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Bioinformatics (BIOI)
BIOI 400 Programming Biology (1 Credit Hour)
This is a 6-week course introduction to scripting programming languages within the framework of biological data analysis. Graduate-level standing required. Students will learn foundational methods and algorithms for analysis of biological data.
BIOI 494 Bioinformatics Research Design (1 Credit Hour)
Course Restricted to Bioinformatics MS students Research practices, including data collection and management, the experimental design process, and tools for critical analysis and preparation of scientific literature will be discussed.
Students can describe and implement experimental design practices in bioinformatics
Outcomes
Students can describe and implement experimental design practices in bioinformaticsBIOI 495 Special Topics in Bioinformatics (1-12 Credit Hours)
The field of bioinformatics is ever evolving. As new technologies develop, demand arises for new methods and tools. Courses will focus on emerging trends in bioinformatics. Restricted to Bioinformatics Graduate Students. Student will learn about emerging topics in the field.
BIOI 498 Bioinformatics Internship (1 Credit Hour)
Pre-requisites: BIOI 500
An opportunity to obtain experience, knowledge, and skills in bioinformatics within a professional setting and thus expand the depth and breadth of the student's learning. Limited to MS Bioinformatics Non-Thesis track students only.
Students can apply foundational principles in bioinformatics into practice
Outcomes
Students can apply foundational principles in bioinformatics into practiceBIOI 499 Bioinformatics Research (1-12 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Prerequisite: BIOI 494
Students will conduct independent hypothesis-driven bioinformatics research under faculty guidance. Research efforts will include literature surveys, experimental design, algorithm and software development, and data analysis. Limited to MS Bioinformatics Thesis track students only.
Students can develop and utilize techniques for bioinformatics research
Outcomes
Students can develop and utilize techniques for bioinformatics researchBIOI 500 Advanced Bioinformatics (3 Credit Hours)
Students will study fundamental bioinformatics algorithms and emerging software tools in the field. The course will include the study of primary literature and design and implementation of bioinformatics algorithms.
Students can describe, design, implement, and evaluate bioinformatics algorithms
Outcomes
Students can describe, design, implement, and evaluate bioinformatics algorithmsBIOI 501 Bioinformatics Seminar (1-2 Credit Hours)
The seminar will introduce students to current topics in bioinformatics through presentations given by leaders in bioinformatics research. This course will also include more formal training in scientific presentation skills.
Course equivalencies: X-BIOI501/BIOL451
Students can summarize, critique, and present bioinformatics research
Outcomes
Students can summarize, critique, and present bioinformatics researchBIOI 565 Exploring Proteins (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Biochemistry, restricted to Bioinformatics Graduate Students
Proteins are polymer chains of amino acids that fold into compact states that differ in structure, size, shape, and dynamics. Computational tools are essential for the prediction of protein structures, protein interactions, and structure-based drug design.
Students will learn the concepts of building blocks of protein structure, and protein folding
Outcomes
Students will learn the concepts of building blocks of protein structure, and protein foldingBIOI 595 Thesis Supervision (1 Credit Hour)
Pre-requisites: BIOI 499
Laboratory research under faculty guidance including training in scientific writing and the production of a thesis and research presentation.
Students will develop skills in scientific writing and presentation; At the conclusion, students will present (written and oral) the results of their research
Outcomes
Students will develop skills in scientific writing and presentation; At the conclusion, students will present (written and oral) the results of their researchBIOI 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course provides FT status for a student who needs to meet the continuous enrollment requirement of the Graduate School while completing program requirements.
Chemistry (CHEM)
CHEM 400 Chemistry Seminar (1 Credit Hour)
This weekly seminar series on current topics in Chemistry is presented by experts from outside Loyola.
CHEM 401 Chemistry Methodology and Communication (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing
This is the common preparatory course providing all chemistry graduate students with the necessary skills to navigate towards their respective degrees and success post-degree. Topics include: notebooks, design of experiment, safety, ethics, effective communication of science, conflict resolution, and professional conduct.
Students are prepared with the soft skills and formal training in research methodology and compliance expectations expected of a graduate student and a professional chemist in a senior role
Outcomes
Students are prepared with the soft skills and formal training in research methodology and compliance expectations expected of a graduate student and a professional chemist in a senior roleCHEM 415 Special Topics in Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester.
CHEM 420 Advanced Organic Chemistry I: Struct-Stereo (3 Credit Hours)
Important organic chemical concepts. Includes discussion of the stereochemistry of carbon, organic quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics and related mechanistic concepts, and an introduction to synthetic methodology.
CHEM 422 Advanced Organic Chemistry III: Mechanism (3 Credit Hours)
This is an intensive review of the more general types of organic chemical mechanisms, such as electrophilic and nucleophilic additions, substitution reactions, elimination processes, and hemolytic processes. The experimental approach to mechanisms is emphasized.
CHEM 423 Medicinal Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores how medicinal chemists design and synthesize new drug candidates as well as the hurdles that must be overcome in meeting the FDA requirements of efficacy and safety on the road to market, emphasizing the therapeutic index that underscores the risk/benefit consideration of every drug.
1) Explain risk/benefit of drugs in efficacy vs. toxicity and the therapeutic index/window; 2) Summarize interactions of drugs with receptors, enzymes, or nucleotides; 3) Analyze structure-activity relationships given potency data
Outcomes
1) Explain risk/benefit of drugs in efficacy vs. toxicity and the therapeutic index/window; 2) Summarize interactions of drugs with receptors, enzymes, or nucleotides; 3) Analyze structure-activity relationships given potency dataCHEM 424 Molecular Characterization Part A (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Students Only
This course will include a closer look at the theory and applications of several spectroscopic methods used for analysis of organic as well as inorganic compounds, including 1D and 2D methods employing 1H and 13C NMR, in addition to other elements; UV/Vis, combined with mass spectrometry.
Students will be able to identify a compounds molecular structure based of spectroscopic means and understand the working principles behind those spectroscopies
Outcomes
Students will be able to identify a compounds molecular structure based of spectroscopic means and understand the working principles behind those spectroscopiesCHEM 425 Special Topics in Organic Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester. Some courses are: natural products, free radicals, molecular rearrangements, photochemistry, heteronuclear NMR, carbocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, synthetic organic methodology, pericyclic reactions, heterocycles.
CHEM 429 Research in Organic Chemistry (1-9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 430 Physical Chemical Survey (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: calculus and undergraduate physical chemistry
Covers chemical thermodynamics, molecular structure and spectra, and chemical kinetics. It includes review and survey of some recent research.
CHEM 431 Chemical Thermodynamics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: calculus and undergraduate physical chemistry
An extended study of the principles of the thermodynamic laws followed by applications to real and ideal systems of gases, liquids, and solids; partial molal properties; principles and applications of quantum statistical thermodynamics to gaseous equilibria
CHEM 433 Chemical Kinetics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: calculus and undergraduate physical chemistry
Description of rates of chemical reactions and interpretations thereof; principal theories of bimolecular and unimolecular processes; chain reactions; development of absolute reaction rate theory and application to a number of chemical systems; potential energy surfaces; includes heterogeneous kinetics, solution phenomena, isotopic effects, flow systems, empirical kinetic relations.
CHEM 435 Special Topics in Physical Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester. Some courses are NMR spectroscopy, photophysical processes, molecular spectroscopy, computational chemistry, molecular modeling, and spectroscopy of surfaces.
CHEM 436 Statistical Thermo Dynamics (3 Credit Hours)
Methods of classical and quantum statistical mechanics applied to thermodynamic problems; calculation of thermodynamic quantities from spectral data; properties of real gases; selected problems in the solid sate.
CHEM 437 Quantum Mechanics I (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: CHEM 302 or equivalent; strong courses in calculus and modern physical chemistry, and some knowledge of computer programming
A thorough introduction to elementary quantum chemistry: angular momentum, quantum mechanical operators, interaction of radiation with matter, the many-electron atom, introduction to matrix mechanics, approximate methods, SCF calculations, electronic structure of polyatomic molecules, recent molecular orbital calculations.
CHEM 438 Quantum Mechanics II (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: CHEM 437
This course is a continuation of CHEM 437, which is a thorough introduction to elementary quantum chemistry: angular momentum, quantum mechanical operators, interaction of radiation with matter, the many-electron atom, introduction to matrix mechanics, approximate methods, SCF calculations, electronic structure of polyatomic molecules, recent molecular orbital calculations.
CHEM 439 Research in Physical Chemistry (1-9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 441 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
The important topics in inorganic and organometallic chemistry are surveyed.
CHEM 445 Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester. Some courses are organometallic chemistry and catalysis, bioinorganic chemistry, physical methods in inorganic chemistry, inorganic reaction mechanisms, non-metal chemistry, transition metal clusters and X-ray crystallography.
CHEM 449 Research in Inorganic Chemistry (1-9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 451 Chemical Methods of Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Topics covered include the statistical evaluation of analytical results and sources of errors, sampling and significance of proper samples, optimization of experiments, review of acid-base theory, chelometry and its applications, theory of precipitation, oxidation and reduction reactions and applications.
CHEM 452 Electrochemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Fundamentals of electrochemistry, the application of electrochemical techniques and current literature.
CHEM 454 Analytical Separations (3 Credit Hours)
Topics include aspects of chromatography, partition, thin layer, gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy and other techniques.
CHEM 455 Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester. This course may involve a lab. Some courses are analytical absorption and emission spectroscopy, electroanalytical methods, environmental chemistry, lasers in analytical spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy.
CHEM 456 Analytical Spectroscopy (3 Credit Hours)
We will discuss photometric instrumentation, absorption, emission and fluorescence spectroscopy and types of analytical laser spectroscopy.
CHEM 459 Research in Analytical Chemistry (1-9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 460 Biophysical Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
This class will cover the role of molecular interactions in determining the structure and reactivity of complex biological molecules. Modern experimental techniques are used in studying these interactions in biological systems.
CHEM 461 Biochemistry (3 Credit Hours)
The conformation, dynamics and biological activities of macromolecules, generation and storage of metabolic energy, and genetic information and biosynthesis will be discussed.
CHEM 465 Special Topics in Biochemistry (3 Credit Hours)
Specific titles and contents vary from semester to semester. Some courses are protein chemistry, sequence and 3D structure, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, protein crystallography, bio-inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, molecular dynamics of proteins, and current developments in biochemistry and related areas.
CHEM 469 Research in Biochemistry (1-9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 470 Biochemistry I (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Completion of undergraduate organic chemistry
This is the first part of a two-semester Biochemistry series that emphasizes important biochemical concepts on the structure and function of proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids and cell membranes as well as on the bioenergetic and regulatory principles behind the central and carbohydrate pathways.
Students will be able to demonstrate and understanding of structural-functional relationships in biological molecules and how carbohydrates are metabolized
Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate and understanding of structural-functional relationships in biological molecules and how carbohydrates are metabolizedCHEM 479 Research in Chemical Education (1-9 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites or This course will count toward the research credits of those students seeking a Ph.D. degree with a focus on Chemical Education. It will examine the effects of numerous variables on the learning and teaching of chemical principles and skills.
Students will be able to: *describe the primary theoretical underpinnings of the chemical education research field; *describe and apply methods for preparing research data collected for publication; *describe and apply methods for analyzing chemical education research projects & manuscripts
Outcomes
Students will be able to: *describe the primary theoretical underpinnings of the chemical education research field; *describe and apply methods for preparing research data collected for publication; *describe and apply methods for analyzing chemical education research projects & manuscriptsCHEM 480 Chemistry for Teachers I (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on aspects specific to the teaching and learning of chemistry at post- secondary levels. Geared towards graduate students, undergraduate seniors, or current educators who plan on instructing college students, it explores principles surrounding how people learn chemistry and how to align pedagogies and environments to optimize learning opportunities for students. Course activities and assignments are designed to initiate the building of an instructional portfolio to prepare enrolled students for potential academic careers.
CHEM 491 Laboratory Investigations in Chemistry C (1 Credit Hour)
A course designed for high school science teachers to help construct and create chemistry laboratories for students in the context of urban high schools. Students must be enrolled in one of the SOE's M.Ed. in science ed cohorts.
Learning how to teach inquiry based science labs; learning how to create labs within the constraints of an urban school district
Outcomes
Learning how to teach inquiry based science labs; learning how to create labs within the constraints of an urban school districtCHEM 497 Organic and Bio Chemistry for Teachers (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Must be enrolled in M.Ed. in Chem Ed program
A course designed for urban high school teachers to enhance knowledge of chemistry and chemistry teachers.
Increased chemistry content knowledge, ability to teach inquiry based chemistry
Outcomes
Increased chemistry content knowledge, ability to teach inquiry based chemistryCHEM 500 Graduate Student Seminar (1 Credit Hour)
This gives students an opportunity to prepare and present a professional chemistry seminar for other professional chemists. The presenter is trained in organizing materials for the 500 Graduate Student Seminar (1)presentation and has the experience of conveying high level technical information to a friendly audience in preparation for subsequent professional presentations in the industrial, academic, and/or scientific meeting arena. The topics of the seminar should not be related to the student's research. The course should be taken at least once by all degree-seeking students.
CHEM 501 Directed Study (1-6 Credit Hours)
A special reading project is undertaken by qualified students and directed by a faculty member of the department with chairperson's approval.
CHEM 509 Doctoral Research (9 Credit Hours)
Laboratory. Specific content varies on consultation with a faculty sponsor.
CHEM 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
The course is for master's degree candidates after completion of course requirements.
CHEM 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
The course is for Ph.D. degree candidates after completion of courses, cumulative examinations, and research tool requirements.
CHEM 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course is for MS students in the (up to two) intervening semesters between completing coursework/research credits and beginning their thesis supervision.
CHEM 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course is for PhD students in the intervening two semesters (pre-candidacy) between completing coursework/research credits and beginning their dissertation supervision.
Latin (LATN)
LATN 415 The Latin Fathers (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the writings of the early church fathers such as Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, looking through them to the historical and intellectual background of Western patristic thought.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the texts, their authors, and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship of the field
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the texts, their authors, and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship of the fieldLATN 418 St Augustine (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected works of Augustine, set against the backdrop of Roman society and Mediterranean Christianity in the later Roman period.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about Augustine, his world, and his works; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Augustine's religious, intellectual, literary, social, and historical contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about Augustine, his world, and his works; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Augustine's religious, intellectual, literary, social, and historical contexts and influencesLATN 431 Caesar (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on Julius Caesar's Commentaries on his Gallic War and the Civil War against Pompey the Great. It examines the texts within multiple frameworks in order to understand the political, military, intellectual, and historical contexts of Caesar's writing.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Caesar, his texts, and contexts; Additionally, students should engage critically with scholarship relating to Caesar and his place in the world
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Caesar, his texts, and contexts; Additionally, students should engage critically with scholarship relating to Caesar and his place in the worldLATN 432 Livy (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on Livy's Ab Urbe Condita and the historical, intellectual, literary, and cultural contexts of this work. It considers Livy's place in Rome's historiographical tradition and the relationship of his work to the emerging imperial government.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Livy and his historical and cultural context; Additionally, students should engage critically with scholarship on Livy and his work
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Livy and his historical and cultural context; Additionally, students should engage critically with scholarship on Livy and his workLATN 435 The Annals of Tacitus (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the historical writings of Tacitus and the historical, intellectual, literary, and cultural contexts of their production. It considers Tacitus's place in the Roman historiographical tradition and the relationship of his work to the Roman imperial administration and socio-political systems of power.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Tacitus, his texts, and contexts; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Tacitus, his project, and his world
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Tacitus, his texts, and contexts; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Tacitus, his project, and his worldLATN 436 The Histories of Tacitus (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the historical writings of Tacitus and the historical, intellectual, literary, and cultural contexts of their production. It considers Tacitus's place in the Roman historiographical tradition and the relationship of his work to the Roman imperial administration and socio-political systems of power.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Tacitus, his texts, and contexts; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Tacitus, his project, and his world
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Tacitus, his texts, and contexts; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Tacitus, his project, and his worldLATN 438 Suetonius (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on Suetonius's Lives and the historical, intellectual, literary, and cultural contexts of his writing. It examines the genre of biography in the ancient historiographical tradition and explores Suetonius's depiction of the Roman Emperors as both biographical and literary creations.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Suetonius and his historical and cultural context; They should engage critically with current scholarship on Suetonius, his project, and his milieu
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Suetonius and his historical and cultural context; They should engage critically with current scholarship on Suetonius, his project, and his milieuLATN 441 The Aeneid of Virgil (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Vergil's Aeneid. It examines the poem's place in the tradition of Latin epic poetry with attention to Vergil's literary technique. It explores the poem's participation in and resistance to the Augustan imperial political program. It will touch on the enduring influence of the poem.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Vergil and the Aeneid; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Vergil's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Vergil and the Aeneid; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Vergil's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influencesLATN 442 Earlier Works of Virgil (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Vergil's Eclogues and/or Georgics. It examines the genre(s) of bucolic and/or didactic poetry, focusing on Vergil's developing technique, especially his commitment to Alexandrian and Neoteric principles. It will explore how these poems respond to the uncertainty of the political moment and emergence of Imperial rule.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Vergil and his early poems; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Vergil's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Vergil and his early poems; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Vergil's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influencesLATN 443 Catullus (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Catullus, the literary genres and traditions in which he worked, and the particular moment of late-Republican neoteric poetry. It considers Catullus' importance as an innovator in Latin poetry, his place in the social fabric of aristocratic Roman culture and how his poetry reflects that culture.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Catullus' works, literary technique, and world; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Catullus' historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Catullus' works, literary technique, and world; They should engage critically with scholarship relating to Catullus' historical, social, literary, and intellectual contextsLATN 444 Roman Elegy (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on Latin elegiac poetry through selections from Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and/or Ovid. The course explores elegy as a peculiarly Roman literary tradition linked closely to the Late Republic and Early Empire. It examines the recurrent themes and techniques of Latin Elegy.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Latin elegy; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with the historical, social, intellectual, and literary contexts of this genre
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Latin elegy; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with the historical, social, intellectual, and literary contexts of this genreLATN 445 Ovid (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on the poetry of Ovid, the genres in which he wrote, and the cultural, social, and historical contexts in which he worked. It explores Ovid's role as both a continuator and innovator within the Roman literary tradition and how his poetry responds to his socio-political moment.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Ovid and his work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Ovid's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Ovid and his work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with Ovid's social, cultural, and literary contexts and influencesLATN 446 The Odes of Horace (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on the Odes of Horace, their relationship with traditions of lyric poetry and Roman Alexandrianism, and the cultural, social, and historical contexts to which Horace responded. The course examines Horace's poetic technique and his engagement with the emerging Augustan imperial regime.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Horace's Odes and their place in Roman poetry; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Horace's work and various contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Horace's Odes and their place in Roman poetry; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Horace's work and various contextsLATN 451 Roman Comedy (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on Roman comedy, including selected plays of Plautus and/or Terence. It examines the place of these works in the traditions of New Comedy more generally, exploring how they are produced in Latin as theater in the context of Roman Republican society.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors, the comedies, and their traditions; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing the plays multiple contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors, the comedies, and their traditions; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing the plays multiple contexts and influencesLATN 455 Tragedies of Seneca (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected tragedies of Seneca. It examines these works in light of the traditions of ancient tragic drama and Latin literature more generally. It also explores the connection of these plays to Seneca's Stoic philosophy and the imperial regimes of Claudius and Nero.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Seneca's tragedies; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Seneca's literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Seneca's tragedies; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Seneca's literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical contexts and influencesLATN 461 Lucretius (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius. It examines Lucretius' literary technique and his place in the Roman tradition of hexametric poetry. It also explores Lucretius as a major exponent of Epicurean philosophy and the scientific world view of that philosophical tradition.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Lucretius' work and its significance; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Lucretius' literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of Lucretius' work and its significance; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing Lucretius' literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical contexts and influencesLATN 462 Philosophy of Cicero (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the philosophical works of Cicero and the Roman reception of Greek philosophical thought. It explores Cicero's role as a conduit into the Roman world for Greek ideas, including his contribution to the establishment of a philosophical vocabulary, and the enduring influence of his work.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of individual works and Cicero's greater project; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing the various contexts and influences of Cicero's treatises
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of individual works and Cicero's greater project; They should engage critically with scholarship addressing the various contexts and influences of Cicero's treatisesLATN 488 Readings in Latin Literature I (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers extensive and in-depth study of selected works of ancient Roman literature. The course includes consideration of these works in their social, historical, and literary contexts-that is, both as part of a tradition and as responses to particular moments in Roman social history.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contextsLATN 489 Readings in Latin Literature II (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers extensive and in-depth study of selected works of ancient Roman literature. The course includes consideration of these works in their social, historical, and literary contexts-that is, both as part of a tradition and as responses to particular moments in Roman social history.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contextsLATN 499 Directed Study (3 Credit Hours)
This course frames extensive and in-depth study of a selected author or topic involving Latin language or literature written in Latin, for graduate students to pursue under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
Students will engage with current scholarship in the field of the investigation, and will demonstrate significant learning
Outcomes
Students will engage with current scholarship in the field of the investigation, and will demonstrate significant learningLATN 546 Seminar in Roman Satire (3 Credit Hours)
This course investigates Roman verse satire and its traditions through selections from Horace, Persius, and/or Juvenal, considered in their social, historical, and literary contexts. The Romans claimed satire as the one truly Roman genre: this course will explore the key themes and techniques animating the genre and its tradition. They should engage critically with scholarship concerned with the historical, social, intellectual, and literary contexts of this genre.
Students should demonstrate detailed understating about Roman Satire
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understating about Roman SatireGreek
GREK 412 Readings in Hellenistic Authors (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on works in Greek of the Hellenistic period, particularly at the intellectual center of Alexandria.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the authors, works, and literary enterprise pursued; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to them
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the authors, works, and literary enterprise pursued; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to themGREK 415 The Greek Fathers (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on the writings of the early church fathers such as Athanasius, Basil, and John Chrysostom, through which it looks to the historical background of Eastern patristic thought.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the writings, their authors and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, cultural, theological, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to them
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the writings, their authors and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, cultural, theological, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to themGREK 425 The Attic Orators (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the works of Attic orators such as Antiphon, Lysias, and Demosthenes, amid the political and historical context of later Classical Athens.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the genre, the authors and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, political, legal, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to them
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the genre, the authors and their times; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with the authors and works and with the historical, social, political, legal, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to themGREK 431 Herodotus (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the Histories of Herodotus, the events about which he writes, and the intellectual, social, literary, and historical contexts in which his work was produced.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the work, its author, and its historical and political contexts and significances; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to Herodotus, his project, and his milieu
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the work, its author, and its historical and political contexts and significances; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to Herodotus, his project, and his milieuGREK 435 Thucydides (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the events about which he writes, and the intellectual, social, literary, and historical contexts in which his work was produced.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the work, its author, and its historical and political contexts and significances; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to Thucydides, his project, and his milieu
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail of the work, its author, and its historical and political contexts and significances; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to Thucydides, his project, and his milieuGREK 441 The Iliad (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Homer's Iliad, the ancient Greek genre of epic poetry, and the importance of this mythology and this literary form for ancient Greek society and thought ever after.
