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HI 327 - Early Modern France
Social, cultural and political foundations of the Ancient Regime in France from 1500 to the French Revolution of 1789. Covered in the course: the French Renaissance, the development of absolutism, French society and culture and the coming of the French Revolution.
Four credits.
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HI 328 - The Habsburg Empire
A survey of this unique Central European state from its emergence in the 16th century to its fall in 1918. Emphasis is on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Four credits.
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HI 329 - Modern Germany
The history of the German lands since 1815. Topics include Germany’s unification and industrial transformation, the rise of Nazism, the country’s division after World War II and its subsequent reunification.
Four credits.
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HI 330 - Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Europe’s most volatile and crisis-ridden region. Topics include the emergence of the independent East European states, their subsequent political and economic problems through World War II, and the rise and fall of Communist regimes.
Four credits.
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HI 332 - Modern France
Modern France will begin with the aftermath of the Napoleonic era and conclude with France of 1989, two hundred years after its famous revolution. It will cover domestic political and social issues, so intertwined in French history, and seek to appreciate France’s position in the contemporary modern world.
Four credits.
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HI 333 - Europe since 1945
Devastated and impoverished in 1945, Europe lay in the shadow of the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the last sixty years have presented terrible challenges, the European people have experienced a remarkable regeneration during this period. This course will investigate this regeneration and contemplate the various difficulties Europe faced and continues to face today. Topics covered will include the Cold War, the postwar “economic miracle,” Communist rule in Eastern Europe, European unification, immigration, and the Revolutions of 1989.
Four credits.
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HI 345 - Mid-Victorian Britain in History and Literature
The period between 1851-1867 constituted the high noon of Victorian England, an era when Britain enjoyed unprecedented stability and prosperity. Beneath the equipoise of these years, however, great changes took place, and Victorians attempted to deal with what they saw as the transition from the medieval to the modern world. This course identifies several areas in which significant change occurred, such as politics, art, and religion and others. Within the selected areas, students will learn to appreciate the great literature of the period and examine the historical forces influencing the art, culture and people of the mid-Victorian period. Cross-listed as EN 345 .
Four credits.
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HI 349 - Special Topics: Modern Europe
Topics to be arranged.
Four credits.
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HI 350 - Colonial North America
This course examines Colonial North America from the founding of European colonies through the end of the American Revolutionary War. The course includes coverage of Native American history and culture, the development of slavery, conflicts with Britain, and religious issues.
Four credits.
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HI 351 - Jacksonian America: 1824-1850
A study of the market and transportation revolutions, Jacksonian politics, the rise of the western United States, the impact of religious revivals, the removal of Native Americans, and the multiple reform movements of the 19th century, particularly abolition and women’s rights.
Four credits.
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HI 352 - The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877
An analysis of the complicated set of events surrounding the break down of the American political and social consensus, the war itself and the new directions taken by the nation in the post-war period.
Note: Meets the Citizenship Learning Outcome (CITZ)
Four credits.
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HI 354 - Contemporary America
The years since 1968 have seen immense changes in the roles of women, different ethnic and religious groups, students, and other groups in American society. This course explores the political, cultural and social movements which surround those changes, as well the changing nature of domestic and international politics
Four credits.
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HI 355 - Modern American Foreign Relations
Surveys American foreign relations from the 1890s to the present. The course examines the emergence of the United States as a world power, the challenges of war and peace, and America in the Cold War and post- Cold War world.
Four credits.
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HI 356 - The Old South
The course goal is to engage the student in the themes, issues and approaches to the history of the American South from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 until the end of the Civil War. The Old South was a joint creation of blacks and whites. It was also the most powerful slave society in the modern world. Therefore, we will look at black-white relations, especially those in the institution of slavery. Social class and gender roles will be studied as catalysts in southern history. We will look at the beginnings of southern consciousness, the rise of sectionalism, and southern nationalism culminating in the secession movement and Civil War which brought an end to the Old South.
Four credits.
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HI 357 - United States Labor History
This course examines the experiences of workers and the development of organized labor movements in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the intersection of class, race, and gender, and emphasizes that the American labor experience reaches beyond unions to include groups as diverse as colonial craftsmen, antebellum slaves, and twentieth-century fast food employees.
Four credits.
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HI 358 - History of New England
A focus on New England’s unique history and culture, and its influence and interactions with American history and development from the age of European explorations to the present.
Four credits.
