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HIST 320 - From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Experience From 1619 to 1877 3 Credit Hours
This course examines and analyzes the variety of economic, social, cultural, and religious experiences in African American communities from the colonial era to the end of Reconstruction. This course focuses on the construction of a distinct African American culture and identity in the face of slavery, the complexity of the free African American community in the North, and the persistent political struggle for freedom and equality found in the actions, rhetoric, and faith of African American men and women during this period. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Listed also as BWS 320
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 328 - Latin American and United States Relations 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the political, economic, and cultural components of Latin America’s diplomatic history with the United States from the late colonial period (1700s) and the independence era to the present. The course focuses on the ways Latin American countries individually and collectively have responded to the United States’ growing presence in inter-regional affairs through the 19th and 20th centuries. This course may be applied to the global, Latin American, or United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 329 - Caudillos and Dictators in Latin America 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the cultural context of men such as Simón Bolívar, Porfirio Díaz, Juan Perón, and Fidel Castro, and questions Latin America’s seeming propensity for authoritarian rule. This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 330 - American Food History: Migration and Encounter in American Foodways 3 Credit Hours
This course is an interactive history course that analyzes the history of American foodways from contact in the sixteenth century to modern times. We will trace the history of immigration, migration and cross-cultural encounter on this continent through the food Americans have cooked and eaten over the last four hundred years-by reading, discussing, and cooking some of it in the nutrition sciences kitchen. Topics include American Barbeque and borderlands, Tex-Mex, Soul Food and African influences on Southern foodways, Americanized “ethnic” food (i.e. Italian Beef, General Tso’s Chicken, Corned Beef), and more. Includes two hours of seminar discussion and two hours of laboratory (kitchen) session each week. Lab fee applies.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 333 - 19th Century American Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours
This class offers students an introduction to the main currents of American popular culture from the 19th century and the very early 20th century and its relationship to our current society. In addition to identifying the varied aspects of American popular culture and tracking the development of its many manifestations, this class will demonstrate how these aspects reflected and were shaped by historical trends and events. We will also consider how entertainment, technology, consumerism, and mass communication mold the individual’s perceptions of his or her world. Some of the topics covered include the circus, P.T. Barnum’s world, the minstrel show, vaudeville, and burlesque. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 334 - 20th Century American Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours
This class offers students an introduction to the main currents of American popular culture of the 20th century. In addition to identifying the varied aspects of American popular culture, and tracking the development of its many manifestations, this class will demonstrate how these aspects reflected and were shaped by historical trends and events. We will also consider how entertainment, technology, consumerism, and mass communication mold the individual’s perceptions of his or her world. Some of the topics covered include baseball, the blues, jazz, country and western music, rock and roll, the radio, television, and the comic strip. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 335 - Russian Politics and Culture: From Peter to Putin 3 Credit Hours
This course analyzes the evolution of Russian politics and society through its three key historical periods: the Russian Empire of the Romanovs beginning with the reign of Peter the Great, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia. Students will examine major themes across these periods, such as Russia’s relationship with West, the role of the intelligentsia, women and gender, modernization and Westernization, and Russia’s geographic and cultural identity.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 345 - From Crossroads to Metropolis: U.S. Urban History Since 1800 3 Credit Hours
Emphasizing Chicago, this course explores the historical development of American cities, focusing upon the interaction between the urban environment and its inhabitants and exploring reasons for the growth and development of cities as well as how this growth influenced culture. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 346 - Making a Living: U.S. Working-Class History 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the American working-class experience since the 19th century. Readings, films, and discussions will explore class formation, working-class communities, workplace culture and collective action including unionization.We will explore how industrialization, deindustrialization, and the construction of a service economy have shaped the experience of the American working class. How race and gender intersect with class will be central to our study. Americans are decidedly self-conscious and even anxious about discussing social class. This course will “make class visible” and explore the experience of American working-class people, their lives at work, at home, and in politics and popular culture. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 348 - Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the role of ethnic and racial identity in American history, with a focus on the construction of “whiteness.” Readings and discussion for this course will address the immigration experience, the interaction among ethnic and racial groups in America, the creation of ethnic enclaves, and the development of unique hyphenated-American ethnic group identities and how these phenomena have changed over time. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 350 - Medieval Women and Gender 3 Credit Hours
This course is a survey of the history of women and family in the Middle Ages. We will examine women from all levels of society and consider medieval constructions of gender and patriarchy. This course may be applied to the European history concentration.
