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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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PRFTRN 165 - Chelsea Achieves in Mathematics
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This training intends to provide early educators employed at the CAPIC Head Start with knowledge and skills to implement the Opening the World of Learning Curriculum in their classrooms beginning September 2016. Participants will engage in 15 hours of professional development followed up by twenty hours of coaching to support implementation over the next ten months.
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PRFTRN 166 - Camping & Hiking Outdoor Leadership Training
42 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Learn how to lead youth on camping trips and day hikes! The OLT (outdoor Leadership Training) is your first step to becoming a YOP (Youth Opportunities Program) member and receiving the benefits such as free equipment loans and reduced rates at AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) destinations. The training begins with a pre-trip meeting in Boston and involves four days of outdoor adventure in New Hampshire. Through experiential learning, this exciting and intensive training allows you to gain leadership experience, practice camping skills, and learn valuable information about leading youth on outdoor adventures.
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PRFTRN 167 - Backpacking Outdoor Leadership Training
52 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Learn how to lead youth on camping trips and day hikes! The OLT (outdoor Leadership Training) is your first step to becoming a YOP (Youth Opportunities Program) member and receiving the benefits such as free equipment loans and reduced rates at AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) destinations. The training begins with a pre-trip meeting in Boston and involves five days of outdoor adventure in New Hampshire. Through experiential learning, this exciting and intensive training allows you to gain leadership experience, practice camping skills, and learn valuable information about leading youth on outdoor adventures.
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PRFTRN 168 - Practice Based Coaching
6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Individuals participating int he Higher Order Thinking Grant may select to participate in monthly coaching. a total of three coaching visits will take place between September 2016 and December 2016. Each coaching visit consists of a 2 hour visit tot he classroom followed by an opportunity to debrief. Each visit is framed around an action plan which is based on a professional goals established by each individual teacher. Through an on-going reflective dialogue teachers and coaches refine the identify goals in context exploring various insights, motivations, capabilities, and practices to inform changes in knowledge, skills, and practices to achieve a targeted goal. Together a teacher and coach may develop many action plans to support change and measure progress.
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PRFTRN 169 - Literacy Environment
6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Early childhood educators in Lowell begun implementing an integrated language and literacy curriculum in both preschool and kindergarten classrooms during the 2015-16 school year. As part of this work classrooms daily schedules and learning environments have changed. As the districts begins to implement an integrated approach to learning, language and literacy instruction are embedded in learning across the day. Educators therefore are thinking changes to the classroom environment in order to support learning.
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PRFTRN 170 - Using ELLCO Data
6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will meet monthly for three months to provide time for working professionals to use self-assessment data from the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation as well as their own research to take action on identified opportunities for change. Funds will be provided to support participants in purchasing materials for their classroom based on data and research. Participants’ self-assessment data, Early Language and Literacy Standards, and observations of student’s engagement will be use to inform recommendations for environmental changes. Participants will gain insight from sharing their ideas and research with the learning community as they take action and make changes to support implementation of center-based learning.
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PRFTRN 171 - Reflective Coaching
12 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Individuals participating in the Higher Order Thinking Grant may select to participate in monthly coaching. A total of six coaching visits will take place between January to June 2017. Each coaching visit consists of a 2 hour visit to the classroom followed by an opportunity to debrief. Each visit is framed around an action plan which is based on a professional goals established by each individual teacher. Through an on-going reflective dialogue teachers and coaches refine the identify goals in context exploring various insights, motivations, capabilities, and practices to inform changes in knowledge, skills, and practices to achieve a targeted goal. Together a teacher and coach may develop many action plans to support change and measure progress.
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PRFTRN 172 - Exploring Chinese Character Etymology and Traditional Culture
0 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to the study of ancient Chinese characters. It will explain Chinese characters in terms of culture; seek to understand the relationship between Chinese characters and Han (Chinese) society and life, such as the relationship between Chinese characters and traditional ways of thinking. Students will learn to analyze the cultural meaning hidden deep within Chinese characters, and use this knowledge in the actual understanding of Chinese characters. Students will attain a basic grasp of ancient Chinese characters, vocabulary and phonology. This course will help students understand the rich cultural and meaning within linguistic symbols by studying them as a systematic record of the culture and history of China’s ancient forbearers. The course will allow Chinese language educators and practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese culture and learn how to share this knowledge with others. Students will: 1. Understand the origin and development of Chinese characters. 2. Understand the formation of ancient Chinese characters and the cultural information contained therein. 3. Understand material culture, customs, thoughts and beliefs of ancient Chinese people. 4. Learn to view the features of Chinese culture through Chinese characters.
