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Special Courses

Pitt-Greensburg offers a variety of special courses that students may use to enhance their educational experience. The special courses include independent studies, internships, excellence courses, study abroad courses, and capstone courses. Most of the special courses are optional, but for some majors (e.g. criminal justice) an internship is required, and the capstone course is required of all majors.

An independent study allows a student to explore a topic for which no course is available at Pitt-Greensburg or extend the exploration of a topic begun in a regular course. To arrange for an independent study, a student must find a faculty sponsor and work with the sponsor to develop a course plan. Independent study courses are available in every department. See an advisor for more details.

Internships allow students to earn credits toward graduation while gaining on-the-job experience in their majors. An internship is required in some majors (e.g. criminal justice and the journalism track in English writing), but it is available as an elective in most majors. Students are expected to find their own internship opportunities, but faculty advisors and the Office of Career Services may be aware of employers looking for interns and can provide suggestions about seeking an internship. Some departments ask students to complete an internship application. See a faculty advisor for more information.

Pitt-Greensburg students have an opportunity to study abroad in a country/region of their choice. Academic credits are earned while abroad and will transfer directly back into the student’s academic degree requirements. See the study abroad coordinator for more information.

As part of the new Pitt-Greensburg curriculum that took effect in fall 1999, every Pitt-Greensburg student must complete a senior seminar or a senior project as a capstone to the work in the major program. The faculty views the capstone course as a significant enhancement to the UPG degree program because it provides students with the opportunity to bring together the themes and skills of the major. Capstone work typically involves research and both written and oral reports.

