Founders The Congregation of Holy Cross, a Catholic community of Priests and Brothers, as an independent, Church-related institution. Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges which accredits schools and colleges in the six New England states. Membership in the Association indicates that the institution has been carefully evaluated and found to meet standards agreed upon by the qualified educators. Stonehill College supports the efforts of secondary school officials and governing bodies to have their schools achieve regional accredited status to provide reliable assurance of the quality of the educational preparation of its applicants for admission. American Chemical Society (ACS) Association of University Programs in Health Administration; Full Certification Membership • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) • Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) • Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) • The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) • National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) • Southeastern Association for Cooperation of Higher Education in Massachusetts (SACHEM) • Southern New England Consortium on Race and Ethnicity (SNECORE) academic life Mission and History

Mission of the College one end sits Donahue Hall, the estate’s original Stonehill’s Catholic heritage and to commit the Georgian-style mansion, constructed in 1905. Congregation to an active presence in both Stonehill College, a Catholic institution of It houses Stonehill’s administration as well as academic and pastoral positions at the College. higher learning founded by the Congregation a chapel in which mass is celebrated daily. of Holy Cross, is a community of scholarship Donahue Hall overlooks a panorama of academic Stonehill conducted its first commencement and faith, anchored by a belief in the buildings and residence halls in a tranquil exercises in 1952, and in 2011 the College inherent dignity of each person. setting of lawns, woods, fields and ponds. graduated its 23,000th alumnus. The College’s vision for the future is encapsulated in its strategic Through its curriculum of liberal arts and Since its founding in France in 1837, the plan, “Above & Beyond: The Plan for Stonehill sciences and pre-professional programs, Congregation of Holy Cross has been engaged College 2011-2015.” Stonehill seeks to provide a Stonehill College provides an education of the in works of education. By 1842, members of quality higher education that equips alumni for highest caliber that fosters critical thinking, the Congregation had established the University thoughtful reflection throughout their lives, for free inquiry, and the interchange of ideas. of Notre Dame in northern Indiana. Other useful careers, and for citizenship, service and institutions of higher education founded by leadership in the Church and in the world. Stonehill College educates the whole person the Congregation in the United States include so that each Stonehill graduate thinks, acts, the University of Portland in Oregon, St. and leads with courage toward creating a Degrees and Accreditation Edward’s University in Texas, King’s College in more just and compassionate world. Pennsylvania, and Holy Cross College in Indiana. Stonehill College offers a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Science Philosophy of the College Father Basil Moreau C.S.C., the founder of the in Business Administration degrees. Congregation, held as a primary concern that To accomplish this vision students undertake education affects the whole person. Father Moreau Stonehill College is accredited by the New a program of studies which encourages spoke and wrote of educating the heart as well England Association of Schools and Colleges, scholarship, critical analysis and creative as instructing the mind, of developing people of Inc., a non-governmental, nationally recognized thinking. Faithful to the Holy Cross tradition in values as well as scholars. Typical of Moreau’s organization whose affiliated institutions education, Stonehill is committed to developing sentiments was the view expressed in an 1849 include elementary schools through collegiate the moral, spiritual, intellectual and social Circular Letter to members of the Congregation: institutions offering post-graduate instruction. competencies of its students, as well as fostering the determination to bring these competencies “We will always place development of Accreditation of an institution of higher education to bear on matters of social justice. the whole person side by side with the by the New England Association indicates that it acquisition of knowledge; the mind will not meets or exceeds criteria for the assessment of Through study of the core disciplines of the be cultivated at the expense of the heart.” institutional quality periodically applied through liberal arts, students engage the wisdom and a peer group review process. An accredited the questions that are the foundation of an In September 1948, Stonehill College enrolled school or college is one which has available educated mind. Mastery of the specialized its first students. In 1951, the College expanded the necessary resources to achieve its stated knowledge required by today’s professions enrollment to welcome women students. purposes through appropriate educational provides the tools to lead productive careers In December 1959, Stonehill received full programs, is substantially doing so, and gives and to shape the world beyond the classroom. accreditation from and membership in reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so the New England Association of Colleges in the foreseeable future. Institutional integrity The presence of Catholic intellectual and and Secondary Schools (NEASC). is also addressed through accreditation. moral ideals places the College in a long tradition of free inquiry, the engagement with Until 1972, responsibility of the College was Accreditation by the New England Association transcendent theological and philosophical vested in the Eastern Province of the Congregation is not partial but applies to the institution as ideals and values, the recognition of the of Holy Cross. In that year, responsibility was a whole. As such, it is not a guarantee of the inherent dignity of each person, and the sense transferred to an elected and primarily lay Board quality of every course or program offered, of obligation to commit oneself to moral ends. of Trustees. The Congregation also transferred or the competence of individual graduates. equity consisting of 375 acres and buildings for, Rather, it provides reasonable assurance In celebration of this dignity and of the unity and accommodated to, educational purposes. about the quality of opportunities available of the human family, Stonehill supports a to students who attend the institution. diversity of persons, opinions, and cultural and Both the spirit and letter of the transfer religious perspectives. The College affirms that called for Stonehill College to continue as A copy of the documents describing Stonehill's appreciation of this diversity is integral to the a Catholic institution of higher learning. accreditation and its state and federal licensing acquisition of personal and intellectual breadth. As a Catholic College, Stonehill is committed to the are available upon request to Stonehill College, Attn: Clerk of the Corporation, 320 Washington The faculty, inspired by a passion for teaching, mutually enriching discourse between intellectual Street, Easton, MA 02357. Anyone wishing collaborates with the staff to create a student- inquiry and the life of faith. As a College in the to contact the College's accreditor or its state centered climate which promotes academic Holy Cross tradition, Stonehill seeks to help licensing entity may use the following addresses: challenge and rigorous inquiry, physical students develop their abilities and discover the well-being and emotional growth, personal deepest longings in their lives. It seeks to cultivate New England Association of Schools and Colleges responsibility, cooperative learning and authentic concern for the dignity of every person and care 209 Burlington Road, Suite 201 community. A Stonehill education encourages for the victims of every prejudice. In fulfillment Bedford, MA 01730-1433 students to develop a lifelong desire for self- of its motto, Lux et Spes (Latin for “Light and (781) 271-0022 or discovery and commitment to service that will Hope,”) the College fosters the competence to lead to truly purposeful and rewarding lives. see and the courage to act. (Cf. Constitutions of Massachusetts Department of Higher Education the Congregation of Holy Cross, Nos. 14-17). One Ashburton Place, Room 1401 Boston, MA 02108 History of the College In this tradition, Stonehill is particularly (617) 994-6950 concerned to foster a quality of life on campus Stonehill College was founded on June 30, 1948. that forges strong bonds of community and On that day, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a tradition of service that contributes to a authorized the Congregation of Holy Cross to more just and compassionate society. In establish an institution of higher learning on the 1989, a Statement of Principles was approved former estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames in North by both the College and the Congregation Easton. The campus is strikingly beautiful. At of Holy Cross to ensure the preservation of

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Academic Life the self, society, culture, and the natural world. Communication – with concentrations in: The program honors the College’s commitment • Communication Studies The Stonehill curriculum challenges men and to free inquiry and social responsibility in the • Mediated Communication women of diverse backgrounds to enter into tradition of Catholic higher education. Through Computer Science (Notre Dame Computer intellectual, social and moral discovery and to the development of the knowledge, competencies, Engineering Dual-degree program) create meaningful lives, rewarding careers, and and values that are central to the Cornerstone Criminology participatory citizenship. The Cornerstone Program Program, every Stonehill student will be prepared Economics of General Education and Major Programs of for a life of learning and responsible citizenship. Study combine to cultivate a student-centered Education – with concentrations in: environment that is nurtured by small classes Through the courses and experiences of the • Early Childhood Education and enriching student-faculty relationships. Cornerstone Program, students are assisted • Elementary Education in meeting specific learning goals established English The College prides itself on promoting liberal for every Stonehill graduate. These goals Environmental Studies education and on offering a variety of high quality include: intellectual engagement, effective Foreign Languages academic programs in the Arts and Sciences and communication, leadership and collaboration, French in Business Administration. Major and Minor social responsibility, and personal growth and Gender Studies Programs of Study emphasize depth of knowledge discovery. (More information about the learning Graphic Design and practice in a particular discipline. While goals and courses of the Cornerstone Program students must complete requirements within the are provided in The Cornerstone Program.) Healthcare Administration major or minor, they also have the flexibility to History – with concentrations in: explore academic opportunities unique to their The Major • European History own educational plans. Such opportunities include • United States History the honors program, internships, international The Major constitutes the second broad area in • World History experiences, interdisciplinary concentrations, the student’s curriculum. College education should Interdisciplinary Studies community-based learning opportunities, both facilitate intellectual growth and equip Mathematics directed study, and independent research. students to take their place as responsible members Philosophy of society. Students are to prepare themselves for Thus, the outcomes of the Academic Program Physics some field of graduate or professional study, or for include enhanced content knowledge in “core” Political Science & International a more immediate career in such areas as teaching, disciplines; demonstrated competency in skills Studies - with concentrations in: government, business, industry, or social service. crucial to success in all major programs; the • Government and Politics ability to integrate knowledge across disciplines; Accordingly, students select an area of major • International Relations dexterity in teamwork and collaboration; the concentration in view of postgraduate or career Psychology ability to reason well and to apply reasoning plans. The goal of the Major is for students Public Administration skills to ethical questions; an appreciation for to acquire skills and investigate intellectual Religious Studies diversity of persons and cultures; and expertise questions, methods, and issues in considerable Sociology – with concentrations in: in at least one academic discipline. This breadth and increasing depth in a specific • Social Research foundation will serve graduates well in any field or area of study. Degree candidates must • Sociology (general) career or post-baccalaureate study they pursue. declare, and be accepted in, a major field of • Youth and Family Services study prior to enrollment in their last 45 credits. Completing the Stonehill academic program Spanish is an exciting way to develop skills and Students may enroll in two Majors, subject Studio Arts knowledge, to experience human and to the approval from the Office of Academic Visual and Performing Arts – natural diversity, to build critical and creative Services, in consultation with the respective with concentrations in: thinking and leadership abilities, and to Department Chairpersons or Program • Music discover the value of civic engagement. Directors. In some cases, students may need • Theater Arts to enroll in more than 120 credits in order to • Visual and Performing Arts (general) The Curriculum satisfy the requirements of both Majors. A Bachelor of Science (B.S.) is awarded in: The academic program introduces the student Students who satisfactorily complete two Majors will receive one degree from the College, with Biochemistry to the various disciplines of a liberal education Biology and prepares the student for graduate studies this exception: If a student satisfactorily completes Chemistry or a professional position in a fashion that the requirements for two Majors, whether before Computer Science both enriches the student and benefits society. or after the student’s official graduation, a second Recognizing that each person is unique in ability, degree will be awarded if the second Major Interdisciplinary Studies inquisitiveness, interest, and aspiration, the is in a different degree program (B.A., B.S., Mathematics program provides the student with the opportunity or B.S.B.A.) from the first Major. The student Neuroscience to select electives in addition to courses required will be given the option of selecting which Physics – with concentrations in: for the Cornerstone Program and for the major. degree will be granted at Commencement. • Astronomy • Physics (general) Stonehill students design their own education Majors by Degree Awarded by selecting courses from the Stonehill A Bachelor of Science in Business curriculum. The parts of the curriculum A Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) is awarded in: Administration (B.S.B.A.) is awarded in: include: the Cornerstone Program of General American Studies Accounting Education, the Major, the Minor and/or Arts Administration - with concentrations in: Finance Interdisciplinary Minor (optional), and Electives. • Museum Studies International Business • Performing Arts Management The Cornerstone Program Art History Marketing of General Education Arts Administration Biology The mission of the Cornerstone Program is to Catholic Studies lead every Stonehill student to examine critically Chemistry

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Disciplinary Minor (Optional) be related to the Major or Disciplinary Minor. to become active rather than passive learners. Students submit a proposal for an Interdisciplinary Students may choose to complete a Disciplinary Minor that will include no less than four and no Honors students who enter the program as first Minor. This Minor may be closely related to a more than five academic units. Given the depth year students. will complete a minimum of five student’s Major, selected as an alternative field of study required, it is expected that no student honors courses (of at least three credits each) of specialization, or chosen simply for personal would undertake more than one Interdisciplinary in addition to a Senior Honors Experience: enrichment. Generally, a Disciplinary Minor is no Minor during his or her academic career at • Two honors core courses in more than six courses and ensures that a student Stonehill. For more information, contact Prof. Peter the fall of the first year. purses an area of study in some breadth and depth Ubertaccio, The Director of the Martin Institute. beyond the introductory level and outside of the • Three additional honors courses to be taken in Major. Students may obtain only one Disciplinary Electives General Education (natural scientific inquiry, Minor; however, as an exception, students social scientific inquiry, statistical reasoning, may choose to complete both a Disciplinary The Elective component constitutes the last part moral inquiry), major/minor, or as general and Interdisciplinary Minor (see below). of the Stonehill curriculum. Here the student electives. Honors language courses count for exercises considerable discretion in designing no more than one honors requirement. Honors Minors a program of study. Elective courses may be students may fulfill one course requirement Anthropology used to deepen knowledge of familiar areas or for the program by taking a non-honors to explore new areas of educational inquiry. Art History course for honors credit, with permission of Asian Studies the program director and the instructor. Astronomy Moreau Honors Program • Senior Honors Experience, composed Biochemistry The Moreau Honors Program at Stonehill College of a senior thesis (Senior Capstone) or Biology challenges and enlivens students through an other substantive intellectual work. Business enhanced experience of the curriculum through Students who enter the Moreau Honors Program Catholic Studies specially designated honors courses taught by in their sophomore year are required to take Chemistry the most gifted professors at the college. Honors only three honors courses prior to their Senior Cinema Studies courses are designed to stimulate independent Honors Experience. With permission from the Communication thought by combining rigorous academic program director and the instructor, these students standards, classroom discussion, and experiences Computer Information Systems may also fulfill one honors requirement by of group and independent learning. The program Computer Science taking a non-honors course for honors credit. Criminology also includes co-curricular components that Dance encourage service and leadership. Through an enhanced learning experience in smaller Co-Curriculum Economics classes, the program aims to lead students into Early Childhood Education Honors Leadership Seminar lasting habits of reflection and a life of the Honors students will develop leadership skills Elementary Education mind. The program also emphasizes student and will contribute to the intellectual and English leadership and peer mentoring, especially cultural life of the college community. Students Environmental Studies through the Honors Advisory Council, made up in the Moreau Honors Program participate in French of honors student representatives who, with the the Leadership Seminar in their first year and German Director, guide the Moreau Honors Program. receive one academic credit for this experience Gender Studies The program is named for and inspired by the in the spring. During this one-year experience Healthcare Administration educational principles of Basil Moreau, C.S.C., students are required to effect positive changes in History founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, the honors or Stonehill community or beyond. Irish Studies which sponsors Stonehill. Moreau wrote that Italian Studies “the mind will not be cultivated at the expense Resources Journalism of the heart” (Circular Letter No. 36). For this • The opportunity to apply for Honors Mathematics reason, the program places emphasis on service Leadership Grants of up to $500, normally Middle Eastern Studies learning, involvement at Stonehill and beyond, during the junior or senior year, to Music and community building among honors students. fund leadership or expanded academic Philosophy • Participation in the Moreau Honors Program opportunities (e.g. summer of thesis Physics is designed to achieve the following research, presentations at professional Political Science additional and extended outcomes: conferences, academic or leadership Psychology extensions related to international study); Public Administration • Increased intellectual growth Religious Studies and independent thinking; • Priority course registration; Secondary Education • Development of effective leadership qualities; • Small, seminar-style honors courses; Sociology • Special transcript notations; Spanish • Recognition of a sense of place Studio Arts within a community of scholars; • Recognition at graduation; Theater Arts • Ability to conduct independent research in the • Advising from honors faculty and Interdisciplinary context of scholarship in the discipline; and the Honors Director; and Minor (Optional) • Exploration and setting of goals • Letters of verification that describe the beyond Stonehill College. program and list honors coursework Interdisciplinary Minors give students the completed by the student. opportunity to explore, in some depth, a well- Curriculum For more information about the Moreau defined question or topic beyond the major. Courses in the Moreau Honors Program are Honors Program, contact Prof. George The Interdisciplinary Minor provides students limited to 20 students, insuring that each is Piggford, C.S.C., the Director. with maximum flexibility to propose a course taught in a seminar style that invites vigorous of study, comprised of classes and other participation. Faculty encourage honors students academic experiences, as a path to conduct an to become engaged in course material through interdisciplinary inquiry that may or may not ongoing dialogue and presentations, and thus

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Pre-Professional Advising Agreement facilitates movement of educators’ a grade of “C’’ or better and only the credits credentials between most other states. Specific received are added to the permanent record. The Pre-Health Professions Advising: The requirements differ for each state therefore grade received is recorded on the permanent Pre-Health Professions Program provides students are encouraged to consult with the record at the college where the course is taken. guidance to those students who intend on Education Department to facilitate this process. Students are responsible for adherence to the pursuing a career as an allopathic (MD) or academic regulations of the institution involved. osteopathic (DO) physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, or veterinarian. Academic Engineering Dual- Stonehill does not offer a major in any one of Degree Programs the pre-health disciplines. Students planning Partnerships on a career in any of the health professions B.A./B.S. most commonly choose to major in one of the Marine Studies Consortium An agreement with The University of Notre Dame sciences (Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, or Stonehill College is a member of the Marine allows students completing three years at Stonehill Neuroscience); however, choosing to major in Studies Consortium, which was organized in 1977 and two years at Notre Dame to earn a Bachelor a non-science discipline is certainly a viable by representatives of twenty-five Massachusetts of Arts degree from Stonehill and a Bachelor option. Regardless of the major you choose, universities and colleges. Its primary purpose of Science degree from The University of Notre what is important is that you take the courses is to promote marine education. Each year the Dame in one of a variety of engineering fields, that are prerequisites for the professional consortium offers several marine-related courses including Computer Engineering, Mechanical schools to which you intend to apply as well in Boston which attract undergraduate students Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical as those that will sufficiently prepare you to from schools throughout the area. Credit for Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental take the appropriate standardized entrance courses taken is granted by the student’s home Geosciences, and Aerospace Engineering. The examination (MCAT, DAT, or OAT). institution, and the grade received becomes part of the student’s permanent record at the dual degree ensures that students will graduate Andrew Leahy, Career Counselor in the Office school. Students interested in enrolling in any with both a strong liberal arts background of Career Services, is the principal Pre-Health of these courses must apply through Professor and the requisite knowledge for a career in an Professions Advisor. He will work closely Maura Geens Tyrrell, Department of Biology. engineering field. The Stonehill degree will with you to ensure that you are well-informed normally be a B.A. in Computer Science (for about and prepared for the application process SACHEM Exchange Program Computer Engineering), a B.A. in Chemistry (for for professional school. Developing a strong Chemical Engineering), a B.A. in Environmental Stonehill College students may cross-register for working relationship with Andrew will ensure Studies (for Environmental Geosciences), or a courses at any of the SACHEM (Southeastern that you develop an appropriate four-year B.A. in Physics (for the other engineering fields). Association for Cooperation of Higher Education academic plan that not only includes the in Massachusetts) institutions on a space- necessary prerequisite courses but also valuable available basis as part of their normal full-time Cooperative Agreements clinical (e.g., shadowing, internship, work, load during the Fall or Spring semester. Winter and volunteer) and research experiences. with Simmons College and Summer semesters are excluded from the Craig Almeida, Dean of Academic Achievement, SACHEM exchange program. Tuition is covered (Boston, MA) for Accelerated will work with pre-health professions school within the students’ full-time tuition charge Graduate Admissions applicants during the application process to at Stonehill; students are responsible for lab These agreements provide accelerated admissions both arrange interviews with Stonehill’s Pre- fees when applicable. Students must request for qualified Stonehill graduates into several of the Health Professions Advisory Committee and an official transcript from the Sachem School Master’s programs at Simmons College in Boston, to coordinate the writing and submission of be sent to the Academic Services Office. Massachusetts. In the College of Arts and Sciences composite Committee Letters of Evaluations. Colleges involved in the SACHEM (CAS), the programs include: Children’s Literature, Pre-Allied Health Professions Advising: program are the following: Communications Management, Education (MAT Some examples of allied health professionals and MS), English, Gender/Cultural Studies, and • Bridgewater State College include nurse, nurse practitioner, physician Spanish. In the School for Health Studies, Stonehill assistant, physical therapist, nuclear medicine • Bristol Community College graduates who wish to pursue a Master’s in technologist, pharmacist, pharmaceutical • Cape Cod Community College Healthcare Administration may apply courses scientist, medical technologist, cytotechnologist, • Dean College taken at Stonehill to the Simmons College graduate exercise physiologist, public health specialist, • Massachusetts Maritime Academy* program. Interested students should contact their biotechnologist, etc. Students who are interested • Massasoit Community College academic advisor, the Office of Career Services, or in pursuing these or related careers should • Stonehill College the Office of the Dean of Academic Achievement. consult Sheila Barry, Assistant Professor of • University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Biology and the Pre-Allied Health Professions • Wheaton College Cooperative Agreements Advisor. She can discuss with you the affiliation agreements that Stonehill College has with *Students may not cross register at with Post-Graduate Programs certain graduate programs, and what can be Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the Health Sciences done to accomplish your goals. Students are Students may enroll in a maximum of two courses Each of the following agreements reserves not obligated to attend our affiliated schools per semester at one of the above institutions, and are welcome to apply to the programs of a specific number of admissions slots in the provided that the courses are not offered or program for qualified Stonehill graduates. their choice. Professor Barry will assist in the are filled at Stonehill for that semester. First selection of appropriate pre-requisite courses and year students are not eligible to participate in Chiropractic Medicine recommend others that are beneficial to applicants. the SACHEM program. Cross-registration is not This is an accelerated seven-year B.S./D.C. available for General Education courses. SACHEM Pre-Law Advising: A formal advising program Program with Palmer College of Chiropractic, courses may count as major requirements with for students interested in law school is Davenport, Iowa. It involves three years of approval of the relevant Department Chair. coordinated by the Pre-Law Advisor, Professor study at Stonehill College and four years of Peter Ubertaccio. There is no required SACHEM Registration Forms may be obtained study at Palmer College of Chiropractic, leading academic program for pre-law students. from the Registrar’s Office and final approval is to a B.S. in Biology from Stonehill and a Teacher Licensure Advising: Stonehill College granted by the Office of Academic Services and Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College. the particular college involved. In accordance Education Department is a MA State and Students interested in this program should with Stonehill College policy, the transfer of NASDTEC approved program leading to MA contact Andrew Leahy, Pre-Health Professions credit to Stonehill is given only for courses with teaching licensure. The NASDTEC Interstate Advisor, in the Office of Career Services.

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Students interested in any of the following great need in the 21st century of health care. fourteen weeks, during either semester of the agreements should contact Professor Sheila junior year or the Fall semester of the senior Barry in the Biology Department, who is the year. Upon successful completion, students are Pre-Allied Health Professions Advisor. granted fifteen credits. Interns in London enroll International in three, 4-credit courses at Birkbeck College and Nuclear Medicine Technologist Programs earn an additional three credits for a two-day- Most science majors meet the requirements a-week internship. Students in Madrid and Paris necessary for this post-graduate career Mission earn 15 credits for their internship, research paper opportunity; students from other fields can and professional journal. In addition to their fulfill the prerequisite courses with careful The International Programs Office provides internship, research paper and professional journal, advising and planning. The Nuclear Medicine opportunities for experiential learning through Dublin students enroll in a seminar on Irish history Technologist post-graduate curriculum at Regis study abroad, college exchange programs and and earn a total of 15 credits for the semester. This College in, Weston, MA is a one- year program international internships. The program recognizes program requires at least a cumulative GPA of 3.00. that will accept qualified Stonehill candidates. that the understanding of other peoples’ cultures not only enables students to better comprehend Study Abroad Program Nurse Practitioner and provide leadership to an increasingly interdependent and complex global society, but Recognizing the advantages obtained from Qualified Stonehill graduates who have also allows students to achieve a deeper level first-hand contact with other cultures and the successfully completed the pre-requisites will of self-reliance and personal understanding. benefits of travel and study outside one’s own be considered for preferred admission to the country, Stonehill College allows students Direct Entry Nursing program at Simmons to spend a maximum of three semesters in College in Boston. This Nurse Practitioner Application Process an approved program of study at a foreign program is a three-year full-time program for Acceptance into any Stonehill College International institution without withdrawing from the undergraduates with a degree in an academic Program requires that a student possess solid College. Stonehill cooperates with over 100 discipline other than nursing, leading to an M.S. academic ability as demonstrated by at least a institutions in more than 35 countries. in nursing and preparation for the NP exam. 2.80 cumulative GPA (some programs require a higher minimum GPA), a level of maturity A student’s program of study, and transfer credit Nursing demonstrated by responsible behavior at the equivalencies, must receive approval, before Qualified Stonehill graduates may be admitted College and a serious intention to learn and departure, by the student’s major Department to the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy grow in a different cultural environment. All Chairperson and the Office of Academic Services. and Health Sciences, Worcester, leading to applicants sign a release enabling collaboration Upon return, only courses passed with a grade certification and licensure as a Registered with Student Affairs personnel concerning the equivalent to or higher than the Stonehill grade of Nurse. This Bachelor of Science in Nursing student’s disciplinary record. Students seeking “C” are accepted in transfer and recorded on the (RN) accelerated post-baccalaureate 16-month admission into any international program begin student’s academic transcript; the grades earned program is for students who have met all the application process by completing the on- are not included in the student’s cumulative pre-professional course requirements. line application form accessible on the web. grade-point average. (A course whose grade corresponds at Stonehill to a “C-” will not transfer). Pharmacy Individual programs may stipulate additional requirements. Second semester seniors generally Eligible Stonehill graduates may matriculate into Non-Approved Programs are not allowed to enroll in courses elsewhere the 34-month Doctor of Pharmacy program at during their last semester and may do so only with Students who study abroad without Stonehill Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health the permission of the Office of Academic Services. pre-approval or in non-approved programs Sciences, Worcester, MA. This intensive full-time must withdraw from the College during their program is one of the few in the country that For more information concerning any of time abroad and apply for readmission. Housing offers this type of accelerated course of study. the programs listed below, contact the upon readmission is on a space-available basis Office of International Programs. and eligibility for financial aid will be subject Physical Therapy to regulations at the time of readmission. An agreement with Simmons College facilitates Stonehill College preferred admission for students into their graduate physical therapy program after specific Abroad Programs requirements have been met. The three-year Stonehill College offers a wide choice of programs Experiential and Doctorate in Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) program at which allow students to remain fully enrolled Independent Simmons College, Boston, is for those who have at Stonehill, paying a program fee equivalent to a degree in a field other than physical therapy. Stonehill tuition and fees, while maintaining their Learning Programs Stonehill financial aid. An abroad fee will be Physician Assistant (PA) charged to students who choose to study away Stonehill Undergraduate Stonehill graduates who successfully meet in most programs during the Spring semester. established criteria will be admitted to the Research Experience (SURE) Master of Physician Assistant Studies 30-month The International The Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience Program, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Internship Program (SURE) Program is an opportunity for students and Health Sciences, Boston, or the Master of who have completed at least their first year at Physician Assistant Studies 24-month Program Stonehill College sponsors a program of full- Stonehill to perform significant, publishable at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy time internships in Dublin, London, Madrid full-time research under the guidance of and and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA. and Paris. These internships provide students in collaboration with an experienced faculty with the opportunity to develop competence researcher. The experience, available to all Public Health, Biotechnology, Exercise through application of learned concepts to disciplines, helps to solidify and define students’ Physiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences professional practice, and to strengthen personal career choices, both through graduate school Stonehill College has an affiliation agreement with development through living and working in decisions and in post-college employment. Northeastern University in Boston for the preceding another culture. The College offers internships in All SURE Scholars receive a stipend for an four graduate programs. Information is available a variety of fields, including advertising, business, eight- or ten-week full-time summer session. from Professor Sheila Barry on each of them education, health administration, law, medical Applications are submitted in early December as well as the recommendations for admission. research, sociology, art, theatre, and politics. preceding the summer of participation. For further Each of them is an exciting option that has the information, contact the Office of Academic Students approved for the program intern for potential for careers helping others and fulfills a Development, or log onto the SURE website.

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Internships Directed Study KAPPA DELTA PI. Campus chapter, ALPHA GAMMA BETA, of the National Honor Society in Academic internships provide valuable educational A Directed Study allows a student to investigate Education. Recognizes students who have shown experiences, as they facilitate student learning in-depth a subject that is not offered in the evidence of outstanding academic achievement. outside of the classroom. Qualified students regular curriculum. Such a project is ordinarily Faculty Advisor - Prof. Stephen Pinzari. may be approved to work in public and/ in an area of concentration or in some field for or private organizations, where they are able which the student is well-prepared. A student KAPPA MU EPSILON, MASSACHUSETTS to gain first-hand knowledge in a specific who desires to pursue a Directed Study should BETA. Campus Chapter of the National field. Students can intern part-time locally for first seek the cooperation of a faculty member Mathematics Honor Society. Recognizes 3-6 credits or may participate in one of three in the appropriate discipline who will agree to academic achievement in mathematics. Faculty full-time internship programs. Stonehill offers supervise the work in the subsequent semester. Advisor - Prof. Timothy Woodcock. 15-credit internship programs in New York City, The student then completes the application LAMBDA EPSILON SIGMA. Stonehill Honor Washington D.C. and Los Angeles that provide available under the myAcademics tab on myHill. Society that recognizes academic accomplishments students with a combination of real-life work A student may not take more than one Directed and fosters scholarly activities. Members experience and academic coursework. Interns selected from all major areas of concentration have the opportunity to appreciate more fully Study in a semester without permission of the Office of Academic Services. on the basis of academic accomplishment. the connections between theory and practice, to Faculty Advisor – Prof. Michael E. Tirrell. adapt to a culture outside the college environment, to network with professionals at different levels Independent Research LAMBDA PI ETA. Campus chapter, ALPHA in an organization, and to gain exposure to OMEGA, of the National Communication With the approval of a supervising faculty potential career choices. Please visit the Career Association Honor Society. Recognizes outstanding member and Department Chairperson, a student Services website for more information. scholastic achievement in communication studies. may carry out an independent research project, Faculty Advisor – Prof. Anne F. Mattina. for academic credit, on a topic currently being Stonehill in Los Angeles studied by the faculty member or on an original OMICRON DELTA EPSILON. Campus chapter, PHI, Students accepted into this program will intern project developed collaboratively by the student of the International Honor Society in Economics. four days a week for a full semester in Los Angeles. and faculty member. The student must complete Recognizes academic achievement in Economics. All students will take a designated communication an on-line application, which requires approval Faculty Advisor – Prof. Mark Kazarosian. course on campus during winter break. by the faculty member and department chair PHI ALPHA THETA. Campus chapter, Internship placements will be based on students’ prior to registration. The form is available NU RHO, of the International Honor interests, as well as availability. This program under the myAcademics tab on myHill. is administered through the Communication Society in History. Recognizes academic Department and the Office of Career Services. achievement in History. Promotes the study Senior Thesis of History and encourages research. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Kevin Spicer C.S.C. Stonehill in New York Students complete an independent scholarly Students intern for a full semester, four days work, resulting in a substantial written document, PHI LAMBDA UPSILON. Honorary chemical a week, while taking one class at Fordham under the guidance of a faculty member society founded in 1899. This was the first honor University. This opportunity allows students and with the approval of the Department society dedicated to a single scientific discipline. to gain practical experience in a large urban Chairperson. An on-line application is available The aims and purposes of the society are the setting. Placements are provided based on under the myAcademics tab on myHill and promotion of high scholarship and original students’ interests and housing is also available. must be completed prior to registration. investigations in all branches of pure and applied This program is administered through the Office chemistry. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Louis Liotta. of Career Services and open to all majors. Honor Societies PI SIGMA ALPHA. The Honor Society for Stonehill in Washington, D.C. recognition of the study of politics was founded ALPHA KAPPA DELTA. The International in 1920 and has over 460 chapters nationwide. Stonehill College endorses two program Sociology Honor Society, campus chapter. Candidates must achieve distinguished grades options for students who want to intern for Recognizes academic excellence in the study of in the study of politics. The Society encourages a full semester in the nation’s capital. Sociological theories and research methodologies, students to undertake the study of politics 1. The Washington Center – Through the as well as the application of this knowledge and government in all areas of the discipline. Center, students intern four to four-and-a- to understanding social problems and social Faculty Advisor – Prof. Peter N. Ubertaccio. half days a week, take an elective course justice. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Margaret Boyd. PSI CHI. Campus chapter of Psychology’s taught by The Washington Center’s faculty ALPHA PSI OMEGA. Campus chapter, ZETA National Honor Society. Recognizes and in the student’s chosen program, and SIGMA, of the National Honor Society encourages scholarship for students pursuing participate in a Leadership Forum which in Theatre Arts. Recognizes outstanding a major or minor in Psychology. Faculty includes distinguished speakers and achievement by students in educational Advisor – Prof. Michael E. Tirrell. site visits throughout the D.C. area. The theatre. Promotes technical and dramatic skills. Center provides housing and placements Faculty Advisor – Prof. Patricia H. Sankus. SIGMA DELTA PI. Campus chapter, LAMBDA to students accepted into the program. RHO, of the National Honor Society in Spanish. 2. American University’s Washington Semester – DELTA MU DELTA. Campus chapter, GAMMA Honors those who seek and attain excellence This program consists of a two-day per week GAMMA, of the National Business Honor in the study of the Spanish language and the internship, a weekly seminar where students Society. Recognizes academic achievement literature and culture of Spanish-speaking peoples. meet with experts and decision-makers in in the field of Business Administration. Faculty advisor – Prof. Antonio Barbagallo. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Hilary Gettman. their field, and a research project or elective SIGMA IOTA RHO. Campus chapter of the class that can be chosen from a variety of EDWIN H. SUTHERLAND CRIMINOLOGY HONOR National Honor Society in International Relations. courses. American University provides housing SOCIETY. Fosters a community of young scholars Recognizes academic achievement in the and access to their internship database dedicated to enhancing their understanding of the study and practice of International Relations. for students accepted into the program. causes, prevention, control and treatment of crime Faculty advisor – Prof. Peter Ubertaccio. These Washington D.C. Programs are open to and delinquency. The Society also strives to link all majors and administered through the Office the social justice and service mission of the College SIGMA TAU DELTA. International English of Career Services and The Martin Institute. to help its members become more well-rounded Honor Society for which the key purpose is to and effective academicians and practitioners confer distinction upon students engaged in International Internship Program in the many fields of criminology and criminal the study of English and English literature at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional See here for details. justice. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Pamela Kelley. studies levels. Membership in the Honor THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 7 academic LIfe

Society, which recognizes high scholastic databases, and e-books. There are computer The Center for Writing and Academic Achievement achievement, is by invitation. At present, Sigma labs on the first and third floors as well as coordinates supplemental instruction for students Tau Delta has more than 750 active chapters in computers for research in the reference area. seeking to improve their academic performance Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Network connections and wireless are available at the College. With over 100 faculty-selected Faculty Advisor - Prof. Helga L. Duncan. throughout the building. The library’s extensive undergraduate Teaching Assistants and 10 Shields electronic resources are available both on- and Scholar Mentors, the Center provides one-on- SIGMA ZETA. Campus chapter, ALPHA RHO, of off-campus via the college’s computer network. one support and small group tutoring in over the National Honor Society for faculty members 60 courses. The tutor program is certified by and students in the sciences and Mathematics. Registrar’s Office the College Reading and Learning Association. Faculty Advisor – Prof. Gregory Maniero. Students are eligible to receive Level 1 from the THETA ALPHA KAPPA. Campus chapter ALPHA The Registrar’s Office is dedicated to providing International Tutoring Certification Program (ITCP). GAMMA ETA, of the National Honor Society quality support services that are responsive to All services are offered at no additional cost. for Religious Studies/Theology. The Society the needs of the College community. This Office Students are invited to take advantage of this great promotes excellence in research, learning, safeguards the accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, opportunity to enrich their academic experience. teaching and publication in addition to fostering and security of the student information system the exchange of ideas among scholars of religion and of students’ academic records; and provides Disability Services and theology and those of other disciplines. the accurate and timely dissemination of Stonehill College is committed to providing all Faculty Advisor – Prof. Peter H. Beisheim. information. The Registrar’s Office is responsible students equal access to learning opportunities. for preparing the course schedule each semester, The Center for Writing and Academic Achievement UPSILON PHI DELTA. Campus Chapter of the academic calendar, the registration process is the campus office that works with students who the National Honor Society for the profession and the scheduling of rooms and labs. have documented disabilities, in order to provide of healthcare management. Recognizes and/or arrange reasonable accommodations. students who achieve distinction in healthcare Students are encouraged to visit the Center if administration, achieve academic excellence, Center for Nonprofit they have, or think they may have, a disability. and make outstanding contributions to the Management profession, and who uphold the highest The Center for Nonprofit Management at ethical standards of the profession. Faculty Stonehill College seeks to build the management Advisor – Rev. Thomas Gariepy, C.S.C. and leadership capacity of community-based nonprofit organizations throughout southeastern Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island. Academic The Center is focused on enhancing critical management skills, while also fostering Resources relationships with and among the region’s diverse community-based organizations so that they may Academic Services better achieve their missions. Drawing on the The Office of Academic Services develops, expertise within the community and the College, coordinates, and provides Academic Advising including student interns, the Center conducts programs that enable students to reach their research and provides workshops and other educational and career goals. The Office learning programs for the region’s nonprofit sector. of Academic Services coordinates all of the College’s resources to focus on and advocate Joseph W. Martin Institute for individual student success. The Office for Law and Society fosters advising and support services that bring faculty and students together to work The Joseph W. Martin Institute for Law and Society toward intellectual and personal excellence. prepares students for leadership as active citizens in service to an improved human community. The Career Services Martin Institute challenges faculty and students through rigorous, critical interdisciplinary inquiry The Office of Career Services assists students into law and society by linking theory and practice in achieving their academic and/or career goals in a curriculum based upon exploration of the through self-assessment, career exploration, vital issues of public policy and social justice. The internship and employment options, and advanced Martin Institute is in the midst of a two-year study degree information. Starting in the first year, of Indigenous People and Culture and will host a students are asked to identify interests, values and variety of events, speakers, discussions, and films. skills. Sophomores are encouraged to research and explore the many careers that reflect students’ Center for Writing and strengths. Juniors define and experiment with career options through internships, research Academic Achievement opportunities and study away experiences. Finally, seniors implement their plans by applying for jobs, The Writing Center graduate school or post-graduate service. The The Writing Center is dedicated to assisting Office offers resume and cover letter critiques, students and faculty in the preparation of mock interviews, and internship/job search advice. documents for course work, publication, and applications. Using a series of questions, trained Library student tutors lead the writer from topic to question, from question to thesis, from thesis The MacPhaidin Library opened in 1998 and to main points and parts, to connectives, is named for Fr. Bartley MacPhaidin, C.S.C., to grammar, and to word choice. Students president of the college from 1978 to 2000. The may walk-in or make an appointment. library has seating for 500 patrons, a café area with vending machines, and a collection that includes approximately 210,000 print volumes, 5,000 videos and over 9,500 on-line journals, Teaching Assistants and Peer Tutors

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Mission The Cornerstone Program The Cornerstone Program, which all students complete, leads them to examine critically the First Year Core: Sophomore Year: Junior Year: Senior Year: self, society, culture and the natural world. The Encounters Communities Connections Capstone program honors Stonehill College’s commitment to free inquiry and social responsibility in the Two courses each One of the two During this year, Each major program tradition of Catholic higher education. Through semester: Philosophy semesters, each students select a moral requires a culminating the development of the knowledge, competencies, and Religious Studies; student will select a inquiry course from a course or experience and values that are central to the Cornerstone Literature and History; Learning Community broad set of offerings. that integrates Program, every Stonehill student will be prepared from among the mastery of the major (Foreign language for a life of learning and responsible citizenship. many offered: discipline with the is usually taken in content, abilities the first year.) Expectations for Students A pair of faculty from and values of the different disciplines Cornerstone Program. Student-centered learning is at the heart of the link their courses via Cornerstone curriculum. Through innovative a problem or issue (The majority of courses required of student’s learning experiences that intentionally connect understood better major are taken in the last two years.) knowledge of academic content with the through joint study. development of core skills, students demonstrate Students enroll in (Study abroad is typically scheduled progress in five identified outcomes: intellectual a third course, an in the sophomore or junior year.) integrative seminar, engagement, effective communication, leadership (A domestic or international internship and collaboration, social responsibility to facilitate the multidisciplinary effort. is typically taken in spring of the junior and personal growth and discovery. year or fall of the senior year.)