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PRFTRN 173 - Disasters and Public Health
3.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, pandemic outbreaks of infectious/communicable disease, industrial emergencies bio-terrorism events - whether triggered by mother Nature of human nature, the incidence of disasters impacting on large populations has increased dramatically throughout the world. The inextricable relationship between public health and disaster occurrence, prevention, response, and recovery is undeniable. This course provides an overview of the phenomena of disasters and their impacts within the public health scope.
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PRFTRN 174 - Survival Skills for the 21st Century: Developing Personal, Organizational and Community Resilience
3.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine resilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity, and trauma. Coping with and managing tragedy and crisis is important to the individual, his/her family and friends, employment, and other relationships that are part of our lives.
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PRFTRN 175 - Migrants and Refugees
3.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will provide students with a broad overview of challenges faced by migrant and refugee populations that have been displaced by socio-political upheavals and natural disasters.
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PRFTRN 176 - Advanced Strategies for Teaching Mandarin
100 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This is a combination of theory and teaching practice in Chinese language.
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PRFTRN 177 - Fundamentals of Business Analytics
1.8 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides the fundamental concepts and methods needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations. Learn how to apply basic business analytic methods, and how to communicate with analytic professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better business decisions. Fundamentals of descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics are covered.
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PRFTRN 178 - Early Education Instructional Leadership Institute
15 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Instructional Leadership Institute course is designed to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and capacity of early education instructional leaders to support high quality teaching practices with diverse learners in the context of a high quality curriculum. This course consists of a coherent and focused set of applied learning experiences for program directors, education coordinators coaches, and other instructional leaders. The course presents an evidence-based framework and a set of concrete strategies for instructional leaders, coupled with opportunities for mutual learning, testing new strategies in practice, and expert coaching for implementing these instructional leadership strategies.
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PRFTRN 179 - Early Education Instructional Leadership Institute
1.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Instructional Leadership institute is designed to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and capacity of early education instructional leaders to support high quality teaching practices with diverse learners in the context of a high quality curriculum. This course consists of a coherent and focused set of applied learning experiences for program directors, education coordinators coaches, and other instructional leaders. The course presents an evidence-based framework and a set of concrete strategies for instructional leaders, coupled with opportunities for mutual learning, testing new strategies in practice, and expert coaching for implementing these instructional leadership strategies.
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PRFTRN 180 - UMass Boston Digital Academy
5.2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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The University of Massachusetts Boston Digital Academy is an accelerated certificate-of-completion learning series providing learners with the most sought-after digital competencies many employers seek.
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PRFTRN 181 - Alzheimer’s Disease Public Policy Overview Certificate
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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National, state/regional and local governments are paying more attention to the problem of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, frequently designating staff to facilitate dementia planning processes or implement programs. Forty-nine states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico have dementia plans and 7 states are updating plans that are 5 years old. Chile just became the 30th nation with a national plan; the World Health Organization (WHO) has just established a target of all nations having a plan or substantial Alzheimer’s disease policy or program within a broader national policy frame such as a non-communicable disease plan in the next 5 years. This certificate offers age care professionals training in Alzheimer’s disease/dementia issues, information about effective policy approaches, and resources to mobilize activities that make sense for governments at different levels.
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PRFTRN 182 - SSCP Certification Preparation
3.6 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Course can be counted for credit once
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This course is intended to help prepare learners interested in taking the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification examination offered by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2.
The course addresses practical aspects of real-world security issues and concerns we face in cyberspace. This course is ideal for those with proven technical skills and practical, hands-on security knowledge in operational IT roles, as well as those preparing for practical cyber security jobs in the current market. Successful completion of this course provides confirmation of a practitioner’s ability to implement, monitor and administer IT infrastructure in accordance with information security policies and procedures that ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability.