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History
	HIST 1753 - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1300-1923) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course traces the history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins as an obscure band of frontier warriors, to the highpoint of its geopolitical power in the sixteenth century, and on to its further evolution as an increasingly complex and peaceful society, down to the opening of the period of European imperialism and nation building. It will address not only the Ottomans’ political power, but also those economic, social, and cultural factors that helped explain that power and gave the empire such a distinctive place in the history of Western Europe, Balkans and the Middle East. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1768 - CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: CONNECTION & CONFLICT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Was the world of Europe and the Middle East before the Enlightenment a period of unending religious conflict and intolerance? Were Jews the victims of severe persecution and violence everywhere during this period? Did Christians and Muslims engage in unceasing religious wars? The answer to all three of these questions is no. While the Middle Ages were a period of conflict and competition between the three major western religious groups, they were also a time of coexistence and cooperation. This class shifts from extreme dichotomies and simplistic stereotypes to deeply examine the period in all of its complexity: what were the theological, political, and legal contexts in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted in both Christian Europe and the Muslim world? How did these deeply religious societies organize themselves to tolerate the religious “Other”? When and why did toleration break down and lead to expulsion, forced conversion, or violence? What kinds of cross-cultural exchanges and cooperation take place in economic, cultural, intellectual, and social life? We will also look at new ideas of toleration (and intolerance) that emerged at the end of the Middle Ages and examine aspects of inter-religious encounters and dialogues today. We will discuss not only the significance of Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions in the Middle Ages but also assess these encounters as a case study in the broader history of religious diversity, pluralism, and conflict. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HIST 1775 - ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course presents a historical-critical investigation of Christian origins. Special attention is paid to varieties of 1st century Hellenistic and Palestinian Judaism within the Greco-Roman world. Primary readings include selected Biblical passages and apocrypha, 1st century historians and philosophers (Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Philo), the New Testament corpus (including Paul and the Pastorals), and selected readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition there will be assignments from various modern New Testament critics, historians, and theologians. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HIST 1793 - HISTORY OF IRAN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Surveys the long history of Iran, also known as Persia, from ancient times to the present. Covers the Persian Empire of antiquity and traces the introduction of foreign cultures over the centuries - Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and Europeans to create the multifaceted society of Modern Iran. Classical culture and religious history are discussed, as are modern political developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1900 - HISTORY INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 This course enables students to combine academic training and practical work experience related to the major. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Internship Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HIST 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 9 Individual project administered under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1947 - RISE OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the history of the National Security State in the United States, tracing its origins from the early 20th century with a particular focus on the rise and expansion at the federal level after WWII. Areas of focus will also include the increasing use of surveillance in the United States, including those by various federal and state agencies, corporations, organizations, and individuals. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1950 - MODERN EAST ASIA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Presents the history of China, Korea, and Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries. Traces the western impact on East Asia and the responses of these nations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1955 - HISTORY CAPSTONE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is to be taken by majors in the senior year. It will presume a basic knowledge of historical information and technique. Utilizing a research seminar format, students will develop a substantial group or individual research project. Following discussion and revision, they will complete this research project. The project will be presented to the seminar in both written and oral form. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: HIST 1010 LVL: Junior or greater
	HIST 1969 - STUDY ABROAD CONFLICT & PEACEBUILDING IN IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 This course explores the sources and development of conflict and subsequent peace-building in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The focus is on the development of the Irish state, the rise of conflict during the Troubles in Northern Ireland between the 1960s and 1990s, and finally the establishment of a peace process and system of governance from the 1990s to present. The course includes a one week study abroad component in Ireland and Northern Ireland during Spring Break. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1970 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 This course involves student participation as an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) for a history course under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
History of Art and Architecture
	HAA 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the question `what is art through a close analysis of select art works from around the globe, introducing students to the types of questions art historians bring to the images, objects and sites human beings have taken particular care to craft and conceptualize. What role has art played in a diverse range of human cultures across time? Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course will present a chronological survey of Western European, Russian, and American art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present (impressionism to post-modernism). In addition to charting the dramatic stylistic and conceptual changes in art during this time period, the course will consider the historical circumstances which caused a disintegration in accepted notions of what constituted a significant work of art. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A survey of the architecture, painting, sculpture and minor arts of the medieval world from ca. 300 To ca. 1450 With the emphasis on visual analysis of period styles. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HAA 0090 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the latest developments in contemporary art in the context of changes in world visual cultures since the 1960s. The first weeks will concentrate on the transformations of artistic practice that occurred initially in pop art, and on the minimal-conceptual shift in Western art. This will be followed by a survey of the diversification of artistic practice in the 1980s and 1990s, including the emergence of new internationalisms reflecting postcoloniality, global contemporary art and digital media. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	HAA 0150 - ANCIENT ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The Mediterranean Sea is a lake and its shores have produced many important cultures and artistic traditions. The course will survey the artistic and cultural traditions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 6000-1200 BCE), a formative period for the cultures that developed in these regions. Special attention will be paid to: 1) the relationship between the artistic traditions of these areas and the societies which produced them, and 2) the way in which influences from one culture were transformed by another. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0225 - MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course offers a survey of architecture, sculpture, painting and mosaics from the medieval period, dating from the 4th through the 13th centuries. The transformation of artistic styles during these 10 centuries used the stylistic foundations of the early Christian period as a point of departure, as medieval styles evolved into the Hiberno-Saxon Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque and gothic movements. Socio-economic developments and religious philosophies will also be examined from these periods. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 0302 - RENAISSANCE ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 We will explore the arts - painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts - that flourished in Italy between 1250 and 1590. The renaissance is one of the great epochs of western culture; this course offers an introduction to the visual evidence that reveals the development of new attitudes about human life and its meaning. Emphasis will be on works of those revolutionary individuals who transformed the arts - Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Bellini, titian, and Palladio, to name only the most important. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0304 - VISUAL CULTURE AND GLOBAL IDENTITY IN FLORENCE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Florence, the regional capital of Tuscany, is located in central Italy and is considered by many the birthplace of the Renaissance. Florence lays claim to innovators of culture and science such as Dante, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Galileo, and many more. Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist and biographer, attributes this confluence of talent to God’s divine will and grace, and affixes the identity of Florence with the Renaissance. Using the theoretical construct of semiotics, that is, the play of word and image relationships, students will examine the rich written and visual culture of Florence to formulate an understanding of Florentine identity. Trips to Siena and Pisa will provide contrasting examples of Tuscan identities. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HAA 0306 - STUDY ABROAD: EXPLORING ART IN ITALY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Florence, the regional capital of Tuscany, is located in central Italy and is considered by many the birthplace of the Renaissance. This course will explore the art of the Renaissance highlighting innovators Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael with onsite lectures and visits in Florence, Rome, and Milan. Special attention will be given to the context of art and its relationships to its original location, and to the role and influence of humanism and Neoplatonism on the development of the style of the Renaissance. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HAA 0350 - BAROQUE ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will consider the careers of the major painters and sculptors of Italy (Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Cortona, Gaulli), Spain (Ribera, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Montanes, Murillo), France (G. De la Tour, P. De Champaigne, Poussin, Claude, le Brun, Puget), Flanders (Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens) and Holland (Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruisdael) in the 17thC. It will also consider definitions of the term “baroque” in relation to the history of taste and later responses to 17thC artistic achievement. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0402 - WOMEN ARTISTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will focus on women artists from the late renaissance, when they first emerged and achieved some success, to the present. The social context in which women artists functioned and the roles played by the most successful women of each century in opening opportunities for the succeeding generation will be considered. Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani, Judith Leyster, Rachel Ruysch, Rosalba Carriera, Angelica Kauffman, e\E. Vigee Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and many 20thC women artists will be covered. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 0501 - AMERICAN ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce students to American painting, sculpture, and architecture, with an emphasis on painting, from the colonial period to the post-World War II era. Students will also learn the vocabulary of visual analysis and become familiar with the scope of art historical methodology. Students should leave the class with a broad understanding of the contexts in which American artists worked, a fund of information about artists and monuments of art in the American heritage, skills in visual analysis, and the capability to focus several types of critical questions. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	HAA 0810 - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the development of experimental cinema beginning in Europe in the 1920s with dada and surrealist films by Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and others, and continuing in the U.S. and elsewhere after World War II. The films, many of which are non-narrative and some of which are “abstract”, will be examined for the ways in which cinema is used for the filmmakersâ?? personal expression. Consideration will be given to the artistic and cultural contexts in which the films were made, and comparisons will be made with other media, especially painting and sculpture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 1005 - ART AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 “Each work of art tells a story, “… The story of its making and meaning, of the material choices made by the artist, and of its survival more or less unharmed, through time. Object-based research can be used to establish the story line, and aided by scientific analysis, art historical and art technological source research, the plot may be revealed.” [University of Glasgow, website for technical art history] this course will examine the mysteries of works of art from the medieval and early modern periods, roughly CA. 1000-1800. How were they made? What materials and techniques were used? Does the work of art look how it did originally? Why, or why not? What do historic and modern methods of conservation and restoration reveal about the object? We will explore these questions through readings, videos, and hands-on examination of materials and conservation techniques. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 1010 - APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 HAA 1010 is the capstone research seminar required of all HAA majors and is an official w-course. Students in this class will conduct extensive readings on a special topic devised by the course instructor. Each student in the class will be required to produce a substantive research paper under the guidance of the instructor. Students will work to master the skills that are fundamental to the discipline and broader arts related professions: critical thinking, research, and written and oral communication. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: PREQ: at least one HAA course; LVL: junior
	HAA 1015 - THEORY AND METHODS OF ART HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and basic methods used by art historians, and to the research tools needed to employ these methods. We will explore the different approaches to art objects and their historical contexts used in the discipline of art history. The goal of this course is to teach the student how to read critically as well as to learn to identify, interpret, and use a variety of research methodologies as you collect, read, analyze, and discuss representative texts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LVL: Junior; HAA 0010; VAPA Major or HAA Minor.
	HAA 1300 - SPECIAL TOPICS-RENAISSANCE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Special topics in Renaissance art. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: At least one HAA course; LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: Medieval & Renaissance Studies, West European Studies
	HAA 1302 - ITALIAN ART & THE BLACK DEATH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will explore the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Italy during the later Middle Ages (ca. 1250-1400), the nascent roots of the Italian Renaissance, and will ask students to consider the possible extent of the Black Death in creating or contributing to the visual culture of the Renaissance. The pestilence struck Italy a devastating blow in 1348, and recurred in 1362, 1368, and 1381, with Italian cities losing up to half or more of their populations. How did artists respond to this crisis, if they responded at all? This course will consider primary source documents, materials and techniques of making art, and the geographical, social, historical, religious, and literary contexts that contribute to the formation of the period we know as the Renaissance. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 1304 - LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO AND RAPHAEL: PAINTING IN 16TH-C ITALY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will cover painting and sculpture in Italy from 1480 to 1580, emphasizing major figures (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giorgione, titian, Veronese, Andrea del Sarto, Salviato, Vasari) and consider relevant art theory and historiography (High Renaissance, Maneria and Mannerism). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or Greater Course Attributes: Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 1410 - REALISM AND IMPRESSIONISM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 These movements in 19th century European art were important in the formation of later modern art currents. The course will consider the major developments in Romanticism, then study Courbet, Manet and Degas, and finally move to the major impressionist masters, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro. Much attention will be given to the literary and scientific framework for the art of the period. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Any HAA or FA course or permission of instructor