Students should demonstrate detailed knowledge of the author, the poem, its contents, and their meanings; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to the poem, its transmission, and the accomplishment of its composition
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed knowledge of the author, the poem, its contents, and their meanings; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to the poem, its transmission, and the accomplishment of its compositionGREK 442 The Odyssey (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Homer's Odyssey, the ancient Greek genre of epic poetry, and the importance of this mythology and this literary form for ancient Greek society and thought ever after.
Students should demonstrate detailed knowledge of the author, the poem, its contents, and their meanings; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to the poem, its transmission, and the accomplishment of its composition
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed knowledge of the author, the poem, its contents, and their meanings; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to the poem, its transmission, and the accomplishment of its compositionGREK 443 Pindar (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on Pindar and on ancient Greek lyric poetry more generally, potentially including consideration of additional authors such as Archilochus, Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the authors, their works, and ancient lyric; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to ancient lyric's historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the authors, their works, and ancient lyric; They should engage critically with current scholarship relating to ancient lyric's historical, social, literary, and intellectual contextsGREK 451 Greek Comedy (3 Credit Hours)
This course may focus on the comedic poetry of Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of Athens in the late fifth century B.C.E., or consider the development of New Comedy from Old in the more broadly cosmopolitan Hellenistic world.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about authors, plays, and the comedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek comedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about authors, plays, and the comedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek comedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influencesGREK 453 Aeschylus (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected tragedies of Aeschylus, set against the backdrop of fifth century B.C.E. Athens.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influencesGREK 454 Sophocles (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected tragedies of Sophocles, set against the backdrop of fifth century B.C.E. Athens.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influencesGREK 455 Euripides (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected tragedies of Euripides, set against the backdrop of fifth century B.C.E. Athens.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author, his plays, and the tragedic forms; They should engage with current scholarship addressing Greek tragedy's historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influencesGREK 462 Plato (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on translation, evaluation and interpretation of selections from Plato's Republic and/or other philosophical dialogues.
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author and his work; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with Platonic thought and the historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to it
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge in detail about the author and his work; They should engage critically with current scholarship concerned with Platonic thought and the historical, social, and intellectual contexts and influences pertaining to itGREK 473 New Testament Language (3 Credit Hours)
This course centers on study of the language and literary expression of selections from the New Testament.
Students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the texts; They should engage critically with current scholarship exploring the linguistic, historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts of the New Testament
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the texts; They should engage critically with current scholarship exploring the linguistic, historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts of the New TestamentGREK 488 Readings in Greek Literature I (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers extensive and in-depth study of selected works of ancient Greek literature. The course includes consideration of these works in their social, historical, and literary contexts-that is, both as part of a tradition and as responses to particular moments of Greek societies in history.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contextsGREK 489 Readings in Greek Lit II (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers extensive and in-depth study of selected works of ancient Greek literature. The course includes consideration of these works in their social, historical, and literary contexts-that is, both as part of a tradition and as responses to particular moments of Greek societies in history.
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contexts
Outcomes
Students should demonstrate detailed understanding of the authors studied and their work; They should engage critically with scholarship concerning each author/work and their various contextsGREK 499 Directed Study (3 Credit Hours)
This course frames extensive and in-depth study of a selected author or topic involving ancient Greek language or literature, for graduate students to pursue under the direction of a faculty member of the department.
Students will engage with current scholarship in the field of the investigation, and will demonstrate significant learning
Outcomes
Students will engage with current scholarship in the field of the investigation, and will demonstrate significant learningComputer Science (COMP)
COMP 400A Object-Oriented Programming (3 Credit Hours)
This programming intensive course with its weekly lab component provides an exploration in problem solving for graduate-level courses, using object-oriented programming in a language such as Java.
To analyze and decompose problems, specify algorithms, and construct solutions by synthesizing classes, objects and other components of object
Outcomes
To analyze and decompose problems, specify algorithms, and construct solutions by synthesizing classes, objects and other components of objectCOMP 400B Data Structures I (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 400A
This course explores introductory data structures including array lists, linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees, and hash tables. Efficiency of data structure operations is analyzed. Recursion, applications of data structures, and simple analysis of algorithms are covered. Students will be able to select appropriate data structures to integrate into algorithms to solve computational problems.
Students describe linear data structures and analyze the performance of their operations
Outcomes
Students describe linear data structures and analyze the performance of their operationsCOMP 400C Data Structures II (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores advanced abstract data types in depth, such as sets, maps, and graphs, and reproduces their implementation using arrays and dynamically allocated nodes in an object-oriented language. The course also analyzes the performance of the data structures' built-in operations and related algorithms such as sorting, searching, and traversing.
Students describe non-linear data structures and analyze the runtime performance of their operations, solve computational problems by synthesizing and integrating suitable data structures, and implement algorithms within the object-oriented paradigm
Outcomes
Students describe non-linear data structures and analyze the runtime performance of their operations, solve computational problems by synthesizing and integrating suitable data structures, and implement algorithms within the object-oriented paradigmCOMP 400D Computing Tools and Techniques (1 Credit Hour)
This course introduces students to the Unix shell environment and essential tools.
Students who complete this course will develop fluency in the Unix (Linux) environment
Outcomes
Students who complete this course will develop fluency in the Unix (Linux) environmentCOMP 400E Discrete Structures (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides the mathematical foundations for graduate-level study in computer science, including such topics as complexity of algorithms, modular arithmetic, induction and proof techniques, graph theory, combinatorics, Boolean algebra, logic circuits, and automata.
To analyze properties of functions, relations, graphs, trees, paths; evaluate Boolean Expressions; apply induction towards proving correctness of algorithm and classifying resource usage; synthesize finite-state machines and logic circuits
Outcomes
To analyze properties of functions, relations, graphs, trees, paths; evaluate Boolean Expressions; apply induction towards proving correctness of algorithm and classifying resource usage; synthesize finite-state machines and logic circuitsCOMP 401 Computer Security (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 170 or instructor permission
This is a foundations course on computer security, covering a comprehensive range of concepts and technologies, including security goals, encryption, penetration testing, software exploitation, reverse engineering, packet sniffing, and secure coding. The final project requires a presentation and technical report where the students will show and describe what they accomplished.
Students will find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer and network systems; articulate cryptography and security goals, and synthesize the knowledge of different tools and techniques by applying them to an intensive real-world project
Outcomes
Students will find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer and network systems; articulate cryptography and security goals, and synthesize the knowledge of different tools and techniques by applying them to an intensive real-world projectCOMP 403 Operations Management (3 Credit Hours)
Application of concepts and methods for managing production and service operation. Topics include demand forecasting, aggregate and capacity planning, inventory management, facility layout and location, just-in-time, managing quality, project planning, resource allocation, logistics. Emphasis on decision support
Understanding of the role of operations management in organizations, and applying models of production and operations management to decision making
Outcomes
Understanding of the role of operations management in organizations, and applying models of production and operations management to decision makingCOMP 404 Organizational Development (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the manager's role in leading Organization Development and Change to maximize organization and individual effectiveness with a focus on Information Technology. The class explores Organization Development and Change theory, change practices, and discusses considerations a manager will face as a change agent in today's computing ecosystem.
To understand the dynamics of change in organizations; learn techniques and strategies in managing change; develop skills that will enable a change agent mentality within the context of IT leadership
Outcomes
To understand the dynamics of change in organizations; learn techniques and strategies in managing change; develop skills that will enable a change agent mentality within the context of IT leadershipCOMP 405 Database Administration (3 Credit Hours)
Knowledge of the configuration and management skills needed for successful administration of a database server. The database administrator manages hardware, backup, security, tables and indexes, performance monitoring, query performance and optimization, and transaction performance. This course takes a user through the stages of maximizing the performance of a database server.
Students will learn how to manage database performance, including topics such as the query optimizer, SQL EXPLAIN, table statistics, concurrency and transaction isolation levels, and security
Outcomes
Students will learn how to manage database performance, including topics such as the query optimizer, SQL EXPLAIN, table statistics, concurrency and transaction isolation levels, and securityCOMP 406 Data Mining (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers theory and practice of the analysis (mining) of extremely large datasets. With data growing at exponential rates knowledge gathering and exploration techniques are essential for gaining useful intelligence.
Students will be able to define and critically analyze data mining approaches for fields such as security, healthcare, science and marketing
Outcomes
Students will be able to define and critically analyze data mining approaches for fields such as security, healthcare, science and marketingCOMP 409 Advanced Numerical Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to advanced numerical analysis. Introduction to error analysis, numerical solution of equations, interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, matrices, and solution of systems of equations, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP409/MATH409
Students will have an understanding of advanced numerical analysis and its applications
Outcomes
Students will have an understanding of advanced numerical analysis and its applicationsCOMP 410 Operating Systems (3 Credit Hours)
The course introduces advanced operating system concepts including distributed, real-time and multi-threaded in addition to reviewing memory management, files, and processes.
Students will learn important topics in advanced operating systems and be able to make presentations on the topics
Outcomes
Students will learn important topics in advanced operating systems and be able to make presentations on the topicsCOMP 412 Open Source Computing (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course will cover the fundamentals of Free and Open Source software development. Topics to be addressed include licensing, Linux, typical software development tools, applications, and techniques for managing remote servers.
Students will learn to implement projects involving free and open-source software and learn how to participate in open-source projects effectively
Outcomes
Students will learn to implement projects involving free and open-source software and learn how to participate in open-source projects effectivelyCOMP 413 Intermediate Object-Oriented Development (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
Principles of object-oriented design and implementation, including object modeling (UML or equivalent), interface design, refactoring and test-driven development. Study of design patterns, including Adaptor, Decorator, Iterator, Abstract Factory, etc. Coverage of implementation tools including IDEs, source-code control and testing.
Use of interfaces in design; ability to recognize applications for design patterns, ability to refactor when necessary; ability to make effective use of test-driven development
Outcomes
Use of interfaces in design; ability to recognize applications for design patterns, ability to refactor when necessary; ability to make effective use of test-driven developmentCOMP 417 Social and Ethical Issues in Computing (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers social, legal, and ethical issues commonly arising in key areas related to computing technologies.
Understanding of laws and issues in areas such as privacy, encryption, freedom of speech, copyrights and patents, computer crime, and computer/software reliability and safety; understanding of philosophical perspectives such as utilitarianism versus deontological ethics and basics of the U.S. legal system
Outcomes
Understanding of laws and issues in areas such as privacy, encryption, freedom of speech, copyrights and patents, computer crime, and computer/software reliability and safety; understanding of philosophical perspectives such as utilitarianism versus deontological ethics and basics of the U.S. legal systemCOMP 418 Combinatorial Mathematics (3 Credit Hours)
The course covers basic combinatorial theory including permutations and combinations, the inclusion-exclusion principle and other general counting techniques, partitions, generating functions, recurrence relations, Burnside's Theorem, the cycle index, and Polya's formula.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP418/MATH418
Students will learn mathematical techniques in discrete mathematics and applied combinatorics
Outcomes
Students will learn mathematical techniques in discrete mathematics and applied combinatoricsCOMP 420 Software Systems Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course uses Unified Modeling Language and similar notation to model the early software analysis and design phases, from collection of user requirements to determination of class needs through object-oriented design.
Students will be able to capture business requirements in a software modeling document, and determine appropriate object-oriented classes suitable for final project implementation
Outcomes
Students will be able to capture business requirements in a software modeling document, and determine appropriate object-oriented classes suitable for final project implementationCOMP 421 Math Models & Simulation (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers tools for analyzing problems that are mathematically difficult. Discrete event simulation techniques and software tools for simulating processes are covered.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP421/MATH421/STAT421
Student will learn foundations of discrete event simulation
Outcomes
Student will learn foundations of discrete event simulationCOMP 422 Software Development for Wireless and Mobile Devices (3 Credit Hours)
This course will focus on the methods, tools, and technologies for developing software applications for wireless and mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDA) and smart mobile phones.
Students will learn user interface design for small screens, programming techniques for devices with limited memory and processing power, data synchronization for mobile databases, and wireless network programming
Outcomes
Students will learn user interface design for small screens, programming techniques for devices with limited memory and processing power, data synchronization for mobile databases, and wireless network programmingCOMP 424 Client-Side Web Design (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course provides an in-depth study of the concepts and methods required for the design and implementation of the presentation layer of a web application. Coursework includes several substantial programming projects.
Students will learn markup of static and dynamic content, content transformation, client-side executable content including client-side scripting and embedded applets, and web-based content management systems
Outcomes
Students will learn markup of static and dynamic content, content transformation, client-side executable content including client-side scripting and embedded applets, and web-based content management systemsCOMP 425 Rapid Applications Development (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course will teach students how to design Rapid Application Development using an integrated development environment such as the .NET framework and methodology. It is designed to support object-oriented programming concepts.
Students will create database applications and web applications using server-side technologies
Outcomes
Students will create database applications and web applications using server-side technologiesCOMP 428 Algebraic Coding Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: MATH 212 or Permission
In this course, major types of error-correcting codes, encoding and decoding , and their main properties will be studied. The codes examined will include the Hamming, Golay, BCH, cyclic, quadratic residue, Reed-Solomon, and Reed-Muller codes.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP428/MATH428
Students will learn both the theory and application of error-correcting codes
Outcomes
Students will learn both the theory and application of error-correcting codesCOMP 429 Natural Language Processing (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: (COMP 231 OR (COMP 271 or COMP 402)) AND (MATH 131 OR 161) and (STAT 103 OR STAT 203 OR ISSCM 241 OR PSYC 304 OR instructor permission)
In this course, students examine in depth the problems, methods, and applications of NLP. Topics will include information retrieval, sentiment analysis, machine translation, document classification, and question answering. We will also cover the underlying theory from probability, statistics, and machine learning that are crucial for the field.
Students will explain areas of NLP such as information retrieval, sentiment analysis, machine translation, document classification, question answering; Students will apply tools of NLP to a domain of their choice
Outcomes
Students will explain areas of NLP such as information retrieval, sentiment analysis, machine translation, document classification, question answering; Students will apply tools of NLP to a domain of their choiceCOMP 431 Cryptography (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces the formal foundations of cryptography and also investigates some well-known standards and protocols, including private and public key cryptosystems, hashing, digital signatures, RSA, DSS, PGP, and related topics.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP431/MATH431
Students will gain an understanding of cryptosystems widely used to protect data security on the internet, and be able to apply the ideas in new situations as needed
Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of cryptosystems widely used to protect data security on the internet, and be able to apply the ideas in new situations as neededCOMP 433 Web Services Programming (3 Credit Hours)
Web services are Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling clients. This course provides the APIs and tools you need to create and deploy interoperable Web services and clients using .NET and Java WSDP.
Students will learn the standards and protocols for deploying web services
Outcomes
Students will learn the standards and protocols for deploying web servicesCOMP 434 Enterprise Software Development (3 Credit Hours)
The course shows how to use Enterprise JavaBeans to develop scalable, portable business systems. The technologies taught in the course include: component models, distributed objects, asynchronous messaging, and component transaction monitors.
Students will learn the architecture of EJB, entity and message and session beans
Outcomes
Students will learn the architecture of EJB, entity and message and session beansCOMP 436 Markup Languages (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course is concerned with XML and its various component frameworks. The core frameworks to be covered include Document Object Model (DOM), Simple API for XML processing (SAX), the XML Path language (XPath), and XSLT.
After taking this course, students will have working knowledge of XML and its connections to other ideas such as HTML, object models, relational databases, and network services
Outcomes
After taking this course, students will have working knowledge of XML and its connections to other ideas such as HTML, object models, relational databases, and network servicesCOMP 437 Intro Concurrent Programming (3 Credit Hours)
Many real-world software systems rely on concurrency for performance and modularity. This programming-intensive course covers analysis, design, implementation, and testing of concurrent software systems.
An in-depth understanding of event-based and thread-based views of concurrency; the ability to develop concurrent software components using suitable languages, frameworks, and design patterns; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven development
Outcomes
An in-depth understanding of event-based and thread-based views of concurrency; the ability to develop concurrent software components using suitable languages, frameworks, and design patterns; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven developmentCOMP 439 Distributed Systems (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents a modern discussion of distributed computing systems. Distributed computation, interactive services, collaborative computing, peer-to-peer sharing, and grid/utility computing are just a handful of distributed technologies that go beyond the capabilities of the traditional client/server model by allowing a collection of computers to be leveraged as a collective resource.
Students will learn design and implementation, scalability of performance, reliability, and security of loosely interconnected systems
Outcomes
Students will learn design and implementation, scalability of performance, reliability, and security of loosely interconnected systemsCOMP 440 Computer Forensics Investigations (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces the fundamentals of computer/network/internet forensics, analysis and investigations.
The student will learn computer software and hardware relevant for analysis, and investigative and evidence-gathering protocols
Outcomes
The student will learn computer software and hardware relevant for analysis, and investigative and evidence-gathering protocolsCOMP 441 Human-Computer Interaction (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course studies the interaction between humans and computer-based systems. The course will provide students with the methods for evaluating, designing, and developing better interfaces between humans and systems.
Students will acquire an awareness of different design and evaluation methods as well as practical, effective, and cost-conscience methods for improving systems and their interfaces
Outcomes
Students will acquire an awareness of different design and evaluation methods as well as practical, effective, and cost-conscience methods for improving systems and their interfacesCOMP 442 Server-Side Software Development (3 Credit Hours)
Server-based web applications and services have become part of everyday life. This programming-intensive course covers analysis, design, implementation, and testing of multi-tiered server-based software systems along with typical tier-specific and technologies.
An understanding of software architecture and integration in the development of multi-tiered server-based software; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven development
Outcomes
An understanding of software architecture and integration in the development of multi-tiered server-based software; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven developmentCOMP 443 Computer Networks (3 Credit Hours)
This course surveys packet-switched computer networks and attendant communication protocols, using the TCP/IP protocol suite on which the Internet is based as the primary model. We will also study general high-level network issues such as security, authentication, fault tolerance, and congestion.
Students will understand how the Internet is constructed, how data is routed to its destination, how connections are made, how congestion is handled, and how security can be addressed
Outcomes
Students will understand how the Internet is constructed, how data is routed to its destination, how connections are made, how congestion is handled, and how security can be addressedCOMP 445 Internet of Things Device and Application Security (3 Credit Hours)
This course considers the safety, security, reliability, and privacy concerns of the embedded devices and cloud-based resources of the Internet of things. The course discusses methods for addressing these concerns.
Design/implement secure software for embedded systems and the IoT; Establish safety, security, reliability, privacy goals for IoT-based systems; Understand security and privacy concerns of embedded systems and the IoT
Outcomes
Design/implement secure software for embedded systems and the IoT; Establish safety, security, reliability, privacy goals for IoT-based systems; Understand security and privacy concerns of embedded systems and the IoTCOMP 446 Telecommunications (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of telecommunication networks. Underlying engineering principles of telephone networks, computer networks and integrated digital networks are discussed.
Students will learn how telephone and data networks work; They will also learn voice networks, analog versus digital transmission, data link protocols, SONET, ATM, cellular phone systems, and the architecture of the current telephone system
Outcomes
Students will learn how telephone and data networks work; They will also learn voice networks, analog versus digital transmission, data link protocols, SONET, ATM, cellular phone systems, and the architecture of the current telephone systemCOMP 447 Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre- or co-requisites: COMP 271
This course will cover techniques for detecting the unusual usage patterns that typically signal a break-in. The course will also consider differences in detection of local intruders versus intrusion over networks. Finally issues in the prosecution of those breaking in to computers, particularly evidentiary issues are explored.
Students will learn to configure ID systems (eg, snort) and analyze their output; They will also understand both network-based and host-based monitoring techniques
Outcomes
Students will learn to configure ID systems (eg, snort) and analyze their output; They will also understand both network-based and host-based monitoring techniquesCOMP 448 Network Security (3 Credit Hours)
This course will involve a discussion of the methods and tactics used to keep attackers at bay as well as the mechanisms by which we can identify and potentially stop potential intruders. The course covers topics such as Encryption, authentication, firewalls, NAT/PAT, restricted access policies, intrusion detection and other security frameworks.
Students will gain an understanding of how to secure computers and network environments
Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of how to secure computers and network environmentsCOMP 449 Wireless Networking and Security (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
This course will explore the wireless standards, authentication issues, common configuration models for commercial versus institution installs and analyze the security concerns associated with this ad-hoc method of networking.
Students will gain an understanding of wireless networking, protocols, and standards and security issues
Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of wireless networking, protocols, and standards and security issuesCOMP 451 Enterprise Networking (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 271
Management of complex, high-speed, heterogeneous computer networks. Device management using SNMP and related protocols. Configuration and use of Network Management Systems. Data-flow management using LARTC and similar tools.
Ability to interpret SNMP network data, ability to implement a Network Management System and use it to identify bottlenecks, familiarity with traffic-control principles and mechanisms
Outcomes
Ability to interpret SNMP network data, ability to implement a Network Management System and use it to identify bottlenecks, familiarity with traffic-control principles and mechanismsCOMP 452 Introduction to Computer Vulnerabilities (3 Credit Hours)
This course will introduce students to computer vulnerabilities at the machine-code level, including viruses, browser vulnerabilities, buffer and heap overflows, return-to-libc attacks and others.
Describe some recent computer software vulnerabilities; Describe how vulnerabilities can be leveraged into an attack; Describe a vulnerability or attack at the machine-code level
Outcomes
Describe some recent computer software vulnerabilities; Describe how vulnerabilities can be leveraged into an attack; Describe a vulnerability or attack at the machine-code levelCOMP 453 Database Programming (3 Credit Hours)
This course will cover advanced concepts in database access and programming including SQL, JDBC, SQLJ, JSP and servlets. Oracle 10g is used for projects.
Students will learn application development using the latest software tools; Students will also learn techniques for web based data retrieval and manipulation
Outcomes
Students will learn application development using the latest software tools; Students will also learn techniques for web based data retrieval and manipulationCOMP 458 Big Data Analytics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: At least a C in the following courses (COMP 405 or COMP 453) AND (COMP 406 or COMP 479 or STAT 338 or STAT 408)
In this course, large data sets will be leveraged to solve challenging analytics problems. With more samples, analytics can use more complex learning models to automate more feature combinations for more robust model tuning, selection, and validation. Parallel, distributed processing will be performed with Apache Spark and Hadoop.
Python or R will be used with parallel frameworks to perform proper model selection when testing large combinations of features, models, hyperparameters, and ensembles, with additional emphasis on deep learning
Outcomes
Python or R will be used with parallel frameworks to perform proper model selection when testing large combinations of features, models, hyperparameters, and ensembles, with additional emphasis on deep learningCOMP 460 Algorithms & Complexity (3 Credit Hours)
This course will focus both on presenting general techniques for designing correct and efficient algorithms, as well as on formal methods for proving the correctness and analyzing the complexity of such algorithms.