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PRFTRN 183 - Small Business Innovation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This business skills training program is specifically designed for ECE business owners and is part of the SBIC (Small Business Innovation Center) program at the UMass Boston Institute for Early Education & Leadership. The program offers 30 hours of hands on instruction and coaching focused on strengthening and growing your child care and early education business. The program covers key business topics relevant for ECE including marketing, financial management, accounting, human resources, business planning, technology, and using the Business Administration Scale (BAS) and the Program Administration Scale (PAS), both part of the QRIS. Expert mentors work one on one with business owners to provide individualized mentoring for achieving business goals. Participants complete assessments at the beginning and end of the program that enable them to identify specific business goals, focus on areas that are most relevant and appropriate for their business and measure progress towards those goals. the $50 participant fee cover the cost to purchase a new Chromebook (laptop) for from Tech Goes Home, who is a partner organization supporting technology components of this course.
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PRFTRN 185 - Addiction and Substance Use Disorders Conference
7 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Course can be counted for credit 1
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Learn about current topics, methodologies, and best practices that nurses can use in addictions treatment. Review existing research that will equip nurses to provide professional up-to-date care to those with substance use disorders. Presenters share cutting-edge knowledge, strategic tactics,and collaborative networks to enhance clinical practice.
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PRFTRN 186 - Policy for Health Professionals Conference
16.50 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Course can be counted for credit once
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Through presentations and interactive group discussions, this conference provides and introduction to health policy to:
Gain an understanding of the policy process.
Consider current health problems facing the nation.
Discover policy solutions based on evidence.
Discuss strategies to advance policy development.
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Professional Training (non-credit) |
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PRFTRN 184 - Health Policy Internship Orientation
0 Credit(s) | Field Studies | Credit/No Credit
Course can be counted for credit once
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Students may intern with health care agencies, educational institutions, legislatures, professional associations, or health promotion and prevention organizations. Students are expected to write testimonies and research or evaluation papers analyzing the health policy issues raised during the internship. An internship seminar is part of the experience.
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Project Management (non-credit) |
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PROJMGT 002 - Practical Project Management
3.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides professionals with the essential skills they need to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market. This highly interactive course combines expert instruction with case studies and team exercises
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PROJMGT 005 - PMP Exam Prep
2.7 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This course covers the following concepts contained in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK Guide) - Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013: the five process groups (Initating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling,and Closing), the ten knowledge areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement,and Stakeholder), process inputs and outputs, process tools and techniques, and professional and social responsibilities. The course is designed to help students prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. However, it does not guarantee success on the PMP exam (PMP and PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.).
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PROJMGT 006 - Overview of Project Management
4.8 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This class covers the principles of project management and the basics of making projects successful. Included are topics on project management skills and on challenges commonly encountered by organizations ad individuals responsible for managing projects.
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PROJMGT 007 - Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers
1.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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Project management is all about getting work done through others. This means that the importance of interpersonal skills for a PM cannot be underestimated. In this workshop, students will use tools rooted in the 5th-Edition PMBOK Guide and from the realms of communications, conflict management and negotiation to improve these skills.
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PROJMGT 008 - Project Risk Management
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This is a self-paced online course on project risk management, and covers the following 6 steps of project risk management, as prescribed by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK): risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk control.
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PROJMGT 009 - Fundamentals of Project Management
1.6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This training will cover the fundamentals of planning and managing scope, time, cost, people, communication, and risk on a project. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the vial tools necessary to manage projects. Team exercises involve case analysis and games that help reinforce the concepts.
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Psychology |
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PSYCH 100 - Introductory Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A general survey of selected content areas in psychology, including personality and human development, physiological psychology, learning, intelligence, heredity and environment, and motivation and emotion. Please note: Students who have already earned credits for PSYCH 101 may not register for this course.
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Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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PSYCH 101 - Introductory Psychology
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A general survey of selected content areas in psychology, including personality and human development; physiological psychology; learning; intelligence; heredity and environment; and motivation and emotion. In addition, separately scheduled discussion sessions provide students with the opportunity to work concretely with constructs and methods as they apply to specific problem areas. Please note: Students who have already earned credits for PSYCH 100 may not register for this course.
