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HIST 318 - History of Drugs Credit Hours 3
In the modern era, drugs have multiple lives. They might be medicines, poisons, illicit objects of trade, or valuable commodities. This course will explore how certain plant and animal matter came to be used by medical professionals, consumed for recreational purposes, sold for high prices, and regulated by state and international law. Students will read and analyze accounts from multiple perspectives as we consider the political implications of anti-drug rhetoric, social welfare campaigns, and understandings of addiction and criminality in the social, economic, and cultural histories of drug consumption and regulation.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 328 - Latin American and United States Relations Credit Hours 3
This course examines the political, economic, and cultural components of Latin America’s diplomatic history with the United States from the late colonial period (1700s) and the independence era to the present. The course focuses on the ways Latin American countries individually and collectively have responded to the United States’ growing presence in inter-regional affairs through the 19th and 20th centuries.
This course may be applied to the global, Latin American, or United States history concentration.
Listed also as AMST 328
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or CRWS 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 335 - Russian Politics and Culture: From Peter to Putin Credit Hours 3
This course analyzes the evolution of Russian politics and society through its three key historical periods: the Russian Empire of the Romanovs beginning with the reign of Peter the Great, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia. Students will examine major themes across these periods, such as Russia’s relationship with West, the role of the intelligentsia, women and gender, modernization and Westernization, and Russia’s geographic and cultural identity.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 338 - History of Travel Credit Hours 3
Travel writing provides unique evidence of human interaction, as people wrote about experiencing other parts of the world and the people within them. This class uses travel narratives as a window into cross-cultural contact, the formation and disintegration of empires, social and political movements, and the construction of selfhood. In this class, students will read a selection of travel narratives from around the world, from medieval times to the present, with a particular focus on how Europeans interacted with non-European people and places.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 381 - France 1750-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Dictatorship Credit Hours 3
This course will examine three key movements in France: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era, all of which had a profound and lasting impact, not only in France, but also in the world. Emphasis will be placed not only upon the political developments of this period, but also upon social, cultural, and intellectual themes. Connections also will be drawn between the French Revolution and the various revolutionary movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
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HIST 393 - The Coming of Capitalism Credit Hours 3
Listed also as HNHI 393 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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HIST 400 - History Research Seminar Credit Hours 3
Students will learn multiple methods of working with diverse primary sources and conduct an independent primary-source based research project guided by the seminar instructor and other departmental faculty.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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HIST 450 - Independent Study Credit Hours 1-3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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HIST 455 - Internship Credit Hours 1-8
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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HLTC 750 - Health Care Management Credit Hours 3
This course introduces students to the American health care delivery system. It provides an overview of various scientific, social, educational, governmental, and economic forces that shape the health care system and studies the historical development of health care management systems.
Previously numbered as GSB 741
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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HLTC 751 - Health Care Law Credit Hours 3
Students examine the legal environment of the health care industry, including a review and analysis of relevant statutes and policies of federal and state jurisdictions, as well as case law affecting the industry.
Previously numbered as GSB 742
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HLTC 752 - Contemporary Issues in Health Care Credit Hours 3
This course will look at many of the most important developments within the health care industry. The focus of the course is on current issues. Topics include strategic planning and marketing strategy models.
Previously numbered as GSB 743
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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HNSM 160 - Evil and the Paradox of Hope Credit Hours 3
The Brothers Karamazov will interrogate us about our convictions, assumptions, and deepest questions, including those related to the dynamics of evil, suffering, and cruelty, and the perhaps paradoxical hope for meaning, purpose, and goodness. Can evil be explained or are explanations evil? Where is “God” during earthquakes, genocides, and the suffering of one innocent person? Where are we? Seminar participants will propose and discuss additional course materials and readings emerging from our sustained dialogue with Dostoevsky’s text.
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HNSM 161 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? Credit Hours 3
In a court of law, a defendant’s life hangs upon guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But in the journey from doubt to certainty (and the likelihood of a roundtrip!), what is the role of faith? With the help of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, this seminar will grapple with questions of faith and reason, doubt and certainty, and the restless search of the self for truth.
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HNSM 165 - Suffering, Grace, and Redemption Credit Hours 3
Flannery O’Connor once stated that “there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.” In this freshmen honors seminar, students will read, think, speak and write about what it means to suffer toward understanding -one’s own faith or non-faith, as well as one’s societal, familial, or intellectual place in society, in general. Students will be challenged to read carefully and to think deliberately about our common course text, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, as well as works from various authors, including O’Connor, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, and others.
