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Course Descriptions

 

Journalism
  

  • JRN 490 - Directed Study - Journalism

    One to Four Credits
    Offered as Needed

    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)/Restriction(s): Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the project and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Directed Study Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office.
    Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.

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 cross-cultural effects of Latin on the English language and of the Romans upon American life. No previous experience necessary.
  

  • LAT 132 - Elementary Latin II

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

    This course is a continuation of  .

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s):   or equivalent.
  

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

Learning Community
  

  • LC 200 - Learning Community: New Perspectives

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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 202 - Learning Community: Picturing the Word: The Bible in Art

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    This Learning Community brings together two related fields: biblical studies and art history. Students in the LC will research specific works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that illustrate biblical episodes. A weekend trip to the newly-opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. is planned.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take RST 252  and VPH 181  as part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 203 - Learning Community: Making a Magazine About Big Questions

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    Students will conceptualize, design, produce, and edit a magazine that will engage meaningful philosophical questions in an accessible, journalistic, thoughtful way. 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.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take IND 357  Topic: Big Questions and the Media and PHL 210  as part of this Learning Community.
    Note: formerly offered as LC346.
  

  • LC 204 - Learning Community: Food Justice: The Science and Politics of Our Food

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This Learning Community challenges students to critically analyze their personal relationships with food and the larger structure of the food system, including food production, distribution and consumption, and disposal. Students will learn about and reflect on how food choices have local and global environmental, political and social impacts.  

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
  

  • LC 206 - Learning Community: Depression, War & BOOM!

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In this learning community students will explore the socio-economic experiences of the American family in the mid-twentieth century. Using a combination of economics, history and popular culture, students will role-play as families from varying social, economic, and racial or ethnic perspectives. Throughout the semester the students will present the changing landscape of the American family, in it varied demographics, as it was affected by economic changes, technological innovation, and evolving social mores, as well as by national and international events.   As we traverse the decades from the 1930’s through the 1960’s, covering the Great Depression, WWII, the post-war boom, and the Civil and Women’s Rights movements, students will see how these various changes affected our various family groups.   We will employ popular culture artifacts like music, movies and television contemporary to, or illustrative of, the times. This LC will include guest speakers and presentations from members of the local academic and music community.
  

  • LC 207 - Learning Community: Mathematical Experiments in Computer Science

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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
    Offered Periodically

    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 210 - Learning Community: The Legacy of Nazism in Germany and Austria

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    An examination of National Socialism’s impact on German society, yesterday and today. This course will bring students to cities in Germany and Austria to visit sites related to the history of the violence and terror perpetrated by Nazis and ordinary women and men.   

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take HIS 326  and WRI 261  as part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 211 - Learning Community: Is There a Problem Here? (Community Based-Learning)

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In today’s environment, students are consumers and creators of information, but participation in a rapidly changing social and political ecosystem demands the development of skills of sophisticated cognitive engagement rather than simply being passive consumers of information.  With an emphasis on information use, access and ethics, students will evaluate the ways in which stakeholders choose to construct perspectives on and responses to social problems.  Students will explore the role that bias, misinformation, big money and problem framing has in influencing a community’s stock of knowledge on issues such as the opioid epidemic or the housing crisis. By the end of this LC students will have the skills to deconstruct what is presented to them on these issues, develop their own evidence based perspectives and advocate for access to information particularly for marginalized groups in a society.

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities
    Note: This is a hybrid course which will be taught partially online.
  

  • LC 212 - Learning Community: Revolutionary Sounds

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    In this learning community, students will investigate the history of music technology, starting from the second half of the twentieth century. Combining interdisciplinary study with hands-on projects, we will focus on how new sounds and disruptive “noise” have created a musical revolution in live performance, film, television, and popular music. 

    Note: An additional fee is charged for this LC.
  

  • LC 213 - Learning Community: The Compound “I”: Memoir, Fact and Fiction

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    In this LC we’ll consider what it means to translate the disorderly details of life into the orderly narratives called autobiographies. we’ll challenge assumptions about truth in autobiography with films and texts that blur lines between fact and fiction - an we’ll create our own audio memoirs in out podcasting studio.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENG 271  and ENG 390  (when the topic is Fictions of the Self) as part of this Learning Community.
    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities (just the integrative seminar)
  

  • LC 214 - Learning Community: The Age of Information

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    This Learning Community combines the emergent techniques of the digital humanities with information theory and literary and cultural analysis to explore the moral, ethical, and philosophical questions posed by texts that explore the modern state as an information system. During the first half of the semester, we will study Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Zamyatin’s We,  Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” Calvino’s T-Zero, and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, focusing on issues of empathy, social justice, cultural memory, individual freedom, and state power.  In tandem, we will learn how to use computational tools for cultural and literary analysis, including text encoding, analysis, annotation, and mining. This broad survey of tools and digital humanities theory will set the stage for the semester’s second-half focus on W.G. Sebald’s towering novel, Austerlitz. We will put our analytical and digital skills to use to collaborate on producing a deeply layered and extensive digital archive edition of the novel, incorporating documents, audio recordings, visual art, film, and 360° VR video.