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Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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PSYCH 131G - Personal & Social Determinants of Health: Disparity, Equity, and Health Promotion
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces a biopsychosocial and social ecological understanding of health and health-related interventions, which arose in large part due to research in the field of Health Psychology. This course emphasizes consideration of equity and disparities in health, building your understanding of how and why health disparities occur across the U.S. population, how to think about ethics related to both action and inaction in the face of health inequities, and what can be done to achieve health equity. We will explore questions such as, Why do Americans, on average, experience worse health and shorter lifespans than people in other developed countries? Why do some groups of Americans experience worse health and shorter lifespans than other groups? Is health and health care a “right”? and does every American actually have the same ability to pursue health and wellness as their fellow citizens do? What can we as a society do to reduce health disparities and promote health for every person in our country? What can we as individuals do to make sure we experience the best physical and mental health we can?
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First Year Seminar
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PSYCH 201 - Introduction to Behavioral Research
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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An introduction to the ways of discovering, describing and making warranted assertions about aspects of people and social life. The chief objectives are 1) to help students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become intelligent critics of research in the behavioral and social sciences, and 2) to give them a rudimentary understanding of the design and evaluation of scientific research. Statistical material is treated in a conceptual manner. Classroom work and course examinations concentrate equally on research design and research evaluation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 210 - Personality
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Conceptions of human nature are examined in light of various theories of personality. This course focuses on the theories of Freud, Adler, Sullivan, Erikson, Kelly, Ego psychologists, and other theorists presenting the behavioristic and humanistic perspectives. Among the topics to be addressed are personality structure and its development; stress and coping; neurotic styles; and human motives and their measurement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 215 - Abnormal Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the range of common psychological disorders, their characteristic symptoms, possible causes, and treatment. It takes a critical scientific approach to the criteria used to define psychological abnormality, the theories used to explain it, and the therapies used to treat it. Etiology, dynamics and treatment of psychopathology.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 230 - Social Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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A scientific attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others; focuses on the drama of social interaction.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 234 - Psychology of Cross-cultural Relations
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the nature and dynamics of inter-group relations within a multicultural context, studying relations among diverse cultures and racial groups in the United States and globally. The course looks at cross-cultural relations from an interdisciplinary perspective, discussing psychological and sociopolitical perspectives.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 235 - Psychology and the Black Experience
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to the psychological experience of Blacks in the United States, including the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural influences that shape personality and mental health in community, family, and individual contexts. Connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and black America will be examined with respect to culture, belief systems, and values. At the same time, we also explore the many differences in history, culture, and experience within the many groups and individuals of African-descent in the U.S.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 236 - The Psychology of Women
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Psychological theories about women from Freud to the present are examined with emphasis placed on biological and sociocultural perspectives as they have influenced the development of a psychology of women. Special attention is paid to the developmental process and the unique issues and concerns of the female infant, child, adolescent, young adult, and older woman.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 237 - Psychology of Sex and Sexuality
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course serves as an introduction to the academic field of “human sexuality,” the interdisciplinary study of human sexual behavior and sexual identity across the lifespan. After briefly addressing anatomical and physiological bases of human sexuality, the majority of class meetings will be spent investigating the variety of ways that sexuality influences the lives of all people and the myriad psychological, social, and cultural factors that shape human sexual behavior. Topics include a history of the study of sexuality, as well as gender roles, gender variance, sexual orientation, sexual coercion, pornography, contraception, sexual disorders, sex work, and HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The format is interactive lecture and class discussion.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 238L - Asian American Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is an introduction to the psychological experience of Asian Americans, including the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural influences that shape personality and mental health in community, family, and individual contexts. The course also explores prevention and intervention possibilities through specific examples, such as trauma and intergenerational conflict, that are relevant for Asian American populations. ASAMST 238L and PSYCH 238L are the same course.
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Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
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PSYCH 241 - Infancy and Childhood Development
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores human development from infancy to middle childhood, i.e., from childbirth to ages seven or eight. Major emphasis is given to early perceptual, cognitive, social and affective development bearing the following questions in mind: How does the world of space and objects appear to the infant? How does he or she acquire knowledge and discover reality? How does the child experience the world of people and develop a sense of self? How does the child develop attachments to others and what role is played by the significant people in his or her life?