Intellectual Engagement Distribution Requirements: • Acquiring a breadth of knowledge Two semesters of a foreign language, one natural scientific inquiry, one social scientific in the liberal arts and sciences inquiry and one statistical reasoning course; some students will fulfill part of these distribution requirements through major requirements or learning communities. • Demonstrating critical reading abilities • Demonstrating critical thinking abilities (including qualitative and statistical reasoning) Overview of the The Cornerstone Program • Integrating knowledge across disciplines Cornerstone Program Course Listing • Effective Communication Designed to offer all Stonehill students the breadth NOTE: Stonehill College reserves the right to alter • Demonstrating the ability to of knowledge that exemplifies a cross-disciplinary the year or semester during which a course is write clearly and effectively undergraduate education, the Cornerstone Program offered or to make other changes as necessary. engages every student in the major modes of • Demonstrating the ability to speak understanding the world. One course in each of clearly and effectively in public First Year four humanities disciplines is required: History; Leadership and Collaboration Literature; Philosophy; and Religious Studies. One Each student is enrolled in the Critical Encounters course in each of three scientific/mathematical sequence, consisting of four courses: history, • Demonstrating the ability to contribute approaches to understanding the world is required: literature, philosophy and religious studies. In effectively to the work of a group natural science; social science; statistical reasoning. addition to providing breadth of knowledge, these courses intensively develop students’ critical • Demonstrating the ability to In addition to providing this foundation, the facilitate the work of a group writing, reading and thinking abilities. Through Cornerstone Program prepares students for the 21st direct engagement with texts, students are • Demonstrating the ability to century by fostering knowledge of other cultures, introduced to the questions and interpretations lead the work of a group integrative thinking, and ethical responsibility as the that are formative for each of these disciplines. hallmarks of global citizenship. Students complete a In most cases, students also complete a year Social Responsibility year-long sequence of foreign language study. In the of foreign language study (any year-long • Valuing the diversity of persons and cultures sophomore year, students are enrolled in a Learning sequence of Arabic, Attic Greek, Chinese, Community, a distinguishing feature of the program, French, German, Italian, Latin or Spanish), • Recognizing the inherent dignity of all persons to study an issue or problem using knowledge and experiencing the diversity of human culture. • Making informed decisions about skills from two disciplines. During the junior year, ethical and social justice issues students take one course in moral inquiry, which • GENH 100 - Critical Encounters – History may be rooted in either philosophical or religious • GENL 100 - Critical Encounters – Literature • Engaging in civic life and ethics. Finally, as seniors, students demonstrate • GENP 100 - Critical Encounters – Philosophy participatory citizenship mastery of a disciplinary field of study through a • GENR 100 - Critical Encounters carefully designed capstone course or experience. – Religious Studies Personal Growth and Discovery Normally, courses that fulfill the requirements of • Developing the capacity and the Cornerstone Program must be taken at Stonehill Honors Critical Encounters desire for continued learning College. Even courses that are standard offerings elsewhere have been revised by Stonehill faculty Honors versions of these four courses, numbered • Exploring and developing one’s to meet the specific outcomes of the Cornerstone 140 and listed below, are offered as intensive values and worldview Program. (Students who wish to make the case that a seminars for students in the college-wide • Valuing free inquiry into all issues course taken elsewhere does meet our criteria must Honors Program. For more information, consult with the Director of the Honors Program. and questions of significance provide a rationale along with a complete course syllabus, including assignments, to the Assistant Dean • GENH 140 - Honors Critical of General Education and Academic Achievement. Encounters – History

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• GENL 140 - Honors Critical in the Ancient World • ENV 299 - Ecology, Theologies and Worldviews Encounters – Literature • REL 340 - Jesus and Moral Decisions • HCA 191 - Aids and Emerging Infections • GENP 140 - Honors Critical • REL 347 - Topics in Religious • MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics Encounters – Philosophy Approaches to Moral Issues • MTH 193 - The Non-Euclidean Revolution • GENR 140 - Honors Critical • PHY 192 - Astronomy in the Encounters – Religious Studies Senior Year Scientific Revolution Capstone courses at Stonehill are designed as • PHY 193 - Science and Belief Sophomore Year culminating experiences, providing students • PHY 194 - Physics in the Scientific Revolution Each student chooses from a variety of Learning with an opportunity to integrate and apply the • PHY 196 - Quantum World and Relativity Communities, developing the ability to integrate knowledge and skills they have acquired in • PHY 291 - Planets, Moons and two disciplinary approaches to a significant issue their chosen fields of study. Capstone activities the Search for Alien Life or problem. Learning Communities typically vary by department and include internships, • PHY 292 - The Universe include innovative experiential learning activities, practica, senior theses, research colloquia, such as community-based learning, individualized research seminars, studio seminars, and senior Social Scientific Inquiry: research or short-term travel. In addition to projects. In every case, students work closely • CRM 120 - Critical Introduction building on the skills developed in the first year, with faculty members to bring a sense of to Criminal Justice students develop leadership and collaboration satisfying closure to their academic experience. • ECO 171 - Economics and Everyday Life skills as well as oral presentation skills. Each major program requires a Capstone Course • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles or Experience, designed to help each student • ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles Learning Community integrate the knowledge, competencies and values • EDU 102 - Foundations of Education Integrative Seminars of the Cornerstone Program with the knowledge, • POL 123 - American Government and Politics Learning Community Integrative seminars form competencies and values of the major discipline. • SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology the third course of each sophomore Learning • SOC 212 - A Great Society? Capstone Course descriptions can Community. The two faculty members guide • SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology be found by department. students in integrating the knowledge gained • SOC 232 - Crises, Conflict, and Control from each course to better understand an issue or solve a problem. This active integration by Distributions (may be Statistical Reasoning: the students may be prompted by a variety taken any year) • BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis of teaching methods, including the traditional • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry seminar, independent research, community- Each student is required to complete one • CRM 311 - Statistical Analysis in Criminology based learning, or short-term travel. See below social scientific inquiry course, one natural • ECO 241 - Economic Statistics for Learning Community Descriptions. scientific inquiry course, and one statistical • EDU 301 - Assessment and reasoning course. In these courses, students Analysis in Education Junior Year develop an understanding of the history, • MTH 145 - Basic Quantitative Techniques methodology and values of the discipline as well • MTH 207 - Statistical Reasoning: Chance Each student reflects further on personal as consideration of associated societal values. • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science and societal issues, choosing from a number These courses assist students in continuing of moral inquiry courses. In these courses, to develop as effective communicators, • MTH 396 - Statistics students continue their personal growth and collaborative leaders, and engaged citizens. • POL 310 - Political Science Research Methods discovery process as well as developing an • PSY 261 - Introduction to Statistics ability to think critically about ethical choices. Course descriptions can be • SOC 311 - Statistical Analysis in Sociology found by department. Moral Inquiry Foreign Languages • BUS 334 - Business Ethics American Studies Foreign language study is an essential part of the • ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics liberal arts at Stonehill, strengthening students’ Elizabeth Belanger, Program Director • HIS 207 - The Holocaust communication skills, deepening their scholarly • HIS 233 - American Catholic Social History Steering Committee: ability, preparing them for study abroad, and Linzy Brekke-Aloise, History (This course is cross-listed with REL 233) broadening their cultural horizons in a global • HIS 326 - The Christian Churches Carole Calo, Visual and Performing Arts age. Students typically complete this requirement Corey Dolgon, Sociology in Nazi Germany in their first year. In some cases, in consultation • HIS 335 - The Debate Over Slavery with an advisor, students may choose to defer Todd Gernes, History in Antebellum America fulfilling this requirement to later semesters. Daniel Itzkovitz, English • PHL 221 - Ethics and Moral Character Shane Maddock, History Course offerings and descriptions can be Akira Motomura, Economics • PHL 222 - Ethics: Individual, Society, State found under Foreign Language Department. • PHL 223 - Introduction to Moral Reasoning John Rodrigue, History Laura Scales, English • PHL 235 - Biomedical Ethics Natural Scientific Inquiry: • PHL 236 - Ethics and the Arts Peter Ubertaccio, Political Science • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I • POL 380 - Dirty Hands: Moral Dilemmas American Studies is a broad interdisciplinary • BIO 119 - This Is Your Body Under Stress • POL 381 - Citizens of the World major in which students explore the people, • BIO 290 - Scientific Methods: The Ocean • REL 200 - The Ten Commandments places and cultural artifacts of the United States. • BIO 291 - Scientific Methods: As American Studies majors, students examine • REL 233 - American Catholic Social History Blood and Medicine American culture and society using approaches (This course is cross-listed with HIS 233) • BIO 296 - Scientific Methods: and methods from several different disciplines. • REL 237 - Moral Conflicts: Case Female Medical Issues American Studies majors typically take courses Studies in Moral Confrontation • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I in History, English, Sociology, Communications, • REL 301 - Islam and the Bible: Jewish • CHM 195 - The Science of Art Political Science, Economics, Fine Arts, and and Muslim Morality and Ethics • CSC 101 - From Gutenberg to Gates Religion among others. The wide range of courses • REL 307 - Buddhist Ethics enables students to explore ideas and concepts • CSC 102 - Basic Programming • REL 311 - Ethics and Sacrament: across several disciplines and methodologies. • CSC 195 - How Computers Work The Church in Crisis True to the Liberal Arts tradition, students have • ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science • REL 317 - Gods, Kings and Justice the opportunity to draw upon the strengths • ENV 295 - Environmental Geology

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 10 academic LIfe of faculty in several departments. A major in suggested concentrations including difference and • ENG 362 - Topics in Poetry American Studies is sometimes paired with diversity, popular culture, representations, material • ENG 366 - Topics in Twentieth- another major such as History, Education, Political culture and cultural politics, or propose a student- Century American Literature Science, Fine Arts or Communication. Graduates designed thematic concentration. Successful focus • ENG 367 - Topics in Nineteenth- from this program have entered careers in areas might include a collection of courses around Century American Literature museums, law, public administration, teaching, a specific time period, such as the 1960s or a • ENG 368 - Race, Ethnicity, marketing and journalism. The American Studies particular issue, such as Education, Race and Class and American Culture Program leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree. in Modern America. As part of their concentration • ENG 369 - African-American Literature proposals, students may petition that courses • ENG 380 - Modern Poetry Mission of the Program not presently listed as American Studies courses be approved for the major concentration. To be • ENG 382 - American Drama At Stonehill, the American Studies major is built eligible for concentration credit, courses must • ENG 394 - Sexuality and Textuality upon our belief that the study of American be recommended by the advisor and approved Healthcare society and culture allows students to develop by the American Studies Steering Committee. • HCA 220 - Healthcare Policy and Politics skills in critical inquiry, communication, cultural Students must select from the following courses: knowledge, and self-reflection that in turn History engender students’ desire to shape the world American Studies • HIS 203 - Modern American Social History beyond their classroom. As American Studies • AMS 200 - Introduction to American Studies • HIS 205 - Irish-American Experience majors, students pursue a program of study that • AMS 320 - Topics in American Studies • HIS 208 - The Immigrant Experience explores the values and beliefs that have shaped • AMS 333 - The Guitar in American Culture in American History the experience of the American people. Through • HIS 209 - Native American History exploring “what is America?” and “who are • AMS 420 - Seminar in American Studies Americans?” students will have the opportunity to • AMS 475 - Internship in American Studies • HIS 225 - History and Film position themselves as products as well as shapers • AMS 490 - Directed Study • HIS 228 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations of American culture. The major is also built upon Communication • HIS 230 - History of Sexuality in America a commitment to civic engagement, public service • HIS 233 - American Catholic Social History • COM 203 - Studies in Persuasion and social stewardship though internships, student • HIS 263 - Religion in America • COM 207 - Media Criticism teaching and community partnerships. Faculty • HIS 281 - American Nation I • COM 220 - Understanding Film members work with students individually, helping • HIS 282 - American Nation II • COM 313 - Gender and Communication them to create a program of study according • HIS 285 - Women in America: 1630-1890 • COM 318 - Persuasion and Social Movements to their interests and goals. True to Stonehill’s • HIS 301 - Colonial America • COM 319 - Political Communication broader mission, we seek to provide students the • HIS 304 - U.S. Popular Culture • COM 323 - Honors-Film Censorship intellectual breath and critical tools necessary for • HIS 306 - Contemporary America creating a more just and compassionate world. and American Culture • HIS 308 - The Early Republic • COM 330 - Media Regulation • HIS 321 - African-American History I • JRN 222 - Development of American Studies, B.A. • HIS 324 - From Jackson to Lincoln American News Media • HIS 325 - Lincoln and His America Major Criminology • HIS 327 - American Civil War To complete a major in American Studies, • CRM 224 - Juvenile Delinquency and Reconstruction students must take 11 courses. At least five • CRM 322 - Violent Crime and Federal Initiatives • HIS 328 - Pursuits of Happiness courses must be taken after the student has either • CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class and in Revolutionary America declared an American Studies major or taken Gender in the Criminal Justice System • HIS 329 - The Vietnam Era and Its Legacy the Introduction to American Studies course. Economics • HIS 330 - United States Seminar: Topical • HIS 332 - America in the Nuclear Age The major’s two required courses AMS 200 • ECO 205 - Economics of Social Introduction to American Studies (usually • HIS 335 - The Debate Over Slavery Issues and Public Policy in Antebellum America taken during Freshman or Sophomore year) • ECO 206 - United States Economic History and AMS 420 Seminar in American Studies • HIS 380 - Public History • ECO 211 - Economics of Labor Unions (taken Junior or Senior year) provide students • HIS 385 - Topics in U.S. Women’s History • ECO 217 - Economic History of the with an understanding of interdisciplinary Philosophy methodology at the onset of their career in 20th Century American Family • PHL 373 - American Philosophy the major, and the opportunity to apply this • ECO 244 - The Economics of Sports methodology to their own research interests. • ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics Political Science • ECO 309 - Money and Banking • POL 203 - Religion, Politics, and the Law Of the other nine courses in the major, four • ECO 319 - Urban and Regional Economics • POL 235 - American Political Thought are elective courses (200-300 level) from • ECO 323 - Labor Economics an approved list. Students are particularly • POL 245 - American Foreign Policy and Manpower Policy encouraged to complete an internship, practicum • POL 247 - Elections in America or independent project (such as the S.U.R.E. Education • POL 255 - Environmental Policy and Politics program) which will provide opportunities • EDU 208 - Planning for Multicultural Learning • POL 332 - The American Presidency for collaborative learning, field research and English • POL 336 - Constitutional Law and Politics public/ community service. Students may not • POL 337 - Public Administration count more than two internships or independent • ENG 272 - Film History • POL 341 - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties studies towards their major requirements. • ENG 273 - Hitchcock • POL 343 - Public Opinion & Voting Behavior • ENG 300 - Critical Theory The other five required courses form the • POL 360 - The United States Congress • ENG 323 - Film Industry student’s concentration. All majors with the help • POL 390 - Politics in Washington, D.C. • ENG 324 - Television Drama of the American Studies advisor will develop a Religious Studies specialized concentration. The concentration, • ENG 325 - Film and Ideology made up of five courses in at least two different • ENG 326 - American Cinema • REL 233 - American Catholic Social History disciplines, will define a coherent area of • ENG 328 - Film and Gender • REL 238 - Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees: specialization within the major by focusing on • ENG 329 - Race in American Film Justice Issues and Catholic Responses a particular problem, topic, or area of American • ENG 360 - American Literature to 1865 • REL 262 - Religion in America society and culture. Students may chose from

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Sociology • SOC 234 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity General Courses • SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family • SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender • BUS 336 - International Business • SOC 212 - A Great Society? • SOC 304 - Introduction to Museum Studies • COM 315 - Intercultural Communication • SOC 216 - Native Americans in the 21st Century • SOC 329 - Anthropology of Violence • ECO 311 - International Economics • SOC 218 - Images and Power: Popular Culture • SOC 334 - Anthropology of the Holocaust • ECO 343 - International Finance • SOC 234 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity • SOC 405 - Seminar on Public Sociologies • ENG 395 - Introduction to Postcolonial • SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender • SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality Literature and Culture • SOC 302 - Critical Issues in • SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression • HIS 272 - World History II Contemporary Society Two Additional Courses • POL 134 - Comparing States • SOC 304 - Introduction to Museum Studies • POL 143 - International Politics Take two additional courses from either of the • SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality • POL 249 - Contemporary Global Conflict two lists above or, from the following list of • SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression • POL 273 - Politics of Developing Nations classes that are informed by anthropological Visual and Performing Arts theory, ethnographic or archaeological research: • POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues • POL 353 - International Organizations • VPH 218 - Art Since 1945 • ECO 219 - History of World and State Building • VPH 226 - Art for Public Spaces: Economic Development • POL 377 - International Political Economy Issues and Trends • HIS 209 - Native American History • SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization • VPH 330 - Topics in European or American Art • HIS 360 - European Seminar: Topical • SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology • VPM 235 - American Music in the 20th Century • REL 251 - Introduction to the Old Testament • SOC 233 - Language and Culture • REL 275 - Hard Rockin’ Jews: Judaism • VPM 184 - History of Music II: Anthropology and Pop Culture in Israel Non-Western Traditions • REL 335 - Popular Religion Asian Language Courses at Stonehill Erica Tucker, Program Director Note: • CHN 131 - Elementary Chinese I Please note that students who are Sociology Majors A minor in Anthropology is offered. • CHN 132 - Elementary Chinese II must take five classes in addition to the 10 that • CHN 231 - Intermediate Chinese I The Anthropology Minor is open to students of count towards their sociology major, and must take any major and focuses on the holistic, critical at least two of their electives for the Anthropology • CHN 232 - Intermediate Chinese II study and understanding of other cultures Minor from outside the Sociology Department. • CHN 331 - Advanced Chinese I from an insider’s point of view. The program is • CHN 332 - Advanced Chinese II designed to engage students in critical thinking and scholarly development through the study Note: of the diversity of ways in which human Asian Studies Students may petition the Program Director beings perceive and order the social world. for credit approval for a relevant course Christopher Ives, Program Director not included in the above lists. Anthropology Minor A minor in Asian Studies is offered. Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary minor Minor Required Courses that provides basic knowledge of the people Biochemistry and cultures of Asia. The program furnishes Students in the Minor must take a Faculty: minimum of six classes, including: a substantial background for subsequent specialized study in the field of Asian politics, Marilena Hall, Program Director • SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology history, religion, language, and culture. Professor: • SOC 312 - Qualitative Research OR L. Liotta • SOC 408 - Seminar: Studying Culture Asian Studies Minor Associate Professors: Four electives chosen according to Students must take six courses selected the guidelines listed below. C. Almeida from the following list, with at least four M. Hall courses from the Asia grouping. Culture Area Courses Assistant Professor: Take at least one regionally-based culture Students might substitute language study, either M. James-Pederson area course from the following list: through directed study with faculty, when available, or by course taken elsewhere, but The Biochemistry Program, offered through the • FRN 333 - French Culture and Civilization I they may only use two foreign language courses Departments of Biology and Chemistry, grants a • ITA 331 - Italy: Language and Identity towards the minor. Appropriate languages B.S. and a minor in Biochemistry. The elucidation of life processes at the molecular level is the • SOC 216 - Native Americans in the 21st Century include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, principal goal of biochemistry. Biochemistry • SOC 314 - Peoples and Cultures of Europe and Urdu. Other course may be substituted with the approval of the Program Director. is a discipline, yet at the same time it is an • SOC 316 - People & Cultures interdisciplinary science drawing many themes of Russia & East Europe Asia Courses from the disciplines of Biology and Chemistry. • SPA 345 - Seminar in Spanish: Afro- It is distinctive, however, in its emphasis on the Hispanic Culture of the Caribbean • ENG 392 - Topics in Postcolonial and Global following three areas of study: (1) the chemical • SPA 346 - Seminar in Spanish: Maya, Literature (when the focus in on Asia) composition and three-dimensional structures of Aztec, and Inca Traditions • HIS 270 - The Making of Modern China biomolecules and macromolecular assemblies; (2) • HIS 279 - Modern Japan the molecular mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis Topical Courses • HIS 283 - East Asian History I and regulation of biochemical reactions; and (3) the Take at least one topical course that is guided • HIS 284 - East Asian History II metabolic reactions which synthesize and degrade by an ethnographic approach to the subject • HIS 329 - The Vietnam Era and Its Legacy biomolecules, with an emphasis on bioenergetics. matter chosen from the following list: • HIS 373 - Asian Encounters with Empire • SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization • POL 355 - Politics of East Asia Biochemistry Honors Program • REL 210 - Religions of China and Japan • SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family Students who complete the Biochemistry Honors • REL 307 - Buddhist Ethics • SOC 220 - Political Sociology Program will be awarded a degree “with honors • REL 323 - Gods and War: Religion, Ideology, • SOC 233 - Language and Culture in Biochemistry.” Biochemistry majors, typically and Nationalism in Japan and the United States

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 12 academic LIfe in their junior year, will be designated honors Sophomore Year The requirements are: candidates if the following conditions are met: • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I • completion of BIO 101, BIO 102, BIO 212, BIO Fall Semester • BCH 345 - Biochemistry Laboratory 211, CHM 113, CHM 221, CHM 222, CHM 244, • BIO 211 - Cell Biology • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I MTH 125, MTH 126, PHY 201 and PHY 202; • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II • PHY 121 - Physics I • BIO 211 - Cell Biology • an overall grade-point average • BIO 212 - Genetics of at least 3.4; and Spring Semester • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • a science (Biochemistry, Biology and • BIO 212 - Genetics • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Chemistry) grade-point average of at least 3.4. • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II • PHY 122 - Physics II To successfully complete the Biochemistry • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR Honors Program, a student must subsequently: Junior Year • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry • maintain the above overall and Fall Semester science grade-point averages; and Biology • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I • conduct research approved by the Program • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry 2 Faculty Director; and earn at least a “B+” on both • CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I Magdalena James-Pederson, Chairperson the thesis and thesis defense required for • BIO 304 - Molecular Biology BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis. Professor: (or BIO 309 in Spring) M. Tyrrell Ordinarily, this thesis will be based on thesis • BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis 3 research, internship, S.U.R.E. project, or other Spring Semester Associate Professors: college-level research experience; however, an C. Almeida in-depth library research thesis is acceptable. • BCH 344 - Biochemistry II G. Maniero • BCH 345 - Biochemistry Laboratory Contact the Biochemistry Program Director S. Mooney for additional details and deadlines. • BIO 309 - Microbiology (or BIO 304 in Fall) S. Ramos Goyette • BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis 3 Assistant Professors: Biochemistry, B.S. Senior Year B. Bleakley R. Hirst Major Fall Semester M. James-Pederson 3 The Biochemistry major conforms to the • BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis K. Nolin recommendations of the American Society of Spring Semester I. Pan Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Through a • BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis 3 rigorous course of study with a strong emphasis Instructors: on the learn-by-doing approach, the Biochemistry Additional Requirements B. Allison Program is committed to providing the practical D. Weber • BCH 496 - Independent Research OR knowledge and skills necessary for graduate study Pre-Allied Health Professions: • BCH 475 - Internship in Biochemistry OR in biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology, S. Barry genetics and biotechnology, or admission to • other research experience approved by the professional school. It will also enable students Director of the Biochemistry Program Laboratory Director: to obtain skilled technical positions after • One 300 or 400 level Biology (BIO) OR J. Sozio graduation in research laboratories in universities, • 300 or 400 level Chemistry (CHM) course biotechnology or pharmaceutical development Teaching Fellow: industries, hospitals and government agencies. Note: H. Yu Juniors and seniors are encouraged to apply 1 Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry for off-campus internships in biochemistry. In Professor Emerita/Emeritus: requirement of the Cornerstone Program addition, each junior and senior Biochemistry D. Peabody major presents two program seminars covering 2 Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning R. Peabody information from the current biochemical literature requirement of the Cornerstone Program The Department of Biology offers both a as well as writing and defending a senior thesis, Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts 3 usually relating to research they have completed. Seminar and Thesis is required in each semester major as well as a minor in Biology. of the junior and senior years and satisfies The course of study normally pursued the Capstone Experience requirement of the The Biology Department’s curriculum provides by Biochemistry majors is: Cornerstone Program. Four credits are obtained balanced instruction across all areas of biology: in the second semester of the senior year. molecular, cellular, organismic, evolutionary and First Year environmental. Students completing the major Biochemistry majors desiring an American are prepared for entry into graduate programs Chemical Society certified degree must have at Fall Semester in the life sciences and professional programs least 76 hours of additional, for credit, chemistry in medical, allied health and environmental 1 • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I or biochemistry laboratory experience over the fields. The major also prepares graduates for • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I laboratory experience associated with the courses direct entry into clinical, industrial, research, • MTH 125 - Calculus I specifically required for the biochemistry major. teaching, or government careers. Because the Spring Semester curriculum is part of a liberal arts degree, Biochemistry Minor Biology majors also have the option of pursuing • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II a wide variety of non-science careers. • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I The Biochemistry minor provides a strong • MTH 126 - Calculus II foundation in molecular and cellular biology The Department’s philosophy is that students and chemistry for those students wanting learn by doing. Laboratory and fieldwork are flexibility to pursue additional preparation in integral to most courses. All students complete other disciplines such as business, English, and present the results of a research project as mathematics, philosophy, or psychology. a requirement for several courses. For qualified students who are interested in research, the

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 13 academic LIfe learn-by-doing philosophy is extended through program (M.S. in Nursing) at Simmons College. an internship, directed study, or research project. faculty-mentored research opportunities during the • The three-year Doctorate in Physical Therapy academic year and the Stonehill Undergraduate The Curriculum for the B.A. in Biology (D.P.T.) program at Simmons College. Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) program during consists of fourteen courses. the summer. Students participating in these • The 15-month Post Baccalaureate Nuclear programs collaborate directly with faculty and Medicine degree at Regis College. Core Courses conduct independent research. Departmental • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I • The Biotechnology, Clinical Exercise interns have the opportunity to work in a wide • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II variety of off-campus research and clinical Physiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, • BIO 211 - Cell Biology facilities. These regional and international and Public Health graduate programs • BIO 212 - Genetics internships are available through enrollment at Northeastern University. • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany OR in the Internship in Biological Sciences course Please refer to The Curriculum for details • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems OR and make it possible for students to gain hands- regarding each of these agreements. • BIO 307 - Ecology on experience in a wide range of areas. • BIO 323 - Evolution The College supports the Biology Department’s Biology Honors Program Organismal Courses effort to remain current in fields where rapid Students who complete the Honors Program In Addition to the Biology core, two technological and theoretical advances have in Biology will be awarded a degree “with Organismal courses (one Structural and one become the norm. The Department is committed honors in Biology.” Departmental Honor Functional) are required from the list below. to incorporating the best of the new into its Scholars must satisfy the following criteria: curriculum without neglecting the classical areas Structural Organismic: of Biology, which remain critical to a broad, • Overall GPA of 3.5 liberal arts-based education in the life sciences. • BIO 201 - Embryology of the Vertebrates • GPA of 3.2 in science courses (Biochemistry, • BIO 301 - Parasitology Pre-Health Professions Biology, Chemistry, Physics) • BIO 309 - Microbiology • Meet either of the following • BIO 311 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Students interested in pursuing a career criteria on a national standardized • BIO 413 - Histology as an allopathic (MD) or osteopathic (DO) achievement test in biology: • BIO 423 - Virology physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, or veterinarian should refer to 1. score within the top 10% of Stonehill Functional Organismic: The Curriculum for information regarding students on the Major Field Test in • BIO 304 - Molecular Biology Pre-Health Professions Advising. Biology (MFT; Educational Testing • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology Service, Princeton, NJ); or • BIO 314 - Medical Laboratory Science Pre-Allied Health Professions 2. score within the top 30% of students • BIO 324 - Endocrinology nationally who have taken either the • BIO 406 - Ethology Students interested in any of the Allied Health MFT in Biology, or Graduate Record • BIO 409 - Immunology professions (Physician Assistant, Registered Examination either in Biology or in • BIO 412 - Neuroscience nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physical Therapy, Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology • BIO 416 - Adaptation to the Environment Nuclear Medicine Technology, Pharmacy, (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ) etc.) should discuss the required courses with • Submit, and present orally, an acceptable Additional Courses the Pre-Allied Health Professions advisor. (“B” or better) senior honors thesis, Two upper division electives in Biology or which is evaluated by a panel of three Biochemistry, one semester of CHM 113 - General Chemistry I and CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I, Cooperative Agreements science faculty. Ordinarily, this thesis will a semester of PHY 101 - Basic Physics I or PHY be based on a directed study, research with Post-graduate Programs 121 - Physics I, and a semester of statistics. in the Health Sciences internship, S.U.R.E. project, or other college-level research experience. The Biology Department has developed a Capstone Requirement number of cooperative agreements with post- Biology, B.A. in Biology graduate programs in the Health Sciences. These agreements reserve a number of admissions Several options fulfill this requirement. All slots in these programs for qualified Stonehill Major must integrate sub-disciplines within biology, graduates. We have agreements with: The B.A. in Biology is designed for a student who connect this work within biology to a broader seeks entry into a professional program or to teach view of academics and society, and present • The 30-month Master of Physician Assistant at the primary or secondary level. The B.A. in that work in oral and written form. Studies Program at the Massachusetts College Biology may also be combined with another major of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston. to create an interdisciplinary degree appropriate for Capstone Options: • The 24-month Master of Physician Assistant direct employment in biotechnology, government, or Options 2-4 below require written approval Studies Program at the Massachusetts College other industry positions. Combined with Journalism from the faculty member supervising the of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Worcester. or English, it makes it possible to pursue a career Capstone project and the department chair. in science writing or editing; with Computer 1. Enroll as a senior in BIO 406 - Ethology, • The 16-month Bachelor of Science in Nursing Information Systems, technical and development BIO 409 - Immunology, BIO 421 - (RN) Program at the Massachusetts College of work for biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; with Scientific Critique, BIO 423 - Virology, Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Worcester. Public Administration or Political Science, a career or BIO 498 - Senior Hornos Thesis I & in environmental non-profit or governmental • The 34-month Accelerated Doctor of BIO 499 - Senor Honors Thesis II. sectors; or with Business, a career in marketing Pharmacy (PharmD) Program at the or the patent office with biotechnology or 2. Petition to have any 3-400 level Biology class Massachusetts College of Pharmacy pharmaceutical companies. The B.A. in Biology (taken in the senior year) fulfill the capstone and Health Sciences – Worcester. is also recommended for those seeking entry into requirement. This option will probably • The Seven-year Accelerated B.S./D.C. post-baccalaureate training/certification courses result in additional work in that class. Program between Stonehill College or interdisciplinary graduate programs such as 3. Perform a directed study, independent and Palmer College of Chiropractic. those in Public Health or Natural Resources. research, internship or S.U.R.E. project, write Students enrolled in the major are encouraged to a research paper based on this work, and • The three-year Direct Entry Nurse Practitioner strengthen their career preparation by completing present this in an open seminar format.

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4. Present work done in a non-biology course Other Courses: to fulfill the Capstone requirement. This • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II Business work must contain a very strong biology • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II component and deal with larger societal • PHY 121 - Physics I Administration issues associated with the project. Faculty: Capstone Requirement Debra M. Salvucci, Chairperson Major Field Test in Biology in Biology All juniors and seniors majoring in Biology Professors: Several options fulfill this requirement. All must take the Major Field Test in Biology. R. Anderson must integrate sub-disciplines within biology, R. Carver connect this work within biology to a broader C. Dierksmeier Biology, B.S. view of academics and society, and present G. Lantos that work in oral and written form. Major J. Lee Capstone Options: J. Schatzel The Biology major curriculum fulfills entrance requirements for medical, dental and graduate Options 2-4 below require written approval Associate Professors: schools and for medical technology programs. It is from the faculty member supervising the R. Gariepy also recommended for careers in research, academia, Capstone project and the department chair. E. Rhee allied health fields, private enterprise, or government 1. Enroll as a senior in BIO 406 - Ethology, D. Salvucci service. Students completing the major sequence BIO 409 - Immunology, BIO 421 - J. Swanson and their General Education courses will graduate Scientific Critique, BIO 423 - Virology, E. Vaughn, Jr. with a solid foundation in biological science and a or BIO 498 - Senior Hornos Thesis I & Assistant Professors: broad educational background. Students enrolled in BIO 499 - Senor Honors Thesis II. the major are encouraged to strengthen their career V. Cortijo 2. Petition to have any 3-400 level Biology class preparation by completing an internship, directed H. Gettman (taken in the senior year) fulfill the capstone study, or research project before graduation. B. Glibkowski requirement. This option will probably result in additional work in that class. G. Ilacqua First year: L. McGinnis 3. Perform a directed study, independent G. Meng research, internship or S.U.R.E. project, write • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I R. Spencer • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II a research paper based on this work, and • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I present this in an open seminar format. Executive in Residence: • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I 4. Present work done in a non-biology course M. Mullen • MTH 125 - Calculus I to fulfill the Capstone requirement. This M. Tobin work must contain a very strong biology • MTH 126 - Calculus II The Department of Business Administration offers component and deal with larger societal majors in Accounting, Finance, International issues associated with the project. Sophomore, Junior, Business, Management, and Marketing, and Senior years: and minors in Business Administration and Major Field Test in Biology Computer Information Systems. Students may Four Core courses: All juniors and seniors majoring in Biology not take more than one major within business • BIO 211 - Cell Biology must take the Major Field Test in Biology. as part of their undergraduate program. • BIO 212 - Genetics • BIO 323 - Evolution Biology Minor Departmental Mission • BIO 307 - Ecology (recommended) OR The Biology minor provides a broad introduction The Business Administration Department • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany OR to the biological sciences for students majoring offers a high quality undergraduate business • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems in other disciplines. A variety of courses are education that prepares students to make ethical, Organismic Courses: available to help students whose long-term goals thoughtful, and significant contributions to their Take three Organismic courses, at least would be enhanced by knowledge of biology organizations and communities as professionals. one from each category below: (for example, careers or graduate study in fields In the tradition of the Congregation of the Holy such as biotechnology, biophysics, anthropology, Cross, with a foundation in the liberal arts, and Structural Organismic: clinical psychology, public policy, healthcare using a high degree of faculty-student interaction, administration, or genetic counseling). Courses we provide an integrated curriculum delivered • BIO 201 - Embryology of the Vertebrates used to fulfill requirements for the minor should with an emphasis on the student. We value the • BIO 301 - Parasitology be selected with the help of the Biology minor enrichment of the learning environment through • BIO 309 - Microbiology advisor or another advisor in the department. intellectual contributions of faculty in the areas • BIO 311 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy of teaching and learning, discipline-based • BIO 413 - Histology The requirements for the minor are: research, as well as contributions to practice. • BIO 423 - Virology • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I and Functional Organismic: • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II Vision • BIO 304 - Molecular Biology OR The Stonehill College Department of Business • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology • BIO 103 - Human Anatomy Administration seeks to be amongst the leaders • BIO 314 - Medical Laboratory Science and Physiology I and in undergraduate business education serving the • BIO 324 - Endocrinology • BIO 104 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II northeast region emphasizing an experiential learning environment and ability to graduate professionals that • BIO 406 - Ethology • Four upper-division (200-level or above) can contribute and lead in a rapidly changing business • BIO 409 - Immunology courses in Biology. Biology courses in the environment. The department strives to achieve its • BIO 412 - Neuroscience BIO 290 series (BIO 290 , BIO 291 , BIO 296) • BIO 416 - Adaptation to the Environment objectives by maintaining a closely held learning may not be taken to fulfill this requirement. environment, cross functional and community- One 300-400 level biology course selected based learning opportunities, and integration of after consultation with the academic advisor international experiences in the curriculum.

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Learning Outcomes with the first formal business course, the Senior Year Stonehill Business program integrates technology The delivery of our business education program and provides opportunity to apply critical • BUS 414 - Tax Accounting is guided by the following learning outcomes: concepts both in and out of the classroom. • BUS 417 - Auditing • BUS 434 - Advanced Accounting • Literacy of business principles Unique in its implementation, Stonehill’s laptop requirement views the availability of technology • Analytical, critical and creative thinking Electives: as ‘mission-critical’ to the quality and currency • Ethical perspective of its academic program. The Stonehill College • BUS 307 - Data Communications • Effective communication skills laptop requirement combines ‘best in class’ and Applications hardware, on-site support services and accidental • BUS 309 - Database Applications • Selection and use of technology damage protection to assure availability. • BUS 420 - Topics in Accounting • Awareness of the business and Complete details of this requirement can • BUS 435 - Advanced Taxation global environment be found at the following link: http:// • BUS 436 - Advanced Managerial Accounting • Cooperative teamwork www.campushp.com/stonehill. Finance, B.S.B.A. The Curriculum Major TBD, Program Director The Business Core Curriculum complements There are five majors within the business the Cornerstone Program, offering students program: Accounting, Finance, International Junior Year a strong liberal arts background along with Business, Management, and Marketing. the fundamentals of business administration. Requirements are listed under those headings. Fall or Spring Semester Beginning with a First Year Business Experience All Business Administration students are required • ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Course and culminating with the senior Policy to take the following set of core courses as a • ECO 343 - International Finance OR and Strategy course, B.S.B.A. graduates develop foundation for courses required in their elected • BUS 425 - Multinational Corporate Finance the learning outcomes of our program. major. BUS 469 - Policy and Strategy is the senior The Business Core Curriculum begins with Capstone course and BUS 475 - Internship Senior Year BUS 101 - First-year Business Experience, a in Business Administration is recommended course that introduces all business majors to for all students as part of their curriculum. Fall or Spring Semester the business world and begins building cross- • BUS 321 - Corporate Finance II functional expertise through student team Business Core • BUS 324 - Corporate Financial Reporting competition in a business simulation that • BUS 327 - Investments emulates the real business environment and • BUS 428 - Seminar in Financial Management provides experience managing each function of First Year a business. This course builds competencies in • BUS 101 - First-year Business Experience Electives: effective teamwork, oral and written presentations, • MTH 119 - Applied Calculus for Business • BUS 207 - Intermediate Statistics for Business negotiations, creativity, interpersonal behavior • BUS 203 - Financial Accounting • BUS 430 - Topics in Finance and a myriad of other valuable skills. • BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis • ECO 309 - Money and Banking In the second year, students may choose a • ECO 333 - Monetary Theory and Policy Sophomore Learning Community that connects an Sophomore Year • ECO 420 - Fixed Income Analysis introductory course in a business concentration • BUS 204 - Managerial Accounting with an Arts and Science course in the sophomore- • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles level Learning Community. This unique approach • ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles International expands the student’s level of interdisciplinary • BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior Business, B.S.B.A. understanding and creates a platform to accelerate • BUS 340 - Marketing Principles learning in the student’s major discipline. Such Jennifer Swanson, Program Director Learning Communities may pair international Junior Year business with international politics, finance with Junior Year economics, organizational behavior with psychology, • BUS 320 - Corporate Finance I and marketing with communication. The Learning • BUS 336 - International Business Choose one of the following: Community seminar may include a complex • BUS 352 - Legal Environment of Business * • SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization teambuilding assignment, as well as a course project, • BUS 360 - Operations and Supply • SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology to create a new product, process, or service for a Chain Management OR consumer marketplace accompanied by a business • SOC 314 - Peoples and Cultures of Europe • BUS 308 - Decision Support Systems, • SOC 316 - People & Cultures plan. The intent is to develop creativity, extensive Tools and Operations Management team-building capabilities, strong interdisciplinary of Russia & East Europe knowledge, and to provide multiple opportunities Senior Year • COM 315 - Intercultural Communication OR for basic skill enhancement in communications, • a comparable class in history, religion, etc. that analytics, logic, and interpersonal interaction. The • BUS 469 - Policy and Strategy examines culture selected and approved by the interdisciplinary learning theme carries throughout Note: Director of the International Business Program the student’s major course plan and will be * Accounting majors will substitute Choose one of the following: enhanced by pursuing a minor in an allied liberal BUS 354 - Business Law arts discipline. Student learning can be further • POL 134 - Comparing States enhanced by gaining internship experience in an • POL 143 - International Politics organization in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Accounting, B.S.B.A. • POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues Washington, D.C., or at a variety of international Debra Salvucci, Program Director • POL 353 - International Organizations locations such as London, Madrid, or Paris. and State Building Junior Year • POL 377 - International Political Economy Laptop Computer Requirement • BUS 311 - Intermediate Accounting I Choose one of the following: Successful enterprises utilize technology • BUS 312 - Intermediate Accounting II • ECO 219 - History of World effectively in their daily activities. Beginning • BUS 316 - Accounting Systems Economic Development