Listed also as SWG 350 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 354 - Inventing Victory: The United States in World War II 3 Credit Hours
This is the story of how the United States cooperated with Britain in formulating the grand strategy that eventually prevailed, and how its mighty industrial and agricultural arsenal was essential to victory in World War II. This course may be applied to the global or United States history concentration.
Previously numbered as HIST 451
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 367 - The American West 3 Credit Hours
This course is an in-depth analysis of the American frontier as shared and contested space. Readings and discussion will address the meaning of contact between European-Americans, Native Americans, and African-Americans on the frontier, the changes to the landscape and environment, the “internal empire” of the American West in natural resources, and the myths of the American West including the place of the West in American identity. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 368 - Gender and Urban Life 3 Credit Hours
This course addresses the relationship between urban America and ideas of gender as well as race and class. Through readings and discussion, students examine how the urban experience both reflects and influences cultural definitions of gender and sexuality. Critical themes under investigation include the commercialization of sexuality, the idea of the city as a place for personal freedom and institutional oppression for both men and women, and the city as a dangerous place for women. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
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HIST 372 - European Popular Culture 1500-1900 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the fate of the oral cultures of Europe in the face of developing literacy and cultural commercialism. Topics include popular notions of self and community, popular religious beliefs and forms of popular resistance to authority. This course may be applied to the European history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 378 - Native American History 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to the complex and rich culture, history, and worldview of Native American peoples. The course will address the period from the ancient civilizations of North America to the European/Native American contact as well as life for native peoples under the aegis of the United States. There will be a special focus upon the tribes of the arid Southwest, the woodland peoples of the Northeast, the agricultural societies of the Southeast, and the roving bands of the plains. This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 379 - The United States in World War I 3 Credit Hours
This course examines U.S. history during the era of World War I (1912-1920), with emphasis on economic mobilization, political and military strategy, and social programs. Students will evaluate America’s participation in its first major military expedition as part of an allied coalition overseas. The consequences of international peacemaking following the Armistice in November 1918 will be reviewed. This course may be applied to the global or United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 380 - Contemporary Africa 3 Credit Hours
This course analyzes the history of Africa from the early 1960’s when the majority of African countries became “independent” to the present. Topics include the legacy of colonial rule, neo-colonialism, identity crises and civil wars, public health, the place of Africa in the new international order, the transition toward democracy, and the impact of globalization. This course may be applied to the African history concentration.
Listed also as BWS 380 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 381 - France 1750-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Dictatorship 3 Credit Hours
This course will examine three key movements in France: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era, all of which had a profound and lasting impact, not only in France, but also in the world. Emphasis will be placed not only upon the political developments of this period, but also upon social, cultural, and intellectual themes. Connections also will be drawn between the French Revolution and the various revolutionary movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 385 - Nazism and the Holocaust 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the processes and events leading up to and including the different acts of genocide that occurred in the context of the Second World War. Some experience with a college-level history class is recommended. This course may be applied to the European history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 391 - Apartheid in South Africa 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the history of South Africa from the early 1650s with the establishment of the Cape colony to the 1990s with the emergence of the black majority rule. Topics include the beginnings of colonial settlements, the economic transformations of South Africa, apartheid and the anti-apartheid struggle, and the challenges facing modern South Africa. This course may be applied to the African history concentration.
Listed also as BWS 391 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 450 - Independent Study 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
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HIST 452 - War on Two Fronts: Combat in Vietnam and Upheaval in the United States 3 Credit Hours
The course will examine the issues and consequences of the Vietnam War for the United States and Vietnam including issues of asymmetrical war, popular support, and confidence, as well as domestic strain. This course may be applied to the global or United States history concentration.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 455 - Internship 1-8 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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HLTC 750 - Health Care Management 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to the American health care delivery system. It provides an overview of various scientific, social, educational, governmental, and economic forces that shape the health care system and studies the historical development of health care management systems.
Previously numbered as GSB 741
Prerequisite(s): Where possible, it is recommended that students complete MGMT 602 prior to or concurrently with enrolling in this course.
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HLTC 751 - Health Care Law 3 Credit Hours
Students examine the legal environment of the health care industry, including a review and analysis of relevant statutes and policies of federal and state jurisdictions, as well as case law affecting the industry.
Previously numbered as GSB 742
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HLTC 752 - Contemporary Issues in Health Care 3 Credit Hours
This course will look at many of the most important developments within the health care industry. The focus of the course is on current issues. Topics include strategic planning and marketing strategy models.
