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Course Descriptions


 

Italian

  
  • ITA 232 - Intermediate Italian II

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Intermediate Italian II is a continuation of Italian 231. It aims at expanding the student’s competence with particular attention to oral and written communication. The course focuses on the acquisition of more advanced language structures with practice in conversation, reading, and writing. Class participation is encouraged through dialogs, individual presentations, group work and songs. Out-of-class homework requires work with the Quia lab manual. The class is conducted in Italian.

    Prerequisite(s):  .
    This course counts towards the minor in Italian Studies.
  
  • ITA 251 - Italy: Language and Identity

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    For students who continue to study Italian after ITA 232 or who are placed at the upper intermediate level. ITA 251 is designed to refine and apply language skills in writing, speaking, reading and listening beyond the Intermediate level. Topics on regional and national identity serve as a context for language acquisition and grammar review. Students investigate what constitutes the Italian identity through the study of authentic texts and Internet resources. Class projects involve individual research about the history, art and popular culture of contemporary Italy.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement at the upper intermediate level.
    This course counts towards the minor in Italian Studies and may be applied to the Anthropology minor.
  
  • ITA 252 - Italian Conversation and Composition

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    ITA 252 is designed to strengthen speaking and writing skills through advanced vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension and the analysis of short texts. Activities include discussions on cultural readings, conversations on current events as well as group and individual oral reports. Students write weekly compositions and use online collaboration tools such as blogs.

    Prerequisite(s): ITA 251 , or instructor permission.
    This course counts towards the minor in Italian Studies.
  
  • ITA 337 - Contemporary Italy Through Film

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    For students who continue to study Italian after ITA 232 , or ITA 252  or who are placed beyond the Intermediate Level. This class provides an understanding of contemporary Italian society and culture by viewing, reflecting on, and discussing Italian films of the last sixty years. The class will analyze 8 films, learning their context and through them the key events that have shaped the national identity of Italy. Students will read a selection of essays on Italian cinema and complete writing assignments and oral presentations.

    Prerequisite(s): ITA 232 ,   or placement.
    This course counts towards the minor in Italian Studies.
  
  • ITA 338 - Italian Culture and Civilization

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    A broad overview of Italian culture from the Middle Ages to the present, highlighting key historical and literary developments of each century with an interdisciplinary perspective. Students in ITA 338 become familiar with a variety of texts from different fields of knowledge, including art history. Class work entails class presentations and research papers in Italian.

    Prerequisite(s): ITA 337  or Instructor permission.
    This course counts towards the minor in Italian Studies.
  
  • ITA 490 - Directed Study: Topics in Italian (WID)

    Three Credits
    As Needed

    Directed Studies are granted on a variety of topics, which are usually selected at the recommendation of the professor. Students should have completed at least two semesters of 200-level Italian courses before doing a Directed Study. Preference is given to students who have already declared a Minor in Italian Studies.

     

    Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level Italian classes, or Consent of Professor Daria Valentini, Italian Studies Program Director. Students must complete the online Directed Study and Independent Research Application process and obtain the signatures of the faculty member and the Department Chair.
    Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement.


Journalism

  
  • JRN 100 - Reporting and News Writing

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Students will learn how to gather, write and edit news and feature stories for print and on-line publications. Writing, accuracy, and interviewing skills needed in both the journalism and public relations fields will be stressed.

  
  • JRN 101 - Advanced Reporting and News Writing (WID)

    Four Credits
    Spring Semester

    Students in this course learn to write a wide-range of articles, including in depth pieces for publication in newspapers, magazines and websites. Social media storytelling and reporting will be explored. Students will also write a wide-range of in depth articles with a strong emphasis on professional publication. Tablets, such as iPads, are also used in the course.

    Prerequisite(s): JRN 100 .
    Fulfills the Writing-in-the Disciplines requirement.
  
  • JRN 222 - Development of American News Media

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2016, 2018

    This course traces the development of the news media, print, and broadcast, from their beginning stages in the 1830s to the present. The economic, cultural, political, and social dimensions of this process are explored.

  
  • JRN 309 - Narrative Writing

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2017, 2019

    Learn to use fiction writing techniques in the growing non-fiction narrative writing field. Students will learn how to get the best interviews from people, how to develop characters, what type of research information is needed, where to get it and how to gather it to create riveting narrative stories.

    Prerequisite(s): JRN 100  
  
  • JRN 313 - Journalism Ethics and Law

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Examination of media law in the United States and how it affects news gathering, advertising, on-line and traditional publications. Students will examine both historic and contemporary media cases with the eye towards answering the question: “Just because the media can legally do something, should it?”

  
  • JRN 421 - Journalism Practicum

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Students will report and write a wide range of news and feature stories for the student newspaper and the student newspaper website under the individual supervision of the instructor in this laboratory setting course.

    Prerequisite(s): JRN 100 .
    May be taken twice.
  
  • JRN 475 - Internship in Journalism

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Opportunity for students, usually in their fourth year, to practice journalism with a news organization.

    Prerequisite(s): JRN 100 , minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA, and permission of Internship Director. See Requirements for Internships in Communication .
    Must complete the “U.S. Internship Request for Approval” process found under the myPlans tab in myHill to register for this Internship.
  
  • JRN 490 - Directed Study

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Opportunity for upper-level students to do an advanced research project or investigation in a field of special interest not covered by a normally-scheduled course. Student and a full-time faculty member familiar with the student’s area of interest agree on a plan of study and research and on evaluation methods.

    Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty member directing the project and the Department Chairperson required.

Latin

  
  • LAT 131 - Elementary Latin I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Introduction to Latin grammar and pronunciation. Development of listening, reading, and writing skills, and of the crosscultural effects of Latin on the English language and of the Romans upon American life. No previous experience necessary.