	HAA 1601 - SPECIAL TOPICS-JAPANESE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Special topics in Japanese art. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Asian Studies
	HAA 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Independent reading and research with one faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HAA 1903 - HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic credit is awarded for practical professional experience gained through a directed internship. The internship is arranged by the student through the University internship office in consultation with the undergraduate advisor in art history. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Internship Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit Course Requirements: PREQ: At least one HAA course; LVL: Junior
	HAA 1955 - VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CAPSTONE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: HAA 0010 and 0030 and MUSIC 0211 and 0411 and THEA 0104 and 0805 or 0806; LVL: Senior
Humanities
	HUMAN 0105 - STUDY ABROAD EXCHANGE PROGRAM Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 18 The study abroad exchange program represents credits earned in an approved exchange agreement between one of the University of Pittsburgh campuses and another educational institution. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HUMAN 0350 - FLORENCE: DOOR TO GLOBAL IDENTITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HUMAN 1030 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This interdisciplinary, skill-building course will give students critical perspective on and practical experience with digital methods for generating, archiving, and researching cultural resources in the humanities and history. Students will investigate a) methods used to access a variety of software and internet technologies, b) potentials and limits of research in current digital resources, both public and proprietary, and c) design, production, and use of new digital resource material. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HUMAN 1050 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES: CODING AND DATA VISUALIZATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course involves preparing electronic texts for public access with systematic markup language, such as XML, with emphasis on data extraction and visual analysis of literary and historical texts; creating bar, line, and network graphs, and geographic and image mapping. (The emphasis in this alternative course is less on creating digital editions of texts and more on data extraction and visualization from digital texts prepared as information databases.) Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HUMAN 1055 - ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A seminar class in which students would: discuss real-world issues with guest speakers; learn skills such as creating and maintaining a program budget; and create their own brand and related self-marketing materials and online presence, in the form of a website, YouTube channel, etc. (dependent on the student’s needs), in preparation for grad school or the post-commencement working world. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: SOPHOMORE
	HUMAN 1100 - ARTS TIMELINE Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: HAA 1015; Senior; VAPA Major
	HUMAN 1140 - THEORY AND METHODS OF THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and basic methods used by visual and performing artists, and to the research tools needed to employ these methods. We will explore the different approaches to art objects/performances and their historical contexts used in the discipline of art history/music/theatre. The goal of this course is to teach you how to read critically as well as to learn to identify, interpret, and use a variety of research methodologies as you collect, read, analyze, and discuss representative texts. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: PREQ: HA&A 0010; MUSIC 0211 and (THEA 0805 or 0806); LVL: JUNIOR
	HUMAN 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 Independent study is a program of academic reading and research taken under the direction of a faculty sponsor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HUMAN 1955 - HUMANITIES AREA CAPSTONE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Capstone course for senior humanities area of concentration majors. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Information Science
	INFSCI 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION, SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to the concepts, principles, and skills of information science for students with no programming experience. Topics include the need for information and the use of information, data collection, coding, storage and retrieval, information processing, information display, and the evaluation of information. This course is intended for students enrolled in programs other than the BSIS major. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Quant.-Formal Reason General Ed. Requirement
	INFSCI 0011 - INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SCIENCE ADVANCED Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce both information theory and the design and structure of information systems. You will learn how computers and networks work at a fundamental level. You will explore how social networks, collection of information (databases), and programming languages work. The course will spend particular attention on security and privacy issues. The course will provide you with basic skills such as building web page, programming using simple JavaScript on web pages, design and use of simple databases, and manipulation of digital media. The course meets the quantitative requirement for the college of arts & sciences, is designed for students with minimal prior technical coursework, and does not require previous programming experience. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 0012 - INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to concepts, principles, and skills of programming, including compilers, algorithms, and problem solving using a high level programming language such as c. Intended for students with little or no programming experience who seek an information science major. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 0017 - FUNDAMENTALS OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 First programming course for is majors, designed for students with little or no programming experience. Basic principles and concepts of object-oriented programming using java. Classes, interfaces, operators, program control, arrays, testing, debugging, inheritance, polymorphism, and event handling. Techniques for simplifying the programming process and improving code quality. Activity-based learning. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1014 - GRAPHICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Techniques for producing graphical displays using computers. How to design and create computer graphics. Overview of artistic and technical knowledge needed to create graphics. What makes a good graphical display will be investigated. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0422
	INFSCI 1017 - IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Second programming course for is majors. Advanced java language features required for professional software development. Data structures, oo design, graphical user interfaces, exception handling, multithreading, i/o, web and network programming. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 0017
	INFSCI 1022 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The design, implementation, and utilization of database management systems. Contrasts the methodologies of file systems, data management systems, and database management systems. Various data structures (e.g., Tree, network, linked list) and several database models (e.g., The Codasyl database task group model and the relational database model). Administrative tasks required in database management are considered. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 0010