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• ECO 311 - International Economics • BUS 345 - Business-to-Business Marketing Catholicism; enhances the experience of students • BUS 400 - Topics in International Business • BUS 346 - Retail Management who have arrived at the college with an interest • BUS 438 - Business and Society OR • BUS 347 - New Products Management in Catholic culture or who develop an interest • BUS 443 - Electronic Commerce in response to their coursework; integrates a substitute course approved by the Director • BUS 445 - Direct Marketing courses of study from different departments of the International Business Program • BUS 448 - Global Marketing by providing students with opportunities to explore Catholicism from multiple perspectives; • COM 311 - Public Relations I: Principles * and prepares students for postgraduate Senior Year • VPG 203 - Introduction to Digital Imaging * opportunities related to Catholic studies, e.g. • BUS 425 - Multinational Corporate Finance OR • VPG 304 - Advertising Design * graduate work, ministry, and education. • BUS 420 - Topics in Accounting (When • VPG 305 - Web Site Design * topic is International Accounting) Note: • BUS 448 - Global Marketing Catholic Studies, B.A. * Only one of the courses COM 311, • BUS 465 - International Management VPG 203, VPG 304, and VPG 305 may Major Note: be taken to fulfill this requirement. To complete a major in Catholic Studies, All International Business majors are required students are required to take eleven courses to have an international experience through Junior or Senior Year (two core, eight elective, and one Capstone). study abroad, an international internship, foreign language immersion experience, etc. • BUS 454 - Marketing Strategy The following two core courses are required: and show a proficiency in a foreign language. Business Administration • REL 256 - Church and Social Justice • REL 300 - The Catholic Tradition: Management, B.S.B.A. Minor Past and Present James Lee, Program Director J. Richard Anderson, Program Director Eight courses are electives. Students will select The minor program is designed to two courses from each of the categories below Junior or Senior Year provide the student in Liberal Arts or representing in total three (3) disciplines: Sciences with a broad background in the • BUS 335 - Human Resource Management fundamentals of business administration. Historical Roots & Development Choose four of the following electives: • CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies • BUS 308 - Decision Support Systems, Minor Core Requirements • HIS 227 - Renaissance and Revolutions: Early Modern Europe Tools and Operations Management • BUS 203 - Financial Accounting • HIS 262 - Medieval – Renaissance • BUS 310 - Management Information Systems • BUS 204 - Managerial Accounting – Reformation • BUS 343 - Sales Management * • BUS 320 - Corporate Finance I • HIS 310 - Ancient Mediterranean • BUS 347 - New Products Management * • BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior Greece and Rome • BUS 357 - The Roles of Not-for- • BUS 340 - Marketing Principles Profit Organizations in America • HIS 349 - The Inquisition: Myth and History • BUS 358 - Small Business Management Note: • REL 226 - The World of Paul • BUS 438 - Business and Society BUS 320 has BUS 203 as a prerequisite. • REL 251 - Introduction to the Old Testament • BUS 443 - Electronic Commerce * • REL 252 - Introduction to the New Testament • BUS 460 - Topics in Management Electives • REL 255 - Religions in the Roman Empire • BUS 465 - International Management Each student is required to take two elective Intellectual Heritage • BUS 475 - Internship in courses in Business to be chosen after • CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies Business Administration consultation with the Minor Advisor. Any • HIS 313 - Modern European Intellectual History • PSY 303 - Group Dynamics course with the Business Administration • HIS 343 - Christian Theology as Ideology • SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender prefix (BUS) is eligible for credit. • PHL 353 - Medieval Philosophy Senior Year • PHL 354 - Thomas Aquinas and His Contemporaries • BUS 326 - Managerial Negotiation Catholic Studies • REL 234 - The Mystery of Evil and Decision Making Peter Beisheim, Program Director • REL 235 - The God Question: Modern Note: Challenges to Faith and Christian Responses All Management majors are strongly The Catholic Studies Program offers both an interdisciplinary major and a minor • REL 236 - Faith in Christ and recommended to enrich their learning Religious Pluralism through an internship, study abroad, and/ within the Bachelor of Arts degree. • REL 267 - Liberation Theology: or international internship experience. Stonehill College, in its mission statement, Latin American Perspectives identifies itself as “a community of scholarship * Only one of the courses BUS 343, BUS 347, and • REL 268 - Images of Jesus and faith, anchored by a belief in the inherent BUS 443 may be taken to fulfill this requirement • REL 327 - Vatican II: Revolution Or Reform dignity of each person.” In being true to its identity, the College “provides an education that • REL 411 - Approaches to the Study Marketing, B.S.B.A. fosters critical thinking, free inquiry, and the of Religious Traditions interchange of ideas.” The College envisions that Geoffrey Lantos, Program Director its graduates will think, act, and lead with courage Catholicism in Praxis in creating a more just and compassionate world.” • CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies Sophomore or Junior Year • HIS 326 - The Christian Churches In harmony with the values and spirit of the in Nazi Germany • BUS 341 - Marketing Research College’s mission, the Catholic Studies Program • REL 237 - Moral Conflicts: Case • BUS 342 - Consumer Behavior fulfills the mission of the college by fostering critical thinking, free inquiry, and the interchange Studies in Moral Confrontation Three of the following electives: of ideas while providing students with the • REL 238 - Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees: • BUS 343 - Sales Management tools to recognize, understand, and appreciate Justice Issues and Catholic Responses • BUS 344 - Advertising Management the diversity of intellectual traditions within • REL 329 - Justice, Peace, Ecology

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• REL 340 - Jesus and Moral Decisions Chemistry Honors Program • REL 344 - Globalization: Catholic Chemistry Perspectives and Responses The student who completes the Honors Program Faculty: in Chemistry is awarded a degree “with honors Catholic Life & Culture Louis J. Liotta: Chairperson in Chemistry.” Both B.S. and B.A. Chemistry majors who have completed CHM 113, CHM • CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies Professors: 221, CHM 222, CHM 244, PHY 121, PHY • HIS 233 - American Catholic Social History M. Curtin 122, MTH 125, and MTH 126 are designated (This course is cross-listed with REL 233) L. Liotta departmental honors candidates if they have • REL 233 - American Catholic Social History an overall grade-point average of at least 3.4, a (This course is cross-listed with HIS 233) Associate Professors: M. Hall Chemistry and Biochemistry grade-point average • REL 253 - Models of the Church: of at least 3.4 and have conducted research in C. Schnitzer Historical Developments the department. To successfully complete the • REL 254 - Global Catholicism L. Tilley program, a student must maintain the above • REL 261 - Women in Early Christian Tradition Assistant Professors: grade-point averages and earn at least a “B+” • REL 263 - Women’s Religions in the D. Del Sesto on both the thesis and thesis defense required Ancient Mediterranean World M. James-Pederson for CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis. Contact • REL 303 - The Virgin Mary and Visions P. Lombardi the Department Chair for more information. of the Feminine in Christianity • REL 311 - Ethics and Sacrament: Laboratory Instructor: Chemistry, B.A. B. Anzivino The Church in Crisis The Bachelor of Art degree is appropriate for a • REL 333 - The American Catholic Experience The Department of Chemistry offers both a student not interested in graduate school who • REL 341 - Spiritual Autobiography B.S. and a B.A. major as well as a minor in desires entry into a professional school, direct • REL 346 - Christian Celebration: The Mass Chemistry. The Department’s programs have employment in industry or entry into a non- • REL 248 - Christian Prayer, been approved by the American Chemical traditional field combining the knowledge of Liturgy and Sacrament Society (ACS) and graduates fulfilling ACS chemistry with another discipline. Combined with • VPH 214 - The Age of Cathedrals requirements will be eligible for ACS certification. English, it makes possible a career as a technical writer or editor; with Environmental Studies, an The Department of Chemistry at Stonehill A student may substitute one course in environmental advocate; with Education, science College educates students in the chemical the area of Catholic Life and Culture with teacher on both the primary and secondary levels; sciences by providing them with chemical an internship from the following: with Business, a technical manager, administrator knowledge, technical training, and the ability to or sales representative; and with Computer Science, • REL 476 - Internship in Campus think logically and analytically. This education a developer in “Bioinformatics”. The B.A. degree Ministry (Catholic High Schools) covers the traditional chemical disciplines as alone allows Chemistry majors to pursue admission • REL 477 - Internship in Parish Ministry well as those chemical disciplines that will into professional schools such as medical, or have the strongest impact on society in the • REL 478 - Internship in Catholic Ministry dental school as well as careers in forensic science, future. The Department instills a strong sense The Catholic Studies Program requires each art conservation, food science, or nutrition. of professional ethics and responsibility in the senior major to create with their advisor a students enrolled in the chemistry program. The course of study normally pursued culminating experience or project that integrates by B.A. Chemistry majors is: the major and the Cornerstone Program. The B.S. and B.A. programs in chemistry offer fundamental training in inorganic, organic, • CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies physical, and analytical chemistry requiring a basic First Year understanding of physics and calculus. Chemistry Catholic Studies Minor electives in advanced topics and in biochemistry Fall Semester Six courses are required for a are also offered. The department instills upon its • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I 1 minor in Catholic Studies. students the ability to think broadly, creatively and • MTH 125 - Calculus I independently within the field and to communicate Spring Semester The following two courses are required: this ability both in writing and orally. To these ends the Department provides many opportunities • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I • REL 256 - Church and Social Justice both during the academic year and during the • MTH 126 - Calculus II • REL 300 - The Catholic Tradition: summer for students to become involved in Past and Present both undergraduate research and industrial Sophomore Year internships. The culmination of this research is Four courses are electives: often co-authorship on conference presentations Fall Semester In choosing elective courses, a student may and publications in scholarly journals. In • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II select one course from each of the following addition, each junior and senior Chemistry major • PHY 121 - Physics I categories; two courses from two of the following presents two departmental seminars covering categories; or any four courses in consultation information from the current chemical literature. Spring Semester with the Director of Catholic Studies. Each senior writes and defends a thesis (usually • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry relating to research he/she has completed). • PHY 122 - Physics II The categories are Historical Roots & Development, Intellectual Heritage, Catholic Junior Year Life & Culture, and Catholicism in Praxis. Major The wide array of interdisciplinary courses in Both the B.S. and B.A. programs are flexible Fall Semester Catholic Studies allows students majoring in enough to allow the students to pursue objectives • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry 1 Spanish culture and language to create a Catholic such as secondary school teaching, industrial, • CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I Studies minor with a Hispanic focus. Similarly, clinical or governmental employment, or to attend • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 students can create a Catholic Studies minor with graduate school. They also provide an excellent a concentration on Catholic Social Teachings. basis for entrance into professional fields such as Spring Semester medicine, dentistry, nutrition and psychology. • One advanced course from the CHM 300 OR 400 Level • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2

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Senior Year • CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I in Chemistry from Stonehill College and a B.S. • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. See The Curriculum for a Fall Semester Spring Semester description of the 3+2 Engineering Program. • One advanced course from the CHM • CHM 432 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry 3 300 OR 400 Level or BCH 343 • CHM 435 - Advanced Organic Chemistry 3 2 First Year • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis • CHM 442 - Instrumental Analysis: 3 Spring Semester Theory and Practice Fall Semester • CHM 443 - Physical Chemistry III 3 • One advanced course from the • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 CHM 300 OR 400 Level • MTH 125 - Calculus I • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 Senior Year • PHY 121 - Physics I Note: Spring Semester Fall Semester 1 Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning requirement • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 of the Cornerstone Program. • MTH 126 - Calculus II Spring Semester 2 Seminar and Thesis is required in each semester 3 • PHY 122 - Physics II of the junior and senior years and satisfies • CHM 334 - Physical Chemistry II 3 the Capstone Experience requirement of the • CHM 444 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Sophomore Year Cornerstone Program. Four credits are obtained • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 2 in the second semester of the senior year. Note: Fall Semester 3 Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry 1 Fulfills the Statistical Reasoning requirement • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II requirement of the Cornerstone Program. of the Cornerstone Program. • CSC 103 - Computer Science I • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus 2 Seminar and Thesis is required in each semester American Chemical of the junior and senior years and satisfies Spring Semester Society Certification the Capstone Experience requirement of the • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry Cornerstone Program. Four credits are obtained B.A. chemistry majors desiring an American • CSC 104 - Computer Science II in the second semester of the senior year. Chemical Society certified degree must complete • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra BCH 343 - Biochemistry I and have at least 172 3 Courses are offered in alternate years. Must be hours of additional, for credit, chemistry or taken when offered in the junior or senior year. Junior Year biochemistry laboratory experience in addition 4 to the specific requirements listed above. Fulfills the Natural Scientific Inquiry Fall Semester requirement of the Cornerstone Program. • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry Chemistry, B.S. • CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I American Chemical • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I (suggested) The Bachelor of Science degree is designed • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 1 for the student desiring a thorough Society Certification background in chemistry; one who plans to B.S. chemistry majors desiring an American Spring Semester attend graduate school, or seek immediate Chemical Society certified degree must • CHM 334 - Physical Chemistry II OR employment in the field of chemistry. (See complete BCH 343 - Biochemistry I in • CHM 443 - Physical Chemistry III section on ACS certification below.) addition to the requirements listed above. • One advanced Chemistry course The course of study normally pursued at the 300 or 400 level by B.S. Chemistry majors is: Chemistry Minor • CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis 1 The Chemistry minor provides a strong Note: First Year understanding of fundamental principles 1 Seminar and Thesis is required in each and techniques of Chemistry as well as the semester of the junior year and satisfies the Fall Semester application of those principles to biological, Capstone Experience requirement of the • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I 4 environmental and industrial processes. Cornerstone Program. Two credits are obtained • MTH 125 - Calculus I in the second semester of the junior year. • PHY 121 - Physics I Required Courses: Spring Semester • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Cinema Studies • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II • MTH 126 - Calculus II • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR Robert G. Goulet, Program Director • PHY 122 - Physics II • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry The Department of English offers Sophomore Year a minor in Cinema Studies. Two electives to be chosen from: Fall Semester • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I Mission of the Program • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry The program is devoted to the study of media and of • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus • CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I formats related to the moving image, including recent • PHY 221 - Physics III • CHM 334 - Physical Chemistry II • CHM 444 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry developments in digital technology. Students will Spring Semester not only acquire the vocabulary necessary to a full • CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry appreciation of cinematic techniques but also develop Chemistry, BA./ an appreciation for the aesthetic and methodological Junior Year Chemical Engineering, values of the discipline. In addition, by implicitly B.S. Dual Degree acknowledging the intersections of art, technology, Fall Semester and commerce in cinematic texts, courses in the Students in this 3+2 Engineering Program with program help to prepare students for careers in the • CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry 1 the University of Notre Dame receive a B.A. new age of global media institutions and projects.

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Cinema Studies Minor Communication • BUS 344 - Advertising Management • ENG 322 - World Cinema Students in the Cinema Studies program take at Honors Program • ENG 323 - Film Industry least six courses, which must include one 200 The student who completes the Honors Program • ENG 324 - Television Drama – level introductory course (see the list below), in Communication is awarded a degree “with • ENG 325 - Film and Ideology at least three 300 – level courses (see the list honors in Communication.” To enter the program, • ENG 326 - American Cinema below), and two electives from either level. a student must be a Communication major and • ENG 327 - European Cinema • COM 220 - Understanding Film must have completed six communication courses; • JRN 100 - Reporting and News Writing • COM 321 - Film Genres the student’s cumulative grade-point average must • JRN 313 - Journalism Ethics and Law • COM 323 - Honors-Film Censorship be at least 3.50 overall and at least 3.60 in the major; finally, one full-time Communication faculty Students who are both a Communication major and American Culture member must sponsor the student’s application. and Journalism minor may not double count • ENG 271 - Film and Story courses towards requirements for each. • ENG 272 - Film History To complete the program, the student must • ENG 273 - Hitchcock write and orally defend an Honors Thesis during Mediated Communication • ENG 322 - World Cinema Senior year on a topic in Communication. The • ENG 323 - Film Industry student who achieves a “B” or better on the Concentration • ENG 324 - Television Drama Honors Thesis will have successfully completed • ENG 325 - Film and Ideology the Honors Program. Contact the Department Three required courses: Honors Program Coordinator for information. • ENG 326 - American Cinema • COM 207 - Media Criticism • ENG 327 - European Cinema • COM 333 - Topics in Mediated Communication • ENG 328 - Film and Gender Communication, B.A. • COM 419 - Mediated Communication Theory • ENG 329 - Race in American Film All Communication majors must complete a Must also take four additional • ENG 422 - Seminar (offered periodically total of 11 courses. Courses may count for only Communication electives, three of which by English instructors in cinema studies one category. They may not double count. must be at the 300-level or higher. as part of the regular departmental Notes: rotation of seminar assignments) Introductory Sequence No more than one internship course may be Note: counted as a Communication major course. Students will make course choices after Three required courses: consultation with a faculty advisor in either the • COM 103 - Public Speaking • COM 475 - Internship in Mass Communication English or the Communication department. • COM 105 - Interpersonal Communication • COM 476 - Internship in • COM 107 - Mediated Communication Organizational Communication • COM 477 - Internship in Communication Methods Sequence Political Communication No more than one course from the list Faculty: One required course: below may be counted as a Communication Ron Leone, Chairperson • COM 322 - Communication Research Methods major course. None may be counted as Professor: a Communication minor course. X. Yu Theory/Application Sequence • BUS 344 - Advertising Management • ENG 322 - World Cinema Associate Professors: Seven courses: J. Chichetto, C.S.C. • ENG 323 - Film Industry Students must complete the requirements • ENG 324 - Television Drama R. Leone for the following concentration: A. Mattina • ENG 325 - Film and Ideology M. Myers • ENG 326 - American Cinema Communication Studies • ENG 327 - European Cinema Assistant Professors: Concentration • JRN 100 - Reporting and News Writing M. Boyle • JRN 313 - Journalism Ethics and Law W. Mbure Three required courses: Students who are both a Communication major A. Paradise • COM 203 - Studies in Persuasion and Journalism minor may not double count The Department of Communication • COM 310 - Organizational Communication courses towards requirements for each. offers a major in Communication, with a • COM 417 - Communication Theory OR concentration in Mediated Communication • COM 418 - Rhetorical Theory Internship Requirements and Communication Studies and minors Must also take four additional in Communication and Journalism. Only Communication majors and minors with Communication electives, three of which a 3.0 GPA are eligible for Communication The mission of the Communication major is must be at the 300-level or higher. internships. Only one Communication internship, to help students develop an understanding of Notes: for a total of three credit hours, may be counted communication theories and humanistic approaches No more than one internship course may be toward the major requirements. See current to communication, and to promote the development counted as a Communication major course. departmental statement on internship policies of skills in public and interpersonal communication. and consult the Internship Coordinator. The Communication major provides a foundation • COM 475 - Internship in Mass Communication for graduate studies, or for careers in diverse areas • COM 476 - Internship in Communication Minor like mass media, public relations, journalism, Organizational Communication politics, law, education and other related fields. • COM 477 - Internship in Six courses are required for the minor. The 11-course curriculum allows students Political Communication The following courses are required: to create their programs of study according No more than one course from the list • COM 103 - Public Speaking to their academic and career interests below may be counted as a Communication from courses within the Department, and major course. None may be counted as • COM 105 - Interpersonal Communication upon consultation with their advisor, from a Communication minor course. • COM 107 - Mediated Communication complimentary courses outside the Department.

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Must also take three additional also are encouraged to pursue this minor; however, The Department of Computer Science offers Communication electives, two of which some additional background may be required. a B.S. degree as well as a minor in Computer must be at the 300-level or above. Science. A cooperative 3-2 program with The Computer Information University of Notre Dame, in computer science and computer engineering, is also available. Internship Requirements Systems Minor Only Communication majors and minors with At Stonehill College, computer science Basic information technology and computer courses fall roughly into three overlapping a 3.0 GPA are eligible for Communication literacy skills are assumed as part of this program internships. Only one Communication internship, categories: computer theory, computer foundation. Should you feel that these might architecture, and computer software. for a total of three credit hours, may be counted not be a part of your background, they can be toward the major requirements. See current achieved in a variety of settings here at Stonehill Courses in computer theory provide the foundation departmental statement on internship policies or other locations. (Please contact your academic for tomorrow’s technology. Under the rubric of and consult the Internship Coordinator. adviser or the program director for assistance theory, students study topics such as computability, in assessing individual background needs.) finite state machines, and graph theory as well Journalism Minor as the design and analysis of algorithms. • BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis The Journalism minor emphasizes a combination The architecture sequence consists of several of theoretical and applied courses. Students Four Foundation Courses: courses which explore the computer “under the must take six courses to complete the minor. • BUS 308 - Decision Support Systems, hood.” Architecture courses allow students to understand computer hardware from both the Tools and Operations Management The following four courses are required: engineer’s and the programmer’s point of view. • COM 215 - Video Production: Choose one of: The software component of the curriculum Principles and Techniques • BUS 310 - Management Information Systems begins with elementary (object oriented) • JRN 100 - Reporting and News Writing • HCA 205 - Computer Concepts for Healthcare computer programming and progresses to more • JRN 313 - Journalism Ethics and Law • BUS 316 - Accounting Systems advanced topics such as database management • JRN 421 - Journalism Practicum systems, artificial intelligence, and operating Choose one of: systems. In the final Capstone course, student JRN 421 - Journalism Practicum may be • BUS 307 - Data Communications teams develop large software systems using taken twice, but can only be counted once the principles of software engineering. toward the fulfillment of the minor and Applications • VPG 305 - Web Site Design Through problem solving and lab work, computer Choose two from the following courses: science majors develop an understanding Choose one of: • JRN 101 - Advanced Reporting of each of these subject areas as well as the strong relationships among them. and News Writing • BUS 309 - Database Applications • JRN 222 - Development of • CSC 325 - Database Management Systems This balanced mix of theory and application American News Media provides graduates with the requisite background Choose at least ONE elective: • JRN 309 - Narrative Writing for both entry into the computer profession and • JRN 475 - Internship in Journalism • BUS 443 - Electronic Commerce further graduate study in computer science. • CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization Internship Requirements • Departmental Internship see note below Internship Program • Departmental Directed Study see note below Only Journalism Minors with a 3.00 GPA are Many Computer Science majors choose to Note: eligible for journalism internships. Only one undertake an internship with a local company Some students may choose to utilize an Internship journalism internship, for a total of three during the junior or senior year. As an intern, a or Directed Study toward completing their CIS minor credit hours, may be counted toward the student works in the computer industry under electives. Learning through this type of independent minor requirements. See current departmental professional supervision. Students not only or particular experience is strongly encouraged. statement on internship policies and consult gain “real world” experience but also receive the Department’s Internship Coordinator. However, sufficient CIS contribution should be academic credit. Recent interns have worked demonstrated as a part of the program prior for such companies as General Dynamics, to applying for credit toward the minor. Intersyctems, Heartlab Inc., Shields MRI, Veridiem Inc., Fidelity Investments, and ACI. Computer Should you wish to choose one of these options, approval by your department chairperson and Information the program director should be received prior Computer Science Systems making a formal request for CIS elective credit. Honors Program If you feel that there is an additional course offering The student who completes the Honors Program Richard A. Gariepy, Program Director that should be included in the list of electives, in Computer Science will be awarded a degree The Department of Business Administration offers please contact your advisor and/or the program “with honors in computer science.” As part of a minor in Computer Information Systems. director to arrange for a review of this course for the program, a student must write an honors possible assignment of credit toward the minor. thesis on a topic in computer science chosen in The Computer Information Systems minor consultation with a faculty member who acts as the emphasizes the use of a computer as a managerial student’s major advisor on the thesis. A committee productivity tool and/or a resource of an of three faculty members judges the thesis. The organization in a systems setting. This minor Computer Science thesis is ordinarily completed during the senior is designed to allow students, regardless of Faculty: year. The student who submits an acceptable (“B” discipline, to understand core computer concepts Ralph J. Bravaco, Chairperson or better) honors thesis and whose cumulative and decision support tools which complement grade-point average in all major (CSC) courses their understanding of their own major field to Professors: is at least 3.5 through and including the senior apply computer related decision concepts to that R. Bravaco year will have completed the Honors Program. field. This program does not require a detailed S. Simonson knowledge of the internal workings of the computer, nor is extensive computer programming Associate Professor: required. Students in the Sciences or Liberal Arts R. Dugan

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Our mission is to provide a curriculum and Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science, B.A./ learning experience in the theory, and practice of Computer Engineering, modern economics. We provide the foundation Major B.S. Dual Degree for the application of theory to conventional economic issues, as well as to explore more recent The Bachelor of Science program in Computer The B.A. in Computer Science is awarded only Science is designed to prepare students for attempts to answer human behavioral puzzles. to those students who successfully complete In all classes, our main objective is to help the entry-level positions in the computer industry the 3+2 cooperative computer engineering or graduate study in Computer Science. student ask, and answer questions creatively. To program. Students in this program receive and that end, teaching analytical and communication The major offers a selection of courses B.A. in Computer Science from Stonehill College covering software development, design and skills are the common denominators of and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Stonehill economics curriculum. analysis of computer systems, computer University of Notre Dame. See The Curriculum architecture and computer applications. for description of the 3+2 engineering program. The Department further recognizes an intellectual, cultural, and social duty to the First year: Required Courses community and pledges its resources to that end whenever appropriate and feasible. • CSC 103 - Computer Science I (taken at Stonehill College) • CSC 104 - Computer Science II • MTH 125 - Calculus I First year: Economics Honors Program • MTH 126 - Calculus II • CSC 103 - Computer Science I Students who complete the Honors Program in Economics will be awarded a degree with • CSC 104 - Computer Science II Honors in Economics. Departmental Honors Sophomore year: • MTH 125 - Calculus I Scholars must satisfy the following criteria: • CSC 201 - Discrete Mathematics • MTH 126 - Calculus II For Computer Science I • PHY 121 - Physics I Minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.3 in the Major. • CSC 202 - Discrete Mathematics • PHY 122 - Physics II For Computer Science II Completion of the following • CSC 211 - Data Structures Sophomore year: Pre-requisite Courses: • CSC 285 - Advanced Programming • CSC 201 - Discrete Mathematics • LC 207 - Integrative Seminar: CSC 201/CSC 211 • ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics For Computer Science I Mathematical Experiments in Computer Science • ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics • CSC 211 - Data Structures • ECO 241 - Economic Statistics • LC 207 - Integrative Seminar: CSC 201/CSC 211 • ECO 242 - Econometrics Junior and Senior years: Mathematical Experiments in Computer Science • CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Junior Year: • CSC 304 - Computer Architecture The student must enlist a member of • CSC 311 - Algorithms and Complexity Junior year: the economics faculty to direct the • CSC 312 - Compiler Design • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra OR student’s work through the process of • CSC 314 - Operating Systems • CSC 202 - Discrete Mathematics obtaining honors recognition. • CSC 323 - Programming Languages For Computer Science II • CSC 384 - Theory of Computation • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • CSC 400 - Computer Science Capstone Senior Year: • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I In the fall semester of the senior year, the student Choose two courses from: must enroll in ECO 449 - Economics Honors • CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization • CSC 325 - Database Management Systems Thesis I in which the candidate must demonstrate • Four additional upper-level CSC electives • CSC 382 - Artificial Intelligence sufficient progress toward an honors thesis to chosen in consultation with the Director • CSC 390 - Data Networking the Economics faculty. This requires a minimum of the Engineering Program • CSC 393 - Numerical Analysis of a well-developed topic, a comprehensive • CSC 399 - Topics in Computer Science Note: review of the literature, and evidence that sufficient data is available to conduct empirical • MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory Students also must fulfill the General Education requirements of Stonehill College. work, as demonstrated in writing and through Additional Requirements: an oral presentation to the Economics faculty. In the spring semester of the senior year, the • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science Economics student must enroll in ECO 450 - Economics • PHY 121 - Physics I Honors Thesis II in which the candidate must • PHY 122 - Physics II Faculty: complete a thesis paper and will make an Robert Rosenthal, Chairperson oral presentation to the Economics faculty in Computer Science Professor: accordance with the Department’s timetable. Minor R. Rosenthal Successful completion of Honors Program A minor in Computer Science is an excellent requires an Honors Thesis grade of B or Associate Professors: better and a minimum cumulative grade- complement to a degree in Liberal Arts or N. Hammerle Business Administration. Students in the sciences point average of 3.3. Additional details and M. Kazarosian deadlines are available from the Department. may also find the minor program attractive. H. Kazemi A. Motomura Economics, B.A. Required Courses: S. Mulholland • CSC 103 - Computer Science I Faculty Fellow: Major • CSC 104 - Computer Science II R. Pritchard To complete the Economics Major, • CSC 211 - Data Structures The Department of Economics offers students are required to take twelve • CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization a major and minor in Economics. courses approved for the Major: • Three 300-level computer science courses.

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First or Sophomore Year A. Law School • BUS 203 - Financial Accounting • BUS 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles Students planning for Law School are encouraged • BUS 312 - Intermediate Accounting II • ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles to enhance the Economics Department’s course requirements by choosing several upper-level Economics Department electives related Sophomore or Junior Year electives from the English, Philosophy, or to business School preparation that Political Science Departments. Courses from are strongly recommended include: • ECO 241 - Economic Statistics (BUS those departments, which require writing • ECO 242 - Econometrics 206 - Quantitative Analysis, MTH assignments as a significant proportion of the • ECO 309 - Money and Banking 225 - Statistics for Science, or MTH course grade, are most strongly recommended. • ECO 333 - Monetary Theory and Policy 396 - Statistics, may be substituted) Economics Department electives with • ECO 329 - Industrial Organization • ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics content related to legal matters include: • ECO 335 - Managerial Economics • ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics • ECO 246 - Forensic Economics • ECO 343 - International Finance Junior or Senior Year • ECO 244 - The Economics of Sports • ECO 401 - Portfolio Management • ECO 211 - Economics of Labor Unions Seven upper-level (200 or above) courses • ECO 317 - Economics and the Law D. Financial Market Occupations including the Capstone course. • ECO 329 - Industrial Organization Many students are interested in financial Although not required, ECO 242 - Econometrics • ECO 321 - Economics of Healthcare market-related occupations in either the private is strongly recommended for all majors. sector (e.g. financial services and investment B. Graduate School in industry, economic consulting industry) or the Students can apply only one three-credit internship Economics or Finance public sector (e.g. The Federal Reserve Bank, towards one of the seven upper-level electives. The Department of Revenue, The Bureau Students can apply normally only one study abroad Students planning to do graduate work in of Labor Statistics) are encouraged to enroll course per semester to help fulfill their electives. Economics or Finance normally will elect in the following courses to prepare for the additional courses after consulting with a advanced data analysis in these occupations: This internship, and the study abroad course(s) faculty member in the department. Mainstream must be approved by the Department Chair, as well graduate programs rely heavily on the use • ECO 242 - Econometrics and as by the faculty moderator selected by the student. of advanced mathematics, and are highly • ECO 341 - Forecasting selective. As a result, students should obtain Students who double major must consult Advanced theoretical training a strong background in mathematics. with the Chair of the Economics Department courses include: regarding their Capstone requirements prior Highly recommended Mathematics Department • ECO 309 - Money and Banking to selecting their Fall senior year courses. courses are three semesters of Calculus ( • ECO 333 - Monetary Theory and Policy MTH 125 , MTH 126 and MTH 261 ) and Choosing any of the Calculus sequence (MTH • ECO 343 - International Finance a semester of MTH 251 - Linear Algebra . 125, MTH 126, MTH 261) may fulfill up to • ECO 401 - Portfolio Management two of the seven upper-level electives. Choosing to complete the Honors Program • ECO 329 - Industrial Organization in Economics as well as choosing ECO 242 - • ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics Economics Minor Econometrics before senior year are especially • ECO 420 - Fixed Income Analysis important for graduate school bound students. A minor consists of six courses: Other strongly recommended • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles Education Economics courses: • ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles • ECO 337 - Mathematical Economics Faculty: • ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics OR Karen L. Anderson, Chairperson • ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics • ECO 341 - Forecasting • ECO 241 - Economic Statistics Students are encouraged to Associate Professors: OR consider electives that rely K. Anderson G. Branigan • BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis OR heavily on the application of Intermediate Microeconomic M. Pierce • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science OR S. Pinzari • MTH 396 - Statistics may be substituted or Macroeconomic Theory. • Two economics electives at Assistant Professor: Examples of some courses with the 200 level or above. E. Yang Microeconomic foundations: Note: • ECO 329 - Industrial Organization Director Licensure, Placement & Internships, study abroad courses, and Calculus • ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics Supervision: K. McNamara cannot be used to fulfill electives for minors. The Department of Education Studies offers both Examples of some courses with major and minor programs in Early Childhood Macroeconomic foundations: Career-Specific Suggested Education and Elementary Education, and a Courses of Study • ECO 309 - Money and Banking minor in secondary education. Stonehill College • ECO 333 - Monetary Theory and Policy The various curricula below are suggested courses is approved by the Massachusetts Department • ECO 343 - International Finance of study. They are not required. The suggestions of Elementary and Secondary Education to aim to provide some general preliminary guidance • ECO 401 - Portfolio Management endorse licensure in the following areas: Early for those planning for any of the four objectives • ECO 420 - Fixed Income Analysis Childhood (PK-2), Elementary (1-6) and Secondary defined below. There are certainly courses in (see licensure program description below). disciplines not specified that may be equally C. Business School The mission of the Department of Education appropriate depending upon each student’s Studies is to prepare students to become preferences. Faculty in the Economics Department Students planning for graduate knowledgeable, skilled and caring teachers of the are willing and eager to work with students on business school for an MBA or a highest caliber. Teacher preparation in the 21st an individual basis to address particular needs. Master of Science in Accountancy century involves a marriage between pedagogical (MSA) are encouraged to enroll in: theory and liberal arts/science content.

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Literacy, numeracy, social studies, and science, Required Education Professional Strand as well as fine arts make up the content of Courses: Early Childhood • EDU 102 - Foundations of Education the PK-12 school curriculum. A major in a • EDU 202 - Reading: Theory and Instruction liberal arts or science and completion of • EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive the Cornerstone Program enable Stonehill Professional Strand Learning Environment College Education students to acquire the • EDU 104 - Early Care and Education • EDU 220 - Children’s Literature requisite content knowledge necessary to • EDU 202 - Reading: Theory and Instruction • EDU 301 - Assessment and Analysis become exemplary classroom teachers. • EDU 210 - Children in Preschools in Education (fulfills Gen. Ed. and Kindergarten Education coursework, coupled with pre-practicum Statistical Reasoning) • EDU 213 - Inclusive Learning and practicum experiences, are designed to • EDU 306 - Speech and Language Development complement this content knowledge. These in Early Education • EDU 307 - Classroom Management experiences encourage students to construct deep • EDU 220 - Children’s Literature understandings of the application of pedagogical • EDU 301 - Assessment and Analysis Liberal Arts/Sciences Strand knowledge to a variety of classrooms, schools, and in Education (fulfills Gen. Ed. • HIS 281 - American Nation I communities. Through opportunities to observe, Statistical Reasoning) • MTH 143 - Mathematical assist, and work directly with students designing • EDU 306 - Speech and Language Development Reasoning for Education and implementing content specific instruction, • EDU 312 - Art, Music and Movement Stonehill College Education students become • EDU 201 - Developmental Theories OR reflective practitioners who apply educational Liberal Arts/Sciences Strand • PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I theory to classroom instructional practice. • Lab Science from an approved list. This • EDU 201 - Developmental Theories OR course will fulfill the General Education Together, Education faculty, staff • PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I and students seek to: Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement. Practicum Strand Note: • Make education more responsive to the • EDU 315 - Curriculum and Instructional Design Elementary Education majors are required evolving needs of society by investigating • EDU 430 - Practicum: Early by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the complexity of culture, language, and Childhood Education complete coursework covering: composition, learning differences in today’s public, • EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar American Literature, world history (including private and parochial classrooms; European History, from ancient time to present), Note: • Meet the learning needs of all students American History, geography, economics, U.S. In order to enroll in EDU 430 - Practicum: Early through the application of developmental and government (including founding documents), Childhood Education and EDU 440 - Practicum: child development, science laboratory work, pedagogical theory to classroom practice; Reflective Seminar during senior year, the and mathematics and science coursework • Design instruction to ensure that all Early Childhood major must: (a) hold a 3.0 appropriate for the elementary school teacher. students experience success; GPA; (b) pass all sections of the Massachusetts Tests of Educational Licensure (MTEL); and These requirements are completed as part • Create classroom materials that capitalize (c) complete all Education coursework, or of liberal arts/science strand coursework on student involvement, and utilize multiple obtain consent of the Department Chair. listed above or as part of General Education ways of knowing and expressing knowledge; EDU 430 and EDU 440 may be completed requirements. A waiver may be granted if student provides evidence that content has been • Utilize technology as a critical either fall or spring semester of senior year, in obtained from other courses or experiences. component of the curriculum, aiding consultation with student’s education advisor. both teaching and learning. Liberal Arts/Science Major: Practicum Strand The Department of Education Studies is • EDU 315 - Curriculum and Instructional Design committed to principles of personal development, In addition to Education coursework, Early • EDU 320 - Teaching Math, democracy, inclusion, and the creation of a Childhood majors must complete a liberal arts/ Science & Technology just and compassionate world. Together, we science major from the following list: American • EDU 435 - Practicum: Elementary Education explore developmentally appropriate practice, Studies, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, • EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar methodology, and technology, while retaining Economics, English, Environmental Studies, Fine a constant emphasis on education for civic Arts, Foreign Language (combined, French, or Note: engagement, self-awareness and humanism. Spanish), Gender Studies, History, Interdisciplinary In order to enroll in EDU 435 - Practicum: Studies, International Studies, Mathematics Elementary Education and EDU 440 - Practicum: The ultimate goal of the Stonehill College Neuroscience, Philosophy, Political Science, Reflective Seminar during senior year, the Department of Education Studies is to enhance Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. elementary education major must: (a) hold a 3.0 the total development of the individual GPA; (b) pass all sections of the Massachusetts while producing graduates who aspire to Tests of Educational Licensure (MTEL); and (c) excellence for themselves, their peers, schools, Education - complete all Education coursework, or obtain communities, and the education profession. Elementary Education consent of the Department Chair. EDU 435 Concentration, B.A. and EDU 440 may be completed either fall or Education - Early spring semester of senior year, in consultation Childhood Education Licensure Program: with the student’s education advisor. Concentration, B.A. Elementary Education (1-6) Liberal Arts/Science Major: The Department of Education Studies offers a Licensure Program: Early major in Education Studies, with a concentration In addition to Education coursework, Elementary Childhood Education (PK-2) in Elementary Education, which leads to Education majors must complete a liberal arts/ initial licensure from the Commonwealth science major from the following list: American The Department of Education Studies of Massachusetts (Elementary, 1-6). Studies, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, offers a major in Education Studies, with a Economics, English, Environmental Studies, Fine concentration in Early Childhood, which leads Arts, Foreign Language (combined, French, or to initial licensure from the Commonwealth Required Education Spanish), Gender Studies, History, Interdisciplinary of Massachusetts (Early Childhood: Teacher of Courses: Elementary Studies, International Studies, Mathematics, Students with and without Disabilities, PK-2). Neuroscience, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology.