  
  
  • LAT 231 - Intermediate Latin I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Intensive review of Latin grammar with an emphasis on the development of reading comprehension. Materials used will include a variety of readings in Latin. 

    Prerequisite(s): LAT 132  or 2-3 years of high school Latin.
  

Learning Community

The following descriptions represent learning communities that have been offered in the past and are meant to be illustrative. Learning Community offerings change from year to year. Current listings are available on the Registrar’s website. Students select Learning Communities based on preference, but placement in the student’s first choice is not guaranteed.

  
  • LC 150 - Learning Community: The Soul, the Self, and the Good Life

    One Credit
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Philosophy and religion converge on the question of meaning. The goal if this Learning Community is to challenge our assumptions about religion, God, and the good life, and to come to a better understanding of ourselves, the world, and our place in it.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and REL 100/119  Religion and How to Create One (Core)  as part of this Learning Community.
    This Learning Community is open primarily to First-Year students.
  
  • LC 200 - Learning Community: New Perspectives

    Four Credits
    Fall and Spring Semester

    This learning community provides new perspectives on an innovative liberal arts topic, a topic that changes from semester to semester, depending on faculty and student interests. Faculty may wish to use this category to pilot a new LC concept. An individual student, or student group, may wish to recommend a topic of interest.

  
  • LC 205 - Learning Community: The Practice of Medicine and You

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    The seminar addresses medical issues of widespread concern: how diseases are diagnosed and treated; how structures of health care delivery affect health status; and, how patients’ assertiveness intervention skills can be developed for success in the modern health care system. Class involves guest lectures, visits to health care institutions, travel to the state house to see the legislative process at work, and team exercises.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 207 - Learning Community: Mathematical Experiments in Computer Science

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Computers provide us with tools to explore mathematics in deeper ways than ever before. They allow empirical testing of mathematical conjectures with elusive proofs. Computers enable us to experimentally analyze algorithms whose performance defies theoretical analysis. This LC focuses on the delicate balance between theory and practice in computer science, revealing the dual and sometimes contradictory nature of computer science as both an engineering and a mathematical discipline.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take    and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 209 - Learning Community: Organic Chemistry of the Cell

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Students select, read, and critique primary literature that ties together topics concurrently learned in Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry II in order to develop their abilities to understand and critically analyze the literature. The seminar culminates with student teams proposing an experiment or series of experiments that address a specific area of interest on the boundary between organic chemistry and cell biology. These proposals are presented in both written and oral forms, allowing fellow students to evaluate and expand upon the proposed ideas.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of the Learning Community.
  
  • LC 228 - Learning Community: Uncovering Judaism and Nazism in Christian Europe

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The third course in this LC is a travel course - students travel to Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow), the Czech Republic (Prague), and Germany (Berlin). There, they examine historical sites associated with the Nazi Holocaust, sites significant to and representative of Jewish life and religious experience in Europe before the Holocaust, and those that demonstrate the rejuvenation of Jewish life in the locations today.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
    This LC fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
  
  • LC 230 - Learning Community: Through the Looking Glass

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Using Cooley’s theory of the Looking Glass Self, this LC explores how prevailing societal views about the poor and disadvantaged are reflected perspectives on social welfare and social policy. Students learn from one another as they engage in roundtable discussions on issues such as welfare reform, corporate welfare, universal health care, foster care legislation, and educational vouchers. Additionally, students participate in experiential learning activities, which bring greater relevancy to the policy issues being discussed.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take    and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 235 - Learning Community: Quantum Waves (WID)

    Three Credits
    Year-long Learning Community

    With the creation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, physicists conceived of a new and unexpected kind of wave that is neither a Newtonian (c. 1700) mechanical wave nor a Maxwellian (c. 1860) electromagnetic wave. These mysterious DeBroglie - Schroedinger waves of probability are the essence of quantum mechanics. These waves determine the structure of atoms and molecules, i.e. they are the deepest foundation of both physics and chemistry. While the mathematics of these quantum waves is similar to the classical waves already studied in PHY 221  and MTH 261 , the physical, chemical, and philosophical consequences are breathtakingly different.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement.
  
  • LC 240 - Learning Community: Building Leaders

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The LC will allow students to build leadership skills by engaging in community service learning projects in conjunction with Brockton-based service organizations. A psychology course in young adult development provides the basis for understanding the processes of learning and self-development while a business course in organizational behavior provides models for the leader’s role in organizations and offers students the opportunity to assess and develop their leadership potential.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 245 - Learning Community: Society Through the Lens

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    “A photograph is worth a thousand words,” especially those created by students learning sociology and documentary photography. The students in this LC will learn the art and technique of black & white photography and how to use these skills to capture images that make people take notice of social issues such as racism, sexism, and problems of wealth and poverty in America. The knowledge they acquire in the sociology class will be connected to the photographs that they take to tell the stories of what they see as they perform community service and/or observe in the greater Brockton community.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 254 - Learning Community: Children, Science and the Arts: Classroom Practice

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This LC challenges students to use project-based learning and environmental science to create and implement curriculum products focusing on the urban environment. Seminar hours will be a mixture of urban environmental science labs, field trips and group project time working with real teachers and real students in Brockton. (Successful completion of the project tasks will require additional time with school clients beyond the 3-hour seminar week.)

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 261 - Learning Community: Love, Sex, Dreams: The Mind and the Modern World

    Three Credits
    Spring 2016

    Students will examine the influence of Sigmund Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis on 19th-21st century European and American culture, as popularized across a wide range of cultural productions, including literature, the visual arts, film, television and new media

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take    and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 265 - Learning Community: The Impact of News on Financial Markets

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Using tools of finance and economics, the impact of macroeconomic data releases as well as business and financial news on the financial markets will be measured and evaluated. Students will work on individual and group research projects and make class presentations. Bloomberg financial software will be utilized as a tool to see the interaction between news and financial markets on a daily basis.

