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LAS 290 - The Challenge of Solidarity 3 hours
Diversity and culture are givens in our lives, and the clash of many diverse cultures is the source of much injustice, violence, and even genocide in today’s world. How can we better understand diversity and culture all our lives long, while we see the gift of community in a climate of faith, hope, and love? Is it possible to bridge the divisions of group identity to create movements of solidarity for the common good? Theoretical models of social analysis, the biographies of great leaders in social change, and personal exchange with local practitioners of solidarity will all contribute to our study of diversity, culture, and community.
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LAS 296 - Diversity, Food, and Social Justice 3 hours
It has been said that the history of human society can be traced through the history of food production and distribution. This course will utilize film, literature, and experiential learning to explore issues regarding food disparity as well as the political, economic and social impact of hunger in a land of plenty. We will explore the growing international paradox of poverty, obesity, and malnutrition. We will critique proposed systemic solutions, such as sustainable food production. Students will be expected to participate in a service learning component addressing “food deserts” and social justice in the Chicago area.
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LAS 333 - Becoming a Professional 3 hours
What is the difference between a job and a profession? The “learned professions” have expanded from law, medicine, and theology to include any occupation requiring a background in the liberal arts and sciences. Why is this grounding in the liberal arts and sciences significant? The root of the word professional is the verb “to profess,” meaning to make public declaration, like the vows taken by those entering religious life. As students prepare to embark upon their professions, they will consider what it is that they are willing to profess.
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LAS 334 - Labor, Work, and Action 3 hours
The way social and political dynamics work is shifting because of the rapid development of our inventions. How does this trend affect the way we define our culture and what are the implications of these shifts on whom we view and what we consider as our work?
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LAS 341 - 20th Century Workers’ Tales 3 hours
This course will focus on the social, political and emotional turmoil that workers faced during the first half of the 20th Century, and how many lives were affected by a system that was indifferent to their struggles. The course will include classics like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, and selections from James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time. Bob Dylan’s protest songs will also be studied to further illuminate the literature as well as establish an historical framework for class discussions.
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LAS 342 - The Game of Life 2.0 3 hours
We all know how it ends. Point is, what are you going to do with the life you’ve got in the meantime? Work? Check. Play? Check. Change the world? Maybe. Do it all with cool gadgets? No doubt. Text, visual media, game-making, art, and philosophy will guide us in answering: What is the place of work in the life of the individual and in society? How do technology and leisure shape our lives? What part does making a living play in making a life? For the intellectually adventurous.
Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.
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LAS 343 - Art As Work 3 hours
How can one make their life’s work art and can one’s life be art? How do you make the distinction? What does it mean to survive or thrive as an artist and/or introduce creativity into your life? What are the practicalities and real life applications of art and how is the current state of the economy affecting the art world? How have artists historically coped with the economic realities of being an artist? We will explore various ways to make art a career, both philosophically and practically.
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LAS 344 - The Story of Our Lives 3 hours
In this course, we will explore how the chapters of our lives make up the story of our lives. We will read and research a variety of formats, such as biographies, short stories, newspapers, and journals, to learn from others’ experiences and how these experiences apply to our lives.
Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.
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LAS 346 - Work vs. Leisure: Where Is the Path to Happiness? 3 hours
In this course we will examine how work and leisure in particular relate to happiness. In order to determine where and how we can find happiness through our work and leisure, we will use, in addition to the common text, the “Art of Happiness at Work” by the Dalai Lama and selected other readings from the “happiness” literature in economics and psychology.
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LAS 347 - Work and Leisure: Exploring a Balance 3 hours
Do we need to strike a balance between work and leisure in our lives or are work and leisure part of an integrated continuum of achievement, fulfillment and satisfaction? How does technology factor into the work-leisure equation? In order to answer these questions the seminar will explore the philosophical, historical, sociological, and psychological approaches to work and leisure. We will consider whether leisure is work, how to make a living of leisure, and what constitutes a career. The seminar will include readings from studies, literature, and the popular press, case studies, media presentations, and guest speakers. Students will work independently, as well as in teams, to formulate and express their views of work and leisure.
