Equation and its application to a variety of quantum systems, three-dimensional and time-dependent systems, and photons.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 211 , PHY 321 , and MAT 252 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 375 - Optics An intermediate-level study of the more important principles of geometric and physical optics, with illustrations of both classical and modern applications.
Prerequisite(s): PHY 331 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 390 - Independent Laboratory Study in Physics An independent study involving primarily laboratory work.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
PHY 410 - Independent Study or Internship in Physics Reading and discussion of advanced subjects or instruction in special topics or research.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Physics
Political Science
POS 101 - Introduction to American Government This course focuses on the political institutions, processes, behavior, and problems of government in the United States. The national government is emphasized. Key topics include: the Constitution, Supreme Court, Congress, Presidency, political parties, public opinion, and interest groups.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 102 - People and Politics This course introduces students to comparative political analysis. It centers on basic questions in the study of political behavior: how people learn about politics, who participates in politics, how political conflict is expressed and resolved in various societies. This class uses mathematics and statistics to study political participation quantitatively.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 104 - Introduction to International Relations Examination of the relationships of nations in their efforts to deal with each other from differing political, economic, and cultural bases.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 120 - Government and Politics of Maine This course concerns Maine State Government, including legislative, executive and judicial programs and powers as exercised within the system of Maine values, political parties, and interest groups. Open to political science majors and as an elective to the student who has an interest in the programs and politics of the state of Maine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 203 - Introduction to Political Science Research An introduction to the way political scientists conduct research. Students will learn how to formulate ideas, conduct a literature review, test hypotheses, measure political phenomenon, perform statistical analyses, draw conclusions, and present written results.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 205 - Introduction to Comparative Politics An introduction to the field of comparative politics with a focus on political systems and political participation. The course will examine political institutions, electoral laws, comparative methodologies, political culture, and the problem of establishing and maintaining democratic government. Case studies will be used to highlight major themes.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 and POS 104 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 209 - The Global Politics of Soccer Concepts in the social sciences and humanities are applied to interpret and understand the sport of soccer, which is better known globally as football. The course explores the connections between soccer and international politics. It considers soccer’s relationship to issues of nationalism, colonialism, international organization, transnational crime, and globalization.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 245 - French Politics and Government This course centers on the political, economic, and social structure of France over the last five decades. Students will learn the essential components of the French governmental system, the most typical economic policies, France’s position in the EU, and the ongoing struggle about the defense of the French culture.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 256 - Media and Politics The media play an increasingly powerful role in modern political systems. This course examines that power and explains how it came about, while noting those forces that restrict or restrain the media’s influence. The symbiotic relationship between politicians and journalists is given special attention.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or POS 102 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 261 - The American Congress The role of the national legislature in American politics is considered. The course undertakes a study of the men and women who reach Congress, the internal norms and procedures on national decision making. Among topics covered are the committee system, leadership patterns in the Senate and the House, the public’s influence on Congress, Congress and the Presidency, and Congressional policy making in selected areas.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 262 - The American Presidency This course examines the development of the presidency; the scope and exercise of presidential decision making in domestic and foreign policy; and standards for assessing presidential performance.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 280 - Issues Before the United Nations An orientation to the activities of the United Nations. This course includes exposure to current events, exploration of pressing international issues, understanding the basics of international law, and mastery of the protocol and procedures of international diplomacy.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 290 - Introduction to Political Theory A survey of political theory from ancient times to the present. Themes include the nature of democracy, freedom, equality, power, legitimacy, justice, and the use of lying in political life.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 310 - Internet and Politics This course explores the politics of Internet communication. Topics include Internet development, communication techniques, access policy, citizenship, advocacy, government, journalism, and law.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 312 - The Politics of Nuclear Weapons After introducing the history and technology of the nuclear age, the course turns to theories of nuclear proliferation. Questions that will be explored include: What effect do nuclear weapons have on international politics? Why do states seek nuclear weapons? What policies are available to address the threat of nuclear weapons?
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 315 - Media Law This course explores the legal context of communication through the mass media. Major issues include censorship, ownership regulation, remedies for people in the news, the right to receive and send communication in the media, and news media privilege.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or CMS 103 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 333 - Theories of Democratization As a general overview of democratization studies, the course goes beyond theoretical discussions about what elements are needed to create a democracy. Students study specific examples of political institutions, economic systems, political cultures and values, as key variables across multiple geographic areas to assess the establishment of democracy.
Prerequisite(s): POS 205 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 334 - Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Politics Are American political institutions representative? This course provides students with the opportunity to examine this question by confronting the relationship between race, ethnicity, and representation in elections, court cases, urban politics, and political theory.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 335 - European Politics This course examines political processes and governmental structures in Europe. It focuses especially on The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland or Sweden as specific case studies. Among the topics covered are: political parties, elections, voting systems, interest groups, legislative-executive relations, constitutional principles, political elites, leadership behavior, and bureaucracies.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 and POS 205 ; junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 338 - Social Media and Revolutions How do you run a revolution? How do social media platforms free people from totalitarian regimes? This course merges political behavior, digital activism and social media studies to investigate how people and movements use social media in their fight for democracy and freedom around the world.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 and POS 205 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 349 - The Middle East in International Politics The crucial issues of international politics, war, revolution, superpower intervention, economic development and terrorism converge in the Middle East on a regional basis. This course will examine the nature of Mideast regional politics and the foreign policies of the major constituents of the area. The purpose will be to secure an understanding of the conflict between Arab and Israeli worlds, the foundations of tension among the Arab states themselves, and the role played by the superpowers in stabilizing or disrupting the uneasy relationships of the region.
Prerequisite(s): POS 104 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 352 - Latino Politics This course examines Latino politics in the United States. The class will primarily focus on the three largest Latino national-origin groups, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans, but other Latino national-origin subgroups will be discussed more briefly.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 354 - African Americans and American Justice This course is an exploration and analysis of selected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on cases related to African American citizenship, civil rights and equal treatment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course also explores the changing boundaries and content of state and national citizenship, from the early national period (during the slavery era) to the mid twentieth century.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 355 - Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration This course examines the cultural, political and institutional dynamics that produced and sustain mass incarceration in the United States. The course takes a short-range historical approach to studying linkages between the intersection of mass incarceration, racism, sexism, and poverty, and how these forces impact individuals, families, and communities of color.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 360 - Terrorism and the American Public An exploration of the phenomenon of modern terrorism. The course defines terrorism, considers the motivations of terrorists, reviews the dangers associated with terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction, considers policy proposals that might be taken to reduce the likelihood of terrorism, and investigates the trade-off between liberty and security.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 361 - Public Administration An examination of national, state, and local bureaucracies, including their processes of decision making, communications, leadership, internal and external political relationships. A continuing question will be, “How can those institutions be made responsive to the public?”
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 374 - United States Foreign Policy A detailed evaluation of U.S. foreign policy focusing on such topics as: identification of U.S. policy; governmental agencies and personalities in the formulation and implementation of policy; and the role of non-governmental influences. The course is designed to evaluate current policy goals and practices within the context of long-range goals.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 380 - Topics Specially developed occasional courses exploring a variety of theoretical and substantive areas of political science.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 390 - Ancient and Medieval Political Theory An intensive study of ancient and medieval political theory. Emphasis is on textual criticism of a variety of different works including those from philosophy, literature, and theology.
Prerequisite(s): POS 290 , or sophomore status, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 392 - American Political Thought I An examination of central concepts and debates in American political history from the Puritan Era to the Dred Scott decision, with particular attention to debates on authority, liberty, revolution, slavery, and emerging ideas of American individualism.
Prerequisite(s): POS 290 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 393 - American Political Thought II An examination of American political thought from the Civil War to the War on Terror, with particular attention to debates on authority, anarchism, race, and power.
Prerequisite(s): POS 290 or permission of the instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 394 - A Year in the Life An in-depth examination of the events of one calendar year using only primary materials. While emphasizing politics, the course will cover a broad range of topics. Class meetings and a final research paper will analyze newspaper stories, legal cases, art, philosophy, political theory, literature, and other original source material.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 395 - Independent Study I A concentrated program of research or study on a particular subject of the student’s selection. The topic will be chosen with the advice and under the direction of a faculty member. Admission by permission of the political science faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 396 - Independent Study II A concentrated program of research or study on a particular subject of the student’s selection. The topic will be chosen with the advice and under the direction of a faculty member. Admission by permission of the political science faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 405 - The European Union An examination of a unique example of political, economic, and cultural integration. The course will emphasize the evolution, enlargement, international positioning, and political organization of the European Union.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 and POS 205 ; junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 406 - Research in the European Union Advanced course on the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the European Union, offered exclusively for students who enroll in the summer abroad program, “The European Union in Brussels.” Participants will travel to Brussels and The Hague for presentations at the EU institutions, NATO, and the International Criminal Court.
Prerequisite(s): Recommended, but not required, POS 205 or any other course with an international content. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 410 - Urban Outcomes and the City Politics of Portland This course focuses on the politics of metropolitan areas (with an emphasis on Portland) and analyzing a variety of local issues such as rent control, waterfront redevelopment, the homeless, diversity of new immigrant populations, and the city master plan.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 445 - MeMUNC Conference Planners Students research international issues, produce a background guide for the Maine Model United Nations Conference (MeMUNC), organize the conference, and train in parliamentary procedure. University students lead a program that serves the local, state, and regional community by exposing high school students to the complexities of international relations.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning; International Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 463 - Supreme Court and Constitutional Law The course examines how the Supreme Court interprets Constitutional provisions that affect the structure of government. Major topics include federalism, separation of powers, and economic rights. Both legal and extra-legal models of decision making are considered.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 464 - American Civil Liberties An analysis of judicial interpretations of Bill of Rights guarantees and their effects on political processes in the United States. Topics include church and state, freedom of speech and press, the rights of the accused and the convicted.
Prerequisite(s): POS 101 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 475 - Political Science Internship Provides academic framework for students who are working in the community in a politically-related position during the semester. Students meet for a series of seminars, for which readings and reports will be required. The seminars facilitate reflection that connects social science frameworks to work experience.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 476 - Internship in Washington D.C. Provision may be made to gain professional experience in a congressional office, an agency of the national government, or with a private or semi-public organization in Washington, D.C. Readings and research reports are required.
Prerequisite(s): Open to selected students from any major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 9
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
POS 480 - International Affairs Internship Provision may be made to gain professional experience in an organization oriented toward international politics, trade or other trans-boundary affairs. Students will meet for a series of internship seminars, for which readings and reports will be required.
Prerequisite(s): Open to selected students from any major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Political Science
Psychology
PSY 100 - Introduction to Psychology Introduction to the study of behavior as a natural science, including the following topics: research methods, biological foundations of behavior, sensation and perception, human development, motivation and emotion, learning and cognition, personality, psychopathology, and social behavior. This course is a prerequisite for all departmental courses, except PSY 201 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 201 - Statistics in Psychology A general introduction to the techniques of descriptive, predictive, and inferential statistics. Emphasis is placed on measures of central tendency and variability, correlation, hypothesis testing, and simple analysis of variance.