Previously numbered as GSB 743
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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HLTC 753 - Strategic Risk and Crisis Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course highlights the role of theory in risk communication, issue management, crisis communication, and image repair discourse. Students will learn to think strategically about the role of media in crisis communication planning and gain appreciation for the value of preparing for a crisis. Collaboration, team-learning and problem solving in risk and crisis situations will all be explored through in class exercises and simulations. Students will also consider the legal and ethical issues that are often present and managed by crisis communication professionals
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HLTC 754 - Human Resources and Change Management in Healthcare Organizations 3 Credit Hours
Students in this course develop a deep understanding of the terminology, principles, and practices of strategic human resource management (HRM), applied to the healthcare setting. A single HR manager may be involved in hiring, firing, enforcing policy, investigating mishaps, consulting on corporate strategy, training, negotiating in relation to compensation, employment contracts, and benefits provision. The course will also explore the change management process, with an emphasis on the implications for an organization’s people. This broad array of HR and change management practices will be examined from the perspective of not only what’s best for the organization, but also what’s best for human beings, communities, and the world.
Prerequisite(s): Where possible, it is recommended that students complete MGMT 602 prior to enrolling in this course.
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HLTC 755 - Healthcare Communication 3 Credit Hours
As medical advances make it easier for us to live longer, the ability to communicate in a healthcare setting is increasingly relevant in our daily lives. Whether from the perspective of wellness or disease control, health care can be complicated to navigate. This class will examine the various models of health care communication, marketing, quality assessments, regulatory oversight groups, dealing with patient complaints, methods for measuring patient satisfaction, disability and the medical model, and culture and diversity in healthcare.
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HLTC 759 - Capstone Experience in Healthcare Management 3 Credit Hours
This is the Capstone Experience in Healthcare Management. It should be completed in the final semester of your program. Students will work in teams to solve a business problem within a health care organization. Where possible, students will work on a customized project that address one of the challenges they are facing within their own workplace.
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HNBQ 218 - Hispanic Social Mystics of the Dominican Order 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the lives of key figures of the Dominican Order. The focus of the examination will consider how their lives and commitment to contemplation, prayer, and social justice contributed towards the creation of a more just and humane world. Questions such as how a life of prayer fosters courage for advocacy, activism, and protest in helping the poor; how might caritas reveal itself at personal and systemic levels. The course is structured in manner attentive to how these figures and questions may form our own lives of prayer, ministry, and social justice to which we-as individual and as a church-are called by God. Figures such as Catherine of Siena, Bartolome de Las Casas, Martin de Porres, Rosa de Lima, Gustavo Gutierrez, among other contemporary social mystics, will be considered.
Previously numbered as HNSM 218
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in Theology.
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HNBQ 242 - Pundits and Gurus 3 Credit Hours
While actively engaging in the practice of yoga, the class will read the Bhagavad Gita, and explore the philosophical and spiritual concepts that underlie the discipline of yoga. We will also keep a journal for the continuous comparison and contrast of acquiring knowledge through the analysis of the critical intellect and acquiring knowledge through the experience of meditation
Previously numbered as HNSM 242
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNBQ 266 - Happiness 3 Credit Hours
This big questions honors seminar will take a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring two fundamental questions of human existence: what is happiness, and how can we attain it
Previously numbered as HNSM 266
Prerequisite(s): Honors program student only or consent of instructor.
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HNEI 246 - Shakespeare’s Women: Gender, Language, and Power in a Cultural Revolution 3 Credit Hours
Shakespeare had his finger on the trending topics of his day, so when Queen Elizabeth inherits the throne from her sister, all of England catches it breathe, how will she rule, how quickly will she marry, and who will she marry was all anyone talked about, and hence the romance plays were born. But in a world built for men, Henry VIII’s powerful daughter influenced gender norms in such a way as to enable Elizabeth to rule as effectively as her father, but was it through cultural revolution or renaissance? Did she forward the cause for women or solidify the very template of a conniving, manipulative shrew that has dogged powerful women to the present day? This class will explore gender and cultural norms through the lens of language in Shakespeare’s plays (as written and in film) to investigate.
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only or consent of instructor.
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HNEI 260 - To See Again the Stars: Dante and Discovery 3 Credit Hours
Students in this course will read excerpts of Dante’s Divine Comedy to learn one person’s journey of self-discovery. Medieval and contemporary art and modern media will be used as commentary to the poem to assist the reader’s own experience, as Dante writes, “to see again the stars.”