	INFSCI 1024 - ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides state-of-the-art skills in requirements management and scope management, which is critical for successful IT projects. Topics include best practices in eliciting, documenting, verifying and modeling requirements. This is an active learning course where students develop an analysis model for a realistic IT project which can serve as a foundation for INFSCI 1017 and INFSCI 1025. The analysis model is suitable for inclusion in the student’s IT portfolio. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 0010
	INFSCI 1037 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course presents a structured methodology to plan, manage, and control a project from inception to implementation. Topics will include identification of necessary resources, status reviews to manage risk of delays or failure, use of a Work Breakdown Structure and Project Management software, along with the change management process as a framework to analyze the impact of changes. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1022 and INFSCI 1070. Course Attributes: Hourly Final
	INFSCI 1038 - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 To provide students with an appreciation of the actual working environment of the typical misdepartment within the business community, including organizational structure and communication, budgeting issues, personnel issues, equipment acquisition and installation, planning for daily operations, and system evaluation. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Senior; INFSCI 1037
	INFSCI 1044 - HUMAN FACTORS IN SYSTEM DESIGN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Examines human-machine designs with special emphasis on human-computer interaction. Topics center on how to analyze, create, and improve equipment and environment to be compatible with human capabilities and expectations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010
	INFSCI 1052 - USER CENTERED DESIGN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduces principles and programming of interactive systems. Interaction techniques are surveyed and incorporated in the design of interfaces. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0422 and INFSCI 1044
	INFSCI 1053 - DIGITAL FORENSICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An introduction to the collection, analysis, and preservation of digital evidence in criminal investigation. A summary of legal issues and challenges will be augmented by discussion of current trends which impact practitioners. Examples of software and other tools will be used to illustrate techniques. Prerequisites: instructor permission Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1055
	INFSCI 1055 - CLIENT/SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course prepares the student to administer networks using the Microsoft Windows Server operating system and to pass the Microsoft Windows Server certification exam. Focusing on updates to the software and in-depth coverage of the administration aspects of Windows Server, this course includes topics such as installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting Windows Server. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1057 - LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides an introduction to the use and administration of the Linux operating system. Operating system concepts will be covered as well as how Linux implements these concepts. We will explore the main areas of the operating system, including the file system, process execution in a multitasking, multi-user environment, and security functionality. Special attention will be paid to the Linux shell, with an emphasis on shell programming and security. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1058 - WEB PROGRAMMING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce the PHP scripting language. Students will download and install the apache web server, PHP, and MySQL database. The course will cover programming concepts, client server architecture, database access and XHTML/cascading style sheets. Students will write a full scale web application as their final project. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0421 and INFSCI 1022
	INFSCI 1060 - GAME DESIGN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A first course in applied statistics: the collection, organization, and reduction of data. Measurement and presentation of data, measures of central tendency and variability, introduction to probability theory, sampling theory, Bayesian analysis, normal and other theoretical distributions, significance tests, and hypothesis testing; chi-square, introduction to regression and correlation analysis. Emphasizes statistical programming utilizing canned statistical packages on the VAX/VMS. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1068 - GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to geographic information system (GIS) concept and technology including spatial data sources, spatial data models and structures, spatial database management, map projection systems, geocoding and Georeferencing, spatial analysis, spatial data visualization (maps), GIS applications (e.g., Address-location finding, navigation, routing), and commercial GIS software packages. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1022
	INFSCI 1070 - INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to telecommunications and networks. Top-down orientation relates networking technologies to organizational goals and needs. Data communications and internet technologies and basic system performance analysis. TCP/IP, lans, wans, internetworking, and signals and communications media. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 0010 and (MATH 0031 or MATH 0020)
	INFSCI 1071 - APPLICATIONS OF NETWORKS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Second course in telecommunications and networks. Network architecture, protocols, performance, design, and analysis based on application needs, organizational requirements, user requirements, and performance objectives. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1070
	INFSCI 1072 - INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS NETWORKS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introductory broad overview for students with a basic background in telecommunications. Not for telecom majors. Principles of wireless communications and how they differ from wired communications. Fundamental concepts including: transmission and mitigation techniques (e.g., Modulation and coding, propagation, interference and antennas) for wireless systems, multiplexing techniques, wireless system architectures, mobility management, security, protocols and location technology. Systems include: cellular phone networks (e.g., Cdma2000, umts), wireless local area networks (e.g., Ieee 802.11G), personal area networks (e.g., Bluetooth), fixed point broadband wireless (e.g., WiMAX) and satellite systems. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1070
	INFSCI 1073 - APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR MOBILE DEVICES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Focus on information system applications that run on top of wireless infrastructure such as multimedia messaging, mobile inventory control, location aware services including wireless technologies (GSM, cdma2000, umts, 802.11, Bluetooth), mobile information systems and applications (m-business, location-based services, wireless CM), wireless information system challenges and architectures (security, reliability, mobility, power conservation, gateways, proxies), mobile application protocols (SMS, ems, mms, WAP), thin and thick client mobile application development (WML, vSMLl, Java, J2me, J2ee, .Netcf, c+), and business case studies of mobile applications. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1074 - COMPUTER SECURITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Overview of information security. Principles of security including confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Operating systems and database security concepts. Basic cryptography and network security concepts. Secure software design and application security. Evaluation standards, security management. Social, legal and ethical issues. Human factors in security. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1075 - NETWORK SECURITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Network security and cryptographic protocols. Network vulnerabilities, attacks on TCP/IP, network monitoring, security at the link, network and transport layers. Cryptography, e.g., Secret and public key schemes, message authentication codes and key management. Wlan security, ipsec, ssl, and vpns. E-mail security (pgp, s/mime); kerberos; x.509 Certificates; AAA and mobile IP; SNMP security; firewalls; filters and gateways. Policies and implementation of firewall policies; stateful firewalls; firewall appliances. Network related physical security, risk management and disaster recovery/contingency planning issues and housekeeping procedures. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1070 and INFSCI 1074