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Education Studies Minor Note: • B.A. in Chemistry/ B.S. in Chemical In order to enroll in EDU 437 - Practicum: Engineering. See Chemistry Without Licensure Secondary Education 5-12 Level or EDU 439 program for details. Students who wish to pursue a minor in education - Practicum: Secondary Education 8-12 Level and EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar • B.A. in Computer Science/B.S. in studies (and therefore do not wish to be licensed) Computer Engineering. See Computer must complete a minimum of 6, three-credit during senior year, the Secondary Education Science program for details. courses (or their equivalent) in the Department. minor must: (a) hold a 3.0 GPA; (b) pass all Students must choose courses in consultation with sections of the Massachusetts Tests of Educational • B.A. in Environmental Studies/B.S. Department Chairperson prior to declaring minor. Licensure (MTEL); and (c) complete all Education in Environmental Geosciences. See coursework, or obtain consent of the Department Environmental Studies program for details. Students who minor in Education Studies: Chair. EDU 437 or EDU 439 may be completed either fall or spring semester of senior year, in • B.A. in Physics/ B.S. in Aerospace, Civil, Early Childhood Education must complete: consultation with the student’s education advisor. Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering. • EDU 104 - Early Care and Education See Physics program for details. • EDU 210 - Children in Preschools Students in this program will also and Kindergarten Required Courses (specific to major) complete the General Education • EDU 213 - Inclusive Learning requirements of Stonehill College. in Early Education • BIO 313 - Teaching the Sciences • A minimum of 3 additional education (Biology or Chemistry majors only) electives (one being from the practicum English strand) totaling 9 or more credits. Recommended Education Faculty: Students who minor in Education Studies: Courses (all majors) Jared Green, Chairperson Elementary Education must complete: • EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive Learning Professors: • EDU 102 - Foundations of Education Environment (2 additional hrs/wk pre- W. Chapman Peek • EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive practicum in special education) K. Conboy Learning Environment • EDU 307 - Classroom Management R. Goulet • A minimum of 4 additional Education • EDU 314 - Preschool and Elementary courses (12 credits) one being Curriculum and Methods (1 additional Associate Professors: from the practicum strand. full day/wk pre-practicum) S. Cohen • EDU 330 - Reading & Writing H. Duncan Students who minor in Education in the Content Areas S. Gracombe Studies must complete: J. Green • EDU 102 - Foundations of Education Liberal Arts/Science Major: D. Itzkovitz • EDU 104 - Early Care and Education G. Piggford, C.S.C. • EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive In addition to Education coursework, Secondary Learning Environment Education minors must complete a liberal Assistant Professors: • EDU 213 - Inclusive Learning arts/science major from the following list: M. Borushko Biology, Chemistry, English, Foreign Language in Early Education L. Scales (French and/or Spanish), History, Mathematics, • A minimum of 4 additional Education Political Science/Political Philosophy. Faculty Fellow: courses (12 credits) one being E. King from the practicum strand. Professors Emerita/Emeritus: Secondary Education Minor Engineering B. Estrin D. Shelley The Department of Education Studies offers a A Cooperative 3+2 minor in Secondary Education which leads to Program With The Department of English offers a major and initial licensure in classroom teaching in one of minor in English and a minor in Cinema Studies. the following areas: Biology (8-12), Chemistry The University of (8-12), English (8-12), Foreign Language- Notre Dame Departmental Mission French (5-12), Foreign Language-Spanish (5-12), History (8-12), Mathematics (8-12), Ralph Bravaco, Program Director The program exposes students to a variety of Political Science/Political Philosophy (8-12). texts so that they can see the relationships among Stonehill College and the University of Notre Dame those texts, the contexts from which those texts offer a five-year B.A./B.S. program in science and Required Education Courses: Secondary emerge, and the connections between those texts engineering. Students enrolled in the program and their own intellectual and social concerns. Required Education courses matriculate for three years at Stonehill College and then transfer to the University of Notre Dame By encouraging disciplined inquiry and critical • EDU 102 - Foundations of Education for two years. Those who complete the program thinking, English courses challenge students to • EDU 125 - Learning to Teach I receive two degrees: A Bachelor of Arts degree examine their cultural and historical positions and • EDU 225 - Learning to Teach II in one of the sciences from Stonehill College and to organize and articulate their discoveries. All • EDU 301 - Assessment and Analysis a Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering courses require oral and written work in the form in Education (fulfills Gen. Ed. discipline from the University of Notre Dame. of class participation and individual papers. The Statistical Reasoning) program provides students with an understanding • EDU 315 - Curriculum and Instructional Design To transfer to Notre Dame a student must of traditional literary history and of the histories maintain a 3.3 grade-point average and have • EDU 325 - Learning to Teach III that have been left out of “the tradition.” the recommendations of the department chair • EDU 437 - Practicum: Secondary at Stonehill College and the Assistant Dean The purpose of the program in English is not to Education 5-12 Level OR of Academic Affairs, College of Engineering legitimatize one critical position (what is “worth • EDU 439 - Practicum: Secondary at the University of Notre Dame knowing”) but to consider the consequences of Education 8-12 Level “knowing” within the academic disciplines, to • EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar Students may choose one of the recognize the options involved in adopting a following degree combinations: critical stance about the written and performance

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 25 academic LIfe texts that have shaped individual and community Continental Literature 1660-1800 A Bachelor of Arts Degree as well as a minor experience, and to understand the conventions • ENG 359 - Nineteenth-century British Poetry in Environmental Studies are offered. and practices that have shaped those texts. • ENG 360 - American Literature to 1865 Given the complexity and multidisciplinary • ENG 367 - Topics in Nineteenth- nature of environmental problems, students English, B.A. Century American Literature aspiring to contribute toward the solutions must • ENG 385 - Taking the Victorians to the Movies acquire knowledge in a variety of areas. Curriculum Literary and Cultural Studies 1900-present Consequently, Environmental Studies is an The English Curriculum is designed to provide (British, American, or outside the interdepartmental program, taught by faculty students with both a broad knowledge of literary Anglo-American tradition): from across the college. Additionally, the history and training in close, careful textual program collaborates with the Students for analysis. As they begin the major, students take • ENG 307 - Topics in British Environmental Action (SEA), as success in three required courses: ENG 200, a small seminar Literature, 1900 - Present environmental work ultimately demands that serves to introduce students to literary genres • ENG 361 - American Literature, 1865-present organizing and activism skills which ENV majors and critical terms; and ENG 201 and ENG 202, • ENG 366 - Topics in Twentieth- and minors are encouraged to develop via taking larger courses, to be taken in sequence, which Century American Literature leadership roles in SEA here on campus. cover major movements in literary history. It • ENG 368 - Race, Ethnicity, is also common for freshmen and sophomores The program provides students with knowledge of and American Culture to take a section of ENG 220 - Introductory the basic principles of ecology and environmental Topics in Literature, a literary seminar with • ENG 369 - African-American Literature science, including economic, political, sociological, special topics that develops critical reading and • ENG 371 - Topics in Contemporary Literature and philosophical dimensions. Students have writing skills. In addition, students take five • ENG 380 - Modern Poetry the opportunity to tailor the program to their more elective courses. Three of the five total • ENG 381 - Modern Drama career and personal goals through course elective courses must be taken in at least three • ENG 382 - American Drama selection, internships, and directed study. of the following areas: Medieval Literature, Early • ENG 389 - Alternative Modernisms Students in the major and the minor program Modern Literature, Literature and Cultural Studies • ENG 390 - Topics in Modernism ordinarily enroll in the upper-level courses 1700-1900, and Literature and Cultural Studies • ENG 392 - Topics in Postcolonial from a variety of disciplines listed in the major 1900 to the present. In their junior year, students and Global Literature without completing the pre-requisites that majors take ENG 300, an introduction to literary theory • ENG 395 - Introduction to Postcolonial in those disciplines are required to complete. that is a prerequisite for the Capstone seminar Literature and Culture and all directed studies. Students may take the Capstone seminar in either their junior or senior Capstone: Environmental year. The practica courses are typically fulfilled • ENG 422 - Seminar Studies, B.A. in the senior year, when students may intern at a professional workplace, work as a teaching One of three Practica: The Major apprentice with a faculty member teaching a • ENG 475 - Internship GL course, or, if Education majors or minors, Students completing the major with success will A domestic or an international internship complete their student teaching requirement. The be well-equipped for entry level work in the in a professional work place (for instance, a Department also encourages students to take non-profit, commercial and government sectors in publishing company, public relations firm, law English courses beyond the number required, the non-technical aspects of environmental work firm, newspaper, television or radio station, film so as to gain a full sense of their discipline. (education, outreach, advocacy, organizing, etc). production company, advertising company). Such students will also be prepared to undertake a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies, policy or • ENG 476 - Teaching Apprenticeship Major planning – the industry standard for environmental To complete the English Major, students English Minor policy work in all three sectors of the economy, are required to take 11 courses: government, non-profits, and commerce. The English minor consists of a sequence of at Those completing this major along with • ENG 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies least six courses determined after consultation • ENG 201 - Literary History I preparation for an elementary or early-childhood with a departmental advisor of the student’s teaching career will find themselves well-equipped • ENG 202 - Literary History II choice. ENG 200 - Introduction to Literary to better prepare future generations for scientific • ENG 300 - Critical Theory Studies and ENG 300 - Critical Theory are literacy and a sustainable future. In addition, strongly recommended. The only prerequisite A total of five elective courses science backgrounds such as the one this major to the minor is fulfillment of the Cornerstone provides are valued by school districts yet remain (200-400 level), three of which requirements in Literature and History. rare among applicants for such teaching positions. must be taken in three of the four following areas of study: Students considering entry-level work as environmental scientists and/or graduate degrees in Medieval Literature Environmental Environmental Science are advised to supplement • ENG 301 - Topics in Medieval Literature Studies this degree with additional science courses, or to • ENG 350 - Chaucer pursue a Biology or Chemistry major instead. Susan M. Mooney, Program Director All students considering graduate work in any Early Modern Literature Environmental Studies field, including Education, are advised to take MTH • ENG 304 - Topics in Early Modern Literature Steering Committee: 225 - Statistics for Science (which also fulfills the • ENG 353 - Shakespeare Cornerstone statistical reasoning requirement). • ENG 354 - Shakespeare’s Rivals Peter Beisheim, Religious Studies The major requires eleven courses, eight Literary and Cultural Studies 1700-1900 Christopher Ives, Religious Studies in the natural sciences, two from the social sciences/humanities, and one Capstone. (British, American, or outside the Sean Mulholland, Economics Anglo-American tradition): Robert Rodgers, Political Science • ENG 306 - Topics in British Literature, 1700-1900 Cheryl Schnitzer, Chemistry • ENG 356 - Topics in British and Maura Tyrrell, Biology

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Requirements of the Major • BIO 307 - Ecology • PHY 121 - Physics I • BIO 309 - Microbiology • Environmental Humanities/Social Science Natural Sciences: • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology course (from approved list pg 17) • BIO 323 - Evolution Spring Semester Six Required courses: • BIO 416 - Adaptation to the Environment • BIO 307 - Ecology • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I OR • BIO 419 - Wetlands: Ecology, • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II Hydrology, Restoration • Environmental Humanities/Social Science • BIO 307 - Ecology • ENV 295 - Environmental Geology • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I course (from approved list pg 17) • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Two courses from the following list of • PHY 122 - Physics II • ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science humanities and social science courses: Note: • ENV 295 - Environmental Geology • ECO 327 - Environmental Economics Notre Dame coursework in the fourth year fulfills • ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics the Capstone requirement of the Stonehill major. Choose two additional natural • ENV 299 - Ecology, Theologies and Worldviews science courses from this list: • ENV 301 - Water Resource Management • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany • ENV 302 - Coastal Zone Management Foreign Languages • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems • POL 255 - Environmental Policy and Politics Faculty: • BIO 309 - Microbiology • REL 329 - Justice, Peace, Ecology John Golden, Chairperson • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology Note: • BIO 323 - Evolution The sixth course is an advanced course Professor: • BIO 416 - Adaptation to the Environment from either category above. A. Barbagallo • BIO 419 - Wetlands: Ecology, D. Valentini Hydrology, Restoration • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II Environmental Science, Associate Professors: • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II B.A./Environmental J. Golden Geosciences, B.S. C. Martin Humanities/Social Sciences: J. Martínez Dual Degree J. Pérez Choose two of the following: Students in this 3+2 Engineering Program with Assistant Professor: • ECO 327 - Environmental Economics the University of Notre Dame receive a B.A. in • ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics Environmental Studies from Stonehill College R. de Mattos • ENV 275 - Environmental Law and a B.S. in Environmental Geostudies from the J. C. Martin • ENV 301 - Water Resource Management OR University of Notre Dame. See The Curriculum for Instructor: • ENV 302 - Coastal Zone Management a description of the 3+2 Engineering Program. P. Mahoney • POL 255 - Environmental Policy and Politics Students in this program typically complete: The Department of Foreign Languages • REL 329 - Justice, Peace, Ecology offers majors in Spanish, French and • SOC 328 - Community Organizing: First Year Foreign Languages, and minors in French, People, Power & Change German, Italian Studies and Spanish. Senior Capstone: Fall Semester • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I • ENV 475 - Environmental Internship OR Departmental Mission • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • ENV 490 - Directed Study OR The Department of Foreign Languages fulfills its • MTH 125 - Calculus I • ENV 496 - Senior Thesis OR mission by teaching foreign languages, cultures • other suitable advanced, integrative experience Spring Semester and literatures, by promoting cross-cultural (chosen in consultation with ENV advisor) understanding, and by presenting models of • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I effective pedagogy. Members of the Department Environmental Studies Minor • MTH 126 - Calculus II also serve the College and wider community in areas pertaining to foreign languages. The Environmental Studies minor provides Sophomore Year The study of foreign languages is an integral introductory knowledge in several areas of part of a liberal education. It gives students knowledge, as well as the opportunity to connect Fall Semester a means of breaking through the barrier of a the program to one’s major. For example, a typical • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany OR single speech and culture pattern and provides program for a student majoring in Political Science • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems an encounter with some of the world’s great might be: ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental • CSC 103 - Computer Science I literatures, cultural traditions, and social models. Science; POL 255 - Environmental Policy and • ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science It is also invaluable for those seeking careers in Politics; BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems; ECO 327 • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus business and commerce, civil service, education, - Environmental Economics; BIO 307 - Ecology; international affairs, media, social services, and ENV 301 - Water Resource Management. Spring Semester law enforcement, and scholarly research. The minor consists of six courses, • CSC 104 - Computer Science II distributed as follows. • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science Course Offerings • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra One required course: The Department offers courses at various levels in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Latin and • ENV 200 - Principles of Environmental Science Junior Year Spanish, which meet Cornerstone General Education requirements. Students are expected Two courses from the following list of science Fall Semester to develop and increase their proficiency in courses, at least one at the 300 level or above: • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany OR a foreign language, whether continuing one • BIO 290 - Scientific Methods: The Ocean • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems previously studied or beginning a new foreign • BIO 303 - Environmental Botany • BIO 309 - Microbiology language. Proficiency entails communication, • BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems • ENV 295 - Environmental Geology cultural understanding, and connections

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 27 academic LIfe with other areas of knowledge; comparisons French Minor on the nature of language and culture, and Gender and participation in multilingual communities. The minor in French consists of a sequence of at least six courses determined after Sexuality Studies consultation with the departmental advisor. Major At least two of these courses must be upper Wendy Chapman Peek, Program Director The Department shares in the mission division (300 level courses or above). Gender & Sexuality Studies of the College by offering courses at Steering Committee: various levels in Chinese, French, German, German Minor Italian, Latin and Spanish which meet Margaret Boyd, Sociology & Criminology Cornerstone Program requirements. The minor in German consists of a sequence of at least six courses determined after Katie Currul-Dykeman, The Department has majors in French and consultation with the departmental advisor. Sociology & Criminology Spanish, as well as a major in Foreign Languages At least two of these courses must be upper which allows students to combine two of the division (300 level courses or above). Rudy de Mattos, Foreign Languages following foreign languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish. The Department also offers Stacy Grooters, English minor programs in French, German, Italian Italian Studies Minor George Piggford, C.S.C., English Studies and Spanish. Current technology, in the forms of audiovisual media and computer- Daria Valentini, Program Director Daria Valentini, Foreign Languages assisted instruction, provides authentic language A minor in Italian Studies is offered by the The Gender and Sexuality Studies models and enhances learning. Moreover, Department of Foreign Languages. It consists Program offers a major and a minor Foreign Language majors are required to of six courses beyond the intermediate level, within the Bachelor of Arts degree. spend a semester abroad in an approved and may be declared either before or after program of study or in one of the international studying abroad in Florence, Rome, or Perugia. The mission of the Gender and Sexuality Studies internships sponsored by Stonehill College. Program is to use gender as a lens to promote Students should contact the Program critical thinking and scholarly development Goals Director of Italian Studies with questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Informed about which courses taken abroad can be • Students will be able to communicate by feminist and queer theoretical perspectives, counted towards the Minor. In many cases Gender and Sexuality Studies explores the effectively in a foreign language in up to two such courses can be approved. differences within and between men and women both oral and written forms. Please refer to the Department of Foreign and how those differences are constructed • Students will appreciate and understand Languages section for further information within gendered systems of oppression. Courses a foreign culture, its values and on this minor, including course selection. in the program focus on a range of gendered institutions, including relevant aspects institutions, such as family, work, religion, of history, art and geography. Requirements: education, health, medicine, media, and politics. Our courses also investigate the many ways The minor in Italian Studies requires two • Students will learn the linguistic, scholars, artists, and activists have researched, semesters of Italian language at the intermediate cultural, aesthetic, and critical represented, and critiqued our gendered world. contributions of foreign literatures. (ITA 231-ITA 232) level or equivalent plus four courses from the following: Among the topics students can expect to study are: Major in Spanish, B.A. • ITA 331 - Italy: Language and Identity • The impact of gender and sexual or French, B.A. • ITA 332 - Italian Conversation and Composition identity on human relations within local, • ITA 337 - Contemporary Italy Through Film national, and global communities; This consists of 10 upper division courses (300 • ITA 338 - Survey of Italian level and above), which ordinarily must include • The relationship of gender to race, Culture and Civilization the Advanced Language courses (FRN 331-FRN class, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, 332 or SPA 331- SPA 332), the Survey of Culture • ITA 490 - Directed Study: Selected Topics religion, and nationality; and Civilization, and Literature courses (FRN • VPH 215 - Early Renaissance • The distinctions among biological sex, gender, 333- FRN 334 / FRN 335-FRN 336 or SPA 333- Art: Italy and the North SPA 334 / SPA 335-SPA 336). The French Cinema • VPH 314 - Masters of the Renaissance: sexual orientation, and sexual identity; and course (FRN 340) may be substituted for one of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael • The history and implications of gender and the French Survey of Culture and Civilization • VPH 430 - Art History in Italy sexuality in questions of social justice. courses (FRN 333-FRN 334) or French Survey • Study abroad courses in Italy of Literature courses (FRN 335-FRN 336). Gender and Sexuality Additional Information: Studies, B.A. Major in Foreign Languages Students minoring in Italian are required to take three courses on campus, two of which must be at Combined study of two foreign languages; e.g., the 300-level. For courses taken abroad, students Major Spanish and French, French and German, etc. must seek approval from Professor Valentini This consists of six upper division courses in in order to receive credit towards the minor. Nine courses are required for the one foreign language area (300 level and above), major, including the following and of four courses in a second foreign language Spanish Minor two required courses: area, of which at least two are upper level. • GND 101 - Introduction to Gender The minor in Spanish consists of a sequence and Sexuality Studies Foreign Language Minors of at least six courses determined after • GND 475 - Internship * (recommended consultation with the departmental advisor. for Junior Year) OR Foreign Language minors are urged to At least two of these courses must be upper • GND 490 - Directed Study * spend a semester abroad in an approved division (300 level courses or above). international program of study or in one of the (recommended for Senior Year) internships sponsored by Stonehill College. * Capstone

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Note: Visual & Performing Arts Articulation Agreement As an interdisciplinary program, students • VPH 219 - Food and Body Image in Art Graduates who wish to pursue a Master’s in seeking the Gender and Sexuality Studies • VPH 316 - Art and Gender Major select the remaining seven courses Healthcare Administration may apply courses from the courses listed below: taken at Stonehill to the Simmons College Gender and Sexuality master’s program. This articulation agreement is Biology Studies Minor available to majors of the Stonehill program. • BIO 296 - Scientific Methods: Six courses are required for the minor. Students See Academic Partnerships section Female Medical Issues will be required to complete GND 101 and for full description. • BIO 324 - Endocrinology five additional Gender and Sexuality Studies courses which can be selected from the range Healthcare Communication of available interdisciplinary offerings. • COM 313 - Gender and Communication Administration, B.A. Criminology Healthcare Major • CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class and Required courses: Gender in the Criminal Justice System Administration • HCA 103 - Introduction to Gerontology English Faculty: • HCA 105 - Healthcare Foundations • ENG 300 - Critical Theory Thomas Gariepy, C.S.C., Chairperson • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles • ECO 321 - Economics of Healthcare • ENG 310 - Topics in World Literature Professor: • HCA 205 - Computer Concepts for Healthcare • ENG 325 - Film and Ideology T. Gariepy, C.S.C. • ENG 328 - Film and Gender • HCA 220 - Healthcare Policy and Politics • ENG 389 - Alternative Modernisms Assistant Professors: • HCA 301 - Health Communication • ENG 391 - Topics in Gender W. Dahlin • HCA 323 - Healthcare Law and Sexuality Studies M. Glavin • HCA 325 - Healthcare Finance • HCA 330 - Healthcare Product • ENG 394 - Sexuality and Textuality The Department offers a major and minor in Healthcare Administration. and Service Delivery Foreign Languages • HCA 335 - Healthcare Employment Law The primary objectives of the Healthcare • FRN 342 - Gender Construction • HCA 336 - Supervision/Leadership Administration major are: in Francophone Culture • HCA 410 - Healthcare Administration a. to prepare the student for leadership Senior Seminar Gender and Sexuality Studies and service in entry-level employment • HCA 475 - Internship in • GND 200 - Topics in Gender in healthcare direct service and support Healthcare Administration and Sexuality Studies organizations in the private and public sectors. b. to prepare the student for graduate Choose one of the following: History or professional study. • HCA 208 - The Continuum of Long • HIS 229 - Women and Gender c. to prepare the student to be an innovative Term Healthcare Service in Early Modern Europe and a positive force for ethical, constructive • HCA 209 - Public and Community Health • HIS 230 - History of Sexuality in America change in the health system. • HCA 219 - Epidemiology • HIS 285 - Women in America: 1630-1890 These objectives are met by coupling required and elective courses with a required full- Healthcare Administration Political Science time internship. Strong preceptor and faculty Minor • POL 265 - Men, Women, and Justice supervision are available to all students and a variety of Directed Studies and Field Studies The minor offers business, liberal arts and science Psychology emphasizing healthcare work are available for majors an overview of the healthcare system, an appreciation of the extent to which this field • PSY 315 - Psychology of Women the highly motivated student. Required offerings provide a firm understanding of the healthcare touches all of our lives and an understanding Religious Studies system, important healthcare issues, and basic of the broad array of opportunities in the many managerial and leadership skills. More advanced fields of endeavor within health services for • REL 302 - Violence and Sex in the Bible requirements and electives enhance and refine the non-major. (Particularly appropriate for • REL 303 - The Virgin Mary and Visions these areas of a student’s specific interest. Areas of Accounting, Biology, Communication, Computer of the Feminine in Christianity concentration such as nursing home administration, Science, Education, Finance, Management, • REL 336 - Women in the Islamic Tradition gerontology, and management options in public Marketing, Psychology, and Sociology majors.) • REL 338 - Sex and God: Jewish and and private sector insurance, finance, group Declaration may be made at any time. Muslim Erotic Love Poetry practice management, personnel, marketing, Requirements: HCA 105 - Healthcare public relations, and sales roles are available. Sociology Foundations. Electives: Any five from Federal and state programs, hospital, home care, Department offerings may be chosen with • SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family managed care organizations, health maintenance the Department advisor to complement the • SOC 218 - Images and Power: Popular Culture organizations, hospices, planning and consulting student’s major and career interests. Occasionally, • SOC 230 - Families in Cross- firms, international service organizations, and by permission of the Chairperson, courses Cultural Perspective many other organizations also are available to outside the departmental offerings will the student for internships, community-based • SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender satisfy one elective course requirement. learning experiences, and for employment. • SOC 408 - Seminar: Studying Culture • SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality Students considering the major or minor must • SOC 416 - Seminar: Love, Intimacy meet with the Department Chair before declaring. and Human Sexuality The Department has earned “Full Certification” • SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression status in AUPHA (Association of University Programs in Health Administration).

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of five courses to be used in the major. Of in European History History these five courses, a maximum of two may be • 2 courses 200-level or above in World History used in the concentration (European, United • 1 300-level course with a primary Faculty: States, or World.) Only one AP course in History research requirement Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., Chairperson may be used as an elective in the major. Professors: The required courses for each of the T. Clarke three concentrations follow: Moreau Honors S. Maddock J. Rodrigue European History Concentration Program K. Spicer, C.S.C. • 5 course 200 level or above George Piggford, C.S.C., Program Director Associate Professors: in European History* Moreau Honors students will complete a T. Gernes • 3 course 200 level or above in United States, minimum of five Honors courses plus E. McCarron and World History the HON 100 - Honors Leadership Seminar J. Wadsworth (Major must take at least one course each) and a Senior Honors Experience: • 1 free elective history course 200-level Assistant Professors: • In the first semester, they will take at or above in any concentration L. Brekke-Aloise least two Honors courses (GENH 140, • HIS 320 - Historical Methods and Materials E. Belanger GENL 140, GENP 140 or GENR 140) A. Houston • HIS 411 - Senior Research Seminar • HIS 415 - Senior History Thesis • In the second semester, they will take the B. Knowlton HON 100 - Honors Leadership Seminar K. Teoh Note: and are required to take initiatives to effect * Students with no previous college-level credit The Department of History offers a major positive changes in the community. These in European History are recommended, but not with concentrations in United States projects include doing volunteer work, inviting required to take HIS 265 - Western Civilization History, European History, and World I and HIS 266 - Western Civilization II. speakers to the College, organizing series of History, as well as a minor in History. faculty lectures, helping to coordinate visits by The study of history is an essential element in United States History noteworthy guests, planning entertainment and the human experience and plays an integral role cultural events, and bringing about changes in the liberal arts tradition at Stonehill College. Concentration in College policies on environmental issues. Through a series of introductory and advanced • 5 courses 200 level or above in • Before graduating, they will need to take three courses, History majors explore the breadth of United States History* additional Honors courses. One and only one the human past, the forces of change, and the • 3 courses 200 level or above in European, and of those courses can be a non-Honors course historical skills that help us to interpret our for Honors Program credit. Contact the Honors tradition. Students focus both on the decisive World History events that have shaped our world, such as the (Majors must take at least one course in each) Program Director for more information.) American Revolution and the First World War, and • 1 free elective history course 200-level • In the senior year, the students will need on the specifics of everyday life in Pre-Columbian or above in any concentration to take the Senior Honors Experience, Mexico or the Byzantine Empire. To this end, the • HIS 320 - Historical Methods and Materials composed of a Senior capstone in the History students gain a broad perspective that • HIS 411 - Senior Research Seminar major. (For Education majors, the Capstone equips them to understand their own cultural • HIS 415 - Senior History Thesis has to be in the non-Education major.) heritage and develop an informed perspective Note: on other historical traditions and values. Students accepted into the Moreau Honors * Students with no previous college-level program starting their sophomore year The History Department seeks to provide its credit in U.S. History are recommended, have to take three Honors courses, plus students with the tools to read critically, to but not required to take HIS 281 - American the Senior Honors Experience. One and conduct research effectively, and to write and Nation I and HIS 282 - American Nation II. only one of those courses can be a hon- communicate convincingly. These skills provide honors course for Honors Program credit. the foundation for a variety of professions and World History Concentration careers: law, journalism, business, foreign service, Moreau Honors students must have a 3.50 education, museums and public history. • 5 courses 200 level or above in World History* cumulative grade-point-average (GPA) and • 3 courses 200 level or above in United States, a 3.40 in Honors courses to graduate with History, B.A. and European History a Moreau Honors Program designation. (Major must take at least one course in each) The Honors grade-point-average (GPA) is The History major consists of twelve courses in • 1 free elective history course 200-level determined using only the four highest one of the following concentrations: United States grades earned in Honors courses (the History; European History; or World History. As or above in any concentration lowest grade is dropped) and the grade part of this primary concentration all History • HIS 320 - Historical Methods and Materials of the Senior Honors Experience. majors must complete HIS 320 - Historical • HIS 411 - Senior Research Seminar Methods and Materials, which focuses on the • HIS 415 - Senior History Thesis Honors course cannot be taken Pass/Fail. development of research skills, historical analysis, Note: and historiography. Students are required to take * Students with no previous college-level this course during their junior year since it is credit in World History are recommended, Interdisciplinary a pre-requisite for the Senior History Thesis. but not required to take HIS 271 - World All History majors write an in-depth Senior History I and HIS 272 - World History II. Studies History Thesis, HIS 415, in the Fall or Spring Semester of their senior year. This thesis builds History Minor Peter Ubertaccio, Program Coordinator upon background knowledge and skills acquired Interdisciplinary Studies is an in previous classes, especially Historical Methods The history minor consists of seven courses: individually designed major. and Materials, where students design an in-depth • 2 courses 200-level or above The Interdisciplinary Studies program is an research proposal for their intended thesis. in United States History alternative for students who seek to accomplish History majors may only transfer in a maximum • 2 courses 200-level or above intellectual goals outside of a conventional major.

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The student must prepare a program proposal with • IRS 203 - Modern Ireland: 1845-1998 For further information on career paths consult substantial intellectual content. The program of • IRS 204 - Contemporary Ireland: 1922-2002 our web site at: www.stonehill.edu/math. study, to be formulated with faculty advisors one of • HIS 205 - Irish-American Experience whom will be designated as principal advisor, must • HIS 214 - Ireland: From Colony to Nation State Mathematics, B.A. reflect the objectives of a liberal arts education. • POL 354 - Irish Politics The B.A. in mathematics is intended The student must also confer with the Program • POL 475 - Internship in Government Coordinator. Proposals to create a Interdisciplinary for students planning a career in • POL 490 - Directed Study Studies major must be approved prior to a elementary or secondary education. student’s enrollment in the final ten courses of their Stonehill degree (i.e., prior to the senior Italian Studies Freshmen and year). If a student is adding a Interdisciplinary Sophomore Years: Studies major as a second major, an exception Daria Valentini, Program Director may be allowed to this requirement that the • MTH 125 - Calculus I proposal be approved before the senior year. A minor in Italian Studies is offered by the • MTH 126 - Calculus II Department of Foreign Languages. Please The program proposal includes a statement • MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics refer to the Department of Foreign Languages • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra describing educational goals sought, and the section for information on this minor. sequence of courses that would enable the • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus student to achieve these goals. The course • MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics content must be focused upon a specific • CSC 103 - Computer Science I theme, and must include a significant number Journalism • PHY 121 - Physics I of courses beyond the introductory level as Maureen Boyle, Program Director • PHY 122 - Physics II well as a senior Capstone Experience. The Department of Communication Interdisciplinary Studies programs must offers a minor in Journalism. Junior and Senior Years: be approved by the designated faculty • MTH 351 - Abstract Algebra I advisors and the Program Coordinator. Please refer to the Department of Communication section for information on this minor. • MTH 361 - Real Analysis I Interdisciplinary Studies- • MTH 363 - Modern Geometry Health Sciences Mathematics Three additional courses from: • MTH 352 - Abstract Algebra II Students interested in any of the Allied Health Faculty: professional careers such as Physician Assistant, • MTH 362 - Real Analysis II Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physical Ralph Bravaco, Chairperson • MTH 364 - Differential Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Pharmacy, Associate Professor: Equations and Dynamics Exercise Physiology, etc., may choose the C. Curley • MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory option of creating their own major. This may N. Esty • MTH 377 - Number Theory be accomplished by a number of meetings with • MTH 384 - Theory of Computation Professor Sheila Barry of the Biology Department. Assistant Professors: • MTH 393 - Numerical Analysis Details such as Stonehill College requirements, E. Quinn • MTH 395 - Probability graduate school prerequisites, related interests, H. Su • MTH 396 - Statistics internship in the prospective field, etc. are H. Todt • MTH 399 - Topics in Mathematics worked out in a four year plan in an order that T. Woodcock • MTH 490 - Directed Study 1 incorporates the student’s future aspirations. 1 The department of Mathematics offers a major • MTH 496 - Independent Research B.S., and B.A., and minor in Mathematics. The • MTH 497 - Senior Thesis Irish Studies department offers courses in support of other Note: programs and departments, including: Education, 1 With permission of Department Chair Richard Finnegan, Program Director Business Administration and the sciences, and in support of the College’s General Education, areas Students who pursue the B.A. in A minor in Irish Studies is offered. of Scientific Inquiry, and Statistical Reasoning. Mathematics will fulfill their senior Capstone requirement by successful completion The teaching mission of the department is of the student teaching practicum. Irish Studies Minor to introduce students to the central ideas, Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary field of methods and achievements of mathematics Mathematics, B.S. concentration intended to provide a basic knowledge and to develop such general intellectual of the people and culture of Ireland. The program skills as rigorous reasoning, problem seeks to develop intercultural understanding solving and persuasive expression. The Freshmen and within our culturally pluralistic society. mathematic major prepares students to: Sophomore Years: Students choosing the Irish Studies minor are • Pursue graduate studies or work in • MTH 125 - Calculus I urged to consult the faculty advisor for guidance mathematics and related areas; • MTH 126 - Calculus II in the selection of courses. Students who • Use their skills in business, • MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics study in Ireland can apply their Irish Studies education, service professions and in • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra courses toward the minor, with the approval of technology-based industries; and • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus the Program Director. Students who intern in • MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics Ireland can apply 3 credits toward the minor. • Engage in life-long learning and growing. • CSC 103 - Computer Science I At Stonehill, mathematics students work Choose six courses from the following: • PHY 121 - Physics I with faculty dedicated to the development • PHY 122 - Physics II • ENG 349 - Topics in Irish Literature of mathematics and to the learning and • ENG 357 - English and Irish Drama appreciation of the nature and application of • IRS 200 - Christian Ireland, 431-1169 mathematics. Beyond the campus, mathematics • IRS 201 - Medieval Ireland, 1169-1603 students can enrich their experience with • IRS 202 - Pre-Famine Ireland, 1603-1845 internships, study abroad or service learning.

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Junior and Senior years: Students may take up to two courses of language college courses of particular interest and value to study, either through directed study with faculty, military service; and military science courses. Three courses from: when available, or by courses taken elsewhere. Appropriate languages include: Arabic, Hebrew, The objectives of the ROTC curriculum include • MTH 351 - Abstract Algebra I Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish. Other courses may providing students with an understanding of • MTH 352 - Abstract Algebra II be substituted with approval of Program Director. the nature and operation of the U.S. Army, • MTH 361 - Real Analysis I developing leadership and managerial potential, • MTH 362 - Real Analysis II Middle East and developing students’ abilities to think creatively and to speak and write effectively. Three additional courses from: • ARB 131 - Elementary Arabic I Essential to an officer’s education are the ability • ARB 132 - Elementary Arabic II to evaluate situations before making decisions; • MTH 352 - Abstract Algebra II • LC 269 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 333/ the ability to understand people and how to • MTH 362 - Real Analysis II BUS 336 Culture and Commerce lead; the fundamentals of self-discipline; the • MTH 363 - Modern Geometry • POL 356 - Politics of the Middle East standards of performance and appearance; • MTH 364 - Differential • REL 206 - Islamic Traditions the ability to recognize these standards in Equations and Dynamics • REL 209 - Religion and Culture others; and, above all, a strong sense of • MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory of the Jewish People personal integrity, honor, and responsibility. • MTH 377 - Number Theory • REL 275 - Hard Rockin’ Jews: Judaism While unified by the subject matter of leadership • MTH 384 - Theory of Computation and Pop Culture in Israel and management, the curriculum cuts across • MTH 393 - Numerical Analysis • REL 301 - Islam and the Bible: Jewish conventional boundaries, encouraging • MTH 395 - Probability and Muslim Morality and Ethics students to relate their learning from various • MTH 396 - Statistics • REL 312 - Archaeology and the Bible disciplines and to apply it to reflective • MTH 399 - Topics in Mathematics • REL 313 - Jerusalem: The Holy City thinking, goal setting, and problem solving. 1 • MTH 490 - Directed Study • REL 317 - Gods, Kings and Justice 1 • MTH 496 - Independent Research in the Ancient World Enrollment Note: • REL 336 - Women in the Islamic Tradition The program is open to full-time students Students fulfill the Capstone requirement with • REL 338 - Sex and God: Jewish and of the College. The Military Science courses either MTH 420 - Senior Capstone: Mathematical Muslim Erotic Love Poetry Modeling or MTH 497 - Senior Thesis are required of those students enrolled in • REL 345 - Biblical Hebrew the ROTC program, but may be taken as 1 With permission of Department Chair electives by any student of the College. General The program consists of the Basic Course and the Mathematics Minor • BUS 336 - International Business • COM 315 - Intercultural Communication Advanced Course. Students may enter the program through the first semester of their junior year. Required Courses: • ECO 219 - History of World Economic Development A two-year program is designed for junior • MTH 125 - Calculus I • ECO 311 - International Economics year and transfer students. Entry should be • MTH 126 - Calculus II • ECO 343 - International Finance requested by April 1 prior to the junior year. • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra • ENG 395 - Introduction to Postcolonial During the summer between their sophomore • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Literature and Culture and junior years, students complete a five- • MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics • HIS 272 - World History II week paid summer camp program that qualifies them for the Advanced Course. Additional Requirements: • HIS 353 - A World at War • POL 134 - Comparing States Plus three 300-400 level mathematics courses. Advanced placement may be awarded • POL 143 - International Politics Elective courses should be selected in for prior military service. Those students consultation with a member of the Mathematics • POL 249 - Contemporary Global Conflict currently serving in any branch of the faculty. Mathematics minors should fulfill • POL 273 - Politics of Developing Nations military reserves are encouraged to join. their Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement • POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues by taking MTH 191 - The Language of • POL 353 - International Organizations Basic Course Mathematics, in their first or second year. and State Building The Basic Course is normally taken by first • POL 377 - International Political Economy and sophomore-year students. It introduces • SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization basic subjects such as the history of the U.S. Middle Eastern • SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology Army, organizational structure of the Army, • SOC 233 - Language and Culture techniques and principles of leadership Studies • VPM 184 - History of Music II: and management, and map reading. Non-Western Traditions Shari Lowin, Program Director • VPM 237 - Musical Instruments of the World Advanced Course A minor in Middle Eastern Studies is offered. Note: The Advanced Course is taken by juniors and Students may petition the Program Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary seniors. Students in the Advanced Course must Director for credit approval for relevant Minor intended to provide students with a sign a contract with the Army, pass a qualifying courses not included on these lists. basic knowledge of the people and cultures medical examination and physical fitness test, of the Middle East. The program furnishes and have at least a 2.0 grade-point average. a background for subsequent specialized study in the fields of Middle Eastern politics, Military Science Studies concentrate on basic tactical history, religions, languages, and cultures. operations, military teaching principles, LTC Jennifer Bower, Program Director and advanced techniques of leadership, Middle Eastern Studies Minor CPT. Rafael Albornoz, Program Officer management, and command. U.S. Army ROTC offers a program designed to Students must take six courses selected train future junior officers for leadership with Academic Credit from the following list, with at least four instruction that complements a baccalaureate courses from the Middle East grouping. Stonehill College grants up to 12 academic degree. The program consists of three parts: These four must be above the 100 level. credits for Military Science courses. The credits earning an academic degree in a recognized field;

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 32 academic LIfe are granted as follows: one credit each for MIL equivalent to that received by students in the Curriculum 101, MIL 102, MIL 201, and MIL 202; two credits Basic Course. Satisfactory completion is necessary each for MIL 301, MIL 302, MIL 401, and MIL 402. for entering the Advanced Course; however, Students must complete a set of core courses and four Military Science courses are graded “A” to “F,” but there is no obligation to enter the program electives, one from each of the clusters listed below. grades are not included in the student’s grade-point after the Leaders Training course. Students who To provide a strong background in Neuroscience, average. Individual Military Science credits can attend the Leaders Training course are paid. students take two semesters of foundational be accumulated to equate to three-credit courses. courses in Biology and Chemistry. This prepares Consequently, students may earn a maximum of 4 Leader Development and Assessment course students for upper level electives which incorporate three-credit courses towards graduation in this way. is a five-week training period at Fort Lewis, knowledge from each of these areas. Early in their Washington. This camp is mandatory for college education students take PSY 415 - Brain *NOTE: Students are not allowed to elect all cadets in the Advanced Course and and Behavior which serves as the introduction to part-time status during the junior or senior is normally attended during the summer the senior year Capstone, BIO 412 - Neuroscience. years as a result of the extra credits granted between the junior and senior years. Specific suggestions are made for those who are for the Military Science program. pre-med or planning on applying to graduate school. The course requirements for the Neuroscience major Financial Assistance Neuroscience are taken in addition to the courses required in Financial assistance for cadets takes various Faculty: the Cornerstone Program. These courses provide a forms. Juniors receive $450 and seniors John McCoy, Program Director liberal arts education with several unique features. receive $500 monthly tax-free subsistence The Learning Community, which ties together two allowance for Advanced Course cadets, Associate Professor: courses and an integrative seminar, is taken during and an allowance for summer camp(s). S. Ramos-Goyette the sophomore year. For those students planning on applying to medical school, the Organic The Departments of Psychology and Biology offer Chemistry of the Cell Learning Community (LC Four-Year Scholarships a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. 209, BIO 211 and CHM 222) is recommended. The The program provides financial assistance to Neuroscience is an interdepartmental major that Capstone required of all Neuroscience majors is highly qualified and motivated high school provides an integrated and in-depth foundation BIO 412 - Neuroscience. The final project in this seniors considering military service as army for understanding the complex functions of class asks students to place an emerging issue officers. Scholarships are valued at the amount the brain. Recent advances in physiology, in neuroscience within a liberal arts context. of full tuition and academic fees per year. cell and molecular biology, biochemistry and imaging technology have greatly increased our Core courses: Additionally, scholarship winners will receive a understanding of brain function. Over the past flat rate of $1,200 per year for books and up to • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I decade, there has been increased interest in the a $500 monthly tax-free subsistence allowance. • BIO 101 - Biological Principles I relationship between behavior and the functioning • BIO 102 - Biological Principles II Applications for two, three or four-year of the nervous and endocrine systems along • BIO 211 - Cell Biology scholarships may be made during the high with a renewed interest in the effects of the • BIO 412 - Neuroscience school years. The deadline for early application environment on brain function and plasticity. • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I is January 10th of their junior year. The deadline Given this combination of events, now is an for application is January 10th of the senior year. exciting time to become involved in neuroscience. • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I • CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II Requests for application packets may be sent • PSY 101 - General Psychology to: U.S. Army ROTC Scholarship, Fort Monroe, Mission of the Program • PSY 261 - Introduction to Statistics Virginia 23651. Packets are also available in The mission of the Neuroscience Program is • PSY 271 - Research Methods in Psychology the Military Science Department at Stonehill to prepare students to actively engage in and • PSY 415 - Brain and Behavior College. Contact the Stonehill ROTC Office at contribute to the process, understanding and 508-230-5014 or online at www.armyrotc.com. application of neuroscience. Neuroscience Students must take one course is an interdepartmental major that provides from each cluster below. Advanced Designee an integrated and in-depth foundation for ROTC Scholarships understanding the complex functions of the Cluster 1: nervous system and in particular, the brain. The • BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology Non-ROTC Scholarship Years: Advanced Neuroscience major is appropriate for students • BCH 343 - Biochemistry I designees receive no special treatment for the interested in medical school, graduate school and • BIO 406 - Ethology year(s) in which they do not receive ROTC careers in research or in allied health fields. • BIO 409 - Immunology funding. Students should file a complete Financial Aid Application to receive consideration Neuroscience, B.S. Cluster 2: for aid available from other sources. • BIO 324 - Endocrinology • BIO 212 - Genetics Three- and Two-Year Scholarships are awarded Major • BIO 323 - Evolution to outstanding college students who are either The Neuroscience major at Stonehill provides already enrolled or planning to enroll in the U.S. Cluster 3: a strong education in the fundamentals of Army ROTC Program. Interested first-year and neuroscience at the same time that it allows • PSY 305 - Theories of Learning sophomore students may apply to the Assistant students to emphasize either the psychological or • PSY 343 - Research in Biopsychology Professor of Military Science, Stonehill College. the biological aspects of the field. Students who • PSY 419 - Cognitive Psychology These scholarships provide the same financial have focused on the psychological aspects are • PSY 450 - Advanced Psychology Seminar assistance from the Army as the four-year award. prepared for graduate work in psychology and • PSY 451 - Applying Psychological Principles careers in clinical psychology, counseling, and Cluster 4: Summer Camps behavioral research. Students with a focus on the biological side of neuroscience are prepared for • PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I The Leaders Training course is mandatory for • PSY 203 - Developmental Psychology II students without U.S. Army ROTC experience a variety of careers in medicine, pharmacology, • PSY 207 - Abnormal Psychology wishing to enroll in the two-year program biomedical research, and the allied health fields. (unless the student has sufficient prior military • PSY 209 - Social Psychology experience). Conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, • PSY 351 - Child Psychopathology this five-week training period provides instruction and Its Treatment • PSY 413 - Experimental Psychology