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HNSM 168 - Love and Faith Credit Hours 3
Love and faith are widely considered the most essential and profound of human experiences; at the same time, they are often seen in strictly emotional or irrational terms. In this course we will explore the role of the intellect in love and faith. Does “thinking too much” necessarily hinder our ability to act in passionate relationships or to believe in God? How do we practice love and faith thoughtfully? The common text in the honors first-year seminars, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, will be our primary guide as we investigate these enduring questions.
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HNSM 169 - Dostoevsky, Dominican, and the Daily News Credit Hours 3
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is in every sense a “classic” when it comes to exploring deep thoughts and sometimes subtle, sometimes explosive passions. But great literature is not the only place where thoughts and passions live. “Intellectual passions”, as the philosopher of science Michael Polanyi called them, inform the sciences and other academic disciplines in a university such as ours and an astonishing array of thoughts and passions are bundled together in the daily news. In this seminar we will read and relate three texts, each of which points beyond itself: The Brothers Karamazov, myBulletin, and the New York Times. How do the brothers in Dostoevsky’s novel teach us to understand anew both our education and the wider world? How might reading the three “texts” together illuminate our lives?
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HNSM 170 - Thoughts and Passions on Trial Credit Hours 3
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov leads up to a murder trial which, along with this great novel as a whole, turns out to be a trial in more than one sense of the word. In this seminar we will consider the trial of Dmitri Karamazov along with other trials, both from the past (Socrates, Jesus, Adolf Eichmann) and in our own day. As readers, we may find ourselves in the role of judge or jury, prosecutor or defender, character witness or expert for either side. But we may just as likely find ourselves, with our own thoughts and passions, to be on trial as well. Great trials, as the word implies, can try the soul-but they can also teach.
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HNSM 171 - Creating a Living Space Credit Hours 3
How we live-and who we are-often are connected to where we live. Where do we “live”? In the mind? Or in a physical space? This class will engage and interrogate our sense of space-and how where we live makes us who we are. Beginning with readings in disciplines such as philosophy, literature, and geography, we will then examine and experience a variety of spaces, from the Dominican campus to downtown Chicago.
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HNSM 242 - Pundits and Gurus Credit Hours 3
The course will focus on the competing but complementary manners in which Hindu philosophy and the practice of yoga attempt to understand the really real. Samkhya, Vedānta, and other schools of Hindu philosophy use mental discrimination and analysis to understand perceived reality while yoga uses the continuous flow of meditative experience to pursue that understanding. The readings will be an overview of Samkhya philosophy and readings from the Brahma Sūtras, Yoga Sūtras, and the Bhagavad Gita. We will spend class time doing yoga and meditation as well as in classroom discussion.
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in the honors program.
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HNSM 266 - Happiness Credit Hours 3
This big questions honors seminar will take a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring two fundamental questions of human existence: what is happiness and how can we attain it?
Prerequisite(s): Honors program students only.
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HNSM 335 - Darwin and the Hobbits: Human Nature and the Nature of Humans Credit Hours 3
This course will address texts from multiple genres and global perspectives as we explore the relationship between how a culture identifies what it means to be human and how that connection impacts social activism among its people.
Prerequisite(s): Honors transfer students and consent of the instructor.
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HNSM 352 - Darwin, Monkeys, Computers and Shakespeare Credit Hours 3
What makes human beings human? Can 100 monkeys with iPads produce Hamlet? The central work of the course, Darwin’s Origin of Species, presents an evolutionary theory that questions the existence of a natural end for man. For most Darwinians, man is just another animal that evolves without any particular end. There is a natural being that is biologically driven and a human being who is culturally constructed, but no natural human being. Since man has no natural end, then no society, culture, or behavior can be universally wrong, just culturally unacceptable. This course will examine whether a Darwinian natural moral sense in the species can exist by discussing topics such as a parents love of children, conjugal bonding of opposite sex partners, slavery, and psychopaths. Along with Darwin’s major work and smaller readings, we will read Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature by Larry Arnhart.
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HNSM 363 - Science and Responsibility Credit Hours 3
An examination of the relationship of intellectual and social contexts with the process of doing science, raising issues of responsibility that arise at the intersection of science and other human activities. The course will focus on Darwin’s Origin of Species and on questions relating to global warming and/or climate change.