	INFSCI 1078 - ETHICS IN COMPUTING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An introduction to cyber-ethics. Considers ethical issues both from the professional perspective, as applied to computing professionals, and also from the perspective of the user or consumer of technology in society today. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
	INFSCI 1080 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Development of readings, research, and practical implementation of a system or other forms of study as arranged between student and instructor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1085 - INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Supervised work in an information environment providing a frame of reference for understanding and an opportunity to apply the skills, methodologies, and theories presented in information science courses. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	INFSCI 1086 - INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 2 Supervised work in an information environment providing a frame of reference for understanding and an opportunity to apply the skills, methodologies, and theories presented in information science courses. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Internship Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1092 - SPECIAL TOPICS: SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Advanced class focusing on current or specialized topic in systems area. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1128 - DATA VISUALIZATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Applies principles of human perception and graphic design to the problem of visualizing data. Includes the study of software tools and techniques for analyzing data and creating visualizations that aid in the understanding of and communication about complex data. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1160 - DATA MINING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to data mining techniques, including data preprocessing, data mining primitives, association rules, decision trees, cluster analysis, classification and machine learning, data visualization, and data warehousing. Detailed applications from a wide variety of domains. It is a new elective course for IT and MIS majors. The hybrid designation means that the class will not be a run in the traditional way where students and instructor meet together for lectures and labs. There will be occasional in-person meetings, but the plan is for narrated PowerPoints for lectures and instruction scripts for labs to be posted to CourseWeb. Students will listen to lectures, complete homework and do lab work independently. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: PREQ: INFSCI 1022
	INFSCI 1680 - SOCIAL MEDIA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the use of social media for marketing, recruiting, research, collaboration on projects, customer engagement and applications in a variety of organizations. Metrics to evaluate competitive position and the success of new approaches to social media will be covered. Students will complete a project to recommend social media applications for a small organization. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	INFSCI 1950 - UNDERGRAD TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Involves student participation as an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) for an Information Science course under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: Letter Grade
Instruction and Learning
	IL 0020 - DIRECTED TUTORING Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Provides pre-education majors with tutoring experiences in area school districts or other field settings. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ADMPS 1001, (PSY 1001 or PSYED 1001), IL 1000, IL 1330
	IL 1000 - INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to teaching explores contemporary perspectives of education. It provides a basic introduction to instructional planning, curriculum, and classroom management. Additionally, the class provides opportunities for practice of proven teaching strategies designed to meet individual student needs. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: PREQ: ADMPS 1001; COREQ: PSY 1001 or PSYED 1001
	IL 1060 - EDUCATION OF EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM 1 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to teaching exceptional students in mainstream classrooms. It will provide students who plan to become educators with opportunities to (1) develop a knowledge base of attitudinal issues regarding inclusive educational practices and a philosophical orientation towards effective inclusion strategies, (2) increase interpersonal skills for working effectively with individual and groups, and (3) increase technical skills in observing, planning, assessing and evaluation for both behavioral and instructional challenges. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ADMPS 1001; (PSY 1001 or PSYED 1001)
	IL 1061 - EDUCATION OF EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM 2 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 In this course, knowledge and attitudes introduced in I&L; 1060 will be enriched as students obtain additional strategies for supporting students with special needs in their classrooms. Specific foci include: (1) developing management and behavioral intervention plans, (2) developing additional accommodation and support strategies, (3) working with students with mental illness, and (4) enhancing the skills introduced in I&L 1060. Students will also partake in field experiences in classrooms with included students. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1060, (IL 1330 or 1332); PLAN: Early Childhood Education or Secondary Education COREQ: IL 1700 or IL 1702
	IL 1062 - METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR MODERATE TO SEVERE DISABILITIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on curriculum, instruction, accommodations, and modifications for students with low incidence and moderate to severe disabilities. Topics covered include: access to general education classrooms; academic content and instruction (literacy, math, science, social studies, and other areas of instruction); teaching daily functional life and leisure skills; social, emotional, and health care needs; creation and implementation of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs); selecting appropriate accommodations and modifications; the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity on learning; collaboration among teachers and related service providers; and transition. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	IL 1075 - GIFTED EDUCATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Allows students to delve into the topic of gifted education. Students will learn not only the definition of gifted education and the varied ways of recognizing giftedness, but will also learn how to support the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted students. The integrated field experience allows students to connect university learning to in-school practices, promoting a seamless learning experience. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: (IL 1330 or IL 1332 or IL 1333) and IL 1060
	IL 1150 - HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE PRIMARY YEARS: ISSUES AND STRATEGIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides the background information and skills teachers need to implement comprehensive school health education at the grade level at which they are certified. Information is provided on school health services, safe and healthful school environment, comprehensive school health curriculum, and instructional strategies and technologies. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1324; IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major
	IL 1161 - SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE PRIMARY YEARS Minimum Credits: 2 Maximum Credits: 2 Designed to prepare the Undergraduate early childhood student to effectively teach social studies at the early childhood school level. The practical competencies needed for teaching social studies are explored, developed and experienced. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1324; IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major
	IL 1210 - EMERGENT LITERACY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on children’s language acquisition and early literacy development. Included are research, instructional models and strategies, curriculum design, assessment practices, and the selection and use of children’s literature in the development of the necessary foundations for effective speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 1640; PSY 0310; (PSY 1001 or PSYED 1001); PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major CREQ: IL 1700