    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities
    Note: LC 214 is the equivalent of DIG 201 - Digital Design Studio . Students must also take ENG 390  as part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 215 - Learning Community: The Golden Dome: Studying Massachusetts Internship

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    No state is so rich in its political heritage as our commonwealth. Its politics have been described as a “city upon a hill” and “an organized system of hatreds.” This LC combines a course on the government/politics of Massachusetts with an internship to better understand what makes Massachusetts unique.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take POL 358  as part of this Learning Community.
    Note: Must complete the “U.S. Internship Request for Approval” process found under the myPlans tab in myHill to officially earn credit for this Internship. This process will be completed as part of the class.
  

  • LC 217 - Learning Community: Drinking and Drinking Culture Through the Ages

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course links drinking culture past and present. Beginning with ancient Greece and the role that wine plays in the Eucharist. The role of wine in Islam and other traditions follows and thew course ends with contemporary drinking culture including data from Stonehill. Students will keep reflective journals.

    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Moral Inquiry
  

  • LC 218 - Learning Community: Swords, Saviors and Saints: Global Security & Humanitarianism in Practice

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This learning community links an international themed course at Stonehill (see options below) with a 4-week, summer capstone experience in Armenia.  Get ready for immersive, high-impact learning in human rights, peacebuilding and diplomacy, conflict analysis and resolution, global security studies, and peace and conflict studies, with internships in one of nine globally and regionally-known NGOs, think tanks, and media organizations! This LC also features visits to the ancient monasteries of Armenia (the first Christian state) and to the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.  Students will examine the ways in which beliefs, ideas and ideologies clash within societies and between states, often resulting in war and violence. The persecution of the Armenian Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire culminated in the tragic Armenian Genocide of the early twentieth century.  As the first mass genocide of the global era, the world’s response to it ushered in what we now know as modern humanitarianism, large-scale, coordinated political, religious, and philanthropic relief movements with networks of supporting institutions. In the United States, the response to the Armenian Genocide laid the foundations for organized humanitarian and refugee assistance regimes that would later develop on a global scale. Limited to 12.

    Corequisite(s): Students will take one of the following courses with the LC:

    POL 143 - International Politics  

    POL 347 - Conflict Analysis and Resolution  (fulfills Social Scientific Inquiry)

    POL 348 - Peace and Conflict Studies  

    ECO 230 - Development Economics  (pre-requisites: ECO 176  and ECO 178 ) (fulfills Statistical Reasoning)

    ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science  (fulfills Natural Scientific Inquiry)
    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Moral Inquiry
    Note: There is an additional cost of approximately $3,500, which includes travel, lodging, and expenses for cultural tours, museum entry fees, and performances.
  

  • LC 219 - Learning Community: Making the Invisible Visible - Understanding, Programming, & Moralizing Social Networks

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    What is design thinking? How do we create ‘good’ or ‘ethical’ digital designs to help resolve problems and challenges we encounter in the professional world and everyday life??  In a rapidly changing, interconnected society, tomorrow’s leaders will need creativity, problem-solving skills, technological fluency, and ethical reasoning to be successful. This Learning Community will provide students an overview of three domains: design thinking, ethical approach, and computer programming. Students will develop both conceptual appreciation of ethical design and basic understanding of computer software programming. Topics will include architecture, crime prevention, fashion, industrial products, urban planning, and workplace.

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities
  

  • LC 221 - Learning Community: Lift Every Voice: The Vocal Revolution

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course examines the musical traditions of disparate cultures and explores common threads that unite diverse peoples in communal song. Under discussion is the power of song to shape and nurture community; to forge cultural, national, or religious identity; and to serve as a catalyst for social of political change.
  