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LAS 348 - Finding a Job and Finding a Life 3 hours
We will work most of our lives- so does our work define who we are? If work is to be a major part of our life, it will be worthwhile to examine how we approach the search for work. The process of self-assessment, knowing ourselves, and understanding our values are all important in deciding where to work and what to do. Technology is a great resource for educating us about career paths and for sourcing jobs and connecting with employers. As we examine the many tools available in a job search, we will also need to consider that life is not all about work: leisure, free time, personal pursuits, etc., help to balance our lives. Do our leisure pursuits define us? How have some companies meshed their employees’ leisure pursuits into their culture? What are the various forms of “technology as leisure pursuits” and how have social websites crossed over into the working world? In this seminar, we will take up such questions as we ask, What does finding a job have to do with finding a life?
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LAS 349 - Technology and Spirituality 3 hours
This seminar will holistically examine the coming together of technology and spirituality. In that context, we will explore some seminal questions: What is technology? What is spirituality? Can the nexus between the two be identified and probed? Are the benefits of technology restricted to an enriching material life or can they be extended to an uplifting of our spirit as well? Does technology bring true freedom to our working lives and to our leisure? Does technology draw a fine line between avoiding work and evading leisure? Does technology erase the distinction between work and leisure and render humankind its slave? Can an examination of the core of technology – the essence – give us helpful hints in our pursuit of spiritual growth? Can this core speak then, to the spirituality of technology? Julian Huxley said, “We are not men, we are only candidates to humanity.” How does technology advance our candidacy? Through critical engagement of materials from various disciplines, these are some of the questions we will explore together in this seminar.
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LAS 356 - Meaning of Work, Technology, and Leisure Across the Life Course 3 hours
This seminar will highlight a sociological approach to work, technology, and leisure, with emphasis on how their meanings change throughout an individual’s lifetime. How do people in early adulthood, mid-adulthood, and late life define meaning in work, technology, and leisure? What are the possible variations, especially when taking into account gender and cultural differences? The course will use a multidisciplinary approach while exploring writings from the humanities.
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LAS 357 - All in the Family? Technology’s Impact on Families’ Decisions About Work and Leisure 3 hours
The myth of modern technology is that it will free us to have more time to enjoy our families and to engage in leisure activities. The reality is that with all of the “timesaving” devices, today’s families seem to be busier, less connected, and more preoccupied than ever before. In this seminar we will look at other times and cultures to see how they understood technology, work, and leisure; and we will examine and compare our own culture’s values. We will also look to some new discoveries in the physical world, in particular the underpinning of quantum theory, which demonstrate that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. With religious imagination we will try to discover in that fact spiritual implications for family life.
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LAS 367 - The Ultimate Price of Technology: Literary Warnings 3 hours
This course will explore major works of fiction that portray future worlds shaped and twisted by technological advances and totalitarian control, largely at the expense of the individual human spirit. Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, and other works of “dystopian” literature will be examined to speculate how far society has gone from understanding the Truth. Moreover, the course will examine how work and leisure will be defined in light of such profound changes. Class discussions will center upon the pros and cons of expanding technology and its effects upon those who initially support its often-clandestine intentions – you and me.
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LAS 375 - Energy Resources and Life Choices 3 hours
Our personal and collective decisions on energy use influence not only the quality of our lives but also the future life on this planet. The global community is already dealing with conflicts over the allocation of nonrenewable energy sources such as crude oil, the development of economical alternative energy resources, and the reduction of energy-related pollution. Our responses to energy issues determine our work, leisure, and lifestyle choices. Class discussions will focus on how energy production and consumption have an effect on the lives and livelihoods of everyone.
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LAS 376 - Work: What You Do/Who You Are 3 hours
This course will use a labor economist’s approach to examine all aspects of various career choices and how these choices impact individual lives. Short stories, novels, plays, and films will be used to explore the idea that while initially money may be important, it is more often the case that the non-monetary aspects of a job–status, stress, satisfaction, use of technology, a sense of accomplishment to name a few–have a much greater impact on how life turns out.
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LAS 377 - Making a Buck versus Making a Difference 3 hours
A large part of how we define ourselves has always been by what we “do for a living;” however, we also maintain a “personal life” outside of the work environment. In today’s fast-paced business environment and society, this compartmentalization/separation can lead to tension and conflict as we seek to achieve a work-life balance. Is it a matter of balance or one of integration? Must we separate making a living from making a difference? How can we find our true place in an increasingly depersonalized, technological world? These are among the questions that this course will explore -leveraging a wide range of perspectives on this subject.