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNEI 363 - Science and Responsibility: Human Being and Natural Being 3 Credit Hours
An examination of the relationship of intellectual and social contexts with the process of doing science, raising issues of reponsibility that arise at the intersection of science and other human activities. The course will focus on Darwin’s Origin of Species and on questions relating to global warming and/or climate change.
Previously numbered as HNSM 363
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only or consent of instructor.
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HNEI 366 - Darwinian Thinking Across Disciplines 3 Credit Hours
What do slime mold, honeycombs, morning sickness, and free will have in common? All of them are evolutionary puzzles, phenomena that at first seem to challenge evolutionary theory but that on deeper investigation are illuminated by evolutionary thinking. This seminar will explore what it might mean to see all of human knowledge through the lens of Darwinian thinking. Students will use insights from evolutionary science to explore topics in their own disciplines and, drawing on one another’s disciplinary knowledge and expertise, will develop proposals for interdisciplinary research or social action projects.
Previously numbered as HNSM 366
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only or consent of instructor.
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HNEI 382 - Contemporary Issues: Science and Technology 3 Credit Hours
Scientific discoveries in the 19th century stimulated the rapid growth of technology that is both blessing and bane to contemporary society. The seminal work of John Dalton, Charles Darwin, James Maxwell, et al., led to revolutionary advances in the physical and biological sciences, which in turn gave us tools capable of dignifying or demeaning our collective existence. In this course we will focus on the origin and history of two contemporary and contentious technological issues, specifically, genetic engineering and nuclear energy. Along the way we will explore the scientific method, the differences between science and technology, and the interdisciplinary nature of rational decision making.
Previously numbered as HNSM 382
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 142 - Faith and Freedom 3 Credit Hours
Although many consider faith (not only religious) and freedom (not only political) “natural” and common aspects of the human condition, they co-exist uneasily. In this course, we will consider rational, emotional, and mysterious sources of deeply held beliefs alongside the exercise of free will. The common text in the Honors first-year seminars, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, will be our primary guide as we investigate these enduring concerns. We will also analyze modern discussions of faith and freedom in the contexts of national institutions, social conflict, and connections to home.
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HNSM 155 - Justice as Virtue 3 Credit Hours
This seminar will investigate the theme of justice as it is presented in Dostoevky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Students will begin their university journey by examining the notion of justice in its many manifestations, both earthly and divine, and look to the characters of Dostoevsky’s novel to understand how those manifestations are interrelated. Further exploration will develop the classical moral virtue of justice in preparation for a modern understanding of social justice.
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HNSM 158 - Thinking? 3 Credit Hours
In creating knowledge, what are the roles of thoughts and passions? Where do we “live” - in the mind? In our community? How does our understanding of self and community affect our sense of what we know and what we believe? This class will engage and interrogate our sense of self, as defined by thoughts, passions, and actions.
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HNSM 161 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? 3 Credit Hours
In a court of law, a defendant’s life hangs upon guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But in the journey from doubt to certainty (and the likelihood of a roundtrip!), what is the role of faith? With the help of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, this seminar will grapple with questions of faith and reason, doubt and certainty, and the restless search of the self for truth.
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HNSM 168 - Love and Faith 3 Credit Hours
Love and faith are widely considered the most essential and profound of human experiences; at the same time, they are often seen in strictly emotional or irrational terms. In this course we will explore the role of the intellect in love and faith. Does “thinking too much” necessarily hinder our ability to act in passionate relationships or to believe in God? How do we practice love and faith thoughtfully? The common text in the honors first-year seminars, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, will be our primary guide as we investigate these enduring questions.
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HNSM 174 - Suffering and the Idea of Happiness: Thoughts and Passions 3 Credit Hours
Many critical thinkers assert that “happiness” as a goal is an invention of the 19th century. For Dostoevsky happiness as both material comfort and the perfectibility of man is both undesirable and unattainable. Dostoevsky’s Christian existentialism is a rage against the uncritical embrace of happiness that dominates our era. For Dostoevsky it is salvation, not happiness, that we need to pursue; the former requires suffering, and the latter is an illusion. We will read The Brothers Karamazov as a critique of a way of life that has become characterized as Western Enlightenment.
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HNSM 453 - The Wisdom and Power of This World Only? 3 Credit Hours
To what extent can human beings, individually or together, control the course of history? Must men and women use all human means, including coercion and violence, to right the wrongs of this world and to protect themselves and others? Or is there available to humanity some sort of otherworldly wisdom and power in suffering that, as Saint Paul wrote, is “folly to the Greeks?” Is there, as one theologian suggests, sometimes a “grace of doing nothing” when others suffer? Or would we be obliged to battle injustice even if, in the words taken from a famous treatise on war and peace, “God did not exist or took no interest in the affairs of men?” In this seminar, we will join in conversation with extraordinary writers who have explored such questions in unusual depth.