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Additional Requirements: Philosophy, B.A. It is strongly recommended that all students Physics and take two semesters of English. Major Astronomy In addition, students who plan to apply to The major in Philosophy requires ten Faculty: medical school or to a graduate program with courses beyond the General Education Michael A. Horne, Chairperson a heavy biology focus should plan to take two requirement, GENP 100 or GENP 140. semesters of Physics (PHY 121, PHY 122), two semesters of Calculus and an additional two One PHL Moral Inquiry course selected from Professors: semesters of Chemistry (CHM 222 and CHM 232). PHL 220 - PHL 239 (PHL 221 , PHL 222 , PHL A. Goddu 223 , PHL 234 , PHL 235 , or PHL 236) is also M. Horne required though one and only such course will Associate Professor: Philosophy count towards the 10 courses for the major. A. Massarotti Faculty: Four historical courses, one from Assistant Professor: Richard Capobianco, Chairperson each of the following areas: M. Gunawardena 1. Ancient Philosophy Professors: Faculty Fellow: R. Capobianco 2. Medieval Philosophy D. Simon A. Celano 3. Modern Philosophy Professor Emeritus: 4. Later Modern and Contemporary Philosophy Associate Professors: C. Raymo A. Lännström • One course in PHL 241 - Elementary Logic • Two Thematic courses The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers E. McGushin a B.S. in Physics, with an optional Astronomy • Two electives that can be any course concentration. The department also offers a Assistant Professors: at the level of 250 or higher C. Mekios B.A. in Physics with an optional Astronomy • PHL 421 - Senior Philosophy Colloquium concentration and minors in both Physics and B. O’Sullivan Courses in Each of the Core Areas Astronomy. The B.A. in Physics can also be J. Velazquez awarded as part of Stonehill’s Engineering 3+2 S. Wykstra Ancient Program with the University of Notre Dame. • PHL 341 - Plato Faculty Fellow: • PHL 342 - Aristotle Another important mission of the Department G. Anders of Physics and Astronomy is the dissemination The Department of Philosophy offers Medieval of science to students who major in other disciplines. We currently offer six courses a major and minor in Philosophy. • PHL 353 - Medieval Philosophy for the Cornerstone Program, covering topics The Department of Philosophy is committed to the • PHL 354 - Thomas Aquinas that range from the history of physics and ideals of a liberal education and understands the and His Contemporaries astronomy, to the foundations of quantum study of Philosophy as essential to such a noble physics and relativity, to the search for planets endeavor. The courses offered by the Department Modern around other stars and for life in the cosmos. allow its students to develop the logical and • PHL 361 - Descartes to Hume critical skills needed to read intelligently and • PHL 363 - Kant Physics, B.A. to think clearly, to learn how Philosophy • PHL 364 - Hegel, Marx, and Engels developed over the centuries, and to appreciate The B.A. in physics is designed for students who the contributions of the great philosophers to Later Modern and Contemporary wish either to pursue an interdisciplinary field or to teach at a primary or secondary level. The B.A. Western culture. The study of Philosophy reveals • PHL 371 - Existentialism the complexity of reality and the difficulty of the is also offered as part of the Stonehill’s Engineering • PHL 372 - Heidegger and His Influence problems to be faced in the search for truth. 3+2 Program with the University of Notre Dame. • PHL 374 - Recent British and Graduates with a major in Philosophy from American Analytic Philosophy A Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Physics (with either Stonehill have become college presidents and vice a Physics or an Astronomy concentration) presidents, academic deans, professors, judges, Thematic includes 9 courses offered by the Physics lawyers, priests, business persons, and authors. • PHL 251 - Political Philosophy department. All students in the major must take the following courses in Math and Science: Some have become directors of personnel, others • PHL 263 - Philosophy of Economics political and social analysts; still others have • PHL 283 - Aesthetics entered government service and politics. Liberally • PHL 305 - Hermeneutics First year: educated persons are ready to move in many • PHL 306 - Philosophy and the Unconscious directions. But more than preparing students Fall semester: for a career, a major in Philosophy prepares • PHL 307 - Philosophy of Religion • MTH 125 - Calculus I them for life and a lifelong pursuit of wisdom. • PHL 318 - Problems in Social and Political Philosophy • PHY 121 - Physics I Advisement • PHL 331 - Metaphysics • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • PHL 332 - Philosophy of Knowledge The selection and sequence of courses for both Spring semester: the major and the minor should be taken in Philosophy Minor • MTH 126 - Calculus II consultation with the Chairperson or advisor. • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Five courses beyond the General Education (Astronomy concentration) PHL 421 - Senior Philosophy Colloquium Philosophy requirement (GENP 100 or GENP • PHY 122 - Physics II involves writing an independent thesis with 140 ) constitute a minor in Philosophy. guidance from two members of the department. The student should approach prospective Note: Sophomore year: advisors at the end of the junior year or If a minor decides to take the moral Inquiry the very beginning of the senior year. course from the Philosophy Department, Fall semester: one and only one course will count • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science (not required toward the five courses for a minor. of double majors in Physics and Chemistry)

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• MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Spring semester: at the secondary level, or for elementary • PHY 221 - Physics III • MTH 126 - Calculus II education students with an interest in science. • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I A minor in Astronomy is also useful for Spring semester: Business or Economics majors who will seek (Astronomy concentration) employment in science-related businesses. The • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra • PHY 122 - Physics II • CHM 232 - General Chemistry minor in Astronomy consists of six courses: II (Physics concentration) Sophomore year: • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH First year and Sophomore years: 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves Fall semester: • PHY 121 - Physics I Plus one or two of the following • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science • PHY 122 - Physics II sophomore year when offered: • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus • PHY 221 - Physics III • PHY 221 - Physics III • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism Spring semester: • PHY 325 - Electronics (Physics • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra concentration) OR Additional Information: • CHM 232 - General Chemistry • PHY 322 - Astrophysics and Cosmology The two remaining courses are to be II (Physics concentration) (Astronomy concentration) chosen from the junior-senior astronomy • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH courses, exclusive of the General Education Junior and Senior years: 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves courses. MTH 393 - Numerical Analysis and CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I may be Plus two of the following substituted for one of these two courses. ASTRONOMY CONCENTRATION: sophomore year when offered: • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics Physics Minor (if not completed earlier) • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism • PHY 322 - Astrophysics and Cosmology • PHY 325 - Electronics (Physics A minor program in Physics is an excellent (if not completed earlier) concentration) OR complement to programs in Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Life Sciences, • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism (if • PHY 322 - Astrophysics and Cosmology especially for students planning on teaching not completed earlier) (Astronomy concentration) • PHY 401 - Great Experiments at the secondary level, or for elementary education students with an interest in in Modern Physics I Junior and Senior years: science. A minor in Physics is also useful for • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math Business or Economics majors who will seek Methods in Physics) OR ASTRONOMY CONCENTRATION: employment in science-related businesses. The • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics minor in Physics consists of six courses: Dynamics (whichever is offered) (if not completed earlier) • PHY 404 - Topics in Astronomy (capstone) • PHY 321 - Statistical Physics First year and Sophomore years: PHYSICS CONCENTRATION: • PHY 322 - Astrophysics and Cosmology (if not completed earlier) • PHY 121 - Physics I • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics • PHY 323 - Quantum Physics • PHY 122 - Physics II (if not completed earlier) • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism (if • PHY 221 - Physics III • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism (if not completed earlier) • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH not completed earlier) • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves • PHY 325 - Electronics (if not completed earlier) Methods in Physics) OR • PHY 401 - Great Experiments • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and Additional Information: in Modern Physics I Dynamics (whichever is offered) • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math The two remaining courses are to be chosen from • PHY 404 - Topics in Astronomy (capstone) Methods in Physics) OR the junior-senior physics courses, exclusive of the • PHY 496 - Independent Research General Education courses. MTH 393 - Numerical • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and Analysis and CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I may Dynamics (whichever is offered) PHYSICS CONCENTRATION: be substituted for one of these two courses. • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (capstone) • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics (if not completed earlier) Physics Department Requirements for Physics, B.S. • PHY 321 - Statistical Physics the 3+2 Engineering Program with The B.S. in physics is designed for students who • PHY 323 - Quantum Physics the University of Notre Dame are interested in pursuing a graduate school • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism (if The Engineering Program Stonehill College offers degree in either physics or astronomy, and those not completed earlier) in collaboration with Notre Dame University is students who seek immediate employment in • PHY 325 - Electronics (if not completed earlier) described on The Curriculum of the HillBook. Here teaching, private industry or government jobs • PHY 401 - Great Experiments we list the Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science that require an advanced knowledge of physics. in Modern Physics I and Math courses required by our department prior to the transfer to Notre Dame University at the end A Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics (with an • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math of the junior year. Successfully completing these optional Astronomy concentration) includes 11 courses Methods in Physics) OR courses and finishing the studies at Notre Dame offered by the department. All students in the major • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and lead to a B.A. in Physics from Stonehill College must take the following courses in Math and Science: Dynamics (whichever is offered) and a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame. • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (capstone) First year: Astronomy Minor Fall semester: A minor program in Astronomy is an excellent • MTH 125 - Calculus I complement to programs in Mathematics, • PHY 121 - Physics I Chemistry, Computer Science, or Life Sciences, • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I especially for students planning on teaching

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Physics, B.A./Aerospace Spring semester: Sophomore or Junior • CSC 104 - Computer Science II year (all students): Engineering, B.S. • MTH 126 - Calculus II Dual Degree • PHY 122 - Physics II • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR All engineering students take Sophomore year: • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I the following courses: • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra First year: Fall semester: • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Methods in Physics) OR Fall semester: • PHY 221 - Physics III • MTH 364 - Differential Equations and Dynamics • CSC 103 - Computer Science I Spring semester: • MTH 125 - Calculus I • PHY 121 - Physics I • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH Additional courses in the 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves Sophomore or Junior year: Spring semester: • CSC 104 - Computer Science II Sophomore or Junior Electrical Engineering • MTH 126 - Calculus II year (all students): • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science • PHY 122 - Physics II • CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • PHY 324 - Electromagnetism Sophomore year: • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR • PHY 325 - Electronics • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Fall semester: • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra Physics, B.A./ • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Methods in Physics) OR Mechanical • PHY 221 - Physics III • MTH 364 - Differential Engineering, B.S. Spring semester: Equations and Dynamics Dual Degree • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH All engineering students take 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves Additional courses in the Sophomore or Junior year: the following courses: Sophomore or Junior First year: year (all students): Civil Engineering • MTH 225 - Statistics for Science Fall semester: • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Statics) • CSC 103 - Computer Science I • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics • MTH 125 - Calculus I • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I (Mechanics of Solids) • PHY 121 - Physics I • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math Physics, B.A./Electrical Spring semester: Methods in Physics) OR • CSC 104 - Computer Science II • MTH 364 - Differential Engineering, B.S. • MTH 126 - Calculus II Equations and Dynamics Dual Degree • PHY 122 - Physics II Additional courses in the All engineering students take the following courses: Sophomore year: Sophomore or Junior year: First year: Fall semester: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus Fall semester: • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics • PHY 221 - Physics III • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Statics) • CSC 103 - Computer Science I • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics • MTH 125 - Calculus I Spring semester: (Mechanics of Solids) • PHY 121 - Physics I • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH • PHY 321 - Statistical Physics (usually 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves taken in the junior year) Spring semester: • CSC 104 - Computer Science II Sophomore or Junior • MTH 126 - Calculus II Physics, B.A./Civil year (all students): Engineering, B.S. • PHY 122 - Physics II • CHM 113 - General Chemistry I Dual Degree Sophomore year: • CHM 232 - General Chemistry II OR All engineering students take • CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I Fall semester: the following courses: • MTH 251 - Linear Algebra • MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Math First year: • PHY 221 - Physics III Methods in Physics) OR • MTH 364 - Differential Fall semester: Spring semester: Equations and Dynamics • CSC 103 - Computer Science I • LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH • MTH 125 - Calculus I 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves • PHY 121 - Physics I

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Additional courses in the • POL 310 - Political Science Research Methods • POL 331 - War Sophomore or Junior year: • POL 475 - Internship in Government • POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues • POL 422 - Capstone Seminar Mastery of a Foreign Language at the level of advanced is also required. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Government and Politics • PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics Student must participate in a • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Statics) Concentration study abroad program. • PHY 403 - Topics in Physics (Mechanics of Solids) American Government and Politics Four additional courses at • PHY 321 - Statistical Physics (usually Students must take two courses from this area: the 200 level or above taken in the junior year) • POL 203 - Religion, Politics, and the Law Students must take four additional courses • POL 233 - Law, Politics, and Society at the 200 level or above drawn from a list • POL 247 - Elections in America of courses from across the curriculum. Political Science • POL 255 - Environmental Policy and Politics & International • POL 332 - The American Presidency Political Science Minor • POL 336 - Constitutional Law and Politics A minor in Political Science consists of six Studies • POL 337 - Public Administration courses offered by the Department, including • POL 341 - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties POL 123, POL 134, POL 171, and any three Faculty: • POL 343 - Public Opinion & Voting Behavior courses from those listed above. The fifteen Peter Ubertaccio, Chairperson • POL 345 - Inequity, Poverty, and credits given for the Washington Internships do American Democracy not count toward the Minor in Political Science. Professor: • POL 351 - Public Policy Analysis R. Finnegan • POL 357 - Topics in Politics Associate Professors: • POL 360 - The United States Congress Psychology J. Millikan • POL 390 - Politics in Washington, D.C. P. Ubertaccio Faculty: Political Theory Michael E. Tirrell, Chairperson Assistant Professors: Students must take one course from this area: K. Buckman Professors: W. Ewell • POL 222 - Political Ideologies J. Hurley A. Ohanyan • POL 235 - American Political Thought B. Klentz R. Rogers • POL 265 - Men, Women, and Justice J. Nash B. Scholz • POL 333 - Contemporary Political Theory R. Perkins • POL 380 - Dirty Hands: Moral The Department of Political Science Associate Professors: Dilemmas (Moral Inquiry) and International Studies offers a major L. Craton J. McCoy with concentrations in Government and Comparative Government Politics or International Relations, as well E. O’Hea as a and minor in the discipline. Students must take one course from this area: C. Poirier The mission of the major program in Political • POL 273 - Politics of Developing Nations M. Tirrell Science and International Studies is to offer • POL 285 - Modern Europe: Divided and United The Department of Psychology offers students a broadly based core curriculum through • POL 340 - European Politics a major and minor in Psychology. which knowledge of the principles and practices • POL 347 - Ethnicity and Conflict Management of political life, democratic citizenship, and • POL 354 - Irish Politics The Psychology Department seeks to establish political activity are acquired. The major provides in students a strong foundation in the discipline. a foundation for graduate work and for careers in International Relations Emphasis is placed on examining and experiencing the research that has contributed to the current law, government service, elective office, journalism, Students must take one course from this area: international affairs, education, and related fields. understanding of human behavior, mental • POL 143 - International Politics processes, and emotional experience. In addition • POL 245 - American Foreign Policy to learning basic principles in the core courses, Political Science • POL 249 - Contemporary Global Conflict Psychology students become fully involved & International • POL 331 - War in the science by designing and conducting research, analyzing data, and presenting findings. • POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues Studies, B.A. Furthermore, students are given the opportunity • POL 353 - International Organizations to pursue individual interests through elective Major: and State Building courses. Together, the core courses and the • POL 377 - International Political Economy A major in Political Science and International electives prepare students for graduate work Studies consists of a minimum of thirteen and for a variety of career paths. Finally, the Two additional courses at department promotes student application of courses, which include six core courses the 200 level or above plus seven additional courses taken as part psychological principles for personal enrichment of a concentration in either Government Plus two additional Political Science and for meaningful community service. and Politics or International Relations. courses at the 200 level or above. The Curriculum Students must take the following International Relations three pre-requisite courses: The Psychology curriculum begins with PSY 101 Concentration - General Psychology, a course that introduces • POL 123 - American Government and Politics students to the various areas within the field. • POL 143 - International Politics Three Required Courses: General Psychology exposes students to the • POL 171 - Power, Order, and Justice Students must take the following terminology, theories and methods that are part of Students must also take the following three required courses: psychology today. PSY 101 is a prerequisite for all other courses in the Department except PSY 261. additional course requirements: • POL 245 - American Foreign Policy

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After the completion of General Psychology, • PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I OR • POL 123 - American Government and Politics students are able to enroll in all 200 level courses • PSY 203 - Developmental Psychology II • SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology and most 300 level courses. It is recommended • PSY 205 - Theories of Personality OR that 200 level courses be taken before 300 level • PSY 209 - Social Psychology Junior and Senior year courses, though that is not a requirement. The • PSY 305 - Theories of Learning OR requirements are as follows: 400 level courses are geared for students who • PSY 415 - Brain and Behavior • BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior have a solid background in the field and are • and an elective within the Department. • ECO 205 - Economics of Social usually taken during the Junior and Senior years. Note: Issues and Public Policy It is generally recommended that PSY 261 - Any student who elects a minor in Psychology • ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics Introduction to Statistics and PSY 271 - Research should note that all required courses may • POL 337 - Public Administration Methods in Psychology be completed by the not be offered each semester. Accordingly, • POL 351 - Public Policy Analysis end of the first semester of the Junior year. it is recommended by the Department that • POL 360 - The United States Congress It is also advisable to, if possible, take PSY all students carefully plan their sequence of and one of the following two courses: 261 and PSY 271 in consecutive semesters. courses with a Department member so as to ensure that they complete all requirements. • SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization Psychology, B.A. Additional Requirement: Two additional courses, selected in Major Public consultation with the Program Director, must Students, in consultation with their psychology be taken to fulfill major requirements. faculty advisors, will design their own sequence. Administration Examples of sequences students can design include Peter Ubertaccio, Interim Public Administration Minor school psychology sequence, clinical psychology Program Director sequence, industrial-organizational psychology A minor in Public Administration sequence, graduate school experimental The program in Public Administration consists of the following six courses: psychology sequence, Masters level counseling offers a major and minor. psychology sequence, etc. The students’ choices • BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior Public Administration is an interdisciplinary should be guided by their present and future goals. • ECO 205 - Economics of Social program designed to provide students with Issues and Public Policy All students are required to take at least 11 an understanding of the development and • ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics implementation of public policy in America. The Psychology courses. These must include: • POL 123 - American Government and Politics program focuses on the theories, practices and • POL 337 - Public Administration • PSY 101 - General Psychology roles of public bureaucracies at the national, state, • PSY 261 - Introduction to Statistics and local levels. The major provides a foundation • POL 360 - The United States Congress • PSY 271 - Research Methods in Psychology for graduate work and careers in public affairs, Plus one of the following Capstones: government service, law, and related fields. Religious Studies The program is structured to cover five subject • PSY 450 - Advanced Psychology Seminar OR matter areas: (a) the political, social, and economic Faculty: • PSY 451 - Applying Psychological Principles environment of public organizations; (b) policy Christopher Ives, Chairperson All students are also required to take analysis; (c) processes of management; (d) five of the following eight courses: tools of analysis; and (e) individual, group, and Professors: organizational behavior. Public Administration P. Beisheim • PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I OR majors also participate in the Political Science T. Clarke • PSY 203 - Developmental Psychology II academic internship program, which allows a J. Favazza • PSY 205 - Theories of Personality student to serve in a government office at least R. Gribble, C.S.C. • PSY 207 - Abnormal Psychology eight hours a week throughout a semester. The C. Ives • PSY 209 - Social Psychology internship provides the student the opportunity J. Lanci • PSY 305 - Theories of Learning to observe and participate in the operation of G. Shaw • PSY 415 - Brain and Behavior a government agency. Through the College’s • PSY 419 - Cognitive Psychology affiliation with the Washington Center, highly Associate Professors: qualified majors may spend a semester working in P. DaPonte All students must also take a minimum of two a government organization in the nation’s capital. M. J. Leith additional Psychology elective courses. Ordinarily, an internship in a government office S. Lowin Note: serves as the senior Capstone Experience; Assistant Professor: Only one Internship may be included as part students unable to complete an internship of the courses needed to fulfill the major. N. DesRosiers must make other arrangements with the S. Wilbricht The student’s choices should be guided Program Director to complete the major. by their present and future goals. The Department of Religious Studies offers Public Administration, a major and minor in Religious Studies. Psychology Minor B.A. The Department of Religious Studies focuses on the religious beliefs and practices of communities and A minor in Psychology consists of six courses Major individuals throughout history and in the present. It and introduces the student to the various introduces students to religious traditions worldwide, methods and theories that psychologists utilize In the First and Sophomore years, and to the ways in which those traditions have been in investigating behavior and mental processes. studied. In a liberal arts setting, Religious Studies Public Administration majors must is an integrative discipline, embracing virtually all Students who are interested in take the following courses: aspects of human experience, as expressed in history, obtaining a minor in Psychology • BUS 203 - Financial Accounting art, literature, social organization, politics, scientific must take the following courses: • BUS 204 - Managerial Accounting exploration, and ethics. In the Catholic tradition of • PSY 101 - General Psychology • ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles the quest for greater understanding, the Department • PSY 207 - Abnormal Psychology • ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles of Religious Studies helps students develop critical appreciation of their own traditions and those of others.

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In the General Education curriculum, the • REL 304 - Job and the Problem of Suffering and Muslim Morality and Ethics Department introduces students to the study of • REL 312 - Archaeology and the Bible • REL 307 - Buddhist Ethics religion through the required first-year course. • REL 313 - Jerusalem: The Holy City • REL 313 - Jerusalem: The Holy City Students may also explore specific topics in • REL 315 - Dreams and the Sacred • REL 314 - Mysticism: The the study of religion in a variety of Learning • REL 317 - Gods, Kings and Justice Experience of Transcendence Communities and Moral Inquiry courses. in the Ancient World • REL 315 - Dreams and the Sacred Majors and minors in Religious Studies are able • REL 490 - Directed Study • REL 316 - Neoplatonism to explore with rigor compelling mysteries, • REL 323 - Gods and War: Religion, Ideology, powerful intellectual and social constructs, and the Christian History, Theology, and Practice and Nationalism in Japan and the United States heights of holiness that religious women and men • REL 200 - The Ten Commandments • REL 336 - Women in the Islamic Tradition have achieved. Because Religious Studies is an • REL 226 - The World of Paul • REL 338 - Sex and God: Jewish and integrative discipline, majors and minors have gone • REL 233 - American Catholic Social History Muslim Erotic Love Poetry on to pursue graduate study and careers in such • REL 234 - The Mystery of Evil • REL 347 - Topics in Religious fields as journalism, law, education, business, and • REL 235 - The God Question: Modern Approaches to Moral Issues healthcare, as well as in various forms of ministry. Challenges to Faith and Christian Responses • REL 490 - Directed Study • REL 236 - Faith in Christ and Electives Religious Pluralism Religious Studies Minor • REL 237 - Moral Conflicts: Case Students who have fulfilled their Religious Minors in Religious Studies must take six courses Studies in Moral Confrontation Studies General Education requirement (GENR beyond the first-year course. These courses must 100 or GENR 140) may take any other REL • REL 238 - Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees: include one course in each of the following areas: courses as electives, subject to availability. Justice Issues and Catholic Responses Biblical and Ancient Religions; Christian History, • REL 248 - Christian Prayer, Theology, and Practice; and World Religions. Religious Studies, B.A. Liturgy and Sacrament • REL 252 - Introduction to the New Testament Major • REL 253 - Models of the Church: Sociology and Historical Developments Students who major in Religious Studies must take • REL 254 - Global Catholicism Criminology a minimum of 10 courses in Religious Studies • REL 256 - Church and Social Justice beyond GENR 100 or GENR 140. As part of those • REL 261 - Women in Early Christian Tradition Faculty: 10 courses, students must take the following: • REL 262 - Religion in America Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Chairperson • One course in Biblical and Ancient Religions • REL 267 - Liberation Theology: Professors: Latin American Perspectives • One course in Christian History, K. Branco • REL 268 - Images of Jesus Theology, and Practice S. Guarino-Ghezzi • REL 300 - The Catholic Tradition: • One course in World Religions Past and Present Associate Professor: • REL 411 - Approaches to the Study • REL 303 - The Virgin Mary and Visions P. Leavy of Religious Traditions of the Feminine in Christianity Assistant Professors: • REL 304 - Job and the Problem of Suffering • REL 412 - Senior Thesis M. Boyd • REL 309 - Psychology and Religion K. Currul-Dykeman With the advice of a faculty mentor, majors will, • REL 311 - Ethics and Sacrament: A. Rocheleau within these parameters, select courses and a The Church in Crisis senior thesis topic that accord closely with the E. Tucker • REL 313 - Jerusalem: The Holy City C. Wetzel major’s specific interests in Religious Studies, such • REL 316 - Neoplatonism as ancient religions, biblical studies, religion in the • REL 325 - Theology and Community Service Instructors: modern world, religion and gender, or comparative • REL 327 - Vatican II: Revolution Or Reform P. Kelley religious ethics. As appropriate, with the approval of the Chairperson, students may take a course in • REL 328 - Death D. Walsh • REL 329 - Justice, Peace, Ecology other departments to fulfill major requirements. Professor Emeritus: • REL 333 - The American Catholic Experience J. Broderick All Religious Studies majors must pursue a major • REL 335 - Popular Religion Capstone research project, REL 412, normally • REL 340 - Jesus and Moral Decisions The Department of Sociology and in the spring semester of their senior year. This • REL 341 - Spiritual Autobiography Criminology offers majors and minors paper should demonstrate a working knowledge • REL 343 - Christian Theology as Ideology in Sociology and in Criminology. of academic approaches to the study of religions • REL 344 - Globalization: Catholic and focus on a topic selected by the student The Department offers a program in the liberal in consultation with a Religious Studies faculty Perspectives and Responses arts tradition to provide students with a deeper member with whom the student consults in • REL 346 - Christian Celebration: The Mass understanding of the social forces and dynamic tutorial meetings. REL 412 students must also • REL 476 - Internship in Campus Ministry changes affecting both contemporary society present their research at a colloquium. • REL 477 - Internship in Parish Ministry and personal lives. To this end, the Department • REL 478 - Internship in Catholic Ministry emphasizes an analysis of social and behavioral Biblical and Ancient Religions • REL 490 - Directed Study patterns that underlie communal life in the United States and globally. Dedicated to both • REL 200 - The Ten Commandments World Religions the social scientific as well as the humanistic • REL 251 - Introduction to the Old Testament traditions, faculty work with students to teach • REL 206 - Islamic Traditions • REL 252 - Introduction to the New Testament such important skills as systematic observation, • REL 209 - Religion and Culture • REL 255 - Religions in the Roman Empire critical thinking, statistical sophistication, and • REL 261 - Women in Early Christian Tradition of the Jewish People the variety of possible explanations for a better • REL 268 - Images of Jesus • REL 210 - Religions of China and Japan understanding of our world as well as of ourselves. • REL 301 - Islam and the Bible: Jewish • REL 275 - Hard Rockin’ Jews: Judaism The Sociology and Criminology majors also and Muslim Morality and Ethics and Pop Culture in Israel provide a foundation for careers in many fields, • REL 302 - Violence and Sex in the Bible • REL 301 - Islam and the Bible: Jewish such as social service and human resources,

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 39 academic LIfe criminal justice and the law, research in public Note: Sophomore or Junior Year and private agencies, and preparation for *Any one of CRM 303, CRM 304, CRM graduate work in sociology, criminology, law, 305, CRM 307, CRM 324 or CRM 333 may • SOC 210 - Survey of Research social work and related areas. To accomplish be used as an elective course if not used Methods for Sociology these goals, the Department offers three to satisfy the law requirement above. • SOC 311 - Statistical Analysis in Sociology concentrations in Sociology: (1) General Sociology (major or minor), (2) Youth and Three of the following elective courses, Junior or Senior Year Family Services, and (3) Social Research, as of which at least one, but preferably well as a major or minor in Criminology. two, must be a 400-level seminar: • SOC 305 - Sociological Theories • CRM 120 - Critical Introduction • SOC 312 - Qualitative Research Boston College Graduate School to Criminal Justice starting with Class of 2012 • SOC 475 - Internship in Applied Sociology Boston College’s Graduate School of Social Work • CRM 204 - Sociology of the Prison offers courses at Stonehill College’s Martin Institute • CRM 224 - Juvenile Delinquency Note: of Law and Society. Selected undergraduate • CRM 273 - Crime and Mental Illness Four Electives in the major chosen in students from Stonehill College may take these • CRM 318 - Federal Criminal Process consultation with Departmental Advisor. courses for graduate credit. Students with a • CRM 322 - Violent Crime and Federal Initiatives Please note: minimum 3.0 GPA and an interest in pursuing • CRM 335 - Spatial Crime Analysis 100-level courses, beyond SOC 101 , a Master’s degree in Social Work (M.S.W.) after • CRM 409 - Seminar: Deviance and Control do not count toward the major. graduation may apply to the Department of • CRM 410 - Seminar: Juvenile Justice Sociology and Criminology to participate in • CRM 411 - Seminar: Police and Society All students must take at least these courses. SOC 227 - Human Services is • CRM 412 - Seminar: Punishment one Seminar, but preferably strongly recommended prior to application. and Public Policy two, from the following: • CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class and • CRM 409 - Seminar: Deviance and Control Criminology, B.A. Gender in the Criminal Justice System • CRM 410 - Seminar: Juvenile Justice Criminology is an interdisciplinary program • CRM 432 - Seminar: At-Risk • CRM 411 - Seminar: Police and Society which has a liberal arts foundation stressing Families and Youths • CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class and critical thinking and communication skills. The • CRM 440 - Seminar: White Collar Crime Gender in the Criminal Justice System program requires that students take a critical look • SOC 216 - Native Americans in the 21st Century • CRM 432 - Seminar: At-Risk at aspects of the criminal justice system such • SOC 220 - Political Sociology Families and Youths as police, courts, prisons, diversion programs, • SOC 329 - Anthropology of Violence • CRM 440 - Seminar: White Collar Crime criminal laws and restorative justice practices. In • SOC 407 - Seminar: Social Movements addition to this institutional analysis, other courses • SOC 405 - Seminar on Public Sociologies • SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality examine the nature of individuals and groups • SOC 407 - Seminar: Social Movements • SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression which are in conflict with the law. Direct contact • SOC 408 - Seminar: Studying Culture with social service or criminal justice agencies • CRM 497 - Senior Thesis • SOC 413 - Seminar: Sociology of Education is required through an internship placement. Note: • SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality Two of the following Political Science of • SOC 416 - Seminar: Love, Intimacy This program is more aligned with the liberal Psychology courses may be taken for Criminology arts aspects of undergraduate education and Human Sexuality major or minor concentrations, provided that than it is with training for careers in criminal • SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression the courses are not being counted toward a justice and social service, but it does help to major or minor in another department. prepare students for entry-level employment Youth and Family Services as well as graduate and law school. Political Science Concentration Majors are required to complete a minimum • POL 233 - Law, Politics, and Society Requirements are the same as General of 10 courses in Sociology and Criminology. • POL 336 - Constitutional Law and Politics Sociology except students take three out of the • POL 337 - Public Administration following eight courses as Major electives: First or Sophomore Year Psychology • CRM 224 - Juvenile Delinquency • CRM 201 - Criminology • CRM 410 - Seminar: Juvenile Justice • PSY 207 - Abnormal Psychology • SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology • CRM 432 - Seminar: At-Risk • PSY 411 - Counseling Practicum I Families and Youths Sophomore or Junior Year • SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family Sociology, B.A. • SOC 227 - Human Services • CRM 310 - Research Methods for Criminology Majors are required to complete a minimum of • SOC 230 - Families in Cross- • CRM 311 - Statistical Analysis in Criminology nine courses in Sociology beyond SOC 101. Cultural Perspective Students may not double major in • SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender Junior or Senior Year Sociology and Criminology. • SOC 416 - Seminar: Love, Intimacy • CRM 475 - Internship in Criminology and Human Sexuality The required courses for each of the three concentrations follow: In addition, students must take: Social Research Concentration General Sociology Required Courses are the same as General Two of the following law-related courses* Sociology except students must also take: • CRM 303 - Procedural Criminal Law Concentration • CRM 335 - Spatial Crime Analysis OR • CRM 305 - Substantive Criminal Law • SOC 408 - Seminar: Studying Culture • CRM 307 - Mechanics of the Courtroom First or Sophomore Year • CRM 324 - Alternative Resolutions • SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology in Criminal Justice Criminology Minor • CRM 333 - The Accused A minor in Criminology consists of a minimum of six courses, which are to

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 40 academic LIfe include CRM 201 - Criminology, and at Studio, Performance, and Theatre Arts classes, Museum Studies - which includes art least one of the courses in Criminal Law, through hands-on study of specific techniques, museums and galleries, as well as non- and four elective criminology courses. students explore their own creative potential. profit arts organizations, OR The Visual and Performing Arts Department Performing Arts - which may be Sociology Minor seeks to expand the definition and activities focused on theatre, music or dance. of the traditional arts to include art as a A minor is designed for students who are Students may also find that this major fits interested in Sociology as a liberal arts subject. social catalyst, to engage students in social service and practical experience through well as a double major with, Art History, The minor curriculum can accommodate the Business, Marketing, or Communication. student’s special interest in developing an outreach programs and internships. understanding of human social life, its causes, and The Arts Administration Major its consequences. A minor in Sociology consists of Visual Arts/Performing requires 11 courses: a minimum of six courses which must include SOC Arts Major 101 and SOC 305 and four Sociology electives. • VPH 184 Introduction to Arts Administration The Visual and Performing Arts majors offer an • VPA 475 Internship (may include full- interdisciplinary approach which provides both semester New York, Washington, breadth and depth in the Visual and Performing or international internship) Visual and Arts. Students may choose a major in Arts Performing Arts Administration with concentrations in Museum Choose three of the following: Studies or Performing Arts, Art History, Graphic • BUS 101 First-Year Business Experience Faculty: Design, or Studio Arts, or they may choose a • BUS 203 Financial Accounting Carole Calo, Chairperson General major selecting courses from several • BUS 333 Organizational Behavior Allyson Sheckler, Associate Chairperson of the Department’s areas. Students may also • BUS 357 The Roles of Not-for-Profit choose a Visual and Performing Arts major Organizations in America Professors: with a concentration in either Music or Theatre C. Calo Arts. Students with specific career strategies • VPG 202 Graphic Design Foundations, OR P. Sankus may declare a double major with, for example, BUS 340 Marketing Principles (Choose one) Business, Communication, Elementary Education, Associate Professors: English, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Museum Studies Concentration: S. Savage-Rumbaugh Studies or Sociology. The Visual and Performing C. Walters Arts Majors prepare students for graduate work • VPH 181 History of Art or career possibilities in museums, galleries, • VPH 332 Museology Assistant Professors: corporate collections, graphic design, photography, • VPH 440 Exhibitions and L. Goldberg teaching, art conservation and art therapy. Collections: an Inside Look A. Sheckler • 3 additional courses in Art History The concentration in Theatre Arts provides the G. Stanton at the 200, 300, or 400 level student with an additional focus of study in the Instructor: humanities, education, and collaborative arts. L. Redpath The study of drama incorporates theoretical and Performing Arts Concentration: V. Robertson practical knowledge in a variety of areas touching • VPT 220 Production and Stage Management many cultures and eras. The personal development Scene Designer: of the student is aided by a deeper understanding • VPM 183 Music History, OR VPT 181 History K. Brown of the workings of the human imagination and of Theatre I OR VPT 182 History of Theater II Technical Director: emotions, the use of the body and voice as a • VPT 205 Stagecraft OR VPM 240 Music Theory J. Petty means of expression, and the complexities of interpersonal relationships as seen in art and life. • VPT 406 Seminar: Dramaturgy, OR Costume Designer: By taking part in the production of plays, the VPM 450 Capstone in Music J. Halpert student’s sense of responsibility and self-discipline • One additional 100 or 200-level course in are further tested and strengthened. This program The Department offers an Art History, Graphic area of interest (Theatre, Music, or Dance)* enables students to pursue further goals which • One additional 300-level course in area Design, Studio Arts, and an Arts Administration may include: graduate work in theatre and related of interest (Theatre, Music, or Dance)** major with concentrations in Museum Studies fields; creative dramatics in primary, secondary and Performing Arts,, as well as a generalVisual and special needs education; writing; development *Students may take three semesters of the same and Performing Arts major with optional of community theatres; arts management; and one-credit performance-based course from the concentrations in Music and Theatre Arts. careers stressing interpersonal communication. following list and count it as one 100-level course: Minors in Art History, Dance, Music, Studio Arts, and Theatre Arts are also offered. The Visual and Performing Arts • VPM 133 - Collegiate Chorale Majors each require 11 courses. • VPM 134 - Concert Band Programs of Study/Courses • VPM 137: A - Chamber Music: Orchestra Arts Administration • VPM 137: B - Chamber Music The Visual and Performing Arts Department Workshop: Vocal Ensemble provides a variety of courses to enhance Major, B.A. • VPM 139 - Guitar Ensemble students’ Liberal Arts foundation through The Major in Arts Administration will prepare appreciation of their cultural heritage. Students students for careers in management in cultural **Students may take three semesters of the develop perceptual and analytical skills while institutions and organizations such as museums, same one-credit dance-based course below exploring the ideological, religious, political, galleries, non-profit funding organizations, dance and count it as one 300-level course: and personal factors, which have shaped companies, and concert and theatre venues. • VPD 357 – Dance Company creative expression throughout the centuries. This program will also help students be more competitive as they apply to graduate programs In Art History, Music History and Theatre Art History, B.A. in arts administration and museum studies. History courses students gain an appreciation The Art History Major requires 11 courses: for the artistic and musical modes through Students in the Arts Administration Major will which artists have grappled with essential choose one of two areas of concentration: • VPH 181 - History of Art I aspects of the human condition in various • Four 200-level Art History courses cultures during different historical periods. In • Three 300-level Art History courses