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 242 - Adolescence
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to acquaint students with psychological characteristics of adolescent development, theoretical approaches to adolescence, and experimental studies of the causes of a variety of behaviors during adolescence. The course also focuses upon major problems and characteristics of adolescents in modern society.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 250 - Learning and Memory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to current views of behavioral change, learning, and remembering. The course focuses on concepts, theoretical issues and applications of current research.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 255 - Perception
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
We will discuss how humans perceive, and interact with, their environment by using their senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin) to convert external stimuli (electromagnetic radiation, air pressure vibrations, volatile and soluble chemicals, and mechanical forces) into neural signals and psychological experiences (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 271L - Introduction to Cognitive Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field fundamentally concerned with furthering our understanding of the development, underlying processes, and implementation of language, perception, problem-solving, learning, memory, and other intelligent capacities. This course offers an introduction to this science for all levels of undergraduate majors in psychology, computer science, biology, and other related fields. CS 271L and PSYCH 271L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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PSYCH 286 - Introductory Research Apprenticeship
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
The proposed course, a 200-level Research Apprenticeship (PSYCH 286) is designed for students who are interested in being involved in hands-on research, but who are still at the beginning of their studies in the major. Students who are enrolled in this course work with faculty members on topics related to the faculty member’s research interests.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 or PSYCH 102
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PSYCH 301 - Psychological Testing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An examination of the assessment process and the methods (tests, interviews observations) used in it. Emphasis on the standards of validity for tests and procedures and on proper test use. Introduction to some major psychological tests.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 302 - Human Motives and Emotions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An examination of major issues in the area of human motives and emotions. Theoretical analyses from the early theories of James, Dewey, Freud and Watson to contemporary studies employing the evolutionary behaviorist and cognitive perspectives. Topics include the relationship among motives, emotions and personality, and the rationality of the emotions.
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PSYCH 333 - Group Dynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An examination of small group behavior from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The group is viewed as a system functioning in a number of environments-physical, personal, social, and task. Each of these interrelated environments influences various aspects of group process. Thus leadership, power, conformity, status, goals, and others are considered as interrelated processes of social interaction.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 230
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PSYCH 335 - Social Attitudes and Public Opinion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the nature of attitudes, beliefs, and values, and the influences which individuals’ attitudes have upon their behavior. Various theories of attitude organization and attitude change are discussed, and the development of social attitudes is explored by examining the differential impact of the family, the educational system, the mass media, and the general social environment. The changing content of public opinion over time and its relationship to the political system are also discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 230
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PSYCH 337 - Communication and Society
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores interpersonal interaction and the functional and dysfunctional ways in which communication occurs. Participants examine non-verbal communication, including paralanguage, spacing, and gestures. Additionally, they acquire experience using the Internet, for research purposes as well as for on-line communication with other course participants. Discussions also focus on various aspects of the mass media.
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PSYCH 338 - Community Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Contributions of psychology to the understanding of human communities. Community mental health, ecological, and social structural approaches to community psychology are examined.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 230
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PSYCH 339 - Psychology Of Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a basic understanding of the interaction between law and psychology, including developmental, social and clinical psychology. Topics include rules of evidence, statistics in the court, child witnesses, eyewitness testimony recovered memory, criminal investigatory practices, competence to stand trial, and constitutional rights of search and seizure.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 215
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PSYCH 343 - The Psychology of Adult Development and Human Aging
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A developmental approach to human integrity and functioning in the second half of the life span. Stereotyped ideas about the aging process are critically reviewed. Newer approaches to facilitating psychological well-being in the latter years of life are given special attention.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 346 - Language Development
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on various theoretical approaches to the development of language. Pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic aspects of language acquisition are studied in depth. The role of language-specific, cognitive, and social factors in the process of acquisition are considered, with reference to both normal and disordered populations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PSYCH 241 or PSYCH 356
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PSYCH 360 - Behavioral Neuroscience
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An overview of the field of neuroscience. Selected topics are neuroanatomy, brain physiology, communication in the central nervous system, immunology, and psychopharmacology. This course also includes a critical discussion of various research techniques. One goal for students is to develop critical thinking skills, as consumers of scientific information.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 370 - Statistics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The applied study of the scientific method in the behavioral sciences. Fundamental statistical concepts and techniques are surveyed and used, with primary emphasis on the logic underlying the use of descriptive and inferential tools in scientific inquiry. Topics include parametric and non-parametric statistics, e.g., correlation and analysis of variance.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 403 - Gender, Culture, and Health