  • LC 222 - Learning Community: Crime and Punishment in North America

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This 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 357  (when Topic is Politics of Ethnically Divided Societies) as part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 223 - Learning Community: Greek Aesthetics, Archeology & Mathematical Reasoning

    Four Credits
    Spring Semesters

    The LC focuses on the ways that Greek architecture and religious devotion and mathematical speculation made innovations in diverse subjects including architecture, art, engineering, music, and astronomy possible. In addition, the course considers how thinkers in the western tradition understood mathematics and aesthetics as important components for making rational decisions.

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Note: This course does not require any advanced knowledge of mathematics.
  

  • LC 224 - Learning Community: What is There Beyond Knowing: Poetry Writing, Poetry Reading

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    This learning community couples the creation of students’ original works in verse (ENG 242 ) with an understanding of significant trends in twentieth and twenty-first century poetry, including slam, song, and rap (ENG 380 ). The seminar affords opportunities to write a chapbook, organize a reading, and/or critique one’s own work.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take ENG 242  and ENG 380  s part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 226 - Learning Community: Community Health Promotion

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    In this course we will examine the development, prevention and treatment of common diseases and ailments affecting the U.S. population. We will learn about health problems ranging from obesity and heart disease to relationship violence and eating disorders. In addition we will explore factors that increase an individual’s risk for these health issues such as culture, gender, race and the environment. This course also includes a Community-Based Learning component.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take IND 201  with this Learning Community.
    Course Applies to: Community Based Learning
    Note: This is an Anchor & Extension LC Pilot (offered Spring 2019).
  

  • LC 228 - Learning Community: Uncovering Judaism and Nazism in Christian Europe

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    The third course in this LC is a travel course - students travel to Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow) and the Czech Republic (Prague). 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 HIS 355  and RST 209  as part of this Learning Community.
    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
  

  • LC 229 - Learning Community: Family Matters: Kinship, Culture, & History

    Four Credits
    Periodically or As Needed

    This interdisciplinary learning community explores the history of American families and children, from Colonial times to the present from an interdisciplinary perspective, treating the family as a basic unit of our nation’s society, one that has always been a site of cultural contention and debate.  How have changing perspectives and historical events impacted American families over the decades and centuries?  How have historical constructions or race, ethnicity, class, and gender shaped our historical understanding of family life?  The course concludes with a multimedia project on family history.

    General Education Attribute(s): Learning Community
  

  • LC 230 - Learning Community: Through the Looking Glass

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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 231 - Picture This: Photography and the World of Images

    Three Credits
    Periodically or As Needed

    From its birth in the nineteenth century, photography has altered our perceptions of reality, uncovered the wonder of the unseen, and both shaped and challenged notions of truth.  This LC examines the influence of photography on Western culture and literature as students learn the basics of photographic art in our integrative photo workshop.

    Corequisite(s): ENG 390  
    General Education Attribute(s): Learning Community
  

  • LC 234 - Learning Community: Community, Faith, and Social Justice (Community Based Learning)

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    This course examines spiritual and religious belief systems and psychological research in physical and mental health, as they inform the promotion of social justice. Students work closely with the Brockton Interfaith Community to learn about inequality in the city, develop skills to take action, and participate in community-based projects.

    Course Applies to: Community Based Learning
  

  • LC 235 - Learning Community: Quantum Waves (WID)

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    General Education Attribute(s): Writing-in-the-Disciplines
    Note: This is a year-long Learning Community.
  

  • LC 236 - Learning Community: Everybody Counts: Elementary Math for Teachers

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    Paired with MTH 143 , this one credit seminar will be taught by a math specialist from a partner district. Students will examine the ways in which elementary school students engage with mathematics content through curriculum, instructional routines, games, and pedagogical structures.

    Corequisite(s): Students must also take MTH 143  with this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 265 - Learning Community: The Impact of News on Financial Markets

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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)/Restriction(s): BUS 203  and   .
    Corequisite(s): Students must also take   and   as part of this Learning Community.
  

  • LC 272 - Learning Community: Women’s Global Issues

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

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

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    By examining public art-palaces, temples and churches- and primary texts from ancient cultures such as Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia and Israel, this course explores how people in power claim the right to rule over others. Critical methodologies include communication theory, post-colonial theory and the complicated political discourse of democracies. Students will connect ancient and modern political language by critiquing public monuments in the Boston area while also considering the current conversation about removing public monuments in the U.S.

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Note: May count as a Biblical and Ancient Religions course for Religious Studies majors and minors.
  

  • LC 313 - Learning Community: From Luther to Hitler: The German Path to the Holocaust

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Note: 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
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities (only the Integrated Seminar)
  

  • LC 318 - Learning Community: The Ethics and Science of Climate Change: Global Problems and Local Solutions

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Note: This is a year-long Learning Community.
  