Students learn: the ability to design and analyze efficient algorithms; understanding of the necessary models and mathematical tools; understanding of a variety of useful data structures and fundamental algorithms; exposure to the classification of computational problems into different complexity classes
Outcomes
Students learn: the ability to design and analyze efficient algorithms; understanding of the necessary models and mathematical tools; understanding of a variety of useful data structures and fundamental algorithms; exposure to the classification of computational problems into different complexity classesCOMP 462 Advanced Computer Architecture (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents key principles underlying the design of modern digital computers. The course introduces quantitative techniques used to guide the design process. It describes CPU performance issues and introduces instruction set architectures. The course then uses a hypothetical computer design, with a simple RISC architecture, to show how modern digital computers are implemented, first using a simple non-pipelined implementation, followed by a higher-performance pipelined implementation.
Students gain an understanding of the design of the memory hierarchy in modern digital computers, caching and virtual storage techniques, multiprocessor systems, and distributed shared memory systems
Outcomes
Students gain an understanding of the design of the memory hierarchy in modern digital computers, caching and virtual storage techniques, multiprocessor systems, and distributed shared memory systemsCOMP 464 High-Performance Computing (3 Credit Hours)
This course will use a blend of foundational understanding as well as a set of practical tools to gain insight into performance engineering of software. The course introduces techniques to gain performance boost in Java programs and C++ (or C) programs by discussing the use of multiple processors.
Students will learn shared memory, message passing and hybrid models of programming in both tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled computer systems
Outcomes
Students will learn shared memory, message passing and hybrid models of programming in both tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled computer systemsCOMP 468 Database System Design (3 Credit Hours)
The course covers both relational and object databases. Issues of physical storage and use of indexes as well as optimization of queries are discussed. The course also covers transaction processing, concurrency, data warehousing, data mining, and distributed databases.
Students learn the theory and practice of advanced database design and implementation; They will also gain an understanding of using commercial database environments such as Oracle
Outcomes
Students learn the theory and practice of advanced database design and implementation; They will also gain an understanding of using commercial database environments such as OracleCOMP 469 Physical Design and Fabrication (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores how things are made, including: physical design vs. design on non-physical things; rapid prototyping; 3D printing; 2D conceptualization and sketching; modeling.
Student will be able to: Visualize ideas via sketching basic shapes; Create 3D models using 3D modeling software; Use a 3D Printer; Give constructive feedback in peer review sessions
Outcomes
Student will be able to: Visualize ideas via sketching basic shapes; Create 3D models using 3D modeling software; Use a 3D Printer; Give constructive feedback in peer review sessionsCOMP 470 Software Quality and Testing (3 Credit Hours)
In this programming intensive course, students will learn effective automation, testing, and use of software metrics through the practices of Test Driven Development and Continuous Deployment.
Students will be able to perform rigorous testing techniques that contribute to operational reliability, and identify programming practices that both contribute to software maintainability and help to avoid errors
Outcomes
Students will be able to perform rigorous testing techniques that contribute to operational reliability, and identify programming practices that both contribute to software maintainability and help to avoid errorsCOMP 471 Theory of Programming Languages (3 Credit Hours)
There are over two thousand programming languages. This course studies several languages that represent the much smaller number of underlying principles and paradigms.
COMP 472 Compiler Construction (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers the basics of writing a compiler to translate from a simple high-level language to machine code. Topics include lexical analysis, top-down and LR parsing, syntax-directed translation, and code generation and optimization. Students will write a small compiler.
Students will learn the theory and practice of how to build a compiler
Outcomes
Students will learn the theory and practice of how to build a compilerCOMP 473 Advanced Object Oriented Programming (3 Credit Hours)
Object-orientation continues to be a dominant approach to software development. This advanced programming-intensive course studies object-oriented analysis, design, and implementation from a design patterns perspective.
Proficiency in the use of object-oriented languages, frameworks, and patterns; advanced understanding of key language mechanisms such as delegation, inheritance, polymorphism, and reflection; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven development
Outcomes
Proficiency in the use of object-oriented languages, frameworks, and patterns; advanced understanding of key language mechanisms such as delegation, inheritance, polymorphism, and reflection; familiarity with object-oriented modeling and development tools and test-driven developmentCOMP 474 Software Engineering (3 Credit Hours)
The course discusses real-world theory and techniques organizations use to create high-quality software on time. Students work on a large programming team to create plans, review progress, measure quality, and make written and oral analyses of their project.
Students will experience process based development, understand the dynamics of a professional software organization, and develop skills for implementing software with others
Outcomes
Students will experience process based development, understand the dynamics of a professional software organization, and develop skills for implementing software with othersCOMP 476 Automata & Formal Languages (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces formal language theory, including such topics as finite automata and regular expressions, pushdown automata and context-free grammars, Turing machines, undecidability, and the halting problem.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP476/MATH476
An understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of computability and complexity in computer science
Outcomes
An understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of computability and complexity in computer scienceCOMP 477 IT Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of project management. The course involves a student group project to investigate and plan a 'real world' IT project that specifies project objectives, schedules, work breakdown structure, and responsibilities, an written interim report, and a final oral and written report.
Students will learn time management, work-flow management, and team dynamics to design, implement and test large-scale software projects
Outcomes
Students will learn time management, work-flow management, and team dynamics to design, implement and test large-scale software projectsCOMP 479 Machine Learning (3 Credit Hours)
Topics include a wide variety of supervised learning methods, both regression and classification, with an emphasis on those that perform well on large feature sets.
Students in this course will learn how to apply sophisticated algorithms to large data sets to make inferences for prediction or decision making
Outcomes
Students in this course will learn how to apply sophisticated algorithms to large data sets to make inferences for prediction or decision makingCOMP 480 Computer Graphics (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces advanced topics in modern theory and practices in 3-D computer graphics, stressing real-time interactive applications using libraries like OpenGL.
Student will learn how to program real-time interactive applications using libraries like OpenGL
Outcomes
Student will learn how to program real-time interactive applications using libraries like OpenGLCOMP 483 Computational Biology (4 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: BIOL 488
This course presents an algorithmic focus to problems in computational Biology. As such it is built on earlier courses on algorithms and bioinformatics. Current algorithmic approaches, software tools, and scientific literature are discussed.
Students will learn, in detail, foundational methods and algorithms in bioinformatics
Outcomes
Students will learn, in detail, foundational methods and algorithms in bioinformaticsCOMP 484 Artificial Intelligence (3 Credit Hours)
This course advanced artificial intelligence concepts including theory, search techniques and programming.
Student will learn the theory of artificial intelligence, search techniques, and be able to build small applications based on it
Outcomes
Student will learn the theory of artificial intelligence, search techniques, and be able to build small applications based on itCOMP 486 Computational Neuroscience (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces computational methods to understand neural processing in the brain. Levels of representation from low-level, temporally precise neural circuits to systems-level rate-encoded models, to information-theoretic approaches. Emphasis on sensory systems, primarily vision and audition, most readily demonstrating the need for such computational techniques.
Students will be able to adeptly apply mathematical and computational frameworks in the various domains of neuroscience
Outcomes
Students will be able to adeptly apply mathematical and computational frameworks in the various domains of neuroscienceCOMP 487 Deep Learning (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 479
Deep learning is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks. This course will include key concepts of neural network algorithms as well as their applications in computer vision and natural language processing.
Students will analyze popular modern neural architectures such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks, design and evaluate their own neural networks, and apply neural network models to a practical task
Outcomes
Students will analyze popular modern neural architectures such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks, design and evaluate their own neural networks, and apply neural network models to a practical taskCOMP 488 Computer Science Topics (1-4 Credit Hours)
This course is used to introduce emerging topics in computer science that do not yet have a regular course number. Content of the course varies.
Understanding of an emerging area of Computer Science
Outcomes
Understanding of an emerging area of Computer ScienceCOMP 490 Independent Project (1-6 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Approval of the Computer Science faculty member supervisor
An independent project in computer science or related disciplines, under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
COMP 499 Internship (1-6 Credit Hours)
An opportunity to obtain experience in software development, design, networks, or related activities in computer science in a professional setting. The student must obtain the approval of the Graduate Program Director and the student's work supervisor. A final report from the student and the supervisor are required.
COMP 501 Equitable and Inclusive Computer Science Pedagogy (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 400C; Graduate standing
This class covers the design of computer science courses through an equity and inclusion lens, and covers evidence-based best practices as applied to specific student concerns. Includes basics of teaching and learning theory and pedagogical techniques, and equity, diversity, and justice concerns.
Ability to explain justice-centered CS education; understand pedagogical frameworks; understand assessment approaches; understand Active Learning and Peer Instruction
Outcomes
Ability to explain justice-centered CS education; understand pedagogical frameworks; understand assessment approaches; understand Active Learning and Peer InstructionCOMP 502 Structure of Research Management and Funding (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 400C; Graduate standing
This class covers grant-proposal development, University compliance regulations, and laboratory and research management.
Ability to create successful grant proposals and to understand research management
Outcomes
Ability to create successful grant proposals and to understand research managementCOMP 503 Technology Entrepreneurship (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: COMP 400C; Graduate standing
This course provides aspiring researchers with the skills to pursue new ventures and technology commercialization. Students learn how to transition an innovation from the lab to the marketplace.
COMP 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Supervision for students working on a thesis while not for other classes. Restricted to students enrolled in the MS in Computer Science.
COMP 605 Master of Science Study (0 Credit Hours)
Course for continuing master's degree students engaged in study.
Data Science (DSCI)
DSCI 401 Introduction to Data Science (4 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Restricted to Graduate students
This course provides students with an introduction to data science using the R programming language covering such topics as data wrangling, data visualization, interacting with databases, principles of reproducible research, building simple statistical models/machine learning and data science ethics.
Students will obtain an extensive background in the basic tools used in the field
Outcomes
Students will obtain an extensive background in the basic tools used in the fieldDSCI 470 Data Science Consulting (2 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: STAT 408
Students will work on a research project with a client acting as a consultant on the statistical and computational aspects of the project. Students are required to meet with a client, develop a strategy for addressing their problem, and present their results to the client (and their classmates).
Students will apply methods learned in prior classes to address a real-world problem, gain oral and written presentation skills, and improve collaboration skills
Outcomes
Students will apply methods learned in prior classes to address a real-world problem, gain oral and written presentation skills, and improve collaboration skillsDSCI 494 Data Science Research Design (2 Credit Hours)
Restricted to DSCI Graduate students. Research practices, including data collection and management, the experimental design process, and tools for critical analysis and preparation of scientific literature will be discussed.
Students can describe and implement research design practices in data science
Outcomes
Students can describe and implement research design practices in data scienceDSCI 499 Data Science Research (1-8 Credit Hours)
Restricted to DSCI Graduate students. Students will conduct independent hypothesis-driven data science research under faculty guidance. Research efforts will include literature surveys, research design, algorithm and software development, and data analysis.
Students can develop and utilize techniques for data science research
Outcomes
Students can develop and utilize techniques for data science researchDSCI 595 Thesis Supervision (1 Credit Hour)
Pre-requisites: DSCI 499
Research under faculty guidance including training in scientific writing and the production of a thesis and research presentation.
Students will develop skills in scientific writing and presentation; At the conclusion, students will present (written and oral) the results of their research
Outcomes
Students will develop skills in scientific writing and presentation; At the conclusion, students will present (written and oral) the results of their researchDigital Humanities (DIGH)
DIGH 400 Introduction to Digital Humanities Research (3 Credit Hours)
Enrollment in DIGH 400 is the prerequisite for DIGH 401, 402, 500, 595. An introduction to the digital humanities, work in a variety of humanities disciplines--literature, art, philosophy, theology, and history--that involves computer assistance in conducting or presenting research. This includes, for example, digitizing, markup, editing, publishing, archiving, analyzing, visualization, modeling, interpretive gaming, and instructional and interface design. This course will emphasize research questions and methods from a range of humanities disciplines--not computer technology per se but ways that computing can further humanities research agendas.
Knowledge of how computing affects research in humanities, critical thinking about technology and humanities, awareness of broad social and ethical questions surrounding old and new, print and digital, media in contemporary culture
Outcomes
Knowledge of how computing affects research in humanities, critical thinking about technology and humanities, awareness of broad social and ethical questions surrounding old and new, print and digital, media in contemporary cultureDIGH 401 Introduction to Computing (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: DIGH 400 co-enrollment
Primarily for DH students, the course combines historical study with a hands-on approach to computers their growing role in academic research, publishing, libraries, and the arts. Topics will include the structure of computers, the relation of hardware and software, text and image markup and publishing, database theory and design, modeling and visualization, text analytics, procedural logic, and the basic concepts of programming, artificial intelligence, and the social, ethical, and intellectual contexts for computing.
Procedural literacy, historical knowledge of hardware and software platforms, ability to be a scholar-programmer or to collaborate fruitfully with scholar-programmers
Outcomes
Procedural literacy, historical knowledge of hardware and software platforms, ability to be a scholar-programmer or to collaborate fruitfully with scholar-programmersDIGH 402 Digital Humanities Design (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to design and human computer interaction.
Students gain practical experience with design, testing, and building ethical digital projects
Outcomes
Students gain practical experience with design, testing, and building ethical digital projectsDIGH 403 Introduction to Web Application Development (3 Credit Hours)
This course studies the concepts, methods, and tools used in the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment of typical multi-tier web applications.
Course equivalencies: X- DIGH403/CPST342/COMP342
Experience with commonly used web application development frameworks
Outcomes
Experience with commonly used web application development frameworksDIGH 405 Special Topics in Digital Humanities (3 Credit Hours)
Special topics in Digital Humanities or new approaches of current interest to the instructor.
Dependent upon course topic; must be approved by GPD
Outcomes
Dependent upon course topic; must be approved by GPDDIGH 499 Independent Study in Digital Humanities (1-3 Credit Hours)
Students work under the direction of a faculty member on a particular area of interest within Digital Humanities.
Students advances their research projects with direct and regular input from a faculty member
Outcomes
Students advances their research projects with direct and regular input from a faculty memberDIGH 500 Digital Humanities Practicum (3 Credit Hours)
This course invites students to learn about and engage in collaborative project-building. Students will contribute to building an active faculty-led digital humanities research project. Work will be informed by weekly readings and seminar-style discussions. Possible work may include coding, data modeling, digitization, proposal-writing, grant-writing, project management, design, and research.
A collaborative contribution to a digital humanities research project run by a faculty or staff member and sponsored by the CTSDH
Outcomes
A collaborative contribution to a digital humanities research project run by a faculty or staff member and sponsored by the CTSDHDIGH 501 Digital Humanities Project (3 Credit Hours)
In this capstone, students will apply skills they've learned throughout the program, and develop new technological and research skills as the project demands. Students will develop their own digital humanities research project that demonstrates their competency in a facet of digital humanities and expertise within their chosen subject area.
A working, practical final digital humanities project published online
Outcomes
A working, practical final digital humanities project published onlineDIGH 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students register for this course to maintain active enrollment in the Graduate School during the fall or spring semesters if they are not registered for any graduate class at the master's level while finishing up any MA requirements, such as their field examinations and research project.
Advancement to degree completion
Outcomes
Advancement to degree completionEnglish (ENGL)
ENGL 400 Intro to Graduate Study (3 Credit Hours)
The course serves as an introduction to the profession of literary studies for students new to the graduate programs in English. It offers a review of current critical theories and methodologies, research techniques, bibliographic methods, and issues in textual criticism.
ENGL 402 Teaching College Composition (3 Credit Hours)
The course deals with practical matters related to the teaching of college composition. It is organized around an examination of recent theories, methods, and materials used in the teaching of writing.
ENGL 403 Composition Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines major and current advances in composition theory and reviews current scholarship in the teaching of writing, with some attention to the relationship between composition and literary theory.
ENGL 404 Pedagogy: Theory and Practice (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: ENGL 402
This course is designed to help students integrate theory and practice in teaching literature and cultural studies courses at the college level.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of pedagogical theories by writing a teaching philosophy in which they explain and defend their theoretical approach; students will put their theory into practice by preparing a course proposal for a literature course, which includes a description and goals, syllabus and guidelines, classroom format, and assignments and evaluations procedures
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate an understanding of pedagogical theories by writing a teaching philosophy in which they explain and defend their theoretical approach; students will put their theory into practice by preparing a course proposal for a literature course, which includes a description and goals, syllabus and guidelines, classroom format, and assignments and evaluations proceduresENGL 406 History of the English Language (3 Credit Hours)
The course is a study of the causes, mechanisms and consequences of language variation over time, with prominent examples taken from the history of English and its parent languages. All major areas of linguistic theory are considered: phonology, lexis, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Course equivalencies: X-ENGL426/WOST406/WSGS406
ENGL 410 Contemporary Literary Criticism (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents studies in major contemporary theoretical and critical issues through a survey of major types of critical analysis, such as formalism, structuralism, semiotics, reader-response, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and feminist criticism.
ENGL 412 History of the Book to 1800 (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate status
This course will examine the history of written and printed texts from their beginnings to 1800, including such topics as book production and distribution, early ideas about textual editing, literacy, copyright, and censorship.
Students will be able to relate textual forms to cultural practices
Outcomes
Students will be able to relate textual forms to cultural practicesENGL 413 Textual Criticism (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to major textual theories and their history. Topics may include such issues as analytic and descriptive bibliography, theories of copy-text, theoretical and practical issues in editing, and forms of textuality, including manuscript, print and digital.
ENGL 415 Media and Culture (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the important and evolving roles that media plays in the construction, reformulation, and critique of contemporary culture. Topics will vary but may include digital textuality; visual culture studies; information technologies; postcoloniality and globalization; and web-based communities.
ENGL 419 Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)
The course is an intensive study of a particular cultural issue in relation to literature.
ENGL 420 Topics in Critical Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Focused study of a particular problem or movement within critical theory--for example, globalization; the "new aesthetics"; high and low culture; psychoanalytic theory; whiteness studies.
ENGL 422 Postcolonial Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course traces the origins, key developments, and practice of postcolonial theory, focusing on classic texts in the field (e.g., Senghor, Fanon, Cabral); issues raised by contemporary theorists (e.g., Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Chatterjee); and current challenges to postcolonial theory.
ENGL 423 Marxist Literary Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Intensive study of selected writers and issues within the Marxist tradition of literary and cultural criticism.
ENGL 424 Cultural Studies (3 Credit Hours)
An examination of the theory and practice of cultural studies, with special attention to the role of literary and critical theory in its development.
ENGL 426 Feminist Theory and Criticism (3 Credit Hours)
An intensive study of recent feminist theory in a range of disciplines--including literature, philosophy, history, and law--and covering a variety of approaches, such as psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, queer theory, and cultural studies.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: X-ENGL426/WOST406/WSGS406
ENGL 427 Dramatic Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents selected theoretical approaches to drama from the Greeks to the present. Readings may include both theoretical works and plays. Topics may include genre, dramaturgies such as realism, epic theatre, and theatre of the absurd, reception, semiotics, feminist dramatic theory, and performance theory.
ENGL 428 Postmodernism (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate status
This course investigates "postmodernism" in its various uses--as a literary period, an aesthetic style, an historical moment, a cultural problematic, and a theoretical imperative. The course includes readings in literature and theory as well as other art forms, such as architecture and the graphic arts.
Students will demonstrate their ability to define postmodernism in relation to modernism and postmodernity and to analyze postmodern literature and art through seminar papers, oral presentations, and exams
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate their ability to define postmodernism in relation to modernism and postmodernity and to analyze postmodern literature and art through seminar papers, oral presentations, and examsENGL 430 Topics in Literature Studies (3 Credit Hours)
The course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme or body of work in literature.
ENGL 433 Seminar in Individual Authors (3 Credit Hours)
Intensive study of a single author. Includes a comprehensive reading of the author's major works, and a review of the critical reception.
ENGL 436 Women Writers in English (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on significant issues raised in and by women-authored works, including representations of gender roles and sexualities, and the cultural status and uses of women's literature. Authors from any period(s) in British, American and World literature may be included.
ENGL 437 Topics in Drama (3 Credit Hours)
This course may deal with topics that cut across historical and national boundaries, such as dramatic genres, women in drama, modern reappropriations of earlier drama; with more specialized topics such as performance or feminist dramatic theory; or with historical movements in drama.
ENGL 440 Topics in Medieval Literature (3 Credit Hours)
Studies in a range of Middle English writing serve as a focus for special topics, including mysticism and historical prose from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
ENGL 441 Old English Language & Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces Old English language and literature through readings in poetry and prose, with attention, as time allows, to major critical issues in texts of the period.
ENGL 443 Middle English Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course may address texts that bridge the Old and Middle English periods or texts (excluding Chaucer) that date from the fourteenth-century, such as Langland, Malory, the Gawain-poet, Gower, and women writers.
ENGL 444 Medieval Drama (3 Credit Hours)
The course focuses on English drama from its beginnings to the early Renaissance, including liturgical drama, saints' plays, miracle plays, the cycles, and interludes.
ENGL 447 Chaucer (3 Credit Hours)
This course may focus on the Canterbury Tales or Troilus and Criseyde and the dream visions, and may include some of Chaucer's less frequently studied texts (e.g., his translation of the Consolation of Philosophy).
ENGL 450 Topics in Early Modern Literature & Culture (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents selected studies in poetry and prose of the English Renaissance.
ENGL 455 Shakespeare (3 Credit Hours)
The philosophical, esthetic, and historical problems of Shakespeare's plays are covered in this course, which also focuses on Shakespearean scholarship.
ENGL 456 Early Modern Drama (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents English drama of the period 1550 to 1642. Among the topics to be covered are the rise of the permanent theaters; Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries of Shakespeare; Caroline plays and masques. Historical background, theatrical developments, and critical approaches are also studied.
ENGL 457 Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme or body of work in seventeenth-century literature. Milton's poetry, prose, ideas, and projects are studied against the background of seventeenth-century events; special problems in Milton scholarship are also examined.
ENGL 458 Milton (3 Credit Hours)
Milton's poetry, prose, ideas, and projects are studied against the background of seventeenth-century events; special problems in Milton scholarship are also examined.
ENGL 460 Topics in Restoration & 18th Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme or body of work in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature.
ENGL 466 Eighteenth-Century Novel (3 Credit Hours)
This course includes prose fiction in the Restoration and earlier eighteenth century; the mid-century novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett; the novel after 1760, including the Gothic novel and the sentimental novel; Sterne and Burney.
ENGL 470 Topics in Romanticism (3 Credit Hours)
The course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme or body of work in Romantic literature.
ENGL 471 Poetry of Romantic Period (3 Credit Hours)
The poetry of major and minor Romantic figures is studied in this course, which includes a critical study of their esthetics, philosophical concepts, and critical standards.
ENGL 475 Topics in Victorian Literature (3 Credit Hours)
The course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme, or body of work in Victorian literature.
ENGL 476 Victorian Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents the historical, political, social, and intellectual influences on Victorian poetry and examines its artistic and formal innovations and achievements. The authors studied include: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, and the Rossettis.