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LAS 378 - Tracking Your GPS-Grace, Place, and Interior Space 3 hours
In a world that continues to rely on quicker production, it is becoming more difficult to make time to contemplate our place in the world. In fact, it is all too common never to ask ourselves the essential questions “What is my place in the universe?” “Does my life have significance?” This seminar invites its participants to slow down and to ask themselves these and so many other questions. It is the hope of this seminar to provide its participants with the time and space to read, reflect, discuss, and deepen the art of cultivating their interior lives. Works will include The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd; A Hidden Wholeness, by Parker Palmer; and Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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LAS 379 - Daily Meaning and Daily Bread 3 hours
What is work and how does work define our lives and ourselves? What is leisure and how does it affect the meaning of our working lives? How has technology changed work – its structure and meaning, the nature of specific jobs or trades, the way in which work is produced or performed? How has technology impacted our leisure – does it add to or detract from the way we spend our free time? In this class we will examine questions of this kind through close examination of scholarly articles, short stories, oral histories, films, and plays, as well as through class discussion, writing exercises, and group projects.
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LAS 380 - Work, Community, and Action 3 hours
This seminar will examine the ways workers build distinctive workplace cultures on the job and how work communities relate to wider communities. Out of common experience workers search for shared meaning and avenues for expression and action and the right to leisure and autonomy in their lives. From colonial slaves to modern-day air traffic controllers, American workers have found ways to control the place of work in their lives, challenge or adapt technology in ways that support their aims and shape leisure to both build up and escape their work lives. Through history, ethnography, fiction, and film we will discover how workers shape work, technology and leisure, both on the job and away from it.
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LAS 390 - Risk and Reward 3 hours
Elements of risk and reward are everywhere in our society. Obvious examples are found in such areas as finance and banking, but upon a truer inspection, they crop up in almost everything we do—our use of technology, our work, and our leisure time. Using contemporary texts and readings, we see how many aspects of everyday living all have elements of risk and reward. This seminar will examine how risks and rewards play out in our everyday lives and how they affect the important decisions we make.
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LAS 391 - U.S. Immigrants: Modern African Labor Migrants 3 hours
This seminar focuses on the experience of African labor migrants to the United States. What are the driving forces behind African immigration to the United States? What is the African way of living the American dream? What are the mutual perceptions of these members of the new African diaspora and their host communities? What role do Africans play in the making of modern America? How do Africans strike a balance between the need to adjust to the American way of life and the desire to preserve their original identities? What failures and successes frame the lives of Africans in the United States? By using the common texts and a wide range of internet and other resources, we will investigate these key questions through a multidisciplinary approach and several categories of analysis, such as ethnicity, religion, gender, and age.
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LAS 393 - From Gutenberg to Gigabytes 3 hours
At various points in history, how have significant technological advances affected society, work, and leisure? How do these advances continue to shape our lives? To answer these and similar questions, we will draw upon literature, art, and historical accounts. In turning to these sources, we will find support for or challenges to our assumptions, discuss how changes made in the past have influenced the present, and see what the past and present can teach us as we anticipate the future.
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LAS 397 - Work and Leisure in a Cellular Society 3 hours
Cell phones have changed from simple devices that once only made phone calls to today’s minicomputers that entertain and help the user communicate in multiple ways. In this seminar, students will study the influence that cellular technology has on our global society and the way it is reshaping our daily lives.
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LAS 458 - Celebrities, Heroes, Prophets, Leaders, Saints, Witnesses, and You 3 hours
Aristotle saw virtue as a habit, developed through practice. This seminar asks students to address the question of their role in how virtues and values are modeled and shaped in today’s society. It will explore the behavioral context underlying the development of habits of virtue, discuss leadership theory as it relates to the common good, and use readings from literature and excerpts from film as a basis for further reflection on those discussions.
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LAS 459 - The Mask, the Individual and Society 3 hours
Through a study of texts such as Machiavelli’s The Prince and Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, we will explore the various roles an individual plays in society. We all wear masks, both real and imaginary, in our interactions with others. What do these writers tell us of the nature and function of such masks? What is the ethical status of masking? What are its social functions? How does masking help shape the individual and society?
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LAS 460 - Right Relationship 3 hours
All relationships - filial, friendly, erotic - are tempered by such emotions as jealousy, obsession, self-doubt, fear, etc. Through literature and spirituality, we shall explore how relationships can be destroyed and healed. Readings include King Lear, The Color Purple, Like Water for Chocolate, As We Are Now, and Tuesdays with Morrie.