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 464 - Personal Transformation 3 Credit Hours
There is a saying that “change is inevitable; growth is optional,” but how is it that some people are forged by suffering while others become defeated? Does this have something to do with how we see ourselves in relation to our difficulties? Is it a matter of faith? good luck? chance: In looking at what Job, Oedipus, Lear, and the poetry of T.S. Eliot can offer us, perhaps we can fortify ourselves to “suffer” in the real sense of the word and we might say, as the voice in “Ash Wednesday” articulates, “Teach us to care and not to care/Teach us to sit still.”
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 465 - Against Our Will 3 Credit Hours
With great suffering, we are often told, comes deep wisdom. However, the human response to tragedy can range from vengeance to mercy, retaliation to forgiveness - especially among those who wield great power. Reading the Oresteia of Aeschylus, the Book of Job, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Morrison’s Beloved - along with speeches by figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy - we will consider responses to injustice and betrayal; we will also explore the nature of power in determining our concept of wisdom.
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 466 - Making Sense of Suffering: Wisdom and Power 3 Credit Hours
Suffering is ubiquitous, and it demands explanation. We struggle to make sense of suffering that so often seems gratuitous, meaningless. We want suffering - our suffering - to matter, to be meaningful. This desperation to find meaning in suffering, to create meaning even when confronted with the apparent absence of meaning, will be the focus of our investigation throughout the semester. We will use texts, fictional and non-fictional, written and visual, to enable us to explore matters of suffering and meaning: Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Book of Job, Primo Levi’s Survival In Auschwitz and “The Gray Zone,” Paul Celan’s Death Fugue, and Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts. To supplement our readings, we will watch Richard Eyre’s production of King Lear, Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, Andy de Emmony’s God On Trial, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 470 - Learning the Hard Way: Know Yourself to Know the World 3 Credit Hours
Antigone, Job, King Lear and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight share a common theme of what disasters that having power without wisdom can bring; ignorance, especially of one’s self, can wreak havoc in a world where human suffering is somehow connected to our understanding of human agency and divine power. This semester will be devoted to exploring ways of achieving wisdom and self-knowledge, as well as a discussion of how our society constructs the concepts of both human and divine power and wisdom
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HS 110 - Introduction to Philanthropy 3 Credit Hours
The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the philanthropic and public charity sector that emphasizes the transaction of giving through the process of grant making to community organizations. Through a combination of readings, class discussion, simulated learning experiences and hands-on, interactive activities out of the classroom, participants apply their learning to the real-life process of giving through a structured grant making approach. This will prepare the participants to engage in civic and philanthropic leadership roles in the community as they pursue their careers.
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HS 300 - Social Science Research 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of the methods used by social scientists. Topics include reviewing existing literature, designing a study, surveys, data analysis and research ethics. Required for human services major.
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HS 301 - Writing in the Social Sciences 3 Credit Hours
Students will demonstrate the fundamentals of written communications in the social sciences through a number of short writing assignments, as well as a longer paper, which will go through at least one revision. They will focus on clarity, organization, proper presentation of supporting evidence and communication ethics. Required for human services major.
Prerequisite(s): EN 102
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HS 302 - Statistics for Social Scientists 3 Credit Hours
Numeracy is a fundamental skill for those practicing the social sciences. This course addresses the fundamentals of quantitative data analysis and the ethical presentation of statistics. Required for human services major. Satisfies the mathematics proficiency requirement for CASS continuing studies undergraduates.
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HS 303 - Human Services Administration 3 Credit Hours
The field of human services of full of well-meaning individuals who nevertheless struggle to help those they would serve due to a lack of administrative ability. This course will explore the essential leadership and organizational skills needed to succeed in human services. Required for human services major.
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HS 304 - Social Policy 3 Credit Hours
Students will examine the ways in which institutional policies impact society. Topics include the political process, unintended consequences and policy analysis. Required for human services major.
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HS 305 - Behavioral Theory 3 Credit Hours
Why do people behave irrationally? What really motivates people? What incentives can be used to change behavior? By answering these questions, human services professionals can better address the needs of those they serve. Required for human services major.
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HS 320 - Disability Studies 3 Credit Hours
This is an introduction to the burgeoning field of disability studies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course demonstrates the ways in which society’s conception of the body have evolved and continue to evolve over time. Topics include shifting terminology, artistic representations, the concept of human dignity, education and the workplace.