    Prerequisite(s): BUS 203  and   . Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 269 - Learning Community: Culture and Commerce

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This LC draws upon the disciplines of economics, psychology, sociology and anthropology to provide students with a context within which to understand behavior within and among organizations engaged in global commerce. Includes spring break travel to the region being studied.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 272 - Learning Community: Women’s Global Issues

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    This LC will explore women’s issues in a global context, a theme that integrates the Gender and Communication and International Business courses. We will examine how women’s voices are encouraged and expressed in different cultures and organizations. Specific topics will include: violence against women, women’s human rights, women leaders, women-owned businesses, marriage and motherhood, work and family balance, and other relevant topics. This LC will incorporate invited speakers, peer presentations, lectures, readings, discussions, and on-campus and off-campus events relating to the subject area. Students will have the opportunity to research a topic of their choice for the concluding project. Both women and men are welcome to enroll in this LC.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 279 - Learning Community: Swamp Walks and Roadside Shrines: The Religion and Science of Place

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The seminar of this LC is a travel course during Winter Break, camping in the Everglades! Students will conduct environmental science analyses of the development of South Florida and the current restoration of the Everglades. We will also examine the role the environment plays, could play, or should play in the life of the human community - and vice versa, the importance of the human community with respect to the environment-exploring the various religious traditions and communities of South Florida. We’ll spend 8 nights camping in the Everglades (approximate dates: January 2nd through 10th). Tents and cooking supplies will be provided. Students must bring sleeping bags.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 284 - Learning Community: Business and Communication in China: Changes and Challenges

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This is a travel LC designed to offer students not only a cross-disciplinary understanding of business and communication in modern China from a theoretical/conceptual perspective but also first-hand exposure to the changes and challenges China faces in business and communication. The LC will take students to China on a 10-day faculty-led trip in the spring semester. China has currently become a center of international business activities and is a driving force for global growth and integration. With its unprecedented social and economic transformation and its unique transition from a centrally-managed economy to a more market-based economy, China offers plenty of opportunities to see and learn about the social impact of its metamorphosis, from domestic and global perspectives.  While in China, students will attend lectures or seminars offered by business scholars and practitioners on the campus of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, and they will also participate in field trips to business operations and cultural and historical sites in Beijing and its vicinity.

    Prerequisite(s): BUS 203  and COM 105 . Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 285 - Learning Community: Society on Stage

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This LC will explore pressing social questions (about race, gender, social class, religion, etc.) through the dual lens of sociology and theater. Students will read plays, attend performances, and dig into sociology’s challenging topics with the goal of coming to a greater understanding of how people utilize different vehicles to interpret and inform others of some of society’s most pressing issues. The integrative seminar will culminate with a public performance through which students will have the opportunity to express their own perspectives on fundamental issues confronting society today.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 290 - Learning Community: Mentoring Through Art - Theory and Practice

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This LC is a unique year-long immersion in art, community service and sociology. Students are paired with “kids at risk” from the greater Brockton area to create photographic-based art projects and to act as mentor to a child. To further students’ understanding of their outreach experience, they will take CRM 432 Seminar: At-Risk Families and Youths , in the Spring, and explore the issues involved in at-risk adolescence. No experience in photography or social work is required. You will learn the basics of photography while building an experience that will stay with you for a lifetime. Students with an interest not only in art but in Sociology, Psychology, Art Therapy and Education, all are encouraged to participate.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 294 - Learning Community: Social Problems and Performance

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Through play readings and performance, difficult social problems such as: race, gender, sexuality, poverty, crime, drugs, globalization, oppression, will be presented, discussed and analyzed. Students in this LC will be exposed to a variety of playwrights and materials that use the medium of theatre as a way to tackle many of the most difficult issues facing us today. The end goal of the LC is a performance presentation that will not only allow an understanding of the play texts but will also expose the Stonehill community to these social problems.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 295 - Learning Community: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This LC will examine current diseases/illnesses affecting the U.S. population and research how we can increase the quality and years of healthy life through effective prevention and treatment initiatives. Community-based learning will be an integral part of this course. This LC is recommended for those interested in public health, health care, or any medical field.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take BIO 118  and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 296 - Learning Community: The Paradox of Sovereignty: Native Nations, Public Policy, and the Politics of Power

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The Paradox of Sovereignty refers to the complex, dynamic relationship between Native American tribes and American democracy. This learning community will explore the questions of who are contemporary Native peoples and how do we understand their place in the larger American polity. Students will examine the legal, social and historical context of Native nations and analyze the complex legal and political relationships within American government. Students will also gain expertise in policy analysis by working with real world clients from Native nations. The combined seminar will offer students the unique opportunities to directly learn from and experience a variety of Native communities locally and throughout the United States.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 305 - Learning Community: Integrated Marketing Communication

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is the intersection of marketing, public relations, publicity, advertising, and sales support to promote organizations, products, and services. IMC is a relatively new trend and, by definition, interdisciplinary. IMC employs traditional media and approaches as well as new Web 2.0 and social media applications. IMC represents a robust opportunity for students to apply marketing and communication theory and principles, and gain critical, in-demand career skills.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 307 - Learning Community: Inclusive Learning Through Technology

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2015-2016

    This LC will explore how instructional and information technology can support universal design for learning and the creation of classroom environments that are inclusive of all learners, including those from diverse cultural or linguistic backgrounds and those with special learning needs. Topics will include diversity, disabling conditions, and legal requirements, and students will be introduced to instructional methods and techniques for educating exceptional students in the general education classroom.