Prerequisite(s): SAT Math score at least 570, Accuplacer QAS score at least 263, or grade of C- or higher in MAT 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 205 - Experimental Methodology Emphasis on the principles, methods, and techniques of experimental psychology. Applications of general methodology and specific techniques to the design of experiments in behavioral research.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and either PSY 201 or LOS 120 Co-requisite(s): PSY 206 Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 206 - Methodology Lab This course applies the scientific method to selected areas of experimental psychology. Such areas may include animal learning, physiological, sensation-perception, cognition, social-personality, and developmental psychology. Report writing and interpretation of statistical results will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): Grades of C- or higher in PSY 100 and either PSY 201 or LOS 120 ; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission Co-requisite(s): PSY 205 Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 220 - Psychology of the Lifespan This is a broad introductory course focusing on the theories, research methods, and the status of scientific knowledge about human development across the lifespan. The course focuses on the interplay of psychological and environmental factors in physical, cognitive, social, and personality development from birth through adulthood.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 230 - Social Psychology This course considers major theories, research, and applications related to the social behavior of the individual. Topics include person perception and social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, aggression and helping behavior, interpersonal attraction, conformity and compliance, and group processes.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 233 - Abnormal Psychology The etiology, development, and manifestation of the major forms of mental illness with particular emphasis upon the neuroses and psychoses. Psychological, social, and biological factors that contribute to maladjustment are examined. Credit may not be earned for both SBS 303 and PSY 233.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 315 - Psychology of Human Sexuality This course provides an introduction to the psychological study of human sexuality. It will engage students in real world issues and provide opportunities to develop the expertise and practice the skills required to make informed choices about sexuality for themselves and their families.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 316 - Psychology of Gender This course provides in-depth exposure to the psychology of gender and the psychological literature relevant to men, women, and people who use other labels to describe their gender.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 317 - Cross-Cultural Psychology The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the central concepts and issues related to cross-cultural psychology. It will focus on defining and studying culture, as well as the ways culture interacts with and shapes a variety of psychological phenomena, including human development, cognition, interpersonal interactions, and mental health.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 318 - Applied Behavior Analysis This course will focus on functional behavior assessment and behavior modification, introducing students to the principles of applied behavior analysis from an applied/clinical perspective. Specific topics of concentration will include observing, measuring, and graphing behavior; functional behavior assessment methods; reinforcement, punishment, and extinction; and developing, evaluating, and monitoring positive behavior intervention plans.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 323 - Psychology of Infancy and Childhood This is an advanced course where students with a solid background in developmental psychology will explore in detail the psychological issues and events that occur during the course of infancy and childhood. Current research focusing on the interplay of psychological and environmental factors in physical, cognitive, social, and personality development of individuals from conception to puberty will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and either PSY 220 or HRD 200 /SBS 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 325 - Psychology of Adulthood and Aging This is an advanced course in developmental psychology focusing on the adult portion of the lifespan. The course will provide an overview of the major theories, issues, and research in the scientific study of adulthood. The interplay of biological and cognitive factors, interpersonal relationships, social structure, and cultural values in shaping the individual’s development will be examined.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and either PSY 220 or HRD 200 /SBS 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 326 - Psychology of Social and Linguistic Development This seminar explores research addressing infant and child social and linguistic development. The main focus is on brain development, temperament, attachment, linguistic growth, and early social cognition as the basis for children’s emergent social and communicative competence. Students are expected to contribute to discussion and debates each week.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and either PSY 220 or HRD 200 /SBS 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 338 - Theories of Personality This course is a survey of major classical and contemporary approaches to the study of personality and individual differences. Different theories are examined in detail, their influence on current thinking is considered, and their research contributions are evaluated.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 350 - Psychology of Learning Experimental findings on the fundamental principles that underlie the acquisition and retention of new behavior. Emphasis is placed on operant and respondent conditioning and the experimental analysis of behavior.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 360 - Cognitive Processes A review of contemporary experimental and theoretical work on human information processing. Topics include pattern recognition, memory, attention, decision making, language, problem solving, and creativity. Emphasis will be placed on research methodology and on the interpretation of experimental findings.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 361 - Sensation and Perception An examination of perceptual processes and sensory systems. Emphasis is on experimental methodology, research findings, and theoretical interpretations.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 363 - Human Factors in Regulatory Compliance and Social Policy Introduces classic and contemporary theory within psychology, sociology, anthropology, and legal studies to understand why regulations exist and how human beings create, respond to, and navigate them. Students learn about core constructs that impact both individual and group-level (e.g., corporate) decision-making and policy making, and to use these analytical frameworks to understand the role of poverty, affluence, education, and governmental structure on how regulatory control is created and sustained within social systems.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 and ENG 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 365 - Physiological Psychology Basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and endocrinology, and the relationships between nervous system functioning and behavior. Physiological analysis of sensory function, motivation, and learning.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 366 - Drugs, Mind, and Behavior Introduces principles of psychopharmacology, mechanisms of action, and effects of drugs on behavior, including therapeutic and recreational use of drugs and theories relating to use and misuse of drugs that can lead to addiction. Changes in brain function related to use or misuse of drugs will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 ; PSY 365 is recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 368 - Health Psychology This course is designed to introduce the student to the discipline of health psychology from a bio-psychosocial perspective. An integrative approach will be provided via discussion of the biological and psycho-physiological foundations of health and disease, including the topics of stress and coping, prevention, diet, substance abuse, and chronic illness.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 371 - History and Systems of Psychology This course will reflect upon the field of psychology by examining the history and evolution of ideas over time. Students will evaluate early philosophical approaches that informed the questions and methods of psychologists, including Greek philosophy and classical systems of psychology. They will consider how social and cultural contexts may have shaped psychologists’ views and influenced the directions of research.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 , and junior or senior standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 375 - Psychology in the Public Interest The major objective of public interest advocacy is to solve fundamental problems of human justice concerning the equitable and fair treatment of all segments of society. This course is designed for motivated students who are eager to apply their knowledge of psychological science to confront some of society’s most difficult social problems. This course will help students develop the skills and expertise necessary to advocate successfully on public interest issues. Students will be expected to produce a variety of writing samples and written documents and an advocacy video that illuminate their developing understanding of the issue they choose as well as the related experiences and skills necessary to facilitate change.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or higher in PSY 100 , and junior or senior standing. Recommended: successful completion of the Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship general education requirement. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 400 - Independent Study This course provides junior and senior psychology majors the opportunity to pursue guided reading/research on a topic of their choosing. Each independent study project will be conducted with advice and guidance from the sponsoring faculty member.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing, grade of C- or higher in PSY 205 and PSY 206 , completion of independent study application describing the proposed reading/research project, and permission of faculty sponsor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 401 - Research Apprenticeship This course provides students the opportunity to develop further insight into the research process through direct involvement with ongoing faculty research.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of application and permission of faculty sponsor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 405 - Teaching Apprenticeship This course provides students the opportunity to assist teaching faculty and to develop deeper understanding of course materials and college teaching. Teaching apprentices are selected by faculty.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of application and permission of faculty sponsor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
PSY 410 - Internship/Field Experience This course provides junior and senior psychology majors the opportunity to apply their psychology training in organizations and community service projects.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of application describing the tasks or activities students will perform, permission of faculty sponsor and department chair. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5-6
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Psychology
Public Health
BPH 101 - Introduction to the U.S. Health System Compared to other industrialized countries, the U.S. health system presents a series of contradictions. We lead in medical advances and state-of-the-art technology, but live shorter lives. We make extensive investments in health care resources, yet fail to provide basic universal access to medical services. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the health system in the United States, including the structure and function of its various private and public components. Students will learn about the history, characteristics, workforce, services, costs, policy context, and future of health care in the U.S.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 160 - Biology of Human Health This course examines basic human disease concepts and explores these concepts through a biomedical public health perspective. Main topics of study include the causes of human disease, modes of disease transmission, and major diseases that currently contribute to the global burden of disease. Contemporary public health issues in the study of human disease, including chronic disease, vaccination, antibiotic resistance, and the threat of global pandemics will be explored. Note: this course is equivalent to the Natural and Applied Sciences course SCI 130 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 161 - Biology of Human Health Lab This course examines basic human disease concepts and explores these concepts through a biomedical public health perspective. Main topics of study include the causes of human disease, modes of disease transmission, and major diseases that currently contribute to the global burden of disease. Contemporary public health issues in the study of human disease, including chronic disease, vaccination, antibiotic resistance, and the threat of global pandemics will be explored. Note: this course is equivalent to the Natural and Applied Sciences course SCI 130 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 201 - Fundamentals of Public Health This course provides an overview of the public health system and examines the purpose, history, organization, approach, functions and determinants of health. The course places special emphasis on current health issues from our daily lives to highlight the relevance of public health. Trends, successes and challenges from a population perspective will be discussed as well as various tools and techniques used to address public health issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Public Helath
BPH 205 - Health Communication and Marketing This course focuses on the use of health communication strategies, models, and theories that enhance the delivery of public health programs in various settings. The course introduces students to health communication theory and social marketing strategies to create effective, evidence-based, culturally appropriate health communication messages and campaigns.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 210 - Health Disparities and Social Justice Is health a human right? If so, what role does society have in ensuring that every person has an equal opportunity to health? This course develops students’ understanding of health disparities across social, economic and cultural groups as well as strategies to reduce those disparities. Students learn how the marginalization of populations based on race, ethnicity, class, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, immigration status and other factors affects health behavior and health status. Through a framework of social justice, the course considers how a more equitable distribution of social, economic, and political resources can address the social determinants of health and achieve health equity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 315 - Population Health Improvement Public health is fundamentally tasked with improving the health of groups, communities and populations. Students learn participatory approaches for planning and implementing health programs to improve population health in a variety of community-based settings. This course emphasizes professional ethics, needs assessment, the use of evidence in program design, capacity- and coalition-building, proposal writing, and implementation of initiatives to prevent disease and promote healthy living and behavior.
Prerequisite(s): BPH 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 320 - Methods of Public Health Research This course teaches the fundamentals of public health research design and the common issues that may arise when trying to study public health topics, including ethical considerations. It provides an introduction to quantitative, qualitative, mixed method and participatory approaches to research. The course builds skills for conducting public health research and evaluation using the course textbook, public health articles and class discussion.
Prerequisite(s): BPH 201 , and any introductory statistics course (MAT 120 or LCC 120). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 337 - Introduction to Epidemiology This seminar course introduces the student to epidemiology as a utility for the establishment and maintenance of public health. In essence, epidemiology involves the observation and statistical analysis of the occurrence of health and disease in human populations. This science informs the practice of preventive health/disease control and the formulation of public health policy. Seminar topics will be drawn from both infectious and chronic disease epidemiology ranging from the historical plagues such as the Black Death to the modern plagues of AIDS, cancer, and obesity.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory Biology and Statistics recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Public Health
BPH 339 - Topics in Public Health (MPH 539) The course focuses on current topics in public health with an emphasis on special populations, diseases, or events. The course is designed to address public health concerns that are timely and relevant; topics will rotate periodically in response to student demand and/or emerging public health issues. Prior topics have included infectious disease, obesity, global health, child health, and substance use disorders.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 397 - Independent Study Students may develop an individual or group project for independent study in consultation with an individual faculty member. Students work with the instructor to write a brief proposal for an area of study they wish to pursue that is not offered within the BPH curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
This course can be repeated once. Course Typically Offered: Course Type:
BPH 450 - Analysis of Public Health Data with Lab (MPH 550) This course gives students practical experience analyzing public health data to identify public health problems and/or understand the risk factors associated with poor health behaviors or outcomes. Students will identify public health topics of interest and select from several approved datasets to address a research question. Students will use statistical analysis software and web query tools to access, analyze, and interpret public health data. The course will also emphasize effective strategies for presenting and communicating about data.
Prerequisite(s): BPH 320 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
BPH 499 - Field Experience The Field Experience offers experience-based learning in a healthcare or public health organization. Students work in community settings in organizations delivering and planning health or public health services on jointly developed projects or assignments based on the student’s interests and the organization’s needs. Sites include state or local public health agencies, hospitals, medical practices, clinics, special problem clinics and facilities, and environmental programs and services. In addition to 120 hours of direct work at the field experience site, students complete a written product that documents their learning.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, permission of the BSPH program. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Public Health
Russell Scholars
RSP 100 - Russell Scholars College Writing RSP 100 is the first course in a three-course writing sequence. Throughout the course students learn several fundamental ideas about writing: that writing is a process; that writing always involves reading; that writing is situational and involves specific rhetorical elements (purpose, audience, text, genre, style, mode); that writing is recursive and, therefore, always in process; and that writing requires metacognitive thinking. RSP 100 students engage in a series of essay assignments that reflect points of view, engage with readings, and focus on a central thesis or project. Through these writing practices students develop a metalanguage to articulate their writing and rhetorical choices and to demonstrate an understanding of sentence structure and syntax as central to meaning. By the end of the course, students should be able to assess a writing situation and successfully write for that situation.
The following courses are considered equivalents meeting the same outcomes as College Writing and will not be allowed for additional credit, but instead will follow the USM Repeat Policy and count as a repeat of the previous grade: ENG 100, ENG 101, ENG 104, ESL 100, HON 100, LCC 110, LCC 111, RSP 100, AND RSP 104.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 101 - Russell Scholars Creative Writing Feed your imagination! This course focuses on writing short fiction, poetry, and memoir. Class meets twice a week, and the course includes individual conferences. Creative Writing emphasizes style, organization, and development, with some attention to mechanics. Students must exercise the self-discipline necessary to work independently.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree students; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 102 - Russell Scholars Academic Writing Building on the fundamentals learned in RSP 100 (the writing process, revision, and critical reading), RSP 102 focuses on argumentative and researched-based writing. Students learn that academic work is a process of inquiry by engaging in academic modes of reading and writing (analysis, synthesis, critique, and argument) to address questions about critical issues. Students engage in independent research, learning how to make connections between sources and how to add to those connections by articulating their own perspectives and positions. Students develop a comprehensive information literacy that they can apply throughout their college career.
Prerequisite(s): Open to all USM students who have completed College Writing (ENG 100 or equivalent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 2 Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 103 - Russell Scholars Seminar: Culture, Community, and the Environment This seminar explores the relationships between culture, community, and the environment. It focuses on development as a person, as a learner, and as a member of a community by examining contemporary issues from more than one perspective. We consider the values and approaches of different cultures in order to better understand the current challenges facing any community - population growth, natural resource use, economic pressures, environmental impact, and other threats to cultural survival and ecological balance. Students have the opportunity to engage in critical and creative thought about how they might make a positive impact. Collaboration with peers is a valuable component of the course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 110 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory Russell Scholars Lab is designed to complement the Russell Scholars interdisciplinary curriculum, teach communication skills, and build our community. RSP Lab will emphasize the interrelationship between our learning community and the USM community. This course satisfies the first-semester Lab requirement.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 111 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory RSP 111 is a continuation of RSP 110 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 199 - Topics in RSP A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Course Schedule for details on Topics courses. For more information, see Russell Scholars Director.
Prerequisite(s): Open to all USM students who have completed College Writing (ENG 100 or equivalent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 204 - The Gulf of Maine: Archaeology, Ecology, and Environmental Change The Gulf of Maine class describes the methods and theories used by archaeologists, geologists, marine scientists, environmental scientists, and policy makers to understand changes in human life ways and environmental conditions over time. Attention is given to reconstruction of changes in sea level over time; excavation and interpretation of archaeological materials from maritime sites; understanding of species distribution and interaction over time; and policy making related to environmental change of the Anthropocene. Issues in coastal erosion, declining cod stocks, predator-prey relations, environmental restoration, and cultural heritage will be covered. Six integral laboratories will focus on the Gulf of Maine. Some attention will be given to specific topics such as regional climatic change, the Casco Bay Estuary Project, and research institutes focused on marine environments in the Gulf of Maine. Open to all USM students. Cr. Lec 3, Lab 1.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Science Exploration Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 205 - Exploring Culture, On Campus & Off Exploring sites at USM and beyond, this course offers “open, accessible, inclusive, and welcoming” experiences of culture in the community. Students will visit gallery spaces, attend local theater productions, and practice their own culture making and critique. We’ll examine relationships between words and images, inspiration and expression, theory and design. As we engage with current examples in these venues, several questions arise: How does culture reflect and embody ideas and values? What is the role of the artist and the audience? How can we define cultural literacy? What are the ethics of looking?
Prerequisite(s): Open to all USM stuents who have completed College Writing (ENG 100 or equivalent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 210 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory RSP 210 is the second-year co-curricular Lab for Russell Scholars. Students may serve as undergraduate Peer Mentors/TAs or undertake community service projects for credit. Students will design projects in consultation with the Director or Assistant Director on an individual timeframe; there is no set class meeting time. Please contact the Russell Scholars Director or Assistant Director if you are interested. Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
May be repeated for credit Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 211 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory RSP 211 is a continuation of RSP 210 . Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 299 - Topics in RSP A selection of courses varying in content from term to term. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Course Schedule for details on Topics courses. For more information, see Russell Scholars Director.