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LAS 461 - The Art of Contemplation 3 hours
Aristotle argues that contemplation is the aim and fulfillment of a good and happy life. Modern scientific studies similarly indicate that meditative and contemplative practice promotes mental, physical, and spiritual health and development. By providing students access to practical skills in and reflective understanding of meditation and contemplation as found in classical Western Christian and Asian traditions as well as modern applications, this seminar aims to assess the cogency of Aristotle’s doctrine as well as the place and value of these arts in the light of contemporary research and the students’ own experience.
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LAS 462 - Personal Conduct and Character and Professional Ethics 3 hours
The topic of professional ethics and personal morality will be the subject matter of this course. The approach will be interdisciplinary, with various insights into ethics and values from several professional perspectives (business, law, nutrition, genetics, medicine, etc.) Simultaneously, students will engage in ongoing discussion about personal ethical conduct and character.
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LAS 465 - Aikido as Contemplation 3 hours
This seminar will literally put our virtue in action. Students will learn the fundamentals of Aikido, a Japanese martial art that emphasizes the harmonious exchange of energy, as a form of contemplation. This is not just a theoretical course. Students will actually do the physical work of learning Aikido, so students need to wear sweatpants (not shorts) and t-shirts.
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LAS 466 - The Pursuit of Happiness 3 hours
Everyone wants to be happy. But what is happiness? How can we attain true happiness? Are some things essential for human flourishing? How should we live? Are virtues and values the key to happiness of self and others? What is the virtuous life? Is it possible to be happy in this life? Using Aristotle’s Ethics as the main text, this seminar will critically evaluate his idea that happiness consists in living the good life and compare it to other accounts of happiness such as egoistic hedonism, utilitarianism, and existentialism.
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LAS 471 - Literary Underworlds 3 hours
As a primer for leading a virtuous life, Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics outlines the framework to create the quintessential human being. This course will examine the literary reverse of Aristotle’s vision through the works of existential authors such as Kafka, Camus, and Sartre. Dante’s Inferno will also be examined to illustrate the ultimate plight of the lost souls who exist without hope for redemption. Together, all these works will serve to underscore the importance of the ethics as a pivotal work of “human architecture.”
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LAS 476 - The Pursuit of Truth in a Culture of Confusion 3 hours
An investigation of the effects of mass-mediated communication and information as a mass commodity on values, particularly the value of truth. In an age of information glut, where for all intents and purposes every possible point of view is represented, all points of view appear to have the same value. The idea of having and clinging to “values” implies evaluating ideas–seeing which ones are “better” than others. All ideas are not equal; otherwise “values” as such are irrelevant. At the same time, all our mass-mediated messages are biased toward the technological culture that brings them to us. We spend more and more time communicating with (or through) our technologies, and less and less time communicating with one another through real, human, interpersonal means–discourse. The Dominican idea of the disputatio–the pursuit of truth through mutually respectful disagreement, debate, and criticism–has been replaced with accommodatio–an unfortunate willingness to reject truth, except as an entirely subjective experience.
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LAS 478 - Change for the Better, Virtue and Conversion 3 hours
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics will serve to form a basic understanding of the concept of virtue. The Italian Middle Ages, as an era of political instability and religious fervor, will provide the background for the discussion of figures whose acts of spiritual conversion caused a more virtuous life. Saints’ legends, biographies, and Dante’s Inferno will make up the textual arena of the experiences, while early frescoes and manuscript art will be studied as visual complements.
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LAS 483 - Gandhi and the Western Classics 3 hours
What is justice? Is it better to suffer injustice than to do injustice? This course will approach these questions through the life and struggle of Mohandas Gandhi and through several classics of Western literature that raise the same questions that Gandhi raises in his autobiography. In addition to Gandhi’s autobiography, we will read selections from Marcus Aurelius and the whole of Plato’s Gorgias. Of course, Aristotle’s Ethics fits right in here. In this course, East meets West.
