Apr 20, 2024

2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog

2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Please visit www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/core-curriculum/Pages/approved-core-curriculum-courses.aspx for a listing of courses that have been approved for specific Core Curriculum requirements (Class of 2016 and beyond). The list is updated on a regular basis. In addition, students in the Class of 2013, 2014, and 2015 can search the Course Catalog or Semester Course Offerings in CyberFriar to locate courses with a specific Core Curriculum attribute. Need assistance? Please contact Alyssa Marton at aneubeck@providence.edu or 401.865.1765.

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Accountancy
	ACC 110 - Computer Applications in Business I 1 semester, 1 Credit Focuses on developing students’ proficiency in current software applications in business as a foundation for further study in the business disciplines. Basic word processing, presentation software, and spreadsheet applications will be covered. Offered on a self-paced, pass/fail basis. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 111 - Computer Applications in Business II 1 semester, 1 Credit Focuses on developing students’ proficiency in current software applications in business as a foundation for further study in the business disciplines. Intermediate spreadsheet and beginning database applications will be covered. Offered on a self-paced, pass/fail basis. Prerequisite: ACC 110. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 200 - Introduction to the Profession 1 semester, 1 Credit This co-curricular course introduces students to the professional world of accounting. Various segments of the profession will be explored including, but not limited to, public accounting, tax practice, internal audit, corporate accounting, banking, insurance, non-profit, governmental, and regulatory agency work. This course is offered on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisite: ACC 201 Intermediate Accounting, with concurrent enrollment allowed. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 203 - Financial Accounting 1 semester, 3 Credits Provides students with a fundamental understanding of financial accounting. Accounting is the language of business, and understanding the basics of accounting is essential to a successful career in the business world. This includes the ability to read and understand financial statements. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 204 - Managerial Accounting 1 semester, 3 Credits Introduces basic elements of accounting and the role of accounting in business and society. Explores accounting concepts and procedures used by internal users in running a business and making decisions. Major components include cost accumulation methods; cost behavior, analysis, and control; budgeting and the effects of cost data on the decision process. Basic accounting terminology and procedures are presented as a foundation for further studies in the business disciplines. Prerequisite: ACC 203 Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 301 - Cost Accounting 1 semester, 3 Credits Focuses on quantitative tools and analytical techniques used by managers in formulating business strategies. Reporting issues relative to planning and control decisions are heavily explored. Topics include cost-volume-profit analysis, manufacturing cost flow, and cost estimation. Alternative management and accounting methods are studied and their impact on business operations and performance is considered. Prerequisite: ACC 204. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 310 - Intermediate Accounting I 1 semester, 4 Credits This course begins by examining the conceptual framework of financial accounting as the theoretical foundation for addressing external reporting issues. The application of accounting theory in financial statements, income and expense recognition, and asset valuation and disclosure relative to current and long-term assets are considered in detail. Significant attention is given to the interpretation of financial information. Prerequisite: ACC 204. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 311 - Intermediate Accounting II 1 semester, 3 Credits Emphasizes the application of accounting principles and objectives of financial reporting in the context of corporate financial statements. Issues related to debt valuation and reporting, accounting for income taxes, revenue recognition, and accounting changes will be considered. Preparation and use of the statement of cash flows will also be considered. Prerequisite: ACC 310. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 350 - Accounting Information Systems 1 semester, 3 Credits Develops an awareness of the role of the accounting information system (AIS) in achieving organizational objectives. Explores, in detail, several typical AIS application subsystems, such as revenue/receivables, purchases/payables, inventory, cash receipts/disbursements, and financial planning/reporting. The concepts of risk and control are introduced in the context of the AIS. Prerequisite: ACC 204 or permission of instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 401 - Federal Income Taxes 1 semester, 3 Credits Provides a basic understanding of Federal taxation in general, and Federal individual income taxation, in particular. Includes both manual and computer-assisted research and preparation of individual income tax returns. Tax planning considerations are discussed. Prerequisite: ACC 203. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 405 - Advanced Accounting 1 semester, 3 Credits Emphasizes the application of accounting principles and the objectives of financial reporting relative to a variety of entities. The corporate entity is explored in the context of business combinations and consolidations. Accounting and reporting for governmental units and not-for-profit entities are surveyed. Prerequisite: ACC 311. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 406 - Taxes and Business Decisions 1 semester, 3 Credits Examines the role taxes play in business and individual decisions, particularly Federal taxes on income. A survey of the Federal tax laws as they affect different types of income and deductions is included. The differences between tax and business treatment of common business activities, events, and transactions are discussed. Prerequisite: ACC 203. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 412 - Auditing 1 semester, 4 Credits Develops an understanding and appreciation of the philosophy of the auditing process and the role of internal and external auditing in an organization. The concepts of risk and control, evidence, and documentation are considered. Ethical issues in the audit environment are considered. Prerequisite: ACC 311 and ACC 350 or permission of instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 441 - Frauds, Scandals, and Scams 1 semester, 3 Credits This course examines the history of accounting frauds, scandals, and scams from the early days of the McKesson-Robbins scandal in the 1930s to the more current frauds of Enron and World Com in the 21st century. This course explores common themes, ethical questions, motivational factors, and prevention. Prerequisite: ACC 101 or ACC 103; corequisite: PHL 202 or PHL 306. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 450 - Accountancy Internship 1 semester, 3 Credits Offers credit to students participating in department-approved internships in for-profit or not-for-profit organizations or governmental agencies. Provides the student with a valuable experiential learning opportunity. Academic assignments, as specified in the accountancy internship contract, must be completed. Departmental approval required. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 485 - Accounting Policy 1 semester, 3 Credits Requires students to integrate, extend, analyze, and apply knowledge gained in the major to demonstrate mastery of the accounting discipline within a liberal arts experience. Focuses on internal and external reporting issues incorporating concepts from financial accounting, cost/managerial accounting, accounting information systems, advanced accounting, auditing, and taxation. Prerequisites: Senior accountancy majors or minors; ACC 110/111, ACC 310/311, FIN 207, MKT 205, and MGT 301. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ACC 490 - Independent Study in Accounting 1 semester, 1-3 Credits Open primarily to senior Accountancy majors. The student is provided the opportunity to explore advanced topics in accountancy outside of the regular departmental offerings. The number of credits is determined by consultation with the faculty member responsible for the project and the chairperson. Prerequisite: Permission of the chairperson. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
American Studies
	AMS 101 - Introduction to American Studies 1 semester, 3 Credits This course will introduce students to the basic issues, methodology, and tools in examining a broad range of topics relevant to the study of American history and culture. Thematic topics vary from semester to semester. Satisfies an AMS elective requirement. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 108 - History of Photography 1 semester, 3 Credits A history of the development of photography as an art, from its invention in 1839 to the present. Same as ARH 108. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 120 - History of Film: The Silent Period and the Transition to Sound 1 semester, 3 Credits This course traces the history of cinema from its beginnings at the turn of the 20th century to the establishment of the sound cinema. Emphasis is given to film as an art form as well as a social and political phenomenon in the United States and throughout the world. Same as TDF 120. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 121 - History of Film: The Classic Era 1940-1960 and Beyond 1960-1990 1 semester, 3 Credits This course traces key films and movements in the history of the cinema, from the classic Hollywood era in the 1940s to the flowering of international and independent cinema of the present. Emphasis is on cinema as an art form, medium of entertainment, and its development alongside politics, society, and the other arts. Same as TDF 121. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 207 - American Art 1 semester, 3 Credits An introduction to American painting, sculpture, and architecture from Colonial times to the present. Same as ARH 207. Prerequisite: ARH 106 suggested. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 220 - The Catholic Imagination of Four American Filmmakers 1 semester, 3 Credits An intensive study of the films of John Ford, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, and Martin Scorsese emphasizing the Catholic imagination from which each of these directors was influenced. The social, psychological, and theological themes found in each filmmaker are considered as ways in which they used their personal concerns to tell popular stories. Same as TDF 220. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 226 - Music in the United States 1 semester, 3 Credits A study of the history of American music from the Colonial period to the present, with special attention given to the interaction between music and society. Analytical listening and comparison will form an important part of the course. Same as MSC 226. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 227 - History of Jazz 1 semester, 3 Credits A study of the history of jazz from African music to contemporary trends and more popular forms. Emphasis will be placed on styles and performers. Analytical listening will be required. Same as BLS 227 and MSC 227. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 301 - Development of North American Architecture 1 semester, 3 Credits A study of North American architecture and the cultural context in which it was produced, from the 17th century to the present. Same as ARH 301. Prerequisite: ARH 106 or permission of instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 304 - American and European Art Since 1945 1 semester, 3 Credits This course will introduce major trends in Western and especially, American art post-World War II. A variety of media will be addressed, including not only the traditional visual arts, but a full range of new genres, as well. Social and cultural context for works of art and the shifts in style will be emphasized. Same as ARH 304. Prerequisite: ARH 106 or 209. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 313 - The Power of Whiteness 1 semester, 3 Credits Historical development of “whitenesses” within the context of colonialism, slavery, imperialism and globalization, and their aftermaths as a way of understanding the cultural environments and processes of ethno-racial and gender-sexual identity formation today. Hegemonic whiteness is deconstructed and challenged. Whiteness is examined as an unnamed, unmarked category, “whites are just normal,” that carries powers and privileges. Same as BLS 313, GST 313, SOC 313 and WMS 313. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 318 - Globalization and Social Justice 1 semester, 3 Credits With the fall of socialist states, capitalist markets, economic relations, and consumerism have become global. Examine the political, cultural, and economic origins, consequences, and responses (with specific concern for the prospects for social justice, democracy and equality) in the rich and poor countries of the world; impacts on workers; ecological, resource, and environmental implications; and anti-corporate globalization resistance movements. Same as GST 318, SOC 318, and WMS 318. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 320 - Early American Literature 1 semester, 3 Credits Examines early American texts, particularly the literature of colonial New England. Inquires how early New World encounters, as recorded and interpreted in the era’s autobiographical and other writings, shaped the lives and identities of Native Americans, conquerors, settlers, slaves, and post-Revolutionary Americans. Topics include the impact of emerging print culture on the development of American democracy. Same as ENG 320. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 321 - Social Change 1 semester, 3 Credits Examines classical and contemporary explanations of the nature (what?), causes (why?), agents (by whom?), processes (how?), and responses to change. Focus is on societal and global levels. Emphasis on American social trends during the 20th century and the 1960s and its legacy. Same as SOC 321. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Not open to freshmen. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 325 - African-American Women 1 semester, 3 Credits Focuses on sociological analyses of the constructions and reconstructions of African-American women, examining the interrelationships of gender, race, caste, class, racism, and sexism in the United States, past and present. Topics include the family, male-female relations, poverty, discrimination, and social movements with particular emphasis on origins, consequences, social and individual changes and resistance to change, sociological, and feminist theories. Same as BLS 325, SOC 325, and WMS 325. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 331 - American Philosophy 1 semester, 3 Credits A critical study and analysis of the writings of outstanding American philosophers. Same as PHL 321. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 345 - The Consumer Society 1 semester, 3 Credits Consumption and consumerism are driving forces sustaining the expansionist logic of advanced capitalism and globalization. Consumption of commodities has become the basis for the formation of ever-changing individual and group identities. Examines the historical development of consumerism, theoretical approaches to understanding the political, social, economic, individual and very importantly, the environmental consequences of consumerism. Same as GST 345, SOC 345 and WMS 345. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 364 - Modern American Fiction 1 semester, 3 Credits Covers American fiction since World War I. Authors include Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Welty, O’Connor, Salinger, Heller, Percy, Pynchon, Morrison, and Bellow. Topics include the search for identity through tradition, the disillusionment of the ’30s, the Southern Renaissance, and the problematics of mass society. Same as ENG 364. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 365 - Twentieth-Century African-American Literature 1 semester, 3 Credits A reading-intensive introduction to 20th-century African-American fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry, with particular attention to social and cultural contexts. Writers include Nella Larsen, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and Anna Deavere Smith. Focus on race, class, and gender, and on the authors’ approaches to the role of literary art in society. Same as BLS 365 & ENG 365. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 411 - The Sociology of Disaster 1 semester, 3 Credits Introduces the sociological dimension of disasters and major events, which disrupt the prevailing order of society by causing injury, death, and/or property loss to large numbers of people. Possible case studies include earthquakes, heat waves, hurricanes, oil spills, chemical releases, or terrorist attacks. A service project is normally required. Same as SOC 411. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 427 - Classical America 1 semester, 3 Credits Traces the influence of Greece, Rome and the ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia) on the United States of America from colonial times to the present. Develops an appreciation for the profound influence of antiquity in such areas as history, government, art, architecture, and literature. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is required. Same as HIS 427 and CLA 427. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 450 - Internship 1 semester, 3 Credits An opportunity for students to broaden their understanding of American history and culture by working as interns at institutions such as the Rhode Island or Newport Historical Society, Peabody Essex Museum, Providence City Hall, Slater Mill Historic Site, or the Providence Maritime Foundation. Internship opportunities within the broad area of communications also are available for students wishing to test out career interests and to develop professional skills. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 470 - Seminar: Special Topics in American Studies 1 semester, 3 Credits The topics discussed in the seminar vary from semester to semester. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 480 - Seminar: The History and Culture of the Cold War 1 semester, 3 Credits This course studies the roots and course of the Cold War, and its impact on domestic culture—Hollywood’s response to McCarthyism, the impact of anticommunism on domestic ideology and sexuality, and the implications of America’s international anti-Communist crusade on its political institutions. Same as HIS 485. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 481 - Seminar: The West in the American Imagination 1 semester, 3 Credits Focuses on the American West and its place in American culture and imagination, including the significance of the frontier in American history; cultural contacts and contracts; the impact of race, gender, and ethnicity on one’s experience of the West; the economic and environmental history of the region. Study some of the cultural icons that contribute to “imagining the West.” Same as HIS 486. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 482 - Seminar: Smith Hill: A Study in Community and Place 1 semester, 3 Credits This course serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to community history with emphasis on the concepts of identity, community, and place. It explores these concepts in the broader context of American culture and through the particular history of Smith Hill, a neighborhood adjacent to Providence College. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 483 - Seminar: The Simple Life in American Culture 1 semester, 3 Credits Explores the cultural history of simple living in America over the last 300 years and the tension between this idea and the dominant cultural emphasis on moral, institutional, political, and economic ideas that argue for high consumption of energy and resources. The focus is on simple living as an element of mainstream culture. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 484 - Seminar: Childhood in America 1 semester, 3 Credits This course explores how American culture has defined and used the concept of “childhood” over the past 200 years, with a particular focus on the ways in which media transformations (literacy, radio, television, video, computers) have affected our ideas about childhood and informed many of the public and private institutions we take for granted. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 486 - Seminar: Making of Modern America 1 semester, 3 Credits This course will examine the emergence of “modern” America during the last quarter of the 19th century. Topics will include the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration on all facets of American life and how these influenced art, architecture, music, and literature. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	AMS 490 - Independent Study 1 semester, 1-3 Credits Open primarily to senior American Studies majors. The student is provided the opportunity to explore advanced topics in the field outside of the regular program offerings. The number of credits is determined by consultation with the faculty member responsible for the project and the Program Director. Prerequisite: Permission of the Program Director. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
Anthropology Some of the following courses are not offered every year. Students should consult their pre-registration course listings regarding the availability of particular courses for any given semester.
	APG 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 1 semester, 3 Credits Focuses on the study of human persons as makers of tools, rules, and moral judgments, and provides a comparison of the ways in which people in Western and non-Western countries make sense of their experience and of their environment. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 203 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology 1 semester, 3 Credits This course is an introduction to human evolution and racial variation, with consideration of population dynamics, Darwinian theory, classification and interpretation of fossil evidence, as well as the evolution of culture during the Ice Ages. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 301 - Art in Everyday Life 1 semester, 3 Credits Art, aesthetic expression, and social standards for judging artistic products and process are examined in cross-cultural perspective. Data are drawn from Oceania, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as from the folk art of Europe. A variety of art forms, such as ritual symbols; pottery; basketry; wood, stone, and bone carving; and dwellings; textiles; and bodily adornment, will be studied. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 303 - Sacred Journeys 1 semester, 3 Credits This course studies religious pilgrimages in historical, cultural, and social contexts. Our purpose is to reveal the richness and profundity of religious experience through consideration of the persons, places, symbols, and processes associated with these sacred journeys. Examples of medieval, post medieval, and contemporary pilgrimages will be drawn from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 304 - The Built Environment and Spatial Form 1 semester, 3 Credits This course focuses on the social and cultural study of human, physical alteration of the natural environment; emphasizing the products of human building activity, place, and the social production of built forms within the context of society’s institutions and history. It examines the meaning and impact of the built environment (including landscape) revealed in building decisions, metaphorical connections, and ritual. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 321 - Latin America: Mexico and Central America 1 semester, 3 Credits Focuses on peoples, cultures, and environments in the frontier areas of northern Mexico and Central America as well as in the heartland regions of Mexico-Guatemala. Study will include islands of the West Indies in that sector of the Caribbean which is socially and culturally related to Central America. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 322 - Latin America: South America 1 semester, 3 Credits Studies peoples and cultures of South America. A range of groups from tribal Indian through peasants to urbanites will be considered. Rural-urban relationships and those between people and their environments will be examined. Those islands of the Caribbean whose social and cultural characteristics are shared by the northern coastal portions of South America will be included. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 325 - India: Cultural Studies 1 semester, 3 Credits This course examines substantive and theoretical problems of caste, politics, language, family, social change, religion, and artistic expression in India and the surrounding cultures of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Peoples of the sub-continent include traditional, tribal, and “modern” groups in order to understand the multifaceted societies of this vast and influential area of Asia. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 327 - Himalayan Cultural Studies 1 semester, 3 Credits This study of the Himalayan Region includes Nepal, Tibet, Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Mongolia. It concerns historico-political, familial, linguistic, religious, and artistic elements of the various cultures; addressing cultural stability and change in relation to each of the people studied through past centuries and in the contemporary period. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 328 - Native Peoples of the United States and Canada 1 semester, 3 Credits Concentrates on contemporary Native Americans: environmental setting, ways of life, historical experience, and cultural background. Attention is given to native life on and off the reservations, including governmental policies, and to present means of expressing indigenous cultural identity and of preserving or revitalizing traditional culture patterns in areas such as arts, religion, technology, and view of the world. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 338 - Religion and Magic 1 semester, 3 Credits The most general forms of religion and magic including the belief in spirits, souls, and impersonal supernatural power are studied. The relationship between culture change and religion is considered with special reference to religious syncretism, revitalization movements, altered states of awareness in sacred context, and the interest in the occult. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 339 - Faith and Healing 1 semester, 3 Credits This course studies the search for healing and wholeness through religious beliefs and rituals. The focus is upon healing rites at the formal and folk levels of expression, shrines and pilgrimages associated with the quest for healing, and systems of healing in syncretistic religions. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 345 - Cities and Urban Life 1 semester, 3 Credits Considers urban form, the types of urban growth, relationships between urban centers and outlying districts, and urbanization, in various parts of the world. Focuses especially on appreciation of neighborhood and city, the environmental impact of the city, and the application of anthropological research to contemporary issues (e.g., poverty, redevelopment) in urban living. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 360 - Prehistoric Archaeology 1 semester, 3 Credits Introduces the student to the methods, theory, and interpretation of prehistoric archaeology, focusing on the evolution of human cultures, their subsistence technologies, and forms of social organization and ideology as revealed by the archaeological record, from the end of the Ice Ages to the rise of early civilizations in both the Old and New Worlds. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 401 - Theory in Anthropology 1 semester, 3 Credits This course studies the ideas and issues of importance in social and cultural anthropology as it developed within the framework of Western thought. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 450 - Field Experience 1 semester, 3 Credits Field Experience offers an opportunity for understanding and growth in knowledge through a cultural setting other than one’s own. Students and supervising faculty share responsibilities in preparation, actual time in the field, and the report upon return. The scheduling of the field experience depends on the nature of the project proposed with summer or other vacation periods being the preferred time. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 470 - Special Topics in Anthropology 1 semester, 3 Credits This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to study a variety of subjects in anthropology of value in a liberal arts education, but which are not currently covered, or not ordinarily treated in depth. The format of the course may vary with instructor and topic chosen. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	APG 490 - Independent Study 1 semester, 3 Credits This course is designed to permit students to engage in intensive reading or special research under the direction of one or more members of the anthropology staff. Prerequisite: Permission of Department of Sociology chairperson. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
Art