Prerequisite(s): Open to all USM students who have completed College Writing (ENG 100 or equivalent). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 310 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory RSP 310 is the third-year co-curricular Lab for Russell Scholars. Students may serve as undergraduate Peer Mentors/TAs or undertake community service projects for credit. Students will design projects in consultation with the Director or Assistant Director on an individual timeframe; there is no set class meeting time. Please contact the Russell Scholars Director or Assistant Director if you are interested. Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 311 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Laboratory RSP 311 is a continuation of RSP 310 . Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 325 - Into the Wild: Environmental Thinking 1960-the present This seminar examines the evolving human relationship to the natural world. Topics include the wilderness idea, animal encounters, a sense of place, landscape change, and how to access the sublime in our everyday lives. How can we treat the new diagnosis of nature-deficit disorder? What role do individuals play in the health of the environment? Includes precursors like Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, as well as student-designed final projects exploring “a sense of wonder” inspired by Rachel Carson’s legacy.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent); OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 400 - Russell Scholars Independent Study Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 402 - Russell Scholars Capstone Seminar: Community and Commitment Graduation is getting closer! Join us to explore some questions that shape this pivotal moment: How can you put the passions of your academic major to work? What constitutes meaningful work? What is our responsibility to ourselves and to the world? What is the common good? What does citizenship mean? Course will include readings, hands-on activities, and visits to USM’s Career Hub to develop employment search skills. The course is structured to provide a significant mentoring experience for you in your last semesters at University. Usually taken senior year; may be taken junior year with permission from the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 410 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Lab RSP 410 is the fourth-year co-curricular Lab for Russell Scholars. Students may serve as undergraduate Peer Mentors/TAs or undertake community service projects for credit. Students will design projects in consultation with the Director or Assistant Director on an individual timeframe; there is no set class meeting time. Please contact the Russell Scholars Director or Assistant Director if you are interested. Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
RSP 411 - Russell Scholars Learning Community Lab RSP 411 is a continuation of RSP 410 . Typically a one-credit opportunity.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Russell Scholars Program
Social and Behavioral Sciences
SBS 122 - A Regulated Society Can you think of a part of your life that does not involve rules and regulation? This course will explore why our daily lives are so regulated by examining real world examples of rules and regulation. You will understand the legal and sociological and psychological background of why humans regulate their lives. The course will provide a broad perspective of how regulations permeate daily life through oral and written assignments, class discussions and debates, role playing, games with shifting rules.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 199 - Topics Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 200 - Multicultural Human Development This course introduces developmental theory and research that encompasses the entire lifespan. Emphasis will be on prenatal development through adolescence, with an overview of adult development. A multi-disciplinary and multicultural view of human development will be taken by examining theories from a socio-cultural context and in consideration of change as well as stability throughout the life cycle. The interaction of hereditary, environmental, and socio-cultural factors will be considered in studying physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. This course is cross listed with HRD 200 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 210 - Me in 3D: Introduction to Social and Behavioral Sciences This experiential and introductory course gives students the opportunity to consider their relationship with the world through the three different perspectives of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. We will explore issues of information literacy and writing in the social and behavioral sciences as as an introduction in the interdisciplinary strength of the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) major. As a required introductory course, students should enroll in this course as soon as possible after declaring SBS as their major.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 220 - U.S. Democracy Origins and Development In this course, students consider convergence of cultures, events, and ideas that led to the founding of the United States as a republic up to 1877. The course explores the basic structure of the U.S. system of government, the primary political philosophies that undergird it, and past efforts made to remedy injustices that ran counter to the ideals of democracy. This course has been approved by the State Department of Education for content area in secondary Social Studies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 300 - Deviance and Social Control This course provides a forum to examine deviance and social control from sociological, psychological, ecological, environmental and cross-cultural (anthropological) perspectives, examining contested definitions of deviance, and different theories about deviance and social control. The course investigates the interrelationships of culture, power, identity formation and social change. We will explore portrayals of deviance and social control in literature, film, and popular culture. Students challenge their critical thinking skills and will achieve a higher level of understanding about the relative notion of deviance, including how it relates to population size, and the nature(s) and type(s) of social control.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 301 - Group Dynamics In this course, students acquire an understanding of human behavior, communication, and interaction in groups and the skills needed to participate effectively in group activities. Through a focus on group process and development, this course provides a theoretical foundation for how groups function and discusses how these theories can be applied to a wide range of group settings. This course uses experiential and service learning to develop critical skills in understanding the shared leadership necessary to create effective group dynamics. This course is cross listed with LOS 301 .
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 100 , ESL 100 , HON 100 or RSP 100 with a grade of C- or better is required for LOS majors and preferred for all other students. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 302 - Organizational Behavior Students in this course will examine human behavior in organizations: individual, group, and organizational processes that impact workplace behaviors and organizational life. The focus of the course is understanding factors that contribute to organizational effectiveness and the major challenges facing organizations today. Students will explore and discuss individual and organizational learning, individual values and motivation, interpersonal communication and work team dynamics, leadership and emotional intelligence, power and influence, and organizational culture and change. Additionally, students will engage in experiential and skill-building activities and apply conceptual frameworks to their real-life work experiences. This course is cross listed with LOS 302 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 303 - Abnormal Psychology This course presents an introduction to the classification, diagnosis, and etiology of what is considered “mental illness.” Cultural aspects of “abnormality” will be emphasized, as will integrative models of the causes of mental disorders. This integrative approach considers the complex interplay between biological, psychological, interpersonal, and cultural factors as they contribute to the development and expression of psychological disorders.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 304 - Food and Culture This course examines cultural beliefs and practices surrounding diet, food, cooking, eating, and nutrition. Students explore how behaviors and attitudes toward food and eating influence and are shaped by culture. Discussion may include food and healing, the social functions of food, food as represented in the media, food production and food politics, the diet industry, and eating disorders. Students gain insight into their own behaviors and attitudes toward food and eating, as well as those of today’s global cultures. This course is cross listed with ANT 233 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 305 - Child and Adolescent Development This course examines the development and behavior of children from conception through adolescence. Theoretical frameworks and research on current knowledge in child and adolescent development will be considered, as well as applications to contemporary topics in child welfare and education. This course examines psychological, cognitive, and social dimensions of development.
Prerequisite(s): SBS 200 /HRD 200 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 308 - Medical Anthropology This course considers the interface between medicine and anthropology in terms of both human biology and society. The course develops concepts of health as effective adaptation to environmental stresses, including infectious disease, nutritional stress, and psychosomatic illness, among others. It traces the history of health and disease in human society from hunter-gatherers to modern urban, industrial communities, and examines the way in which human populations have attempted to deal with various agents of disease. The course examines the diversity of human theories of disease causation and explores the role of modern medicine in effective health care delivery to persons of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This course is cross listed with ANT 302 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 310 - Childhood and Society This course weaves several broad themes regarding children and childhood in society, including how ecologies of socialization and circumstances shape our perceptions of children and childhood as a distinct life stage. The course explores how various agents of socialization including family, educational systems, peers, and media shape contemporary childhood socialization; how children are co-constructors of childhood and society; and how the experiences of childhood are shaped by ethnicity, race, class, and gender.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 311 - Theories of Personality This course is an in-depth study of the major classic and contemporary theories of personality. It includes consideration of historical developments and cultural differences in the area of personality theory and research. The relationship of personality with mental and physical health is given special consideration.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 315 - Social Psychology of Disability This course will examine some of the social psychological issues associated with disability and the rehabilitation of individuals who have disabilities, with a focus on minimizing existing social, vocational, educational, and attitudinal barriers to individuals rather than on minimizing the impact of clients’ physical/mental differences within a normed environment. It will familiarize students with the points of view and the experiences of people from various social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds with a wide range of disabilities/abilities, towards enabling students to approach counseling as a means of expanding opportunities for their clients’ access to these opportunities, and empowering their clients to attain their goals.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 316 - Diversity in Organizations Students in this course will develop an understanding of the benefits and challenges of diversity in organizations. The course takes a historical, socio-economic, and psychological approach to the challenges of diverse and marginalized populations in the U.S. Students learn how the workplace may affect diverse peoples and how others can learn to make the workplace more hospitable. A primary focus of this course is on examining beliefs, behaviors, or unconscious attitudes that perpetuate the oppression and subordination of diverse members of society in the workplace, while also looking at how increased diversity is adding to workplace productivity, creativity, and learning. Readings are drawn from the social sciences and humanities to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. This course is cross listed with LOS 316 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 329 - Research Methods This course is an introduction to research methods in the social and behavioral sciences, organizational planning and leadership, and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on critically evaluating, designing, conducting, and communicating research. Students in this course will develop conceptual and practical knowledge as well as the ability to apply knowledge capably, ethically, and to good effect in a variety of private, nonprofit, and public organizations and in community service settings. This course is cross listed with LOS 329 .
Prerequisite(s): LOS 120 or equivalent. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 332 - Death, Dying, and Denial An interdisciplinary consideration of death and dying that may include biological, historical, and various social science perspectives, this course examines cross-cultural variations in beliefs and practices related to death, care for the dying, and bereavement. It also explores the personal, social, and cultural implications of denying death and refusing to mourn.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 334 - Spirituality Spirituality, variously defined, is a central part of human experience, constituting important levels of consciousness and meaning. This course will investigate the experience and development of spirituality over the life span as depicted in religious, psychological, “New Age,” and imaginative literatures.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 335 - Legal Issues in Health and Human Services This course examines the legal framework underlying the delivery of health and human services with an emphasis on current socio-legal problems including the rights of clients and the responsibilities of workers.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 336 - Fundamentals of Public Health This course provides an overview of the public health system and examines the purpose, history, organization, approach, functions and determinants of health. The course places special emphasis on current health issues from our daily lives to highlight the relevance of public health. Trends, successes and challenges from a population perspective will be discussed as well as various tools and techniques used to address public health issues. This course is cross listed with SCI 336 /BPH 201 .
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 337 - Introduction to Epidemiology This seminar course introduces the student to epidemiology as a utility for the establishment and maintenance of public health. In essence, epidemiology involves the observation and statistical analysis of the occurrence of health and disease in human populations. This science informs the practice of preventive health/disease control and the formulation of public health policy. Seminar topics will be drawn from both infectious and chronic disease epidemiology ranging from the historical plagues such as the Black Death to the modern plagues of AIDS, cancer, and obesity. This course is cross listed with SCI 337 /BPH 337 .
Prerequisite(s): Introductory Biology and Statistics recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 339 - Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity This course will investigate race and ethnicity and how people acquire and retain their identity. Why do people leave their homes to start new lives in new places? Why do they want to face new or grave challenges? Pilgrims, Jews, Huguenots, and Irish in the past, and Somali and Syrians, today, are but a few peoples who have done so. Through historical and contemporary readings and films, oral histories and personal interviews, the course examines the challenges immigrants face, as they attempt to assimilate within the U.S. while trying to maintain their native languages, traditions, cultures and communities.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 341 - The Family This course is a contemporary, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the family. It is an approach that includes an examination of family structures, evolving familial relationships, and the impact of economic, political, and demographic crosscurrents on these structures and relationships.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 343 - Substance Use Disorders This course considers patterns of use of drugs, the bases of their effects and associated harms, and the history of and current options for prevention and intervention efforts. The role of society and public policy in influencing our thinking and behavior concerning substance use and abuse is considered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 344 - Violence: Causes and Control This course studies violence and the possibilities of living peacefully as explored in psychological and sociological works and in writings on anthropology, social policy, and religion. The course reviews the causes of violent and aggressive behaviors and specific approaches to the prevention and control of these behaviors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 345 - Diversity: Many Voices This course examines the impact of various markers of diversity including race, class, and gender on individual and social experiences in the United States. Students will analyze issues of diversity concerning inequality, power, privilege, and social justice. Students will explore their own place in a diverse society and develop opportunities for building strength through diversity in organizations and communities.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 346 - Introduction to Social Services This course examines the profession of social services from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Students will explore specialty areas in social work such as mental health and disability, crime and violence, and family work. A focus on case management will be explored. Career options in the social work and the broader social services field will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 348 - Responding to Mental Health Crisis in the Community This course explores history and models of mental health focused on the ability of individuals with mental illness to function successfully in the community. The course will assist students in developing an understanding of crisis intervention perspectives, including knowledge of the following: risk factors and precipitating events; available emergency community resources and associated obstacles to access to these services; effects of psychological trauma as it pertains to the impact on the community; what it means to be culturally competent; and how we work with various vulnerable populations within a community setting.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 349 - Trauma and Narrative This course examines the medical, political, and cultural history of the concept of trauma, focusing on how trauma has become a core concern in both contemporary clinical psychology and literary criticism. We consider models for conceptualizing responses to traumatic experiences. Topics include the diagnostic criteria of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, recommended treatment approaches, risk and protective factors. Students explore “narrative” vs. “traumatic” memories and carefully examine a number of literary texts and films to analyze the characteristics of representations of traumatic memory. The idea that fashioning a narrative of traumatic experience is essential to trauma therapy and to the healing effects of trauma literature, will also be explored.
Prerequisite(s): Recommended completion of a 100-level Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 1 course (with grade of C- or higher), SOC 100 , PSY 100 , and ANT 101 recommended. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 350 - Psychosocial Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence This course includes readings and discussion of the etiology and manifestation of psychosocial disorders in childhood and adolescence. Topic areas, including approaches from prevention to intervention, will be considered from developmental, psychological and sociological perspectives. Special focus includes the role of the family and other collateral adults, the role of adverse childhood experiences and successful contemporary treatment approaches.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 358 - Representations of Motherhood This interdisciplinary course examines the ways in which motherhood is represented in various cultural forms (including film, literature, and political rhetoric) and from within different historical and cultural contexts. Contemporary psychological theories will be considered in terms of how they are used to prescribe normative demands on women and mothers and also how they attribute various powers to mothers that then contribute to the construction of particular social policies and practices.
Prerequisite(s): Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 2 course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 362 - Understanding Regulation: Applying Scissors to Red Tape Every industry and profession in the United States is caught in a vast net of regulations; federal, state, and local governments all have policies that influence and determine the infrastructure of organizations and how they function. From the Food & Drug Administration through Equal Opportunity laws, local ordinances, and professional organization standards and requirements, this course will examine how and why regulations arise; how to research and decipher their essential elements; how to determine what regulations apply to product, idea, or profession (PIP) and how to think about and manage risks associated with regulations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 363 - Human Factors in Regulation This course introduces students to classic and contemporary theory within psychology, sociology, anthropology and legal studies to understand why regulations exist and how human beings create, respond to, and navigate them. Students learn about core constructs that impact both individual and group-level (e.g., corporate) decision-making, and policy making. These include: neurocognitive and evolutionary processes; individual factors (e.g., need for control, reactance, psychopathy); group processes (e.g., in-group/out-group; groupthink; persuasion techniques); social factors (e.g., tragedy of the commons; nature of institutions and bureaucracies); and cultural factors (e.g., individualism versus collectivism, cross-cultural ethical/legal differences). Students learn to use these analytical frameworks to understand the role of poverty/affluence, education and governmental structure on how regulatory control is created and sustained within social systems.