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LAS 486 - Ethical Communication 3 hours
How we communicate with one another determines who we are as a community and as individuals. In a world that is seemingly coming together and growing smaller due to communication technologies, we must guard against assuming we know how to communicate with people. If we are to build stronger communities and grow as individuals, we have to deal with the problems of communicating in our modern society and culture. We need to confront the challenges of how to use these technologies to communicate ethically by starting with what is meant by ethical communication. In this seminar, we discuss what it means to use communication technologies to communicate ethically: whether it is individual to individual, across gaps in beliefs, or even the creation of mass media. In reading Aristotle’s Ethics, we will consider how his values of character are being affected by the methods of communication we engage in on a daily basis, and then, conversely, how these values could be applied to improve these methods.
Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.
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LAS 487 - To Live or Not to Live? What Does It Mean to Live With Virtues and Values? 3 hours
What is right? What is wrong? Better yet, why is it right or wrong? This course will examine the essential insights of Christian ethics and virtues as they relate to everyday living in this present time and experience. Through a multi-cultural lens we will examine several questions: Is what we believe to be right or wrong universal? Do other cultures have the same virtues we have? Why are they the same or different and does that matter? Has technology and the access to global information affected what we view to be virtuous? We will examine contemporary issues in the world today to see how they shape our understanding of virtues, the formation of a Christian ethical society, and any changes to our understanding of human dignity, rights, freedoms, natural law, stages of social/moral development, and commitments. Christian social teachings will be integrated with Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics through the use of films and case studies on various contemporary topics such as economic justice, social justice, violence, human sexuality, and environmental justice.
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LAS 489 - You Are What You Eat: Good Food for the Good Life 3 hours
What should we eat for the good life? In this seminar, we will explore the ethical and aesthetic values that inform our daily decisions about food. We will explore the moral obligations that do (or might) guide those decisions, the role of pleasure in determining what counts as good food, the environmental and social consequences of food production and distribution, and the cultural and religious significance of what we eat.
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LAS 490 - Being Good in a World of Gray 3 hours
How is it possible to be good in a world where there are very few absolute rights and wrongs? How do you ethically choose the lesser of two evils? This seminar will examine what it means to be good through readings from Aristotle and then attempt to apply those ideas to historical situations and fictional parables. Questions of justice, personal responsibility, and the greater good will be explored through readings of Victor Hugo, Ursula LeGuin, Simon Wiesenthal, and others, and discussion will be key to that exploration.
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LAS 491 - Is the Good Life to Be Lived or Strived For? 3 hours
This seminar will examine definitions of “the good” and “the virtuous” in an effort to explore the degree to which either can be applied as a model for living one’s life. Explorations of this topic will often stem from our consideration of what constitutes goodness and virtue. Are they set absolutes whose characteristics define and set the limits of what qualifies as living a good life? Or are they inscrutable ideals whose values lie not in their attainability, but in the pursuits their indeterminable natures inspire? We will work to understand the significance of these questions’ answers within the context of contemporary society and Dominican’s mission.
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LAS 492 - The “Good” Woman 3 hours
What does it mean to be a “good” woman? Is there one ideal or many? Is the good woman also a happy woman, especially when and where it has been “a man’s world”? Building on the foundation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, this seminar examines texts—both non-fiction and fiction—describing the virtues and behavior of the “ideal” woman, one who consequently lives a happy life.
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LAS 493 - Love’s Failings and Fruition 3 hours
This seminar will examine how what we love and the way we love plays a major role in attaining a good life. Readings from philosophy, religion, and literature will help us explore the link between love and morality. Some works, like the Inferno, Othello and The Bluest Eye will help us analyze the failings of corrupted or immature love. Other writers, like St Augustine, Thich Nhat Hahn, and Thomas Merton, will offer us wonderful insight into the traits and benefits of higher, holier love. We will examine how some loves are self-centered and exploitative whereas others seek nurture, worship, and communion.
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LAS 494 - Ethics and the University 3 hours
Today’s world presents enormous moral challenges. Yet our diversity—religious, ethnic, economic, etc.—renders shared moral perspectives on and judgments about “the good life” difficult to achieve. Given this situation, this seminar explores the crucial role of the university as a community of moral as well as intellectual discourse. Special attention is given to liberal learning as a possible way of moving beyond “moral isolationism”, “lazy pluralism”, and “bumper-sticker ethics” and towards more satisfactory answers to the question: How ought we to live?