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HNSM 366 - Darwinian Thinking Across Disciplines Credit Hours 3
What do slime mold, honeycombs, morning sickness, and free will have in common? All of them are evolutionary puzzles, phenomena that at first seem to challenge evolutionary theory but that on deeper investigation are illuminated by evolutionary thinking. This seminar will explore what it might mean to see all of human knowledge through the lens of Darwinian thinking. Students will use insights from evolutionary science to explore topics in their own disciplines and, drawing on one another’s disciplinary knowledge and expertise, will develop proposals for interdisciplinary research or social action projects.
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HNSM 367 - Human Being and Natural Being: The End of Evolution? Credit Hours 3
This course seeks to parallel (or extend?) Darwinian biological evolution with human cultural evolution in order to investigate the extent to which certain technologies actually support the species (i.e., have utility as survival strategy) and which ones may not. Specifically, we will contemplate the following question: If the species homo sapiens evolved a capacity for literacy, a by-product of the evolution of language centers in the human brain, and the linear, rational, categorical, empirical modes of thought it facilitates-what changes are suggested to our understanding of what it is to be “human” if we should find our species turning en masse from this capacity?
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HNSM 381 - Continuous and Discrete Credit Hours 3
Darwin’s great book, “Origin of Species” can be looked at as raising the question whether the line of descent from one species to another is continuous transition or progression. In this way, it prepares us to think about the difference between human beings and other natural beings. Is the difference between human beings and the non-humans the world in which they live? The continuous and the discrete is a theme with many variations. What is the relation between a point and a line, between rest and motion, between particles and waves, between knowing and learning. This course will explore as many of these topics as time allows.
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HNSM 382 - Contemporary Issues: Science and Technology Credit Hours 3
Scientific discoveries in the 19th century stimulated the rapid growth of technology that is both blessing and bane to contemporary society. The seminal work of John Dalton, Charles Darwin, James Maxwell, et al., led to revolutionary advances in the physical and biological sciences, which in turn gave us tools capable of dignifying or demeaning our collective existence. In this course we will focus on the origin and history of two contemporary and contentious technological issues, specifically, genetic engineering and nuclear energy. Along the way we will explore the scientific method, the differences between science and technology, and the interdisciplinary nature of rational decision making.
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HNSM 383 - The Evolution of Science: Human Being and Natural Being Credit Hours 3
This course will begin with a close reading of Darwin’s Origin of Species, leading to some questions for discussion. How did Darwin understand evidence? Does experiment play any role in Darwin’s science? How does Darwin’s understanding of science as present in Origin of Species differ from that of Karl Popper or Thomas Kuhn? Matt Ridley’s The Red Queen will give us a basis for talking about how modern genetics contributed to the evolution of the science of evolution. Throughout the course we will have in mind two questions: What is nature? And how do we know that we know?
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HNSM 384 - Evolution, Eugenics, and Disability in America Credit Hours 3
Does Darwin’s theory of evolution change our understanding of what it means to be human? We will begin with Origin of Species, then explore the contentious issues of eugenics and disability in American history and contemporary society.
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HNSM 453 - The Wisdom and Power of This World Only? Credit Hours 3
To what extent can human beings, individually or together, control the course of history? Must men and women use all human means, including coercion and violence, to right the wrongs of this world and to protect themselves and others? Or is there available to humanity some sort of otherworldly wisdom and power in suffering that, as Saint Paul wrote, is “folly to the Greeks?” Is there, as one theologian suggests, sometimes a “grace of doing nothing” when others suffer? Or would we be obliged to battle injustice even if, in the words taken from a famous treatise on war and peace, “God did not exist or took no interest in the affairs of men?” In this seminar, we will join in conversation with extraordinary writers who have explored such questions in unusual depth.
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HNSM 462 - The Book of Job, Oedipus the King, and King Lear Credit Hours 3
These three great texts, from the Old Testament, from fifth-century (BCE) Athens, and from Renaissance early 17th-century England, are towering works of three great cultures, representing some of the very finest attempts of the human imagination to come to grips with the spiritual and philosophical problems that trouble us endlessly: How are we to understand the dilemmas, the catastrophes, and the triumphs of the human spirit of human existence in relation to the divine? How can an understanding of tragedy as a genre help us to realize who we are as human beings?
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HNSM 463 - Tragedy and Hope Credit Hours 3
How much power do human beings really have? What is the relationship between human power, divine power, human suffering, and hope? In this seminar, students will discuss literary texts that put forward these and related questions. Careful study of the three classic works - the book of Job from the Hebrew Bible, the Greek tragedy Antigone, and Shakespeare’s King Lear - will enable students to engage with questions of human agency in a world where suffering seems inescapable, even strangely necessary. Additional readings from Friedrich Nietzsche, St. Therese of Lisieux, and others will allow seminar participants to consider how art and spiritual practice influence our understanding of suffering and hope.