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HI 359 - American Women’s History
A study of the history of women in the United States from early European settlement through the late 20th century. The course examines the ways in which the roles of women have changed in response to economic, political and cultural forces.
Note: Meets the Citizenship Learning Outcome (CITZ)
Four credits.
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HI 361 - Civil Rights Movement
This course explores the African-American struggle to achieve social, political, and economic equality in the United States in the twentieth century. It analyzes the important events of the movement and the strategies employed during the struggle, as well as the contributions of prominent national leaders and local activists, both black and white. This course places the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in a broad context, beginning with early efforts both to resist and accommodate Jim Crow and continuing through the 20th century, with consideration of the ways that other “rights” struggles shared tactics, goals, and ideology with the black civil rights movement.
Four credits.
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HI 362 - The New South
This course explores the history of the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the twenty-first century. It examines a variety of topics, including the rise of segregation and the civil rights movement; industrialization and modernization; the South’s conflicted relationship with the federal government and its political influence on the rest of the nation; the South’s place in the world; and southern literature and the arts (including rock and roll music, which is one of the South’s gifts to the rest of the world). Finally, from the rest of the country’s perspective, the South used to be a problem to be solved. That changed in the late twentieth century, and this course asks if that happened because the South became more like the rest of the country or the country became more like the South.
Four credits.
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HI 363 - Public History
This course introduces students to the methods, concerns, and uses of public history. This includes hands-on experience with material culture (the study of objects), archives, museums, commemoration, historic preservation and other areas of public history scholarship and practice.
Four credits.
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HI 374 - Special Topics: American History
Topics to be arranged.
Four credits.
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HI 375 - Colonial Latin American History
This course traces the development of the Central and South American nations from their discovery to 1824.
Four credits.
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HI 376 - Modern Latin American History
This course traces that development from independence to the present, with stress on the ABC powers and Mexico.
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HI 377 - Modern Russia
A survey of Russian history in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the fall of the tsarist empire, the Communist superpower of the 20th Century, and its successors.
Four credits.
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HI 378 - Modern China: 1600-Present
This course explores the history of China since approximately 1600, focusing on the transition from the Sino-centric world in existence when the Qing dynasty took power in 1644 to the challenges of European imperialism, republicanism and communism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HI 379 - Modern Japan: 1600-Present
This course explores the history of Japan since approximately 1600, focusing on the rise and fall of the shogunate, the Meiji Restoration and emperor-system, and the rapid changes Japan’s political, economic, and cultural systems have undergone during the 20th century.
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HI 381 - Atlantic World, 1492-1825
This course examines the Atlantic World from roughly 1492 to 1825. Topics include European expansion and conquest, creation of an Atlantic economy, slavery and the slave trade, and the different indigenous strategies of accommodation, resistance, and rebellion.
Four credits.
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HI 382 - History of the Middle East
The course surveys the history and culture of the Middle East from the time of Muhammad to the present. Three themes are emphasized: the emergence of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the historical background of the contemporary problems of the region.
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HI 384 - British Empire
The British Empire took a leading role in globalization throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In this course we will investigate how the British and various colonized peoples made the empire together. At the same time, we will study the various tensions and forces that made empire difficult and eventually impossible to sustain. Along the way, we will familiarize ourselves with various interpretations of imperialism, sample the empire’s impact on art and literature, confront some of the moral dilemmas associated with the empire, and come to understand why the empire inspired such devotion and hatred among people throughout the world.
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HI 385 - Vietnam War
This course focuses on American involvement in Vietnam from 1954 to 1975, though we will also discuss events before and after this period. Students should note that this is not a course in military history. We will discuss military events, but we will also take a broader view of the conflict. Topics will include the reasons for American intervention in Vietnam, the experiences of people involved in the conflict, the viability of the South Vietnamese state, the causes of America’s defeat (and North Vietnam’s victory), responses on the home front, the war in American memory, and political consequences of the war. The course will consist of lectures and discussions. Readings will include historical monographs, memoirs, primary sources, and literary materials.
Four credits.
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HI 386 - World War II
This course will look at the people, forces, ideas, and weapons that made World War II possible. The class will start by looking at the origins of instability in both Europe and Asia. After surveying the social and political characteristics of the main belligerents, the course will study how conflict in Central Europe and Asia eventually developed into a global war. While covering the war years, the course will pay special attention to the strategies and diplomacy of the nations involved, the role of ideology in decision making, the influence of new weaponry and tactics, the impact of war on civilians, the experience of combat among soldiers, and the great challenges imposed on states and societies by a total war of unprecedented scale.