	IL 1215 - READING IN THE PRIMARY YEARS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 As one of three courses designed to examine the development of literacy from the earliest years through grade four, this course focuses primarily on the teaching of reading in the early elementary grades. Theories and research are examined, and a variety of instructional practices and materials are presented for teaching children how to read and comprehend the meaning of various types of written text. Included are means of assessment for analyzing children’s reading abilities and for differentiating reading instruction based on those analyses. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 1640; IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major CREQ: IL 1225
	IL 1218 - ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on research, policies, and best practices related to assessment in educational settings. Both formal and informal instruments and approaches will be discussed with an emphasis on means of assessment that can be used by teachers of young children to link assessment to curriculum planning, to guide children’s development, and to evaluate programs. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0050, MATH 0052; IL 1330; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major CREQ: IL 1700
	IL 1219 - METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR LANGUAGE AND LITERACY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on literacy development and instruction through the examination and application of research-based strategies for teaching reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to students with exceptional needs. Topics covered are utilizing evidence-based strategies in planning and adapting instruction, adapting curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners in the reading classrooms, provide adapted reading support in the additional content areas of math, social studies, and science, provide assistive technology solutions where needed, and utilizing ongoing assessment to plan and adapt instruction that meets the individualized needs of all students.. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	IL 1220 - LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY YEARS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 As one of three courses designed to examine the development of literacy from the earliest years through grade four, this course focuses primarily on writing, speaking, and listening abilities. Included are the theories, research, instructional approaches, and materials needed to support children during the early elementary grades in communicating effectively through various types of writing, through appropriate speech for differing situations, and through active listening to others’ communication. Topics such as spelling, grammar, handwriting, and the writing process also are addressed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 1640; IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major CREQ: IL 1225
	IL 1222 - MATHEMATICS IN THE PRIMARY YEARS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to provide the theoretical background and the pedagogical and psychological concepts necessary for planning, implementing, and assessing a mathematics program for the early elementary grades. A variety of instructional approaches will be introduced, with particular emphasis on teaching mathematics through problem solving and active learning experiences. Contents will include the selection and preparation of appropriate instructional materials for effectively facilitating the learning of mathematical content and process skills, and for integrating this learning with other areas of the elementary school curriculum. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major
	IL 1223 - METHODS AND STRATEGIES FOR MATHEMATICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course focuses on methods and strategies for teaching math to students with exceptional needs. Emphasis is on assessment, remediation, evaluating, and modifying commercially developed math programs, and evidence-based instructional practices to promote skill acquisition, maintenance, and generalization. Mathematics, which is considered one of the three core subjects, often needs to be adapted for students with special needs. This course also focuses on how to assess students and accommodate their needs in math. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	IL 1225 - PEDAGOGY LAB - LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 A one credit course that is required of all students pursuing early childhood education. The pedagogy lab allows students to experience in actual classroom settings the implementation of pedagogical techniques learned in the content courses, particularly the literacy and mathematics courses. Dual placements of 15 hours each are arranged at two different levels in the early elementary grades: k-1 and 2-4. The lab experience is intended to create an essential bridge that spans content and pedagogy in order to connect theory to practice. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1700; PLAN: Early Childhood Education Major CREQ: IL 1215, IL 1220, IL 1222
	IL 1226 - PEDAGOGY LAB: LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS - SPECIAL EDUCATION Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 The pedagogy lab provides a unique opportunity for students to focus on the development of concepts, skills, and attitudes in the areas of literacy and mathematics. Students will design, implement, assess, and modify lessons in an actual classroom setting under the supervision of a Master Teacher and a University professor. Other areas of focus will be accommodations for special needs students, classroom management, guidance techniques, and professional collaboration. Placements in K-5 and 6-12 classrooms will be arranged for the student to participate in 30 hours split between ELA and mathematics. The content of the course will include, but not be limited to, the knowledge and skills listed below as identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Education Program Specific Guidelines for certification to teach children from the pre-kindergarten years to grade 12 in special education. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	IL 1230 - INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course is designed to introduce students to basic issues in the teaching of writing, literature, and language with special emphasis on class discussions. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
	IL 1235 - TEACHING ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The core competencies to be acquired and developed by students in this course are (1) the theory of teaching English by performance objectives; (2) methods of teaching grammar, composition, literature, oral communication, and media; and (3) strategies for curriculum development, as well as course unit and daily lesson plans. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: IL 1702; CREQ: IL 1236; PLAN: Secondary Education Major
	IL 1236 - PEDAGOGY LAB - ENGLISH Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 A one credit course that will be required for all students enrolled in the English methods course. The pedagogy lab will allow students to experience firsthand the implementation of pedagogical techniques, as learned in the content methods course, being used to teach content in an actual 7-12 classroom setting. This course is intended to create an essential bridge that spans content and pedagogy in order to connect theory to practice. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: CREQ: IL 1235; PLAN: Secondary Education Major
	IL 1237 - TEACHING SPANISH METHODS IN K-12 CLASSROOMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course familiarizes pre-service Spanish educators with (1) strategies for developing materials and teaching Spanish to k-12 students; (2) the Pennsylvania and national standards for foreign language learning in the 21st century; and (3) resources for teaching Spanish. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to GSPED-BS (Spanish Education major); COREQ: IL 1238
	IL 1238 - PEDAGOGY LAB- SPANISH Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 One credit course required for all students enrolled in the Spanish methods course. Allows students to experience firsthand the implementation of pedagogical techniques, as learned in the content methods course, being used to teach content in an actual k-12 classroom setting. Intended to create an essential bridge that spans content and pedagogy in order to connect theory to practice. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to GSPED-BS (Spanish Education major); COREQ: IL 1237
	IL 1260 - INTRO TO SOCIAL STUDIES EDUC Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A basic introductory course; primary focus is upon secondary schools as institutions in contemporary society and the role of social studies programs and teachers within this context. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade

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HIST 1753 - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1300-1923)

HIST 1768 - CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: CONNECTION & CONFLICT

HIST 1775 - ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY

HIST 1793 - HISTORY OF IRAN

HIST 1900 - HISTORY INTERNSHIP

HIST 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

HIST 1947 - RISE OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE

HIST 1950 - MODERN EAST ASIA

HIST 1955 - HISTORY CAPSTONE

HIST 1969 - STUDY ABROAD CONFLICT & PEACEBUILDING IN IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND

HIST 1970 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE

HAA 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ART

HAA 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART

HAA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART

HAA 0090 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART

HAA 0150 - ANCIENT ART

HAA 0225 - MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

HAA 0302 - RENAISSANCE ART

HAA 0304 - VISUAL CULTURE AND GLOBAL IDENTITY IN FLORENCE

HAA 0306 - STUDY ABROAD: EXPLORING ART IN ITALY

HAA 0350 - BAROQUE ART

HAA 0402 - WOMEN ARTISTS

HAA 0501 - AMERICAN ART

HAA 0810 - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

HAA 1005 - ART AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS

HAA 1010 - APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY

HAA 1015 - THEORY AND METHODS OF ART HISTORY

HAA 1300 - SPECIAL TOPICS-RENAISSANCE

HAA 1302 - ITALIAN ART & THE BLACK DEATH

HAA 1304 - LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO AND RAPHAEL: PAINTING IN 16TH-C ITALY

HAA 1410 - REALISM AND IMPRESSIONISM

HAA 1601 - SPECIAL TOPICS-JAPANESE

HAA 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

HAA 1903 - HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP

HAA 1955 - VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CAPSTONE

HUMAN 0105 - STUDY ABROAD EXCHANGE PROGRAM

HUMAN 0350 - FLORENCE: DOOR TO GLOBAL IDENTITY

HUMAN 1030 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES

HUMAN 1050 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES: CODING AND DATA VISUALIZATION

HUMAN 1055 - ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

HUMAN 1100 - ARTS TIMELINE

HUMAN 1140 - THEORY AND METHODS OF THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

HUMAN 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

HUMAN 1955 - HUMANITIES AREA CAPSTONE

INFSCI 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION, SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY

INFSCI 0011 - INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SCIENCE ADVANCED

INFSCI 0012 - INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING

INFSCI 0017 - FUNDAMENTALS OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

INFSCI 1014 - GRAPHICS

INFSCI 1017 - IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1022 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1024 - ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1037 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT

INFSCI 1038 - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1044 - HUMAN FACTORS IN SYSTEM DESIGN

INFSCI 1052 - USER CENTERED DESIGN

INFSCI 1053 - DIGITAL FORENSICS

INFSCI 1055 - CLIENT/SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1057 - LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

INFSCI 1058 - WEB PROGRAMMING

INFSCI 1060 - GAME DESIGN

INFSCI 1068 - GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

INFSCI 1070 - INTRODUCTION TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS

INFSCI 1071 - APPLICATIONS OF NETWORKS

INFSCI 1072 - INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS NETWORKS

INFSCI 1073 - APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR MOBILE DEVICES

INFSCI 1074 - COMPUTER SECURITY

INFSCI 1075 - NETWORK SECURITY

INFSCI 1078 - ETHICS IN COMPUTING

INFSCI 1080 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

INFSCI 1085 - INTERNSHIP

INFSCI 1086 - INTERNSHIP

INFSCI 1092 - SPECIAL TOPICS: SYSTEMS

INFSCI 1128 - DATA VISUALIZATION

INFSCI 1160 - DATA MINING

INFSCI 1680 - SOCIAL MEDIA

INFSCI 1950 - UNDERGRAD TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE