May 05, 2024  
Undergraduate Bulletin 2014-2015 
    
Undergraduate Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • LAS 178 - iAm My iPod

    3 hours
    This course examines the interplay between technology and identity development, particularly in today’s culture. Whether it is the iPod and what your music collection has to say about who you are and what you find meaningful, email, IM, the personal computer, cell phones, video games, or applications like mySpace and Facebook, technology plays an important role in how we define ourselves and how we relate to others. This seminar also looks at the popular culture of various decades, as captured through technological media as well as written sources, and examines the influence these media and writings have exerted on the “collective identity development” of each affected generation.

  
  • LAS 186 - Know Thyself

    3 hours
    This seminar takes as its starting point the famous Greek maxim, Gnothi seauton (Know thyself), and it assumes that self-knowledge comes only by reaching beyond oneself to engage an ever-wider world. Through challenging readings, discussion, written exercises, and even some “brain teasers,” this seminar will aid a process of self-discovery and self-appropriation that in various ways keeps coming back to an overriding question: “What does it mean for me to live an authentic human life - intellectually, morally, religiously?”

  
  • LAS 187 - Inner and Outer Realities

    3 hours
    Perhaps one of the most compelling questions any of us can ask is, “Who am I?” Going far beyond the superficial list of likes and dislikes, we shall explore some of the essential and non-negotiable ingredients of the self, those inner and outer realities that form our personalities and, perhaps, even our soulfulness. Of course, outer realities such as race, gender, class, physical and intellectual capacity play important roles. But what about those invisible yet real inner dimensions that transcend yet include what others see?

  
  • LAS 189 - This I Believe

    3 hours
    “I” is in the middle-your “I.” This seminar explores the influences coalescing to produce your “I” by contemplating the life stories of others in relation to your own. We will be exploring various streets taken by book and movie characters. On what street did they grow up? How far did they travel from that street? When did they venture forth and why? Whom did they meet in their travels? What beliefs guided their way? There are many streets or paths in life. Which path will lead to happiness, holiness, and effectiveness? Where is your own street leading? What do you believe? The reading, conversing, and writing of this seminar will help focus and form the essential foundation of your life, so you may better articulate to yourself and others, “This I believe.”

  
  • LAS 194 - The Grand and the Simple

    3 hours
    The great French writer Marcel Proust observed that the self of today is often unable to recognize the self of yesterday and unable to accurately envision the self of tomorrow. Does our life include a multiple collection of selves (10-year-old David in a baseball uniform, 17-year-old David in a jail cell, 25-year-old David in a cyclone in Japan, and an older David teaching a university course on the different Davids)? Or do we have one true self that always remains invisible to us, just around the corner, just out of reach? Who the h-e-double hockey sticks am I, was I always this person, will I always be this person? This class will discuss how different people, places, events, and decisions (made and unmade) influence the self. We will explore through writings, films, and discussion how every moment could be the one that defines us to ourselves or others and how in the next moment that can all change.

  
  • LAS 199 - Mindful Crossroads to Compassion and Awareness

    3 hours
    Buddhist monk and social activist Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that there is nothing we experience that can’t be approached with mindfulness and compassion. Our seminar will focus on understanding Hanh’s identification of Christianity with Buddhism to better understand how we experience ourselves in the world. Through literature and film, we will focus on the discovery and the formation of personal identity by asking, What are the key influences on a person’s development?How does the “self” interact with a community? How can mindfulness lead to a better understanding of who we are as individuals?

  
  • LAS 227 - Men in Community: An Exploration

    3 hours
    This course will examine the modern construction of masculinity in our communities and societies, and how this affects individuals, groups, institutions, and societies, with particular focus on the impact of men. We will explore how our diverse identities (race, class, sexuality, physical ability, performance, etc.) are implicated in the construction of masculinity and in-group equality. We will use these guiding questions to guide our path: How are men’s personal identity and group membership interrelated? What are the causes and effects of equality among and within groups? What does it mean for men to live in diverse communities and cultures?

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 228 - Communication Through Dress

    3 hours
    This course explores dress as a multifaceted communication tool that provides insight into one’s culture, beliefs, faith, identity, power, and emotions. Clothing conveys messages about how members of groups identify with those inside and outside of the group, and it communicates meaning to others in society. Signals sent by clothing can bring people together but also be the impetus for discrimination and injustice. This course explores and discusses possible interpretations of the many aspects of body adornment encountered in today’s diverse communities.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 229 - Who’s Stirring the Melting Pot?

    3 hours
    Religious groups at war with each other over sacred spaces and beliefs; migrants both legal and illegal in multicultural groups discriminated against; colonization and its lasting effects; God, Yahweh, Buddha, Allah; rich versus poor. Who is “the other”? Who is “your other”? More importantly, why is this person “your” other? Expanding on the theme of identify, this course will examine the concept of communities, how they are created, and how they have and should function. Through a multi-cultured voice, we will examine concepts such as love, hate, war, peace, tolerance, and tradition, analyzing them through theological and cinematic lenses in regard to our “melting pot” society. We will pay special attention to “outsiders” who come in and to “insiders” who are out of the mainstream societies. Most material will be international and multicultural.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 230 - Life in Chicago’s Communities

    3 hours
    Life in Chicago’s Communities will explore the reciprocal and impactful relationship between neighborhoods and individuals. Sophomore level students will begin by reflecting on the influence community had in their development. Students will then engage in an exploration of a Chicago neighborhood or community, and learn about faith and social justice institutions serving its constituents. Through reflections, texts, group activities, and peer presentations, students will examine the guiding questions: How are personal identity and group membership interrelated? What are the causes and effects of inequality among and within groups? What does it mean to live in diverse communities and cultures?
     

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 231 - Invest in the Global Community

    3 hours
    Real dollars, real time, real difference. This course will provide students with an opportunity to engage with and better understand our global communities in our backyard and around the world. Students will also be given dollars to invest through KIVA, a global micro-financing organization. Students will use their investments as a way to learn about regions of the world. Books, films and events will also be used as resources to expand global understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 232 - Islam in America

    3 hours
    This seminar explores Islam in America, including its history and followers, and examines the different ethnicities in the American Muslim population. Students will be introduced to Islamic culture and traditions as well as the contributions of Muslims to American society. Further discussion will touch on the similarities between American Muslims and their fellow Americans, as well as understanding points of conflict and controversies that arise between American Muslims and America.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 233 - Food in the U.S. Today: Production, Choice, and Policy

    3 hours
    How is food produced in the United States today? Food politics and policies in the United States have heated up in recent years as legislators, regulators, educators, farmers, and many others battle over subsidies, restrictions, and questions of public health. What shapes our choices as consumers? How do these choices impact our lives and our communities? We will explore these critical issues as we learn about food production in the United States.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 235 - Social Justice and Intercultural Communication

    3 hours
    Social justice and intercultural communication are examined in the context of geopolitical, economic, and cultural contexts. Through the various texts, guest speakers, presentations, community based learning, and exchanges with international students in Dominican’s ELS program, students will examine discrimination, racial profiling, and ethnic conflicts as well as local and global wealth disparities. The class is designed to provide a framework to create a more just and humane world through communication.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 236 - Undocumented Students: Americans or Not?

    3 hours
    The U.S. Supreme Court mandates that undocumented children be accepted as students, but, because of current immigration laws, they are not accepted as citizens. This puts these students in an ambiguous situation. For many, the U.S. is the only country they know and English is the only language they speak. They nonetheless face enormous barriers to obtaining legal employment or trying to enter college. In this seminar, students will explore the sophomore level themes by examining student narratives, academic discourse, legislation, public policy, and media attention to the issues of immigration reform, social and political marginalization, and access to higher education for undocumented students.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 237 - Globalization and Personal Spirituality

    3 hours
    We live in a world of GPS, texts, “tweets” and YouTube, where communication technologies have allowed us to be instantaneously present to one another no matter where we are physically located on the planet. Our thoughts and images flow so quickly over such vast space that we are virtually present in more than one place at a time. In an ever-shrinking global community, within an exponentially expanding cosmos, how do you begin to describe exactly where YOU are right now? How does the process of globalization impact our orientation to that which is beyond our known personal experience? Who are we, and how do we situate ourselves within a cosmology that has redefined our place in the universe and perhaps even our purpose? This seminar will examine the interconnectedness of planetary being with personal spirituality – the inmost energy of entanglement with the Divine. We will explore the noosphere, morphogenic fields, human compassion, and “cosmosophia” as bridges to understanding how personal spirituality can create a unitive consciousness that will serve, rather than oppose, the immense diversity present in humanity and creation.