ENGL 477 Victorian Prose (3 Credit Hours)
The course examines the major critical and philosophical prose writers of the years 1837-1900: Macaulay, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, Newman, and Pater. It also explores the intellectual, social, and political backgrounds of the period, and identifies Victorian prose styles.
ENGL 478 Victorian Novel (3 Credit Hours)
The course examines the major Victorian novelists: Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Trollope, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy; religious, social, scientific, historical, and philosophical influences on the novel are also explored.
ENGL 480 Topics in Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
Topics include modernism, the Symbolist movement, Edwardian Period, and other contextual issues that transcend genre boundaries and address larger concerns of social and intellectual history.
ENGL 481 Modern Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
The course examines tradition and experiment in modern poetry and includes English, Irish, and American poets.
ENGL 482 Modern Drama (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents selected studies in dramatists from Ibsen on, including British, American, Continental, and Irish dramatists.
ENGL 483 Modern Novel (3 Credit Hours)
The course concentrates on selected studies in Conrad, Galsworthy, Bennett, Wells, Joyce, Lawrence, Huxley, Woolf, Maugham, Forster and other novelists, but may include additional American, Irish, and Continental novelists.
ENGL 484 Literature and Culture of the Jazz Age (3 Credit Hours)
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to a crucial era, this course will consider such topics as the construction of race in literature and popular culture, the rise of the New Woman, the Harlem Renaissance, and the relationship of jazz to aesthetic modernism.
ENGL 485 Contemporary Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course concentrates on literature and literary movements of the second half of the twentieth century. Possible topics include postcolonialism (Achebe, Jhabvala, Naipaul, Soyinka, Walcott), postmodernism (Acker, Calvino, Pynchon, Reed), and African-American writing (Baldwin, Morrison, Walker).
ENGL 487 Postcolonial Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the issues of modern-day colonization as depicted in selected fiction, drama, and poetry from Africa, South Asia, the West Indies, and Australia.
ENGL 488 20th Century Literature in English (3 Credit Hours)
Focusing on the relation between texts and their literary and cultural contexts, this course may include any twentieth-century text written in English and may address a particular theme, literary movement, period, nation, or historical event. We may also interrogate the foundation of such categories.
ENGL 489 Magic Realism (3 Credit Hours)
Fusing realistic and symbolic forms, "Magic Realism" raises boundary issues of many kinds, between history and myth, empirical and non-empirical experience, objective and subjective knowledge. This course examines magic realism from its modernist origins to contemporary postmodern and postcolonial fiction in many countries.
ENGL 490 Topics in American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an intensive study of a particular problem, genre, theme, or body of work in American literature.
ENGL 491 Early American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines Hispanic, native American, Puritan, colonial, and early nationalist literature in the United States, and explores its American and European backgrounds.
ENGL 492 American Romanticism (3 Credit Hours)
The course includes selected studies in Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and others.
ENGL 493 American Realism (3 Credit Hours)
The course features selected studies in American realism, tracing its origins and development as a national literary movement, and reviewing its regional variations and sub-genres, with special attention to Twain, Howells, and James.
ENGL 494 American Literature Since 1914 (3 Credit Hours)
The course is composed of selected studies in representative American writers of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose in the twentieth century.
ENGL 495 Latino/a Literature (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate standing and consent of the GPD in English
Latino/a literature has become an important focus in American literary studies because of its unique relation to questions of language, cultural hybridity, and borders. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latino/a fiction, poetry, and drama, including analysis of Latino/a genres like corridos, testimonios, and teatro campesino. Topics include identity politics, transnationalism, cultural traditions and literary forms, textual recovery, gender and sexuality, and (im)migration.
Students will gain an understanding of the diversity of forms, politics, themes, and identities in Latino/a Literature and the scholarly criticism about it; Students will learn how to teach and write about this literature through oral and written assignments
Outcomes
Students will gain an understanding of the diversity of forms, politics, themes, and identities in Latino/a Literature and the scholarly criticism about it; Students will learn how to teach and write about this literature through oral and written assignmentsENGL 496 African American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on African-American literature over a range of periods and genres including 19th-century slave narratives (Douglass, Jacobs), the fiction and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (Hurston, Hughes, McKay) and contemporary literature (Ellison, Shange, Morrison).
ENGL 501 Directed Readings (3 Credit Hours)
An independent study course supervised by a faculty member with the approval of the program director. Readings are initiated by the student.
ENGL 502 Independent Study-Doctoral Qualification (3 Credit Hours)
The course is composed of special readings in the field of the student's specialization under the supervision of a faculty member with the approval of the chair. Normally the director will be the professor with whom the student plans to write the dissertation. The written outcome of the course will be a draft of a proposal for the dissertation. The course is graded on a credit/no-credit basis.
ENGL 540 Newberry Seminar (3 Credit Hours)
Special topics in literary study offered by the Newberry Library.
ENGL 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Directed studies for students working toward a master's thesis.
ENGL 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Directed studies for students working toward a doctoral dissertation.
ENGL 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Directed studies for students working toward a master's thesis.
ENGL 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
Directed studies for students working toward a doctoral dissertation.
History (HIST)
HIST 400 Twentieth Century Approaches to History (3 Credit Hours)
The course focuses on twentieth-century historical writing, emphasizing changing interpretive paradigms and innovative methodologies, and will introduce students to the range of topics and influences that now shape the discipline.
Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze historical interpretations, while honing their skills in writing and oral presentation
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze historical interpretations, while honing their skills in writing and oral presentationHIST 403 Professional Lives of Historians (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores pedagogical, professional, and ethical issues of importance to historians. We will examine the many identities of historians and the relationship between training in history and career pathways. Students will explore the history of the historical profession, approaches to teaching history, ethical issues in history as well as the diverse pathways available to those with training in history. Each student will complete a pedagogical activity, a career exploration report, and a professionalizing project. Required of all first year PhD students. Open to all other students as an elective.
Recognize the application of historical training in many arenas; Understand the ethical challenges facing historians
Outcomes
Recognize the application of historical training in many arenas; Understand the ethical challenges facing historiansHIST 410 Topics (3 Credit Hours)
Topics vary as this course allows for the offering of specialized topics designed to enhance the graduate curriculum. Students will be demonstrate knowledge of the key features of the topic, analyze and debate the various historical themes concerning it, and complete a historiographical or research paper related to the theme of the class.
HIST 433 Modern European Nations (3 Credit Hours)
This course will analyze selected topics in the political, international, social, economic, and cultural history of particular European nations from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Students will gain familiarity with the history and historiography of a single country within the larger context of modern European history and will sharpen their writing and analytical skills
Outcomes
Students will gain familiarity with the history and historiography of a single country within the larger context of modern European history and will sharpen their writing and analytical skillsHIST 441 Women's & Gender History: Europe (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to the major themes and scholarship in women's and gender history. It examines a variety of debates about and methodological approaches to the historical construction of gender, ranging from histories of the body and sexuality to analyses of culture, politics, and the economy. It explores how gender identities were produced and contested at specific historical moments and in different locations.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: X-HIST441/WOST441/WSGS441
HIST 442 Women's & Gender History: U.S.A. (3 Credit Hours)
The course explores the literature on women and gender in US history with attention to theoretical issues, a broad chronological scope, and cultural diversity. Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze a body of historical literature on women and gender in US history while honing their skills in writing and oral presentation.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: X-HIST442/WOST442/WSGS442
Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze a body of historical literature on women and gender in US history, while honing their skills in writing and oral presentation
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate their ability to analyze a body of historical literature on women and gender in US history, while honing their skills in writing and oral presentationHIST 450 Nineteenth Century America (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on major historiographical questions reflecting the diversity of inquiry in the field of nineteenth century U.S. history. Students will be introduced to the major historiographical debates concerning the development of American society and politics during the nineteenth century. Students learn to critique recent historical literature through discussion and reflective essays.
Students will be introduced to the major historiographical debates concerning the development of American society and politics during the nineteenth century; Students learn to critique recent historical literature through discussion and reflective essays
Outcomes
Students will be introduced to the major historiographical debates concerning the development of American society and politics during the nineteenth century; Students learn to critique recent historical literature through discussion and reflective essaysHIST 451 History of The American West (3 Credit Hours)
This class focuses on the historiography of western and frontier history from the late 1980s to the present.
Students will be introduced to the major contemporary historians of the western frontier; They will develop a perspective on the frontier process from 1500 into the 20th century and become familiar with major field sub-themes
Outcomes
Students will be introduced to the major contemporary historians of the western frontier; They will develop a perspective on the frontier process from 1500 into the 20th century and become familiar with major field sub-themesHIST 456 US and Canadian Education 20th Century (3 Credit Hours)
A historical analysis of US education in the twentieth century with special emphasis on the forces and movements affecting American education examined through comparison with educational change in selected other countries.
Course equivalencies: X-ELPS445/HIST456
Students will be able to explain changes in educational practice and educational knowledge over the twentieth century
Outcomes
Students will be able to explain changes in educational practice and educational knowledge over the twentieth centuryHIST 459 Environmental History (3 Credit Hours)
Environmental history expands the customary framework of historical inquiry, incorporating such actors as animals, diseases, and climate alongside more familiar human institutions and creations. This course will expose students to the major concepts, tools, and sources in the field. It will equip students to describe major changes in approaches to environmental history. It will prepare students to write, teach, and develop research projects on environmental history.
1) Exposure to the major concepts, tools, & sources in the field; 2) Ability to describe major changes in approaches to environmental history
Outcomes
1) Exposure to the major concepts, tools, & sources in the field; 2) Ability to describe major changes in approaches to environmental historyHIST 460 Urban America (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the evolution of the United States from a rural and small-town society to an urban and suburban nation. Cities, and especially Chicago, have long offered some of the best laboratories for the study of American history, social structure, economic development and cultural change. This colloquium will provide a historiographical introduction to the major questions and issues in the culture and social life of American cities.
HIST 461 Twentieth Century America (3 Credit Hours)
Reading and discussion seminar. Students will read monographs and articles in 20th century U.S. history, including social, cultural, intellectual, and other approaches. The final assignment will be a long historiographic paper.
HIST 464 Transnational Urban History (3 Credit Hours)
This class exposes students to the history of cities across a broad spectrum of time and place. The level of analysis is both more global and more local than traditional narratives of the nation state. This course explores the recurring challenges and possibilities of urban life and urban governance across cultures and time. An emphasis on reading and writing will help students develop the skills of critical analysis. Restricted to Graduate Students.
Appreciation for the recurring challenges and possibilities of urban life and urban governance across cultures and time; An emphasis on reading and writing will help students develop the skills of critical analysis
Outcomes
Appreciation for the recurring challenges and possibilities of urban life and urban governance across cultures and time; An emphasis on reading and writing will help students develop the skills of critical analysisHIST 479 Public History Media (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to the field of digital humanities and public media. Through a series of assignments and in-class labs centered around common Digital Humanities tools and platforms, the class will explore current and historical conversations in digital humanities and new media and address theoretical and practical problems involved in digital humanities-based methods and methodology. The final product of each assignment will be a collaborative digital public humanities project.
HIST 480 Public History: Method & Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores the field of public history with special emphasis on the theoretical and methodological challenges faced when preserving or presenting history outside of a formal classroom environment. Also under consideration will be the professional and ethical responsibilities of the historian both inside and outside of the university setting. Students will be able to understand the theoretical and methodological issues of importance to the field of public history, reflect upon ethical issues involved in the collection, curation, and presentation of history, and participate in applied projects drawing upon public history methodologies and presentation modes.
HIST 481 Management of Historic Resources (3 Credit Hours)
This class is an introduction to historic preservation. The class will review the way public historians work to protect the material culture of the built environment on a local, state, and national level. The class will consist of lectures on aspects of historic preservation, the discussion of weekly readings, and the execution of a preservation project. The project will be to prepare a National Register of Historic Places nomination on a single property or historic district.
HIST 482 Archives & Record Management (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces basic archival theory and methodology. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethics, best practices, and the relationship of archives to allied fields.
HIST 483 Oral History: Method and Practice (3 Credit Hours)
This course will give students a basic understanding of oral history by asking several questions of the discipline, including: What exactly is oral history and what sets it apart from other historical research methodologies? What are the ethical issues involved in undertaking oral history? How does one conduct, record, and archive an interview? What steps are necessary in constructing an oral history project? What are the merits of the various products that can be derived from oral history in both texts and multimedia? In addition to reading oral historical texts and theory, students will conduct at least two interviews and participate in an ongoing oral history project. Students will learn how to develop, conduct, and evaluate an oral history interview and prepare oral history interviews for archival disposition.
Students learn how to develop, conduct, and evaluate an oral history interview and prepare oral history interviews for archival disposition
Outcomes
Students learn how to develop, conduct, and evaluate an oral history interview and prepare oral history interviews for archival dispositionHIST 484 Material Culture (3 Credit Hours)
This class is restricted to Graduate students. This course is an introduction to approaches to the study of American material culture in its many forms, including decorative arts and mass-produced consumer objects; urban form, vernacular architecture, commemorative landscapes; the body and dress; foodways; and the material culture of childhood. The course will consider the ways scholars use material culture to "do" history, with an emphasis on artifacts as evidence.
1) Students will understand the theory and practice of material culture study; 2) Students will gain experience in artifactural analysis; 3) Students will research and interpret material culture
Outcomes
1) Students will understand the theory and practice of material culture study; 2) Students will gain experience in artifactural analysis; 3) Students will research and interpret material cultureHIST 487 Management of History Museums (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces graduate students to issues involved in the management of history museums while considering many questions about the role and function of museums in American society. What does it mean to say that museums serve the public? How can museums become more diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive institutions? How do museums tell stories and who gets to decide what stories to tell? How and why do museums collect, care for, and display some objects and not others? Why do people visit museums, what do they experience there, and what do those visits mean to them? What does "success" look like and how does one measure it? What financial, administrative, and ethical issues do museums face? How can museums critically address today's complex political, cultural, and social realities?
HIST 496 Latin American History to 1810 (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces students to major themes in the colonial history of the region known today as Latin America from conquest to independence.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the broad themes in the area's history as well as an understanding of the major historiographical debates
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the broad themes in the area's history as well as an understanding of the major historiographical debatesHIST 497 Latin Amer Hist Since 1810 (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces students to the major themes and trends in the development of Latin America from the Wars of Independence to the present.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the broad themes in the area's history as well as the major historiographical debates
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the broad themes in the area's history as well as the major historiographical debatesHIST 498 Dissertation Research (3 Credit Hours)
Students register for this course once they begin work on their dissertation and have not yet completed the sixty hours required for the PhD degree. If necessary, this course can be taken up to three times.
HIST 499 Directed Study (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides students with the opportunity to work under the direction of a faculty member on a particular area of interest. There is a form that must be completed and submitted prior to course registration. There are limits on how many of these can be taken over the course of a student's career: MA (2 times) and PhD (3 times).
HIST 510 Research Seminar - Special Topics (3 Credit Hours)
Research seminar using primary sources in cultural, social, technological, intellectual, and institutional history. Topics vary according to the interest of the instructor. Students will learn how to local and analyze archival material to develop an original article-length research paper. Students will learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
HIST 523 Seminar in Medieval History (3 Credit Hours)
The topics and descriptions of this course vary according to interest of the instructor.
Students will produce a major research paper related to the themes of the class
Outcomes
Students will produce a major research paper related to the themes of the classHIST 533 Topics in Modern European History (3 Credit Hours)
This course will introduce students to historical research using primary documents. The topics and themes of the research seminar will vary according to the interest of the instructor but will focus on Modern Europe.
Students will produce a major research paper related to the themes of the course
Outcomes
Students will produce a major research paper related to the themes of the courseHIST 555 US Social & Intellectual History (3 Credit Hours)
Research seminar that focuses on different topics relating to the social and intellectual history of the United States. Students learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
HIST 558 Studies in American Cultural History (3 Credit Hours)
Research seminar focused on primary sources in American cultural history. Students will learn how to locate and analyze archival materials to develop an original article-length research paper.
HIST 561 Seminar-Gender & Women's History (3 Credit Hours)
This seminar focuses on the use of gender as a category of analysis in history and is particularly appropriate for those who have taken courses in Women's and Gender History or Women's Studies. Students will produce a research paper; they may choose any topic relevant to issues of gender or women for any time period or society, as long as adequate primary sources are available.
HIST 581 Practicum in Public History (3 Credit Hours)
Practicums provide students with specific exposure to an aspect of the practice of public history. Practicums are undertaken either under the direct supervision of Loyola faculty or the joint supervision of a Loyola faculty member and a cooperating off-campus supervisor.
HIST 582 Public History Internship (1-3 Credit Hours)
The internship will provide an extended practical experience in the field of public history. Internships are tailored to fit the needs of the individual student and the needs of the off-campus agency involved. As part of their program, all public history students must undertake an internship either doing public history in the private sector or with a public agency. The internship is available during any semester and its timing is related to an individual student's progress in the program. This is a variable credit course. Students in the MA Public History program take a 1-hour internship (50 hours minimum). Students in the PhD program, the MA Program or the dual MAPH/MILS Program take a 3-hour internship (150 hours).
HIST 583 Quantitative Methods in Social History (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to the use of social science theory and quantitative methodology in social history. It includes hands-on instruction in computer database and statistical analysis programs and has an individual research component.
Students will demonstrate their ability to read critically works using quantitative techniques and will use these methods in their own research
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate their ability to read critically works using quantitative techniques and will use these methods in their own researchHIST 584 U.S. Local History (3 Credit Hours)
Research Seminar that explores the nature and practice of local history and explores various methods and approaches central to local history research. This course will introduce students to the literature on local history, acquaint them with the methodology critical to local history research, and have them conduct original research on a local history topic.
This course has three objectives: 1. to introduce students to the literature on local history; 2. to acquaint students with the methodology critical to local history research, 3. to conduct original research on a local history topic
Outcomes
This course has three objectives: 1. to introduce students to the literature on local history; 2. to acquaint students with the methodology critical to local history research, 3. to conduct original research on a local history topicHIST 585 Career Diversity Internship (3 Credit Hours)
An elective course that allows PhD and MA students explore a career pathway and have the opportunity to see how the skills gained in History can be applied to diverse career settings. Students will gain an exposure to a non-academic career, develop new skills, and gain experience is communication, collaboration, and intellectual self-confidence.
Exposure to a non-academic career; development of new skills; gain experience in communication, collaboration, & intellectual self-confidence
Outcomes
Exposure to a non-academic career; development of new skills; gain experience in communication, collaboration, & intellectual self-confidenceHIST 598 Dissertation Proposal Seminar (3 Credit Hours)
Students work closely with an advisor to prepare their dissertation proposal.
HIST 599 Directed Primary Research (3 Credit Hours)
Students work under the direction of an advisor on a specific research project and produce a Master's Essay in lieu of the seminar requirement. There is a form that must be completed and submitted prior to course registration.
HIST 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Students take this course once they complete all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation. The purpose of this course is to maintain active enrollment in the Graduate School during the fall and spring semesters. No credit hours are associated with this course and students receive a grade of CR.
HIST 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students register for 605 to maintain active enrollment in the Graduate School during the fall or spring semesters if they are not registered for any graduate class at the master's level while finishing up their requirements, such as field examinations and the research project. No credit hours are associated with this course and students receive a grade of CR.
HIST 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students register for 605 to maintain active enrollment in the Graduate School during the fall or spring semesters if they are not registered for any graduate class at the master's level while finishing up their requirements, such as field examinations and the research project. No credit hours are associated with this course and students receive a grade of CR.
Mathematical Sciences (MATH)
MATH 401 Introduction to Graduate Study in Mathematics (1 Credit Hour)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Student status
This is a professional development seminar for the beginning graduate student. Through short lectures, faculty panels, career panels, regular reading and writing assignments, and assorted workshops, it provides the student with the tools they need to succeed in the program, and beyond.
Students will: gain practice reading, writing, listening to, and summarizing advanced mathematics; learn the pedagogical, ethical, and DEI matters associated with careers in the mathematical sciences; gain practice giving lectures, writing problem-sets, and grading mathematics; explore possible career trajectories
Outcomes
Students will: gain practice reading, writing, listening to, and summarizing advanced mathematics; learn the pedagogical, ethical, and DEI matters associated with careers in the mathematical sciences; gain practice giving lectures, writing problem-sets, and grading mathematics; explore possible career trajectoriesMATH 404 Probability & Statistics I (3 Credit Hours)
As the first part in a two-semester sequence, this course introduces basic principles of probability including combinatorial methods, probability and cumulative density and mass functions, moment generating functions and applications, expected values and variance and other moments, and order statistics. This course emphasizes related theorems and proofs.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH404/STAT404
MATH 405 Probability & Statistics II (3 Credit Hours)
As the second part in a two-semester sequence, this course thoroughly explores the central limit theorem and its variants and uses, estimation, hypothesis testing, sufficiency, efficiency, uniformly most powerful methods, information, and asymptotic methods. Time permitting, Bayesian topics may also be explored and discussed.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH405/STAT405
MATH 406 Stochastic Processes (3 Credit Hours)
This course addresses topics such as finite-state Markov processes and Markov chains, classification of states, long-run behavior, continuous time processes, birth and death processes, random walks, and Brownian motion.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH406/STAT406
MATH 409 Advanced Numerical Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to computational methods and error analysis. Topics include numerical solution of equations, interpolation and approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. Numerical methods in linear algebra, such as approximate solutions to the eigenvalue problem, will also be covered.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP409/MATH409
MATH 413 Algebra I (3 Credit Hours)
As the first part in a two-semester sequence, this course covers basic algebraic structures, focused mainly on groups. Topics include normal subgroups, isomorphism theorems, actions on sets, and Sylow theorems. Additional topics chosen from linear groups, category theory, homological algebra, and representation theory.
MATH 414 Algebra II (3 Credit Hours)
As the second part in a two-semester sequence, this course covers basic algebraic structures, focused mainly on rings and fields. Topics include integral domains, vector spaces, modules, etc., Additional topics chosen from Galois theory, Dedekind domains, category theory, tensor products, homological algebra, and representation theory.
MATH 415 Topics in Linear Algebra (3 Credit Hours)
An abstract approach to the study of finite- and infinite-dimensional vector spaces and their transformations. Selected topics may include similarity, duality, canonical forms, singular value decomposition, inner products, discrete Fourier transform, bilinear forms, Hermitian and unitary spaces.
MATH 416 Survey of Algebra (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Student status
A survey course in three parts. I: the theorems of Burnside, Sylow, and Jordan-Holder, toward the classification of finite simple groups. II: (noncommutative) rings and modules over PIDs, including applications to classification problems. III: additional topic chosen by instructor, e.g., category theory, homological algebra, division rings, and representation theory.