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HNSM 464 - Personal Transformation Credit Hours 3
There is a saying that “change is inevitable; growth is optional,” but how is it that some people are forged by suffering while others become defeated? Does this have something to do with how we see ourselves in relation to our difficulties? Is it a matter of faith? good luck? chance: In looking at what Job, Oedipus, Lear, and the poetry of T.S. Eliot can offer us, perhaps we can fortify ourselves to “suffer” in the real sense of the word and we might say, as the voice in “Ash Wednesday” articulates, “Teach us to care and not to care/Teach us to sit still.”
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HNSM 465 - Learning the Hard Way: Know Yourself to Know the World Credit Hours 3
Antigone, Job, King Lear and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight share a common theme of what disasters that having power without wisdom can bring; ignorance, especially of one’s self, can wreak havoc in a world where human suffering is somehow connected to our understanding of human agency and divine power. This semester will be devoted to exploring ways of achieving wisdom and self-knowledge, as well as, a discussion of how our society constructs the concepts of both human and divine power and wisdom.
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HNSM 466 - Wisdom and Suffering Credit Hours 3
Does suffering bring wisdom? Is that wisdom worth what it costs? Conversely, can too much knowledge cause us to suffer? Is there a difference between knowledge and wisdom? What do we hope wisdom will bring to our lives? Through critical readings and discussions of Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex”, Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, ” The Book of Job” and Aristotle’s “Poetics”, we will explore these and other questions.
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HNSM 467 - Tragedy and Response: the Measure of Our Lives Credit Hours 3
The novelist Peter DeVries’ asserts, “What people believe is a measure of what they suffer”. But, our texts (Job, Oedipus Tyrannus, and King Lear) ask, Is what people suffer also a measure of what they believe? In this seminar, these classic texts will guide our consideration of this and related questions: What are the alleged sources of our suffering? Does knowing the source(s) matter? How to respond to one’s suffering? To the suffering of others? And when no response is adequate, what then?
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HS 110 - Introduction to Philanthropy Credit Hours 3
The course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the philanthropic and public charity sector that emphasizes the transaction of giving through the process of grant making to community organizations. Through a combination of readings, class discussion, simulated learning experiences and hands-on, interactive activities out of the classroom, participants apply their learning to the real-life process of giving through a structured grant making approach. This will prepare the participants to engage in civic and philanthropic leadership roles in the community as they pursue their careers.
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HS 300 - Social Science Research Credit Hours 3
This course provides an overview of the methods used by social scientists. Topics include reviewing existing literature, designing a study, surveys, data analysis and research ethics. Required for human services major.
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HS 301 - Writing in the Social Sciences Credit Hours 3
Students will demonstrate the fundamentals of written communications in the social sciences through a number of short writing assignments, as well as a longer paper, which will go through at least one revision. They will focus on clarity, organization, proper presentation of supporting evidence and communication ethics. Prerequisite: EN 102 Composition II. Required for human services major.
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HS 302 - Statistics for Social Scientists Credit Hours 3
Numeracy is a fundamental skill for those practicing the social sciences. This course addresses the fundamentals of quantitative data analysis and the ethical presentation of statistics. Required for human services major. Satisfies the mathematics proficiency requirement for CASS continuing studies undergraduates.
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HS 303 - Human Services Administration Credit Hours 3
The field of human services of full of well-meaning individuals who nevertheless struggle to help those they would serve due to a lack of administrative ability. This course will explore the essential leadership and organizational skills needed to succeed in human services. Required for human services major.
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HS 304 - Social Policy Credit Hours 3
Students will examine the ways in which institutional policies impact society. Topics include the political process, unintended consequences and policy analysis. Required for human services major.
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HS 305 - Behavioral Theory Credit Hours 3
Why do people behave irrationally? What really motivates people? What incentives can be used to change behavior? By answering these questions, human services professionals can better address the needs of those they serve. Required for human services major.
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HS 320 - Disability Studies Credit Hours 3
This is an introduction to the burgeoning field of disability studies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course demonstrates the ways in which society’s conception of the body have evolved and continue to evolve over time. Topics include shifting terminology, artistic representations, the concept of human dignity, education and the workplace.
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HS 322 - Disability Support Services Credit Hours 3
The course will examine the range of government and private services available to individuals with disabilities, as well as the gaps in services and barriers that prevent people from taking full advantage of what’s available.