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies of health throughout the life span, using theory, research, and practice models emerging in health psychology, community-based public health, and work addressing gender and racial disparities in health and mental health. Through individualized journals and final projects, students will study interventions mobilizing individual, family, and social resources preventing illness and promoting health in diverse settings.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and one additional 200-level PSYCH course or permission of instructor
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PSYCH 415 - Psychological Trauma: Individual and Society
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the theory, research, and phenomenology of response to such traumatic events as combat, rape, and concentration camp survival. It examines normative psychological processes, common symptom picture, and the developmental, sociocultural, and personality factors that influence response. Discussions also focus on present and past controversies within the research, and on the personal, social, and professional implications of the material.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 215
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PSYCH 420 - Principles of Psychotherapy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Psychotherapy is defined and a number of existing systems of psychotherapy are studied and compared through close reading of cases reported in the literature by the originators of each system.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 430 - Internship in Psychology
6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An internship course to give students the opportunity of combining human service or research in an area of psychology with a weekly seminar where they can reflect on their field experiences. As part of the seminar, students are expected to attend its weekly meetings and to complete readings and a written term project relevant to their field experience as worked out in consultation with the faculty coordinator.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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PSYCH 436 - Religion, Spirituality, and Health
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students in this course will critically evaluate the empirical evidence and methodological issues in a growing body of research that links religion and spirituality to various health outcomes across the lifespan including: coping with cancer and HIV/AIDS; mental illness including anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia; alcohol and drug use; and mortality. Students also will explore the effects of Western and Eastern religious and spiritual practices intended to promote physical and mental well-being.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 441 - The Family and the Child: A Psychological View
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The role of the family in the psychological development of the child. A psychodynamic view of the family, examining stages of development from the third trimester of pregnancy to sixteen years of age.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 241
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PSYCH 445 - The Transition to Adulthood
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The goal of this course is to examine the individual, socio-demographic and policy factors that have given rise to this new developmental stage of “emerging adulthood.” Students will examine theories and research related to the stage of emerging adulthood with a focus on the ways in which context shapes development. Context includes both micro and macro-level influences on emerging adulthood (e.g., sociohistorical context, race/ethnicity, gender, and economic conditions). The topics include: historical comparisons of emerging adulthood; cultural, ethnic, and gender identity; family and romantic relationships; friendships; and education and career choices.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 447 - Cognitive Development
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the general question of how thinking develops. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the development of thinking in childhood and on identifying those aspects of children’s approaches to conceptualizing, theorizing, and remembering which are changing during this time. Some attention is also given to understanding possible mechanisms of cognitive change.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 449 - Developmental Disorders
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the underlying causes of developmental changes in the brain and behavior that result in childhood neurobehavioral disorders. Attention is given to the neuropsychological outcome of premature infants, infants with genetic/chromosomal disorders (such as Down syndrome, or fragile X syndrome), and infants with problems resulting from environmental exposures (drugs, chemicals, and maternal illnesses).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 460 - The Neuropsychology of Higher Cognitive Processes
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The neural basis of higher cognitive functions, such as perception, language, and memory, including a consideration of human brain damage and psychological tests used to assess such damage.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 462 - Psychopharmacology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the background and history of psychoactive drugs, their current uses as research and therapeutic tools, and the difficulties in appraising their effects. Particular attention is given to the effects of drugs on the development of new fields of inquiry such as neuropsychopharmacology and influences on older fields such as biological psychiatry, etc.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 463 - Substance Abuse & The Brain
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines commonly abused substances and their psychobiological effects. Accordingly, it surveys a variety of “street drugs” - from crack/cocaine marijuana, oxycodone “E” to inhalants - focusing on the interaction with the brain reward and stress systems. Also explored are gender/age interactions as they relate to propensity to “try” and abuse drugs, especially during adolescent years.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 360
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PSYCH 464 - Biological Rhythms in Brain and Behavior
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will be an introduction to the field of biological rhythms. In this course, students will examine biological clocks at multiple levels including theoretical aspects, organismal and system level studies, and cellular and molecular analyses. The course will cover numerous examples that illustrate the important impact of rhythms on both psychological and biological functioning.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 466 - Hormones and Behavior
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies relationships between behavior and the neuroendocrine system studied in diverse behavioral systems of animals, including humans. Participants acquire an understanding of the complex interactions between hormones and behavior; study endocrine bases of sex differences, reproduction, affiliation, aggression, homeostasis, biorhythms, and other behavioral systems; explore clinical implications; and learn to read, evaluate, and discuss original research findings.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 360