Four credits.
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HI 390 - Comparative Women’s History
This course explores the history of African, European and American women, comparing their experiences in war, politics, the legal system, capitalism and other aspects of society. This course stresses the benefits and pitfalls of comparative history, as well as the impact of gender on national and international developments.
Four credits.
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HI 391 - The History of Southern Africa
The course examines the history of South Africa and its surrounding countries. It investigates economic and political changes and the creation of racial, ethnic, and gender identities. Topics include the relationships among San foragers, Khoi pastoralists, and Dutch settlers; Shaka Zulu; the Xhosa cattle-killing of 1857; the “mineral revolution” and migrant labor; the apartheid system; the Black Consciousness movement; and postcolonial development. The course uses a variety of sources-including literature and film-to understand how southern African history has been portrayed over the years and why those histories are important in people’s lives today.
Four credits.
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HI 392 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
This course seeks to introduce students to the debates surrounding the history of slavery in Africa. Did slavery in Africa predate the Atlantic Slave Trade? What impact did the Atlantic Slave Trade have on African communities? How did the Atlantic Slave Trade compare to other slave trades within and out of Africa? How were slavery and slave trading related to European dominance in Africa in the 19th century? These questions will be addressed using both primary source material and scholarly arguments from historians, anthropologists and sociologists.
Four credits.
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HI 399 - Special Topics: Special Areas
Topics to be arranged.
Four credits.
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HI 400 - Independent Study
Topic and work requirements agreed upon between student and faculty member. Must be approved by the Department Chair.
Four credits.
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HI 401 - Independent Study
Topic and work requirements agreed upon between student and faculty member. Must be approved by the Department Chair.
One credit.
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HI 475 - Internship
A student originated internship supervised by the History department with cultural, legal, and state agencies. Not credited to History major requirements.
Four credits.
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HI 476 - Internship
A student originated internship supervised by the History department with cultural, legal, and state agencies. Not credited to History major requirements.
Four credits.
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HI 481 - Seminar in History Research
A course in research methods. Students research their own topic, write a 25 page paper, and defend the research before the seminar.
Note: Writing Intensive (WI)
Four credits.
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HI 489 - Directed Reading Seminars
Reading seminars provide upper level students with the opportunity to pursue the historiography of a particular topic, selected by historical theme, epoch, or interpretation.
Note: Writing Intensive (WI)
Four credits.
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Humanities |
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HU 103 - Conversatio I
The first semester of Conversatio considers the meaning of humanity in the world by reading and discussing influential texts that contemplate who we are as individuals, what our responsibility is within a community, and what our relationship is with the divine. Among fundamental intellectual ideas, students are introduced to the Catholic Benedictine intellectual tradition through the teachings in select readings of Saints Benedict and Anselm.
Note: Meets Shared Learning Experience Outcome (SHAR)
Four credits.
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HU 104 - Conversatio II
In the second semester students are asked to consider the meaning of humanity in the world from the perspective of three areas of study central to the Liberal Arts: 1) Politics, rhetoric, and the emergence of democracy in human history; 2) The nature of science and the role of scientific understanding in our world; 3) The nature of beauty and the place of art in the lives of individuals and communities.
Note: Meets Shared Learning Experience Outcome (SHAR)
Four credits.
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HU 300 - Special Topics
An examination of various topics related to the Humanities.
Note: Meets Historical Reasoning Learning Outcome (HIST)
Four credits.
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HU 301 - Special Topics
An examination of various topics related to the Humanities.
Four
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HU 302 - Special Topics
An examination of various topics related to the Humanities.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four
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HU 305 - Paris and New York in the Twenties and Thirties
Concentrates on a dramatic and clearly defined historical period in France and the United States, a period characterized by rupture with tradition on many levels of human activity. The decades after the First World War saw the values and premises of intellectual and cultural heritage challenged or discarded. The course will examine the criticisms leveled against traditional values and explore new principles for life and art which came into being during this period.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST) and Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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HU 310 - England’s Catholic Underground
This course will examine the history, literature, and selected artistic expressions of the “Recusant” movement led by English Catholics suffering persecution under the rule of Tudor and Jacobean rulers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Four credits.