Prerequisite(s): It is highly recommended that students have taken one of the disciplinary introduction courses (PSY 100 , SOC 100 , or ANT 101 ) prior to taking this course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 364 - Introduction to Creative Modalities This course introduces students to the basic principles, theories, and varied professional applications of the creative therapies, including modalities of art, drama, movement, music, poetry and play. Foundational exposure to and experience with a variety of experiential processes is a major feature of the course. Exploration of the value of these methods in transcending barriers of age, mental health, physical health, learning styles and needs, language ability and cultural norms is also woven into the course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 368 - Transitioning Cultures: Ethical Conflicts in Post-Military Life This course compares and contrasts ethical and moral issues across military, civilian, and veteran populations. Students will articulate how values and ethics inform human understanding, social structures, and personal and interpersonal behavior in comparisons between military and civilian life experiences. Students will explore the contradictions between military ethics and divergent frameworks of civilian life.
Prerequisite(s): As an EISRC designated course the core pre-requisites are: any three of Creative expression, Cultural Interpretation, Science Exploration, Socio-Cultural Analysis. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship (for active duty military or veterans only) Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 370 - Toward a Global Ethics This writing intensive course assists students in articulating and assessing their own values. It examines the range of ethical theories and positions and explores the influence of particular cultural ideologies on ethical beliefs. The course considers the ethical principles implied in democracy, sustainability, justice, and difference. It examines ethical issues and dilemmas faced by individuals, organizations, and nations while exploring personal and collective decision-making processes in a global context.
Prerequisite(s): Core pre-requisites: any three of Creative expression, Cultural Interpretation, Science Exploration, Socio-Cultural Analysis; ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 375 - Infant Mental Health and Attachment This course focuses on the critical importance of attachment in early childhood and the emotional development of young children as the basis of forming relationships throughout one’s life. New developments in neuroscience, the impact of stress on developing brain architecture and adverse childhood experiences will be reviewed. The concepts of infant mental health as relational, reflective, and interdisciplinary will be presented as well as skills and strategies for supporting the growing field of infant mental health.
Prerequisite(s): Recommended PSY 100 , HRD 200 /SBS 200 , a course in Child Development, or SBS 311 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 390 - Brain and Behavior This course will explore the relation between the human brain as a physical organ, the mind as it relates to the brain, and behavior. We will explore how the human brain is structured and how those structures control various function; the basics of how neurons communicate with each other, electrically and chemically; how the brain develops and “brain circuits” are formed; and how memory, emotion, identity, and spirituality grow out of the “wetware” that is our most complex organ.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 398 - Independent Study Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 399 - Special Topics Various courses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 411 - Counseling and Psychotherapy A study of the conceptual foundations, fundamental characteristics, and ethical principles involved in the process of psychological counseling. We will explore introductory and alternative methods (e.g. individual, group, family) of therapy in relation to theories of personality development and functioning. Special focus will also be placed on counseling approaches in community mental health areas such as trauma and crisis intervention.
Prerequisite(s): SBS 311 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 413 - Exploring Careers and Job Search Skills In this career development course, preparing for internships, students relate self-knowledge, interest and skills assessment, and career decision-making strategies to affirm and develop career path options. In addition, students will learn how to market themselves to prospective employers by using tools such as cover letters, resumes, and interviews.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, summer Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 420 - Mindfulness Mindfulness is about paying attention without judgment to what is being presented moment by moment right here, right now and then responding to this moment from a place of balance and centering rather than reacting from old patterns. This course studies mindfulness using practices based on the Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program and practices for cognitive and emotional regulation. Students will explore ways to integrate mindfulness into work, family, health, and relationships, particularly into teaching, nursing, social work, counseling, public safety, and the healthcare professions. This course is cross listed with LOS 599 when topic matches.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 430 - Applied Social and Public Policy A review of contemporary social policy alternatives and an examination of social policy making processes at both the macro- and micro-levels. The course combines service learning or community engagement with action research strategies in an Applied Social Policy project with a community-based organization or governmental agency. Recommended to be taken in a student’s final semesters.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and either LOS 210 or SBS 210 or SBS 370 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 436 - Risk, Public Policy, and Society This course considers the variety of ways in which risks, especially risks to the environment and health, are measured, perceived, communicated, and acted upon in our society. Perspectives will be drawn from health fields, natural sciences, and political science, as well as from the social sciences. This course is cross listed with LOS 436.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 447 - Internship This course integrates field-based professional experience with a directed, reflective, and academic component. While working at their field site of choice, students participate in an online seminar in which they learn about and reflect on workplace issues, evaluate their interests, and acquire basic skills needed to market themselves effectively. Students wishing to take more than 3 credit hours must have permission from their faculty advisors.
Prerequisite(s): Must be LOS, NAS, or SBS major who has successfully completed at least 84 credits. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, summer Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
SBS 470 - Study Abroad Students in this course are introduced to key issues in leadership across cultures and provided with tools for effective leadership in a global environment. Through international travel, a variety of readings, and reflection exercises, students will examine a range of leadership situations and cultural factors that influence the quality of a leader’s performance. To help apply theory to experience, students will be given a number of opportunities to articulate ideas about the concepts explored through presentation, group discussion, and writing. This course is cross listed with LOS 470.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; International Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Social Work
SWO 150 - Professional Writing Laboratory for Social Workers The ability to communicate clearly and appropriately through written word and oral presentation to small groups are essential components of a social worker’s professional responsibility, and will comprise a significant proportion of day-to-day professional practice. In addition, as part of preparation for practice, social work education has a significant volume of written and presentation assignments. This required five week writing workshop offers both immediate and long-term benefits to social work students. It is designed to reinforce knowledge and skills in composition, grammar, and oral presentation that you have acquired through your previous educational experiences to advance the specialized skills needed in professional social work.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 201 - Introduction to Social Work This course is an introduction to the profession of social work. Students are introduced to the core values of social work and the code of ethics that emanates from those values. Oppression and social justice are central themes of this course. The practice of social work is considered from the perspective of a collaborative strengths-based model working with complex social service systems. The course familiarizes students with various roles, functions, and tasks that social workers perform in a variety of settings. It acquaints students with the primary skills and practices of professional social work. Taking this course will help students make a more informed decision about social work as a career.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 250 - Introduction to Social Welfare Provides an introduction to the institution of social welfare through a review of social welfare history; the values and philosophy in America of treating the poor, the ill, and others in need; contemporary approaches to social policy; and possible alternative models of social welfare.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 333 - Social Work Research I A study of the methods of social work research for social policy and social work practice. The course emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative research processes with the goal of enabling the student to be competent as a “practitioner searcher.”
Prerequisite(s): SWO 201 , SWO 250 ; any introductory statistics course (MAT 120 , PSY 201 , or LOS 120 ) Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 334 - Social Work Research II In this continuation of SWO 333 , students complete an empirical research project. Class members serve as a review committee for all research instruments used, learn the practical aspects of writing quantitative and qualitative research reports, and function as a research support group for one another.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 333 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 344 - Costa Rica Immersion: Social Work Perspectives on Culture, Language, and Service-Learning This 2-week course takes place in Costa Rica and will introduce students to the colonial heritage, indigenous cultures, and the contemporary sociopolitical, ecological, and economic issues facing this Central American country. Students will receive 4 hours per day of Spanish language instruction, a class in dance and cooking, visits to cultural and recreational sites, lectures on Costa Rican social problems and social work agencies, and service-learning in a local organization such as an orphanage or refugee camp. Two all-day Saturday classes will be held at USM prior to the course trip.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; International Course Typically Offered: Summer Course Type: Social Work
SWO 350 - Social Welfare Policy A critical examination of social welfare institutions, the social problems and social needs to which they are addressed, and the policy decisions that determine the organization and direction of social welfare programs.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 , SWO 250 , POS 101 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 365 - Examining Oppression and Valuing Diversity This course is designed to provide a framework for understanding and respecting cultural diversity. The cultural aspects of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ableness will be discussed. A central theme in organizing the course is the examination of the role of oppression in shaping the lives of members of various cultural groups.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 370 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment This course examines the ways in which normative and predictable human behavior throughout the life cycle is mediated by gender, race, age, sexual preference, class and culture. The implication of this knowledge for social work practice will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 201 , SWO 250 ; PSY 100 , HRD 200 /SBS 200 or PSY 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 374 - Sexual Harassment in Education and Work This course examines sexual harassment in the workplace and education from three perspectives: mental health, sexual violence, and social justice. Students apply concepts from the behavioral and social sciences, from clinical and community practice to contemporary education and corporate environments. Environmental and cultural forces that influence discriminatory behavior are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 375 - Gender and Aging A theoretical and practical course that informs students about aging issues affecting women and men differentially. Students will analyze the manifestations of aging and apply concepts drawn from the behavioral and social sciences. Service learning experience may be available.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 383 - Social Work with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers Considers migration patterns and flows across the globe, introduces critical concepts in immigration and U.S. immigration policies. Community-based services will be explored with a focus on concepts such as cultural competence, diversity, empowerment, anti-oppressive social work, and critical multicultural approaches. Service-delivery efforts/approaches with the population will be considered.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 388 - Addictions & Substance Use: Critical Analysis, Theory, and Best Practice Addictions & Substance Use: Critical Analysis, Theory, and Best Practice is an exploration and examination of the causes, family dynamics, cultural issues, medical aspects, treatment, and prevention modalities of drug and alcohol and behavioral use, abuse, dependency and addiction along with the influences of co-occurring disorders and integrated treatment practices. This course is designed to provide students with a foundation in both direct and indirect social work practice issues with clients, families and communities (micro, mezzo, macro) challenged by addiction and co-occurring disorders. Focus regarding treatment and care will be given to multiple viewpoints including moderation, harm reduction, medication assistance, and abstinence.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 393 - Methods of Social Work Practice I This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and skills of interviewing and assessment within social work paradigms. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of ethics and the process of reflection within a generalist practice of social work. This course has a service-learning component that requires students to have some time available for work in the community.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 102 , Statistics (MAT 120 , PSY 201 or LOS 120 ), SOC 100 , PSY 100 , HRD 200 /SBS 200 or PSY 220 , POS 101 , ECO 101 , SWO 201 , SWO 250 , SWO 365 , and SWO 370 ; at least 60 credits anticipated at the end of the previous fall semester; grade of C or higher in all required social work and foundation courses; and an overall 2.5 GPA. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Social Work
SWO 397 - Independent Study Individual or group projects for independent study may be developed by students in consultation with a particular faculty member. Students collaborate with an instructor to write a brief proposal for an area of study they wish to pursue that is not offered within the BSW curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the BSW Coordinator and faculty instructor supervising the project prior to registration. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 399 - Topics in Social Work This is a general course number under which various special topics electives are offered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 402 - Methods of Social Work Practice II This course explores the contextual nature of generalist social work practice within a strengths perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the processes of engagement, assessment, and intervention with individuals, families, and groups. Family systems, group, and crisis models of intervention will be presented. This course must be taken concurrently with SWO 411 (Field Work I).
Prerequisite(s): SWO 393 and a C or better in all required social work and foundation courses, and an overall 2.5 GPA. Taken concurrently with SWO 411 (Field Work I). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 403 - Methods of Social Work Practice III Examines the dilemmas of professional human service workers in bureaucratic systems and the effects of professionalization and the bureaucracy on consumers. Develops a range of methods aimed at better meeting client needs with particular reference to strategies of organizational change and community organization. Class discussions and assignments are based on field work experiences.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 393 and a C or higher in all required social work and foundation courses, and an overall 2.5 GPA. Co-requisite(s): SWO 412 . Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
SWO 411 - Field Work I This is a senior year course for social work majors taken concurrently with SWO 402 Methods of Social Work Practice II). Students are required to engage in a year-long internship of 16 hours per week in approved agency settings, designed to relate social work theory to practice under professional supervision. Must be taken as the first in a two-course sequence.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 393 and a C or higher in all required social work and foundation courses, and an overall 2.5 GPA. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Social Work
SWO 412 - Field Work II This is a continuation of SWO 411 (Field Work I) taken in spring term concurrently with SWO 403 (Methods of Social Work Practice III) during the final semester of the internship. Must be taken as the second course in the two-course sequence.