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HS 322 - Disability Support Services 3 Credit Hours
The course will examine the range of government and private services available to individuals with disabilities, as well as the gaps in services and barriers that prevent people from taking full advantage of what’s available.
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HS 340 - Unions and Collective Bargaining 3 Credit Hours
This is an overview of the collective bargaining process from union formation to contract negotiation to working under a collective bargaining agreement. Topics include major legislation, the differences between the public and private sectors and the nature of the unionized workplace.
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HS 341 - Sociology of Labor 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the role of unions in our society, including the history of the labor movement and the economic impact of unionization, as well as the effects of labor’s decline in recent decades.
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HS 350 - Fundamentals of Public Administration 3 Credit Hours
This is a survey of government bureaucracies at the federal, state and local levels, with a particular focus on how they both succeed and fail to provide essential services to the public.
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HS 355 - International Relations 3 Credit Hours
Students will examine the ways in which states and non-state actors interact with one another, including militarily and diplomatically.
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HS 356 - Globalization and Its Critics 3 Credit Hours
Modern societies around the world are increasingly interconnected with one another due to technological innovation and other factors. This interconnection has significant social, cultural, political and economic consequences, which have been both praised and criticized. A number of viewpoints will be examined.
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HS 370 - Understanding the Environment 3 Credit Hours
Sustainability is fundamentally rooted in the scientific understanding of the environment. This course provides a basic overview of environmental science to further sounds policy decisions.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural science.
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HS 371 - Building Sustainable Organizations 3 Credit Hours
Environmental problems are often presented as conflicts between the needs of the environment and the economy. In some cases, organizations find that good environmental policy also makes good economic sense. But in other cases, organizations must figure out how to properly calculate and weigh the environmental consequences of their actions. This course will examine both institutional decision-making and government policy.
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HS 390 - Adult Learning Theory 3 Credit Hours
For centuries, educational philosophers have studied the most effective means of teaching children. It has only been in recent decades that they have realized learning is a lifelong activity. This is an overview of the way adults learn, particularly with respect to professional advancement.
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HS 391 - Organizational Development 3 Credit Hours
This course will examine the way in which organizations adapt to change and improve overtime. It explores types of organizational change and the change process including resistance to change and stakeholder dynamics. The course delves into the roles of change agents, employee involvement, leadership and communication, the process of planned change and the discovery of evolving organizational opportunities. Also, internal and external forces of change are analyzed through the evaluation of change models, theories and case studies.
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HS 392 - Distance Learning 3 Credit Hours
Distance learning has evolved from instruction by mail in the 19th century to cutting-edge interactive course delivery through the Internet. This course will explore the ways in which distance learning differs from traditional delivery and the best practices of online course design.
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HS 400 - Professional Ethics 3 Credit Hours
Helping professionals owe a duty of competent and ethical service to their clients. This course will address the ethical imperatives and challenges posed to modern professionals. Required for human services major.
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HUM 201 - Preparing for Professionalization in the Humanities and Arts 1 Credit Hours
This course will help students translate the knowledge, skills, and acquired methodologies from their humanities and arts disciplines to their professional and career development.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above, or consent of instructor.
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HWE 200 - Introduction to Healthcare/Wellness Professions and Practices 2 Credit Hours
This course is designed for students interested in healthcare and wellness. The course provides an introductory overview of healthcare and wellness promotion systems and services. A primary focus of the course centers on examination of the roles and responsibilities, professional and educational requirements, and the satisfaction and challenges associated with varied careers within healthcare and wellness promotion. The interprofessional teamwork and collaboration across roles in healthcare and wellness are introduced.
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HWE 210 - Introduction to Public Health 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to introduce the basic tenets, applications, and foci of public health, including integrating public health with other health and wellness professions. It will provide a history of public health, an overview of the core disciplines including disease prevention health and wellness professions and systems, as well as current events and issues in the field.
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HWE 299 - Community-Based Learning for Health and Wellness 1-3 Credit Hours
This course involves approved community-based fieldwork and seminar sessions supporting students in dynamic exploration and engagement with healthcare and wellness settings and services.
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HWE 320 - Fitness Assessment and Programming 3 Credit Hours
This course emphasizes the role of physical activity in the enhancement of health and fitness. It integrates experiential learning activities with cognitive subject matter. Students will understand and perform lifestyle screenings, basic fitness assessments and prescriptive programming and identify appropriate client referrals and resources.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 252 , HWE 200 ,HWE 210 , NUTR 250 or departmental approval.