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(may include Internship) At least one 3-credit course or three semesters • VPH 440 - Exhibitions and Studio Arts, B.A. of the same 1-credit course from the Collections: An Inside Look The Studio Arts Major requires 11 courses: following performance-based course list: • Two Studio Arts courses • VPH 181 - History of Art I • VPM 132 - Instrument Methods and • Two 200- or 300-level Art History Musicianship: Jump on the Bandwagon Art History Capstones courses (total of three courses) • VPM 133 - Collegiate Chorale Seniors are required to take one of • VPM 134 - Concert Band Two 100-level Studio courses from the following Capstone courses: • VPM 137: A - Chamber Music: Orchestra the following three courses: • VPH 440 - Exhibitions and • VPM 137: B - Chamber Music Collections: An Inside Look OR • VPS 102 - Introduction to Color Workshop: Vocal Ensemble • VPH 441 - Research Seminar in Art History • VPS 104 - Drawing Foundations • VPM 139 - Guitar Ensemble • VPS 107 - Design Fundamentals • VPM 231 - Piano Workshop Graphic Design, B.A. • Three 200-level Studio courses • VPM 232 - Voice Workshop • Two 300- or 400-level Studio courses excluding • VPM 331 - Advanced Piano Workshop The Graphic Design Major requires 11 courses: VPS 406 ; (May include an internship VPS 475) The remaining courses will be in Music History. Required Courses: Studio Arts Capstone Music Concentration Capstone (choose eight plus Capstone VPG Seniors are required to take the following Seniors are required to take the 423 for a total of nine courses) Studio Arts Capstone course: following Music Capstone • VPG 202 - Graphic Design Foundations • VPS 406 - Advanced Studio Seminar • VPG 203 - Introduction to Digital Imaging • VPM 450 - Capstone in Music • VPG 230 - Publication Design Portfolio Reviews: • VPG 302 - Package Design The following Visual & Performing Arts students Concentration in Theatre Arts: • VPG 303 - Typography: Letterforms are required to complete portfolio reviews during • VPT 181 - History of the Theatre I and Words in Graphic Design the Sophomore or Junior and Senior years: • VPT 182 - History of the Theatre II • VPG 304 - Advertising Design • Graphic Design Majors • VPT 203 - Acting I • VPG 305 - Web Site Design • VPT 205 - Stagecraft • VPG 306 - Motion Graphics • Studio Arts Majors • VPT 415 - Theatre Practicum I OR • VPG 307 - 3-D Graphics, • Double Majors • VPT 416 - Theatre Practicum II Illustration and Animation • Two or more 300- or 400-level • VPG 405 - Advanced Study in Graphic Design • Studio Arts Minors Theatre Arts courses. • VPG 423 - Graphic Design Portfolio • Other Minors who have taken four • VPG 475 - Internship in Graphic Design or more Studio Arts Courses Additional Requirements: Sophomores and Juniors will Of the eleven courses required, nine must Art History: complete their portfolio review on be VPT courses, (VPT 225 and VPT 226 are Choose two: the spring semester reading day. excluded). The other two courses may be additional VPT, or chosen from the following: • VPH 181 - History of Art I Seniors will complete their Capstone portfolio COM 215, COM 220, EDU 316, ENG 204, ENG • VPH 209 - History of Photography review on the fall semester reading day. 280, ENG 322, ENG 324, ENG 325, ENG 326, • VPH 217 - Early Modern Art: 1900-1945 ENG 327, ENG 353, ENG 354, ENG 357, ENG Students may contact Professor Savage-Rumbaugh • VPH 218 - Art Since 1945 381, ENG 382, VPD 141, VPM 232, VPD 256. for details about the portfolio review. • VPH 440 - Exhibitions and Along with course work, the student must Collections: An Inside Look Visual Arts/ participate in at least four departmental Graphic Design Capstone productions (not including work required by Performing Arts courses). The work may involve performance, Seniors are required to take the General Major, B.A. directing, dramaturgy, design, playwriting, following Capstone course: publicity or technical areas and must be The V.P.A. General Major requires 11 courses: • VPG 423 - Graphic Design Portfolio approved by the Program Director. Students may choose from any Portfolio Reviews: offerings in the department. Theatre Arts Concentration Capstone Seniors are required to take one of the The following Visual & Performing Arts students • At least two 100-level courses following Theatre Arts Capstone courses: are required to complete portfolio reviews during • Three to four 200-level courses the Sophomore or Junior and Senior years: • Three to four 300- and 400-level courses • VPT 415 - Theatre Practicum I OR • Graphic Design Majors • An Internship or Directed Study. • VPT 416 - Theatre Practicum II • Studio Arts Majors Visual and Performing Arts majors may also choose See Professor Sankus for details • Double Majors a specific concentration in Music or Theatre Arts. • Studio Arts Minors Minors in Visual and • Other Minors who have taken four Concentration in Music: or more Studio Arts Courses Performing Arts • VPH 181 - History of Art I Sophomores and Juniors will complete their Minors in Visual and Performing Arts • One additional Art History course portfolio review on the spring semester reading day. each require six courses. Students may • VPM 183 - History of Music I: European Roots choose a minor in Art History, Dance, Seniors will complete their Capstone portfolio • VPM 184 - History of Music II: Music, Studio Arts, or Theatre Arts. review on the fall semester reading day. Non-Western Traditions Students may contact Professor Savage-Rumbaugh • VPM 240 - Music Theory for details about the portfolio review. • VPM 450 - Capstone in Music

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Art History Minor • VPT 203 - Acting I • VPT 205 - Stagecraft Students who minor in Art History must take: • One 300 or 400-level Theatre Arts course • VPH 181 - History of Art I • One additional Theatre Arts course (VPT • Three 200-level Art History courses; and 225 and VPT 226 are excluded). • Two 300-level Art History courses. Additional Requirements • It is recommended that Art History minors take VPH 440 - Exhibitions and Collections: Along with course work, a Theatre Arts minor must assist in at least three departmental productions An Inside Look and/or do an Internship. (not including work required by courses). The work may involve performance, directing, dramaturgy, Dance Minor design, playwriting, publicity or technical areas Students who minor in Dance must take: and must be approved by the Program Director. • VPD 186 - Introduction to Dance History • VPD 257 - Introduction to Dance Composition Writing • VPD 255 - Ballet I OR • VPD 356 - Ballet II Faculty: One 300-level Dance course Todd Gernes, Program Director Two additional Dance courses Associate Professor: Dance minors are also encouraged, J. Chichetto, C.S.C., Department of though not required, to participate Communication in VPD 357 - Dance Company . T. Gernes, Department of History Assistant Professor: Music Minor D. Sprague, Writing Program Students who minor in Music must take: Writing courses explore all dimensions of the writing process, seeking to extend and deepen • VPM 183 - History of Music I: European Roots the student’s awareness of writing processes and • VPM 184 - History of Music II: to develop composing and critical thinking skills. Non-Western Traditions OR • VPM 235 - American Music in the 20th Century • VPM 240 - Music Theory • VPM 231 - Piano Workshop OR • VPM 232 - Voice Workshop • Two additional Music courses Studio Arts Minor Students who minor in Studio Arts must take: • One Art History course • Two 300-level Studio courses • Three other Studio courses

Portfolio Reviews: The following Visual & Performing Arts students are required to complete portfolio reviews during the Sophomore or Junior and Senior years: • Graphic Design Majors • Studio Arts Majors • Double Majors • Studio Arts Minors • Other Minors who have taken four or more Studio Arts Courses Sophomores and Juniors will complete their portfolio review on the spring semester reading day. Seniors will complete their Capstone portfolio review on the fall semester reading day. Students may contact Professor Savage-Rumbaugh for details about the portfolio review. Theatre Arts Minor Students who minor in Theatre Arts must take: • VPT 181 - History of the Theatre I • VPT 182 - History of the Theatre II

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AMS 200 - Introduction to American Studies by the American Council on the Teaching of Opportunity to obtain research or practical Three Credits Fall Semester Foreign Languages, in speaking, listening, experience in biochemistry at an industrial, reading, writing, and cultural competence. government, hospital or university setting. Introduction to the study of America from an Approval of the site supervisor and the Director interdisciplinary perspective, emphasizing critical ARB 132 - Elementary Arabic II of the Biochemistry Program required. analysis of culture though exploration of a wide range of cultural artifacts including literary and Three Credits Spring Semester BCH 490 - Directed Study historical texts, visual images and material objects. This course is the second in a two-semester Students will examine the many aspects of sequence introducing students to Modern Standard Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters thought, expression, and behavior that have shaped Arabic. By completing the sequence, students Investigation in some field for which the and defined the complex society of the United will reach the “”novice high”” proficiency level as student has special interest not covered by States while exploring their own relationship defined by the American council on the Teaching a normally-scheduled course. Student must to America’s diverse history and culture. Of of Foreign Languages, in speaking, listening, present plans in advance of pre-registration particular concern are the diverse cultural reading, writing, and cultural competence. to some full-time faculty member who will experiences and meaning that shape individual agree to direct and evaluate the project. and collective notions of American identity. Prerequisite(s): ARB 131 Prerequisite(s): Approval of the faculty AMS 320 - Topics in American Studies BCH 343 - Biochemistry I member directing the project and the Director of the Biochemistry Program required. Three Credits Three Credits Fall Semester Offers the opportunity to study a specific issue Structure and dynamics of amino acids, peptides BCH 496 - Independent Research and proteins. Enzyme mechanisms and kinetics. or topic in American Studies in greater depth. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Seminar format focuses on classroom discussions Function and mechanisms of coenzymes, survey and research. Topic will be announced prior to of carbohydrates, lipids, biological membranes Opportunity for students to do an advanced registration. May be taken more than once. and nucleic acids. An introduction to the research project in a specialized area under the bioenergetics and mechanisms of metabolism. direction of a member of the Biochemistry faculty. AMS 333 - The Guitar in American Culture Prerequisite(s): CHM 222. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the faculty Three Credits Fall Semester member directing the project and the Director of the Biochemistry Program required. This course explores the electric guitar as BCH 344 - Biochemistry II instrument, symbol, and artifact in modern Three Credits Spring Semester BCH 497 - Biochemistry Senior Thesis American culture. Taking an interdisciplinary A comprehensive examination of metabolism of approach, we will assess the impact of the carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters electric guitar on various kinds of music, Students complete an advanced research from blues to heavy metal, and dig into the Prerequisite(s): BCH 343. project in a specialized area under the lives of the musicians and manufacturers who direction of a Biology or Chemistry faculty gave the electric guitar its iconic power. BCH 345 - Biochemistry Laboratory member, resulting in a senior thesis. This Three Credits Spring Semester course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. AMS 420 - Seminar in American Studies Application of modern techniques to the Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the Three Credits Spring Semester characterization of biomolecules with an emphasis Program; approval of both the faculty member Provides research tools, strategies, and guidance for on proteins and nucleic acids; analysis of enzyme directing the project and the Director of the elaboration of a significant research project in kinetics; and basic techniques used in molecular the Biochemistry Program required. an area of American cultural studies with emphasis biology, including DNA isolation, cloning, on the collaborative selection and research of sequencing and analysis of gene products. BIO 101 - Biological Principles I issues for discussion as well as on sharing the Prerequisite(s): BCH 343. Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters process of project development. The specific content of this course varies with the instructor. Fall semester introduces the concepts of molecular BCH 449 - Biochemistry Seminar and Thesis biology, the cell, energetics, genetics, and ecology. Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Spring semester is an introduction to the structure, All third- and fourth-year Biochemistry function, and diversity of living organisms. AMS 475 - Internship in American Studies and Chemistry majors meet with the entire (CORE). Three hours of laboratory per week. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Biochemistry Program and Chemistry Department Fulfills the General Education Natural Practical experience in a local organization such faculty once a week for both internal and external Scientific Inquiry requirement. as a government office, museum, arts agency, presentations. During the fall semester of the or social action group. Allows students to third and fourth years, each student is required BIO 102 - Biological Principles II translate American Studies theory and method to prepare and present a half-hour seminar on Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters into professional skills and opportunities. a topic of his/her choice found in a current professional journal. During the fall semester of Fall semester introduces the concepts of molecular AMS 490 - Directed Study the fourth year, each student will be expected biology, the cell, energetics, genetics, and ecology. to write a thesis. Preferably the thesis will cover Spring semester is an introduction to the structure, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters experimental and theoretical research that the function, and diversity of living organisms. An in-depth interdisciplinary study of a question student has actually done. Each student will be (CORE). Three hours of laboratory per week. under the tutorial direction of a faculty member. expected to defend his/her thesis in the spring Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for BIO 102: BIO 101. semester of the fourth year. Four credits are ARB 131 - Elementary Arabic I obtained in the second semester of the fourth year. BIO 103 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This is the first course in a two-semester sequence introducing students to Modern Standard Arabic. BCH 475 - Internship in Biochemistry Introduction to the human body. Fall semester focus includes integument, skeleton, By completing the sequence, students will reach Three to Fifteen Credits Fall and Spring Semesters the “”novice high”” proficiency level as defined muscles, and nervous system. Spring

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 44 academic LIfe semester focuses on circulatory, respiratory, Classical genetics of eukaryotes, the biochemistry BIO 304 - Molecular Biology digestive, urogenital and endocrine systems. of gene function, and genetics of prokaryotes Four Credits Fall Semester Three hours of laboratory per week. and viruses. Laboratory work stresses classical and molecular genetics research techniques. Advanced study in the concepts and applications of molecular biology. Three BIO 104 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II (CORE) Three hours of laboratory per week. hours of laboratory per week. Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 -BIO 102. Prerequisite(s): BIO 101, BIO 102, Introduction to the human body. Fall BIO 212, BIO 211, CHM 222 semester focus includes integument, skeleton, BIO 218 - Nutrition muscles, and nervous system. Spring Three Credits Spring Semester semester focuses on circulatory, respiratory, BIO 305 - Marine Ecosystems digestive, urogenital and endocrine systems. An introduction to nutritional biology. Topics Four Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 Three hours of laboratory per week. include: nutrients and their role in growth, development, health and disease treatment. Physical, chemical, and biological features of marine ecosystems. Ecological principles. Study BIO 118 - Nutrition and Wellness Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 or BIO 103. of the local Massachusetts coastal region. (CORE, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OPTION) Three hours of laboratory or field work per week. Concepts of general nutrition, such as healthy BIO 290 - Scientific Methods: The Ocean diets, vitamin supplements, sports nutrition, Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, or ENV 200. and eating disorders. Emerging topics include History of marine science. Ocean environmental genetically modified foods, fad diets, and the factors. Diversity of organisms adapted to BIO 307 - Ecology global impact on our everyday food choices. different marine communities. Value of marine Four Credits Spring Semester Recommended for non-science majors. resources. Some lab work involving microscopy and dissection. Independent visit to the New Structure and dynamics of populations, BIO 119 - This Is Your Body Under Stress England Aquarium outside of class time required. communities, and ecosystems. Mathematical models. (CORE, ENVIRONMENTAL Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Fulfills the General Education Natural BIOLOGY OPTION) Three hours of Exploration of the neuroendorcine definition Scientific Inquiry requirement. laboratory or field work per week. of stress and how this definition continues to Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, or ENV 200. evolve. Provides a critical examination of our BIO 291 - Scientific Methods: current understanding of the effects of stress Blood and Medicine on the body. Serves as an introduction to BIO 309 - Microbiology Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters anatomy and physiology as we examine the Four Credits Spring Semester An understanding of why and how medical normal functions of each bodily system and A survey of microorganisms with emphasis diagnostic tests are performed, in sickness then examine how the system changes when on bacteria. Topics include: microbial cell and in “wellness.” An historical overview stress is perceived and/or experienced. biology, growth, metabolism, and genetics; of such procedures is presented. Topical control of microbial growth; host-microbe Fulfills the General Education issues such as AIDS, cholesterol, diabetes, interactions; and environmental microbiology. Moral Inquiry requirement. transfusions, and transplants are discussed. (STRUCTURAL ORGANISMIC) Two BIO 200 - Topics in Biology Fulfills the General Education Natural 75-minute laboratory periods per week. Scientific Inquiryrequirement. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, or BIO 211 This course utilizes primary literature to examine BIO 296 - Scientific Methods: BIO 310 - Developmental Biology biological topics. The objective is to facilitate Female Medical Issues student learning by combining critical reading of Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 the primary literature with discussion and short This course will provide students with an Explores the history and epidemiology of lectures to provide background. Assessment will understanding of the fundamental concepts of medical issues of women and disease processes. involve oral presentations, written work and tests. animal and plant development. The course will Subjects of inquiry include female cancers, Course may be taken twice, if topics differ. investigate and integrate the genetic, molecular, heart disease, osteoporosis, AIDS, domestic and cellular mechanisms of development, Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 violence, and other issues having direct impact organismal diversity in development, and the upon women; particular attention is focused evolution of developmental processes. Topics BIO 201 - Embryology of the Vertebrates on scientific studies, both past and present. will include genetics and gene expression, Four Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Fulfills the General Education Natural cell communication, fertilization, cleavage, Comparative vertebrate ontogeny, gametogenesis, Scientific Inquiry requirement. gastrulation, axis specification, organogenesis, early development, organogenesis. (STRUCTURAL neural development, sex determination, ORGANISMIC) Two hours of laboratory per week. BIO 301 - Parasitology morphogens, patterning, stem cells, and bioethics. Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 -BIO 102. Four Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): BIO 211 andBIO 212 Protozoan, nematode, and arthropod parasites BIO 211 - Cell Biology of humans and higher vertebrates. Parasitic BIO 311 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Four Credits Fall Semester diseases. Immunity. (STRUCTURAL ORGANISMIC) Four Credits Fall Semester Two hours of laboratory per week. An overview of eukaryotic cell structure System-by-system comparative study of vertebrate and function. Topics include: mechanisms Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. anatomy with emphasis on functional morphology. of protein processing, vesicular transport, Integrated lecture/lab approach. (STRUCTURAL intercellular and intracellular communication; BIO 303 - Environmental Botany ORGANISMIC) Three hours of laboratory per week. cell cycle regulation; cell proliferation, Four Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 differentiation and programmed cell death. Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. (CORE) Four hours of laboratory per week. Structure and function of lower and higher plants. Ecological principles. Evolutionary relationships. BIO 312 - Vertebrate Physiology Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 -BIO 102. (CORE, ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OPTION) Four Credits Spring Semester Three hours of laboratory or field work per week. BIO 212 - Genetics Principles governing the function of excitable Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, or ENV 200. and contractile tissues, respiration, circulation, Four Credits Spring Semester

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 45 academic LIfe kidney function, and osmoregulation in be discussed. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC) BIO 416 - Adaptation to the Environment vertebrates with emphasis on the maintenance Three hours of laboratory per week. Three Credits Spring Semester (not in 2012) of homeostasis. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC) Three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, BIO 211. Explores physiological adaptations that allow organisms to survive various challenges to Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. BIO 326 - Advanced Cell Biology homeostasis in harsh environments. The role of Four Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 physiological parameters such as size, metabolism, BIO 313 - Teaching the Sciences and conductance in ecology. Students will present, This course builds upon the topics covered in Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 discuss, and critically evaluate data from a variety cell biology. It examines current models for of sources. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC) For Science majors minoring in secondary intracellular processes including membrane education. Experimentation with and trafficking, cytoskeletal function, cell signaling, Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102 and evaluation of teaching methods in the science the regulation of the cell cycle and differentiation two 300 or 400 level biology courses. classroom/ laboratory. Students design, teach into specific cell types. It incorporates material and evaluate lessons and laboratory exercises. from both the assigned textbook and from current BIO 417 - Biology of Whales Analysis of the student’s comprehension of scientific literature. Students will be required Three Credits Spring Semester the fundamental principles of biology and to participate in analysis of assigned research chemistry. Focus on laboratory safety issues. articles, including a group oral presentation. Biology and natural history of cetaceans, emphasizing whales and dolphins of the western Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. Prerequisite(s): BIO 211 and BIO 212 North Atlantic. Evolution, anatomy, behavior, field identification, the history of whaling and BIO 314 - Medical Laboratory Science BIO 406 - Ethology contemporary conservation problems. One Four Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester evening each week, in Boston, plus weekend field trips. (Marine Studies Consortium course. Introduction to theory and practice of medical Historical, developmental, immediate, and ultimate Limited space. Apply through Prof. Tyrrell.) laboratory testing, including the diagnosis and determinants of animal behavior. Evolutionary treatments for leukemia, anemia, AIDS, etc. theories of behavior illuminate animal tactics for Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102 and including hematology, immunology, urinalysis, survival, sociality, and reproduction. Topics include two upper-level biology courses. clinical chemistry, and blood banking. foraging, habitat selection, predator avoidance, Recommended for students interested in allied migration, communication, learning, competition, BIO 418 - Biology of Fishes health professions. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC) aggression, deception, affiliation, courtship, mating, Four Credits Spring Semester Two-and- a-half hours of laboratory per week. and parental care. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC, SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT) Evolution, systematics, anatomy, physiology, Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 -BIO 102. and behavior of freshwater and anadromous Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. fishes. Predator/prey relationships, host/symbiont BIO 315 - Electron Microscopy Techniques interactions, roles of fishes as herbivores. Three Credits Fall Semester BIO 409 - Immunology Inter-/intraspecific relationships among fish Four Credits Fall Semester populations. One evening each week, in Preparation, viewing, and photography Boston, plus weekend field trips. (Marine of ultrathin sections of biological Explores the cellular and dissolved components Studies Consortium course. Limited to fourth- materials. Preparation involves fixing, and the complex mechanisms that protect humans year students. Apply through Prof. Tyrrell.) embedding, sectioning, and staining. and other animals from disease. Will focus on the appropriate disease-fighting and disease- Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102 and Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. causing activation of immunity. Two hours of two upper-level biology courses. recitation per week will include review and BIO 321 - Biology of Cancer in-depth investigation and discussion of immune- BIO 419 - Wetlands: Ecology, Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 related diseases. (FUNCTIONAL, ORGANISMIC, Hydrology, Restoration Study of the genetic, molecular and cellular SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT.) Three Credits Fall Semester mechanisms of cancer and its effect at the tissue, Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, BIO 211. Role of wetlands in hydrology and landscape organ and organismic levels. Symptoms, stages ecology. Functions of marshes, swamps and bogs and treatment options, ongoing research studies, BIO 412 - Neuroscience in water and nutrient cycles and in biodiversity. insurance issues, and the impact of the sequencing Four Credits Fall Semester Links between wetlands and human activities of the human genome will be discussed. (agriculture, coastal development, fisheries). The nervous system is our liaison with the Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 andBIO 211 . Legal framework for protection/retoration of world. Tissues, organs, and molecules of the wetlands. ( Marine Studies Conortium course . nervous system are identified. Brain anatomy, the Limited space. Apply through Prof. Tyrrell.) BIO 323 - Evolution action potential, neurons and neurotransmitters Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters are discussed. Brain mechanisms underlying Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: One year Mechanisms of evolutionary change. Classical and learning and memory, reproduction and introductory science (biology, chemistry or molecular approaches to evolutionary analysis addiction are examined. Conditions including physics); two semesters of upper-level science. will be introduced and primary literature will stroke, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia Marine Studies Consortium course. be used to illustrate current examples. Problem- are discussed. (FUNCTIONAL ORGANISMIC) based learning will be used in the laboratory. Capstone required for neuroscience majors. BIO 421 - Scientific Critique (CORE) Three hours of laboratory per week. Three hours of laboratory per week. Three Credits Spring Semester (not in 2012) Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, or BIO 212 . Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, A critical study of primary and secondary BIO 211, BIO 312 or PSY 415. scientific literature and how that literature BIO 324 - Endocrinology is constructed and reviewed for publication. BIO 413 - Histology Emphasis is on development of critiquing Four Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall Semester (not in 2011) techniques and the writing skills needed The endocrine system plays an integrative for publication in peer-reviewed journals. and regulatory role in the organism. Therefore Microscopic study of tissues and organs of (SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT) endocrinology can be discussed in relation vertebrates, especially of humans. (STRUCTURAL to complex biology and behavior. The role ORGANISMIC) Two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102, BIO 212, CHM 222. of hormones in a variety of topics, including Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO 102. reproductive biology, stress, and diabetes will

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BIO 423 - Virology and the Department Chairperson categorical data, and simple linear regression. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Prerequisite(s): MTH 119 or MTH 125. BIO 499 - Senor Honors Thesis II Structure and biology of the viruses of Fulfills the General Education Statistical eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Emphasis is on the Three Credits Spring Semester Reasoning requirement. interaction between viral genetic systems and This course is designed to provide students the host cell environment and defense systems. with an opportunity to complete the revisions (SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT) to the senior honor thesis (submitted in the fall BUS 207 - Intermediate Statistics for Business semester) and to prepare an oral presentation. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2010 Prerequisite(s): BIO 101 - BIO This course is graded with a letter grade and 102, BIO 211, BIO 212 Multivariate statistical techniques appropriate to fulfills the Capstone requirement in Biology. business problems. Emphasis on study design and BIO 475 - Internship in Biological Sciences Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: BIO 498 and approval effective use of software to incorporate statistical reasoning in common business situations. Topics Three to Fifteen Credits Fall, Spring of both the faculty member directing the project (thesis advisor) and the Department Chairperson include design of experiments, Analysis of and Summer Semesters Variance, simple and multiple regression analysis, Experience in hospital (research, clinical) residual analysis and time series forecasting. BUS 101 - First-year Business Experience or related setting (laboratory, veterinary Prerequisite(s): BUS 206 or MTH 145 or hospital, dental clinic, medical industry, Four Credits Fall Semester MTH 225 or ECO 241 or PSY 261. environmental agency or nonprofit organization). Through structured business simulation, Individually tailored. Consult Medical students are introduced to the disciplines of Science Coordinator prior to registration. accounting, finance, management, marketing and BUS 307 - Data Communications international business. Emphasis is placed on and Applications Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and critical thinking, oral and written case analyses, Three Credits Offered Periodically permission of Internship Coordinator oral presentations, teamwork current events and Department Chairperson. Introduction to data communications in a and interaction with guest speakers. The course business setting: issues facing users and managers also includes discussions of ethical practices, BIO 490 - Directed Study involving communications among computers, historical and global issues affecting today’s local area and wide area networks, file transfers, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters organizations. Only open to First Year Students. utility services, and group projects. Covers both Investigation in some field not covered by normally theory and direct experience with the latest scheduled courses. Before pre-registration, the BUS 124 - Sport Management versions of graphics-based programs: Windows, student presents plans to a full-time faculty Three Credits Fall Semester desktop publishing, visual presentations, member who agrees to direct/ evaluate the project. and remote databases via Internet access. Overview of the field of sport management Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty (professional and amateur; athletic and Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. member directing the project and the recreational) with emphasis on facility planning Department Chairperson required. and management, special event planning, fiscal BUS 308 - Decision Support Systems, management and budgeting, international Tools and Operations Management sports, personnel management, marketing and BIO 496 - Independent Research Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters promotion, and risk management. Discussion of current issues in sports and their solutions. Study of characteristics and capabilities of Opportunity for a student to do a research advanced, interactive decision support systems. project in a specialized area of Biology under the BUS 203 - Financial Accounting Hands-on practice with models and tools such direction of a member of the Biology faculty. as linear programming, PERT, trend analysis, risk Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters analysis, and other techniques using EXCEL. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty Fundamental principles and theories of financial member directing the project and the accounting. Emphasis placed on the understanding Prerequisite(s): BUS 206 or MTH 145 or Department Chairperson required. and use of financial statements for the corporation. MTH 225 or ECO 241 or PSY 261. Interpretation and use of financial statement BIO 497 - Senior Thesis Research information in business decisions, and a study BUS 309 - Database Applications Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of the system that produces this information. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Opportunity for a student to do an advanced Explores the role of information systems in a research project and thesis in a specialized BUS 204 - Managerial Accounting small business setting. The theory and design area of Biology under the direction of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of business systems prepare the students a member of the Biology faculty. Concepts and practices of managerial accounting. for extensive hands-on labs, developing applications using popular software packages. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty Topics include: cost behavior and cost-volume- member directing the project and the Department profit analysis, contribution margin reporting, Chairperson. (Satisfies Capstone Requirement) profit planning and budgeting, standard costs, BUS 310 - Management Information Systems performance analysis, decentralized operations, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and relevant costs for decision making. BIO 498 - Senior Hornos Thesis I Concepts and principles of computer-based One Credit Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): BUS 203. information systems in organizations. Topics include: management decisions and human The course provides the opportunity for a student information processing; review of computing write a senior thesis based on an independent BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis fundamentals; varieties of computer-based research (BIO 496), a research internship (BIO 475), Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters information systems; systems life cycle. Readings, a S.U.R.E. project, or other college-level biological Introduction to the techniques and reasoning lectures, discussion, and case studies are used research experience. Students are encouraged processes of statistical analysis. Emphasis on to explore concepts and their applications. to complete some or most of the research statistical reasoning and critical analysis of prior to enrollment in BIO 498. This course is statistical evidence. Statistical software is used Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. graded Pass/Fail and is only available in the Fall to support computational tasks. Topics include semester. Students must be senior Biology or study design, data collection, descriptive BUS 311 - Intermediate Accounting I Neuroscience majors to receive credit for BIO 498. statistics, elementary probability, discrete and Three Credits Fall Semester continuous distributions, confidence interval Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty Explores the environmental and conceptual estimation, tests of hypotheses for numerical and member directing the project (thesis advisor) framework of accounting; assumptions and

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 47 academic LIfe principles underlying the financial statements. In- credit for BUS 324 and BUS 311. affecting international business. In addition, depth coverage of cash, receivables, and inventory. the influence of government on trade, foreign BUS 326 - Managerial Negotiation direct investment, foreign exchange, export and Prerequisite(s): BUS 203. May not receive import strategies, and the impact of multinational credit for both BUS 311 and BUS 324. and Decision Making Three Credits Spring Semester enterprises will be discussed. Students will also be exposed to the comprehensive set of dynamics BUS 312 - Intermediate Accounting II This is a senior Management Capstone course that comprise international business decision Three Credits Spring Semester whose goal is to provide insights and tools which environments and will learn to evaluate alternative enable students to improve their negotiating Provides in-depth coverage of the accounting courses of action in a global setting. Particular and decision-making skills, as well as to issues involved in plant assets, intangibles, emphasis will be placed on areas of current understand the actions of others. Extensive use liabilities, leases, stockholder’s equity, earning importance. Extensive use of cases and readings. of readings, cases and experiential exercises. per share and revenue recognition. statement. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): BUS 203. BUS 340 - Marketing Principles BUS 327 - Investments BUS 316 - Accounting Systems Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester Explores the role marketing plays within firms This course stresses the fundamental analysis In this course, students learn to think about and within society. Describes fundamental and valuation of stocks, bonds, and derivative accounting from a systems perspective, design principles and methods underlying the national financial instruments. Trading procedures, accounting systems from a needs perspective, and and international system of providing goods and regulatory matters, portfolio theory, and the proper evaluate them from a risk assessment perspective. services for consumers and business users in the specification of risk versus return are covered. May Also, covers how accounting systems work, profit and nonprofit sectors. Studies the tasks and not receive credit for both BUS 327 and ECO 401. building ethical values into the accounting system, decisions facing marketing managers in planning, internal control concepts, leveraging the use of implementing, and controlling marketing programs, technology for competitive advantage, and system BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior and the ethical implications of these decisions. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters flowcharting. A significant group project and class Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. presentation is required involving the evaluation The study of individuals and groups within of internal control using an interactive simulation. the context of the organization. Topics include BUS 341 - Marketing Research Prerequisite(s): BUS 204 and BUS 206 or MTH leadership, motivation, group processes, Three Credits Fall Semester 145 or MTH 225 or ECO 241 or PSY 261. decision-making, workplace diversity, power, conflict and negotiation, communication, and Discusses the tools and techniques available organizational culture. Particular emphasis will for gathering, analyzing, and using information BUS 320 - Corporate Finance I be placed on relevant and important issues to aid marketing decision making. Covers Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters facing organizations today. Extensive use of topics such as problem definition, research Emphasizes understanding financial markets cases, skill-based exercises, and readings. design formulation, measurement, research and the financial management of corporations. instrument development, sampling techniques, Prerequisite(s): Sophomore Standing. Stresses the firm’s procurement, allocation, and data collection, data interpretation and analysis, control of funds and their relationship to the and presentation of research findings. Skills firm’s objectives of profitability and liquidity. BUS 334 - Business Ethics acquired are used in a survey research project. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Covers the concepts of interest rates, financial Prerequisite(s): BUS 206 and BUS analysis, risk and return, analysis of investment Examination of ethical theories and their 340, and Junior standing. decisions and capital budgeting, debt and equity application to the world of business. Specific financing, and dividend policies. Lectures, topics include: contemporary views on economic BUS 342 - Consumer Behavior problems, and readings are employed. justice, corporate social responsibility, ethical Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): BUS 203. issues in advertising, preferential hiring and reverse discrimination, privacy in employment. Application of behavior science theory and research to the consumption behavior of BUS 321 - Corporate Finance II Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP individuals in society. Examines the consumer Three Credits Fall Semester 140 and Junior standing. decision process and the effect on consumer Course covers intermediate topics in financial Fulfills the General Education decision making of external environmental management. Emphasis on the major concepts Moral Inquiry requirement. influences (culture, sub-culture, social class, of business finance, including capital budgeting reference groups, family, and personal influences) and of internal psychological influences and investment decisions, capital structure and BUS 335 - Human Resource Management (personality and lifestyle, learning, motives, financing decisions, financial analysis, and value Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters creation. These concepts are explored through perception, and beliefs and attitudes). Provides an overview of the human resources field lectures, problems, readings, and class discussions. Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Sophomore standing. and the opportunity to study common employment Prerequisite(s): BUS 320. practices in organizations. Topics include employee recruitment, selection, orientation, BUS 343 - Sales Management BUS 324 - Corporate Financial Reporting training and development, retention, performance Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester management, rewards and compensation, This course takes the perspective of benefits, counseling, employment legislation, Examination of the corporate reporting the professional sales manager with the changing workplace and diversity, and labor process from the point of view of the financial emphasis on strategic and administrative relations. Emphasis is on current, relevant, and statement user. Emphasizes understanding the issues in the design, development and important issues through cases and readings. information that corporations are required direction of the sales organization and the to provide stockholders; interpreting the Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. evaluation of sales force performance. meaning of this information: and assessing Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Junior standing. how this information is used by investors. BUS 336 - International Business Focuses on the concept of earning quality Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters BUS 344 - Advertising Management and involves the extensive use of cases. This course introduces the students to the Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): BUS 203. May not receive economic, political, and cultural environments Nature and scope of advertising and its place

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 48 academic LIfe within marketing strategy decisions and society. Three Credits Offered as Needed the accounting curriculum in the areas Examines the advertising management function An examination of the history and function of of auditing, accounting systems, activity- in its historical, social, legal, and economic not-for-profit organizations in the United States. based management, taxation, international contexts. Studies methods of planning, Topics include the study of the distinctive nature of accounting, FASB regulations, Sarbanes- preparing, placing, and evaluating an advertising the not-for-profit enterprise; the different types of Oxley, forensic accounting, etc. message in the applicable media. Advertising not-for-profits; their foundation and establishment Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. principles are applied in the development as tax-exempt organizations; management, tax, and of an advertising campaign project. fund-raising issues; and current challenges facing BUS 425 - Multinational Corporate Finance them in fulfilling their mission. Students will have Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Sophomore standing. Three Credits Spring Semester direct contact with a not-for-profit organization BUS 345 - Business-to-Business Marketing to illustrate the issues discussed in class. Study and understanding of financial management in an international business Three Credits Spring Semester BUS 358 - Small Business Management setting. This course discusses the concepts Marketing products and services to businesses, Three Credits Spring Semester and techniques of international financial industries, governments, and not-for-profit risk management, using currency hedging institutions. Emphasizes differences between A case study course which concentrates on the techniques, international investment decisions, business and consumer markets, the importance underlying rationale for starting a business, and international money markets and financing of distribution channels, and the development the methods and techniques involved in decisions. Using lecture, discussions, and of strategies for implementation and control initiating and leaving a business venture, readings, the course provides a framework to of organizational marketing systems. and the ongoing problems encountered in evaluate international business transactions. managing a business activity. The student is Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Sophomore standing. given practical exposure to entrepreneurship Prerequisite(s): BUS 320, and Junior standing. May through guest speakers, casework, and projects. not receive credit for both BUS 425 and ECO 343. BUS 346 - Retail Management Three Credits Fall Semester BUS 360 - Operations and Supply BUS 428 - Seminar in Financial Management Managerial problems and policies concerning Chain Management Three Credits Spring Semester financing, location, organization structure, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Use of readings and case studies to understand merchandising policies, advertising and sales Examines the principles, techniques, and the types of analysis performed and decisions promotion, pricing, personnel management, methodologies required to successfully made by the financial managers of corporations, operating and service policies, accounting and operate an organization in today’s dynamic focusing on valuation concepts and managing control, and other related retail management environment. The course will address both for value. Students explore specific financing problems. Topics include nonstore retailing such strategic and tactical issues of operations and investing decisions made by the firm’s as direct mail or other forms of home shopping. management and evaluate their impact on management, capital structure, capital budgeting, and long-term financing decisions. Stresses Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Junior standing. competitiveness, productivity, flexibility, quality, and cost. The course will draw on case studies student’s analysis and problem solving skills and requires active class participation. BUS 347 - New Products Management and the analysis of real-world situations. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): BUS 206 or MTH 145 or MTH 225 Prerequisite(s): BUS 320, and Senior standing. or ECO 241 or PSY 261, and Junior standing. Considers the role of new products in BUS 430 - Topics in Finance organizations and society. Focuses on special problems firms encounter in the new product BUS 400 - Topics in International Business Three Credits Offered as Needed development process: generating and evaluating Three Credits Offered as Needed This course will introduce new topics into new product ideas, market testing, introducing This course will introduce new topics into the finance curriculum in the areas of and marketing new consumer and industrial the international business curriculum in the corporate finance, investments, financial products. Studies factors which account for new areas of accounting, finance, operations, institutions, derivative securities, etc. product successes and failures in the marketplace. human resources, marketing, etc. Prerequisite(s): BUS 320 and (BUS 327 Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): BUS 336 and Junior standing. or ECO 401) and Junior standing.