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LAS 495 - French Kiss: Ideas of Love from the Middle Ages to the Present 3 hours
From its earliest exemplars, French literature has been preoccupied with the question of love. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics will ground our analysis of the ethics of love in the French tradition, from Arthurian romance narratives and medieval codes of courtly love to contemporary francophone fiction. Topics and genres may include renaissance poetry, classical conceptions of love and honor, romanticism, the realist novel, surrealism, nouveau roman, postmodernism, and autobiographical fiction.
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LIB 000 - Information Literacy Workshop 0 hours
A noncredit workshop offered by the library to transfer degree completion students who have not completed English 102 at Dominican as the way to fulfill the foundation requirement. Students will learn the basics of library research including the ability to locate both print and electronic sources by searching library databases for articles and books; effectively using the internet for academic purposes; evaluating information critically; and using the information ethically and legally. This course is offered on a satisfactory/fail basis. Students will be expected to spend time in the library to complete hands-on exercises.
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LLAS 200 - Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies 3 hours
This course introduces the major concepts, issues and debates currently found in the fields of Latino studies and Latin American studies. It also provides an overview of regional geographies, national demographic profiles and the various socio-economic conditions characteristic of contemporary Latin America. The course includes study of the main demographic features of the diverse Latino communities in the United States today, a comparison of each group’s unique immigration and settlement patterns, and an investigation of adaptive and resistant Latino cultural practices. For an additional credit hour, students complete 20 hours of service to the Chicago-area Latino community, along with service learning assignments.
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LLAS 205 - Latina/o Sociology 3 hours
Listed also as SOC 205 .
This course will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
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LLAS 239 - Latino/a Religious Experience And Theology 3 hours
Listed also as THEO 239 .
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LLAS 295 - Pre-Columbian Art 3 hours
Listed also as ARTH 295
This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
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MATH 090 - Basic Skills in Mathematics 3 hours
The fundamental operations with integers, rational numbers, and real numbers; basic algebra. This course is offered on a satisfactory/fail basis only.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination only.
This course is a developmental course and will not count toward the semester hours required for graduation.
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MATH 120 - Intermediate Algebra 4 hours
Polynomial and rational expressions; solving linear, quadratic and rational equations; applications; graphing techniques; and systems of linear equations.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 090 . Not open to students who have completed any higher-numbered mathematics course.
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MATH 130 - College Algebra 3 hours
Solving equations and inequalities with polynomial, rational, and radical expressions and absolute values; graphing techniques; functions; exponential and logarithmic expressions; and functions with applications.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 120 . Not open to students who have completed any 200-level mathematics course or above.
This course will satisfy the mathematics foundation requirement.
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MATH 131 - Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry 3 hours
Trigonometric functions, identities, equations, applications, polar coordinates, and conic sections.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 130 with a C- or better. Not open to students who have completed any mathematics course above MATH 211 .
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MATH 150 - Contemporary Mathematics 3 hours
The study of contemporary mathematical thinking for the non-specialist, in order to develop the capacity to engage in logical thinking and to read critically the technical information with which our contemporary society abounds.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 120 .
This course will satisfy the mathematics foundation requirement.
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MATH 160 - Mathematics for the Elementary Teacher 3 hours
An introduction to numeration systems, sets, logic, relations, number systems, and geometry.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 120 . Students who register for this course are expected to have completed a course in geometry at the high school level. Open only to students seeking certification in elementary education.
This course will satisfy the mathematics foundation requirement.
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MATH 170 - Introduction to Finite Mathematics 3 hours
An elementary treatment of sets, combinatorics, probability, matrices, systems of linear equations, linear programming, and related topics. Recommended particularly for those majoring in computer science, business, or the social sciences.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 120 . Not open to students who have completed any 200-level mathematics courses or above.
This course will satisfy the mathematics foundation requirement.
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MATH 175 - Mathematical Concepts in Clinical Science 3 hours
A survey of mathematical concepts in clinical science including the use of proportions in unit conversions and dosage calculations, acid-base balance, pharmacokinetics, and diagnostic tests.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 130 and a course in biology.
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MATH 211 - Principles of Statistics 3 hours
Design of experiments, numerical and graphical data description, discrete and continuous probability, expected value and variance of a random variable, probability distributions, estimation, and statistical hypothesis testing.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 130 with a C- or better or consent of instructor.
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MATH 230 - Linear Algebra 4 hours
A study of systems of linear equations, linear independence, matrices, linear transformations, determinants, vector spaces, and applications of these topics. These concepts are increasingly being used in applications of mathematics to the natural and social sciences.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 251 or MATH 261 with a C- or better.