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HWE 330 - Health Promotion and Advocacy 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to the basic principles of the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs and advocacy This course places particular emphasis on the identification of health and lifestyle risk factors and the interventions associated with appropriate and effective management of these risks, and advocacy skills to support the improvement of health and well-being for these risks or needs
Prerequisite(s): HWE 200 ,HWE 210 , NUTR 250
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HWE 440 - Worksite Safety 3 Credit Hours
This introductory course focuses on Major concepts and issues in occupational health, workplace safety, health, and inspection. Throughout this course you will learn what workplace safety is, why it is important and how it affects employee health and wellness as well as employer effectiveness.
Prerequisite(s): HWE 200 , HWE 210
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HWE 455 - Health and Wellness Internship 1-4 Credit Hours
The internship experience provides an opportunity to apply skills in a health and wellness organization/setting/agency/business under the joint supervision of a faculty internship advisor and an assigned health and wellness practicing professional at the internship site. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status; GPA of 2.5 or above; HWE 320 ,HWE 330 , NUTR 345 , or consent of Health and Wellness Discipline Director.
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ID 092 - International Integration and Success 1 Credit Hours
Designed to help International students integrate into the Dominican Community and help them succeed in their academic work as they continue their education in the United States. The course will teach students how to connect academic and co-curricular experiences and to reflect on-as well as accurately evaluate-their own learning. At the end of the course, students will have assembled a portfolio of reflective work, which may be used as a reference tool in their subsequent years in college.
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ID 101 - Blueprint for College Success 3 Credit Hours
Build skills for college and career success by enhancing your academic sense of self, practicing effective learning strategies, and connecting goals to academic and career aspirations. Through individual reflection and group work, we will cultivate a learning community to sustain you through your college journeyBuild skills for college and career success by enhancing your academic sense of self, practicing effective learning strategies, and connecting goals to academic and career aspirations. Through individual reflection and group work, we will cultivate a learning community to sustain you through your college journey.
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ID 102 - Strategies for Academic Success 3 Credit Hours
This course, through proven strategies of self-assessment, guided journaling, and critical thinking case studies, will empower students to attain success in their academic and personal lives. The course stresses self-exploration, personal growth, and wise decision making. Woven into each unit are the essential study skills of reading, note-taking, test-taking, time management, writing, and other skills needed to ensure student success.
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ID 105 - A Little Black-ish and a Little Grown-ish: Navigating Blackness and Education 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an analysis of current issues impacting Black students using the sitcoms Grown-ish and Black-ish. This course examines how institutionalized barriers, family dynamics, income, and race influence the Black family and higher education. Students will engage in discussions, critical thought, and written reflections to explore various societal constructs, social mobility, social/cultural capital and Black consciousness as it relates to education and the college experience
Listed also as BWS 105
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ID 110 - Career Planning and Major Exploration 1 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students with selecting college majors and identifying potential careers within their chosen fields. Students will develop a strong foundation for major/career planning through career assessments, industry research and personal reflection. We will explore a variety of career options and determine the required skills, certifications and/or advanced degrees necessary for employment. Upon completion of this course students will have a better understanding of their career interests and the academic programs to support them in their desired fields. This course is offered on a satisfactory/fail basis.
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ID 111 - Personal Finance 1 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students understand how individual choices directly influence their financial stability and long term financial health. The course will cover real world topics such as income, money management, credit scores, debt, savings plans, investing, insurance, credit cards, and household budgeting.
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ID 201 - Social Justice and Leadership 2 Credit Hours
Through a framework rooted in the principles of ethics and equity, this course will give students the opportunity to explore various modes of leadership alongside their vocational identities. Students will engage in meaningful community building work surrounding the topic of leadership and engage with real life leaders from a variety of industries and professional settings.
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ID 210 - Becoming a Campus Change Agent 1 Credit Hours
How do you use your knowledge of leadership theory and social change as well as your leadership skills to make change in our campus community? What recommendations do you have to create a more just and humane campus experience for Dominican students? This 1-credit capstone course for the Leadership Certificate is designed as a research project in which students will choose a campus issue they would like to see changed. Using their background on the stages of social change, students will conduct research and make recommendations on options for addressing their particular issue.