BUS 352 - Legal Environment of Business BUS 414 - Tax Accounting BUS 434 - Advanced Accounting Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An introduction to the nature, sources, and A study of federal income tax laws as they Studies issues related to specialized financial institutions of the law, and of the basic legal apply to individuals, unincorporated businesses accounting topics such as pensions, deferred framework within which business operates. The and an overview of business entities. income taxes, business combinations, course exposes students to tort law, criminal law, foreign operations, foreign currency contracts, agency, and business organizations Prerequisite(s): BUS 204. translations, and not-for-profit accounting. including general and limited partnerships, limited Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. liability companies, and corporations. May not BUS 417 - Auditing receive credit for both BUS 352 and BUS 354. Three Credits Spring Semester BUS 435 - Advanced Taxation Auditing philosophy and technique, with emphasis BUS 354 - Business Law Three Credits Spring Semester on the professional auditing environment, critical Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters thinking, auditing standards, professional ethics, Examines the federal tax laws as they apply to This course examines the law of contracts, and legal responsibility. Also, the auditor’s report, C Corporations, S Corporations, Partnerships, agency, and business organizations; torts, and internal control, evidential matter, working Trusts, and Estates. Topics include the philosophy criminal law. The course material is covered papers, statistical sampling, auditing computerized of taxation and tax credits, the statutory through a combination of readings, lectures, systems, and the development of audit programs. administrative and judicial sources of the tax law, problem analysis, and case studies. May not and tax administration and practice. Tax research Prerequisite(s): BUS 316, and Senior standing. receive credit for both BUS 352 and BUS 354. and planning procedures and the use of automated systems in tax preparation are also covered. A BUS 420 - Topics in Accounting research project and class presentation is required. BUS 357 - The Roles of Not-for-Profit Organizations in America Three Credits Offered as Needed Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. This course will introduce new topics into

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BUS 436 - Advanced Managerial Accounting relevant to coordinating the marketing activities has special interest not covered by a normally- Three Credits Spring Semester of the multinational corporation. Emphasizes the scheduled course. Student must present plans cultural, economic, and political factors affecting in advance of pre-registration to some full-time This course will focus on the strategic role of marketing strategies. Extensive use of case studies. faculty member who will agree to direct and management accountants in today’s organizations evaluate the project. At the time of pre-registration and how strategic management accounting Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Junior standing. the student must obtain the signature of this faculty systems help organizations to meet their strategic member and of the Chairperson of the Department. objectives of quality, cost, and time. The structure BUS 454 - Marketing Strategy and process of the production method and Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CAT 490 - Directed Study: Catholic Studies cost measurement system will be studied and analyzed in light of technological, cultural, and This senior course for Marketing majors enables Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters global factors influencing the organization. the student to apply what has been learned in An in-depth study of a Catholic Studies question other business courses to the analysis of a variety under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite(s): BUS 204, and Junior standing. of Marketing Management problem identification- solution generation situations presented via Prerequisite(s): Approval of faculty BUS 438 - Business and Society real cases. Emphasis is on oral presentation member directing the project and the Three Credits Offered Periodically and defense of evaluations made and solutions Catholic Studies Program Director. proposed. Some written case analysis is required. Examines the relationships of business firms CHM 113 - General Chemistry I to institutions and individuals within society. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. BUS 341 Considers the interactions of business and various or BUS 342, and Senior standing. Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters stakeholders in society – employees, investors, The fundamentals of chemistry are covered consumers, governments, neighbors, and others BUS 460 - Topics in Management including: matter and measurement, atomic – and the tensions among democratic values, a Three Credits Offered as Needed structure and the periodic table, chemical free enterprise economy, the rights of individuals, reactions and stoichiometry, chemical bonding, and the demands of a global economy. This course will introduce new topics into thermodynamics, and an introduction to the management curriculum in the areas chemical kinetics and equilibrium. Six hours Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. of organizational behavior, organization of combined class/laboratory each week. development, human resource management, BUS 440 - Topics in Marketing operations management, entrepreneurship, etc. Fulfills the General Education Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Offered as Needed Prerequisite(s): BUS 333, and Junior standing. This course will introduce new courses into the CHM 195 - The Science of Art marketing curriculum in the areas of consumer BUS 465 - International Management Three Credits Spring Semester behavior, e-commerce, international marketing, Three Credits Fall Semester marketing research, sales management, retail The science behind light, color, and vision as they management, business-to-business marketing, new Senior course for majors in International relate to art. The chemistry of painting materials. business development, channels of distribution, Business. Integrates the strategic issues of The scientific history of glass, paper, ceramics and relationship marketing, sport marketing, etc. managing a multinational firm with the cultural, metals as art materials. The effects of technological political, economic, and social environments advances on art. Other topics include preservation, Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Junior standing. of global commercial enterprises. restoration, authentication, and forgery detection. BUS 443 - Electronic Commerce Prerequisite(s): BUS 336, and Junior standing. Fulfills the General Education Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Spring Semester BUS 469 - Policy and Strategy Survey of electronic commerce, including the Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CHM 221 - Organic Chemistry I process of buying and selling goods, services and information over networks, primarily using Capstone course for all business seniors. Focuses Four Credits Spring Semester Internet technologies to manage various business on the roles of executive management and The basics of organic chemistry are covered processes. Emphasizes the managerial rather the processes involved in the development including: structure and bonding of alkanes, than the technological approach. Describes major and implementation of strategy in a complex, alkenes, aromatic hydrocarbons and alkynes; advantages, limitations and risks. Topics include global economy. Extensive use of cases, functional groups containing heteroatoms; applications to business-to-consumer, business- industry simulation and team assignments. chromatography; spectroscopy; stereochemistry; to-business and intrabusiness applications. Prerequisite(s): BUS 204, BUS 206, BUS 320, methods of studying organic reaction; and an introduction to mechanisms of organic Prerequisite(s): BUS 340, and Sophomore standing. BUS 333, BUS 340 and Senior Standing. reactions. Three periods of lecture and a four-hour laboratory session each week. BUS 445 - Direct Marketing BUS 475 - Internship in Business Administration Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): CHM 113. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This course covers the concepts and techniques of CHM 222 - Organic Chemistry II direct marketing programs that include direct mail, The internship program is designed to enhance telephone, catalog, email, and web-base marketing. knowledge of the environment and constraints Four Credits Fall Semester Emphasis is on the planning, design, and of an organizational setting. It is geared to give The mechanistic and synthetic organic execution of direct marketing campaigns utilizing the student an opportunity to apply concepts and chemistry relating to nucleophilic substitution, databases, modeling and profiling techniques. skills acquired in the classroom. Registration must elimination, additions to carbon-carbon be approved by the Department Chairperson, the multiple bonds, aromatic substitution, addition Prerequisite(s): BUS 206 and BUS faculty member supervising the internship, and and substitution at carbonyls, substitution 340, and Sophomore standing. the supervisor in the cooperating organization. alpha to carbonyls, rearrangements, and polymerizations. The organic chemistry of natural BUS 448 - Global Marketing Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing and 2.8 GPA. See Internship compounds (e.g. peptides, carbohydrates, etc.) Three Credits Fall Semester Coordinator for other requirements. is introduced. Three periods of lecture and Study of the marketing of goods and services in a four-hour laboratory session each week. the international environment, the activities that BUS 490 - Directed Study Prerequisite(s): CHM 221. take place within the firm preparing to enter Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters the international marketplace, and the issues Investigation in some field for which the student

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CHM 232 - General Chemistry II Principles of instrumental analysis: Biochemistry faculty once a week for both internal Four Credits Spring Semester Potentiometry, electrolysis, polarography, and external seminar presentations. During the spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, atomic absorption, fall semester of the third and fourth years each The course further develops the introductory chromatography, and chemical separations. student is required to prepare and present a physical and analytical chemistry initiated in Three periods of lecture each week. half-hour seminar on a topic of his/her choice CHM 113, while introducing new topics in order found in a current professional journal. During to complete the coverage of all general chemistry Prerequisite(s): CHM 331, CHM 333. the fall semester of the fourth year, each student concepts. The topics covered include gases, states will be expected to write a thesis. Preferably of matter, solutions, nuclear chemistry, and an CHM 435 - Advanced Organic Chemistry this thesis will cover experimental or theoretical in-depth treatment of kinetics and the equilibria Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 research the student has actually done. Each of acid-base, solution, and electrochemical Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry. Topics student will be expected to defend his/her thesis reactions. Three periods of lecture and a in the spring semester of the fourth year. three-hour laboratory session each week. may include: strategies for organic synthesis, reaction mechanisms, elucidation of structure Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): CHM 113 and Sophomore and stereochemistry of organic compounds standing or permission of both the using physical and spectroscopic methods. CHM 475 - Internship in Chemistry Engineering Program Director and the Three periods of lecture each week. Department of Chemistry Chairperson. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): CHM 333. Research or practical experience in the field CHM 244 - Inorganic Chemistry at an outside industrial, government, hospital, CHM 442 - Instrumental Analysis: Four Credits Spring Semester or university setting. Must be approved by Theory and Practice the Department Chairperson, the Faculty This course covers fundamentals of central topics Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 member supervising the Internship, and the in inorganic chemistry from historical to modern- Supervisor in the cooperating organization. day perspectives. Topics include: Coordination An in-depth examination of atomic and compounds (history, structure, bonding theories, molecular parameters and how the application CHM 490 - Directed Study reactivity, applications); solid state chemistry of current laboratory instrumentation can (crystals, lattices, radius ratio rule, defect structures, elucidate fundamental chemical phenomena Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters silicates & other minerals); and descriptive based on these parameters. Two four- Opportunity for upper level students to do chemistry of the elements. Three periods of lecture hour laboratory sessions each week. advanced work in a specialized area of chemistry. and a three-hour laboratory session each week. Prerequisite(s): CHM 331, CHM 333. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the Prerequisite(s): CHM 222 Corequisite(s): CHM 432, CHM 443. faculty member directing the work and the Department Chairperson required. CHM 331 - Analytical Chemistry CHM 443 - Physical Chemistry III Four Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 CHM 496 - Independent Chemical Research An in-depth study of chemical equilibrium in The Schrodinger equation is applied to several Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters acid-base, complexation, oxidation-reduction and models including: a particle-in-a-box, the Students carry out an advanced research project in precipitation reactions. Quantitative chemical harmonic oscillator, and the rigid rotator. a specialized area of chemistry under the direction analysis using titrimetric, spectrophotometric, Models are explored in light of vibrational of a faculty member from the Department of potentiometric and more is discussed in detail and rotational spectroscopy. The hydrogen Chemistry. The research may be part of an ongoing in lecture and performed in the laboratory atom is studied along with approximation project being conducted by the faculty member, or including rigorous statistical evaluation of methods for many-electron atoms. the student and faculty member may develop an experimental data. Three periods of lecture and Prerequisite(s): CHM 333 original project. May be taken more than once. a four-hour laboratory session each week. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty Prerequisite(s): CHM 232 or CHM 244. CHM 444 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry member directing the project and the Four Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Department Chairperson required. Fulfills the General Education Statistical Reasoning requirement. This course builds upon the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry learned in CHM 244 CHM 497 - Senior Thesis CHM 333 - Physical Chemistry I and also includes recent advances in the Three Credits Fall Semester field. Topics include: symmetry, group theory, Four Credits Fall Semester Students complete an advanced research molecular orbital’s, frontier orbital’s, ligand field project in a specialized area of chemistry This course is an in-depth exploration of key compounds, organimetallic reactions and catalysis, under the direction of a chemistry faculty chemistry topic in thermodynamics, quantum bioinorganic and environmental chemistry. member, resulting in a senior thesis. This mechanics, spectroscopy and kinetics. Specific course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. applications of physical chemistry are given in Prerequisite(s): CHM 244 and CHM 333. terms of material, nanoscience, biochemistry, Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the department; environmental chemistry, and technology. CHM 446 - Topics in Chemistry approval of both the faculty member directing the Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 project and the Department Chairperson required Prerequisite(s): MTH 126 & CHM 232 or CHM 244 In-depth coverage of up-to-date advanced CHN 131 - Elementary Chinese I CHM 334 - Physical Chemistry II chemical topics. This course is an advanced chemistry elective for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Three Credits Fall Semester Four Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Biology majors. The specific content focuses on An introduction of modern standard Chinese This course is an in-depth exploration of cutting edge science in the specific sub-discipline commonly referred to as Mandarin. Focus key chemistry topics in thermodynamics of the faculty member teaching the course. of the course is on basic listening, speaking, and kinetics. The course material covers reading and writing skills and Pinyin (spelling phase diagrams, chemical equilibrium, Prerequisite(s): CHM 232 or CHM 244 the sound) system. Students will learn common molecular motion and dynamics. and permission of Department Chair. vocabularies, simple sentence structures and Prerequisite(s): CHM 333. CHM 449 - Seminar and Thesis everyday conversational Chinese. Both simplified and traditional character formations will be Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CHM 432 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry introduced but the writing will be emphasized All third- and fourth-year Chemistry and Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 on the simplified form. Chinese culture, customs Biochemistry majors meet with Chemistry and and history will be incorporated into the course

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 51 academic LIfe curriculum. By the end of the course, students Advanced Chinese, students build upon their Understanding the principles and elements of will master the Pinyin system and using this tool previous ability and develop the ability to: speak video: the camera, lighting, direction, editing, to increase the efficiency of their learning. simple dialogue of paragraph length; understand sound. Practice in making a video composition. most authentic speech; write a series of coherent Prerequisite(s): COM 107 or COM 207. CHN 132 - Elementary Chinese II paragraphs; read authentic text to acquire Three Credits Spring Semester information. The course integrates history and culture, as well as contemporary events and issues. COM 220 - Understanding Film A continuation course of Elementary Chinese I. Three Credits Fall Semester Character writing and accuracy in pronunciation Prerequisite(s): CHN 331 or equivalent. are emphasized. Students will learn more about the Introduction to film analysis through the study components and structure of Chinese characters COM 103 - Public Speaking of a variety of film texts, with an emphasis on film form, and how the various components of and etymological information. More complex Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters sentence patterns and grammatical structures will filmmaking, including elements of mise-en-scene, be introduced. Students will develop the power of Theory and practice of communicating in one- cinematography, editing, sound and music, and reading comprehension and consecutive speaking to- many situations. Students research, organize, narrative structure function within that system. and writing. Internet, Chinese-English dictionary, and deliver several types of speeches, as well as Chinese newspaper and wide variety of resources critique various forms of public communication. COM 310 - Organizational Communication will be used to enhance classroom learning. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters COM 105 - Interpersonal Communication Prerequisite(s): CHN 131 or equivalent. Principles of communication in business Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and nonprofit organizations. Topics include CHN 231 - Intermediate Chinese I The basic elements of interpersonal communication theories, leadership communication, with special emphasis on and motivation, superior-subordinate Three Credits Fall Semester developing knowledge and skills applicable to communication, organizational culture, For students with 2-3 years of high school face-to-face interactions between individuals. networks, and conflict management. Chinese or equivalent. In the intermediate course, The class facilitates an exploration of students expand their previous ability in their verbal and nonverbal communication. Prerequisite(s): COM 105 or COM 205. foreign language and develop the ability to: when speaking, use strings of related sentences; when COM 107 - Mediated Communication COM 311 - Public Relations I: Principles listening, understand most spoken language Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters when the message is deliberately and carefully Theoretical and practical. Written and visual conveyed by a speaker accustomed to dealing with An overview of the history, structure, performance, content, effects and future of the mass materials for a variety of organizational goals. learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; Tools of communication, public relations – when reading, acquire knowledge and new media, including issues of media ownership, regulation, and the importance of advertising. law and ethics, problem solving, persuasion information from comprehensive authentic text. and public opinion, media relations. The course will integrate Chinese culture with language learning to enhance the understanding COM 201 - Business and Prerequisite(s): COM 203 or COM of cultural influence on the language. Professional Communication 310 or BUS 333 or BUS 340. Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 Prerequisite(s): CHN 132 or equivalent. COM 312 - Public Relations II: Practices Advanced study and practice in specialized Three Credits Spring Semester CHN 232 - Intermediate Chinese II audience analyses, conference procedures, Three Credits Spring Semester group problem solving, interviewing Practice of public relations in several typical techniques, and professional presentations. environments: public agencies, corporations For students with 2-3 years of high school and the like; case study method. Chinese or equivalent. In the intermediate course, COM 203 - Studies in Persuasion students expand their previous ability in their Prerequisite(s): COM 311. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters foreign language and develop the ability to: when speaking, use strings of related sentences; when Analysis of social aspects of persuasion, COM 313 - Gender and Communication listening, understand most spoken language cultural basis for belief and theories of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters when the message is deliberately and carefully attitude change. Examination of reasoning Examines the impact of gender, or male-female conveyed by a speaker accustomed to dealing with and rhetoric in advertising, political perspectives, on the communication process. learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; campaigns, and social movements. Topics discussed within a variety of contexts. when reading, acquire knowledge and new information from comprehensive authentic text. COM 205 - Small Group Communication COM 314 - Media Organizations The course will integrate Chinese culture with Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 language learning to enhance the understanding Three Credits Wintersession of cultural influence on the language. Theory and practice of communication in small groups. Highlights the communicative dimensions Advanced survey of media organization Prerequisite(s): CHN 231 or equivalent. of decision-making, leadership, cohesiveness, operation, including ownership, personnel, and conflict in the small group setting. programming, and audience research. CHN 331 - Advanced Chinese I Prerequisite(s): COM 107. Three Credits Fall Semester COM 207 - Media Criticism Offered to Los Angeles Interns only. In Advanced Chinese, students build upon their Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters previous ability and develop the ability to: speak Survey of internal and external constraints COM 315 - Intercultural Communication simple dialogue of paragraph length; understand in production of mediated messages. Three Credits Fall Semester most authentic speech; write a series of coherent Analysis of news, advertising, and paragraphs; read authentic text to acquire entertainment processes and products. Examines the role of communication in information. The course integrates history and the creation and transmission of cultural culture, as well as contemporary events and issues. Prerequisite(s): COM 107. knowledge and practice. Discusses the impact of communication differences Prerequisite(s): CHN 232 . COM 215 - Video Production: in cross cultural contexts. Principles and Techniques Prerequisite(s): COM 105. 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COM 316 - Family Communication COM 325 - Leadership and Communication and other communication areas. Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): COM 322 and Senior standing. This course is designed as an introduction to Examination of leadership theories and diverse Instructor consent required for Juniors. communication phenomena in the setting of the styles of leading within various contexts. In family. The overall goal is help you understand particular, this course will explore the vital COM 418 - Rhetorical Theory how, through communication, we develop, role of communication processes in relation to Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 maintain, enhance, or disturb family relationships. leadership effectiveness. This course will also Students will learn verbal & nonverbal skills that give students the opportunity to reflexively A consideration of the intellectual tradition can help promote healthy family communication. examine their own styles of leadership as well of rhetoric from a theoretical and critical as identify areas for continued improvement. perspective. Ideas from the classical, modern, Prerequisite(s): COM 105 and contemporary periods are examined. Prerequisite(s): COM 103 and COM 105. COM 318 - Persuasion and Social Movements Prerequisite(s): COM 322 and Senior standing. Instructor consent required for Juniors. Three Credits Fall Semester COM 330 - Media Regulation Role of discourse in the life cycle of Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 COM 419 - Mediated Communication Theory social movements. Rhetorical analysis Examines how control, from government Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of stages of movement development. censorship to forms of industry regulation, is Examination of theory and research. exhibited over the media. The history of media Survey of development of mediated communication censorship, including significant cases and theory and research. Discussion of production, Prerequisite(s): COM 203. precedent-setting legal decisions, is examined. mediation, reception, and effects theories. Students The focus is on the differences between will take part in an extensive community-based COM 319 - Political Communication censorship and regulation, and the similarities learning project at an after-school program. Three Credits Spring Semester and differences among various mass media Prerequisite(s): COM 207 and COM 322 and Senior Examines nature and impact of diverse outlets. Among the topics covered are libel, standing. Instructor consent required for Juniors. communication strategies in political contexts, indecency, obscenity, and other examples of such as congressional and presidential campaigns speech not protected by the First Amendment. COM 452 - Communication Honors Thesis and legislative discussion of social issues. Prerequisite(s): COM 107. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): COM 203. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Open COM 333 - Topics in Mediated Communication to students in the Department of Communication COM 320 - Persuasion and Public Influence Three Credits Offered Periodically Honors Program. In consultation with a Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 The topics of this seminar vary according faculty member, students conduct independent research on a topic related to their emphasis Critical analysis of the rhetorical significance to a student’s needs and interests The course may be taken three times. in communication. Students must begin their of selected public discourse. Examines the research no later than one semester prior to the roles of persuasion in the public realm. Prerequisite(s): COM 107 . semester in which they plan to graduate. An official copy of the thesis will remain on file with COM 321 - Film Genres COM 333 - Topics in Mediated Communication the Department and with the college archives. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): COM 322 and open to Junior A historical survey of several American film genres. The topics of this seminar vary according and Senior Communication Majors in the Prerequisite(s): COM 220. to student’s needs and interests. Department of Communication Honors Program. Permission of Instructor. Prerequisite(s): COM 107 COM 322 - Communication Research Methods Course may be taken three times. COM 475 - Internship in Mass Communication Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Introduction to basic techniques for investigating COM 412 - Advanced Interpersonal Experience in the practice of mass media common communication problems. Topics Communication include focus group interviews, questionnaire complementary to the work done in courses. Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 design, critical methodology, content analysis, Prerequisite(s): COM 107, minimum of 3.0 GPA and other basic data collection methods used Examines major theories and research in and permission of Internship Coordinator. in communication organizations. Designed for interpersonal communication, including advanced Communication majors seeking a research course investigation of concepts introduced in CO COM 476 - Internship in 105. Topics include theories of relationship which emphasizes practical applications. Organizational Communication development and decline, marriage and family Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. communication, and communicative competence. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Experience in the practice of public relations and Prerequisite(s): COM 105 or COM 205. COM 323 - Honors-Film Censorship other forms of organizational communication and American Culture complementary to work done in courses. Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 COM 414 - Special Topics in Communication Three Credits Offered as Needed Prerequisite(s): COM 310 or COM 311, minimum of Examines the continuing battle over film content, 3.0 GPA and permission of Internship Coordinator. a battle as old as the medium itself. Against The topics of this seminar vary according to student needs and interests. Course recurrent threats of federal censorship, filmmakers COM 477 - Internship in may be taken three times. have struggled to present messages that have Political Communication often been at odds with a vast array of powerful groups, from the Catholic Legion of Decency to COM 417 - Communication Theory Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters National Organization for Women. Discussions Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Experience in the practice of political will cover the erosion of the Production Code communication complementary to An advanced survey of major communication and the institution of a Rating system. the work done in courses. theories. Focus on how communication Prerequisite(s): COM 220. Limited theories are built and tested and how different Prerequisite(s): COM 203, minimum of 3.0 GPA to honors scholars. theories are related. Includes theories from and permission of Internship Coordinator. interpersonal, organizational, persuasion,

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COM 490 - Directed Study the juvenile court system. The course critically methods. Research designs considered include Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters examines the social, health, and mental health surveys, content and secondary data analysis, services which have been utilized by this society in interviewing, field observation, and experiments. Opportunity for upper-level students to do attempts to prevent or “treat” delinquent behavior. an advanced research project or investigation Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or CRM 201. in a field of special interest not covered by Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and CRM 201. a normally-scheduled course. Student and a CRM 311 - Statistical Analysis in Criminology full-time faculty member familiar with the CRM 273 - Crime and Mental Illness Three Credits Spring Semester student’s area of interest agree on a plan of Three Credits Spring Semester study and research and on evaluation methods. An introduction to descriptive and inferential The course examines crime and mental illness, statistics as applied to the field of criminology. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty including social-psychological theories of crime; Topics include: measures of distribution, frequency, member directing the project and the co-occurring psychological disorders; problem- cross-tabulation, and analysis of variance and Department Chairperson required. solving courts (drug treatment, mental health, correlation. The course will also cover creating and re-entry) comprising the emerging field of variable lists, data coding, creating databases for CRM 120 - Critical Introduction “therapeutic jurisprudence”; and mentally ill criminal justice agencies, analyzing the data using to Criminal Justice offenders in prison and community settings. a variety of software packages, and presenting the Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Sociological issues of gender, class and race data in narrative and graphic formats. Students will be discussed wherever relevant. will learn how to use Microsoft ACCESS to An introduction to the major institutions of create databases, the Statistical Package for the criminal justice from a social scientific perspective. CRM 303 - Procedural Criminal Law Social Sciences to analyze data, and Microsoft Examines the structure and operation of police, PowerPoint for statistical presentations. courts, and corrections. Theories and concepts Three Credits Fall Semester of sociology and other disciplines will be used Due process of law; arrest; search and seizure; Prerequisite(s): CRM 310. to describe the workings of the criminal justice electronic surveillance; entrapment, right to Fulfills the General Education Statistical system and raise questions for critical analysis. counsel; privilege against self-incrimination; Reasoning requirement. plea bargaining; double jeopardy. Fulfills the General Education Social Scientific Inquiryrequirement. Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or CRM 201. CRM 314 - Practicum: Victims in the Courtroom CRM 201 - Criminology CRM 304 - Victims in the Courtroom Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester A select group of students will have the This course provides a broad overview of Involves the study of crime victims and their opportunity to go to court on a weekly basis. sociological and interdisciplinary theories of experiences with the Criminal Justice System. Will Under the supervision of the instructor, the criminal behavior and social control. Students focus on the dynamics of intimate partner violence students will assist victims of crimes through the learn how to analyze theories and research and its history as a social problem. A substantial judicial process. Duties will include: restraining on crime for the purpose of advancing portion of the course will focus on the mechanics order applications; preparation of victim impact theory as well as developing policies for of the courtroom as they relate to crime victims. statements; and appearing before the judge. crime prevention and control. Not open to Prerequisite(s): CRM 304 and first-year students in their first semester. Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or CRM 201. permission of instructor. CRM 204 - Sociology of the Prison CRM 305 - Substantive Criminal Law CRM 318 - Federal Criminal Process Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Particular stress is placed on basic structure of Principles of criminal liability, defenses to crime, This course examines federal authority and American prisons – their purposes and their the insanity defense, crimes against property, responsibility for criminal acts, including effects. Focal questions include: Who goes to crimes against the habituation, crimes against the constitutional issues, federal statutes (RICO, money prison? What happens to those imprisoned? person, and the justification for punishment. laundering, tax offenses, domestic terrorism, What happens to those released from prison? Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or CRM 201. public corruption), federal enforcement agencies, Prison policy development and implementation criminal procedure, federal grand jury, and with regards to current criminological theory CRM 307 - Mechanics of the Courtroom Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Unique tools and research and current public opinion are Three Credits Fall Semester available to federal law enforcement agencies discussed as a central concluding theme. Preparation of witnesses; examination of legal and prosecutors – asset forfeiture, electronic Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 or CRM 201. techniques of discrediting and impeachment interception, the Patriot Act – will be discussed. of witnesses; scope of direct and cross- Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 and CRM 208 - Sex Offenders: examination; rules of evidence; burden of (CRM 303 or CRM 305). Patterns and Behaviors proof and burden of persuasion; ethical Three Credits Fall Semesters responsibilities of prosecution and defense; CRM 322 - Violent Crime and division of responsibility between judge and jury. This course examines theories and research Federal Initiatives on sexual assault and sex offenders, evaluates Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or CRM 201. Three Credits Fall Semester the effectiveness of assessment and treatment This course examines current patterns of practices, and explores supervision/legal strategies CRM 310 - Research Methods for Criminology violent crime in the US, such as gang violence designed to prevent recidivism of sex offenders. Three Credits Fall Semester and spousal abuse, and the role of federal Prerequisite(s): CRM 201 An introduction to quantitative and qualitative criminal justice agencies in designing and research methods employed for conducting implementing agency partnership models CRM 224 - Juvenile Delinquency research in criminology. Topics include: problem to reduce crime in local communities. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters selection and definition; relationship between Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 or CRM 201. theory and research; measuring crime; sampling; An examination of juvenile delinquency in data collection and analysis; understanding the American society. Topics included are the historical CRM 324 - Alternative Resolutions “Action Research” model; developing goals, background and “invention” of delinquency, in Criminal Justice objectives, and performance measures; creating cross-cultural definitions of delinquency, theories a research design; and program evaluation Three Credits Fall Semester of delinquency, social class differences, and

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Mediation is an effective method of reducing additional CRM course. Prerequisite(s): CRM 120 or SOC 101. or resolving conflict between disputing parties. Its use is widespread: in government (courts, CRM 411 - Seminar: Police and Society CRM 475 - Internship in Criminology international diplomacy); as a professional service Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters for businesses and families; in schools; and in community crime prevention where gangs are Police discretion and values. Affirmative The Capstone course for the major, the Internship prevalent. Techniques of mediation are learned action, hiring, training, police organization, provides an academic experience in which the through reading, demonstration, and role-play. police and the community. Research third- or fourth-year student (only) contribute to and evaluation in criminology. the ongoing organizational process while learning Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 or CRM 201. to apply criminology theories to observations of Prerequisite(s): CRM 201 and one structure, function, and process in a particular CRM 333 - The Accused additional CRM course. correctional, court, or law enforcement agency. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CRM 412 - Seminar: Punishment Prerequisite(s): Written permission of the This course contemplates the criminal justice and Public Policy faculty member supervising the internship. system (primarily in the Commonwealth of Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 Massachusetts) from the perspective of the CRM 490 - Directed Study Seminar will focus on the development of defendant and his counsel and from arrest to Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters post-trial in misdemeanor and felony court. punishment policy, judicial discretion, and the Beginning with the attorney-client relationship sanctioning process. It will trace the history of Supervised reading and research directed and continuing throughout criminal proceedings, punishment in the US; compare our policies by Department member. Permission of defendants and defense counsel face challenges with those of other countries; and examine the faculty member directing the project distinct from law enforcement and prosecutors. the impact of punitive society. Students will and the Department Chairperson. The course examines the unique challenges that study death penalty policy, considering its the accused, whether guilty or not, encounter morality, implementation, and impact. CRM 497 - Senior Thesis in the modern criminal justice system. Prerequisite(s): CRM 201, or CRM 204. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): CRM 201. Fourth-year students will polish their CRM 430 - Seminar: Race, Class and communication skills and build on prior CRM 335 - Spatial Crime Analysis Gender in the Criminal Justice System coursework. The goal is preparation of a paper suitable for presentation at an annual Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 meeting of a professional association during the Introduces a variety of methods and techniques A comparative examination of women and spring semester. Taught in seminar/workshop for the visualization, exploration, and modeling of minorities in the criminal justice system. format, the course includes presentations from crime data using geographic mapping. Emphasis Topics include: women and minority offenders; departmental faculty about conducting research on mapping real life crime data and exploring women and minority victims; women and in sociology, criminology and anthropology. mapping technology as a strategic planning tool for minorities at different stages of the criminal law enforcement agencies. The main objectives are justice process (police, courts, and corrections); Prerequisite(s): Permission of to teach students the basic concepts of geographic women and minorities employed within the Department Chairperson. mapping and its use by a variety of criminal justice system; and societal attitudes toward women agencies using ArcView Mapping software. and minorities involved in the system. CSC 101 - From Gutenberg to Gates Prerequisite(s): CRM 201 and one Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CRM 352 - Topics in Criminology additional CRM course. This course explores the history of information Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 technology and its impact on our society. It provides Examines topics of current interest in criminology, CRM 432 - Seminar: At-Risk students with the background to understand these including the etiology and characteristics Families and Youths changes and the tools they need to manage them, of specific categories of crime. The specific Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters as well as a strong foundation in research, critical content focuses on timely, cutting edge thinking, and oral and written communication skills. This course examines characteristics of the research and case studies that are of academic growing numbers of families and youths on the Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites. importance. Content varies as topics evolve. “fault line” of present-day society in the United Fulfills the General Education Natural States. Causes and solutions that have been Scientific Inquiry requirement. CRM 409 - Seminar: Deviance and Control proposed to understand, control, and redress Three Credits Offered Periodically problems of at-risk families and youths are CSC 102 - Basic Programming Examines the concept of deviance in society and discussed. Topics include social stratification, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 its implications for the study of contemporary victimization, crime prevention, innovative school behavior. The first half of the semester focuses programs, and other social intervention programs. An introduction to computers and programming using Visual Basic .NET. Problem solving using on the competing perspectives on deviant Prerequisite(s): CRM 224. behavior and implications. The second half top-down design and procedural abstraction, visual examines how individual and organizational design for the desktop and the web, databases, and CRM 440 - Seminar: White Collar Crime deviance is defined, reacted to, and managed. fundamental hardware and software structures. Three Credits Fall Semester Useful in any career that uses computer technology. Prerequisite(s): CRM 201 or SOC 101. The course focuses on crimes committed by Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites. persons of respectability and high social status CRM 410 - Seminar: Juvenile Justice as opposed to traditional “street crimes” normally Fulfills the General Education Natural Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 spotlighted in criminal justice courses. Such crimes Scientific Inquiryrequirement. This course examines promising strategies, include: restraint of trade, misrepresentation in primarily in the private sector, for handling advertising, infringement of patents and copyrights, CSC 103 - Computer Science I juvenile offenders. Students directly observe unfair labor practices, financial fraud, and Four Credits Fall Semester programs and work with program managers to violations of trust. The extent, societal costs, and An introduction to programming and problem develop plans to expand community-based and enforcement practices of such crimes are evaluated. solving using Java. Topics include: Input private-sector support. Presentation, advocacy, Implications for prevention and for the punishment and Output; Selection; Repetition; Methods; and networking skills are emphasized. of offenders are presented for class discussion. The case method is used as the basis of class structure. Recursion; Arrays; Classes and Objects. Prerequisite(s): CRM 224 and one

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CSC 104 - Computer Science II CSC 281 - Advanced Programming CSC 382 - Artificial Intelligence Four Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Inheritance; Polymorphism; Exceptions; Programming for the world wide web. Introduction to artificial intelligence. Knowledge Stream IO; Elementary Data Structures; Design patterns. Presentation Layer: representation. Natural language processing. Graphics; Event Driven Programming. XHTML, CSS, Javascript. Processing Layer: Deduction and inference. Expert systems. XSLT, Servlet Frameworks. Data Layer: Computer vision. Robotics. Programming in Prerequisite(s): CSC 103. XML, Document Object Model. LISP, PROLOG, or another AI language. CSC 195 - How Computers Work Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 CSC 304 - Computer Architecture CSC 384 - Theory of Computation An exploration of how computers work: what goes on inside the computer (hardware), how Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 to program computers (software), the Internet The basics of computer organization, architecture Introduction to the general theory of and communication revolution, artificial and assembly language. Instructions sets, computation. Formal grammars: regular, intelligence, and the limits of computation. address modes, and the run/time stack context-free, and context-sensitive languages. are explored by programming on a RISC Formal automata: finite-state and pushdown Natural Fulfills the General Education machine. CPU and ALU design, performance models. Decidability. Turing Machines. The Scientific Inquiry requirement. analysis, pipelining, cache, virtual memory Chomsky hierarchy. NP-Completeness and are examined. Trade-offs between RISC, CISC Complexity Theory. Also listed as MTH 384. CSC 201 - Discrete Mathematics and advanced architectures is discussed. For Computer Science I Assumes basic knowledge of digital logic. Prerequisite(s): CSC 201. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): CSC 221. CSC 390 - Data Networking Discrete mathematical models for applications Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 in computer science. Mathematical induction, CSC 311 - Algorithms and Complexity graphs, trees, sets, equivalence relations, Data Networking: Data communication system Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 functions, and partially ordered sets. Asymptotic components, network architecture, layered complexity, Big-O, and Big Omega, recursion Basic algorithm techniques: recursion, dynamic protocols, traffic analysis, and capacity planning. and recurrence equations, finite and infinite programming, greedy method branch and bound. Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. sums. Predicate logic and first order logic. Analysis of algorithms: recurrence equations, NP- Basic counting methods, simple combinatorics. completeness, asymptotic complexity. Applications Probability and Markov Chains. Linear algebra, include graph and combinatorial algorithms. CSC 393 - Numerical Analysis applications of linear algebra in computer science. Three Credits Prerequisite(s): CSC 201 and CSC 211. Prerequisite(s): MTH 126, CSC 104. For description and semester CSC 312 - Compiler Design schedule, see MTH 393. CSC 202 - Discrete Mathematics Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 For Computer Science II CSC 399 - Topics in Computer Science Finite automata and lexical analysis, context Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters free grammars, top-down and bottom- An advanced topic in an area of current Discrete mathematical models for applications up parsing, syntax directed translation, interest in computer science. in computer science. Mathematical induction, symbol table techniques, runtime storage graphs, trees, sets, equivalence relations, administration, code generation, optimization. CSC 400 - Computer Science Capstone functions, and partially ordered sets. Asymptotic Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. complexity, Big-O, and Big Omega, recursion Four Credits Spring Semester and recurrence equations, finite and infinite CSC 314 - Operating Systems Large-scale software project involving teamwork, sums. Predicate logic and first order logic. written reports and oral presentations. Basic counting methods, simple combinatorics. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 Probability and Markov Chains. Linear algebra, Process management, concurrency, Prerequisite(s): Senior standing applications of linear algebra in computer science. virtual storage organization, processor in Computer Science. management, auxiliary storage management, Prerequisite(s): MTH 126, CSC 104. operating system performance. CSC 450 - Computer Science Honors Thesis Three Credits Fall and Spring Semester CSC 211 - Data Structures Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. Three Credits Fall Semester For fourth-year students in the Computer Science CSC 323 - Programming Languages Honors Program. Students are required to consult The fundamental methods used to organize with a faculty member regarding a suitable thesis Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 data in computer algorithms: stacks, queues, topic. The final project is judged by a panel linked lists, trees, graphs, searching, and Formal language concepts including syntax of three faculty members. The project may be sorting. Design and analysis of algorithms. and basic characteristics of grammars. Control completed either in one or two semesters. structures, data flow, run-time considerations. Prerequisite(s): CSC 104. Scripting, Functional, and Logic languages. Prerequisite(s): A grade-point average of 3.5 in all Computer Science courses. CSC 221 - Computer Logic and Organization Prerequisite(s): CSC 211. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 CSC 475 - Internship in Computer Science CSC 325 - Database Management Systems The basics of digital logic design. Binary Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 representation of information, Boolean algebra, Opportunity for qualified students to work in the truth tables, combinatorial logic, Karnaugh maps, Data Modeling using the Entity-Relationship computer industry under professional supervision. memory elements, flip flops, latches, registers, approach. The Relational Model and Relational RAM and variations. ALU’s, control logic, and Algebra. SQL. Functional dependencies and CSC 490 - Directed Study finite state machines. The design of a simple normalization. Database design Process. Record Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters computer. Gates and their implementation storage and primary file organization. Index with transistors and integrated circuits. structures for files. Concurrency control techniques. Opportunity for upper level students to do advanced work in a specialized Prerequisite(s): CSC 103. 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Prerequisite(s): Permission of faculty Three Credits Fall Semester distribution; the normal distribution; sampling member directing the project and the This course examines the impact of news on and sampling distributions; statistical inference – Department Chairperson required. financial markets. using tools of economics, estimation and hypothesis testing; index numbers. Bloomberg and financial news from the media, Fulfills the General Education Statistical ECO 171 - Economics and Everyday Life it examines how the financial markets in Reasoning requirement. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters the United States and the globe behave and Studies the economic way of thinking, how move in advance of the news--based on their ECO 242 - Econometrics expectations as well as in response to the news. people make choices, how a market economy Three Credits Spring Semester works. Topics include: assessing policies, Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. shortages, wages, poverty, crime, environment, Is secondary smoke harmful? Learn econometrics to appropriately answer questions like this. The marriage, divorce, family size, declining church ECO 211 - Economics of Labor Unions attendance, Social Security, international theory and application of multivariate regression trade and investment, inflation, interest rate, Three Credits Fall Semester analysis. We concentrate on problems of estimation budget deficits/surpluses. ECO 171 does not Examines the historical and current role of and hypothesis testing of the direction and qualify as an elective for either the major or organized labor in the U.S. and its impact on magnitude of possible causal relationships among minor nor does it substitute for ECO 176. employment, wages, prices, and trade. Additional variables. We use STATA econometrics software. topics include collective bargaining, labor market Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and Fulfills the General Education discrimination, and the globalization of production. ECO 178 and ECO 241. Moral Inquiry requirement. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles ECO 244 - The Economics of Sports Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ECO 217 - Economic History of the Three Credits Spring Semester 20th Century American Family Economic analysis of product and resource The course analyzes the industry of sports, markets. The consumption behavior of Three Credits Spring Semester especially professional and big-time college sports, using and developing tools of economic analysis, households, the price and output decisions The course traces the socioeconomic progress of mainly microeconomics. Topics include the salary of firms under various forms of market a variety of American families over the century. structure of professional team sports and the structure, the distribution of income. Changes in real income, employment conditions, effects of free agency; the factors affecting sports labor force participation, education, residence, Fulfills the General Education Social attendance; the value of sports programming to and family life are examined within the context Scientific Inquiry requirement. broadcasters, and the effect of television revenues; of larger economic, political, and social events the effect of the NCAA on television contracts such as immigration, war, depression, the labor and student-athlete choices; the economic effects ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles movement, civil rights, and women’s rights. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of professional sports franchises and stadia. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. Descriptive, historical and theoretical treatment Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178 and completion of any Stastical Reasoning course. of the overall level of economic activity, ECO 219 - History of World prices and employment within the framework Economic Development of American capitalism. Contributions of ECO 246 - Forensic Economics Three Credits Spring Semester Smith, Ricardo, Keynes, and others. Three Credits Fall Semester The world has experienced an extraordinary Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 Forensic Economics is the study of the but unevenly distributed increase in material contributions made by economists in providing living standards over the last 250 years. This Fulfills the General Education Social expert opinions related to the measurement course examines major developments, issues, Scientific Inquiryrequirement. of economic damages in a vast array of legal and controversies related to long run economic dilemmas and circumstances. Such circumstances development and change. Themes include ECO 205 - Economics of Social include the wrongful death associated with the causes of technological leadership, the Issues and Public Policy medical malpractice, discrimination and wrongful connection between technological change and Three Credits Spring Semester termination, catastrophic personal injuries, and business structure, and the spread of industry. Economic analysis of issues often neglected others. This course provides students with an in traditional economics courses, emphasizing Crosslisted with HIS 219. opportunity to “do economics” by incorporating policies that may alleviate social problems. active learning techniques associated with Topics include healthcare, education, ECO 225 - China’s Economic the functions of the forensic economist. crime, substance abuse, cigarette smoking, Miracle: A Closer Look Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178, and gambling, housing, and family issues. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 statistics from any discipline. Familiarity Prerequisite(s): ECO 176. An introduction to the unprecedented developments with spreadsheet software (such as Excel) taking place in the most populous and fastest is also strongly recommended. ECO 206 - United States Economic History growing nation. Focus on China’s metamorphosis ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics Three Credits Fall 2011 (not offered 2012-2013) from a centrally planned socialist state to a market economy under the umbrella of political Three Credits Fall Semester Basic economic analysis is used to study important suppression. Additional emphasis of the unintended Theory of consumer behavior, the firm, aspects of the economic history of the United consequences of their current “economic growth States. Concentration is on the period from 1830 product and factor markets, with emphasis on at any cost” policies from the perspective of application of theory to real world problems. to 1945, when the U.S. became a major industrial economic theory, as well as from a cross section power. Emphasized are the development of big of disciplines including political science, religion, Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. business, the effect of race and gender on markets, sociology, communications, and film studies. opportunities and incomes, and government policy. ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. Crosslisted with HIS 251. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Not open to first semester students. ECO 241 - Economic Statistics Theory of income, employment, and output; Three Credits Fall Semester economic fluctuations, inflation, interest rates, growth, and stabilization policy. ECO 210 - Impact of the News Descriptive statistics; probability; probability on Financial Markets distributions; expected values; the binomial Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178.

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ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics ECO 323 - Labor Economics differential equations to economic modeling, Three Credits Fall Semester and Manpower Policy equilibrium analysis, optimization, comparative Three Credits Fall Semester static analysis, dynamic analysis and game theory. Theoretical and empirical microeconomic Topics include: theory of the firm, consumer analysis of government policy with respect to the Economic analysis of labor markets, supply and theory, macroeconomic models, and more. efficient allocation of resources and the equitable demand considerations, labor force participation, distribution of income. Learn how appropriately wage determination models, discrimination Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 - MTH 126, and ECO chosen government policy enhances (rather than theories, unemployment, manpower planning 301 - ECO 303; recommended: MTH 251. hinders) efficiency and equity in our society. programs, and other public policies. ECO 341 - Forecasting Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 ECO 309 - Money and Banking ECO 327 - Environmental Economics Examination of modern forecasting methods Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester utilized in economics and business with concentration on econometric models, exponential Analysis of the operation of financial markets Topics in natural resource and energy economics smoothing techniques, and time-series models. and financial institutions focusing on financial and environmental regulation, include the Advanced time-series models, including intermediaries including commercial banks, allocation, development, conservation, and advanced exponential smoothing techniques and investment banks and the central bank. scarcity of natural resources. We study autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) Examines the structure and performance of pollution control through taxes, quotas and techniques (Box-Jenkins models). Evaluation and the bond and stock markets, derivatives, and standards using cost-benefit models as a comparison of forecasting models and techniques. other financial instruments. Extensive use policy guide. Types of energy resources, current market information prepares students substitutability, conversion and the relevance Prerequisite(s): ECO 242 or equivalent. with the real-world knowledge and experience of energy to economic growth is discussed. necessary for careers in the financial world. ECO 343 - International Finance Prerequisite(s): ECO 176. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. Three Credits Fall Semester ECO 329 - Industrial Organization Different aspects of the international financial ECO 311 - International Economics Three Credits Spring Semester markets, international trade, and balance of Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 payments are studied by using analytical models Analysis of industries with varying degree of of an open economy. This course examines the This course covers the major themes of the theory monopoly power and influence: monopolies, structure and the performance of the foreign of international trade. The gains from trade, tariff cartels, oligopolies, and monopolistic exchange market through an extensive use of and non-tariff barriers to trade, the theories of competition. Firm strategies, under both collusive the Bloomberg technology. Using Bloomberg, international trade such as the theory of absolute arrangements and competitive pressures. Policy students learn the interactions between economic and comparative advantage and the Heckscher-Ohlin implications like antitrust and regulation. Effects news, global financial markets and exchange theory will be studied. The justifications for trade of asymmetrically held information – how rates. Particular emphasis is placed on current protection, its effects on the economy, historical and parties with information try to use it, those issues related to the global financial crisis, contemporary U.S. trade policy and the economics lacking information try to make up for it. international monetary system, the European of regional trade agreements will also be discussed. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178 Union and The European Bank. Other topics Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. and one Statistical Reasoning course. include money and financial management for international corporations, interest and ECO 317 - Economics and the Law ECO 333 - Monetary Theory and Policy commodity arbitrage, spot and forward currency markets. Bloomberg Financial Terminals and Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Three Credits Spring Semester Bridge Telerate are used in the course in order Focus on how an understanding of the law is The roles of money, central banking, and to give students a more hands-on knowledge furthered by an awareness of the economic monetary policy in the economy. How the Fed of the international financial markets. background against which it operates. The course reacts to different news and how to predict draws from economic principles developing the impact of the Fed reaction on the financial Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. May not concepts such as efficiency, property rights, community. Topics start with the Classical Theory receive credit for both ECO 343 and BUS 425. regulation and income distribution. Applications moving onto the Keynesian Theory and Milton of these ideas include crime, discrimination, Friedman’s Modern Quantity Theory. Different ECO 401 - Portfolio Management health, the environment, professional sports, Theories on demand for money and supply of Three Credits Spring Semester gun control, and the legal services industry. money and their impact on the conduct and This course is for students interested in pursuing results of monetary policy are examined. Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178. careers in the investment world. It provides them Prerequisite(s): ECO 309 and ECO 303. with the necessary tools to obtain positions in ECO 319 - Urban and Regional Economics portfolio management, investment banking, and money management of mutual funds, retirement Three Credits Spring Semester ECO 335 - Managerial Economics assets, pension funds, and banks’ trusts. Topics Economic analysis of urban and regional dynamics, Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 include risk/ return strategies, optimal portfolio especially changing population and business The application of economic theory and analysis theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, fixed- location factors. Examines the problems of modern to managerial decision-making. Topics include income portfolio management, options markets, cities, e.g., housing, transportation, education, optimization techniques, alternative pricing option valuation, and futures and swaps. crime, and the cost of providing municipal services. policies, various strategic decision making Bloomberg Financial Terminals and Bridge analysis. Senior level managers provide interactive Telerate are used extensively in the course, Prerequisite(s): ECO 176. lectures emphasizing the decision-making as they are in the financial community. This process applicable to their firm or industry. simulates the interaction between markets, and ECO 321 - Economics of Healthcare creates a virtual trading investment opportunity. Prerequisite(s): ECO 301, ECO 303, Three Credits Spring Semester Familiarity with this real-world tool prepares ECO 241, ECO 242 or equivalent. Economic analysis of healthcare delivery markets, students for the jobs mentioned above. physician and nurse shortages, insurance industry ECO 337 - Mathematical Economics Prerequisite(s): ECO 309 or ECO 303, and distortions, models of hospital behavior, demand Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 consent of the Instructor. May not receive and supply considerations, impact of market failure. credit for both ECO 401 and BUS 327. Applications of calculus, linear algebra and Prerequisite(s): ECO 176.