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HU 345 - Progress and Nostalgia: Mid-Victorian Britain in History and Literature
The period between 1851-1867 constituted the high noon of Victorian England, an era when Britain enjoyed unprecedented stability and prosperity. Beneath the equipoise of these years, however, great changes took place, and Victorians attempted to deal with what they saw as the transition from the medieval to the modern world. This course identifies several areas in which significant change occurred, such as politics, art, and religion and others. Within the selected areas, students will learn to appreciate the great literature of the period and examine the historical forces influencing the art, culture and people of the mid-Victorian period. Cross-listed as EN/HI 345.
Four credits.
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HU 346 - Confucian Thinkers
Through central texts of the Confucian tradition, the course introduces students to patterns of thought, vocabulary, and argumentation that characterized the thought of Confucius and his followers. The views of Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi and others will be the basis for coming to understand the way of thinking embodied in one of the world’s most important and widespread traditions. Cross-listed as PH 346
Note: Meets Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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MA 110 - Concepts of Mathematics
An introductory course for students who wish to develop quantitative skills. Topics covered include: mathematical problem solving, logic, counting and cardinality, number systems, relations and functions, ratios and proportional relationships, probability, statistics, and geometry.
Note: Meets Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcome (QUAN)
Four credits.
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MA 130 - Fundamentals of Mathematics
A course in mathematical modeling. Topics include linear, quadratic, difference equation, linear programming, matrix, and stochastic models and their applications.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): One year of high school algebra.
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MA 150 - The Nature of Mathematics
A study of the nature and development of some of the most important mathematical ideas. Topics may include, but are not limited to: infinity, variation, symmetry, numbers and notation, topology, mathematics and calculating machines, dimension, coordinate systems, dynamical systems, randomness, and probability.
Four credits.
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MA 170 - Calculus I
A study of the differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric functions with applications. Topics covered include limits, continuity, differentiation formulas, the Mean Value Theorem, curve sketching, optimization, and related rates.
Note: Meets Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcome (QUAN)
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): 2 years of high school algebra and a half year of trigonometry.
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MA 180 - Calculus II
A study of the integration of algebraic, trigonometric and transcendental functions with applications. Topics covered include the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, calculating areas and volumes, the average value of a function, inverse functions, and integration techniques.
Note: Meets Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcome (QUAN)
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 170
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MA 210 - Calculus III
A continuation of MA 170 - MA 180 . Topics include infinite sequences and series, vectors and vector calculus, and multivariable calculus.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180 .
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MA 220 - Vector Analysis and Differential Equations
A study of vector analysis and ordinary differential equations and their applications. Topics include vector fields, line and surface integrals, first order differential equations, linear differential equations, and systems of differential equations.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 210 .
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MA 260 - Problem-Solving
Via the solution of interesting problems, this course isolates and draws attention to the most important problem-solving techniques encountered in undergraduate mathematics. The aim is to show how a basic set of simple techniques can be applied in diverse ways to solve a variety of problems.
Note: Meets Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcome (QUAN)
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180 .
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MA 310 - Linear Algebra
An introduction to linear algebra and its applications. Topics covered include systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and diagonalization of matrices.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 330 - Mathematical Statistics I
A study of probability distributions and their application to statistical inference. Topics include conditional probability and independence, Bayes’ Rule, discrete and continuous probability distributions, Tchebysheff’s Theorem, and the Central Limit Theorem.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 340 - Mathematical Statistics II
A study of probability distributions and their application to statistical inference. Topics include estimation, large and small sample hypothesis testing, linear regressions, and analysis of variance.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 330
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MA 350 - Complex Variables
Topics for discussion include complex numbers and their properties, analytic functions, integration in the complex plane, Cauchy’s integral formula, Taylor and Laurent series, and methods of contour integration.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 360 - Modern Geometry
An axiomatic approach to Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry with an integration of interactive geometric software.
Four credits.
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MA 370 - Numerical Analysis
A study of numerical methods for function evaluation, solution of equations, approximation and interpolation, integration, differential equations, and linear systems.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 390 - Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Modern graph theory and combinatorics at an introductory level. Topics covered are: directed, undirected and weighted graphs, Euler and Hamiltonian circuits, trees, and vertex colourings.
Four credits.
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MA 400 - Independent Study
Four credits.