Prerequisite(s): SWO 393 , SWO 402 , and SWO 411 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Social Work
Sociology
SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology The fundamental concepts, principles, and methods of sociology; analyzes the influence of social and cultural factors upon human behavior; evaluates effects of group processes, social classes, stratification, and basic institutions on contemporary society.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Sociology
SOC 210 - Critical Thinking about Social Issues Designed to follow Introduction to Sociology, this course further develops students’ skills of critical analysis through the application of sociological principles to current social issues. The course uses popular media as well as sociological materials. Examples of issues which may be examined are: poverty, health care, homelessness, aging, drugs, violence, bureaucracy, white collar crime, and changing gender roles.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted Fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis; Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 300 - Sociological Theory Critical evaluation of selected classical models of the social world. Includes consideration of the foundations of sociological thought, the content of major classical theories and theory groups, and the socio-cultural settings within which they developed.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with a grade of C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 301 - Qualitative Research Methods This course provides an overview of the process of social research utilizing qualitative methods. Topics include the logic and principles of the research process, as well as specific techniques in qualitative research (e.g., writing field notes, conducting interviews, analyzing qualitative data). Students will apply research skills in settings outside the classroom.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with a grade of C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 307 - Quantitative Research Methods This course provides an overview of the social scientific research process, utilizing quantitative methods. Students generate research questions and testable hypotheses and analyze a variety of secondary data sources. Specific statistical topics include: measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, t-testing, analysis of variance, cross-tabulation, measures of association, linear regression, and multiple regression. The course includes a computer lab component.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with a grade of C or higher and SATM score of 570 or above, Accuplacer QAS score of 263 or above, or 100-level MAT course, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 315 - Self and Society This course explores the social construction of self as the result of both face-to-face and societal-level social processes such as language acquisition, identity development, and the effects of culture and social structure on individual and collective conceptions of selfhood. Readings and discussions focus on the relative contributions of individual self-determination and societal constraints on selfhood. Specific topics include childhood identity development, social stigma and societal definitions of normality, social structure and self-esteem, and cross-cultural differences in the concept of selfhood.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 316 - Sociology of Gender This course examines gender as a social, cultural, and historical construction which occurs within and reinforces sex/gender stratification. With particular attention paid to education, the family, and work, we will explore sex/gender stratification-its sources and dynamics; historical and contemporary forms; and implications for human lives, history, and society.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 327 - Social Movements This course is divided into two sections: social movement theory and social movement cases. First, students will explore the three dominant theoretical approaches covering the micro, meso, and macro context of social movements. These include framing and interpretive processes, mobilizing structures, and political opportunities. The “classic” U.S. social movement of the 1960s (civil rights, women’s liberation, anti-war, and free speech) and 1970s-80s (environmental and peace) will be utilized as historical cases to comprehend social movement theory. The second section of the course will address contemporary movements including (but not limited to) labor, anti-globalization, local alternatives, and the new peace movements.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 330 - Sociology of the Family A sociological approach to the study of the family, including the structure of social relationships, the modern American family as a social institution, the cultural background of the family, and the impact of social change.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 331 - School and Society This course examines the social organization of schooling and its social and political context in contemporary American society. Topics include the emergence of public education, role of state and community in shaping its nature, problems of access and equality, the organizational nature of schools, teaching as a profession, and alternatives to public education. Attention is given to public debates concerning the conditions, limits, and possibilities of schooling. Comparisons with educational systems of other countries are included when appropriate.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 333 - Medical Sociology Analysis of socio-cultural influences on health and illness, with an emphasis on health, illness, and sickness as social identities. Particular attention is given to the organization of health-related occupations and health services in cross-cultural perspective, and to the ethical and policy-related issues raised by different models of organization.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 336 - Law and Society This course provides context, history, and perspective for analysis of the relationship between law, social policy, and social systems. Beginning with the U.S. Constitution, and how laws define our current relationships in society, we will explore power dynamics, social status, access to opportunity, and citizenship in contemporary U.S, society. Particular attention on civil rights, immigration, public education, and the justice system as legal structures through which social relationships are defined. The course will integrate community-based work with local legal services organizations that will allow students to actively apply the course content to constructive empowerment models.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 348 - Sociology of Work This course surveys three strands of the literature: the nature of work under capitalism, the consequences emerging from such labor, and alternatives to capitalist relations in production. Specific topics include work in the global economy, Fordism and flexible capitalism, the division of labor, labor markets, control in the workplace, corporate dominance, jobs and the class structure, alienation, and workplace democracy.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 355 - Politics and Society This course will focus on power relationships in U.S. society, with some cross-national comparisons. Specific topics to be covered include the nature and distribution of power among social groups and organizations, theories of the state, social class and political participation, policy formation, and the interactions between democracy as a political system and capitalism as an economic system.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 358 - Sociology of Women’s Work This course will introduce students to theoretical and empirical literature on women’s work in the paid labor force, on their unpaid labor in the home, and on the relationship between these two kinds of “women’s work.” The course emphasizes the diversity of women’s work and the interconnections among race, ethnicity, class, and gender through a detailed examination of professional women, blue-collar women, and “pink-collar” employees. Additional topics include occupational segregation, earnings differentials, poverty, law and public policy, and labor militancy.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 363 - Food, Culture, and Society This course views food production, processing, distribution, and consumption as social and cultural phenomena. The course develops a sociological framework for understanding and connecting the diverse food stories in the headlines: GMOs, obesity, agricultural subsidies, food safety, organics. Students will also gain a better understanding of their own food choices and opportunities for changing our food system.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 365 - Sociology of the Body This course examines the body as a text marked by, and rendered meaningful through, social categories of race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and disease. This seminar discusses both social constructionist and biological determinist perspectives on embodied difference.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 370 - Sociology of the Environment Sociology of the Environment is the study of the complex relations between the social world and the natural environment. The sociologist is particularly interested in the role played by popular culture, economic systems, urbanization, rationalization, globalization, race, and gender relations (environmental justice) in the creation and continuation of various environmental problems. Thus the course refers to efforts to understand and illuminate the societal dynamics in terms of social practices citizens engage in as they go about their lives. Cumulatively these social practices produce particular consumption and use patterns that have significantly altered the natural world.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 371 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Considers the factors that produce and maintain structured social inequality based on minority status, and the social consequences of such inequality. Includes analysis of selected minorities both in the U.S. and cross-culturally.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 379 - Sociology of Indigenous Peoples This course explores Indigenous ways of knowing, sovereignty, and colonization/decolonization processes around the globe, with significant attention devoted to Maine’s Wabanaki nations. Students will gain deep insight into both the genocidal legacies of settler colonialism that shape our current social context, and the decolonization strategies necessary to achieve truth and healing between Native and non-Native communities.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 380 - Topics in Sociology Specially developed occasional courses exploring a variety of theoretical and substantive areas within the field. These courses may be counted as electives toward completion of the major.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 210 with C or higher or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Sociology
SOC 390 - Individualized Instruction I Independent reading and/or research for juniors and seniors. Apply to Department chair.
Prerequisite(s): 15 hours in Sociology. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-9
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 391 - Individualized Instruction II Continuation of independent reading and/or research for juniors and seniors. Apply to Department chair.
Prerequisite(s): SOC 390 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
May be repeated twice for credit Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 395 - Internship The course is designed to provide work/action experience and insight into professional roles in a variety of community agencies and organizations. The primary objective of the internship is the application of the perspectives, substantive knowledge, and methods of social science to a particular organizational setting. Thus, the internship can be understood as a participant observation experience within the context of social science research. It is primarily designed as a field experience/reflection opportunity for upper-level social science majors with substantive background/coursework in the area of internship placement. In addition to field placement, students are expected to meet for a series of internship seminars, for which readings and reports will be required. Contact Department Chair for details.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1 to 6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 410 - Sociology Capstone In this one-credit seminar, taken in conjunction with a companion course, students reflect on and integrate learning in the major Minor, and general education. The course emphasizes integrative learning at the individual level, as students explore connections among their courses, and collectively as students explore what they have in common as sociologists despite different academic trajectories.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status in the Sociology major, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
SOC 450 - Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship In working closely with faculty, undergraduate teaching assistants will gain insight into course materials and into all aspects of college teaching. This experience will be especially valuable for students who plan to do graduate work in sociology and for students exploring a career in teaching. Teaching assistants also provide an additional resource for assistance, advice, and modeling. Undergraduate teaching assistants generally assist faculty in course preparation and delivery including locating and reviewing materials for course use; assisting with the design of course schedule, exercises, assignments, and class presentations; lecturing and supervision of student groups; and providing feedback to students on their work. In addition, teaching assistants hold regular office hours. Enrollment in SOC 450 will depend on Departmental needs and course offerings. Selection is made by the faculty. Students should contact the Sociology Program office for details.
Prerequisite(s): SOC majors by permission only. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Sociology
Technology
ITP 210 - Technical Writing A basic technical writing course that strengthens critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills. Study includes document purpose, situation analysis, style, format and production of reports, proposals, instructions, procedures, technical descriptions, forms, letters, memos, and visual aids, as well as digital and virtual communication.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 230 - Project Management This course will present a structured analysis of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and monitoring resources related to project management by completing a set of well-defined tasks. Within this course, significant effort will be devoted to understanding the international, social, political, economic, environmental and cultural issues in context of the interrelationships, responsibilities, and demands of project management between technologies, resources, project scope, and budget that impact project success in a global, international environment. Case studies will be used throughout the course to broaden the perspective and understanding of the participant’s knowledge and application of project management’s best practices, and their ability to create and evaluate projects and project performance in an international, global economy. The introduction of computer-based tools in the management of projects will also be covered.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: International Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 250 - Management Information Systems This course will serve as an introduction to management information systems in areas such as: decision support systems, resource and human resource management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management, project management, and records management. Topics covered will include but are not limited to: systems analysis, system modeling and design, data acquisition, security, and maintenance.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 280 - Managing Organizations in a Technological Environment An introduction to the application of management principles to systems, people and organizations in technology-intensive industries. Students will learn managerial approaches to the business, corporate, and project levels of organizations; and discover contrasting demands of entrepreneurial and established technology firms. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing the intricate, multidisciplinary nature of the management of technology, including an understanding of commitment, team-based performance norms and decision making, conflict management, power sharing, self-directed team work and organizational alliances. Topics include the impact of technology on corporate strategy, operations, and decision-making and how emerging strategies/solutions/capabilities can be developed to create business efficiencies and manage organizational resources. The course combines conceptual and experiential approaches involving exercises, case studies, lectures, videos, and group work.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 310 - Facility Planning This course provides participants with the analytical tools and knowledge to effectively and efficiently plan the physical facility for a wide variety of enterprises. Case studies used in this course may include: hospitals, airports, manufacturing plant floors, distribution centers, fire departments, grocery and retail stores, college campuses, construction sites, and shopping malls.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 330 - Supply Chain Management This course explores selected analytical tools and information associated with supply chain management including activities that are used to centrally control the production, shipment, and distribution of products. Classes consist of lectures and problem solving activities that combine aspects of production control such as forecasting, capacity planning, material requirement planning, order quantities, order points and line balancing with the development and management of supply chains from sourcing and procurement through conversion and logistics.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 331 - Agile/Adaptive Project Management In an increasingly complex world, the pace of change, the degree of connectivity, and the scale of operations are leading to rapidly escalating complexity in many domains. This course focuses on agile and adaptive project management methods that provide a very different approach to traditional linear project management and apply to the needs of projects that reach a high degree of complexity. Such needs make it more important for organizations to become agile and to engrain process improvement leadership in the way of working within the organization. The course looks at alternative approaches designed to deal with today’s work environment. It provides greater depth in the review and application of contemporary processes such as risk, quality, and leadership; and methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and Lean Startup.
Prerequisite(s): ITP 230 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 340 - Quality Management An overview addressing fundamental concepts and principles of quality control applied to organizations. Major topics include theory and application of qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques as well as quality awards and standards. Specific topics include foundations of quality, planning tools, traditional tools, variability, process set-up verification, pre-control, SPC process capability analysis, acceptance sampling, and quality awards.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 120 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 350 - Leadership, Teambuilding, and Facilitation An exploration of topics related to leadership, team building, group dynamics, and an introduction to the practices and goals of successful facilitation of face-to-face groups and virtual meetings. Teambuilding topics include member and group participant types and functions; stages to teambuilding; creating and building teams; dysfunctions and conflicts within teams and groups; and teams in the roles of content controllers. Leadership emphasis is placed on foundational principles, capabilities and practices that help leaders self-manage, engage and influence diverse team members, and generate shared commitment for team and project success. The course explores various contexts, motivations and paths that evoke leadership in technology through a series of case studies and exercises in critical knowledge areas and skills required of technology leaders. Facilitation topics include developing techniques and skills in the role of a meeting facilitator and process leader, identifying and defining individual participant behaviors and how those interrelationships affect team dynamics, developing and designing facilitation agendas, preparing and performing facilitations, facilitating conflict, creating participation, and meeting management and ethical responsibilities.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 381 - Human Resource Development Students are introduced to the various functions of human resources in industrial settings. Topics covered include human resource planning, job analysis, employee selection, performance management, compensation, benefits management, safety, training, and employee relations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 410 - Technical Operations and Strategies This course will focus on the theory and application of concepts utilized to maintain global manufacturing competitiveness. Major topics may include Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, kanban, autonomation, visual signaling, poka-yoke, takt time, and kaizan techniques. Waste elimination, set-up time reduction, and continuous improvement theory and practices will be highlighted.
Prerequisite(s): ITP 230 or permission of instructor Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITP 490 - Operations, Finance, and Management Control This course will cover the theory and application of concepts used in analysis and control of costs pertaining to planning, developing, and managing industrial operations. Concepts include financial/cost accounting, time value of money, methods of evaluating competing alternatives, economic value-added analysis, and capital equipment cost justification.