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HS 340 - Unions and Collective Bargaining Credit Hours 3
This is an overview of the collective bargaining process from union formation to contract negotiation to working under a collective bargaining agreement. Topics include major legislation, the differences between the public and private sectors and the nature of the unionized workplace.
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HS 341 - Sociology of Labor Credit Hours 3
This course explores the role of unions in our society, including the history of the labor movement and the economic impact of unionization, as well as the effects of labor’s decline in recent decades.
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HS 350 - Fundamentals of Public Administration Credit Hours 3
This is a survey of government bureaucracies at the federal, state and local levels, with a particular focus on how they both succeed and fail to provide essential services to the public.
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HS 355 - International Relations Credit Hours 3
Students will examine the ways in which states and non-state actors interact with one another, including militarily and diplomatically.
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HS 356 - Globalization and Its Critics Credit Hours 3
Modern societies around the world are increasingly interconnected with one another due to technological innovation and other factors. This interconnection has significant social, cultural, political and economic consequences, which have been both praised and criticized. A number of viewpoints will be examined.
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HS 370 - Understanding the Environment Credit Hours 3
Sustainability is fundamentally rooted in the scientific understanding of the environment. This course provides a basic overview of environmental science to further sounds policy decisions. Applies to the natural science general education requirement.
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HS 371 - Building Sustainable Organizations Credit Hours 3
Environmental problems are often presented as conflicts between the needs of the environment and the economy. In some cases, organizations find that good environmental policy also makes good economic sense. But in other cases, organizations must figure out how to properly calculate and weigh the environmental consequences of their actions. This course will examine both institutional decision-making and government policy.
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HS 390 - Adult Learning Theory Credit Hours 3
For centuries, educational philosophers have studied the most effective means of teaching children. It has only been in recent decades that they have realized learning is a lifelong activity. This is an overview of the way adults learn, particularly with respect to professional advancement.
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HS 391 - Organizational Development Credit Hours 3
This course will examine the way in which organizations adapt to change and improve overtime. It explores types of organizational change and the change process including resistance to change and stakeholder dynamics. The course delves into the roles of change agents, employee involvement, leadership and communication, the process of planned change and the discovery of evolving organizational opportunities. Also, internal and external forces of change are analyzed through the evaluation of change models, theories and case studies.
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HS 392 - Distance Learning Credit Hours 3
Distance learning has evolved from instruction by mail in the 19th century to cutting-edge interactive course delivery through the Internet. This course will explore the ways in which distance learning differs from traditional delivery and the best practices of online course design.
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HS 400 - Professional Ethics Credit Hours 3
Helping professionals owe a duty of competent and ethical service to their clients. This course will address the ethical imperatives and challenges posed to modern professionals. Required for human services major.
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HWE 200 - Introduction to Healthcare/Wellness Professions and Practices Credit Hours 2
This course is designed for students interested in healthcare and wellness. The course provides an introductory overview of healthcare and wellness promotion systems and services. A primary focus of the course centers on examination of the roles and responsibilities, professional and educational requirements, and the satisfaction and challenges associated with varied careers within healthcare and wellness promotion. The interprofessional teamwork and collaboration across roles in healthcare and wellness are introduced. Fall, Spring
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HWE 210 - Introduction to Public Health Credit Hours 3
This course is designed to introduce the basic tenets, applications, and foci of public health, including integrating public health with other health and wellness professions. It will provide a history of public health, an overview of the core disciplines including disease prevention health and wellness professions and systems, as well as current events and issues in the field. Spring.
Prerequisite(s): HWE 200 , PSYC 101
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HWE 299 - Community-Based Learning for Health and Wellness Credit Hours 1-3
This course involves approved community-based fieldwork and seminar sessions supporting students in dynamic exploration and engagement with healthcare and wellness settings and services. Spring.
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HWE 330 - Health Promotion and Advocacy Credit Hours 3
An introduction to the basic principles of the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs and advocacy This course places particular emphasis on the identification of health and lifestyle risk factors and the interventions associated with appropriate and effective management of these risks, and advocacy skills to support the improvement of health and well-being for these risks or needs Spring.
Prerequisite(s): HWE 200 ,HWE 210 , NUTR 250
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HWE 440 - Worksite Safety Credit Hours 3
This course focuses on workplace safety, health, and inspection. Throughout this course you will learn what workplace safety is, why it is important and how it affects employee health and wellness as well as employer effectiveness. Spring.
Prerequisite(s): HWE 200 , HWE 210
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