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MA 410 - Advanced Calculus I
Designed to bridge the gap between manipulative elementary calculus and theoretical real analysis. The fundamentals of elementary calculus are treated in a more rigorous manner. Topics covered include mathematical induction, sequences, series, and continuity.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 420 - Advanced Calculus II
Designed to bridge the gap between manipulative elementary calculus and theoretical real analysis. The fundamentals of elementary calculus are treated in a more rigorous manner. Topics covered include sequences and series of functions, differentiation, and the Riemann integral.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 410
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MA 430 - Modern Algebra
A study of algebraic systems, including groups, rings, and fields.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 450 - History of Mathematics
Introduction to the history and development of mathematics from prehistory to the present.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180
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MA 480 - Topics in Mathematics
This course will consist of a detailed investigation of a topic important to contemporary mathematics. The topic will be chosen by the department for its relevance to current mathematical thought and its accessibility to students.
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MA 180 or permission of the instructor.
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MA 490 - Internship
Four credits.
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MU 101 - Introduction to Music
A focus on masterpieces of Western music in their historical and cultural contexts from the Middle Ages to the present. The goals of the course are to awaken and encourage an appreciation of music, to help students learn to respond intelligently to a variety of musical idioms, and to engage students in the debates on the character and purpose of music that have occupied composers and musical thinkers since Antiquity. Students will also develop listening skills through a study of the basic elements of music: notation, melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, texture, and form, and how they are employed in various musical styles.
Four credits.
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MU 160 - Studies in Music Performance: Individual Instruction
Individual music instruction with sections in voice, piano, flute, violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, and other instruments. Course fee charged.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
Two credits.
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MU 170 - Class Piano
An introduction to beginning piano techniques, including hand position, posture, fingering, technical exercises, and sight reading in treble and bass clef. Students learn to perform short works and acquire basic harmonization and improvisation skills using standard accompaniment patterns. Numerous examples are assigned to demonstrate the essentials of reading and counting skills and other fundamentals of piano playing introductory music theory concepts are also covered. No piano background is necessary.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 171 - Class Guitar
An introduction to beginning guitar techniques, including hand position, posture, fingering, technical exercises, chords, and sight reading. Students learn to perform short works and acquire basic harmonization and improvisation skills using standard accompaniment patterns. Numerous examples are assigned to demonstrate the essentials of reading and counting skills and other fundamentals of guitar playing and introductory music theory concepts are also covered. No guitar background is necessary, but students must provide their own guitar.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 180 - Music Ensemble
Ensemble participation with sections in choir, orchestra, band, chamber music, and other groups.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
Two credits.
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MU 201 - Music History: Middle Ages - Bach and Handel
This course covers the first half of a two-semester sequence in the history of music in Western civilization, examining the changing styles of European music from the emergence of Gregorian chant to the works of Mozart. Genres explored include plainchant, polyphony, secular song, the mass, madrigal, opera, oratorio, concerto, and symphony. Composers to be studied include: Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. (Formerly MU 341)
Note: Meets Historical Reasoning Learning Outcome (HIST)
Four credits.
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MU 202 - Music History: Mozart and Beethoven - Present
This course covers the second half of a two-semester sequence in the history of music in Western civilization, examining the changing styles music from the styles of music fromBeethoven to the present day. Genres explored include the symphony, concerto, string quartet, piano sonata, opera, and art song. Composers to be studied include Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage, Glass, and others.
Note: Meets Historical Reasoning Learning Outcome (HIST)
Four credits.
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MU 210 - Music Theory II
An in-depth study of all the musical elements with an emphasis on melodic structure, functional harmony, and four-part writing. Musical examples from a range of historical periods will be used to demonstrate different analytical tools. Discussion will also focus on the analytical process and its relationship to the performer as well as the listener’s perception of a work
Note: Meets Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcome (QUAN)
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MU 110 or MU 170 or permission of the instructor (placement test)
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MU 230 - Computer Music
This course provides an introduction to the use of computers for the creation of music. Topics addressed will include recording and studio techniques, MIDI, sound synthesis, digital audio processing, music notation software, acoustics, and a brief survey of the electroacoustic and computer music repertoire.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 240 - American Music
The music of the United States from colonial days to the present, traced to its European roots but with primary focus on the contributions of distinctively American figures, such as William Billings, Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Leonard Bernstein. Topics include twentieth-century American contributions to art music, the rise of American musical theatre, jazz, and rock and roll.
Four credits.
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MU 241 - American Musical Theater
A historical survey of American musical theater from its origins in the late 19th century. The course focuses on selected works by figures such as Kern, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, and Sondheim, as well as the contemporary generation. A series of case studies anchors the course, allowing students to delve into issues of race, gender, politics, musical style, performance, and the notion of the popular, as the class also explores broader cultural and musical trends.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 242 - Studies in Film Music
This course is designed to develop a general understanding of the technical, historical, and aesthetic aspects of film music. Students will learn how to breakdown and analyze the primary components of an individual film score and develop a basic ability to identify specific musical instruments and compositional techniques. The course will also discuss many of the influential film score composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and their contribution to the film score.
Four credits.
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MU 243 - Studies in Jazz History
This course provides the opportunity for students to develop an understanding and ability to identify the specific musical elements of jazz through a variety of listening assignments. Students will develop a broad understanding of the distinctive features present in each style period of jazz and learn to recognize these features in their listening. Students will also have an opportunity to hear and analyze a live jazz performance during the course.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 244 - Music and Worship of the Western Church
Beginning with the Hebrew Psalmody of the Old Testament, this course will survey historical topics in sacred music from Gregorian chant to the present. Topics include: the chorales and psalm settings of the Reformation, oratorios of Handel, masses of Mozart and Haydn, requiems of Brahms and Verdi, “fuging tunes” of the early American Singing Schools, African-American spirituals, hymns and religious music of the Romantic Era, and the music and praise practices current in the church today.
Four credits.
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MU 245 - World Music
This course explores the musical cultures of select regions (Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and the Americas) from the disciplinary perspective of ethnomusicology, a field that emphasizes the direct connections between social structures and musical sound/aesthetics. Students are exposed to the disciplinary methods of ethnomusicology, including its the study of non-Western music in a series of analytical assignments and presentations. At the end of this course, students should have a better understanding of an intellectual approach to studying and listening to music in other cultures.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST) and the Global Engagement Learning Outcome (GLOB)
Four credits.
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MU 246 - History of Rock and Roll
The focus of this course is on the history of a musical genre, one that crucially informs our understanding of popular music today: rock and roll. In additional to exploring its early twentieth-century origins in the sounds of Tin Pan Alley, as well as jazz, country, and the blues, we will examine rock’s historical trajectory through a century of social upheaval. Consistent in its political and social relevancy, rock provides a unique perspective on many of the most important issues faced during the twentieth century, including nationalism, race, class, gender, and technology.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 310 - Music Theory III
A continuation of Music Theory II, this class will first present further elements of the harmonic vocabulary used in tonal music (including mode mixture, the Neapolitan chord, augmented sixth chords) then introduce students to techniques and approaches employed by composers in the twentieth century. Assignments will include analyses, directed composition exercises, and musicianship exercises (keyboard, sight singing, and dictation).
Four credits.
Prerequisite(s): MU 210 or permission of the instructor (placement test)
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MU 320 - Music Composition
This course is designed to allow students to explore the creative process of music composition. The course will focus on individual compositional aspects such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, orchestration, and text setting. Students will have a variety of opportunities to foster their music writing skills and work on the various musical elements through creative composition projects. Students will also have the opportunity to meet and discuss the compositional process with a professional composer and participate in the process of a newly commissioned work to be premiered during the course.
Four credits.
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MU 344 - Opera and Gender
This course explores operatic music and vocality, as well as opera’s construction of gender by focusing on a chronological series of historicized themes including castrati, madness, and exoticism. Students will complement their reading with weekly opera viewing/listening assignments and field trips to attend live performances of opera.
Note: Meets Aesthetic and Creative Engagement Learning Outcome (AEST)
Four credits.
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MU 350 - Special Topics: Conducting
This course introduces students to skills that are fundamental to leading ensembles as skilled and musical conductors
Four credits
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MU 400 - Independent Study
Four credits.
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MU 401 - Independent Study - Thesis Research
Four credits.
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MU 491 - Internship (one-semester)
Two credits.
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MU 492 - Internship (one-semester)
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MU 493 - Internship (two-semester)
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MU 494 - Internship (two-semester)
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NU 110 - Introduction to Professional Nursing
This course introduces the student to the art and science of the profession of nursing. A historical perspective allows students to explore nursing history, the development of nursing theory, research, and the role of the nurse within the health care system. Issues and challenges that impact the profession are explored.
Note: Meets Citizenship Learning Outcome (CITZ)
Four credits.
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