Prerequisite(s): ACC 110 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Professional
ITS 320 - Workplace Safety and Health Management Systems This course covers the importance of safety and health in the workplace. Emphasis will be placed on the worker in the work environment with an emphasis on OSHA and other regulatory agencies, measures for identifying and controlling workplace hazards, record keeping and reporting, ergonomics, workplace violence and security, fire prevention, electrical safety, hazardous materials, job safety analysis, risk assessment, machine safeguarding, hazardous waste, and selected environmental problems. Students have the opportunity to obtain the 30 hour OSHA certification through external licensing agencies.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Safety
ITT 181 - Computing Technologies This course is a broad overview of current and emerging technologies used in a networked computing environment. Major topics include computer hardware, operating systems, networking, security, web, and software applications. Emphasis is placed on how technology is used within a corporate setting. Lecture and lab.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 200 - Introduction to Cybersecurity An introduction to the fundamentals of cybersecurity and information assurance. Students will develop a knowledge base for defining and recognizing both online threats and potential targets, and develop intellectual tools for evaluating relative risks within cyberspace. Students will apply theories and best practices for addressing potential costs of countermeasures for cyber attacks. Lecture and lab.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 181 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 231 - Technical Visualization This is an essential foundational course of conventional technical visualization, with an emphasis on technical foundations in sketching and drawing 2D and 3D illustration graphics, and exploring technical visualization skills development for problem solving. Content includes basic skills development using contemporary standards for technical sketching for creating orthographic projections, detail and assembly working drawings, and pictorial projections, instructional storyboarding, and developing visual thinking skills for creating technical visualizations and presentations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 241 - Information and Communication Technologies Students in this course will focus on both the basic principles of design, and the conventions of organizing and disseminating technical information through various communications venues. This course offers students a balance of practical knowledge for developing technical documents along with access to advanced communication technologies. Students in this course will be introduced to developing informational graphics for print and digital media; evaluate and create online publications; and utilize web publishing tools and resources. This course provides students with the technical communications knowledge and skills necessary for the workplace.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 270 - Introduction to Computer Hardware The goal of this course is to introduce the hardware components, and their respective functions, of microcomputer systems. Activities address the specification, assembly, upgrading, and maintenance of microcomputers. Assignments may include readings of articles and Web-based documents, discussions, tours, and hands-on activities dealing with microcomputer hardware. It is assumed that students will be proficient with personal computers.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 272 - Networking I The goal of this course is to develop an understanding of computer networks and provide the basic background necessary for implementing and maintaining them. Topics include: cabling systems, the OSI model, LAN and WAN protocols and devices, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, network security, and network virtualization.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 181 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 281 - Internet Website Development This course develops a basic understanding of and skill in the planning, development, and maintenance of Websites. Topics include Website planning methods, HTML, cascading style sheets, HTML editors, FTP, site maintenance, intellectual property issues, and legal issues. Students will develop sample Web pages and associated planning documents, and maintain a Website on a server. It is assumed that students will be proficient with personal computers.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 311 - Infrastructure Communication Systems An introduction to contemporary telecommunications hardware and applications. Emphasis includes state-of-the-art transmission media such as copper, fiber-optic, and wireless technologies including microwave, radio frequency, and infrared. Additional topics may include: classification of data networks; communications systems parameters such as bandwidth, serial parallel, analog and digital; modulation and multiplexing schemes; and the convergence of data, video, and voice networks.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 272 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Two-year fall semester rotation Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 342 - Digital Publishing Technologies This course explores methods and technologies for the design of digital documents and assemblage of content information and for reproduction and repurposing to a diversity of media. Emphasis is on a practicum utilizing state of the art computer-based desktop publishing hardware and software. Activities and topics include design, layout, and management of color digital document preparation for production and cross-media specifications; digital imaging and color management; digital vector graphics for illustration, large format, and packaging products; and variable data management for output systems. An emphasis on terminology, applications, processes, materials and substrates used in conventional and digital workflows for creating artifacts. Lecture and lab.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 343 - Graphic Communication Technologies In the pursuit of digital literacy, students enrolled in this course will design and create digital documents and visual artifacts through advanced activities, apply design strategies, perform collaborative tasks, implement digital workflows, and incorporate contemporary processes for using digital equipment and applicable materials. Students will prepare proposals and presentations as related to course assignments, readings, lecture topics, discussions, demonstrations, and technological analysis for both established and emerging Graphic Communication Technologies. This course provides students with a balance of practical knowledge and advanced technology skills, as well as theoretical foundations to thrive in the digital world. Lecture and lab.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 344 - Digital Video and Media Streaming Technologies In the pursuit of digital literacy, students enrolled in this course will explore time-based digital technologies for creating and delivering digital video products that focus on technical demonstrations and training for the technology industry. Students will work independently and collaboratively, implement digital workflows, and formulate project proposals, and produce digital video projects as related to course assignments, readings, lecture topics, discussions, demonstrations, and analysis of established and emerging digital video technologies. Students will be creating, capturing, processing, archiving, transmitting, and problem solving and submitting time-based projects. This course provides students with a balance of practical knowledge and advanced technology skills, as well as theoretical foundations to thrive in the digital world. Lecture and lab.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 362 - Operating Systems Security Provides a fundamental understanding of both client and server operating system security concepts and techniques. Explores vulnerability, configuration and maintenance, operating system features and other tools commonly employed to achieve and maintain protection of computer resources.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 200 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 363 - Server Administration and Maintenance This course covers the concepts, tools, and practices for installing, managing, and troubleshooting a multi-user or backend server. A combination of lecturers, discussions, and hands-on activities will provide the student with broad exposure to topics related to server administration, including management of user accounts, file systems, processes, as well as installation and upgrades, backup and restore, performance monitoring, and system security. Students will also be exposed to operating system concepts, server virtualization, and an introduction to cloud computing.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 272 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 373 - Networking II This course builds upon the principles and concepts in ITT 272 and focuses on the design of larger networks needed to support enterprise-wide computing. Topics include: network architectural models, modular and tiered designs, remote office designs, network monitoring, and implementation of more specialized networks such as one for a data center.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 272 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 376 - Network Defense This cybersecurity course examines the issues of securing the communications path between systems, including both physical and logical connections. Topics addressed include approaches to securing networks using risk analysis, cost effective countermeasures, layered defenses, and network policy development and implementation procedures. Students will be exposed to a mixture of devices and protocols implementing network defense including firewalls, proxy servers, IDS/IPS solutions, cryptography, VPNs, network access controls, and honeypots.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 200 and ITT 272 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 382 - Advanced Web Site Development This course advances an understanding of innovative techniques for developing dynamic websites. Topics include an analysis of fundamentals of HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS), as well as best practices and standards for managing website initiatives and development teams. Student objectives include: demonstrating a proficiency of working with HTML 5/CSS standards; including conceptual design development, graphics and user interface design prototypes (UI), and applying user experience (UX) concepts for delivery of online content.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 281 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 383 - Databases This course explores database fundamentals, design, implementation, and administration using industry standard technologies and methodologies. The relational database model and the newer semantic object models of database design will be examined and provide students the opportunity to model, design, and implement databases using both methods. Emphasis will be placed on modern multi-user, multi-processing, Web-enabled databases and structured query language (SQL). There will be significant hands-on components in the course.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 181 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 385 - Integrative Programming Organizations use many disparate technologies that need to communicate and work with each other. Integrative Programming focuses on the “glue” that holds systems together. It surveys several programming languages, including scripting languages, as each has different applications to integration. System architectures such as service-oriented architectures, programming interfaces such as Web services and REST, and programming practices such as mediation support the management, evolution and security of the information systems that support the organization.
Prerequisite(s): COS 161 and ITT 272 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 400 - Occupational Competency This course is designed to allow credit for technical expertise learned on the job or through attendance at appropriate/related schools, workshops, and/or seminars. The student’s technical knowledge and skill must be documented through the Department’s portfolio assessment procedures. See advisor for further information.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-36
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 413 - Ethical Hacking This course focuses on offensive cybersecurity techniques and the countermeasures needed to defend against them. Topics covered include target surveillance, attack surface evaluation, system foot printing, social engineering, vulnerability scanning, and vulnerability exploitation. Students will be exposed to the ethical requirements of penetration testing, including the principles and conditions needed beforehand, and the role of the reporting process.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 200 , ITT 272 , PHI 235 or any Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship course, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 440 - Internship The intention of this internship is to broaden a student’s experience and exposures while using new skills attained through their academic program. Students will focus their efforts in an engaged learning opportunity related to their major and area of professional interest. Students who are currently working are expected to engage their employer for a broader experience in management, project, or adjacent organization to attain internship credit.
Prerequisite(s): Matriculated Department of Technology student, minimum 60 completed credits, minimum 2.5 GPA, a precise definition of the internship experience, and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be Repeated for Credit Course Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 444 - Animation and Motion Imaging Technologies In the pursuit of digital literacy, students enrolled in this course will create, capture, and manipulate images to produce animated projects, making the illusion of motion by means of a rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. Animation can be either seen as analogue media, flip books, video capture, digital media, and presented and archived in multiple formats including animated GIF, Flash animation, digital video capture, and streaming media. Students will explore both the foundations of animation, and advanced digital computer applications for creation of animated environments and products. This course provides students with a balance of practical knowledge and advanced technology skills, as well as theoretical foundations to thrive in the digital world. Students should have appropriate computer skills to enroll in an advanced technology course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every two years in fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 451 - Cyber Laws, Policies, and Ethics This course introduces aspects of cybersecurity laws and policies to intergrate these challenges into cyber planning, operations, and strategy. The class will explore privacy issues, legal considerations, codes of ethics, and ethical implications faced by cybersecurity professionals. Topics align to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) organizational security knowledge area covering security laws, regulations, and regulatory standards such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Students will analyze organizations to develop security profiles for public and private entities. The intent is to develop understanding as a security professional of governances and how they convey compliances to business verticals such as healthcare and eCommerce.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 200 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 453 - Special Topics in Information Technology and Cybersecurity Topics in information technology and cybersecurity not regularly covered in other courses. The content can be varied to suit current needs.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 460 - Capstone A capstone project is a multifaceted body of work that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience. Students who are majoring in technology programs will do two things in this course simultaneously. They will develop, investigate, and implement a research project from this discipline. Also, students document that study in a research paper and presentation that has a prescribed format based upon APA structures. Students must complete a formal project proposal in the prescribed format and have it accepted by the instructor before being enrolled in the course.
Prerequisite(s): ITP 210 , ITP 230 , graduating senior status, and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 482 - Computer Systems Forensics This course provides a fundamental understanding of hardening and assessment techniques and a hands-on approach to the hardware and software tools and techniques associated with the protection of computer systems and networks. It examines how to protect computer and network resources as deployed in a typical organization, and it explores protection of communications, resources, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, and the use of various tools for system and network protection.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 200 , ITT 362 , and ITT 376 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 486 - User Experience This course analyzes and evaluates properties and characteristics of human user experiences as they relate to interactions with information and computer technologies. Students will learn and analyze a broadly defined understanding of human-computer interaction (HCI), explore the fundamentals and theoretical knowledge of HCI, and how to apply it in a cognitive work environment, home/personal use, and social spaces. Students will identify tools and methodologies for evaluating users’ experiences using observation, numbers, and statistics.
Prerequisite(s): ITT 272 , ITT 281 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 487 - Operations Senior Seminar The focus of this course is on operational excellence in practice. Topics will include the impact of virtualization on operations, mobile computing operations and management, business continuity, best operational practices, service quality measures, incident preparedness and recovery and major impacts such as mergers and acquisitions. Guest speakers and field trips will be a component of the course.
Prerequisite(s): Graduating senior status and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
ITT 490 - Directed Study Provides upper-level students an opportunity to independently pursue a topic, project, or experiment of interest. Students will prepare a contract or proposal for study to be conducted and, upon completion, submit findings in a scholarly report or other evidence of merit.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring Course Type: Industrial Technology Technical
Theatre
DAN 101 - Contemporary Dance I This is a studio-based technique class which will introduce students to the fundamentals of contemporary dance styles. Students will gain practice in both modern and post-modern choreography with focus on body alignment, strength and flexibility.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 102 - Ballet I Students will learn the fundamentals of ballet dance technique. Class will begin with exercises at the barre and move to floor work. The course will focus on improving coordination, proper body alignment, balance, and strength. Emphasis will be placed on how ballet technique can be used as a basis for other dance styles.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 103 - Jazz Dance I This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of jazz dance. Emphasis will be placed on developing technical skills, enhancing musicality, and increasing physical fitness. Development of individual expression will be encouraged.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 104 - Tap Dance I This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of Tap Dance technique. Emphasis will be placed on the rhythms, styles and techniques of tap dance. Basic tap vocabulary, musicality and dynamics are stressed. Note that tap shoes are required for this class.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 105 - Musical Theatre Styles I This course will focus on the choreography of musical theatre dance created from approximately 1920 to 1977. Employing various dance techniques (ballet, jazz, tap), students will learn combinations based upon original choreography used in “Golden Age” Broadway musicals. Proper footwear for all dance styles (ballet, jazz, tap, character heels) highly encouraged.
Prerequisite(s): DAN 102 AND either DAN 103 or DAN 104 (4 credits), or instructor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 180 - Topics in Technique A studio-based study of a particular dance technique not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 190 - Rehearsal & Production This course provides students with an opportunity to work on a USM Dance concert production and/or Student Dance Project. Positions may include, but are not limited to: choreographers, dancers, stage managers, technicians, designers, wardrobe crew, deck crew, board operators, spot operators, etc.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 201 - Contemporary Dance II This course builds upon the techniques and knowledge gained in Contemporary Dance I. This studio-based technique class will advance the various styles of contemporary dance. Students will gain practice in both modern and post-modern choreography with focus on body alignment, strength, and flexibility.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 202 - Ballet II The course builds upon basic ballet technique and vocabulary. Class will begin with barre exercises, move to floor work, then dance sequences and combinations. Students will improve coordination, proper body alignment, balance, and strength.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 203 - Jazz Dance II Building on the course work of Jazz Dance I, students will deepen their understanding and technique in various styles of jazz dance. Development of individual expression will continue to be encouraged.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 204 - Tap Dance II Building on the coursework of Tap Dance I, students will continue to work on the foundations of the tap dance movement. Emphasis will continue to be placed on rhythms, styles and techniques, while more complex combinations are introduced. Musicality, dynamics and individual expression are further developed. Tap shoes required.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 205 - Musical Theatre Styles II This course will focus on the choreography of musical theatre dance created approximately from 1980 to the present. Employing various dance techniques (ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop), students will learn combinations based upon original choreography used in contemporary Broadway musicals. Proper footwear for all dance styles (ballet, jazz, tap, character heels) highly encouraged.
Prerequisite(s): DAN 105 or instructor approval. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 208 - Dance Composition This class is a multi-level course designed to give students practical and conceptual tools for creating, watching, and discussing contemporary choreography. Movement explorations, structured improvisations, and performance observation give students an array of techniques for generating, shaping, and arranging movement.