  
  • LAS 238 - Exploring Diversity in Popular Culture

    3 hours
    Our actions and our communication can have a significant impact on our lives, on others, and on the development of our communities. When it comes to popular culture, the entertainment industry promotes contradictions about diversity and what it means to live in an increasingly interdependent world. Though a powerful medium to help bring about societal change, popular culture has a record of contributing to inclusive thinking. Using film, popular TV shows, and literature, we will explore questions that focus on identity, nationality, commonalities and differences, perceptions and stereotypes: How are personal identity and group membership interrelated? What are the causes and effects of inequality among and within groups? What does it mean to live in diverse communities and cultures?

  
  • LAS 239 - Conflict, Competition and Community

    3 hours
    Amid the rise of globalization and the increasing interconnectedness of the world in the 21st century, the notion of community has grown more varied and complex. In this course, students will explore the opportunities and challenges that arise as they encounter diverse cultures; we will ask how our ideas of community are re-defined when we embrace (or come into conflict with) worldviews that are different from our own. We will also examine the cultural role of competition, particularly in its connections to debates over social conflict (as in capitalism) and celebrations of diversity (as in sports).

  
  • LAS 241 - Communities of Consumption: Comparing Cultures and Cults

    3 hours
    Consumerism can mean many things: the pleasure of buying more, the movement toward buying less, and the culture of consumption. The world of the consumer is one that generates fierce loyalty, righteous activism, and a lot of money for businesses. This seminar will examine these aspects of consumerism from several perspectives: as a creator of the cult-like loyalty to brands and brand communities, as a phenomenon so strong it can build corporate empires and shopping mall cathedrals, and as a search for meaning that in some cases can rival religious allegiance.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 242 - Conflict Resolution

    3 hours
    The resolution of destructive conflict is at the heart of this seminar. Destructive conflict reduces our quality of life, puts our health at risk, reduces our productivity and creativity, disrupts teamwork and cooperation, creates war zones, and leads to other kinds of unsafe conditions. Our focus is on disputes between individuals; these interpersonal conflicts are key factors in creating and maintaining dysfunctional social groups (e.g., families, neighborhoods, and organizations). We will study the role of social identities and social status in fueling intergroup conflicts. A major seminar goal is for students to build conflict resolution skills that will enable them to achieve true reconciliation when dealing with all manner of disputes.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 243 - Searching for China’s Cultural Diversity: From Confucianism to Dragon Dance

    3 hours
    Searching for China’s Cultural Diversity examines many aspects of Chinese culture including religions, philosophies, arts, music, customs and language. The course focuses on exploring the multi-faceted religious heritage of pre-modern China, the practice of different religions in China today, and the spread and influence of Chinese religions throughout the world. It also exposes students to Chinese diverse customs among the 55 ethnic minorities, different genres in arts and music, and fascinating traditions in regards to Chinese holidays. Basic spoken Chinese will be introduced in class throughout the semester as well.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 246 - Science and Religion in Culture

    3 hours
    Diverse scientific views of the world can greatly influence popular culture—the collection of perspectives, attitudes and images that influence the way individuals in that culture determine what works and what doesn’t work. The discoveries of some theoretical physicists have influenced the way those of us in a Western culture think about how the world works. It started with Isaac Newton’s theory of classical mechanics, which held sway as the way to construct successful organizations. The concepts of string theory have the same influence today. In this seminar, we will compare our own assumptions of how things work in our faith traditions and cultures through the lenses of various scientific theories.

  
  • LAS 249 - Music and Diversity: How Popular Music Binds and Divides Us

    3 hours
    For at least 30,000 years, since the earliest known instrument, a small flute, humankind has engaged in music making. In this class, we will explore the role that music has had in building up and breaking down the walls that divide us. For music that binds, we study religious music, military marches, and music as an aphrodisiac. We will explore how African-American music was the foundation for rock ‘n’ roll and inspiration for the Beatles. We will also study the divisive nature of music: Rap is black, C&W is white, and classical is WASP. Music fosters division by playing off stereotypes. We will study the 1979 Disco Demolition and ask “what that was all about” and examine 70s white power rock and its effect on rallying neo-Nazi groups. Students will have a capstone project where they discuss the impact of the current music that they listen to and argue that it either bridges or deepens the divide between races and cultures.