Students will demonstrate facility with standard proof techniques in abstract algebra, and the ability to work with algebraic structures (including actions, morphisms, and quotients; concretely and abstractly); Students will recognize the common theme of classification uniting the course topics
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate facility with standard proof techniques in abstract algebra, and the ability to work with algebraic structures (including actions, morphisms, and quotients; concretely and abstractly); Students will recognize the common theme of classification uniting the course topicsMATH 418 Combinatorial Mathematics (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to the basic methods of counting and generation, including: induction, pigeon-hole principle, permutations, combinations, recurrence relations, generating functions, and inclusion-exclusion principle. Topics drawn from partitions, graph theory, graph coloring, and combinatorial design, Polya's theory, Ramsey's theorem, and optimization problems.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP418/MATH418
MATH 420 Topics in Mathematical Logic (3 Credit Hours)
This course will be a mathematical study of the concepts of truth and proof and how they relate to each other. The main topics to be covered are propositional logic, first order predicate logic, computability and undecidability results.
Students will develop proof writing skills, expand mathematical literacy, understand the expressive power and limitations of propositional and predicate logics and learn the mathematical meaning of "truth" and "proof"
Outcomes
Students will develop proof writing skills, expand mathematical literacy, understand the expressive power and limitations of propositional and predicate logics and learn the mathematical meaning of "truth" and "proof"MATH 422 Advanced Topics in Number Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: MATH 201 or the equivalent or permission of the instructor
Topics chosen from: Pythagorean triples, Fermat's Last Theorem, Pell's equation, Fermat descent, primes in arithmetic progressions, Mersenne primes, perfect numbers, primitive roots, primality testing, Carmichael numbers, RSA encryption, quadratic residues, quadratic reciprocity, integers as the sum of squares, Gaussian integers, continued fractions, the distribution of primes, Diophantine approximation, elliptic curves; others.
Understand the importance of historically significant concepts and problems in number theory; Understand the proofs of related theorems; Solve problems and prove theorems from topics covered in class
Outcomes
Understand the importance of historically significant concepts and problems in number theory; Understand the proofs of related theorems; Solve problems and prove theorems from topics covered in classMATH 428 Algebraic Coding Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Codes with algebraic structure for error control are examined. Block codes including Hamming codes and Reed-Muller codes, BCH codes, quadratic residue codes, and other cyclic codes and their implementation are treated. Other topics may include: convolutional codes, efficiency considerations, and Shannon's fundamental theorem of information theory.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP428/MATH428
MATH 431 Cryptography (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces the formal foundations of cryptography and also investigates some well-known standards and protocols, including private and public key cryptosystems, hashing, digital signatures, RSA, DSS, PGP, and related topics. Additional topics may include more modern cryptosystems, such as those based on elliptic curve and lattices.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP431/MATH431
MATH 443 Intro to Algebraic Topology (3 Credit Hours)
In the study of topology, algebraic constructions (called "invariants") are used to help determine whether two differently presented topological spaces are indeed different. In this course, we introduce various topics related to this endeavor, including homotopy equivalence of topological spaces, group presentations, homomorphisms of spaces and of groups, covering spaces, the fundamental group, and homology theories. Time permitting, the cohomology ring of a space will also be introduced.
MATH 444 Topics in Geometry (1-3 Credit Hours)
An axiomatic approach to the study of geometry. While Euclidean geometry will be the main focus, elliptic and hyperbolic geometries will also be studied in detail. Additional non-Euclidean geometries (including projective, metric, and finite) and additional approaches (such as transformations and synthetic treatments) will also make an appearance.
MATH 445 Financial Math Derivatives (3 Credit Hours)
A first course in the mathematics of derivatives pricing. Topics include options markets, Black-Scholes pricing formulas, stochastic calculus, hedging schemes, binomial option pricing, exotic options, and more general derivatives.
MATH 451 Analysis I (3 Credit Hours)
A first course in the foundations of analysis. Topics include measure theory, Lebesgue integration, Hilbert and Banach spaces, and complex analysis.
MATH 452 Analysis II (3 Credit Hours)
A second course in the foundations of analysis. Topics include the Fubini Theorem, differentiation, and linear and nonlinear functional analysis.
MATH 453 Complex Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Student Status
An introduction to functions of a single complex variable. Topics include analytic functions, contour integrals, Cauchy integral formula, harmonic functions, Liouville's theorem, Laurent series, analytic continuation, and conformal mapping. Additional topics may include theorems of Picard and Rouché, the Riemann mapping theorem, Riemann surfaces, and the fast Fourier transform.
Students will be able to: analyze limits and continuity for complex functions; evaluate contour integrals (by the fundamental theorem, by Cauchy integral formula, and by the residue theorem); and represent functions as Laurent series, classifying singularities and poles
Outcomes
Students will be able to: analyze limits and continuity for complex functions; evaluate contour integrals (by the fundamental theorem, by Cauchy integral formula, and by the residue theorem); and represent functions as Laurent series, classifying singularities and polesMATH 454 Survey of Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Student status
An introduction to advanced topics in analysis, including measure theory, functional analysis and partial differentials equations. Measurable sets; the Lebesgue integral in Rn; Lp and other function spaces; weak convergence; Lax-Milgram Theorem; and the calculus of variations. These topics are then applied to the study of linear PDEs. Students will be able to apply these concepts to study PDEs.
Students will understand the central elements of Lebesgue integration (from measurable sets to the fundamental theorem of calculus for Lebesgue integrals) and of Lp spaces (including Minkowski and Hölder inequalities)
Outcomes
Students will understand the central elements of Lebesgue integration (from measurable sets to the fundamental theorem of calculus for Lebesgue integrals) and of Lp spaces (including Minkowski and Hölder inequalities)MATH 456 Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (3 Credit Hours)
A course in modelling. Mathematics has the power to describe the world and predict future events. This can be seen through its use in physics, economics, and biology. In this course students will learn how to harness the power of mathematics to model real world phenomenon. This will mainly be done using calculus and differential equations, but other mathematical tools will be used as well.
MATH 458 Topics in Optimization (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents the study of selected mathematical models and their application to applied problems. Topics in linear and mathematical programming, optimization theory, and game theory are examined.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH458/STAT458/428
MATH 460 Theory of Games (3 Credit Hours)
The noncooperative and cooperative theories of games. Two person zero sum matrix games, nonzero sum N-person games, Nash equilibria of games with a continuum of strategies, auctions, duels. Cooperative game theory, including the theory of bargaining, the theory of fair allocation of rewards using the nucleolus and using the Shapley value.
MATH 464L History of Math with Science Contributions for Middle Grades (3 Credit Hours)
This course will provide a thematic approach to the history of mathematics with emphasis on contributions by noted mathematicians, mathematical societies and scientists highlighting women and under-represented populations. The history of numbers and numerals, computation, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and science patterns will be explored emphasizing the contributions of the Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, and Roman civilizations as well as such individuals as Euclid, Fermat, Archimedes, Kepler, Pythagoras, Euler, Hypatia, Sonja Kovalevsky, Emmy Noether and others as appropriate. The influence of technology and its applications will also be presented as appropriate.
Students will obtain a unique historical perspective on the various areas of mathematics in the middle grades
Outcomes
Students will obtain a unique historical perspective on the various areas of mathematics in the middle gradesMATH 465 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to the subject of partial differential equations. Focus will be on studying linear partial differential equations, such as the wave equation, that appear ubiquitously in nature. To solve these equations we will use techniques such as separation of variables and Fourier series. We will also discuss different boundary conditions, and their physical interpretation.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH465/STAT465
MATH 466L Geometry with Science Applications for the Middle Grades (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: This course is limited to graduate education students only; it is not accepted for other Mathematics and Statistics graduate degree programs
No course description is available
MATH 468L Probability and Statistics with Science Applications for Middle Grades (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: School of Education Graduate Program
Data collection and display, simulations, surveys, probability and elementary statistics such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation, etc. will be the focus of this course (Illinois Learning Standard Goal 10) Appropriate techniques for graphing (scatter plots, histograms, regression, correlation) with and without technology will be a focus of this course.
Students will obtain a background in the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics
Outcomes
Students will obtain a background in the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statisticsMATH 469L Mathematics and Science Applications for Middle Grades (3 Credit Hours)
Mathematical concepts such as rates, ratios and proportions, probability and statistics and measurement that support scientific investigation and analysis will provide the focus for this course. Hands-on activities that illustrate the connections be used. Hands-on activities that illustrate the connections between Science and Math and appropriate use of technology will be emphasized.
Students will acquire knowledge of mathematics that supports scientific investigation for the middle grades
Outcomes
Students will acquire knowledge of mathematics that supports scientific investigation for the middle gradesMATH 475 Functional Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Metric, normed, Banach, Hilbert, and sequence spaces. Linear operators and Fourier analysis. Hahn-Banach extension principle, Baire category, and uniform boundedness. Selected applications to economics, physics, engineering, and quantum theory.
MATH 476 Automata & Formal Languages (3 Credit Hours)
No course description is available
Course equivalencies: X-COMP476/MATH476
MATH 486 General Topology (3 Credit Hours)
General theory of topological and metric spaces, compact spaces, convergence and completeness in metric spaces, connected spaces.
MATH 488 Special Topics in Mathematics (1-4 Credit Hours)
Selected topics in mathematics not covered in the department's regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit.
MATH 495 Graduate Practicum in Mathematics (2 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: MATH 401 and (MATH 414 or MATH 452 or MATH 416 or MATH 454); Graduate Student status
A project-based course. Under faculty consultation, students will design and independently carry out a research project devoted to the development, pedagogy, or application of mathematics. To earn credit for this course, the student will deliver both an oral presentation and technical paper at the level expected in the professional workplace.
Students will have: analyzed professional literature from multiple sources, resulting in a motivating question for the project; gained practice communicating clearly, concisely, and in-step with discipline norms; and contributed to the learning, teaching, or application of mathematics through their findings
Outcomes
Students will have: analyzed professional literature from multiple sources, resulting in a motivating question for the project; gained practice communicating clearly, concisely, and in-step with discipline norms; and contributed to the learning, teaching, or application of mathematics through their findingsMATH 498 Independent Study (1-6 Credit Hours)
This is a directed study course undertaken by advanced students and supervised by a member of the graduate faculty.
MATH 595 Thesis Supervision (6 Credit Hours)
Research under faculty guidance including training in scientific writing and the production of a thesis and research presentation.
MATH 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course is a non-credit means of permitting students to be formally enrolled at Loyola while preparing for the final practicum.
Statistics (STAT)
STAT 401 Introduction to Applied Statistics Using R (1 Credit Hour)
Pre-requisites: Limited to Graduate Students Only
This course covers the basics of applied statistics including descriptive statistics and visualization (including graphing), univariate methods, inference, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, two-sample and paired analyses, simple and multiple linear regression, ANOVA and logistic regression. The course introduces and uses the R freeware package.
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will skillfully and accurately perform real-time data analysis using R and R/Studio
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will skillfully and accurately perform real-time data analysis using R and R/StudioSTAT 403 SAS Program & Applied Statistics (3 Credit Hours)
While simultaneously reviewing basic statistical methods (t tests, regression, ANOVA, interaction, etc.), this course introduces statistical modelling using the SAS program, involving the DATA step and various SAS procedures. Working on hands-on projects using real datasets, students present their final project results.
STAT 404 Probability & Statistics I (3 Credit Hours)
As the first part in a two-semester sequence, this course introduces basic principles of probability including combinatorial methods, probability and cumulative density and mass functions, moment generating functions and applications, expected values and variance and other moments, and order statistics. This course emphasizes related theorems and proofs.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH404/STAT404
STAT 405 Probability & Statistics II (3 Credit Hours)
As the second part in a two-semester sequence, this course thoroughly explores the central limit theorem and its variants and uses, estimation, hypothesis testing, sufficiency, efficiency, uniformly most powerful methods, information, and asymptotic methods. Time permitting, Bayesian topics may also be explored and discussed.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH405/STAT405
STAT 406 Stochastic Processes (3 Credit Hours)
This course addresses topics such as finite-state Markov processes and Markov chains, classification of states, long-run behavior, continuous time processes, birth and death processes, random walks, and Brownian motion.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH406/STAT406
STAT 407 Statistical Design (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides students with a thorough introduction to statistical experimental design and to the statistical methods used to analyze the resulting data. The concepts of comparative experiments, ANOVA and mean separation procedures will be reviewed; blocking (complete and incomplete) will be discussed, as will be factorial designs, fractional factorial designs, and confounding. The course will focus on biometric applications such as clinical trials, HIV studies, and environmental and agricultural research, but industrial and other examples will occasionally be provided to show the breadth of application of experimental design ideas.
STAT 408 Applied Regression Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides students with a thorough introduction to applied regression methodology. The concept of simple linear regression will be reviewed and discussed using matrices, and multiple linear regression, transformations, diagnostics, polynomial regression, indicator variables, model building and multicolinearity will be discussed, as will be nonlinear and generalized linear regression. The course will focus on applications such as those from biometry and biostatistics (clinical trials, HIV studies, etc.), sports, engineering, agriculture and environmental science.
STAT 410 Categorical Data Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to modern-day extensions of simple linear regression and ANOVA to the chi-square test including logistic regression and log-linear modeling techniques based on generalized linear models. Specialized methods for ordinal data, small samples, multi-category data, and matched pairs will also be discussed. The focus throughout this course will be on applications and real-life data sets.
STAT 411 Applied Survival Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
Modern statistical methods are covered to analyze data that is right, left and/or interval-censored. Nonparametric approaches such as the Kaplan-Meier estimation technique, log-rank test and proportional-hazards model are considered as are parametric methods such as those based on the Exponential and Weibull distribution. Accelerated failure time models and nonlinear models are also discussed.
STAT 421 Math Modeling & Simulation (3 Credit Hours)
This course uses SAS, R and high-level languages to perform statistical modelling by conducting statistical simulations to assess linear, generalized linear, nonlinear and complex models and experimental designs. Students will gain practical experience and knowledge in real-world statistical situations for which underlying theory is cumbersome or otherwise intractable.
Course equivalencies: X-COMP421/MATH421/STAT421
STAT 426 Advanced Statistical Inference (3 Credit Hours)
This course presents the role of likelihood methods in a whole range of statistical problems. The course reviews theoretical developments such as efficiency, completeness, and the Cramer-Rao lower bound, and shows how the likelihood approach is used to surpass these methods and to analyze regression problems, to deal with nuisance parameters by using marginal likelihood methods, and to deal with complex data structures such as censored and spatial data.
STAT 436 Topics in Biostatistics (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers experimental design (including interaction, analysis of covariance, and crossover designs) and the analysis of designed studies, simple and multiple linear regression, generalized linear and nonlinear regression, bioassay, relative potency and drug synergy, multivariate analysis (including MANOVA and multivariate regression), repeated measures (designs and analysis), and survival analysis (Cox proportional odds, log-rank tests, Kaplan-Meier estimation) of censored data. The emphasis of the course will be on applications instead of statistical theory, and students will be required to analyze real-life datasets using popular statistical packages.
STAT 437 Quantitative Bioinformatics (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores recently developed mathematical, probabilistic and statistical methods currently used in the fields of bioinformatics and DNA microarray and protein array data analysis. These include stochastic processes, (hidden and traditional) Markov chains, tree- and clustering techniques (including principal components analysis and biplots), discriminant analysis, experimental design strategies and ANOVA methods. Our focus in this course is on the application of these techniques and on meaningful interpretation of results.
STAT 438 Introduction to Predictive Analytics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate students only
This course focuses on finding patterns, associations, and relationships in data. In examining real-world datasets, this course highlights, develops and applies methods in simple and multiple linear and logistic regression, classification and discriminant analysis, resampling methods, model selection, additive models and splines, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning techniques such as clustering and PCA.
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied methods in predictive analytics (using R and/or Python) with applications to real data-sets
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied methods in predictive analytics (using R and/or Python) with applications to real data-setsSTAT 444 Longitudinal Data Analysis and Mixed Modeling (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Students only
This course focuses on repeated measures, longitudinal, hierarchical and mixed modeling data analysis with an eye to applications, model identification, software implementation, and interpretation of computer results.
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied mixed-modelling methods (using R and/or SAS) with applications to real data-sets
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied mixed-modelling methods (using R and/or SAS) with applications to real data-setsSTAT 451 Applied Nonparametric Methods (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Students only
Many basic statistical techniques are based upon normal or binomial distributional assumptions which may not be appropriate in practice. This course introduces and illustrates rank-based methods, permutation tests, bootstrap methods, and curve smoothing useful to analyze data when normal and/or binomial assumptions are not valid.
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied nonparametric statistical methods (using R and/or SAS) with applications to real data-sets
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master applied nonparametric statistical methods (using R and/or SAS) with applications to real data-setsSTAT 465 Actuarial Theory I (0 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to the models and methods used in actuarial mathematics and risk theory. Students are expected to gain a broad understanding of frequency and severity modelling, pricing, and accumulated risk. This course includes a blend of theory and applications.
Course equivalencies: X-MATH465/STAT465
STAT 466 Actuarial Theory II (0 Credit Hours)
With an introductory background in the field provided in STAT 465, this course thoroughly explores modelling and estimation techniques in actuarial mathematics and risk theory.
Course equivalencies: X-STAT466/MATH466
STAT 468 Risk Theory (0 Credit Hours)
With a focus on insurance, pensions and investments, this course provides an overview of the theory of risk, emphasizing the statistical challenges and assumptions inherent in models and methods.
Course equivalencies: X-STAT468/MATH468
STAT 488 Topics in Statistics (1-3 Credit Hours)
This topics course provides the means for new courses on current or 'hot' topics to be offered to students, with the topics being crafted to the given topic at hand. As such, the course may be taken repeatedly.
STAT 495 Statistical Consulting Capstone (2 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Students only
Students enrolled in this course will be introduced to statistical consulting techniques useful for work with researchers and decision-makers in university, medical, financial and industrial settings; students will engage in actual hands-on statistical consulting with administrators, researchers, or students at one of Loyola's lakeside campuses or remotely.
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master the soft-skills of statistical consulting, communication, active listening, and real-time data analysis
Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, it is expected that students will master the soft-skills of statistical consulting, communication, active listening, and real-time data analysisSTAT 498 Independent Study Statistics (1-6 Credit Hours)
Working with a statistics faculty member on a one-on-one or small group format, this course affords students the opportunity to thorough explore a statistical topic at greater depth. Generally, it involves a good deal of outside reading and/or programming, and weekly meetings with the professor.
Philosophy (PHIL)
PHIL 400 Philosophy Research Tools (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces students to several methodological approaches to philosophical issues.
PHIL 401 Plato (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Plato
Course equivalencies: X-PHIL401/CLST412
PHIL 402 Aristotle (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on some aspect of the philosophical thought of Aristotle.
PHIL 403 Ancient Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on a particular philosophical theme or problem in ancient philosophy.
PHIL 405 Augustine (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Augustine.
PHIL 406 Aquinas (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Aquinas.
PHIL 407 Medieval Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in medieval philosophy.
PHIL 408 Late Medieval Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on one or more late medieval philosophers such as Scotus and Ockham.
PHIL 410 Descartes (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Descartes.
PHIL 411 Classical Rationalism (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in early modern rationalism, typically with reference to Descartes, Leibniz, and/or Spinoza.
PHIL 412 Classical Empiricism (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in early modern empiricism, typically with reference to Locke, Berkeley, and/or Hume.
PHIL 415 Kant (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Kant.
PHIL 416 17th-18th Century Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in early modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant.
PHIL 417 Classical German Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate student status
Classical German Philosophy begins with Kant and his immediate predecessors, and extends to the early mid-19th century, including figures such as Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Schiller , and Hegel, Feurebach, and Marc, among others. This course may include critiques of developments out of classical German philosophy. Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the wake of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Students will also become competent in engaging basic research in the philosophy of this era.
Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the wake of Kant's Critical philosophy
Outcomes
Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the wake of Kant's Critical philosophyPHIL 419 Aesthetics (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work in philosophical issues and/or figures in aesthetics.
Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the field of aesthetics; Students will also gain knowledge of contemporary scholarship and develop basic research skills in this field
Outcomes
Students will become conversant with the major projects and schools of thought in the field of aesthetics; Students will also gain knowledge of contemporary scholarship and develop basic research skills in this fieldPHIL 420 Hegel (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Hegel.
PHIL 421 Marx (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on Marx and Marxist philosophy.
PHIL 422 Nietzsche (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Nietzsche.
PHIL 425 19th Century Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in nineteenth century philosophy.
PHIL 430 Husserl (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the phenomenology of Husserl.
PHIL 431 Marxism (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Marx and/or philosophers working in the Marxist tradition.
PHIL 432 Heidegger (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the thought of Heidegger.
PHIL 433 Phenomenology/Existentialism (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in either phenomenology and/or existential philosophy.
PHIL 434 Hermeneutics & Critical Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in either philosophical hermeneutics and/or the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.
PHIL 436 Contemporary French Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in recent French philosophy.
PHIL 437 Contemporary German Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in recent German philosophy.
PHIL 438 Topics in Continental Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in some aspect of European philosophy from Kant to the present.
PHIL 439 Chinese Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on Chinese philosophy.
PHIL 440 American Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the American philosophical tradition.
PHIL 441 Wittgenstein (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the philosophical thought of Wittgenstein.
PHIL 442 Anglo-American Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on some aspect of the pragmatist and/or analytic philosophical traditions.
PHIL 443 Anglo-American Epistemology (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to a specialized topic in analytic epistemology.
PHIL 444 Studies in Logic (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to some aspect of formal logic, such as formal systems, axiomatic set theory, mathematical logic, modal logic, tense logic, epistemic logic, deontic logic, formal semantics, and philosophical logic.
PHIL 445 Philosophy of Mind (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues concerning the problem of consciousness and the nature of mental functions.
PHIL 446 Philosophy of Perception (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues pertaining to perception.
PHIL 447 Issues in Cognitive Science (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to specialized topics in the philosophy of cognitive sciences.
PHIL 449 Philosophy of Language (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues about the relationship between language, thought, meaning, and reference.
PHIL 450 Epistemology (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues concerning the nature of belief and knowledge.
PHIL 451 Metaphysics (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues about the nature of reality.
PHIL 452 Philosophy of Science (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues pertaining to the natural sciences.
PHIL 454 Philosophy of Religion (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues concerning religious practices and beliefs.
PHIL 455 Philosophical Theology (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work in philosophical issues and/or figures in philosophical theology.
PHIL 457 Aesthetics (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues pertaining to the nature of art and aesthetic judgment.
PHIL 458 Philosophy of History (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues pertaining to history and historiography.
PHIL 459 Philosophy of Law (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on philosophical issues concerning legal institutions and practices.
PHIL 462 Kant's Moral Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the practical philosophy of Kant.
PHIL 463 Virtue Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on classical and/or contemporary themes in the virtue tradition in moral philosophy.
PHIL 464 Utilitarianism (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to classical and contemporary formulations of utilitarian ethics.
PHIL 466 Major Authors in Moral Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on the ethical theories of one or more key figures in the history of philosophy.
PHIL 467 Contemporary Ethical Theories (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on issues in contemporary moral philosophy.
PHIL 468 Topics in Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to specialized topics in ethical theory.
PHIL 469 Ethics and Rationality (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to philosophical issues concerning the relationship between rationality and moral thinking.
PHIL 470 Ethics & Economic Justice (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work on ethical and social-political issues concerning economic practice and theory.