Prerequisite(s): Any dance technique class (Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, or Tap). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 209 - Dance Repertory This course focuses on technique and performance in a variety of dance styles. Emphasis will be placed on developing a strong technical base in the various styles of dance. Students will rehearse and perform the original choreography of a faculty or guest artist in an informal showcase at the end of the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Any dance technique class (Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, or Tap). Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 266 - The Art of Dance Through readings, writings, and creative projects we’ll investigate how dance intersects with other art forms, viewing and analyzing the work of important artists in the fields of ballet, modern, musical theatre, social dance, and visual art. Discover how dance as an art form influences culture. No dance experience is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 280 - Topics in Dance A focused dance study of a particular style, choreographer, or period chosen at the discretion of the instructor in accordance with their special expertise and interests.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 305 - Dance and Health This hands-on movement and lecture course will explore using dance and movement to enhance and maintain health, as well as improve issues related to illness and aging. Current methods and research in the growing field of dance and health will be examined, including the physical, mental and emotional benefits of dance.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
DAN 410 - Student Dance Project The culmination of the dance minor, this upper-level course guides students through the process of designing, building and presenting a dance project. Students will be mentored through developing a project that best suits their experience and interests. This course entails a public presentation.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Dance
THE 101 - Introduction to Theatre and Text Analysis This course provides a general introduction to all facets of theatre including theatre history, acting, directing, playwriting, design, management, and theatre spaces, with a focus on the necessary skills needed to read, analyze, and interpret playscripts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Theatre
THE 102 - Acting for Non-Majors This course will introduce students to theatre through the eyes of the performer. Students will gain a basic understanding of theatre as a performing art through lecture, discussion, and performance of scenes. Improvisational exercises, relaxation techniques, and character analysis strategies will be included. Students will also attend campus and area theatrical productions and be required to write critical reviews of the performances.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 104 - Practicum in Costuming A course focusing on sewing skills and costume construction, as well as working on University theatre productions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 105 - Practicum in Stage Lighting A course focusing on the practical application of contemporary stage lighting technology and the implementation of a lighting plot, as well as working on University productions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 106 - Practicum in Stagecraft A course focusing on the construction, painting, and mounting of sets and stage properties, as well as working on University theatre productions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 115 - Math & the Theatre Arts Math is all around us. Nowhere is this more true than in theatre. This course will show how algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and more can be practically applied to the theatrical and entertainment industries. We will focus on how mathematics is used in scenic design and construction, costume design and construction, lighting design and sound design, as well as directing and choreography.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Quantitative Reasoning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 122 - Introduction to Acting This course, required of all B.A. Theatre majors, serves as the foundational course on the craft of contemporary acting as employed for the stage. Through improvisations, ensemble, self-exploration exercises, and creative activities, students will develop an appreciation for the craft, learn key vocabulary and strengthen their textual analysis skills.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment as a Bachelor of Arts Theatre or Musical Theatre performance major. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 136 - Fundamentals of Design A survey/lab course designed to familiarize students with scene, light, costume, and sound design. This course, a required foundational course for a B.A. in Theatre, will offer students instruction in theatrical design theory.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 139 - Theatrical Make-up A practicum course in the fundamentals of design and application of theatrical make-up. Specific areas of study will include the relationship of character analysis to make-up; techniques of highlight and shadow; and make-up for youth, middle, and old age. Additional exercises introduce historical styles, creating a likeness, and nonrealistic make-up. Students will frequently apply theatrical make-up to their own faces in class.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 141 - Theatre Workshop I A course designed to give students practical application of theatre practices in the fields of acting, design, scene construction, costuming, properties, lighting, management, and directing. A laboratory course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated up to four times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Theatre
THE 142 - Theatre Workshop II A course designed to give students practical application of theatre practices in the fields of acting, design, scene construction, costuming, properties, lighting, management, and directing. A laboratory course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 0.5
May be repeated up to four times for credit. Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Theatre
THE 170 - Public Speaking An introductory course in the art of public discourse. Primarily a lecture-performance course, students will learn the basics of informative and persuasive speaking by writing and giving a variety of speeches. Constructive feedback will assist students in identifying, developing, and strengthening the physical and vocal skills needed to engage an audience and communicate effectively.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 175 - Oral Interpretation of Texts A course in the analysis and performance of texts (poetry, prose, drama) with emphasis on the techniques used in reading written material aloud to an audience. Designed to stimulate an understanding and responsiveness to literature and to develop the ability to convey to others, through oral reading, an appreciation of that literature.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 180 - Topics in Theatre This course will investigate theatre topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 190 - Rehearsal and Production This course provides students with an opportunity to work on a USM theatre production. Production assignment positions include, but are not limited to, wardrobe crew, deck crew, board operators, spot operators, etc. Must be simultaneously enrolled in one section of Theatre Workshop or secure instructor permission.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 201 - Cultural History of Theatre A course designed to provide students with a cultural history survey of theatre from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome through traditional Asian, Medieval, and Renaissance European and other historical styles/periods into the modern period. This course is a required Foundation course for the B.A. in Theatre.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; International; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 220 - Scene Study A practicum course designed to use skills and techniques developed in THE 122 for acting in scenes. Simple, truthful storytelling will be explored focusing on the works of contemporary playwrights.
Prerequisite(s): THE 122 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 221 - Voice and Speech for the Actor This course emphasizes the development of the actor’s voice, providing a progression of exercises to free and strengthen the voice as a tool of creative expression. The elements of vocal projection, range, diction, placement, and characterization will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): THE 122 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 222 - Movement for the Actor This is a practical course designed to introduce students to the use of movement in the creative process of acting. Topics include kinesthetic awareness, physical methods of character creation, elementary stage combat, and improvisation.
Prerequisite(s): THE 122 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 224 - Acting for the Camera This course focuses on acting for film, television, industrials, commercials, as well as the internet and other media. The course will emphasize the difference between stage and screen acting techniques.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 232 - Introduction to Stage Management A course designed to familiarize students with the organizational procedures of the theatre production process from pre-production meeting to performance. Major areas of study include stage management and theatre production management.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 234 - Performance Business Investigation of performance business best practices including business plans in the performing arts, theatre company creation budgeting, marketing, promotions and electronic media, performance health, and educational/professional theatre management roles. This course includes a promotions practicum.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 235 - Theatrical Drafting A lecture/discussion/lab course in basic theatrical drafting/graphic practices relating to theatrical construction and design techniques.
Prerequisite(s): THE 136 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 236 - Practicum in Design A course focusing on the practical application of theory relevant to scenic, costume, lighting, and other theatre-related design topics.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 250 - Playwriting A lecture-practicum course designed to acquaint the student with playwriting principles. Emphasis is placed on the one-act play form. Students will be required to complete a series of creative exercises culminating with writing of a one-act play.
Prerequisite(s): THE 101. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 271 - Creative Drama Study of methods for introducing young people to theatre as a total art form. Course to include the development of children’s plays through improvisation as well as traditional children’s literature. Work with children in various community settings will provide practical experience for the student.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 280 - Topics in Theatre This course will investigate theatre topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 290 - Advanced Rehearsal and Production This course provides students with an opportunity to work on a USM theatre production. Production assignment positions include, but are not limited to actors, stage managers, assistant stage managers, designers, assistant designers, etc. Must be simultaneously enrolled in one section of Theatre Workshop or secure instructor permission.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit once. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 303 - Musical Theatre Performance This course will provide students the opportunity to combine the skills of singing, acting, and dance as demanded by the art of musical theatre. In addition to vocal coaching, acting exercises, and choreography, students will be exposed to a variety of musical theatre genres and will be performing throughout the semester. The class will culminate with a public presentation.
Prerequisite(s): DAN 105 and THE 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 321 - Advanced Acting A laboratory for advanced actors, this course provides in-depth scene study. Emphasis will also be given to preparations for auditions.
Prerequisite(s): THE 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 325 - Directing This course will examine the functions and responsibilities of the theatrical director by having students direct a series of scenes and one-acts. Practical exercises will engage with dramatic structure, text analysis, casting, blocking & composition, and effective communication during the rehearsal process.
Prerequisite(s): THE 101 and THE 201 , or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 330 - Dramaturgy: Creative Research, Development, and Critique The practice of dramaturgy involves extensive research and the ability to effectively communicate key concepts, themes, and critical frameworks that aid in creating well-informed art. This course develops reading and writing techniques to produce diverse materials that provide historical, cultural, and aesthetic context or a variety of audiences.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 or equivalent for all students; for students admitted Fall 2021 or later: ENG 102 or equivalent (may be concurrent), or non-degree student; OR permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Writing, Reading, and Inquiry 3 Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 331 - Scene Design Lecture and practicum in stage scenic design. Emphasis on the visual art and drafting of designs.
Prerequisite(s): THE 136 and acceptance into the Design/Technology Option, or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 334 - Costume Design This course introduces students to costume history and design, emphasizing the rendering and visual presentation of costume designs. Students learn by using the elements and principles of design, script and character analysis, and costume history research.
Prerequisite(s): THE 136 and acceptance into the Design/Technology Option, or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Creative Expression Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 335 - Lighting Design Introduction to stage lighting design, elements of electricity, color, light sources, instrumentation, and control systems. Students will participate in lighting projects in practicum.
Prerequisite(s): THE 136 and acceptance into the Design/Technology Option, or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 337 - Sound Design An introduction to the art and techniques of sound design. The class examines the creation of audio for a production environment, with emphasis on industry-standard recording techniques and communication tools, script and environmental analysis, and equipment and delivery systems.
Prerequisite(s): THE 136 and acceptance into the Design/Technology Option, or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 351 - Dramatic Literature and History of Classical Theatre This course examines Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance theatre history and dramatic literature. THE 351 asks students to think about theatre and dramatic literature in a broad array of cultural contexts. This class focuses on sharpening students’ written and oral communication and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing, THE 101 (or concurrent), THE 201 Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 352 - Dramatic Literature and History of Modern Theatre This course examines the dramatic literature and history of 20th and early 21th century world theatre. THE 352 asks students to think about theatre and dramatic literature in a broad array of cultural contexts. This class focuses on sharpening students’ written and oral communication and critical thinking skills.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing, THE 101 (or concurrent), THE 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 375 - Performance Art This theory and practice course allows students to balance ethics and creativity in image-making, while experimenting with the aesthetic interpretation of texts. Visual/performative projects focus on extra-textual elements such as sound and low-tech light, visual symbols/ images, found environments, and/or installations. Theoretical and practical readings accompany black box exercises and one public performance.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 380 - Topics in Theatre This course will investigate theatre topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 420 - Acting: Styles This course will examine a variety of acting styles and genres found in the Classical (Greek and Roman), Elizabethan, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century canon of plays. This advanced acting course includes rigorous work in the preparation and presentation of monologues and scenes.
Prerequisite(s): THE 220 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 421 - Topics in Acting and Performance An intensive study of a particular acting or performance technique chosen at the discretion of the instructor in accordance with their expertise and interests.
Prerequisite(s): THE 220 , or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated as topics vary, for a maximum of 9 credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 430 - Topics in Design A seminar in advanced design practices, the course will stress improving design and presentation skills by developing and presenting design projects. In addition, historical styles will be surveyed in a lecture/discussion format.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 434 - Advanced Design for the Theatre This course will offer students advanced study and projects exploring in-depth theatrical design. The course will focus on one or more of the traditional design areas: scene, light, costume, and sound, with additional exploration on how these individual areas impact and inform one another.
Prerequisite(s): Three of the following: THE 331 , THE 334 , THE 335 , or THE 337 (9 credits) or permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 451 - Topics in Dramatic Literature and Theatre History An intensive study of a particular playwright, group, movement, or historical period chosen at the discretion of the instructor in accordance with their expertise and interests.
Prerequisite(s): College Writing, THE 101 (or concurrent), THE 201 . Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated as topics vary for a maximum of nine credits. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 490 - Independent Study Students should contact the Department regarding information for independent study.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 491 - Independent Project Investigation of special topics or execution of special projects that fall within the purview of theatre. Students must obtain rules and guidelines for this course from the department chair.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-15
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 492 - Theatre Internship Students will assume a full one-semester internship with a professional theatre or Readers Theatre Company. Students will be involved in management, acting, directing, or technical theatre as a member of the company. Each student will be assigned a faculty advisor who will make a biweekly evaluation of ongoing work. Participants will be required to keep a diary and/or portfolio to be reviewed by the Department of Theatre faculty at the conclusion of the internship. All creative work done by the student will be evaluated by the advisor and at least one other, or if possible, all members of the department.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-15
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 495 - Theatre Capstone This capstone course provides students with opportunities to investigate their areas of interest in Theatre in depth and create the performance pieces, designs, stage management documents, dramaturgy, etc. necessary for professional portfolios to represent themselves in the workplace. Students will also develop a career plan in order to map out a path for employment or further training upon leaving USM.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of foundations curriculum, senior standing and permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
THE 496 - External Experience This course offers the student an opportunity for advanced theatre experience, training or education away from campus. In consultation with the department, students may elect an international experience, a national experience and/or an internship.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 6-12
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Course Type: Theatre
Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 101 - Introduction to Tourism & Hospitality This course is an introduction to the major concepts, issues, and theories of tourism and hospitality as an economic sector and topic of academic study. The course covers a broad range of topics related to the travel experience, from tourism as an industry to the impacts it has on communities and places, as well as on travelers themselves. Students will also be introduced to key elements of the hospitality industry and opportunities for employment within this industry. This course is required of all TAH majors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: fall and summer Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 150 - Professional Practices Immersion in Tourism & Hospitality This course is designed to teach basic professional practices for the hospitality industry in an intensive weekend format and to foster a sense of community among participants. The course includes components on customer service, writing and email etiquette, public speaking, leadership in tough situations, meeting and classroom etiquette, networking, communication skills, interviewing skills, and resume building. Students will explore tourism and hospitality internship and career options and form the basis for a network in developing professional relations. This course is required for all TAH majors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 211 - Tourism Entrepreneurship This course studies entrepreneurship in the tourism industry. Students will learn to identify and develop potential products as well as plan and promote tourism and hospitality businesses. Understanding markets, customer demand, pricing, finances, marketing, sales, and operations of new ventures will all be explored through the business planning process. Case studies and field trips engage students with local entrepreneurs who have taken their ideas and created successful tourism-based businesses. Students will gain experience in innovation and creation of their own business or new tourism product.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 221 - Hospitality Management This course introduces students to fundamental concepts of management related to the tourism and hospitality industry. Topics include financial management and accounting, human resource issues, hotel and resort management, and food and beverage management. Examples from Maine and New England illustrate key principles and guidelines. Students will be introduced to standards, practices, regulations and laws in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 222 - Food and Beverage Management This course covers basic management principles and practices for the food and beverage service industries, such as preparation, safe food handling, budgeting and operations, menu development, human resources, marketing, catering and event planning. Instructors and guest speakers from industry will offer expertise and guidance on day-to-day management, strategic planning, and other areas of restaurant and food service management.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: spring Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 224 - Off-site Catering The catering and special events industries are among the fastest-growing segments within the hospitality industry. This course focuses on off-premise catering for social and business functions, and the management of large-scale independent events, such as sporting events, weddings, and festivals. Students will plan and execute an event.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 226 - Wellness Tourism This course provides an overview of wellness tourism by looking at the seven unique areas of wellness including physical, psychological and spiritual activities. This course will investigate global and financial impacts of wellness tourism and provide an opportunity for students to engage in wellness activities outside the classroom.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 228 - Introduction to the Craft Beer Sector Introduction to brewing basics and associated processes, from raw materials to final product; history of brewing and brewing science; types of beer worldwide; world beer markets; beer quality basics. Introduction into the craft beer tourism sector in Maine. Basic serving skills will be introduced as well as beverage costing methods.