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ID 260 - Interdisciplinary Topic 1 Credit Hours
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ID 290 - Portfolio Development: Sophomores and Above 1 Credit Hours
This course is for students at the sophomore rank or above seeking to build and maintain a portfolio of their work at Dominican, with particular attention to integrating learning across courses and over time. Students enrolled in the course will reflect on their academic and co-curricular experiences at Dominican, and connect ideas, theories, and methods encountered in multiple courses. At the end of this course, students will have assembled a portfolio of their best work, which may be developed in their subsequent years in college and, ultimately, shared with others (potential employers, graduate admissions committees, etc.).
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above. (ID 190 is not a prerequisite.)
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ID 320 - Science Communication for Broader Impact 3 Credit Hours
Become an effective science communicator. Science communication is a vital component of the scientific process. Grants, especially through the National Science Foundation, require clear communication and have an increasing emphasis on the broader impact section that focuses on public outreach. In this course, you’ll gain the skills you need to identify your audience and tailor your message to that audience, select the right communication method for the task at hand, use narratives to shape your communication, and translate scientific findings to maximize your reach and impact. We will use popular literature, media, and scientific literature to inform how we craft different kinds of messages, including developing an elevator pitch, and writing copy for signage and newspaper articles, and policy memos.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
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ID 341 - Fanjeaux: France in the Middle Ages 3 Credit Hours
Short-term study abroad in Fanjeaux, France. The story that all of us will participate in begins in thirteenth century France, but like the itinerant that St. Dominic was, we continue to walk in faith, in truth, and in love. To that end, we have a wonderful opportunity to acquaint ourselves with medieval thought, theology, art, and architecture-to catch a glimpse of the imagination that formed and informed Dominic’s response to what was often a hostile and embattled world, rife with heresies, suspicion, and rancor. Dominic’s response was not to perpetuate the binary code of winners and losers, but to offer a paradigmatic shift, a movement away from “either/or” to “both/and.”
Though we will visit many different sites-cathedrals, museums, castles, and caves, we are not tourists. We take on a pilgrim’s heart and steep ourselves in the literature and history of the Middle Ages. But we will, as T.S. Eliot says in Four Quartets, “fare forward.” We shall also read other works from Romanticism and Modernism in order to understand that while things change, they often, at their heart, remain the same. We will primarily be engaged in the imaginative structure of tension, the thread that is pulled through time and space that calls us into disputatio, that is, the capacity to pursue truth and hear from other voices.
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ID 450 - Independent Study 1-8 Credit Hours
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IFS 105 - Introduction to Interfaith Studies 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 105
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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IFS 455 - Internship 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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IFS 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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IM 701 - Information in Society, Organizations, and Cultures 3 Credit Hours
Information is the foundation upon which the modern world is built; information and the systems to deliver that information are the basis of communication technology, social interactions, economic growth, scientific/academic research, business, art, and music. In this course, students will learn about the fundamentals of information - how it is created, how it is managed, and how it is used. Students will gain an understanding of basic information theory and how that theory can be applied to different levels: the individual, and organization, cultures, and society. This is the required first course for all MSIM students.
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IM 703 - Information Architecture 3 Credit Hours
Information architecture is the art and science of organizing, structuring, and labeling components in information systems to provide meaningful experiences for users. In this course, students will explore issues of data and information organization and structure, system navigation, interaction design, search and query issues, and user interface. Students will learn about the interdependent nature of users, content, and context. Students will analyze existing systems as well as develop information architectures for new applications.
Prerequisite(s): IM 701 or LIS 701 (or concurrent enrollment).
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IM 704 - Data Structures and Representation 3 Credit Hours
How information is represented can significantly impact how information is accessed and disseminated; whether data is structured or unstructured, controlled by vocabularies or free-form, numbers or text, can determine how it is collected, processed, and stored. In this course, students will learn about a variety of internal and external data structures, how data is transmitted between systems, and the impact of representation on applications and users.
Prerequisite(s): IM 701
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IM 720 - Data Analytics for Information Professionals 3 Credit Hours
Data analytics is the process of examining data in order to draw conclusions about that information. Data analytics is used in a variety of organizations in order to make better decisions, to better serve customers, to find information gaps, and to develop new and/or improved processes, products, or ideas. In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of data analysis tools and models. Students will have hands-on experience extracting and processing data to solve real problems.
Prerequisite(s): IM 701 , IM 704 or other experience programming in Python and approval by the instructor.
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IM 750 - Information Storage and Retrieval 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as LIS 750
Prerequisite(s): IM 701 and acceptance into the MSIM program.
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IM 751 - Database Management 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as LIS 751
Prerequisite(s): IM 701 and acceptance into the MSIM program.
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