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

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
  

  • LC 333 - Learning Community: Communicating & Miscommunicating in Washington, D.C.

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Note: An additional fee will be charged to student’s tuition bill.
  

  • LC 336 - Learning Community: The Origin of Resources: From Farm to Studio

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Note: 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 339 - Learning Community: Making Movies

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
    Course Applies to: Digital Humanities (only the Integrated Seminar)
    Note: Course is considered the equivalent to DMP 210 - Introduction to Digital Feature Production . Students may not take both DMP 210 and LC 339.
  

  • LC 342 - Learning Community: Yoga, Mindfulness and Indian Philosophy

    Four Credits
    Offered Periodically

    Stress is becoming an increasingly serious problem for college students.  Yoga, meditation and mindfulness can help you cope better.
    This Learning community has two parts.


    Practicum: We’ll practice hatha yoga and meditation and discuss the experience as well as the stressors in college life. We’ll explore ways to use meditation and yoga as tools to slow down, to center, and to balance your priorities better.

    Theory: Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness developed thousands of years ago as part of Hindu and Buddhist practice.  Is it OK for people who aren’t Buddhist or Hindu to practice them, or is that a disrespectful appropriation of other people’s religion? We’ll compare and assess different types of practice and we’ll weigh the benefits and the costs of our Western embrace of yoga and meditation.   We’ll also examine Buddhist and Hindu worldviews, trying to understand them on their own terms.  And we’ll talk about what they have to offer to us today.  For example, do they offer better ways of being spiritual and of thinking about our bodies and our selves?

    General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
    Course Applies to: Asian Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
  

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

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically

    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.
  

  • LC 345 - Learning Community: Gender and Wellness

    Three credits
    Offered Periodically

    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 348 - Learning Community: Dark Power, Dirty Money

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    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 351 - Learning Community: Mind, Health & Education

    One Credit
    Offered Periodically

    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
    Offered Periodically

    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
    Offered Periodically

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

Mathematics
  

  • MTH 101 - Pre-Calculus

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester and Summer Session

    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.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Open to Business majors only.
  

  • MTH 119 - Applied Calculus for Business

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

    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.

    Note: 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.

    Course Applies to: Data Science
    Note: 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)/Restriction(s): Prerequisite for MTH 126: MTH 125 .
    Course Applies to: Data Science
  

  • 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.

    General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
  

  • MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics (WID)

    Four Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    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)/Restriction(s): MTH 125 .
    General Education Attribute(s): Natural Scientific Inquiry, Writing-in-the-Disciplines
  

  • 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.

    General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
  

  • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

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

    General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
    Course Applies to: Data Analytics, Data Science
  

  • 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.

    Course Applies to: Data Science
    Note: Course is designed for Mathematics majors and is equivalent to  MTH 264 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations  . Students may not earn credit for both MTH 251 and MTH 264.
  

  • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    Continuation of the sequence begun in Calculus I and II. This introductory multivariable calculus course covers differential, integral and vector calculus for functions of more than one variable. Topics include vectors, lines, planes, curves, and surfaces in 3 dimensional space; limits, continuity, and differentiation of multivariable functions; gradient, chain rule, linear approximation, optimization of multivariable functions; double and triple integrals in different coordinate systems; vector fields and vector calculus in 2 and 3 dimensional spaces, line integrals, flux integrals, and integration theorems generalizing the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem and the divergence theorem).

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): MTH 126 .
  

  • MTH 264 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

    Four Credits
    Spring Semesters

    An introduction to linear algebra and to first and second order differential equations. Topics include elementary matrices, linear equations, determinants, vector spaces and subspaces, orthogonality, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and the linear transformation, the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the first order initial value problems, various methods for solving first order differential equations, application to the first order differential equations, various methods for solving second order differential equations and the use of Matlab for the above topics.

    Note: Course is designed for Pre-Engineering and Science majors and is equivalent to MTH 251 - Linear Algebra   Students may not earn credit for both MTH 251 and MTH 264.
  

  • MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics

    Three Credits
    Spring Semester

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

    Course Applies to: Data Science
  

  • MTH 351 - Abstract Algebra I

    Three Credits
    Fall Semester

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

  • 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)/Restriction(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)/Restriction(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)/Restriction(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.
  

  • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and Dynamics

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2020, 2022

    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.
  