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PSYCH 468 - Science of Human Sexuality
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces the topic of human sexuality in an evidence-based, scientific manner, focusing especially on its biological and neurobiological underpinnings. The class also explores the history and methods of sex research, including animal behavior research, sexual evolution, sexual differentiation of body and brain anatomy, the nature of physical attractiveness, as well as scientific study of the wide range of human sexual behaviors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 470 - History, Systems, and Theories of Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary psychology-especially clinical psychology-in historical perspective. It provides a broad overview of the development of psychology as an independent discipline and of the various sub-specialties in the field; and it evaluates the significance of new movements and methods by examining intellectual antecedents and underlying assumptions.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and a minimum of 60 credits
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PSYCH 475 - Experimental Methods: Learning and Perception
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course is focused on the use of laboratory methods and research design in the traditional areas of experimental psychology (e.g., perception, learning, problem solving). Students design experiments, collect and analyze data and report their findings. The objectives of the course are to help students develop knowledge of the logic and techniques of experimentation, along with the skills required to use this knowledge.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 476 - Experimental Methods: Physiological
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Lab research on selected topics in physiological psychology, including hormonal influences, brain-behavior relationships, and mechanisms of reward and punishment. Emphasis is on the acquisition of research skills through the use of surgical, histological and statistical techniques in investigations mainly derived from computer-simulated data bases.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 477 - Experimental Methods: Social
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The general purpose of the course is to introduce the students to experimental research methods in social psychology. Class activities include examination of the relevant literature, participation in pre-designed studies, and the formulation, carrying out, and analysis of an original research project. The student has an opportunity to become familiar with the use of laboratory equipment such as audio and video recorders.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 230 and PSYCH 370
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PSYCH 478 - Experimental Methods: Personality and Abnormal Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course immerses students in research literature in personality and abnormal psychology and prepares students to conduct their own empirical research. Students learn how to read and critique research articles, use databases for literature searches, write a literature review, design a research project, analyze data using a statistical package, and write a paper in the form of a journal article.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 488 - Directed Study in Psychology
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Independent work on special problems or in certain fields of psychological interest. Students must make arrangements with individual instructors and have projects approved by the department.
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PSYCH 489 - Directed Study in Psychology
1 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Independent work on special problems or in certain fields of psychological interest. Students must make arrangements with individual instructors and have projects approved by the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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PSYCH 490 - Special Topics in Psychology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Conducted by various members of the faculty with special attention in their fields of scholarly interest. Topics vary by semester.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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PSYCH 496 - Honors Research
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Independent study; the research, writing and defense of thesis.
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PSYCH 497 - Honors Research
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Independent study; the research, writing and defense of thesis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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PSYCH 498 - Senior Honors Seminar I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive program of directed research combined with weekly discussion.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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PSYCH 499 - Senior Honors Seminar II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive program of directed research combined with weekly discussion.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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RELSTY 109 - Symbol, Myth and Ritual: Cultural Studies in Religion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the academic study of religion by examining the social function of religious phenomena in relation to wider sets of human behaviors, beliefs, and institutions. Students will explore the nature and concept of religion as well as the complex relationship between religion and other dimensions of human culture. Students will consider in particular the role of myths, symbols, and rituals in shaping religious identity. Major topics of discussion may include gender and sexuality, science and religion, death and dying, civil religion, religion and the visual arts, religion and entertainment, and religious violence.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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RELSTY 111 - Religions of the West
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course surveys the major western religious traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Emphasis is placed on the histories, literatures, belief, and practices of the so-called Abrahamic faiths. Consideration is also given to a comparison of and interactions among these three traditions, as well as to new religious movements (e.g., Mormonism) emerging from within these traditions.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 112L - Religions of Asia
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course surveys the major religions of South, Southeast, and East Asia: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto, with attention also to Asian Islam and Christianity. The focus is on central teachings, practices, and institutions in their historical and social contexts, as well as interactions between these traditions. The course also considers the enduring vitality of these traditions in the modern world, in and beyond Asia. RELSTY 112L and ASIAN 112L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 115G - Religion, Politics, Sex & Violence
Formerly RELSTY 112G
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers three themes-religion and public life, violence and non-violence, sexes and sexualities. Students become familiar with a range of major religious thinkers and formulate their own constructive positions. This course may count toward completion of the Study of Religion Program.