  
  • LAS 254 - Multicultural Theatre: Communities in Conflict

    3 hours
    In our interdependent world, we can no longer “go it alone.” The most urgent question raised in the common text, Encountering God, is how do we “go it together?” How can we break the cycle of violence, and create “the imagined community” envisioned by Gandhi and other adherents of non-violence? In this seminar, African-American, Asian-American, and Latino/Latina playwrights, as well as gay and feminist artists, confront divisive, even life-threatening issues. Students will examine late 20th and 21st century plays and other texts, as well as view documentary films and live theatre productions. The nature and causes of prejudice and discrimination; the impact of racial, religious, and homophobic violence; the struggle to create community; and the hunger for artistic expression will be addressed. A service learning component will be required.

    This seminar will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LAS 258 - The Road to Africa

    3 hours
    Split by its triple heritage, modern Africa has been a product of three major influences: indigenous traditions, Islamic culture, and Western culture. The synthesis of these forces determines, in large part, the situation in contemporary African states. In this course, the Igbos of sub-Saharan Africa will be studied as an example of how one particular ethnic group has absorbed, balanced, and reconciled these divergent traditions and produced its own unique identity in the midst of the larger society.

    This seminar will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LAS 263 - Voices of the Silent Ones: Literary Protests in America

    3 hours
    This course will explore various literary texts dealing with the issues and problems facing minorities in their respective societies. During much of the 20th century, minority literature expressed the pain, injustice, and mental anguish of those individuals who are judged on race and gender before character and disposition. Readings will include works of African-American, Hispanic, and Native American writers and will ultimately explore the ways that literature confronts issues of identity and allows us to re-envision our definitions of ourselves and our communities.

    This seminar will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LAS 264 - Native American Spirituality

    3 hours
    Native American spirituality is rooted in the relationships among the people and of the people to the land. Spirituality is not something that exists apart from their culture but is expressed through the culture. Because so much of life depends on their association to the land and all that lives upon it, the displacement of the people from their roots by westward expansion caused great upheaval. In this course, we will look at the history and culture of some of the native peoples and make connections to stories and customs, rituals and traditions.

    This seminar will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LAS 267 - Dancing in the Streets

    3 hours
    “When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake …” The Greek philosopher Plato, centuries before the advent of rock ‘n’ roll, acknowledged the power of music as a mobilizing force for social change. This seminar explores the development and impact of popular music over the last century, with an emphasis on its relationship to the social, cultural, and political critique and change. A particular focus on African-American influences on various musical genres, from early roots music (gospel, blues, country, and rhythm and blues) to mid-century youth-oriented pop, Motown and soul, and more recent expressions in hip-hop.

  
  • LAS 275 - Unity and Diversity: Problems and Promises

    3 hours
    Group membership can shape both our dreams and our fears; it can offer stability, identity, and energy: it can offer both a vantage point from which to view the world and a fear of what we discover there. Chicago is a microcosm of the richly diverse world we live in, and it can teach us about the ways individuals and groups can challenge, support, and enrich one another. This course will examine the strengths and pitfalls of group membership through reviewing the experience of religious, ethnic, and economic communities in the Chicago area. We will examine some interfaith projects as examples of contemporary attempts to harness the strengths of group identity in support of the common good.

  
  • LAS 276 - Consequences of War, Racism, and Immigration: Making Selves and Communities from WWII to the Present

    3 hours
    American and European cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries have been marked by war and war’s effects: the displacement of millions of people from their homes and countries of origin and the destruction of traditional ways of life, entire communities, and families. We will see the shocks wrought by war and anti-Semitism during and after WWII in the diary of Anne Frank. We will also examine the social and spiritual divisions—and the many barriers to national unity—created by racial and ethnic prejudice against peoples in Europe and the United States. Finally, the economic and spiritual displacement and subjugation that class and racial barriers enforce in the contemporary United States is a related subject of our readings and thinking. We will ask questions about the ways in which war, racism, and the widening economic division into haves and have-nots in the United States leave lasting marks on our fragile sense of self and on our ideas of community health and the common good.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomores only.

  
  • LAS 280 - Exposing the Cultural Gap: Literary Wanderings

    3 hours
    Throughout the history of the novel as an art form, various authors have produced stories in which a character/narrator acts as a social commentator. Such novels may be characterized as “travelogues.” By examining some prominent travelogues – Gulliver’s Travels, Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and On the Road – the class will discover how various facets of society are analyzed, categorized, and often marginalized by seemingly discerning storytellers. The course will primarily examine these and other works of social commentary in their various historical contexts. Together, the literature will illuminate the history, and vice versa.

  
  • LAS 289 - Multicultural Chicago

    3 hours
    The city of Chicago provides a stimulating topic of study in relation to the seminar theme of diversity, culture and community. This course will focus on the cultures and histories of various ethnic and racial groups in Chicago. Topics we may consider include: African American migration to and settlement in Chicago; the Italian American community in the city and suburbs; the different ethnic and national groups, such as Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans, that make up Latino/a Chicago; and the formation of Chinatown. We will consider differences of gender, class and sexuality within these communities and their contact and conflict with other groups. Texts from different disciplinary perspectives and selected works of literature will help us better understand the cultural complexity of this diverse city.

    This course will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 328 - Smart Search, Better Communication

    3 hours
    We are in the age of search engines plus social media. Beyond keyword searching, chatting and sharing, are there more effective ways for us to retrieve/send quality or even unexpected information online than average users? In this seminar, we will first focus on using search engines to explore the “invisible world” or predict business trends. Then, with the help of social media, student will be trained to become active members of crisis response teams. Upon finishing the semester, you can experience the latest tools to scan the world, the best ways to protect us online, and more importantly, the most effective strategies to disseminate information. 
     
     

    Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.

  
  • LAS 330 - Being and Doing: A Life’ s Work

    3 hours
    We are in the age of search engines plus social media. Beyond keyword searching, chatting and sharing, are there more effective ways for us to retrieve/send quality or even unexpected information online than average users? In this seminar, we will first focus on using search engines to explore the “invisible world” or predict business trends. Then, with the help of social media, student will be trained to become active members of crisis response teams. Upon finishing the semester, you can experience the latest tools to scan the world, the best ways to protect us online, and more importantly, the most effective strategies to disseminate information.

    Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.

  
  • LAS 331 - Communities and Their Organizations: Where Recreation Meets Vocation

    3 hours
    This seminar will explore the nature of community organizations and the opportunities they afford for those who serve them and those who are served by them. Apart from assigned reading that will explore the difference between a job, a profession, and a vocation, as well as the elements of community both as “space” and “cyberspace,” students will visit and perhaps spend time volunteering with various community organizations, chat with current and past students who work with community organizations (as well as other community leaders), and map the assets of a community of their choice.

    Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.

  
  • LAS 332 - Living Sustainably in a Modern World

    3 hours
    Living in a modern world has its challenges. With conveniences and technology developing at a faster pace than ever, how do we slow it down a bit and consciously live a more sustainable life? This seminar course will focus on various aspects of living a less consumed, more sustainable lifestyle, through work and leisure. The five themes of agriculture, conservation, global impact, political initiatives and affairs, and transportation will be fully explored.

    Prerequisite(s): Juniors only.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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?

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 347 - Work and Leisure: Striking 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.

  
  • 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?

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 376 - Work: What You Do or 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 444 - What is 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.

  
  • LAS 445 - Good Life: Fate and Responsibility

    3 hours
    What are the roles of fate and responsibility for “the good life?” How does deliberation allow us to grapple with the determinants of fate and accept responsibility for our actions? In this seminar, we will answer those questions through the lenses of both science and literature. After developing a framework for approaching “the good life” through a close reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, we will explore the issues of fate and responsibility in genetics and in works of poetry and short fiction.  In the final weeks of class, student will analyze the value of both science and literature for “the good life” and anticipate where issues of fate and responsibility will surface in their lives and intended careers.

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • LAS 446 - Education’s End

    3 hours
    Dominican University hopes that its students will develop “an emerging sense of personal and professional vocation” and come to “possess character, knowledge, and skills to take informed, ethical action in the world and to influence others for the good” (Vision for Undergraduate Education). This seminar asks seniors approaching graduation to recall and take stock of their own learning over the last few years, to make connections across their coursework, to track changes in their assumptions, beliefs, and values, and to envision their future selves. Recollection and reflection on each student’s trajectory will be done in dialogue with diverse readings, films, and other media introduced in the seminar, all exploring the basic question of discerning one’s calling and leading a life that “pursues truth, gives compassionate service, and participates in the creation of a more just and humane world.”

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • LAS 447 - Supreme Court Cases That Have Changed History

    3 hours
    How do legality and morality fit together? Are these concepts always in agreement or do they conflict with one another? We will discuss significant Supreme Court decisions and their impact on American society. We will also consider Aristotle’s Ethics.

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • LAS 448 - On the Exemplary, the Troubled, and the Lucky Individual

    3 hours
    How easy or difficult is it to choose to lead a good life? Is one always able to choose a good life? Does one choose to lead a troubled life? What is our responsibility towards each other in making sure we lead a good life? As we try to answer these questions, we will review the literature about the mental health system, the prison system, drug policies, etc.

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • LAS 449 - Impact the Outcome

    3 hours
    How do we live out Dominican values in future leadership roles? What role has caritas et veritas played on the type of leader we are to be? Are we shaped by our past or have we changed since starting at Dominican University? Building on previous seminars and consistent with the ideal that leadership is not just an act but a way of being, this course will explore the foundations that inform our personal and professional practices as well as the type of values of leadership to which we wish to aspire. Students will examine value and ethical theories and concepts applied to leadership challenges and real-world situations. Through a multicultural lens, emphasis will be placed on understanding ethical leadership for social and organizational change and the leader’s role as a moral agent, as well as the organization’s role as a moral agent in society.

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 459 - Mask, 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?

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.”

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 482 - Live Good Life Despite Today’s World

    3 hours


    Everyone wants to be happy. How can we attain true happiness? What is a virtuous life? How does today’s social networking and other technologies impact being happy? We will look at the concepts of Aristotle’s idea of happiness as well as other accounts such as hedonism, utilitarianism, existentialism, and objectivism. We will also review current academic research into how social networking and other technologies is impacting the concept of happiness. 

     

    Prerequisite(s): Seniors only.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 492 - The Good Woman; the Good Life

    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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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?

  
  • 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.

  
  • LAS 496 - The Creative Good

    3 hours
    The seminar considers the role creative expression plays in the pursuit of the good. By critically examining visual narratives that explore moral choices, as well by addressing the creative act itself as a vehicle for resolving such questions, the participant can better define, the pursuit of the good as a life’s vocation and the means by which to do it. The student draws comparison with the contemporary anti-hero, from such collectively known narratives as The Sopranos and The Wire as well as classic films, such as The Conversation and The Bridge on the River Kwai that ask the necessary What If? moral dilemmas. The course uses Aristotle’s Ethics as a springboard for the rest of the seminar, negotiating his basic assertion that good is “that at which all things aim.”

  
  • 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.

  
  • 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.

  
  • LLAS 204 - Latin America Today

    3 hours
    Listed also as SOC 204 

    This course will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LLAS 205 - Latina/o Sociology

    3 hours
    Listed also as SOC 205 .

    This course will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LLAS 238 - Latin@ Spirituality: The Origins, Roots, and Contemporary Experience of a People

    3 hours
    Listed also as THEO 238 

    This course will satisfy the theology core area requirement and the multicultural core requirement.
  
  • LLAS 239 - Latino/a Religious Experience And Theology

    3 hours
    Listed also as THEO 239 .

  
  • LLAS 295 - Pre-Columbian Art

    3 hours
    Listed also as ARTH 295 

    This course will satisfy the fine arts core area requirement.
  
  • LLAS 350 - Women and Development

    3 hours
    Listed also as SOC 350  and SWG 351 

    This course will satisfy the multicultural core requirement.
  
  
  • 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.
  
  • MATH 120 - Intermediate Algebra

    3 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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