  • MTH 365 - Bayesian Statistics

    Three Credits
    Spring Semesters

    An  introduction to the theory and methods of Bayesian Statistics. Bayes’ Theorem, prior and posterior probability distributions, Bayesian regression, Markov Chain and Monte Carlo methods.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): MTH 126  is recommended.
    Course Applies to: Data Analytics, Data Science
  

  • MTH 366 - Linear Models

    Three Credits
    Alternate Semesters: Spring 2020, 2022

    Simple linear regression, multiple regression, and analysis of variance, model building strategies.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): (MTH 225  or BUS 206 ) and (MTH 251  or MTH 264 ).
    Course Applies to: Data Science
  

  • MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory

    Three Credits
    Not Offered 2019-2020

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

  • MTH 377 - Number Theory

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Spring 2021, 2023

    Mathematical induction, prime numbers, Diophantine equations, congruences, sums of squares.
  

  • MTH 384 - Theory of Computation

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2020, 2022

    For description and semester schedule see CSC 384 .
  

  • MTH 393 - Numerical Analysis

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Spring 2021, 2023

    Both theoretical and practical problems in the computational aspects of mathematics: approximation of functions, numerical differentiation, solutions to algebraic and differential equations; topics in linear algebra.
  

  • MTH 395 - Probability and Statistics I

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Fall 2020, 2022

    Mathematical theory of probability, axioms and basic properties, random variables; continuous and discrete distributions, moments, generating functions, special distributions, law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Use of mathematical software in applications.

    General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
  

  • MTH 396 - Probability and Statistics II

    Three Credits
    Alternate Years: Spring 2021, 2023

    Continuation of MTH 395 . Theory and application of statistics; random sampling; organization of data; descriptive statistics; sample mean and additional special distributions, the theory of estimators, applications of estimation, hypothesis testing and Regression. Mathematical software is used in applications of statistics.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): MTH 395 .
    General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
    Course Applies to: Data Analytics
  

  • MTH 399 - Topics in Mathematics

    Three Credits
    Offered Periodically
  

  • MTH 420 - Senior Capstone: Mathematical Modeling

    Four Credits
    Fall Semester

    Students learn to create models of real world phenomena using mathematical tools such as difference equations, differential equations, lineal algebra, and calculus.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Math Major, Senior Standing.
  

  • MTH 475 - Internship in Mathematics

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Practical experience using or applying mathematical skills in a variety of professional settings.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Must complete the “U.S. Internship Request for Approval” process found under the myPlans tab in myHill to register for this Internship.
    Note: An Intern will typically spend at least 8-10 hours/week for a minimum of 112 hours on site to earn 3 credits. 
  

  • MTH 490 - Directed Study - Mathematics

    One to Four Credits
    Offered as Needed

    Opportunity for upper level students to do advanced work in a specialized area of mathematics.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the project and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Directed Study Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office.
    Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.
  

  • MTH 496 - Independent Research - Mathematics

    One to Four Credits
    Offered as Needed

    Students carry out an independent research project under the direction of a faculty member. The research may be part of an ongoing project being conducted by the faculty member, or the student and faculty member may develop an original project.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the research and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Independent Research Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office.
    Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.
  

  • MTH 497 - Senior Thesis

    Three Credits
    Fall and Spring Semesters

    Students complete an independent scholarly work under the guidance of a faculty member, resulting in a substantial written work. A committee of three faculty members evaluate the thesis. The student also presents the thesis in a colloquium open to the college community.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Senior standing in the department; approval of the faculty member and the Department Chairperson.

Military Science
  

  • MIL 101 - Introduction to the Army and Critical Thinking I

    One Credit
    Fall Semester

    MIL 101 introduces Cadets to the personal challenges and competencies that are critical for effective leadership. Cadets learn how the personal development of life skills such as critical thinking, time management, goal setting, stress management, and comprehensive fitness relate to leadership, and the Army profession.  The focus is on developing basic knowledge and comprehension of Army leadership dimensions while gaining a big picture of understanding the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, its purpose in the Army, and its advantages for the student. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by first-year Cadets with MIL 103 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 102 - Introduction to the Army and Critical Thinking II

    One Credit
    Spring Semester

    MIL 102 introduces Cadets to the professional challenges and competencies that are needed for effective execution of the profession of arms and Army communication. Through this course, Cadets will learn how Army ethics and values shape their army and the specific ways that these ethics are inculcated into Army culture.  Cadets will explore the Seven Army Values and the Warrior Ethos, investigate the Profession of Arms and Army leadership as well as an overview of the Army, and gain practical experience using critical communication skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by first-year Cadets with MIL 104 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 103 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Fall Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by first-year Cadets with MIL 101 - Introduction to the Army and Critical Thinking I .
  