    This LC also fulfills the elementary education requirement for

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    2 hours/week pre-practicum required in special education.

  
  • LC 308 - Learning Community: Power & Propaganda in the Ancient World

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This course investigates power and propaganda in the ancient world: Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Rome. Texts and images will be juxtaposed to explore power and propaganda exercised by kings, princes, emperors and popes. Ancient “democracies” with unique methods of propagating power will also be compared to other Mediterranean cultures.

    May count as a Biblical and Ancient Religions course for Religious Studies majors and minors.
  
  • LC 309 - Learning Community: Risky Business

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    What is risk? Why do we take risks? This LC offers a broad overview of risk, exploring its history and psychology, with case studies from sports, medicine, the insurance industry, and finance, and introduces tools to manage risk from financial analysis, quantitative modeling, and a variety of more intuitive approaches.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 310 - Learning Community: Becoming America

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Robert Frost aptly captured the subtle Americanization of Britain’s North American colonists when he observed “the land was ours before we were the land’s.” Focusing on the years from 1607 to 1787, this course will examine the powerful, social, economic, cultural and intellectual forces that created a modern and ultimately “American” society in Britain’s thirteen mainland colonies. Through a close reading of children’s historical fiction, students will be able to understand how contemporary authors seek to capture the rhythms, vitality and daily life of colonial America for their readers. Moreover, by examining a broad interdisciplinary mix of primary source materials, including documents, art, music, literature, biography and material culture, we will seek to answer Crevecoeur’s thoughtful question, “What then is the American, this new man?”

    This course is the equivalent to   .
  
  • LC 311 - Learning Community: Food Politics

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Students will focus on how food is produced and distributed and will be introduced to political issues surrounding food. Students will be encouraged to take action to address injustices in the local food system. In particular, students will be engaged in community-based learning, building connections between Brockton agencies that address food access (homeless shelters, food pantries) and Stonehill’s attempts to assist this important work (especially via the Farm at Stonehill).

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Moral Inquiry General Education Requirement.
  
  • LC 313 - Learning Community: From Luther to Hitler: The German Path to the Holocaust

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    How did Germany, the civilized land of Goethe and Schiller, produce the Holocaust of European Jews? This course seeks an understanding by examining German history from the Early Modern Period through the fall of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
    This is a travel LC that includes travel to the following German cities: Munich, Rotenburg ob der Tauber, Nuremberg, Weimar, Wittenberg, and Berlin.
  
  • LC 315 - Learning Community: I Am a Camera: Life in Words and Images

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semester

    We’ve all heard the statement that “a picture is worth a thousand words” but what assumptions about the relative value of written representation and the photographic image are embedded in this cliché? Is it indeed the case that images capture the word more reliably and truthfully than words? Is the relationship between the verbal and the visual more complicated than it may appear on the surface? Our multidisciplinary creative laboratory will invite students to pursue their ideas about words, images, identity, truth, and storytelling through writing exercises (including poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction), digital photography, and filmmaking. The semester’s work will culminate in an on-line journal that unites text, image, and video, as well as a coffeehouse-style event at which we will share our work with our peers. The seminar will also travel to area museums to experience-and respond to-art in a variety of situations. No prior experience in any of these media is necessary, just a vital interest in creative experimentation!

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 316 - Learning Community: Grass Roots: The History and Politics of Community Organizing

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Covers theoretical frameworks and practical skills necessary to identify, recruit, and develop leadership, build community around that leadership, and build power from that community. Reflective course practice is structured around work in a community-based organizing project (e.g. youth, community, electoral, union, or issue) designed to achieve a specific and significant outcome by semester’s end. Students will have opportunities to discuss field projects, analyze organizing goals, and identify and reflect upon real-world problems and real-world solutions.

     

    Fulfills the Social Scientific Inquiry General Education Requirement.

     

  
  • LC 317 - Learning Community: Banned in Boston: Sex, Scandal & Censorship on the Stage and the Page

    Four Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This learning community will explore censorship and power in literature, theatre, and the arts in Boston, from the Puritan Era to the present, with a focus on race, social class, gender, and sexuality. We will look at books, plays, and performances that titillated audiences and taunted censors, and, in the process, capture an important perspective on the Hub’s social, cultural, and political history.

    This LC includes excursions to the city for tours, presentations, and performances. There will be an additional fee of $250 to cover the cost of transportation and performances.
  
  • LC 318 - Learning Community: The Ethics and Science of Climate Change: Global Problems and Local Solutions

    Three Credits
    Year-Long Learning Community

    In this LC students will think critically about the potential social and environmental impacts of climate change in our region. In the spring LC course, students will work with local community partners to assess risks and opportunities, working to develop climate action plans tailored to that organization. 

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 319 - Learning Community: The Story of Stonehill’s Water

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Stonehill College uses over 27 million gallons of water per year - and that doesn’t include the sprinklers. This learning community will explore where that water comes from and where it goes after being “used” by the college. More broadly, this course will examine the health of the Taunton River watershed.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 320 - Learning Community: The Big Bang Theory and Other Scientific Artforms

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The Big Bang Theory explores the role of theatre and other artistic media in addressing the big, often religious, questions raised by science. The history of science & religion will provide a backdrop to consider artistic works related to major revolutions brought about by thinkers like Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry General Education requirement.
  
  • LC 321 - Learning Community: Joyful Noise: Music Technology and Contemporary Culture

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The American Studies course considers the electric guitar as musical instrument, technology and cultural icon; the Music course introduces students to the fundamentals of music, including standard music notation, meter and key signature recognition, rhythm, keyboard harmony, and rudimentary composition. The theme musicianship - what it really means to be a musician - becomes a powerful lens to look beneath the surface of contemporary music and its media representations, in order to understand and experience it more deeply and immediately. The integrative seminar, which consists chiefly of experiential learning, provides students with a unique angle on musical performance, the arts and historical change in modern America. We plan to take strong experiential learning approach including: field trips to musical performances, music technology and production labs, creative projects, and instrument design workshops.
     

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 322 - Learning Community: Dazed and Confused: Substance Abuse Prevention in the Community

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    What types of drugs are referred to as brownies, cookies and cupcakes? Why do people use and abuse drugs and alcohol? What prevention and treatment services are available to an abuser? This course will look at substance abuse from many different perspectives such as how addiction starts, risk factors for substance abuse, health effects from abusing and the role that family, friends and the community plays in helping a substance abuser. This is a community based learning course in which students will work closely as teams with a community agency to address substance abuse prevention. In   you will learn how abuse of substances and alcohol will prevent you from maintaining optimal health at each stage of adult life. In BIO 118 - Nutrition and Wellness  you will learn how to prevent illness and disease through diet modification and healthy lifestyle development.

     

    Prerequisite(s):   has a prerequisite of  . Corequisite(s): Students must also take BIO 118  and   as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 323 - Learning Community: Stonehill and How to Fix It

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    When pressed, many of our best students indicate that while they are satisfied with classes and professors, something is missing intellectually from their life at the college. But they tend to be vague when asked what is missing and even vaguer when they are pressed for a solution. In this class, we’ll try to cut through the vagueness and try to answer the following question: What is the problem? How can we make Stonehill a better place for such students i.e., for you?

    In other words, the goal for the integrative seminar of this learning community is to develop a concrete and realistic proposal for what Stonehill should do in order to become a better place for you and how to do it, based as much as possible on solid empirical data.

    The Philosophy and the Religious Studies classes go beyond Stonehill, asking what how we should handle the ethical and religious challenges in our lives, what we can do both as individuals and as a society to make our lives better and what that would mean. Simply put: How should we live?
     

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take

      and   as part of this Learning Community.

  
  • LC 324 - Learning Community: Discovering Devotion in Creative Practice/Sacred Spaces

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    This Learning Community culminates in a week-long on-site authentic fresco painting workshop in the countryside of Italy as well as important related sites in the capital city of Rome. The travel component fulfills a Catholic Intellectual Traditions (CIT) requirement with an intensive investigation into fresco’s religious iconography; the stories of saints, how their lives interacted with local lore and sacred spaces, as well as the religious meaning inherent in artistic practice.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
  
  • LC 325 - Learning Community: Is Sex Destiny?

    One Credit
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This course will look at the representation of gender and sexuality in literature, the visual arts, and film. Of particular interest will be the historical construction of the binaries of gender and sex in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods and on recent and dramatic changes in cultural understandings about sex and gender. These transformations have in turn shaped the way writers, artists, and filmmakers portray culture and themselves. The integrative seminar asks students to create an artistic piece or educational document that incorporates insights from both linked courses on sex and gender from a variety of disciplines.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENG 394  and GND 101  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 327 - Learning Community: Renaissance of the Virgin Mary

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    This stand-alone Learning Community explores connections between art and religion in the Renaissance. Students will learn to “read” the symbolism in masterworks such as Giotto’s Arena Chapel frescoes by focusing on a different episode in the life of the Virgin each week, and in the process, will become familiar with doctrines such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.

    Prerequisite(s): One 100-Level Religious Studies course.
    Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
  
  • LC 328 - Learning Community: #Reimagining Education

    One Credit
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    In this LC, students will utilize a project-based model to examine current trends in education that seek to bridge the skills gap for the 21st century.  Alternate models of high school such as the six year high school, empowerment zones, vocational/technical high schools and charter schools will be evaluated for their potential to prepare students with marketable skills to meet the growing demand in the STEM fields.   Students will research pilot programs, interview innovators in the education field and tour local schools.  This research will culminate in a presentation to a panel of educators of the programs deemed to show the most promise. 

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take CSC 101  and SOC 212  as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry and Social Scientific Inquiry Requirements.
  
  • LC 331 - Learning Community: Crime and Punishment in North America

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    The course explores the political, legal and penal systems in Canada, Mexico and the United States. We examine how cultural, political and economic variation shapes the definition of crime and its punishment. We will visit local, state, federal and Canadian (provincial and federal) courts, legislatures, police and prisons.
     

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take CRM 412  and POL 234  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 332 - Learning Community: Ireland: Literature, Landscape, and History

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This is a travel LC, and the integrative seminar will comprise preparations for travel to Ireland and a 9-day long visit to major Irish literary and historical sites. The reading for the course will be linked to significant sites in our literary/historical tour of Ireland. In the west, we will visit W.B. Yeats’ tower (Thoor Ballylee) and grave; Coole Park (The estate of Lady Augusta Gregory); the childhood home of James Joyce’s wife, Nora Barnacle; and the city of Galway. We will also explore Ireland’s historical landscape - touring the Burren in County Clare, an area of distinctive geological, historical, and archaeological heritage. In the east, we will spend time at the Writer’s Museum in Dublin, the Joyce Museum, the National Museum, Dublin Castle, and literary sites around Dublin, including the Abbey Theatre. We will also take a day trip to County Kilkenny, visiting Kilkenny Castle and the village of Inistioge. Students will enjoy academic lectures on the literature and history of Ireland and will attend theatre productions and poetry readings.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENG 349  and HIS 214  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 333 - Learning Community: Communicating & Miscommunicating in Washington, D.C.

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    The seminar integrates a course on American political development taught by a political scientist with a course on campaign communications and strategy taught by a practitioner with an expertise in traditional and new media. The seminar looks at the current state of leadership in Washington and the changing nature of political communications. It will meet on Thursday evenings and over two weeks in Washington D.C. Our time in D.C. will consist of a rigorous series of seminars with leaders of the three branches of government, political parties, interest groups, think tanks, academia, and the media and is designed to combine traditional academic work with seminars with prominent individuals in government, journalism, and the non-profit sector in Washington. This will be an opportunity to apply our knowledge of power politics, political communications, and democratic ideals to the real world of American government in Washington, D.C. In the Spring, the class will travel to Washington, D.C.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take POL 357  and POL 390  as part of this Learning Community.
    An additional fee will be charged to student’s tuition bill.
  
  • LC 334 - Learning Community: Frederick Douglass & His Circle: Race, Writing, & the Tropics of History

    One Credit
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    This course uses the life of Frederick Douglass as a basis and lens for understanding 19th-century American history, literature, and culture. Douglass’ heroic journey from slavery to freedom in antebellum America, delineated in three autobiographies, reveals a nation riven by race, region, economy and even differing conceptions of justice and morality. Weaving a rich context from biography, fiction, poetry, fine art, music, film, and primary materials, we will “do history” by expressing Douglass’s complex life and times in prose, online writing, and in short documentary films.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take HIS 100/128  and IND 357  Topic: American Transcendentalism: Race, Gender & Radical Reform as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the History Cornerstone and Moral Inquiry requirements.
  
  • LC 336 - Learning Community: The Origin of Resources: From Farm to Studio

    One Credit
    Fall Semester

    This seminar combines a dual interest in sustainable food systems, an in depth understanding of the basis, production, and use of historical studio materials, and how they share a symbiotic relationship.  There will be a focus on homemade and sustainable ingredients that reflect the local and global Slow Food movement and important issues of fair trade, organic production, and humane methods of consumption will be discussed.

    Throughout the semester, students will participate in creating historical artist materials from start to finish, which will include harvesting plant materials from the farm to make pigments and inks, tools, making hand-made paper, utilizing animal by-products, and cooking with the same ingredients. With this in mind, we hope to reflect a “nose to tail” mindset to honor the origins of our resources.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENV 326 - Sustainable Agriculture  and VPS 207 : Making Art Materials as part of this Learning Community.
    The week-long travel component will be held at an agriturismo whose mission aligns with our course goals (negotiations underway) in Italy and include visits to Italian Slow Food Presidias, which support the protection of biodiversity, territories and knowledge of traditional productions. Visits to small-scale producers may include farmers, fishers, butchers, shepherds, cheesemakers, bakers and pastry chefs.  A studio workshop will be held at the agristurismo featuring indigenous materials and how they relate to the history of art in Italy. Day visits to nearby Siena and Florence will also allow students to see how the studio materials they have worked with all semester are made evident in the masterworks from Art History.

    Travel will occur during the January winter session period (dependent on scheduling airfare, etc.). An additional fee will be charged to student’s tuition bill.

  
  • LC 337 - Learning Community: Media and American Culture

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    The main objectives of the LC are to (a) engage in critical analysis of American culture through key concepts such as “nation” “identity” and “race.” (b) Reflect on how scholars have interrogated the construction of these concepts through media such television, film, and social media, and (c) apply critical media analysis to real-life scenarios through individual and group activities.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take AMS 200  and COM 207  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 339 - Learning Community: Making Movies

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    This Learning Community offers students the opportunity to examine the art of film-making and evolution of visual storytelling.  Then, students, working in teams, will acquire and hone their digital production skills and tell their own stories, culminating in a screening event for the entire Stonehill community.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take COM 220  and ENG 220  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 340 - Learning Community: Economy and Business Practices of Cuba

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Students begin by conducting research on an aspect of Cuban economics or business practices that they find interesting and teach what they learn to their peers. This mirrors the preparation that a business would conduct to initiate a foreign project. Travel to Cuba will allow students to understand how realistic their research impressions were, and to confront the current reality of the country. After returning to Stonehill, a video is prepared by the entire class to allow students to process their collective learning prior to writing their final reflection paper–what they learned through the LC.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take BUS 333  and BUS 336  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 341 - Learning Community: Catholic History, Theology, and Literature

    One Credit
    Spring Semester

    This Learning Community engages with Catholic literature, history, and theology since the mid-nineteenth century, a tumultuous period in the world and in the Roman Catholic Church.  We will examine the articulation of Papal infallibility and clarification of Church doctrine in the nineteenth century, the modernist crisis of the early twentieth, Catholic life and doctrine at mid-century, and the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.  The LC then turns its attention to the Post-Conciliar period and its controversies. History and theology will provide students with a solid grounding in the development of the Church during this period and in Catholic doctrine.  Literary texts and films will be used to flesh out Catholic life and consciousness over the last 150 years.  Students will take two 3-credit courses and a 1-credit Integrative Seminar, in which each participant will pursue a project on contemporary Catholic thought.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENG 347  Topic: The Church and the Modern World and REL 310 The Catholic Church-1850 to Present: History and Theology as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
  
  • LC 342 - Learning Community: Yoga, Mindfulness and Indian Philosophy

    Four Credits
    Fall Semesters

    This Learning community has two parts:

    A theoretical component where we study Indian philosophy and its Western adoption. We will study classical Indian philosophy (including but not limited to the Bhagavad Gita and Buddhist scriptures), investigate our Western fascination with ‘the mystical East’, including the hatha yoga tradition, and examine some of the current research on the benefits of contemplation and on the mindfulness movement.

    A practicum, where we practice hatha yoga (first hour) and discuss the experience of doing yoga on and off our yoga mats, exploring how you might use mindfulness and yoga as tools to slow down and to center, becoming more aware of your strengths and weaknesses, and better balancing your priorities (second hour).

    Fulfills the Moral Inquiry requirement. This LC may fulfill an elective in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Asian Studies.

  
  • LC 343 - Learning Community: Pop Culture and “Bibliodigigogy” in Early Modern England

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    This Learning Community integrates conventional bibliographic and digital humanities practices to reflect on the 21st Century shift into virtual worlds in the context of popular, generically diverse early modern texts. Students will collaboratively apply their learning by encoding and publishing a digital text on peer-reviewed, scholarly website.

  
  • LC 344 - Learning Community: The Global Struggle for Female Education

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    From Malala Yousafzai challenging the Taliban to the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram; from Chinese women “holding up half the sky” to American women earning 79 cents to every dollar earned by men despite having greater educational attainment at all levels-why is female education still so contentious? The United Nations has argued that female education is the single most important factor in reducing poverty and improving health outcomes on a global basis. Yet, around the world, girls and women continue to struggle for access to equal schooling opportunities. This course examines the roles of gender, race, politics, and religion in the global effort for female educational civil rights. We will guide students in generating solutions to address this challenge. We will also explore the role of Catholic institutions in providing educational services to underrepresented peoples such as this community.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take HIS 374  and HIS 385  as part of this Learning Community.
    Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
  
  • LC 345 - Learning Community: Gender and Wellness

    Three credits
    Fall Semester

    Students will examine health behavior and wellness in relation to the social construction of gender. Topics covered in this course include eating disorders, substance abuse, unhealthy intimate relationships, and reproductive health. The course aims at helping students become more informed and conscious agents when they make choices regarding wellness issues.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take IND 201  and SOC 237  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 346 - Learning Community: Making a Magazine about Big Questions

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semester

    The Integrative Seminar in the Learning Community Exploring Big Questions has a tangible goal: The student-led conceptualization, design, and production of a magazine that will engage meaningful philosophical questions in an accessible, journalistic, thoughtful way. This magazine will be produced, edited, reviewed and printed by the end of the semester. Each student will have a copy by the end of final exams. Students will engage the full range of activities associated with a magazine. Based on interests and experience the students will be divided into teams: Editorial, marketing, creative design, production. Every student will have a slot on the masthead of the magazine. Members of the class will function as editor-in-chief, editor, senior editors, acquisitions editors, copy editors, book editors, layout editors, production directors, photo-editors, and so on. The bulk of the written content for the magazine will be produced in the companion courses in the LC, both of which have been designed to feed material into the magazine. Editing for style & length, graphics, cartoons, and other journalistic details will occur in the integrated seminar.

    Students must also take IND 357  Topic: Big Questions and the Media and PHY 193 - Science and Belief  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 347 - Learning Community: A Rogue’s Progress: Mapping Kit Marlow’s Social Network

    Four Credits
    Spring Semester

    Students will study the adventures and literary output of early modern London’s most notorious spy, poet, and general roustabout, Christopher Marlowe, in the contexts of space and place. Partnering with representatives at Map of Early Modern London, students will collaborate to publish a new layer of the 1560 Agas Map and create site identifications, encyclopedia entries, and other critical apparatuses surrounding Marlowe’s exploits with both friends and enemies.

  
  • LC 348 - Learning Community: Dark Power, Dirty Money

    One Credit
    Not Offered 2016-2017

    Global security is the concept that is central in this integrative seminar. Whose security, and why does it matter? This LC will examine the concept of global security in terms of the conflict-criminality continuum. Students will learn about the broad spectrum of globalized criminality, ranging from terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking, genocide and crimes against humanity, and maritime piracy. They will also study various types of contemporary armed conflicts: such conflicts create settings that enable globalization of crime. Some of the current and past armed conflicts to be covered include Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Kurdish conflict in Turkey, the crisis in the Middle East, conflicts in the Western Balkans and South Caucasus. 

    The LC builds on two courses: CRM 355: Global Crime and POL 347: Conflict Analysis and Resolution. CRM 355 class studies both low level criminality (crimes of the powerless, such as trafficking, smuggling, maritime piracy, terrorism, and organized crime) and high level criminality (crimes of the powerful, willful harmful action by states, corporations, and international organization) with a focus on its root causes in neoliberal globalization. POL 347 class focuses on patterns and trends of armed conflicts in the 20th century with an emphasis on currently active armed conflicts around the world. It examines international intervention strategies and explores peace processes in a comparative context. Regional approaches to conflict resolution will be studied.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take CRM 355  and POL 347  as part of this Learning Community.

  
  • LC 349 - Learning Community: Graphic Design for Marketing

    One Credit
    Fall Semester

    Involves a team term paper project including application of graphic design principles to marketing strategy and tactics. Teams will present their projects to the class for discussion and critique. Papers and presentations entail developing a marketing plan for a hypothetical packaged goods new product conceptually developed by students. Graphic design elements include product development (graphic design elements such as logo, trade characters, and other brand identifiers and packaging graphics) and advertising (graphic design elements such as found in a magazine ad or online ad).

    Students must also take BUS 340  and VPG 202  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 351 - Learning Community: Mind, Health & Education

    One Credit
    Fall Semester

    This LC will explore the psychology and neuroscience underlying conditions such as Autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, eating disorders, obesity, and Type II Diabetes. Students will participate in community-based learning at local elementary/middle schools as well as the Yawkey House of Possibilities, a facility on the Stonehill campus that provides care for children with neurodevelopmental illness. 

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take NEU 200  and PSY 415  as part of this Learning Community.
  
  • LC 352 - Learning Community: Creative Writing & Graphic Design & Bookmaking

    Four Credits
    Spring Semester

    This course will engage students in both creative writing and graphic design. Students will research small press publishers, artist made books, ‘zines, and literary journals and get a historical context for publications in these genres. We will engage with book making, design experiments, letter press as well as creative writing assignments resulting in your own independent publishing project which will be a chapbook, ‘zine, or handmade book.

  
  • LC 353 - Learning Community: Honors “Create Your Own LC” Integrative Seminar

    Three Credits
    Spring Semesters

    This course will explore both the theory and practice of integration and outcomes-based learning. Students will apply what they learn to their individually tailored integrative projects sharing their ideas with their peers. Reflective journals will detail how integrative projects developed and changed because of the new ideas explored during the seminar.  At the end of the semester, final projects will be presented to their peers in the learning community seminar. 

    Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Honors Scholars. Permission of Prof. Allyson Sheckler required.

Mathematics

  
  • MTH 101 - Pre Calculus

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Algebraic equations and simplification: factoring, common denominators and conjugates. Graphs of equations. Lines, quadratic curves: equations and graphs. Graphing curves with intercepts and asymptotes. Examples using algebraic, logarithmic and exponential and trigonometric functions. Use of mathematics technology.

  
  • MTH 105 - Finite Mathematics

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Operations with matrices. Systems of linear equations. Linear programming. The simplex method. Sets and counting. Permutations and combinations. Probability. Conditional probability. Independence. Bayes’ theorem. Markov chains. Absorbing Markov chains.

    Limited to business majors only.
  
  • MTH 119 - Applied Calculus for Business

    Three Credits
    Spring Semesters

    A one-semester introduction to differential and integral Calculus designed for Business Administration majors. Topics include limits, derivatives, rates, exponential functions, antiderivatives, graphs, logarithms and exponential functions, antiderivatives, differential equations. The course emphasizes computation, problem-solving and applications.

    Students may not receive credit for MTH 119 and MTH 125 .
  
  • MTH 125 - Calculus I

    Four Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Calculus of a single variable: functions, limits, derivatives, differentiation rules, applications of derivatives, integrals, fundamental theorem of calculus, u-substitution.

    May not receive credit for both MTH 125 and MTH 119 .
  
  • MTH 126 - Calculus II

    Four Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Calculus of a single variable: techniques of integration, applications of integration, infinite sequences and series, Taylor series, first order differential equations, parametric curves, polar coordinates, polar curves.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 .
  
  • MTH 143 - Mathematical Reasoning for Education

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    A one-semester course designed for Education majors. The course includes a review of algebra and geometry. Further topics include: types of numbers, algebraic structures, theory of equations, combinatorics, probability and statistics, interpreting and analyzing data. The course emphasizes problem solving, quantitative and logical reasoning.

  
  • MTH 145 - Basic Quantitative Techniques

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Basic methods of data analysis: organizing and summarizing data, probability, probability distributions, statistical inference.

    Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning requirement.
  
  • MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics (WID)

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    Covers basic concepts, reasoning patterns, and the language skills which are fundamental to higher mathematics. These skills include the ability to read and write mathematics, employ common patterns of mathematical thought, and read the write proofs.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 126  or consent of the instructor.
    Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry and Writing in the Disciplines requirements.
  
  • MTH 207 - Statistical Reasoning: Chance

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    An introduction to the ideas and issues of probability and statistics and their application in everyday life. Topics include: experiment design, descriptive statistics, chance and inference.

    Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning requirement.
  
  • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Probability; descriptive statistics; normal distribution, inference; hypothesis testing; analysis of variance; sampling theory; correlation and regression. Examples from the sciences.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 .
    Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning requirement.
    Course may be applied to the Data Science program.
  
  • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra

    Four Credits
    Spring Semester

    The development of the methods and underlying ideas for solving systems of linear equations. Topics include: vectors, matrices, linear transformations, determinants and eigenvectors. Use of mathematical software MAPLE, in applications.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 261 .
  
  • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    Continuation of the sequence begun in Calculus I and II. Functions of several variables, analytic geometry, vectors, partial derivatives, multiple integration.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 126 .
  
  • MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Sets operations, Countability, Functions, Number Theory, Equivalence Relations, Recurrence Relations, Graphs, Combinatorics, Probability.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 191  or instructor permission.
  
  • MTH 351 - Abstract Algebra I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Groups, rings, fields, rings of polynomials, extension fields, automorphisms of fields, splitting fields, Galois theory.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 270 
  
  • MTH 352 - Abstract Algebra II

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Groups, rings, fields, rings of polynomials, extension fields, automorphisms of fields, splitting fields, Galois theory.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 351 .
  
  • MTH 361 - Real Analysis I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    Rigorous development of the theory of calculus of one variable. Topics include: properties of the real line, sequences, series, limits, continuity and uniform continuity. Additional topics from differential and integral calculus of one or more variables.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 261  and MTH 191 
  
  • MTH 362 - Real Analysis II

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    Rigorous development of the theory of calculus of one variable. Topics include: properties of the real line, sequences, series, limits, continuity and uniform continuity. Additional topics from differential and integral calculus of one or more variables.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 361 .
  
  • MTH 363 - Modern Geometry

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    The axiomatic approach of Hilbert to Euclid’s Elements. Geometry from the viewpoint of rigid transformations. Non-Euclidean Geometry. The roles of coordinates, both global and local. Geometrizations of low dimensional manifolds.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 251 , MTH 261 .
  
  • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and Dynamics

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Spring 2016, 2018

    An introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods for ordinary differential equations. Topics include first and second order equations, existence and uniqueness of solutions, logistic models, planar linear systems (including phase portraits), regular singular points. Other topics selected from: flows, the stable manifold theorem, and Laplace transforms.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 261 .
  
  • MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2015, 2017

    Methods for determining, given some well-defined operation, the number of ways it can be performed. Networks of dots and lines.

    Prerequisite(s): MTH 270 .
 

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