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MATH 240 - Discrete Structures 3 hours
An introduction to the mathematics needed in computer science. Logic, digital logic circuits, number systems, proofs, sequences, induction, recursion, counting, and graphs and trees.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 170 or MATH 230 or placement above this level, and CPSC 155 .
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MATH 245 - Introduction to Proof Techniques 3 hours
An introduction to the tools needed for higher mathematics. Topics include logic, set theory, relations, functions, basic proof techniques, and applications of proof techniques to selected areas of mathematics.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 or MATH 262 .
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MATH 250 - Introduction to Calculus 4 hours
Functions and their graphs, limits, differentiation with applications, basic integration, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. This course covers polynomial and rational functions only.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 130 with a C- or better. Not open to students who have completed MATH 251 or MATH 261 .
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MATH 251 - Calculus of Transcendental Functions 4 hours
Trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; limits, differentiation with applications, and integration; conic sections.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 250 with C- or better. Not open to students who have completed MATH 261 .
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MATH 261 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 4 hours
A study of the basic techniques of calculus with early transcendentals. Topics include limits, differentiation with applications, integration, and the fundamental theorem of calculus.
Prerequisite(s): Placement through examination or MATH 131 with a C- or better. Not open to students who have completed MATH 251 .
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MATH 262 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus II 4 hours
Advanced integration techniques and applications such as area, volume, arc length, and work; introduction to parametric and polar equations; sequences, infinite series, and power series.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 251 or MATH 261 with C- or better.
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MATH 270 - Multivariable Calculus 4 hours
Functions in multiple variables; partial differentiation, multiple integrals, and vector calculus.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 with a C- or better.
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MATH 280 - Introduction to Differential Equations 3 hours
First- and second- order differential equations with applications, stability theory, power series solutions, Laplace transforms.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 with C- or better.
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MATH 299 - Community-Based Learning 1 hour
Students provide community service using their mathematical and analytical skills for a total of 30 hours. This course can only be taken on a satisfactory/fail basis.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Open only to students majoring in mathematics or mathematics and computer science.
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MATH 311 - Probability and Statistics I 3 hours
Design of experiments, axioms of probability, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 or consent of instructor.
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MATH 312 - Probability and Statistics II 3 hours
Estimation theory, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and correlation and analysis of variance.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 311 .
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MATH 313 - Applied Statistical Analysis Using SAS 3 hours
Review of descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing and estimation, SAS programming language, DATA step applications, SAS procedures, report generation, and working with large data sets.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 312 or consent of instructor.
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MATH 320 - Dynamics and Chaos 3 hours
Fundamental concepts and techniques of discrete dynamical systems, asymptotic behavior, elementary bifurcations, symbolic dynamics, chaos, and fractals.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 .
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MATH 330 - Modern Geometry 3 hours
A study of axiomatics, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, and transformal geometry.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 .
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MATH 340 - Mathematical Modeling 3 hours
An introduction to the development and analysis of deterministic and probabilistic models. Includes curve fitting, simulations, difference and differential equations. Applications from ecology, environmental science, economy and other fields.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 with C or better, and sophomore standing or higher.
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MATH 360 - Operations Research 3 hours
Linear programming, simplex and Hungarian method, decision analysis, network analysis, and selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 170 or MATH 230 , or consent of instructor.
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MATH 370 - Number Theory 3 hours
Prime numbers, congruencies, quadratic residues, continued fractions, and selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 245 .
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MATH 375 - Cryptography 3 hours
Cryptography is the study of how to protect information. Topics include modular arithmetic, divisibility, matrix algebra, private key cryptography, substitution ciphers, block ciphers, public key cryptography and digital signatures.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 or MATH 240 or concurrent enrollment in either course.
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MATH 380 - Partial Differential Equations 3 hours
An introductory course on partial differential equations, including the method of characteristics, separation of variables, and Fourier series. Special emphasis will be placed on the wave equation, heat equation, and Laplace’s equation, with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 280 .
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MATH 421 - Abstract Algebra 3 hours
The study of groups, rings, fields, and other algebraic structures.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 , MATH 262 , and junior or senior standing.
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MATH 441 - Methods of Real Analysis 3 hours
Topology of the real number line, limits of sequences and functions, continuity and differentiation.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 245 and junior or senior standing.