Course Attribute(s):
First Year Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston
Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar)
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RELSTY 125L - Jerusalem: Sacred Space, Contested Space
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course traces the history of Jerusalem from the Bronze Age to the present. Using a sampling of relevant primary sources (e.g., literary, archaeological, iconographical), students will study the political, physical, and conceptual development of this urban space through its multiple destructions and reconstructions, considering especially the emergence of Jerusalem as a sacred space for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Students will also give some attention o the political tensions in modern Jerusalem, using the study of the past to inform reflection on the present.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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RELSTY 220 - Myth in the Ancient Near East
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students in this course will examine a selection of myths from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, with particular focus on the original social, political, religious, and cultural contexts that shaped these compositions. Student swill also give a selective consideration to the enduring legacy of some of these myths in subsequent cultural and literary contexts. Theses examined will include the presentation f the life of the gods, the relationship between the human and divine worlds, mortality and immorality, gender and sexuality, and apocalypticism.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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RELSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Practices of Faith Communities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the influence of religious traditions on environmental ethics across cultures. The course draws on sacred texts of Judeo-Christian, Muslim, Jain, Hindu, and possibly other faiths, and secular perspectives of environmental ethics. From these standpoints, students examine global case studies, from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, America and possibly elsewhere. Students explore how spiritual understandings of the world influence human behavior toward the planet and the ecosystems we inhabit. Through comparisons between religious traditions across cultures and their relationship with environmental ethics, students develop an understanding of how faith systems influence our treatment of the Earth.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 232L - Asian Religions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses mainly on Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, briefly touching also on Hinduism, Confucianism, and Shinto. It situates the classical teachings of these traditions in their historical contexts in India and East Asia, compares them to other worldviews more prevalent in the West, and invites students to consider their possible relevance to life in the world today. ASIAN 232L and RELSTY 232L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 233L - Introduction to Islam
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course acquaints students with the broad outline of the Islamic religion, including its origins and historical development, its sacred scriptures, and the main beliefs and practices of Muslims. It also considers Islam’s mystical dimension, its aesthetic expressions, its views of gender relations, and its orientation in the modern world.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 234L - Religion and Culture in Japan
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class explores the relationship between religion and culture in Japan, from premodern times to the more recent eras. Int he first half of the semester, students will be introduced to the two main religions of Japan, Buddhism and Shinto, through various types of cultural texts that range from scriptures and fiction to theatrical performances. Int he second half, the class will look at a range of religious movements and phenomena that are less mainstream, but no less crucial to the culture and society of their times. Such movements include the introduction of Christianity to Japan, religions of “ethnic minorities,” and newer religious groups that appeared in the late 19th into the 20th centuries.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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RELSTY 235L - Yoga in History, Philosophy, and Practice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the history, philosophies, and practices of Yoga in their religious and cultural contexts. In the modern west, Yoga has become popular as a secular form of exercise. However, the diverse Yoga traditions of India have also involved sophisticated analyses of the mind and systems of mediation. Intrinsic to no single religion, Yoga has had roles in most South Asian traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sufism or Islamic mysticism. The course surveys this rich history and the history of the various forms of meditative and physical discipline Yoga has entailed.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 239L - Hindu Myth and Narrative: the Epics and Puranas
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies Hinduism through its narrative literature, especially the great epics (the Mahabharata and Ramayana) and mythological texts (Puranas - the “Ancient Books”). Through stories of gods, devotees, villains, and heroes, the course explores the development of significant themes in the Hindu tradition, from ethics and philosophy to asceticism and religious devotion. An important focus of the course is the enduring cultural significance of myth and the epics of South and Southeast Asia, as retold through the ages in a variety of languages, cultural contexts, and media, including classical and vernacular texts, the oral tradition, drama, dance, and cinema.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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RELSTY 241 - Myth, History, and Prophecy: Old Testament
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Interpretation of the religion and literature of ancient Israel in comparison with the mythic religious forms of the ancient Near East, with some attention to subsequent biblical interpretation, literature, and philosophy. Central themes include myth and history, covenant, charismatic leadership, imperial religion, prophetic protest, and apocalyptic visions.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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