PHIL 474 Principles of Business Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to philosophical approaches to ethical issues concerning the relationship between business and society.
PHIL 475 Philosophy of Nursing: Nursing as a Moral Practice (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an opportunity for students to analyze ethical issues and personal, institutional/organizational, societal and global values and beliefs that have an impact on nursing practice, the nursing profession, and healthcare delivery. Students will clearly and carefully articulate their thinking and approach to moral reasoning about various contemporary issues and justify their responses. Presuppositions about clinical practice, education, administration, and their impact will be explored. The realities of the social context and the effects on moral/ethical practice will be discussed.
Course equivalencies: X-GNUR540/PHIL475
PHIL 477 Social Health Care Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work in philosophical approaches to social issues in health care.
PHIL 478 Research Methods in Social Justice (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Limited to graduate students only
This course looks at several different methodological approaches to social justice issues: broad ethical frameworks; specific ethical issues, such as intent and volition; quantitative analysis; US law; and international law.
Students are expected to know how to conduct literature reviews, how to use these approaches in analyzing social justice issues, and how to write up and present their research
Outcomes
Students are expected to know how to conduct literature reviews, how to use these approaches in analyzing social justice issues, and how to write up and present their researchPHIL 479 Issues in Applied Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to specialized topics in applied ethics.
PHIL 480 Social & Political Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to specialized topics in social and political philosophy, such as theories of justice, social contract theory, human rights, and issues pertaining to race, class, and gender.
PHIL 481 Philosophy of Action (3 Credit Hours)
This course deals with the distinction between action and mere behavior. Related topics: causal vs. teleological views, intention, reasons for action (as distinct from causes of action), practical identity, free agency, practical reason, deliberation and choice, the relationship between emotional capacities and responsible agency.
Students will understand the basic features of human agency
Outcomes
Students will understand the basic features of human agencyPHIL 482 Philosophy of Social Science (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to philosophical issues concerning the social sciences.
PHIL 483 Philosophical Questions in Human Rights (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Limited to graduate students only
This course addresses questions in human rights such as the concept of rights and its critics, sovereignty and its relation to global governance, the role of intent, and how human rights are gendered.
Students are expected to have an overview of the major legal frameworks for human rights, as well as an understanding of several of the major philosophical issues and related literature
Outcomes
Students are expected to have an overview of the major legal frameworks for human rights, as well as an understanding of several of the major philosophical issues and related literaturePHIL 484 Philosophical Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)
Prepares students for advanced work about philosophical conceptions of human existence.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
PHIL 485 International Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Limited to graduate students only
This course is intended to give students an overview of some of the major frameworks for addressing ethical issues in the international arena. This includes Just War doctrine, economic rights, and global governance.
Students are expected to be familiar with the major treaties, international law doctrines, and institutions relevant to international ethics, as well the pertinent secondary literature
Outcomes
Students are expected to be familiar with the major treaties, international law doctrines, and institutions relevant to international ethics, as well the pertinent secondary literaturePHIL 487 Moral and Legal Issues of Economic Sanctions (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Limited to graduate students only
This course will provide an introduction to economic sanctions in the context of foreign relations and global governance. We will look closely at the issues of effectiveness and humanitarian impact. We will also look at legal issues, such as the problem of extraterritoriality.
It is expected that students will have an overview of how sanctions interact with international law, institutions of global governance, and human rights law
Outcomes
It is expected that students will have an overview of how sanctions interact with international law, institutions of global governance, and human rights lawPHIL 490 Current Philosophical Issues (3 Credit Hours)
Introduces students to specialized topics in some area of contemporary philosophy.
PHIL 500 Directed Readings and Research (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a directed reading focused on an advanced topic in philosophy. The student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the topic and nature of the work.
PHIL 501 Directed Readings & Research (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a directed reading focused on an advanced topic in philosophy. The student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the topic and nature of the work.
PHIL 502 Directed Readings & Research (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a directed reading focused on an advanced topic in philosophy. The student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the topic and nature of the work.
PHIL 503 Directed Readings & Research (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a directed reading focused on an advanced topic in philosophy. The student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the topic and nature of the work.
PHIL 505 Teaching Internship I (3 Credit Hours)
This course introduces students to best practices in philosophical pedagogy.
PHIL 510 Clinical Ethics Practicum (3 Credit Hours)
This course will include some combination of academic and non-academic work, involving some aspect of clinical ethics. The student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the scope of the project and the nature of the work.
PHIL 511 Social Ethics Practicum (3 Credit Hours)
This course will include some combination of academic and non-academic work, involving some aspect of social ethics. the student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the scope of the project and the nature of the work.
PHIL 550 Integrative Seminar (3 Credit Hours)
This course prepares students for advanced work in philosophy, and emphasizes ways in which philosophy can play an integrative role.
PHIL 590 Dissertation Proposal Seminar (0 Credit Hours)
This semester-long, non-credit, pass/non-pass course is intended for Ph.D. students in their third or fourth years. Our purpose consists in taking students from their initial, general ideas on a dissertation to a developed proposal.
The class will culminate in producing a final dissertation proposal and a community of researchers who are able and willing to support each other in the development and writing up of dissertation proposals
Outcomes
The class will culminate in producing a final dissertation proposal and a community of researchers who are able and willing to support each other in the development and writing up of dissertation proposalsPHIL 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
This course allows continuing master's students to continue work on their master's thesis or paper. Please consult with philosophy department graduate program director before registering.
PHIL 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
This course is intended for students who have completed their dissertation proposal and are currently working on their dissertation. Please consult with department graduate program director before registering.
PHIL 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course allows continuing master's students to continue work on their master's thesis or paper. Please consult with philosophy department graduate program director before registering.
PHIL 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course is intended primarily for students who are currently working on their dissertation proposal. Please consult with philosophy department graduate program director before registering.
Political Science (PLSC)
PLSC 400 Scope and Methods of Political Science (3 Credit Hours)
This is a broad course that lays out the main approaches to political science.
PLSC 401 Intro to Research Design & Method (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to principles of research design in political science. The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the social scientific approach to studying politics.
Students will learn how to ask empirical questions about the political world, how to develop theories and generate testable hypotheses, how to collect appropriate types of evidence, how to answer research questions scientifically using such evidence, and how to clearly convey their evidence and argument to others
Outcomes
Students will learn how to ask empirical questions about the political world, how to develop theories and generate testable hypotheses, how to collect appropriate types of evidence, how to answer research questions scientifically using such evidence, and how to clearly convey their evidence and argument to othersPLSC 402 Seminar on Empirical Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
The course allows students to develop additional methods to empirical analysis.
PLSC 404 Selected Problems in American Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on selected problems in the study of American politics and the American Political system.
Gain an in-depth understanding of selected problems in American politics and the American Political system
Outcomes
Gain an in-depth understanding of selected problems in American politics and the American Political systemPLSC 405 American Executive Branch (3 Credit Hours)
This course relies on historical and contemporary scholarly literature on the American presidency to analyze the development and scope of rhetorical and party leadership, legislative relations, the commander-in-chief and diplomatic roles as well as the growth of the institutionalized presidency.
Students will master the key literature on the American presidency as well as conduct research on a particular aspect of the US presidency
Outcomes
Students will master the key literature on the American presidency as well as conduct research on a particular aspect of the US presidencyPLSC 406 American Legislative Branch (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the organization of and decision-making in the US legislative branch.
Students will fully understand how the US Congress is structured and legislates, as well as its interactions with other US institutions and with American society
Outcomes
Students will fully understand how the US Congress is structured and legislates, as well as its interactions with other US institutions and with American societyPLSC 407 Public Policy-Making & Implementation (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the process and dynamics of US policy-making systems.
Students will understand the development of the public sector agenda, the policy formation and legitimation processes, and the role of implementation functions, as these relate to substantive issues or policy arenas
Outcomes
Students will understand the development of the public sector agenda, the policy formation and legitimation processes, and the role of implementation functions, as these relate to substantive issues or policy arenasPLSC 409 Organizational Theory (3 Credit Hours)
The course offers a broad approach to the various theoretical and practical approaches to the study of organizations.
PLSC 410 Urban Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course addresses the major theories, studies and issues of urban politics.
Students will understand "political machines", parties, interest groups, voting, protests, minority and ethnic groups, city councils, mayors, bureaucrats and community power structures
Outcomes
Students will understand "political machines", parties, interest groups, voting, protests, minority and ethnic groups, city councils, mayors, bureaucrats and community power structuresPLSC 411 American Political Parties/Electoral Process (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes the roles and functions of the party system and voting behavior in the United States.
Students will understand the role of mass communication and issues in elections, the impact of party identification, and the impact of the electoral system on behavior of party and voter
Outcomes
Students will understand the role of mass communication and issues in elections, the impact of party identification, and the impact of the electoral system on behavior of party and voterPLSC 412 Constitutional Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines constitutional policy-making in the United States.
Students will understand the political role of the Supreme Court, judicial values in constitutional adjudication, and the impact of court decisions
Outcomes
Students will understand the political role of the Supreme Court, judicial values in constitutional adjudication, and the impact of court decisionsPLSC 417 The American Legal System (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the structure, functions, interrelationships, dynamics, and decision-making processes of the US legal system.
Students will understand the major components of the American legal system - legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts
Outcomes
Students will understand the major components of the American legal system - legislatures, administrative agencies, and courtsPLSC 418 Political Psychology & Socialization (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines psychological, social and environmental influences on political attitudes and behavior.
Students will understand the psychodynamics of political development and socialization as they interact with opinion formation and political participation
Outcomes
Students will understand the psychodynamics of political development and socialization as they interact with opinion formation and political participationPLSC 419 Managing Urban Government (3 Credit Hours)
This course studies the politics of urban government management.
Students will understand the environments in which the urban manager functions
Outcomes
Students will understand the environments in which the urban manager functionsPLSC 420 Comparative Political Systems (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines political institutions and political behavior in various political systems.
Students will master the literature on comparative politics, including the methodology of comparative analysis
Outcomes
Students will master the literature on comparative politics, including the methodology of comparative analysisPLSC 421 Democratic Political Systems (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines selected democratic political systems.
Students will understand how selected democratic systems operate, focusing on their similarities and differences
Outcomes
Students will understand how selected democratic systems operate, focusing on their similarities and differencesPLSC 422 Authoritarian Political Systems (3 Credit Hours)
This is a graduate-level seminar on authoritarian political systems. The course explores theoretical perspectives on authoritarianism, political institutions in non-democracies, and paths to democratization.
Students will become familiar with concepts and theories of authoritarianism, gain knowledge about different types of authoritarian rule, and learn about how authoritarian governments work and perpetuate power
Outcomes
Students will become familiar with concepts and theories of authoritarianism, gain knowledge about different types of authoritarian rule, and learn about how authoritarian governments work and perpetuate powerPLSC 423 Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes the development of Soviet and post-Soviet politics since 1917.
Students will understand the emergence and development of Soviet politics, as well as its decline in the mid-1980s
Outcomes
Students will understand the emergence and development of Soviet politics, as well as its decline in the mid-1980sPLSC 424 Politics of Developing Areas (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the politics of the "developing world."
Students will understand the methods used to analyze politics in the developing and underdeveloped nation-states
Outcomes
Students will understand the methods used to analyze politics in the developing and underdeveloped nation-statesPLSC 425 Sub-Saharan Africa (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines politics in Africa from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Students will understand issues relating to decolonization, ethnicity, class, political economy, democratization, and regime transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Outcomes
Students will understand issues relating to decolonization, ethnicity, class, political economy, democratization, and regime transition in Sub-Saharan AfricaPLSC 426 Latin American Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines important themes in the study of politics in Latin America.
Students will understand the current scholarship and methodologies in the study of Latin American politics
Outcomes
Students will understand the current scholarship and methodologies in the study of Latin American politicsPLSC 427 Politics of the Middle East (3 Credit Hours)
Enrollment Conditions: Permission of the instructor required. This course offers a historical and thematic approach to study the society and politics of the contemporary Middle East. Two central aims of the course are to cultivate critical perceptions regarding widespread images and descriptions of the region and to bolster students' historical, socioeconomic and political knowledge of the region.
Students will master important political science literature on the Middle East and be well positioned to pursue original research
Outcomes
Students will master important political science literature on the Middle East and be well positioned to pursue original researchPLSC 428 Political Violence (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers a thematic approach to the study of political violence with a particular focus on armed conflicts involving non-state actors (i.e., civil wars). It addresses a wide variety of questions informed by the cutting-edge research in political science and other disciplines.
Students will develop an understanding of the causes of different forms of violence in different parts of the world, motivations of people who participate in violence, and solutions to armed conflicts
Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of the causes of different forms of violence in different parts of the world, motivations of people who participate in violence, and solutions to armed conflictsPLSC 429 Comparative Politics Selected Problems (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines selected issues in comparative politics.
Students will master the literature or conduct research in a particular area of comparative politics
Outcomes
Students will master the literature or conduct research in a particular area of comparative politicsPLSC 430 Theories of International Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes theories and major issues of international politics.
Students will master the literature in major research areas and theoretical frameworks in international relations
Outcomes
Students will master the literature in major research areas and theoretical frameworks in international relationsPLSC 431 Formulation US Foreign Policy (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines how US foreign policy is made.
Students will understand the decision-making institutions and their interaction in the formulation and execution of political, military and economic foreign policy
Outcomes
Students will understand the decision-making institutions and their interaction in the formulation and execution of political, military and economic foreign policyPLSC 432 Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines contemporary policy positions of major blocs of nations as well as specific nations.
Students will understand how foreign policy is made in countries other than the United States, as well as the policy of blocs of nations
Outcomes
Students will understand how foreign policy is made in countries other than the United States, as well as the policy of blocs of nationsPLSC 433 International Organization (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the development and role of international organizations.
Students will understand the political and administrative principles and problems of various types of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other key global and regional organizations
Outcomes
Students will understand the political and administrative principles and problems of various types of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other key global and regional organizationsPLSC 435 International Political Economics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines global economic systems.
Students will understand global political-economic relations in the post-WWII period, including international monetary relations, international trade, regional integration, direct investment, debt, and development assistance
Outcomes
Students will understand global political-economic relations in the post-WWII period, including international monetary relations, international trade, regional integration, direct investment, debt, and development assistancePLSC 436 International Conflict (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on concepts and approaches related to the causes of war, conflict and peace in the international system.
PLSC 437 Selected Problems International Law (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines selected issues or problems in international law.
Students will understand contemporary theories of international law and the relationships among the various traditional and contemporary areas of international law
Outcomes
Students will understand contemporary theories of international law and the relationships among the various traditional and contemporary areas of international lawPLSC 439 Selected Problems in International Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines important themes and theories in international politics.
Students will master a specific body of literature or conduct research in a particular area of international relations
Outcomes
Students will master a specific body of literature or conduct research in a particular area of international relationsPLSC 440 Ancient Political Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the major works of the most important theorists within the classical tradition.
Students will master key writings of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and other theorists
Outcomes
Students will master key writings of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and other theoristsPLSC 442 Modern Political Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines major modern political thinkers.
Students will master key works of from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution
Outcomes
Students will master key works of from the Italian Renaissance to the French RevolutionPLSC 444 Great Authors (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the works of political theorists in the western tradition.
Students will master key works of theorists in the western tradition
Outcomes
Students will master key works of theorists in the western traditionPLSC 446 Political Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
This course surveys classic debates on ethics - such as utilitarianism and deontological ethics - to provide students with analytical tools to answer the deceptively simple question "What is the right thing to do?" The course draws on classical readings of political philosophy, while seeking to make those abstract problems tangible by applying them to real world cases and examples.
PLSC 447 American Political Thought to Civil War (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines pre-Civil War US political thought.
Students will master the works of key thinkers from the American founding to the Civil War
Outcomes
Students will master the works of key thinkers from the American founding to the Civil WarPLSC 449 19th Century Political Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines key theorists in the nineteenth century.
Student will master the works of key theorists beginning with the French Revolution and through the nineteenth century
Outcomes
Student will master the works of key theorists beginning with the French Revolution and through the nineteenth centuryPLSC 470 Fieldwork in Political Science-Internship (1-3 Credit Hours)
This is a graduate level course that allows students to get experience through internships. Restricted to Graduate School students.
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of models of leadership and public service by working with supervisors who are normally leaders in their fields
Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of models of leadership and public service by working with supervisors who are normally leaders in their fieldsPLSC 475 Political Analysis I (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to the use of inferential statistics in political science.
Students will master the basic statistical techniques used in political science
Outcomes
Students will master the basic statistical techniques used in political sciencePLSC 476 Political Analysis II (3 Credit Hours)
This is an intermediate course in data analysis methods in political science.
Students will master intermediate research and quantitative methods in political science
Outcomes
Students will master intermediate research and quantitative methods in political sciencePLSC 499 Directed Readings (3-6 Credit Hours)
This course involves specialized study under the supervision of a faculty member.
Students will master a particular segment of academic literature or conduct in-depth research on a specific topic
Outcomes
Students will master a particular segment of academic literature or conduct in-depth research on a specific topicPLSC 502 Seminar in Political Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines selected topics in the development and shaping of political behavior.
Students will master the political behavior literature and conduct research in specific areas of the discipline
Outcomes
Students will master the political behavior literature and conduct research in specific areas of the disciplinePLSC 503 Seminar: Law & Political Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes selected topics concerning the relationship between legal processes, policies, and politics.
Students will understand a particular topic in law and political behavior
Outcomes
Students will understand a particular topic in law and political behaviorPLSC 504 Seminar: American Public Policy (3 Credit Hours)
This seminar analyzes the American public policy.
Students will understand the formation, implementation, and evaluation of public policies in the United States
Outcomes
Students will understand the formation, implementation, and evaluation of public policies in the United StatesPLSC 505 Seminar in Urban Problems (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes selected policies in urban and state politics.
Students will understand the politics of specific urban and state policies
Outcomes
Students will understand the politics of specific urban and state policiesPLSC 506 Seminar State & Urban Policy Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines current perspectives and techniques in the analysis of state and urban policies.
Students will understand contemporary policy analysis perspective and techniques as well as methods in policy analysis
Outcomes
Students will understand contemporary policy analysis perspective and techniques as well as methods in policy analysisPLSC 515 Seminar-Public Administration (3 Credit Hours)
This is an upper-level seminar on complex questions related to public administration.
PLSC 520 Seminar: Comparative Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines an important, contemporary area of research in comparative politics.
Students will master a specific body of literature and conduct research in a specific area in comparative politics
Outcomes
Students will master a specific body of literature and conduct research in a specific area in comparative politicsPLSC 521 Seminar Western European Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines contemporary politics in Western European countries.
Students will understand political and policy developments in Western Europe, as well as the structures of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Outcomes
Students will understand political and policy developments in Western Europe, as well as the structures of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationPLSC 531 Seminar: International Politics (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines various research topics in international politics.
Students will master a particular body of work or conduct research in a specific area of international politics
Outcomes
Students will master a particular body of work or conduct research in a specific area of international politicsPLSC 532 Soviet/Post-Soviet Foreign Policy (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the foreign policies of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states.
Students will understand the formulation and application Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policies
Outcomes
Students will understand the formulation and application Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policiesPLSC 533 U.S. National Security (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the U.S. security establishment and the national security process.
Students will understand how US security policy is made, including the defense budget, US force structure, intelligence, covert operations, and the role of Congress
Outcomes
Students will understand how US security policy is made, including the defense budget, US force structure, intelligence, covert operations, and the role of CongressPLSC 543 Liberalism (3 Credit Hours)
This course analyzes liberal political thought.
Students will master key works and theorists focusing on equality, liberty, natural rights, utilitarianism, and idealistic bases of modern liberal society
Outcomes
Students will master key works and theorists focusing on equality, liberty, natural rights, utilitarianism, and idealistic bases of modern liberal societyPLSC 546 Political Philosophy Selected Problems (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines a selected theoretical issue in the history of political thought.
Students will master the writings and theories in a particular theme of political theory
Outcomes
Students will master the writings and theories in a particular theme of political theoryPLSC 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
The is the first course in a two-course sequence for researching a thesis towards earning a Master's degree.
PLSC 596 Thesis Research (3 Credit Hours)
The is the second course in a two-course sequence for researching a thesis towards earning a Master's degree.
PLSC 597 Dissertation Research (3-6 Credit Hours)
The course is for students researching a thesis topic towards writing a dissertation prospectus.
PLSC 598 Teaching Internship (3 Credit Hours)
The course allows students to complete an internship focused on teaching.
PLSC 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
The course is for students researching a dissertation towards earning a PhD.
PLSC 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
The course is for students researching a thesis towards earning a Master's degree.
PLSC 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
The course is for students researching a dissertation towards earning a PhD.
Psychology (PSYC)
PSYC 401 History & Systems of Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
History and systems is a survey course that covers past events and persons that directly influenced the formation of contemporary psychology in the United States.
Students will become familiar with the history of psychology and influential theoretical systems in the field of psychology; The course is partly designed to aid in preparation for the EPPP licensing exam for those students intending to seek professional licensure
Outcomes
Students will become familiar with the history of psychology and influential theoretical systems in the field of psychology; The course is partly designed to aid in preparation for the EPPP licensing exam for those students intending to seek professional licensurePSYC 412 Introduction to the Profession of Clinical Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
Required course for PhD program in Clinical Psychology-an introduction to our field. This course provides an introduction to the profession of Clinical Psychology by focusing on basic research and clinical skills necessary for a career as a clinical scientist and practitioner.
Students will develop skills such as establishing rapport, empathic and reflective listening, gathering information, and making intervention decisions via supervised interview experiences
Outcomes
Students will develop skills such as establishing rapport, empathic and reflective listening, gathering information, and making intervention decisions via supervised interview experiencesPSYC 420 Research Methods in Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
An intensive coverage of classical and current psychological research methodology and a review and implementation of various strategies for proposing research, collecting and analyzing data, and writing scholarly articles.
Students will learn multiple methods for conducting psychological research, how to critique published research, and how to write research proposals and reports
Outcomes
Students will learn multiple methods for conducting psychological research, how to critique published research, and how to write research proposals and reportsPSYC 432 Intellectual & Personality Assessment (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers the psychometric properties, administration procedures, and applications of the most common adult psychological measures. Students will gain an understanding of psychometric theory.
Students will be able to administer and become familiar with how to interpret a WAIS-III, the MMPI-2, the Sentence Completion Test, and the TAT
Outcomes
Students will be able to administer and become familiar with how to interpret a WAIS-III, the MMPI-2, the Sentence Completion Test, and the TATPSYC 435 Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience (3 Credit Hours)
The way that information is represented and processed in the brain is central to a broad range of topics in psychological science. In this course we will consider how the methods of cognitive neuroscience including brain imaging (e.g., EEG/ERP, fMRI) and dissociation-based techniques such as neuropsychology and TMS, have revolutionized the exploration of these topics. We will pay particular attention to how these techniques can be used to understand higher-level cognition during development and in questions related to social psychology and psychopathology. Class participants will be introduced to these techniques, read, critique and present results from the primary literature, and also have an opportunity to develop ideas using these methods relating to their own research interests.
PSYC 436 Psychopharmacology (3 Credit Hours)
The types and mechanisms of medications used in the treatment of mental disorder are reviewed. Emphasis is given to behavioral effects and treatment effectiveness of drugs. Psychopharmacological research design and literature are reviewed.
Students will learn basics of neurotransmission and be informed about medications including antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, and substance abuse
Outcomes
Students will learn basics of neurotransmission and be informed about medications including antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, and substance abusePSYC 438 Principles of Psychological Assessment Child & Adult (3 Credit Hours)
This course is designed to expose students to a variety of assessment tools and tests available for children ranging from 1 month to 18 years of age.
Students will develop competence in the administration and write-up of basic intelligence, achievement, and visual motor tests for children presenting with, for example, learning disabilities, mental retardation, social/communication disorders
Outcomes
Students will develop competence in the administration and write-up of basic intelligence, achievement, and visual motor tests for children presenting with, for example, learning disabilities, mental retardation, social/communication disordersPSYC 440 Theory & Research in Psychology of Language (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on the psychology of language.
PSYC 446 Psychopathology (3 Credit Hours)
This course reviews concepts, research, and theory (historical and current) in psychopathology and emphasizes diagnosis and etiology.
Students will gain an appreciation for the major issues in the area of psychopathology, the ability to think clearly and scientifically about these issues, and an understanding of major mental disorders
Outcomes
Students will gain an appreciation for the major issues in the area of psychopathology, the ability to think clearly and scientifically about these issues, and an understanding of major mental disordersPSYC 451 Psychopathology of Childhood & Adolescents (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on adjustment problems during childhood and adolescence using an ecological-developmental perspective.
By gaining insight into the factors that enhance or interfere with positive developmental processes, students learn how to apply research and theory to improve the services they will offer to children and families in their professional careers
Outcomes
By gaining insight into the factors that enhance or interfere with positive developmental processes, students learn how to apply research and theory to improve the services they will offer to children and families in their professional careersPSYC 452 Clinical Treatment of Children & Adolescents (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on empirically-supported interventions for children and families.
Students learn how to select and evaluate needed prevention programs and interventions for children and families to achieve therapeutic goals
Outcomes
Students learn how to select and evaluate needed prevention programs and interventions for children and families to achieve therapeutic goalsPSYC 455 Developmental Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on developmental psychology.
PSYC 460 Social Psychological Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Survey of basic concepts, theories, and research in social psychology. Contents include foundations of social psychology; broad theoretical orientations (e.g., evolutionary, behavioral, cognitive, affective, individual, societal, cultural); specific theories at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, intra-group, and inter-group levels of analysis.
Knowledge and skills in theory construction and criticism; understanding relation between theory and research methods; applying theories to social problems
Outcomes
Knowledge and skills in theory construction and criticism; understanding relation between theory and research methods; applying theories to social problemsPSYC 461 Attitude and Attitude Change (3 Credit Hours)
Survey of attitude formation and change literature. Topics include the nature and measurement of attitudes, explicit versus implicit attitudes, effects of attitudes on cognition and behavior.
Knowledge and skills that enable the integration of multiple theories to conceptualize attitudinal phenomena, critical evaluation of research, written and oral expression about attitude topics, application of attitude theories to practical problems
Outcomes
Knowledge and skills that enable the integration of multiple theories to conceptualize attitudinal phenomena, critical evaluation of research, written and oral expression about attitude topics, application of attitude theories to practical problemsPSYC 462 Cognitive Social Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
In depth examination of the human cognition within its social context; including topics such as impression formation, attribution, stereotyping, prejudice, social information processing, mental control, affect and social information processing, unconscious social cognition.
An understanding of basic theoretical approaches and scientific methods of hypothesis testing within social cognition; Development of skills needed to perform research within social cognition
Outcomes
An understanding of basic theoretical approaches and scientific methods of hypothesis testing within social cognition; Development of skills needed to perform research within social cognitionPSYC 464 Practicum in Psychotherapy I (3 Credit Hours)
This two semester practicum course provides applied experience conducting psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago's Wellness Center.
For client populations seeking psychotherapy, practicum students will be able to develop a treatment plan, articulate treatment goals, develop a working therapeutic alliance, and execute elementary psychotherapeutic techniques
Outcomes
For client populations seeking psychotherapy, practicum students will be able to develop a treatment plan, articulate treatment goals, develop a working therapeutic alliance, and execute elementary psychotherapeutic techniquesPSYC 472 Organizational Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
Covers theory, research, and methods associated with behavior in organizational settings. Learning outcomes include knowledge of theory and methods of personnel selection, performance measurement and appraisal, knowledge and skills training; theory and research on leadership, motivation, group behavior, etc.
PSYC 473 Social Development (3 Credit Hours)
This course is designed to provide an advanced level introduction and discussion of critical issues essential to the study of social development. The contribution of multiple contexts (e.g., family, peers, culture) to social development is a major focus of this class.
Students will become familiar with the several theoretical accounts as well as major empirical findings in the core areas of social development
Outcomes
Students will become familiar with the several theoretical accounts as well as major empirical findings in the core areas of social developmentPSYC 474 Research in Group Dynamics (3 Credit Hours)
Covers theory, methods, and research on behavior in and by groups from a social psychological perspective. Learning outcomes include knowledge of theory and research on group structure, group performance, group decision making, negotiation, and intergroup behavior; ability to design research about group behavior and to analyze data from group research.
PSYC 475 Cognitive Development (3 Credit Hours)
This course is designed to provide an advanced level introduction to critical issues in the study of cognitive development from infancy through childhood.
Students will be expected to draw connections between the major theoretical accounts of cognitive development and the empirical literature in core areas of children's cognition
Outcomes
Students will be expected to draw connections between the major theoretical accounts of cognitive development and the empirical literature in core areas of children's cognitionPSYC 477 The Self and Self-Esteem (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing
Graduate seminar focusing on psychological theory and research on the self and self-esteem. Course will focus on where self knowledge comes from and how it affects human behavior.
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on the self and self-esteem
Outcomes
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on the self and self-esteemPSYC 479 Cognition and Emotion (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing
Graduate seminar focusing on psychological theory and research on the role that emotion plays in cognitive activity and behavior. Course will focus on how emotion affects cognition and how different emotions have different effects.
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on cognition and emotion
Outcomes
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on cognition and emotionPSYC 482 Advanced Statistics (3 Credit Hours)
Covers analysis of factorial designs and other multifactor data sets.
Learning outcomes include theory and assumptions underlying analysis of variance and multiple regression; ability to use SPSS to analyze data from factorial designs and other multifactor research endeavors
Outcomes
Learning outcomes include theory and assumptions underlying analysis of variance and multiple regression; ability to use SPSS to analyze data from factorial designs and other multifactor research endeavorsPSYC 484 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Standing
Graduate seminar focusing on psychological theory and research on intergroup relations, stereotyping and prejudice. Course will focus on the perceptions, cognitions and behaviors toward members of our own group and members of outgroups.
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on intergroup relations and prejudice
Outcomes
Knowledge of psychological theory and research on intergroup relations and prejudicePSYC 485 Psychology and Law (3 Credit Hours)
Application of social psychological theory and research to criminal behavior and the criminal justice system. Specific topics include crime causation, mass media effects, jury selection, eyewitness accuracy, and crime prevention.
An understanding of core theoretical and methodological approaches to criminal justice research, development of skills needed to perform psychologically oriented criminal justice research
Outcomes
An understanding of core theoretical and methodological approaches to criminal justice research, development of skills needed to perform psychologically oriented criminal justice researchPSYC 486 Methods of Program Evaluation (3 Credit Hours)
Overview of program evaluation methods, politics, ethics, and applications; including topics such as quasi-experimental design, statistical analysis issues, ethical guidelines, implementation strategies, and presentation styles.
An understanding of the methods, strategies, ethical issues, and implementation obstacles of evaluation research; Development of skills needed to perform high quality evaluation research in a variety of applied settings
Outcomes
An understanding of the methods, strategies, ethical issues, and implementation obstacles of evaluation research; Development of skills needed to perform high quality evaluation research in a variety of applied settingsPSYC 489 Political Cognition (3 Credit Hours)
Examination of the cognitive determinants of political judgments and decision; including topics such as political information processing, voting preference, political stereotyping, racism, ideology and public opinion, and media effects.
An understanding of core theoretical approaches within political psychology, scientific methods of hypothesis testing within political psychology, and the development of skills needed to perform research within political psychology
Outcomes
An understanding of core theoretical approaches within political psychology, scientific methods of hypothesis testing within political psychology, and the development of skills needed to perform research within political psychologyPSYC 491 Multivariate Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to the theory and application of multivariate statistical techniques in psychology.
Students will learn the conceptual underpinnings (including matrix algebra) and will also learn to conduct analyses for the following procedures: multiple and logistic regression, MANOVA, loglinear analysis, canonical correlation, factor analysis, and cluster analysis
Outcomes
Students will learn the conceptual underpinnings (including matrix algebra) and will also learn to conduct analyses for the following procedures: multiple and logistic regression, MANOVA, loglinear analysis, canonical correlation, factor analysis, and cluster analysisPSYC 493 Structural Equation Modeling (3 Credit Hours)
An introduction to structural equation modeling as a multivariate statistical tool, including confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, causal modeling, diagramming structural models, assessing model fit, model development and identification, multi-sample analysis, and longitudinal analysis.
An understanding of the logic and mechanics of structural equation modeling, and the skills necessary to use LISREL 8 software to conduct structural analyses
Outcomes
An understanding of the logic and mechanics of structural equation modeling, and the skills necessary to use LISREL 8 software to conduct structural analysesPSYC 509 Seminar on Teaching Psychology (0 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to the psychology teaching and learning.
PSYC 510 Ethics & Professional Practice (3 Credit Hours)
The ethical standards and practice of psychologists, including basic principles of ethics, application of ethics to professional practice and to research, and professional problems and practices are reviewed.
Students will learn to manage complex ethical problems encountered in psychological practice, research, and education
Outcomes
Students will learn to manage complex ethical problems encountered in psychological practice, research, and educationPSYC 513 Adolescence (3 Credit Hours)
This course offers an in-depth study of adolescence from a psychological as well as cultural and historical perspective, with a focus on biological, cognitive, psychological, and social changes.
Students will learn important components of psychological health and maladaptation during the adolescent developmental period and how family, peer, and school contexts affect adolescent development
Outcomes
Students will learn important components of psychological health and maladaptation during the adolescent developmental period and how family, peer, and school contexts affect adolescent developmentPSYC 514 Research in Development Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
The goal of this course is to survey important methods, issues, research designs, and other topics specific to research in developmental psychology and cultivate students¿ scientific skills like critical thought and evaluation of research.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of developmental methodology, design, ethical concerns, and other issues relevant to developmental science
Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of developmental methodology, design, ethical concerns, and other issues relevant to developmental sciencePSYC 515 Infancy (3 Credit Hours)
The goal of this course is to survey important topics in the field of infancy, the period of development from birth through approximately 3 years.
Students will demonstrate understanding of infant developmental science in particular content areas and the processes underlying change
Outcomes
Students will demonstrate understanding of infant developmental science in particular content areas and the processes underlying changePSYC 518 Seminar Selected Topics-Clinical Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of selected topics in clinical psychology.
PSYC 525 Seminar in Social Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on social psychology.
PSYC 535 Internship in Applied Social Psychology (0 Credit Hours)
Students complete an applied social psychology internship during this course.
PSYC 540 Psychology of Language Development (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on the psychology of language development.
PSYC 545 Select Topics in Developmental Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of selected topics in developmental psychology.
PSYC 548 Risk and Opportunity in Childhood and Adolescence (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides an overview of theory and research on risk an opportunity in childhood and adolescence.
PSYC 552 Neuropsychology (3 Credit Hours)
Neuropsychology involves the interdisciplinary study of the relations between human brain function and behavior.
PSYC 553 Neuropsychological Assessment (3 Credit Hours)
This course covers the major areas of neuropsychological assessment, including major assessment techniques, interviewing, report writing, and psychometric issues.
Students will learn major issues and topic areas in neuropsychological assessment (eg, attention, language, memory, visual perception, motor functioning, executive functioning, and emotional functioning)
Outcomes
Students will learn major issues and topic areas in neuropsychological assessment (eg, attention, language, memory, visual perception, motor functioning, executive functioning, and emotional functioning)PSYC 555 Social Psychology Research and Professional Development (8 Credit Hours)
Course will involve research presentations and other forms of professional development. Graduate student standing in Social Psychology.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
PSYC 560 Human Diversity (3 Credit Hours)
This course provides a foundation in human diversity as it relates to the practice of clinical psychology. The course will examine theoretical perspectives and research findings related to human diversity. The goal of this course is to challenge students to think critically about the influence of human diversity on their psychological practice, research, and teaching.
PSYC 568 Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: PSYC 412, or approval of instructor
This course provides a theoretical and skills-based overview of evidence-based practice (EBP) in clinical psychology, and surveys the theoretical and applied aspects of various evidence-based intervention approaches in psychology, including Motivational Interviewing (MI), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Students will demonstrate an understanding of current theories and methods in evidence-based psychotherapy.
PSYC 595 Thesis Supervision (3 Credit Hours)
Enrollment is Restricted to Psychology graduate students. Students will make supervised progress towards completion of their theses.
PSYC 596 Internship in Clinical Psychology (0 Credit Hours)
Students complete a full time APA approved clinical internship during this course.
PSYC 597 Integrative Readings in Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
Students complete integrated readings under the supervision of a faculty member.
PSYC 598 Research (3-6 Credit Hours)
Students complete research under supervision of a faculty member.
PSYC 599 Directed Readings (3-6 Credit Hours)
Students complete directed readings under the supervision of a faculty member.
PSYC 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Students complete dissertation research under the supervision of a faculty member.
PSYC 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students complete master's thesis readings and research under the supervision of a faculty member.
PSYC 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students complete dissertation readings and research under the supervision of a faculty member.
Sociology (SOCL)
SOCL 403 Sociological Perspectives I (3 Credit Hours)
Important theoretical and methodological concerns will be discussed with particular attention paid to how these concerns affect substantive areas in sociology.
Students will gain familiarity with major themes that will shape their graduate education in sociology
Outcomes
Students will gain familiarity with major themes that will shape their graduate education in sociologySOCL 404 Sociological Perspectives II (3 Credit Hours)
Faculty will discuss their intellectual biographies and work that is of current interest to them.
Students will gain familiarity with the range of substantive, theoretical and methodical concerns of the department's faculty
Outcomes
Students will gain familiarity with the range of substantive, theoretical and methodical concerns of the department's facultySOCL 405 History Sociological Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This course looks at the intellectual roots and expressions of the foundations of sociological theory in the 19th and early 20th century.
Students will gain familiarity with the classical texts in sociological theory that established some of the basic perspectives, issues and debates that inform contemporary social theory and research
Outcomes
Students will gain familiarity with the classical texts in sociological theory that established some of the basic perspectives, issues and debates that inform contemporary social theory and researchSOCL 406 Modern Sociological Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines some of the dominant perspectives and trends of modern social theory.
Students will develop familiarity with the primary sources that represent current trends in modern and postmodern theories
Outcomes
Students will develop familiarity with the primary sources that represent current trends in modern and postmodern theoriesSOCL 410 Logic of Sociological Inquiry (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores the structures of sociological research, analyses, and explanations. Several major types of data collection will be examined and evaluated.
Students will be able to formulate sociological problems, understand the relationship between problem formulation and data collection, measurement and analyses and develop the capacity to utilize different social scientific methods
Outcomes
Students will be able to formulate sociological problems, understand the relationship between problem formulation and data collection, measurement and analyses and develop the capacity to utilize different social scientific methodsSOCL 412 Qualitative Methods in Social Research (3 Credit Hours)
This course is an introduction to the major qualitative methods of social inquiry and the ethical issues raised by qualitative research.
Students learn the skills of participant observation, interviewing, historical analysis, building theory from qualitative data, coding and content analysis
Outcomes
Students learn the skills of participant observation, interviewing, historical analysis, building theory from qualitative data, coding and content analysisSOCL 413 Sociological Practicum (3 Credit Hours)
The class examines theoretical issues and past research relating to a particular social topic and then designs and completes a collective research project. Topics vary.
Students gain facility with research design and group research practices
Outcomes
Students gain facility with research design and group research practicesSOCL 414 Statistical Methods Analysis I (3 Credit Hours)
After a review of bivariate regression and cross-tabular analysis, the course provides an extended treatment of the general linear model. Topics include model construction, interpretation of results, partitioning of variance, tests of statistical significance and interactions.
Students will be able to employ general linear models in original research and critically evaluate existing empirical research
Outcomes
Students will be able to employ general linear models in original research and critically evaluate existing empirical researchSOCL 415 Statistical Methods of Analysis II (3 Credit Hours)
The course extends the applications of the general linear model to topics including path analysis, logistic regression, factor analysis and spatial and cluster analysis.
Student will: understand the techniques with enough clarity to recognize when they are appropriate research tools; gain sufficient expertise to apply the techniques to moderately complex research problems; be able critically review the relevant literature
Outcomes
Student will: understand the techniques with enough clarity to recognize when they are appropriate research tools; gain sufficient expertise to apply the techniques to moderately complex research problems; be able critically review the relevant literatureSOCL 418 Demography (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the basic techniques used to assemble, analyze, and present demographic information. It also examines U.S. and world demographic trends and the causes and consequences of such demographic change.
Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of demographic trends and an understanding of the sources, limitations, and advantages of various types of demographic data
Outcomes
Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of demographic trends and an understanding of the sources, limitations, and advantages of various types of demographic dataSOCL 421 Theories Social Change (3 Credit Hours)
The course will critically appraise major theories of social change and examine different methodologies on both the macro- and micro-sociological levels.
Students will gain a working knowledge of the major theoretical and methodological issues in the field
Outcomes
Students will gain a working knowledge of the major theoretical and methodological issues in the fieldSOCL 423 Social Movements (3 Credit Hours)
This course will use case studies of contemporary social movements to examine collective efforts to promote social or cultural change. They will gain an understanding of the recursive relationship between empirical research and theory development.
Students will be able to apply major theoretical perspectives on social movements to a variety of historical cases
Outcomes
Students will be able to apply major theoretical perspectives on social movements to a variety of historical casesSOCL 425 Inequality and Society (3 Credit Hours)
This is an empirical and theoretical inquiry into the causes, consequences, and dynamics of social inequality in modern societies.
Student will be able to explain the distribution of economic, political, and social resources in society; the processes of class formation and the role of race and gender
Outcomes
Student will be able to explain the distribution of economic, political, and social resources in society; the processes of class formation and the role of race and genderSOCL 426 Sociology of Gender (3 Credit Hours)
This course surveys sociological and related scholarship on women and gender relations.
Students will come to understand the social construction of gender and its centrality to studies of identity and sexuality, the division of labor, families and reproduction, violence, poverty, race, class and globalization
Outcomes
Students will come to understand the social construction of gender and its centrality to studies of identity and sexuality, the division of labor, families and reproduction, violence, poverty, race, class and globalizationSOCL 427 Political Sociology (3 Credit Hours)
The course examines major theories of political action and change. Particular attention is paid to policy development.
Students will develop an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the working of political systems and to be able to apply that knowledge to the development of social policy
Outcomes
Students will develop an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the working of political systems and to be able to apply that knowledge to the development of social policySOCL 428 Poverty and Social Welfare (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the development of poverty and social welfare efforts over time in the United States, with some comparisons to other industrial societies.
Students will understand the character and consequences of poverty and social welfare policies in the United States, emphasizing current conditions and possibilities for the future
Outcomes
Students will understand the character and consequences of poverty and social welfare policies in the United States, emphasizing current conditions and possibilities for the futureSOCL 431 Social Structure and Personality (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the relationships between the individual and larger social structure and social trends.
Students will gain familiarity with current research and theory concerning the relationship of self identity and personal narratives to socialization and structural factors, and the ways in which social class, work, race and nation construct age, gender and sub-cultural forms of subjectivity
Outcomes
Students will gain familiarity with current research and theory concerning the relationship of self identity and personal narratives to socialization and structural factors, and the ways in which social class, work, race and nation construct age, gender and sub-cultural forms of subjectivitySOCL 432 Socialization Thru Life Cycle (3 Credit Hours)
This course traces the nature of socialization and development of the individual through the life cycle.
Students will become familiar with research and theory concerning the processes by which persons are socialized into sexual, racial, religious, occupational, marital, and parental social roles, identities and patterns of interactions at various stages of life
Outcomes
Students will become familiar with research and theory concerning the processes by which persons are socialized into sexual, racial, religious, occupational, marital, and parental social roles, identities and patterns of interactions at various stages of lifeSOCL 435 Adult Development and Aging (3 Credit Hours)
The older adult population and adult development is examined from social and cultural perspectives.
Studies will develop a knowledge of gerontological theories and research which pertain to the family, the community, political life, the economy, work and retirement, religious life, and other social institutions
Outcomes
Studies will develop a knowledge of gerontological theories and research which pertain to the family, the community, political life, the economy, work and retirement, religious life, and other social institutionsSOCL 438 The Family (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores families, their changing internal structures, and their roles in contemporary societies.
Students will develop an understanding of the household division of labor, mothering, the shifting character of marriage, the paid and unpaid work of care, dual career families, single parent households, racial/ethnic families, adoption, blended families, welfare policies, families in the class structure, and global issues
Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of the household division of labor, mothering, the shifting character of marriage, the paid and unpaid work of care, dual career families, single parent households, racial/ethnic families, adoption, blended families, welfare policies, families in the class structure, and global issuesSOCL 439 Community Change (3 Credit Hours)
Contemporary communities are examined from a sociological perspective. Both geographic communities and communities of interest are studied.
Students gain an understanding of how research can be used to facilitate social change in community settings; and an awareness of how community organizations, informal networks, and broader social forces shape the character and sustainability of particular communities
Outcomes
Students gain an understanding of how research can be used to facilitate social change in community settings; and an awareness of how community organizations, informal networks, and broader social forces shape the character and sustainability of particular communitiesSOCL 440 Organizations & Organizational Change (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the structures and processes that typify contemporary organizations, with particular attention to how organizations change.
Students will be able to apply sociological methods to analyze organizations, and will develop an understanding of bureaucracy and alternative structures; the effect of organizational structure on administrators, workers, and clients; and how organizations are affected by their social environment
Outcomes
Students will be able to apply sociological methods to analyze organizations, and will develop an understanding of bureaucracy and alternative structures; the effect of organizational structure on administrators, workers, and clients; and how organizations are affected by their social environmentSOCL 441 Sociology of Religion (3 Credit Hours)
This course studies the relationship between religion and society, and explores central topics in the sociology of religion.
Students will learn to define and explain religious organizations, beliefs, and practices as distinctly social phenomena, and understand how social processes both shape the form and content of religious life and in turn are shaped by them
Outcomes
Students will learn to define and explain religious organizations, beliefs, and practices as distinctly social phenomena, and understand how social processes both shape the form and content of religious life and in turn are shaped by themSOCL 442 Religious Conflict & Change (3 Credit Hours)
This course will explore the complex reciprocal relationship between religion and historical processes of social change.