	ART 101 - Visual Design I 1 semester, 3 Credits An investigation of the elements of two-dimensional design: line, shape, value, texture, and color according to the principles of organization in the formulation of compositional unity as expressed on two-dimensional surfaces in the visual arts whether it be in drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, or digital imaging. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 102 - Visual Design II 1 semester, 3 Credits An investigation of the elements of three-dimensional design: line, shape, value, texture, color, and space according to the principles of organization in formulating compositional unity as expressed in all of the three-dimensional visual arts: sculpture, architecture, ceramics, or the performing arts. Emphasis is on the treatment of real space and spatial relationships in works ranging from reliefs to videos. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 105 - Computer Art 1 semester, 3 Credits Introduction to the principles of basic design through the use of the computer as an art medium. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 108 - Introduction to Desktop Publishing 1 semester, 3 Credits For the student wanting an introduction to graphic design using the ubiquitous desktop computer and a desktop publishing program. Lectures include: history of graphic design, visual perception, typographic layout, and an introduction to desktop computer software. Projects will cover those used for entry-level jobs, e.g., newsletters, stationery, brochures. Evaluations will include the above projects and class critiques. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 111 - Drawing I 1 semester, 3 Credits An introduction to the elements of drawing, with emphasis on the development of perceptual abilities. Studio assignments involve direct observation of still life, the human figure, landscape, and interior spaces. Materials used are charcoal, graphite, and ink. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 112 - Drawing II 1 semester, 3 Credits Studio work from the live model and other motifs. Further development of perceptual approach, with emphasis on compositional structure and elements of form. Students develop a critical vocabulary through group discussion of class assignments and consideration of historical and contemporary examples of drawing. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 111. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 121 - Sculpture I 1 semester, 3 Credits An introductory course dealing with the techniques of modeling, casting, and carving as well as the materials, tools, principles, and elements of sculpture that the student will directly experience through problem solving of assigned projects. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 122 - Sculpture II 1 semester, 3 Credits This course is an in-depth continuation of the principles and techniques mastered in ART 121. The student will decide what materials will be used in the creation and completion of at least five or more serious sculptural projects. The exact number of works is dependent upon the material chosen and the difficulty of the project. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 121. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 131 - Painting I 1 semester, 3 Credits Studio work dealing with basic problems of organizing and evaluating two-dimensional form. Emphasis on the use of structure and design to establish pictorial relationships in color, space, and form. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 132 - Painting II 1 semester, 3 Credits Studio work seeking to develop more complex treatment of the principles studied in Painting I. Emphasis on technical proficiency through practice. Familiarity with historical and contemporary idioms of painting will be expected. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 131. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 141 - Monotype 1 semester, 3 Credits A combination of drawing, painting, and print vocabulary serving to familiarize the student with printmaking and its ability to assist in developing a visual statement. Images will explore the serial progression of an idea through multiple black and white and color impressions. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 151 - Ceramics I 1 semester, 3 Credits This course enables students to make ceramic objects that are hand built rather than thrown on the wheel. Basic and advanced hand-building skills such as coil, slab, pinch, and press molding are taught as students gain knowledge about materials, glazing, and firing. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 152 - Ceramics II: Wheelworking 1 semester, 3 Credits This course centers on wheel throwing as a means of making ceramic forms. Basic and advanced throwing skills, material concepts, glazing, and firing are covered. Reduction, Raku, and electric glazes are introduced as the student constructs functional and non-functional forms of clay. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 151. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 171 - Photography I 1 semester, 3 Credits An introduction to black and white photography. The course will include processing the negative and print, darkroom technique, camera, optics, composition, and critiques of student work. The student should have access to a 35mm camera with an adjustable shutter and lens. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 213 - Drawing III 1 semester, 3 Credits A continuation of Drawing II and an introduction to projects requiring longer preparation. Students may begin to work in color. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 112. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 223 - Sculpture III: Life Sculpture 1 semester, 3 Credits An introduction to the study of the human figure in which the human form is investigated directly from a model in order to observe the human form in its various spatial positions: standing, sitting, or reclining. In addition, the student will do studies of the head, hands and feet. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 121. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 233 - Painting III 1 semester, 3 Credits An advanced course in painting in which the student is encouraged to develop an expanded vocabulary of forms through research and technical exploration. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 132. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 242 - Digital Imaging: Etching 1 semester, 3 Credits Utilizes the computer and drawing to produce full color images in a traditional print medium, intaglio etching. Through a series of lecture demonstrations, there will be an introduction to hands-on drawing experience, plate preparation, and Photoshop visual imaging software. Experience in drawing or Photoshop is not required, although some computer literacy would be useful. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 243 - Digital Imaging: Screenprinting 1 semester, 3 Credits This course will be an introduction to hands-on drawing experience and Photoshop visual imaging software. Through a series of lecture demonstrations, the computer and drawing will be used to explore full-color images in screenprinting. As in ART 242, experience in drawing or Photoshop is not required, although some computer literacy would be helpful. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 246 - Digital Imaging: Type/Design/Art 1 semester, 3 Credits This studio course uses computers and drawing to investigate typography as an art form. There will be a thorough review of the history and construction of typefaces since the Renaissance and each person will use the computer to research, draw, and create a new and unique typeface. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 248 - Digital Imaging: Web Animation 1 semester, 3 Credits Through a series of carefully constructed assignments, images of the student’s own creation will combine with sound to become professional quality digital animations. Students will draw with the computer, invent visual storytelling concepts, and learn to use interactive development software. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 253 - Ceramics III: Advanced Wheelwork 1 semester, 3 Credits Ceramics majors develop a personal sense of direction with assignments that increase skill and artistry. Students learn to relate their work to historical and contemporary traditions. Glaze chemistry will also be introduced so that the student can begin the process of involvement with the technical demands of glazing. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 152. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 270 - Special Topics in Studio Art 1 semester, 3 Credits ART 270, 370, 470 are special topics courses on subjects of special interest offered students at different levels in various areas of studio art. This course requires six class hours per week. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 272 - Photography II 1 semester, 3 Credits (Required of all photography majors.) A continuation of Photography I. The intermediate student is encouraged to develop his/her own style through a series of technique-oriented projects. The class is structured around weekly critiques of student work. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 171 or permission of the instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 273 - Photography III: Color Photography 1 semester, 3 Credits (Required of all photography majors.) An introduction to color photography. The student will also be required to produce a high level of design and finish. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 272 or permission of the instructor. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 314 - Drawing IV 1 semester, 3 Credits Advanced work dealing with more innovative aspects of drawing, encouraging exploration of personal forms and themes. All studio majors are strongly encouraged to take elective courses in drawing, as it is the basis of growth in all areas of art. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 213. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 315 - Drawing V 1 semester, 3 Credits Advanced work dealing with more innovative aspects of drawing, encouraging exploration of personal forms and themes. All studio majors are strongly encouraged to take elective courses in drawing, as it is the basis of growth in all areas of art. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 314. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 324 - Sculpture IV 1 semester, 3 Credits Work done in this course looks toward the senior thesis exhibition. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 121. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 325 - Sculpture V 1 semester, 3 Credits Work done in this course looks toward the senior thesis exhibition. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 324. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 334 - Painting IV 1 semester, 3 Credits This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 233. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 335 - Painting V 1 semester, 3 Credits This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 334. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 336 - Painting VI 1 semester, 3 Credits This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 335. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 344 - Printmaking IV: Advanced Relief/Intaglio 1 semester, 3 Credits Advanced and experimental work in relief or intaglio, including the use of multiple print media and collage in realizing an image in a unique impression or a limited edition. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 242. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 345 - Printmaking V: Advanced Screenprinting 1 semester, 3 Credits Advanced non-toxic screen printing. Continued investigation including larger format, photographic ideas, and the ability to produce a limited edition. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 243. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings
	ART 354 - Ceramics IV: Sculpture 1 semester, 3 Credits Development of concepts, objects, installations, and environments using ceramic materials. This course requires six class hours per week. Prerequisite: ART 152. Click here for the Semester Course Offerings