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 241 - Sustainable Tourism Development Students learn about tourism as a tool for economic and community development and the impacts it can have on a community’s sense of identity, control, and wellbeing. Topics linking community development theory to tourism and hospitality development include economic development; social and cultural impacts; strategic planning; stakeholder theory; first impression analysis; community participation; destination life cycles; marketing and promotion; and social conflict resolution. Students engage with local communities to do real tourism development work as part of the learning process.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 250 - Nature Tourism This course looks at tourism products involving nature-based environments and activities, including the importance of this sector in Maine. Students will learn about different natural environments and various types of outdoor activities including “soft” and “hard” adventure tourism, consumptive and non-consumptive forms of recreation, and emerging areas such as extreme adventure. Issues of sustainability, accessibility, risk, and destination planning and management will be explored. Students will learn from guest speakers and possible field trips to explore adventure tourism sites and activities in Maine.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 261 - Cultural Tourism This class explores the many dimensions of cultural tourism, including how arts, crafts, local heritage, history, and other elements of culture can be incorporated into tourism planning and development. Topics include the meaning, value, and potential tourism roles of historical sites and monuments, festivals and events, local art and artisans, archaeological and cultural heritage sites, and museums and educational institutions. Issues such as cultural identity and representation, authenticity and commoditization will be analyzed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 264 - Culinary Tourism Culinary tourism, also called gastronomic tourism, is an increasingly popular form of travel involving consuming, purchasing, creating, and learning about foods and beverages and their associated histories and cultures. This course is a survey of the wide variety of culinary tourism activities available in different regions and countries. It also provides an introduction to the creation and marketing of food and beverage-related tourism experiences. Students will have the opportunity to experience culinary tourism and meet industry professionals who have created events and destinations for culinary tourists.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 299 - Topics in Tourism & Hospitality Courses with this designation include special topics in various aspects of tourism and hospitality, offered on a one-time or experimental basis. This designation may also include courses that are cross-listed with other majors at USM and taught by faculty from those programs. Specific titles and course descriptions for upcoming courses can be found in MaineStreet and in the advising section of the TAH program website.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 301 - Global Issues in Travel & Tourism As one of the world’s largest industries, and one that brings travelers and host communities into close contact, tourism and travel are rife with challenges. This course delves into these issues from a social science perspective, showing how tourism affects travelers and communities in complex ways, from commoditization of art forms to sex tourism, drug use, and changes in local economies and culture. It also explores the connection of tourism to global issues such as infectious diseases, climate change, and terrorism. This course is required of TAH majors.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship; International Course Typically Offered: Spring and Summer Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 302 - Tourism Research Methods Students learn to conduct tourism-related research using a variety of methods from anthropology and related fields, including interviewing, observation, and surveys. The course also explores issues of research ethics, such as working with human populations and protecting sensitive data. Students will work individually or in teams on one or more projects related to tourism planning, development, evaluation or impacts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: fall Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 305 - Culture & Communication in the Travel Industry This course explores the challenges of communication between people from different cultures in the context of travel and tourism. Specific topics include the role of cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal codes in interpersonal relationships; obstacles to effective intercultural communication; causes of and ways to avoid or manage intercultural conflict; and skills necessary for cultural adaptation and coping with culture shock. This class is valuable for anyone planning to work in travel, hospitality or related fields.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: summer Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 307 - Field Study in Tourism & Hospitality This travel course involves travel to one or more sites inside or outside of Maine and combines tourism activities with research, active learning, and/or community engagement. Actual courses will vary and may be taught by USM faculty, outside instructors, or a combination. Courses may focus on ecotourism, community development, cultural tourism, sustainable tourism, volunteer tourism, or other areas. Students may also attend an external field course they have identified and which their TAH advisor agrees meets the goals of this course.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning; International Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 309 - Tourism & Hospitality Internship Students complete a professional experience in the tourism and hospitality industry, such as in lodging or food service, attractions, transportation, retail, marketing and promotion, or travel services. The nature of the experience would be detailed in advance, and the student would work with a faculty advisor to update them on their activities on a regular basis and provide a final report and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): TAH major or minor; permission of supervising faculty. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: every Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 311 - Event Management Festivals, meetings, conferences and special events are an important part of the tourism sector. In this class students, through work on a real event, will learn how to plan and manage events, and explore ways of promoting and marketing events that respect local traditions and celebrate community assets. Students will also be introduced to various types of events including food and music festivals, sporting events, conferences and meetings, and celebratory events such as weddings and reunions. Students will be immersed in the work of event planning and meet real planners and promoters.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 312 - Tour Planning & Management This course builds skills in the creation, planning, and oversight of group-based travel such as packages and charter tours. Students will investigate various types of travel packages and how tour companies, travelers, host communities, and indigenous cultures intersect in the travel and tour planning and management process. With a community partner, students will apply their knowledge and skills to the creation of Maine-based group travel tours.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 320 - Green Meetings and Events This course is designed to provide an overview of sustainable event management and to show the ways in which environmental and responsible practices are impacting meetings and events, hospitality, and tourism industries. Topics will include pollution, waste management, transportation, carbon calculation, environmental design, sustainable venues, ethical catering, social responsibility, and marketing.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 321 - Lodging Operations & Systems This course examines operating procedures and systems for managing various types of lodging facilities, including hotels, resorts, and inns. Topics covered include front desk operations, reservation systems, housekeeping and maintenance, inventory management systems, guest policies, internal and external communication, human resources, and security and risk management.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 331 - Sustainable Hospitality Management This course focuses on the application of sustainability principles and techniques to the planning and management of tourism and hospitality businesses. It is taught by faculty experienced in designing and implementing sustainable hospitality guidelines, and will take students through the steps of assessing planned or existing businesses and making these businesses more sustainable. Certification guidelines for sustainable businesses will be examined, and students will have the opportunity to do audits or other exercises to apply their knowledge in actual industry settings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 361 - Local Food & Agritourism This class explores where our food comes from and how it is produced within the context of the growing local food movement. It also examines the parallel increase in agritourism, which involves agricultural businesses diversifying to sustain traditional farm practices, educate the public, and attract visitors. Various agritourism models will be studied, including “farm to fork” businesses that provide local foods to area restaurants. Students will have the opportunity to visit and possibly conduct research with local agritourism businesses.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 399 - Advanced Topics in Tourism & Hospitality Courses with this designation include advanced topics in specialized aspects of tourism and hospitality, offered on a one-time or trial basis. This designation may also include courses that are cross-listed with other majors at USM and taught by faculty from those programs. Specific titles and course descriptions for upcoming courses can be found in MaineStreet and in the advising section of the TAH program website.
Prerequisite(s): Vary by individual course. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 409 - Capstone: Tourism & Hospitality Internship Students complete a professional internship related to their primary concentration in the major. This might include working for a hotel, restaurant, or other business; for a tourism association or agency; or for a local community engaged in tourism planning and development.
Prerequisite(s): TAH major; permission of supervising faculty. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: every Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 415 - Trends & Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality Students will be introduced to major trends and innovations in contemporary tourism and hospitality, with a focus on identifying opportunities for Maine and New England. In addition to studying global and national trends in travel, the course will look at specific innovations that create new prospects for tourism in the region or demand for new types of products such as green tourism. Guest lecturers from the tourism industry, and trips to experience innovative products or services, may be employed.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 422 - Hospitality Law and HR This course will teach students how to legally manage a facility and people. This course includes a comprehensive study of the legal aspects of the hospitality industry with an emphasis on compliance and prevention of liabilities. Upon completing this course, the student will be able to demonstrate an informed understanding of the legal aspects of the hospitality industry.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 424 - Hospitality Financial Management This course covers intermediate and advanced topics in hospitality financial management, including accounting for lodging and food service businesses, performance metrics across various hotel types, profit and loss evaluation, topline growth, revenue management, and systems integration. It also provides an introduction to new business evaluation, renovation considerations, STAR reporting, and tax issues.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 426 - Beverage Operations This course introduces the beverage sector, including sensory perception, wine production, labeling, and styles. Planning topics include concept, production, selection, and service of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The course aims to give a comprehensive understanding of all beverages that may be encountered in the hospitality business.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 432 - Sustainable Tourism Policy & Planning This course provides theoretical understandings of tourism’s economic, environmental, and social benefits and impacts on local communities and environments, using case studies to illustrate various types of tourism in several regions of the world. Theories and concepts such as destination life cycles, community planning, impact assessment, destination management, and culture change will be examined.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: variable Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
TAH 497 - Independent Study in Tourism & Hospitality This course provides students the opportunity to pursue a project independently, planning and exploring an area of interest within the field of tourism and hospitality. Most independent study projects are library based; all are intellectually sound and reflect a high caliber of performance. Specific content and methods of evaluation are determined in conjunction with the instructor. An approved proposal is necessary for class registration.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
Course Typically Offered: every Course Type: Tourism and Hospitality
Women and Gender Studies
SOJ 101 - Social Justice / Social Change We’ve seen a marked rise in street protest, youth organizing (and middle-aged women organizing), digital activism and “distributed” organizing, and creative social movement tactics, in the last few years. We’ve also experienced an increase in conversations, on social media and in person, about social justice, historical inequalities, and visioning for more just, free, joyful, safe futures for all of us. So many of us are considering questions about what a more just future looks like, and how we can get there. This course will invite us to consider these questions together. This course will offer a background in sociological approaches to identity, inequality, justice and processes for creating social change.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: Social Justice
WGS 101 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies From a variety of perspectives, this interdisciplinary course explores interrelated queries and topics that emerge from the field of Women and Gender Studies. Students will read materials that address the meanings of gender in different cultures, social organizations, and historical periods. The course particularly investigates difference, specifically, how gender difference is constructed, practiced, represented, challenged, and experienced.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Socio-cultural Analysis Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 201 - Rethinking Gender & Culture What is gender? Is it innate or learned? How many genders and sexes are there? What is gender inequality? How does gender intersect with other categories of difference such as race, class and sexuality? How are these differences understood in various national contexts? These are some of the questions that feminist, gender and sexuality studies take up, and the questions that we will pursue in this class.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 101 or permission. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Cultural Interpretation; Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 220 - Topics in Women and Gender Studies This course will investigate Women and Gender Studies topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 235 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Health I Courses in this category will include a feminist critique of traditional science, technology, and medicine. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on knowledge, health, and power. Each of these courses will address such questions as: How does scientific thinking and gendered technologies affect bodily experience? How does science create racialized, sexualized and gendered subjects? How can science be used as a basis for feminist activism?
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 245 - Topics in Culture and the Arts I Courses in this category will examine cultural production from feminist perspectives. Each of these courses will address the question of how gender is represented in historical and contemporary texts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 255 - Topics in History and Resistance I Courses in this category will explore the history of gender and activism in a variety of contexts. Students will be introduced to feminist theories and practices concerning collaborative activities and grassroots organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 265 - Topics in Gender and Institutions I Courses in this category will focus on gender relations and the social and institutional construction of gender. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on social structures, such as those reinforced by economic, educational, political, medical, and religious institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 320 - Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies This course will investigate advanced Women and Gender Studies topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 335 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Health II Courses in this category will include a feminist critique of traditional science, technology, and medicine. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on knowledge, health, and power. Each of these courses will address such questions as: How does scientific thinking and gendered technologies affect bodily experience? How does science create racialized, sexualized and gendered subjects? How can science be used as a basis for feminist activism?
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 345 - Topics in Culture and the Arts II Courses in this category will examine cultural production from feminist perspectives. Each of these courses will address the question of how gender is represented in historical and contemporary texts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 355 - Topics in History and Resistance II Courses in this category will explore the history of gender and activism in a variety of contexts. Students will be introduced to feminist theories and practices concerning collaborative activities and grassroots organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 365 - Topics in Gender and Institutions II Courses in this category will focus on gender relations and the social and institutional construction of gender. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on social structures, such as those reinforced by economic, educational, political, medical, and religious institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 380 - The Politics of Difference Politics of Difference explores some of the consequences of using gender, race, nationality, class, religion, and sexuality to shape identity and culture. The course will examine how discourses of identity and difference are used to both justify inequalities and to enable solidarity. In the seminar we will look at a range of strategies that are employed in response to difference including attempts at managing, disciplining, or cleansing difference as well as efforts at redefining, reclaiming, and recreating the meanings of difference.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 101 , WGS 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity; Ethical Inquiry, Social Responsibility, and Citizenship Course Typically Offered: Fall Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 390 - Contemporary Feminist Theories This course provides a survey of several contemporary feminist frameworks for thinking about sex, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, nation, etc. The focus of the course is the intimate relationships between feminist theories and feminist practices, locally and globally.
Prerequisite(s): WGS 101 , WGS 201 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Culture, Power, and Equity Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 420 - Advanced Topics in Women and Gender Studies This course will investigate advanced Women and Gender Studies topics not already covered by regular course offerings.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 435 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Health III Courses in this category will include a feminist critique of traditional science, technology, and medicine. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on knowledge, health, and power. Each of these courses will address such questions as: How does scientific thinking and gendered technologies affect bodily experience? How does science create racialized, sexualized and gendered subjects? How can science be used as a basis for feminist activism?
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 445 - Topics in Culture and the Arts III Courses in this category will examine cultural production from feminist perspectives. Each of these courses will address the question of how gender is represented in historical and contemporary texts.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 455 - Topics in History and Resistance III Courses in this category will explore the history of gender and activism in a variety of contexts. Students will be introduced to feminist theories and practices concerning collaborative activities and grassroots organizations.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 465 - Topics in Gender and Institutions III Courses in this category will focus on gender relations and the social and institutional construction of gender. Students will be introduced to feminist perspectives on social structures, such as those reinforced by economic, educational, political, medical, and religious institutions.
Prerequisite(s): Co-requisite(s): Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Course Typically Offered: Variable Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 470 - Independent Study This course provides junior and senior students with the opportunity to pursue a project independently, concentrate on a particular subject of concern, or conduct individually arranged reading or research studies under the advice and direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 1-6
May be repeated for credit. Course Typically Offered: Every semester Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 485 - Internship The internship requires students to work closely with a group, business, or organization for one semester. Students will write a research paper on a topic related to their internship experience and will present that research in the spring semester.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and women and gender studies major or minor. Co-requisite(s): Credits: 4-6
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 486 - Thesis The thesis allows students to pursue guided research on a topic of their choosing. Students writing a thesis should plan a two-semester sequence; WGS 486 should be preceded either by an independent study in the student’s area of interest, or WGS 484, Feminist Thesis Workshop. Thesis students should choose three readers, including an advisor whose interests and scholarship are in line with their own. The minimum length for a thesis is 30 pages, and should include a substantial bibliography. Thesis students must present their work in a public venue in the spring semester. Senior thesis students will take WGS 490 , Capstone, simultaneously with WGS 486, to fulfill the capstone requirement.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and women and gender studies major or minor. Co-requisite(s): WGS 490 . Credits: 4
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
WGS 490 - Capstone Experience in Women and Gender Studies All majors are required to select either an internship or thesis for their senior capstone experience. Students enrolled in either option are required to participate in a weekly seminar.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and women and gender studies major or minor. Co-requisite(s): WGS 490 and WGS 485 or WGS 486 . Credits: 2
Meets the Following Core Requirement: Capstone; Engaged Learning Course Typically Offered: Spring Course Type: Women and Gender Studies
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