Students will be able to analyze historical instances of religious conflict and change in the U.S. and other regions of the world; They will gain an understanding of how religion both affects and is affected by historical, political, and social change
Outcomes
Students will be able to analyze historical instances of religious conflict and change in the U.S. and other regions of the world; They will gain an understanding of how religion both affects and is affected by historical, political, and social changeSOCL 446 Knowledge, Power & Expertise (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the relationship between knowledge, expertise and power in societies and how this relationship has consequences for the structure of knowledge and the organization of society.
Students will be able to demonstrate a sociological understanding of the construction of knowledge and the organization of authority and expertise
Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate a sociological understanding of the construction of knowledge and the organization of authority and expertiseSOCL 447 Sociology of Culture (3 Credit Hours)
This course will examine the relationship between social phenomena and cultural expressions, and the various ways sociologists have conceived of those relationships.
Students will learn to apply sociological theories and methods to an analysis of cultural fields and understand the diversity of contemporary cultural objects and expressions, and how they are produced and used in social action
Outcomes
Students will learn to apply sociological theories and methods to an analysis of cultural fields and understand the diversity of contemporary cultural objects and expressions, and how they are produced and used in social actionSOCL 448 Technology & Material Culture (3 Credit Hours)
This course will serve as an introduction to the sociology of things, most notably the sociology of technology, design and the built environment.
Students will develop an understanding of both cultural, constructivist and political-economic approaches to the construction of technology and artifacts, and of a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of their impact and audience-response
Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of both cultural, constructivist and political-economic approaches to the construction of technology and artifacts, and of a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of their impact and audience-responseSOCL 452 Complex Organizations (3 Credit Hours)
Formal organizations treated comparatively and systematically as major components of modern social organization are featured.
Students will develop an understanding of leading theoretical traditions, historical and cross-national variation, organization-environment relations, and selected internal processes in the field of complex organizations
Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of leading theoretical traditions, historical and cross-national variation, organization-environment relations, and selected internal processes in the field of complex organizationsSOCL 453 Occupations and Professions (3 Credit Hours)
This course focuses on the structure of paid work in modern society, and its relationship to unpaid work and to self-employment. Special attention is given to the role of skills and knowledge in the structuring of work.
Students will develop an understanding of how both macro and micro factors structure work; from capitalism, industrialism, gender, race and globalization to workplace interaction and culture
Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of how both macro and micro factors structure work; from capitalism, industrialism, gender, race and globalization to workplace interaction and cultureSOCL 461 Race & Ethnicity (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores the construction, meaning, uses and consequences of racial and ethnic identity in American society over time.
Students will understand the role of migration and immigration on the construction of identity; analyze prejudice, discrimination, and inter-group conflict; and explore how social movements have and are changing these group relationships
Outcomes
Students will understand the role of migration and immigration on the construction of identity; analyze prejudice, discrimination, and inter-group conflict; and explore how social movements have and are changing these group relationshipsSOCL 462 The Urban Metropolis (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines urbanization and its consequences through social theory and empirical studies emphasizing the modern European and American experience.
Students will understand ecological and political economy perspectives on metropolitan development; changing regional patterns of population, housing, and employment; and urban governance, planning, and policies for the future
Outcomes
Students will understand ecological and political economy perspectives on metropolitan development; changing regional patterns of population, housing, and employment; and urban governance, planning, and policies for the futureSOCL 463 Sociology & Natural Environment (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the relationship between social life and the natural environment.
Students will be able to demonstrate a sociological understanding of the relationship of humans to the natural environment and draw connections between basic ecological understandings of nature and the human impact on the natural world
Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate a sociological understanding of the relationship of humans to the natural environment and draw connections between basic ecological understandings of nature and the human impact on the natural worldSOCL 471 Sociology of Deviance & Control (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a socio-historical look at definitions of forms of deviant behavior and the identification of individuals as deviant.
The student will learn how history and philosophy shape the definitions of deviant behavior and the methods used to control it; They will develop a sociological imagination to perceive the meaning of deviance beyond the superficialities of today's headlines
Outcomes
The student will learn how history and philosophy shape the definitions of deviant behavior and the methods used to control it; They will develop a sociological imagination to perceive the meaning of deviance beyond the superficialities of today's headlinesSOCL 473 Criminology (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines modern and traditional theories of criminology and their implications for social control, with emphasis on current work in criminology theory, social planning, and evaluation research.
The student will acquire knowledge of the relationship between the various explanations of crime patterns and how these theories work to reduce or fail to reduce the level of criminal behavior
Outcomes
The student will acquire knowledge of the relationship between the various explanations of crime patterns and how these theories work to reduce or fail to reduce the level of criminal behaviorSOCL 481 Medical Sociology (3 Credit Hours)
This course will examine critical factors affecting mortality and morbidity; mental health; health services; community health; cross-cultural differences; aging and the strategy and conduct of socio-medical research.
The student will be able to critically analyze the social components of illness and of health and to integrate theory and research in the study of health care institutions globally
Outcomes
The student will be able to critically analyze the social components of illness and of health and to integrate theory and research in the study of health care institutions globallySOCL 490 Workshop: Applied Sociology (1 Credit Hour)
This focuses on special issues for methods used by applied sociologists, and topics vary from semester to semester. Most workshops involve presentations by faculty or applied sociologists from outside the university.
Students will develop expertise in, for example: survey research, evaluation research, use of population data in policy making, focus groups, and developing community leadership
Outcomes
Students will develop expertise in, for example: survey research, evaluation research, use of population data in policy making, focus groups, and developing community leadershipSOCL 491 Sociological Discourse (3 Credit Hours)
The course examines the nature of sociological argumentation in existing scholarly and popular literature and in the students' own writing.
Students will be able to formulate and present sociological arguments in both oral and written forms, and to demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between problem formulation, data collection and measurement and analysis in their own and others' work
Outcomes
Students will be able to formulate and present sociological arguments in both oral and written forms, and to demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between problem formulation, data collection and measurement and analysis in their own and others' workSOCL 494 Internship (3 Credit Hours)
Placements are typically in non-academic settings, e.g., government agencies, community organizations, businesses, or labor organizations. Students are expected to work a minimum of 100 hours and write an internship report.
Students will develop skills in applying sociological methods and theoretical perspectives to the understanding and ameliorating of social issues in real world settings
Outcomes
Students will develop skills in applying sociological methods and theoretical perspectives to the understanding and ameliorating of social issues in real world settingsSOCL 497 Independent Research (3 Credit Hours)
Students registered for independent study will meet as a workshop, under the guidance of a faculty member, at least three times per semester. These skills are important for expeditious completion of proposals, theses, and dissertations.
Students will develop the skills and dispositions necessary to be successful and productive in independent work
Outcomes
Students will develop the skills and dispositions necessary to be successful and productive in independent workSOCL 498 Independent Research (3 Credit Hours)
Work on an individual research project under the supervision of a faculty member.
SOCL 499 Directed Study (3 Credit Hours)
Develop a reading list and paper under the supervision of a faculty member.
SOCL 500 Seminar-Applied Sociology & Social Policy (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the use of sociology in determining and selecting alternative social policies.
Students will develop knowledge about the roles that applied sociologists play in society; the relationship between sociologists and clients or organizations; the social research process and how it affects the research product; and ethical considerations of applied sociologists
Outcomes
Students will develop knowledge about the roles that applied sociologists play in society; the relationship between sociologists and clients or organizations; the social research process and how it affects the research product; and ethical considerations of applied sociologistsSOCL 505 Controversery Current Social Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This is a seminar in which students and faculty will examine in detail particular controversies that are emerging in theoretical approaches to sociology. Topics will vary.
Students will develop advanced skills in theoretical discourse
Outcomes
Students will develop advanced skills in theoretical discourseSOCL 510 Research Special Areas (3 Credit Hours)
Advanced methodology seminar in special topics.
Students will develop advanced skills in the special area
Outcomes
Students will develop advanced skills in the special areaSOCL 520 Topics in Contemporary Society (3 Credit Hours)
Various topics in the study of modern society
Students will develop advanced skills in the particular area
Outcomes
Students will develop advanced skills in the particular areaSOCL 525 Seminar in Comparative Studies (3 Credit Hours)
The seminar will expose participants to comparative approaches in defining issues, topics or institutions, researched by comparative sociologists and cultural anthropologists. Specific topics for consideration will vary.
Students will acquire knowledge of the utility of comparative approaches to cultural and social structures in developing greater definition and clarity, and a deeper understanding of a given topic
Outcomes
Students will acquire knowledge of the utility of comparative approaches to cultural and social structures in developing greater definition and clarity, and a deeper understanding of a given topicSOCL 540 Issues: Sociology of Religion (3 Credit Hours)
Focused study on a variable topic in the sociology of religion.
SOCL 560 Seminar-Issues in Communities & Urban Sociology (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores current issues in cities and in the sociological study of cities.
Students will become familiar with current debates in urban sociology and apply sociological theories and analysis to contemporary issues in cities
Outcomes
Students will become familiar with current debates in urban sociology and apply sociological theories and analysis to contemporary issues in citiesSOCL 580 Seminar: Issues in Medical Sociology (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores a specialized topic in the sociology of health and medicine. Restricted to Graduate Students.
Ability to analyze individual, social and institutional effects on health and medicine
Outcomes
Ability to analyze individual, social and institutional effects on health and medicineSOCL 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Write a thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.
SOCL 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Write a dissertation under the supervision of a faculty member.
SOCL 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Develop a reading list and paper for an MA project under faculty supervision.
SOCL 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
This course can only be taken two times during a doctoral student's career.
Theology (THEO)
THEO 401 Tutorial in Biblical Studies (3 Credit Hours)
A reading course with variable content and readings in the area of biblical studies.
THEO 403 Topics in Rabbinic & Medieval Literature (3 Credit Hours)
Topics in post-biblical Jewish literature and thought, covering texts from approximately 200 to 1600.
THEO 404 History of Israel (3 Credit Hours)
A study of the history of ancient Israel, with particular attention to the principal features of its religion and its historical evolution, in the context of the ancient Near East.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 405 Formation of The Pentateuch (3 Credit Hours)
An in-depth examination of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, in their unity and discreetness, with a view to articulating the principal themes of the Pentateuch and the history of its composition.
Course equivalencies: IPS441/THEO 405
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 406 Basic Hebrew Grammar (3 Credit Hours)
Study of the fundamental elements of classical Hebrew.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 407 Hebrew Exegesis (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Hebrew, including the Hebrew alphabet, basic syntax, and the basic grammatical forms of the language, designed to advance reading knowledge of the Old Testament.
THEO 418 Theological Prophets-Ancient Israel (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the prophetic literature of ancient Israel, in its ancient historical context and as it can be illuminated by contemporary sociological and anthropological perspectives. Standard historical-critical methods will be used throughout.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 420 Seminar (3 Credit Hours)
No course description is available
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 421 Directed Reading in Bible Studies (1-3 Credit Hours)
No course description is available
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 422 Directed Reading in Bible Studies (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research in topics in bible studies according to program developed jointly by the student & faculty director.
THEO 424 The Synoptic Gospels (3 Credit Hours)
Study of the diversity of early Christianity as represented in the Synoptic Gospels, particularly the commonalities and contrasts in the worldviews operative in Mark, Luke, and Matthew.
THEO 425 Luke-Acts & New Testament Church (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines the material on the early church in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles from a historical and critical point of view.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 427 St Paul's Contribution to Christianity (3 Credit Hours)
Examination of Paul's thought through exacting analysis of Pauline passages; an attempt to formulate what is uniquely Pauline in the New Testament witnesses; and an awareness of how deeply Paul affected the formation of Christianity.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 429 Person of Jesus in New Testament (3 Credit Hours)
In this course, attention will be given to the presentation of the meaning of Jesus Christ within the earliest Christian communities.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 436 Christology (3 Credit Hours)
This course will study the speculations and formulations concerning the person of Christ and the redemptive incarnation from the early fathers and councils up to and including modern times.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 437 Mystery of God in Christian Theology (3 Credit Hours)
The Christian church has insisted, from the beginning, that Jesus Christ is decisive in humanity's access to, and understanding of, God. This realization was expressed in the doctrine of the Trinity.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 440 Seminar in Systematic Theology (1-12 Credit Hours)
No course description is available
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 441 Directed Reading in Systematic Theology (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research in topics in systematic theology according to program developed jointly by the student & faculty director.
THEO 447 Philosophical Theology (3 Credit Hours)
A study of the ways in which philosophical assumptions, systems, and methodologies shape theological reflection.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 449 Phenomenology of Religion (3 Credit Hours)
This course will examine religion from a phenomenological point of view, allowing the methods and texts of phenomenology to shape our understanding of religious phenomena, such as revelation, givenness, metaphysics, incarnation, etc.. Topics may also include investigations of the borders between phenomenology and theology.
THEO 459 Contemporary Theology (1-12 Credit Hours)
Advanced study of readings and themes in contemporary theology, in conversation with a variety of disciplines.
THEO 460 Seminar in History of Theology (1-12 Credit Hours)
A consideration of the organizing models characteristic of theology in particular periods. The seminar is organized around a specific doctrinal theme determined, in part, by the specialized interests of the students.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 461 Directed Readings in History of Theology (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research in topics in history of theology according to program developed jointly by the student and faculty director.
THEO 464 Religion & Politics in Christian History (3 Credit Hours)
Exploration of the intersections of religious and political thought in Christian history from the 19th century to today.
THEO 470 Foundations Crititical Issues Theological Ethics (1-12 Credit Hours)
Devoted to a critical analysis of theological ethics firmly rooted in the historical method, studying the various methodologies, critical issues and the personalities.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 475 Natural Law & Theological Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Some of the many theological interpretations of natural law developed in Western Christian thought will be examined. The issue of a specific Christian ethic vis-à-vis a universal humanistic ethic will be investigated.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 477 Feminist Issues in Theology and Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Designed around current issues in feminist theology and ethics. Issues include the role of the Bible in feminist theology, hermeneutics, theological education, church and sacraments, as well as normative theory, sexuality and reproduction, and ecology.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: X-THEO477/WOST468/WSGS468
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 478 Issues in Medical Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
The course will deal with the problems of abortion, genetic engineering, technological reproduction, sterilization of the handicapped, prolonging life, etc.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 480 Seminar in Christian Ethics (1-12 Credit Hours)
In-depth study of select topics in contemporary Christian ethics. Topics vary from faith and morality, religion and politics, church-state relations, and work to ecology, sexuality, and eschatology.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 481 Directed Readings Christian Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research in topics in Christian ethics according to program developed jointly by the student and faculty director.
THEO 515 Gospels in Early Christianity (3 Credit Hours)
This course will focus on the study of one or the other of the four gospels.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 517 Early Christian Letters (1-12 Credit Hours)
This course studies letters from Christian leaders of the first two centuries A.D. in their original Greek language.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 519 Latr Nt-Subapost Writ (3 Credit Hours)
This course studies New Testament and non-canonical Christian writings in their original Greek language from the late first and early second century A.D.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 523 Cultural-Religious Environment Early Christianity (3 Credit Hours)
This course examines specific aspects of the cultural and religious environment of the Mediterranean world between 200 B.C. and A.D. 300 relevant to early Christianity. Outcomes A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course.
THEO 527 Various Community Early Christianity (3 Credit Hours)
The course will examine the identity, cohesion, and institutions of various communal groups in early Christianity.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 530 Seminar - Variable Titles (1-12 Credit Hours)
Extensive and in-depth study of selected topic.
THEO 536 Christian Doctrine-Catholic Theology (3 Credit Hours)
This course will examine the dialectical relationships between Christian doctrine and theological learning.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 560 Contemporary Authors (1-12 Credit Hours)
This course will examine the methods, concerns, major issues, achievements, and lasting influence of twentieth century writers whose work has significantly shaped theology today.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 570 Fundamental Issues in Christian Ethics (1-12 Credit Hours)
Fundamental issues raised in defining Christian ethics, delineating its sources and methods, developing normative theories, and analyzing processes of moral decision-making.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 573 Roman Catholic Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
This course will concentrate on one or more classic topics in Roman Catholic ethics.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 575 Religious Ethics and Social Theory (3 Credit Hours)
This course investigates what religious ethics gains from and contributes to basic concerns.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 580 Christian Social Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
The course will examine the sources, transformation, problematics, and potential directions in developing the middle principles which articulate the interaction of theological ethics and social questions.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 585 Issues Applied Theology Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
An examination in depth one or more areas which have traditionally engaged religious ethicists.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 590 Directed Readings and Research (3 Credit Hours)
No course description is available
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 592 Directed Readings (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research according to program developed jointly by the student and faculty director.
THEO 593 Directed Readings (3 Credit Hours)
Independent research according to program developed jointly by the student and faculty director.
THEO 600 Dissertation Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
Students who have filed the dissertation paperwork and are currently writing, should be enrolled in this course. You must be enrolled in some course every semester.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students who have completed their Master's level course work and are preparing for the comprehensive exams should enroll in this course, unless they plan to take the exam while taking courses. You must be enrolled in some course every semester.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseTHEO 610 Doctoral Study (0 Credit Hours)
Students who have completed their doctoral level course work and are studying for the written and oral comprehensive exams should be enrolled in this course. You must be enrolled in some course every semester.
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the course
Outcomes
A deep level of understanding and of critical thinking with respect to the subject matter of the courseWomen's and Gender Studies (WSGS)
WSGS 401 History of Feminist Thought (3 Credit Hours)
This course surveys the historical development of feminist thought from Mary Wollstonecraft to second wave feminism and beyond and analyzes the impact of feminism on the general culture.
Course equivalencies: WOST401/WSGS401
WSGS 402 Foundations of Women's Studies (3 Credit Hours)
This course investigates how gender has become a critical category in education and knowledge and traces the institutional and intellectual development of women's and gender studies as a field, focusing on the evolution of WGS in the academy (here and in other countries) and on the changes in concepts of knowledge, in methodologies, and in pedagogy that women's studies scholarship has produced in various fields.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: WOST402/WSGS402
WSGS 450 Global Feminisms (3 Credit Hours)
This course is a course that explores feminism and the study of gender in a global dimension. Chosen texts privilege the study of women, gender, and sexuality from an international perspective. The course highlights the intimate relationship between the study of feminism, (post/de)colonialism, and racism.
Course equivalencies: WOST450/WSGS450
WSGS 455 Feminist Pedagogy (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Status
This course will focus on distinctly feminist ways of learning and teaching. As with feminist theory and research methods, feminist pedagogy has been understood to include characteristics like self-reflexivity, de-centered authority, standpoint epistemologies, examinations of power dynamics, and attention to embodied ways of learning and knowing.
Understand the foundational principles of feminist pedagogy and related approaches to teaching; Develop skills to analyze and produce sound teaching practices within a feminist intersectional framework
Outcomes
Understand the foundational principles of feminist pedagogy and related approaches to teaching; Develop skills to analyze and produce sound teaching practices within a feminist intersectional frameworkWSGS 460 Migration, Identity, Sexuality (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Status
We will explore how crossing borders, identity politics, gender, and sexuality intersect to produce a conversation on contemporary global immigration issues. Focus is on movement from three geographic locations from/to the Global South and North: Latin America to the US and Europe; Africa to Europe; Europe to Latin America and back.
WSGS 470 Sexual Assault Advocacy (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Status
This course provides specific skills of support and advocacy services to sexual assault survivors. Students will gain an understanding of the impact of sexual assault on victims, the social and cultural context in which sexual assault occurs, and the roles systems play to both support and inhibit survivors recovery.
Course equivalencies: WOST370/WSGS370/WGSG470
Students who successfully complete the course may be eligible to serve as Loyola University Chicago sexual assault advocates
Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course may be eligible to serve as Loyola University Chicago sexual assault advocatesWSGS 475 Masculinity Studies: Equity, Race, Transformation (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate Status
This course highlights the intersectional exploration of how masculinity is embodied, experienced, and replicated in the United States and globally. With this transnational lens, students gain a better understanding of contemporary global masculinity sociocultural issues and concerns which include race/racism, "angry white men," and the "crisis of masculinity."
Students will acquire and utilize key theoretical concepts in Masculinity studies from an international lens; Students will apply a wide critical terminology to literary texts and visual/cultural phenomena globally
Outcomes
Students will acquire and utilize key theoretical concepts in Masculinity studies from an international lens; Students will apply a wide critical terminology to literary texts and visual/cultural phenomena globallyWSGS 480 Queer Theory (3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Graduate status
This graduate level course maps the field of queer theory from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to cover a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches and interpretive applications. Outcome: Students will acquire and utilize theoretical concepts in queer studies, develop cultural competency in queer studies and present information about the field orally and in writing.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
WSGS 497 Topics in Women's Studies and Gender Studies (3 Credit Hours)
This topics course may originate in Women's Studies and Gender Studies or as a cross-listed course and deals with women's and gender topics including identity, sexuality, diversity, relationships of power in national, transnational and international contexts. The ethical and social justice implications of topics include feminist perspectives.
Course equivalencies: WOST497/WSGS497
Students understand feminist perspectives on gender in literature; Students connect theory and practice in writing, performance, action or in combined formats
Outcomes
Students understand feminist perspectives on gender in literature; Students connect theory and practice in writing, performance, action or in combined formatsWSGS 498 Practicum (1-3 Credit Hours)
WSGS Practicum gives students the option of doing a teaching or research assistantship under the supervision of a faculty member. This practicum counts as an elective credit towards the student's MA degree.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: WOST498/WSGS498
WSGS 499 Independent Study (1-3 Credit Hours)
An independent study provides students with the opportunity to work closely and one-on-one with a faculty member. The student can choose her/their/his topic or creative project. The independent study should be comparable to a graduate-level course.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: WOST499/WSGS499
WSGS 500 Thesis Research (3 Credit Hours)
A Thesis Research course allows graduate students to fine tune their research skills, academic writing, and independent thought while they are preparing their thesis proposal and/or writing their thesis.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: WOST500/WSGS500
WSGS 595 Thesis Supervision (0 Credit Hours)
The focus of a Thesis Supervision is to help students better strategize, structure, and organize themselves as they write their thesis. Students will also be advised about how to prepare for a successful oral defense.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies
Course equivalencies: WOST595/WSGS595
WSGS 599 Capstone Presentation (0 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisites: Successful completion of 12 hours in the MA program in WSGS
WSGS 599 is the culmination of the Master's program in Women's Studies and Gender Studies. Requirements include a 10 page synthesis paper or detailed outline, annotated bibliography, and public presentation at our biannual capstone ceremony.
Synthesis of the students' graduate coursework; performance of the diversity of outcomes in WSGS; celebration of students' achievements; networking
Outcomes
Synthesis of the students' graduate coursework; performance of the diversity of outcomes in WSGS; celebration of students' achievements; networkingWSGS 605 Master's Study (0 Credit Hours)
Continuing work on completion of the Master's Degree in Women's Studies and Gender Studies.
Interdisciplinary Option: Women & Gender Studies