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ACC 110 - Computer Applications in Business I

ACC 111 - Computer Applications in Business II

ACC 200 - Introduction to the Profession

ACC 203 - Financial Accounting

ACC 204 - Managerial Accounting

ACC 301 - Cost Accounting

ACC 310 - Intermediate Accounting I

ACC 311 - Intermediate Accounting II

ACC 350 - Accounting Information Systems

ACC 401 - Federal Income Taxes

ACC 405 - Advanced Accounting

ACC 406 - Taxes and Business Decisions

ACC 412 - Auditing

ACC 441 - Frauds, Scandals, and Scams

ACC 450 - Accountancy Internship

ACC 485 - Accounting Policy

ACC 490 - Independent Study in Accounting

AMS 101 - Introduction to American Studies

AMS 108 - History of Photography

AMS 120 - History of Film: The Silent Period and the Transition to Sound

AMS 121 - History of Film: The Classic Era 1940-1960 and Beyond 1960-1990

AMS 207 - American Art

AMS 220 - The Catholic Imagination of Four American Filmmakers

AMS 226 - Music in the United States

AMS 227 - History of Jazz

AMS 301 - Development of North American Architecture

AMS 304 - American and European Art Since 1945

AMS 313 - The Power of Whiteness

AMS 318 - Globalization and Social Justice

AMS 320 - Early American Literature

AMS 321 - Social Change

AMS 325 - African-American Women

AMS 331 - American Philosophy

AMS 345 - The Consumer Society

AMS 364 - Modern American Fiction

AMS 365 - Twentieth-Century African-American Literature

AMS 411 - The Sociology of Disaster

AMS 427 - Classical America

AMS 450 - Internship

AMS 470 - Seminar: Special Topics in American Studies

AMS 480 - Seminar: The History and Culture of the Cold War

AMS 481 - Seminar: The West in the American Imagination

AMS 482 - Seminar: Smith Hill: A Study in Community and Place

AMS 483 - Seminar: The Simple Life in American Culture

AMS 484 - Seminar: Childhood in America

AMS 486 - Seminar: Making of Modern America

AMS 490 - Independent Study

APG 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

APG 203 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology

APG 301 - Art in Everyday Life

APG 303 - Sacred Journeys

APG 304 - The Built Environment and Spatial Form

APG 321 - Latin America: Mexico and Central America

APG 322 - Latin America: South America

APG 325 - India: Cultural Studies

APG 327 - Himalayan Cultural Studies

APG 328 - Native Peoples of the United States and Canada

APG 338 - Religion and Magic

APG 339 - Faith and Healing

APG 345 - Cities and Urban Life

APG 360 - Prehistoric Archaeology

APG 401 - Theory in Anthropology

APG 450 - Field Experience

APG 470 - Special Topics in Anthropology

APG 490 - Independent Study

ART 101 - Visual Design I

ART 102 - Visual Design II

ART 105 - Computer Art

ART 108 - Introduction to Desktop Publishing

ART 111 - Drawing I

ART 112 - Drawing II

ART 121 - Sculpture I

ART 122 - Sculpture II

ART 131 - Painting I

ART 132 - Painting II

ART 141 - Monotype

ART 151 - Ceramics I

ART 152 - Ceramics II: Wheelworking

ART 171 - Photography I