  • MIL 104 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Spring Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by first-year Cadets with MIL 102 - Introduction to the Army and Critical Thinking II  .
  

  • MIL 201 - Foundations of Leadership

    One Credit
    Fall Semester

    Students identify successful leadership characteristics through observation of others and self through experiential learning exercises. Students record observed traits (good and bad) in a dimensional leadership journal and discuss observations in small group settings.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by second-year Cadets with MIL 203 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 202 - Foundations of Tactical Leadership

    One Credit
    Spring Semester

    Study examines how to build successful teams, various methods for influencing action, effective communication in setting and achieving goals, the importance of timing the decision, creativity in the problem solving process, and obtaining team buy-in through immediate feedback.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by second-year Cadets with MIL 204 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 203 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Fall Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by second-year Cadets with  MIL 201 - Foundations of Leadership .
  

  • MIL 204 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Spring Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by second-year Cadets with MIL 202 - Foundations of Tactical Leadership .
  

  • MIL 301 - Training Management and the Warfighting Functions

    Two Credits
    Fall Semester

    This is an academically challenging course were Cadets will study, practice, and apply the fundamentals of Army Leadership, Officership, Army Values and Ethics, Personal Development, and small unit tactics at the platoon level.  At the conclusion of this course, Cadets will be capable of planning, coordinating, navigating, motivating and leading a squad and platoon in the execution of a mission during a classroom PE, a Leadership Lab, or during a Leader Training Exercise (LTX).

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by third-year Cadets with MIL 303 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 302 - Applied Leadership in Small Unit Operations

    Two Credits
    Spring Semester

    MIL 302 builds on the lessons learned and leadership attributes gained and developed during MIL 301. This is an academically challenging course where Cadets will study, practice, and apply the fundamentals of Army Leadership, Officership, Army Values and Ethics, Personal Development, and small unit tactics at the platoon level.  At the conclusion of this course, Cadets will be capable of planning, coordinating, navigating, motivating and leading a squad and platoon in the execution of a mission during a classroom PE, a Leadership Lab, or during a Leader Training Exercise (LTX).

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by third-year Cadets with MIL 304 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 303 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Fall Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by third-year Cadets with MIL 301 - Training Management and the Warfighting Functions .
  

  • MIL 304 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Spring Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by third-year Cadets with MIL 302 - Applied Leadership in Small Unit Operations .
  

  • MIL 401 - Mission Command and the Army Profession

    Two Credits
    Fall Semester

    MIL 401 explores the dynamics of leading in the complex situations of current military operations.  Cadets will examine differences in customs and courtesies, military law, principles of war, and rules of engagement in the face of international terrorism.  Cadets also explore aspects of interacting with non-government organizations, civilians on the battlefield, the decision making processes and host nation support.  The course places significant emphasis on preparing Cadets for Basic Officer Leadership Course-B and their first unit of assignment.  It uses mission command case studies and scenarios to prepare Cadets to face the complex ethical demands of serving as a commissioned officer in the United States Army.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by fourth-year Cadets with MIL 403 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 402 - Mission Command and the Company Grade Officer

    Two Credits
    Spring Semester

    MIL 402 has Cadets explore the dynamics of leading in complex situations during Unified Land Operations; examine the Art of Command; learn how to properly communicate with and develop Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers; discuss situations on how ethical decisions impacting personnel and the unit mission; and learn how Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF), Being Ready and Resilient (R2C), and Individual and Family Readiness can assist leaders in preparing Soldiers and their Families on reducing and managing stress during times of uncertainty.  The course places significant emphasis on preparing Cadets for Basic Officer Leadership Course-B and their first unit of assignment.  It uses mission command case studies and scenarios to prepare Cadets to face the complex ethical demands of serving as a commissioned officer in the United States Army.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by fourth-year Cadets with MIL 404 - Leadership Laboratory .
  

  • MIL 403 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Fall Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by fourth-year Cadets with MIL 401 - Mission Command and the Army Profession .
  

  • MIL 404 - Leadership Laboratory

    Not for Credit
    Spring Semester

    Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill and ceremony, performance-oriented military instruction techniques, and practical applications of classroom theory. All students must attend the laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course students are the primary instructors using the cadet chain of command as the instructional framework. All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Duty Army cadre.

    Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Only open to students in the ROTC Program.
    Corequisite(s): Taken by fourth-year Cadets with MIL 402 - Mission Command and the Company Grade Officer .
 

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