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MATH 450 - Studies in Mathematics 1-3 hours
Independent reading and/or research on special topics.
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MATH 455 - Internship 3 hours
Experience in a mathematical field under the joint supervision of a college faculty member and an assigned field professional.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor.
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MATH 460 - History of Mathematics 3 hours
A study of the history of mathematics from earliest recorded time through the 17th century. Selected topics in mathematics and its applications are included.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 and MATH 262 .
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MATH 480 - Senior Capstone Seminar 2 hours
Summary and extension of core mathematical ideas covered throughout the mathematics major.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. Open only to students majoring in mathematics
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MFL 260 - Italian-American Culture 3 hours
Listed also as ITAL 260
This course will satisfy the literature core area requirement.
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MFL 264 - Modern Italian Women Writers 3 hours
Listed also as ITAL 264 and SWG 264 .
This course will satisfy the literature core area requirement.
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MFL 275 - Dante’s Inferno 3 hours
Listed also as ITAL 275 .
This course satisfies the literature core area requirement.
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MFL 276 - Dante’s Divine Comedy I 3 hours
Listed also as ITAL 276 .
This course will satisfy the literature core area requirement.
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MFL 277 - Dante’s Divine Comedy II 3 hours
Listed also as ITAL 277 .
This course will satisfy the literature core area requirement.
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MFL 289 - Introduction to French and Francophone Cinema: From Pictures to Pixels 1890 to the Present 3 hours
Listed also as FREN 289 , CAS 289 and BWS 289 .
This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
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MRST 395 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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MRST 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano I 3 hours
Basic skills in music theory and beginning piano. This course is designed for the absolute beginner who has not played any musical instrument. This course concludes with a performance.
This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
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MUS 107 - Music Theory I 3 hours
The student will study in detail and become familiar with intervals, triads, and seventh chords in both major and minor scales. It is important that the student become familiar with the color of each degree of the scale through many rigorous exercises in class and through assigned homework. The class will cover material that includes common chord modulation, cadences, and the importance of the dominant seventh chord and all of its inversions and resolutions. Secondary dominants will also be introduced. These concepts will be applied to musical examples and to music that the student is studying when appropriate to the theory being studied in class.
This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
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MUS 108 - Music Theory II 3 hours
Students will develop a comprehension of formal structures, for example binary and ternary forms, sentence structures in the music of the Baroque and Classical eras. Emphasis will be focused in the second half of the course on the chromatic harmony of the19th century including Neopolitan chords, diatonic seventh chords, mode mixtures, and augmented sixth chords. Toward the end of the course, concepts of early 20th century music will be introduced.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 107 or consent of the instructor.
This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
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MUS 115 - Private Piano Instruction 1-2 hours
Individual instruction in piano at the elementary through late-intermediate level. This course is designed for students who have completed two semesters of class piano or the equivalent amount of previous private piano instruction. Absolute beginners should enroll in MUS 101 . Course fee applies.
Prerequisite(s): Audition and consent of instructor.
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MUS 119 - Diction For Singers 3 hours
Basic rules of singing diction using the International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of notation recognized by singers, actors, and other speech/language-oriented professions. Students will apply IPA to repertoire study and performance in English, Italian, Latin, Hebrew, German, French, and Spanish.
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MUS 120 - Tonal Harmony Private Instruction 3 hours
This course will explore many facets of the study of tonal harmony including the recognition of intervals, chordal and non-chord tones; understanding the fundamentals of rhythm; principles of part writing; basic analysis of musical scores; recognition of cadences, phrases and periods in music of the Baroque and Classical periods; and a preliminary study of the chromaticism of 19th century music. Final project will be to compose a short original piece for solo piano. Course fee applies.
This course satisfies the fine arts core area requirement.
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MUS 122 - Private Voice Instruction 1-2 hours
Individual instruction in voice at the beginning to intermediate levels. The student and voice teacher will explore solo singing techniques, identify and solve vocal issues that may not be readily apparent in choral rehearsals or theatre productions, and build confidence in self-expression through song. This class is open to all students, with the consent of the instructor, based upon a prior evaluation/assessment. Extensive musical knowledge is not required; however, the assessment will determine if a student is ready for one-on-one, private vocal instruction. Course fee applies.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor assessment and consent.
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