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ECO 420 - Fixed Income Analysis Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.0 GPA and EDU 202 - Reading: Theory and Instruction Three Credits Spring Semester permission of the Internship Coordinator Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and Department Chairperson required. This course covers valuation and portfolio Introduces principles and procedures for teaching management techniques for fixed income the fundamentals of reading. Examines reading as ECO 490 - Directed Study securities. Major topics include: the term of a process. Emphasizes current reading research, structure or interest rates; the measurement Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters methodology, multicultural concerns, reading and management of price volatility using Investigation in some field for which the disability, innovative practices, grouping patterns, duration and immunization; credit risk student has special interest not covered by and changing language philosophies. Emergent embedded options and option-adjusted a normally-scheduled course. Student must literacy through the intermediate grades. spreads; mortgages and prepayments risk; present plans in advance of pre-registration Prerequisite(s): EDU 102 or EDU 104. and international bond portfolios. to some full-time faculty member who will Not open to first-year students. agree to direct and evaluate the project. Prerequisite(s): ECO 309 or BUS 327. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the faculty EDU 208 - Planning for ECO 421 - Seminar in Economic History member directing the project and the Multicultural Learning Three Credits Spring Semester Department Chairperson required. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Major works of economic history are studied, EDU 102 - Foundations of Education Defines concerns regarding human diversity as to understand the field’s major narratives and they relate to the education process. Engages methodology. Students write a major research Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters students in a personal and group process toward paper, give each other feedback, and make Introduces students to the field of elementary understanding differences. Extends student a formal presentation to the department. education. Built both on abstract and concrete awareness for the variety, richness, and contrasts experiences: two-thirds of course time is in cultures as a basis for appreciating the force Prerequisite(s): Senior EC major, ECO devoted to historic, social, and philosophical of culture in identity, behavior, belief, and 241, ECO 301 and ECO 303. foundations of education. Current issues and attitude. Develops ability to perceive and analyze Fall 2011 Capstone seminar for Economics majors. information concerning teacher certification the sources and consequences of prejudice, are included in the course. Fieldwork directly discrimination, and racism. Relates all the above ECO 449 - Economics Honors Thesis I with elementary children is included. to teaching concerns. Emphasizes students’ choice of material for reflection and examination. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): Open to first-year or sophomore-year students only. Thesis-writing seniors in the economics Honor EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive Program are required to consult with a faculty Pre-practicum required. Learning Environment advisor and to begin research for a thesis. This requires a minimum of a well-developed Fulfills the General Education Social Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters topic, comprehensive review of the literature Scientific Inquiry requirement. Examines disabling conditions, legal requirements, and evidence that sufficient data is available and the instructional methods/techniques used to conduct empirical work, as demonstrated EDU 104 - Early Care and Education for serving exceptional children and youth in in writing and through an oral presentation to Three Credits Fall Semester the regular classroom, with strong emphasis on the economics faculty, Consult “Departmental inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism. Fieldwork Honors Program” section for more detail. Covers historical, social and philosophical with students with special needs is required. foundations of early childhood education and Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing, acceptance the integrated preschool. It examines a variety Pre-practicum required. Not open to the Economics Honors Program, of instructional models in the field and looks at to first-year students. consent of Department Chair. developmentally appropriate practice in terms of classroom environments, classroom management and EDU 210 - Children in Preschools ECO 450 - Economics Honors Thesis II constructivist learning theories. Fieldwork is required. and Kindergarten Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): Open to first-year or Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Thesis-writing seniors in the Economics Honors sophomore-year students only. Course for Early Childhood majors and others Program are required to complete a thesis interested in familiarizing themselves with the Pre-practicum required. paper and will make an oral presentation to needs of preschool and kindergarten children as the economics faculty in accordance with they apply to school environments. Explores the Department’s timetable. Consult “Department EDU 125 - Learning to Teach I physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and creative Honors Program” section for more detail. One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters needs of the child 3 through 5 years of age with and without disabilities. Focuses on typical and atypical Prerequisite(s): ECO 449, Senior Standing, A series of six evening seminars facilitated by development, early literacy, parents and families, acceptance to the Economics Honor Stonehill faculty and professional education the role of play and other concerns of the Early Program, consent of Department Chair. practitioners. EDU 125 will focus on secondary students and their unique learning needs. Topics Childhood field. Field Work: One half day per week. ECO 475 - Internship in Economic Research will include: Who are our students? Where do Pre-practicum required. Not open they come from? And how do we reach them? Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters to first-year students. Pre-practicum required. Students work at a business or government EDU 213 - Inclusive Learning organization (sponsor) under the supervision of both a faculty member and the sponsor. The EDU 201 - Developmental Theories in Early Education field of study and sponsoring organization is Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters specific to the student’s interest. In the past, Developmental Theories focuses on the cognitive, Provides students with a comprehensive study of students have worked in a wide variety of social, emotional, linguistic, physical and cultural issues surrounding children (ages birth to school fields, including brokerage firms, state and development of children (from conception age) who have special needs. Focus includes local government agencies, private banks, and through adolescence) and how their development legislation, Early Intervention and the role of the consulting organizations. The student’s main impacts the learning and teaching process. Course family in the education of a young exceptional academic requirement is to successfully complete emphasizes the application of theory and research child. Fieldwork with preschool/ kindergarten a detailed paper describing the connection from the field of psychology to the realm of students with special needs is required. between their internship responsibilities and teaching and learning in contemporary classrooms. economic theory and quantitative techniques. Pre-practicum required. Not open (Pre-practicum hours required.) to first-year students. THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 59 academic LIfe

EDU 220 - Children’s Literature Curriculum and Methods Students will develop a remedial plan Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters based on diagnostic information. Develops an awareness of and sensitivity to Familiarizes students with approaches and Prerequisite(s): EDU 202 and children’s literature. Builds skills necessary to materials for teaching, and develops beginning (EDU 209 or EDU 213). guide children’s experiences with literature. competence in designing and evaluating curricular Explores a variety of genres including multicultural programs and activities. Emphasizes lesson EDU 330 - Reading & Writing literature. Not open to first-year students. planning, unit planning, and the development in the Content Areas of learning centers particularly as they relate to Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 EDU 225 - Learning to Teach II mathematics and science instruction. Preschool Development of techniques to meet the One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters through sixth grade. Computer literacy skills are addressed throughout the course. reading and writing needs of students across A series of six evening seminars facilitated content areas. Emphasis is placed on strategies by Stonehill faculty and professional Prerequisite(s): EDU 102 or EDU 104, and Junior which teach students to improve learning education practitioners. EDU 225 will focus standing. Pre-practicum: 1 full day/week required. through application of reading and writing on administration and governance – i.e. the techniques. Not open to first-year students. decision-making process within middle schools EDU 315 - Curriculum and and high schools. Topics will include: missions Instructional Design EDU 333 - Topics in Education statement and philosophies; Massachusetts Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits DESE and U.S. Department of Education; school committee, school board, and board of trustees Course familiarizes PK–12 pre-service teachers In-depth coverage of an up-to-date advanced superintendent and principal and legal issues. with instructional and pedagogical approaches educational topic. This course is an advanced and materials for teaching. Develops beginning education elective for Education majors / Prerequisite(s): EDU 125. competence in designing and evaluating curricular Secondary Education minors. Specific content programs and activities. Course emphasizes lesson Pre-practicum required. focuses on cutting edge educational theory and planning, unit planning, and implementation practice in the specific sub-discipline of the in the PK-12 classroom. Computer literacy faculty member teaching the course. Course is EDU 301 - Assessment and skills are addressed throughout the course. repeatable with consent of Department Chair. Analysis in Education Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): EDU 102 or EDU 104 , Course requires junior status or higher. EDU 430 - Practicum: Early A systematic and comprehensive exploration Childhood Education that introduces the prospective teacher to the EDU 316 - Classroom Theater Nine Credits Fall and Spring Semesters elements of measurement and elements of evaluation essential to good teaching. Course Three Credits Spring Semester Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching content also examines statistical reasoning as it An introduction to dramatic literature suitable licensure [Teacher: Early Childhood: Teacher of applies to educational research and practice. for use in grades K-6. The use of this type of Students with and Without Disabilities, (PK-2)]. material has been shown to increase reading Practicum hours in two settings (1) PK/K & (2) 1st Prerequisite(s): EDU 102 or EDU 104. skills, self-image, and sense of community. /2nd grade. Evaluation based upon Massachusetts Not open to first-year students. To experience this type of learning, students DESE Initial License Teaching Standards. Fulfills the General Education Statistical undergo the process involved in classroom Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, completion of Reasoning requirement. drama so that they might better utilize this all Education requirements, minimum 3.0 GPA, teaching philosophy in their own classrooms. passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of EDU 306 - Speech and Language Development Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters EDU 320 - Teaching Math, Must be taken concurrently with EDU 440 . Science & Technology Investigates normal children’s acquisition of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters EDU 435 - Practicum: Elementary Education sounds, structures, and meanings of their native language. The stages of language acquisition Course focuses on developing content/pedagogy Nine Credits Fall and Spring Semesters discussed in light of: (a) the organization and aligned with national standards in the STEM Supervised practicum leading to initial description of adult language, (b) biological fields (science, technology, engineering & teaching licensure [Elementary (1-6)]. and cognitive development, and (c) universal mathematics). Emphasis will be placed on how Evaluation based upon Massachusetts DESE and individual patterns of development. students learn within these disciplines. Course Initial License Teaching Standards. culminates in the creation of a community based Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, completion of EDU 307 - Classroom Management STEM project. (Pre-practicum hours required). all Education requirements, minimum 3.0 GPA, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters EDU 325 - Learning to Teach III passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of Relationship of classroom organization to academic Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision. One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters achievement and classroom behavior. An analysis Must be taken concurrently with EDU 440 . of alternative classroom designs, patterns of A series of six evening seminars facilitated by interactions, and hierarchies of learning to Stonehill faculty and professional education EDU 437 - Practicum: Secondary create a well-organized and effective learning practitioners. EDU 325 will focus on teaching Education 5-12 Level environment. Not open to first-year students. and learning. Topics will include: meeting Nine Credits Fall and Spring Semesters individual student needs; Special Education; Supervised practicum leading to initial EDU 312 - Art, Music and Movement English Language Learners; classroom management; and standardized testing. teaching licensure [Secondary (content area, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters e.g. foreign language): 5-12].Practicum hours Course focus is on art, music and movement Prerequisite(s): EDU 225. in two settings (1) middle school & (2) high as creative processes, as expressive modalities Pre-practicum required. school. Evaluation based on Massachusetts and as educative and insight-building tools for DESE Initial License Teaching Standards. children with and without disabilities. Course EDU 327 - Diagnosis and Remediation Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, completion of work stresses a developmental perspective all Education requirements, minimum 3.0 GPA, of children’s art, music and movement of Reading Disabilities passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of expression. Not open to first-year students. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision. Examination of diagnostic techniques used Must be taken concurrently with EDU 440 . EDU 314 - Preschool and Elementary in the identification of reading disabilities.

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EDU 439 - Practicum: Secondary Opportunity for upper-class students to ENG 271 - Film and Story Education 8-12 Level carry out an advanced research project in a Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Nine Credits Fall and Spring Semesters specialized area of education under the direction of a faculty member from the Education An introduction to film art through a Supervised practicum leading to initial teaching Department. The research may be part of comparison of its distinguishing features license [Secondary (content area, e.g. Biology, an ongoing project being conducted by the with those of fiction and of drama. Chemistry, English, History, Mathematics, faculty member, or the student and faculty Political Science/Political Philosophy): 8-12]. member may develop an original project. ENG 272 - Film History Evaluation based on the Massachusetts Three Credits Spring Semester DESE Initial License Teaching Standards. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both faculty member directing the project and the Department A survey of major film industries and canonical Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, completion of Chairperson. Not open to first-year students. texts presented in a chronological order all Education requirements, minimum 3.0 GPA, serving specific themes (for example, film- passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of ENG 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies making in a given geographical region). Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Must be taken concurrently with EDU 440 . ENG 273 - Hitchcock Introduction to the vocabulary and practices Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar of criticism and the skills of close reading. A survey of Alfred Hitchcock’s work and Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ENG 201 - Literary History I obsessions. This course welcomes students Series of evening seminars taken concurrently with no prior experience in the study of with appropriate practicum. Facilitated by Four Credits Fall Semester film. Additional screening time required. Stonehill faculty and professional education Introduction to English literary history through practitioners, this capstone seminar will address poetry, drama, and narrative from Anglo- Saxon ENG 280 - Shakespeare for Everyone current issues of best practice in education. roots to the development of British literary genres Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Issues around assessment and evaluation of in the medieval and early modern periods. teaching as well as professional development This course provides a general introduction and teacher support will be addressed. ENG 202 - Literary History II to the drama of William Shakespeare. We will carefully explore the genres that Shakespeare Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, completion of Three Credits Spring Semester mastered – comedy, tragedy, romance, and the all Education requirements, minimum 3.0 GPA, Exploration of literature in the modern history play – by focusing primarily on how passing scores on all MTEL subtests, and consent of period, paying particular attention to the Shakespeare uses language to create character Director of Licensure, Placement and Supervision. development of genres, the expansion of the and dramatic tension and engages with larger British Empire, and the emergence of the Must be taken concurrently with EDU ethical, social, and political questions. British and American literary traditions. 430, EDU 435, EDU 437, or EDU 439. ENG 300 - Critical Theory EDU 475 - Senior Field Project ENG 204 - Drama Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Spring Semester Nine or Twelve Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Introduction to contemporary theory – its Through the study of traditional and non- Field experience for 15 weeks, 3 or 5 days origin and framework – by examining literary traditional types of drama (to include screenplays per week. Student will design a field-based criticism as an institutional discourse. as well), students are introduced to new ways research project in consultation with an of classifying and reading texts. Designed for Prerequisite(s): ENG 200. Education Department faculty member. both entering and upper-level students with Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of a particular emphasis on close reading. ENG 301 - Topics in Medieval Literature instructor and Department Chairperson required. Three Credits Fall Semester ENG 205 - Fiction A thematic study of texts, figures, and EDU 476 - Internship in Education Three Credits Spring Semester influences associated with the literature of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Through the study of traditional and non- the Middle Ages. May be taken twice. Research or practical experience in the field of traditional types of fiction (to include short education at an outside agency. The upper-class stories as well), students are introduced to new ENG 304 - Topics in Early Modern Literature student is expected to carry out a supervised ways of classifying and reading texts. Designed Three Credits Spring Semester assignment based upon experiences in the field for both entering and upper-level students A thematic study of texts, figures, and working alongside a supervising practitioner. with a particular emphasis on close reading. influences associated with the literature of the Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor early modern period. May be taken twice. ENG 220 - Introductory Topics in Literature and Department Chairperson required. Not open to first-year students. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ENG 306 - Topics in British Introductory literary seminars that emphasize Literature, 1700-1900 EDU 490 - Directed Study in Education the development of writing and analytic Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters skills necessary for upper-division English A critical analysis of various cultural courses. Topics will vary from semester to Investigation in a field of education for which and literary issues that emerge in British semester. Priority given to first- and second- literature. May be taken twice. the student has special interest not covered year students. May be taken twice. by a normally-scheduled course. Students must present plans in advance of course ENG 307 - Topics in British ENG 257 - Global Detective Fiction selection to a full-time faculty member who Literature, 1900 - Present Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 will agree to direct and evaluate the project. Three Credits Spring Semester A critical study of contemporary novels by Prerequisite(s): Approval of both faculty member A critical analysis of various cultural authors offering new, globally inflected twists directing the project and the Department and literary issues that emerge in British on an old form. Readings might include Chairperson. Not open to first-year students. Literature in the twentieth and twenty- mysteries and crime fictions by Henning first centuries. May be taken twice. Mankell, Luiz Garcia Roza, Dennis Potter, EDU 496 - Independent Research in Education Alexander McCall Smith, and Donna Leon. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters

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ENG 310 - Topics in World Literature ENG 342 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry from England and Ireland with a focus on Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters specific themes and on performance texts. A critical analysis of literature An introduction to poetry writing that will ENG 358 - Classical Backgrounds outside of the American and British include the examination of literary models traditions. May be taken twice. in a variety of genres, writing exercises, and to English Literature writing workshops. May be taken twice. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 ENG 322 - World Cinema An introduction to the literature of ancient Greece Three Credits Spring Semester ENG 343 - Topics in Creative and Rome, including mythology, Greek drama, Writing: Short Fiction and the epic poems of Homer and Virgil. A critical study of specific topics related to cinema production in countries outside of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ENG 359 - Nineteenth-century British Poetry Europe and North America, with emphasis on An introduction to narrative writing, the periods since the introduction of sound. including description, setting, dialogue, Three Credits Spring Semester characterization, plot. May be taken twice. A critical reading of Romantic and Victorian ENG 323 - Film Industry poets, along with relevant prose. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 ENG 344 - Expository Writing An historical introduction to the economics Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 ENG 360 - American Literature to 1865 and politics of film production. Writing the essay based on various modes Three Credits Fall Semester of expository writing. Discussion of A chronological survey of texts, ENG 324 - Television Drama rhetorical discourse, writing techniques, figures, and influences associated with Three Credits Spring Semester and publication possibilities. American literature of the period. A survey of television genres based on ENG 347 - Topics in Catholicism contemporary critical theories. ENG 361 - American Literature, 1865-present and Literature Three Credits Spring Semester ENG 325 - Film and Ideology Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 A chronological survey of texts, figures, and Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 An engagement with Catholic writers influences associated with the period. and themes in British and American A critical study of films representing the Literature. May be taken twice. images, myths, and rituals that reflect ENG 362 - Topics in Poetry commonly held beliefs and attitudes Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 ENG 348 - Topics in Religion and Literature regarding sex, gender, race, and class. A critical reading of poetry. Topics vary from Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 semester to semester. May be taken twice. ENG 326 - American Cinema This course examines the emergence Three Credits Fall Semester of spiritual themes and traditions in ENG 366 - Topics in Twentieth- literary texts. May be taken twice. A critical study of specific topics related to the Century American Literature American narrative film, with emphasis on the Three Credits Spring Semester ENG 349 - Topics in Irish Literature periods since the introduction of sound. An examination of themes in twentieth- Three Credits Fall Semester century literature. Topics will vary from ENG 327 - European Cinema A critical analysis of various cultural and semester to semester. May be taken twice. Three Credits Spring Semester literary issues that emerge in Irish fiction, poetry, and drama. May be taken twice. A critical study of specific topics related to the ENG 367 - Topics in Nineteenth- European narrative film, with emphasis on the Century American Literature periods since the introduction of sound. ENG 350 - Chaucer Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester An examination of themes in nineteenth- ENG 328 - Film and Gender A study of Chaucer’s poetry, with attention century literature. Topics will vary from Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 to the cultural and political forces that semester to semester. May be taken twice. shaped late medieval poetics. The study of gender issues on both sides of the camera: the representation of gender in ENG 368 - Race, Ethnicity, and film and the participation of women and men ENG 353 - Shakespeare American Culture in film production. Texts include classic and Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 contemporary cinema and critical readings. Close readings of Shakespeare’s work. An exploration of the relationship between American racial and ethnic politics and ENG 329 - Race in American Film ENG 354 - Shakespeare’s Rivals twentieth-century American culture. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Spring Semester An exploration of the politics and A study of theater in early modern culture, ENG 369 - African-American Literature aesthetics of race in American cinema. with attention to the drama of Shakespeare’s Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 competitors: Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, and Middleton. An exploration of landmarks in African- ENG 333 - Topics in Science Fiction American writing from the time of Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 ENG 356 - Topics in British and slavery to the contemporary period. An exploration of various themes in science Continental Literature 1660-1800 fiction and fantasy. May be taken twice. Three Credits Spring Semester ENG 371 - Topics in Contemporary Literature A critical study of various genres and Three Credits Fall Semester ENG 336 - The Romance figures from the Restoration through the A critical study of contemporary writing Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 18th century. May be taken twice. linked by thematic or theoretical An historical survey of the romance from interests. May be taken twice. Heliodorus to the Harlequin. ENG 357 - English and Irish Drama Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 A critical survey of dramatic genres and texts

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ENG 380 - Modern Poetry ENG 422 - Seminar This course will satisfy the requirement Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters under Moral Reasoning. Moral theory aims to discover actions that are universally binding A critical analysis of issues of voice, persona, and An examination of thematically while allowing for individual differences genre in modern and contemporary poetry. related works within the framework and various circumstances. This course of contemporary critical theory. examines ethical theories as applied to ENG 381 - Modern Drama Prerequisite(s): ENG 300. contemporary problems and specifically Three Credits Fall Semester problems related to the natural environment. Fall topic: Keats, Shelley and the Romantic Age. A critical survey of world drama since Fulfills the General Education the late nineteenth century. Spring topics: (1) Race, Gender and Reform Moral Inquiry requirement. in the 19th Century America; (2) Are We ENG 382 - American Drama Postracial Yet? Roots Culture and the Rise ENV 275 - Environmental Law of Identity in Contemporary America. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Fall Semester A study of specific topics related to North ENG 475 - Internship This course explores rationales for environmental American plays of the twentieth century. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters protection; the choice of policy instruments to address environmental problems; and ENG 385 - Taking the Victorians to the Movies Designed to give English majors an acquaintance the roles played by governmental and non- Three Credits Fall Semester with – and experience in – careers that extend governmental actors. Practical experience from their training in the major. Internships with issues of environmental law will be An exploration of why the Victorians have never provide a practicum where students work for a gained through a partnership with the gone out of style, using films to understand the particular business and a seminar where students Natural Resources Trust of Easton. novels on which they are based and vice-versa. meet on a regular basis with the instructor. ENG 389 - Alternative Modernisms ENV 295 - Environmental Geology ENG 476 - Teaching Apprenticeship Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters A systems approach to geology and landforms, An examination of the anti-colonial, Designed for senior English majors seriously including ecosystems that develop on the feminist, and queer foundations of literary intending to pursue graduate study, this abiotic substrate. Scientific study of the earth’s modernism between 1890 and 1945. apprenticeship gives the students experience modern and ancient lithosphere, hydrosphere in creating and coordinating a general studies and atmosphere. Includes substantial ENG 390 - Topics in Modernism course under the direction of a faculty member. field work both on- and off-campus. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): ENG 200 and ENG Fulfills the General Education Natural Critical study of representative literature from 300, and permission of Department Scientific Inquiry requirement. the modernist period. May be taken twice. Chairperson. May be taken twice. ENV 299 - Ecology, Theologies ENG 391 - Topics in Gender Studies ENG 497 - Senior Thesis and Worldviews Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 A study of issues of gender, race, and A course for students who want How does our world function? Where do we fit, class as they emerge in critical and to do an extended project. ecologically and cosmically? Methodological and literary texts. May be taken twice. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the historical approaches to understanding reality from Department Chairperson. scientific and religious perspectives. Consideration ENG 392 - Topics in Postcolonial of ecological principles, biodiversity and evolution; and Global Literature ENV 101 - Eco Representatives realism/relativism; scientific materialism/biblical Three Credits Spring Semester literalism; reductionism/holism; immanence/ One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters An investigation of themes within the frame transcendence; ecospiritualities/ecotheologies. Students enrolled will learn the basics of ecological of postcolonial studies. Topics will vary from Fulfills the General Education Natural semester to semester. May be taken twice. sustainability, and then design and implement education programs for their peers (in their Scientific Inquiry requirement. residence hall or among the commuter population). ENG 394 - Sexuality and Textuality ENV 301 - Water Resource Management Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): Firs-Year Students Three Credits Fall Semester and Sophomores only. A critical examination of the definitions of Offered through the Massachusetts Bay sexual orientation found in diverse texts. ENV 200 - Principles of Marine Studies Consortium. Interdisciplinary examination of water, our most precious Environmental Science ENG 395 - Introduction to Postcolonial natural resource. A look at water from scientific, Literature and Culture Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters historical, and cultural viewpoints. Survey of Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Fundamentals of the life sciences and physical contemporary water problems in all dimensions: political, economic, and technological. A critical introduction to the poetry, sciences as they pertain to our environmental fiction, and drama of the postcolonial problems and solutions, as well as consideration world. Discussions will be informed by an of the pertinent social sciences such as ENV 302 - Coastal Zone Management introduction to postcolonial theory. economics. This interdisciplinary science course Three Credits Spring Semester teaches relevant basic research techniques for field and lab work, and students will conduct Current issues in coastal environmental affairs. ENG 398 - Telling Tales: Theories of Narrative research on real environmental problems. Scientific, legal, economic, management, and Three Credits Spring Semester technical aspects of coastal issues are integrated Fulfills the General Education Natural into problem-solving exercises. History of the The study of how and why we construct Scientific Inquiry requirement. degradation and clean-up of Boston Harbor. stories: an introduction to narrative theory, using texts from Jane Austen to comic books. Prerequisite(s): Course in Biology, Chemistry, ENV 270 - Environmental Ethics Geology, or Environmental Planning. Prerequisite(s): ENG 300 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters

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ENV 475 - Environmental Internship highly contextualized authentic texts. During both acquire knowledge and new information from Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, comprehensive authentic text. Content embraces home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure concepts of broader cultural significance, including Opportunity for qualified students to activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, institutions, such as the educational system, the work in the environmental industry clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and government, and political and social issues in under professional supervision. aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, the target culture. Both concepts and abstract direction, buildings and monuments, weather topics of human and personal interest including ENV 490 - Directed Study and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical music, literature, the arts, and the sciences. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters figures, places and events, colors, numbers, Opportunity for upper level students days, dates, months, time, food and customs, FRN 332 - Advanced French II to do advanced work in a specialized transportation, travel, and professions and work.) Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters area of environmental studies. FRN 231 - Intermediate French I For students with three or more years of French/Spanish. First and Second Semesters ENV 496 - Senior Thesis Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of Advanced Courses (331-332) in French/ Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ Spanish In the Advanced Courses students Independent scholarly work under the German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second expand their previous ability in their foreign guidance of a faculty member, resulting Semesters of Intermediate Courses (231-232) language, and develop the ability to: when in a substantial written work. in French/Italian/Spanish (German take GRM speaking, use simple dialogue of paragraph 231 & GRM 233) In the Intermediate Courses length in a series of cohesive and coherent FRN 131 - Elementary French I students expand their previous ability in their paragraphs; when listening, understand most foreign language, and develop the ability to: authentic spoken language; when writing, create Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters when speaking, use strings of related sentences; a series of coherent paragraphs; when reading, For students with no previous study or 1-2 years when listening, understand most spoken language acquire knowledge and new information from of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. when the message is deliberately and carefully comprehensive authentic text. Content embraces First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses conveyed by a speaker accustomed to dealing with concepts of broader cultural significance, including (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; institutions, such as the educational system, the the first semester students develop the ability to: when reading, acquire knowledge and new government, and political and social issues in when speaking and writing, use short sentences, information from comprehensive authentic text. the target culture. Both concepts and abstract learned words and phrases, simple questions, Content includes topics culturally pertinent to topics of human and personal interest including and commands; when listening, understand some the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, music, literature, the arts, and the sciences. ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand on significant people and events in these fields. FRN 333 - French Culture and Civilization I short texts enhanced by visuals. During the Familiar topics may include career choices, the Three Credits Fall Semester second semester students expand their ability environment, social issues, and political issues. from the first semester, and develop the ability to: Study of contemporary French culture when speaking and listening, use and understand FRN 232 - Intermediate French II and its recent history, social issues, economy, attitudes and institutions. learned expressions, sentences, and strings of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters sentences, questions, and commands; when For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of writing, create simple par agraphs; when reading, high school French) FRN 332 or higher. understand important ideas and some details in German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second Semesters of Intermediate Courses (231-232) highly contextualized authentic texts. During both FRN 334 - French Culture and Civilization II semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, in French/Italian/Spanish (German take GRM Three Credits Spring Semester home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure 231 & GRM 233) In the Intermediate Courses activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, students expand their previous ability in their Study of contemporary French culture clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and foreign language, and develop the ability to: and its recent history, social issues, aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, when speaking, use strings of related sentences; economy, attitudes and institutions. direction, buildings and monuments, weather when listening, understand most spoken language Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical when the message is deliberately and carefully high school French) FRN 332 or higher. figures, places and events, colors, numbers, conveyed by a speaker accustomed to dealing with days, dates, months, time, food and customs, learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; transportation, travel, and professions and work.) when reading, acquire knowledge and new FRN 335 - Survey of French Literature I information from comprehensive authentic text. Three Credits Fall Semester Content includes topics culturally pertinent to FRN 132 - Elementary French II Survey of writers representing major the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, movements in French Literature from Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis the Middle Ages to the present. For students with no previous study or 1-2 years on significant people and events in these fields. of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. Familiar topics may include career choices, the Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses environment, social issues, and political issues. high school French) FRN 332 or higher. (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During the first semester students develop the ability to: FRN 331 - Advanced French I FRN 336 - Survey of French Literature II when speaking and writing, use short sentences, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Spring Semester learned words and phrases, simple questions, and commands; when listening, understand some For students with three or more years of Survey of writers representing major ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, French/Spanish. First and Second Semesters movements in French Literature from uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand of Advanced Courses (331-332) in French/ the Middle Ages to the present. short texts enhanced by visuals. During the Spanish In the Advanced Courses students expand their previous ability in their foreign Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of second semester students expand their ability high school French) FRN 332 or higher. from the first semester, and develop the ability to: language, and develop the ability to: when when speaking and listening, use and understand speaking, use simple dialogue of paragraph FRN 337 - French Conversation learned expressions, sentences, and strings of length in a series of cohesive and coherent sentences, questions, and commands; when paragraphs; when listening, understand most and Composition writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, authentic spoken language; when writing, create Three Credits Fall Semester a series of coherent paragraphs; when reading, understand important ideas and some details in Builds fluency in both oral and written

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 64 academic LIfe work. Students learn to express themselves of primary sources and their uses, historical and secular traditions as seen in the contemporary with more ease and to write with advanced perspectives, historiography, and competing tensions between religion and science. level of thought, organization and linguistic interpretations of crucial events in history. correction. Materials used will include GENR 140 - Honors Critical newspapers, films and literary texts. GENH 140 - Honors Critical Encounters – Religious Studies Prerequisite(s): FRN 332 or higher. Encounters – History Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester An examination of the way religions have been FRN 338 - Histoire(s) De Rire(s): An introduction to the study of history studied as an academic discipline. The course Comedy in French Culture through documentary evidence and historical focuses primarily on the theme of religious Three Credits Spring Semester writing. Emphasizes key goals and questions, encounters: with the divine as reported by including: “What is History?” and “Who seminal religious figures; between religious Study of social satire and comedy in French Owns History?” In this course students communities; and between religious and culture. We will attempt to understand what develop an awareness of primary sources, secular traditions as seen in contemporary is funny and how one laughs in a variety of historical perspectives, historiography, and tensions between religion and science. literary texts, songs, comics, TV shows and competing interpretations of crucial events. films. The course will explore the humorous GND 101 - Introduction to Gender mechanisms of irony, caricature, parody, GENL 100 - Critical Encounters – Literature satire, situational comedy, black humor, etc. and Sexuality Studies Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): FRN 332 or higher. A historical and thematic study of literature and This course fosters critical thinking about allied arts that places written and performance sex and gender. It is an interdisciplinary and FRN 340 - French Cinema texts within the context of other works cross-cultural study of the key questions Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters representing diverse cultures and periods. All and debates surrounding the biological, Study of contemporary French cinema the sections will emphasize the development psychological and sociological determinants with an emphasis on conversation of skills related to close reading (interpretation, of gender. This course examines historical and language proficiency. analysis, evaluation) and precise writing. and contemporary issues including systems of gender oppression, media, education, work, Prerequisite(s): Recommended 4 years of GENL 140 - Honors Critical parenting, health and wellness, and violence. high school French. FRN 332 or higher. Encounters – Literature Three Credits Fall Semester GND 200 - Topics in Gender FRN 342 - Gender Construction and Sexuality Studies in Francophone Culture A historical and thematic study of literature and Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall Semester allied arts that places texts in the context of other creative work from diverse cultures and Introductory seminars that investigate a timely The course examines how race, gender and periods. The course emphasizes the development topic from the perspective of gender and/ sexuality are represented in literary works by of skills related to close reading, interpretation, or sexuality studies. Topics vary semester to French male and female authors and film directors analysis, evaluation, and precise writing. semester. Course may be taken three times. and how they have used alterity as a mirror for self-reflection, as an example for social change, and GENP 100 - Critical Encounters – Philosophy GND 475 - Internship as the locus of a threat to cultural homogeneity. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): FRN 332 . An introductory examination of the history and An internship with a focus on gender and/ nature of Western philosophical thought from or sexuality, culminating in a critical reflection FRN 348 - Nineteenth Century the ancient Greeks to the present. Discussion project. Possible internships include working French Literature of the fundamental areas of philosophy in women’s organizations, domestic abuse Three Credits Spring Semester including metaphysics (questions about what shelters, rape crisis centers, law offices, women’s Major aesthetic movements in French literature is), epistemology (questions about how we resource centers, gay and lesbian organizations, from the nineteenth century. Poems and novels know), logic (the rules of good thinking), ethics and political campaigns. The internship is associated with Romanticism, Realism and (questions about what is good and just), social supervised by a committee consisting of two Symbolism will be studied with an attention to and political philosophy (questions about the or three faculty members. Students must obtain the dialogue between literature and fine arts. relation between the individual and society), and project approval from the program Directors aesthetics (questions about art and beauty). before beginning the internship (more details are Prerequisite(s): FRN 332 or higher and provided on the “Student Proposal for Capstone ability to read prose in French. GENP 140 - Honors Critical Project” form on the program website). Encounters – Philosophy FRN 475 - Internship in French Studies Three Credits Fall Semester GND 490 - Directed Study Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An introductory inquiry into the history and Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Opportunity for qualified student to work with nature of Western philosophical thought from the An in-depth study of an original research question their foreign language skills in a variety of ancient Greeks to the present. The course covers regarding gender and/or sexuality, culminating in professional areas. Field placement depends some of the fundamental areas of philosophy, a major project. The directed study is supervised on the student’s interests and abilities. including metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, by a committee consisting of two or three social and political theories, and aesthetics. faculty members. Students must obtain project Prerequisite(s): FRN 332 or higher. approval from the program Directors before GENR 100 - Critical Encounters beginning the directed study (more details are GENH 100 - Critical Encounters – History – Religious Studies provided on the “Student Proposal for Capstone Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Project” form on the program website). An introduction to the study of history, focusing on documentary evidence and historical An examination of the way religions have been GRK 131 - Introduction ot Attic Greek I studied as an academic discipline, focusing writing drawn from a variety of themes and Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters periods. Emphasizes key goals and questions, primarily on the theme of religious encounters: Introduction to Attic Greek, the language of including “What is History?” and “Who Owns encounters with the divine as reported by seminal the great poets, historians and philosophers History?” Students will develop an awareness religious figures; encounters between religious communities; and encounters between religious of the Classical Age. In the first year the

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By the end of the course activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, and newspapers and internet videos. they will be able to read sentences from clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and Prerequisite(s): GRM 331 the New Testament, Aristotle and Plato. aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, direction, buildings and monuments, weather GRK 132 - Introduction to Attic Greek II and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical HCA 101 - American Sign Language I Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters figures, places and events, colors, numbers, Three Credits Fall Semester days, dates, months, time, food and customs, Introduces American Sign Language and deaf The continuation of the course on the grammar, transportation, travel, and professions and work.) syntax and vocabulary of ancient Greek. Special culture, focusing on frequently used signs, basic rules of grammar, non-manual aspects emphasis is placed on the voices, moods GRM 231 - Intermediate German I and tenses of the Greek verbs, and the more of ASL, introductory fingerspelling, and some complicated clausal constructions. At the end of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters cultural features of the deaf community. the course all the basic grammar of the language In the Intermediate Courses students expand will be covered, and the students will be able their previous ability in their foreign language, HCA 102 - American Sign Language II to read more extensive and complicated texts. and develop the ability to: when speaking, use Three Credits Spring Semester strings of related sentences; when listening, Prerequisite(s): GRK 131 Continues basic language and culture study. Offers understand most spoken language when the an opportunity to build receptive and expressive message is deliberately and carefully conveyed GRM 131 - Elementary German I ASL vocabulary. Topics include the use of signing by a speaker accustomed to dealing with space and further use of non-manual components, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; including facial expression and body postures. For students with no previous study or 1-2 years when reading, acquire knowledge and new of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. information from comprehensive authentic text. Prerequisite(s): HCA 101. First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses Content includes topics culturally pertinent to (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, HCA 103 - Introduction to Gerontology the first semester students develop the ability to: cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters on significant people and events in these fields. when speaking and writing, use short sentences, The process of aging. How does and will it Familiar topics may include career choices, the learned words and phrases, simple questions, affect me personally? What is our national environment, social issues, and political issues. and commands; when listening, understand some response to the problems associated with aging? ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, How does ageism, or aged-based prejudice uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand GRM 233 - German Through Film affect society? What social, governmental, short texts enhanced by visuals. During the Three Credits Spring Semester financial, and healthcare systems operate to second semester students expand their ability This fourth-semester course uses 5 contemporary help the aged and in what ways do they fail? from the first semester, and develop the ability to: German films and a myriad of activities What can I do to change that? Students identify when speaking and listening, use and understand around them to continue the development of and combat agism, in themselves and in learned expressions, sentences, and strings of skill related to the “5Cs” underlying foreign other social institutions. Distinctions between sentences, questions, and commands; when language pedagogy: Communication, Culture, normal aging and disorders which occur in writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, Connection, Comparison, and Community. the older people. Bio-psycho- social theories understand important ideas and some details in of aging. Evaluation of aging services. highly contextualized authentic texts. During both Prerequisite(s): GRM 231 semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, HCA 105 - Healthcare Foundations home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure GRM 331 - Germany Since 1945 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and Examines the parts of the healthcare system aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, For students with three or more years of German. in the U.S. and stresses the patient and family direction, buildings and monuments, weather In the advanced course students expand their as the primary focus of the system. Who are and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical previous ability in their foreign language, and the players in health services? What are the figures, places and events, colors, numbers, develop the ability to: when speaking, use structures of the system and the behaviors of days, dates, months, time, food and customs, simple dialogue of paragraph length in a series the system participants, and how does our transportation, travel, and professions and work.) of cohesive and coherent paragraphs; when present system prevent meaningful reform? listening, understand most authentic spoken GRM 132 - Elementary German II language; when writing, create a series of coherent HCA 170 - Disability? paragraphs; when reading, acquire knowledge Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and new information from comprehensive Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters For students with no previous study or 1-2 years authentic text. Content embraces concepts What do the words disability, handicapped of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. of broader cultural significance, including and challenged really mean? In what ways am First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses institutions, such as the educational system, the I disabled and how can I use that knowledge? (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During government, and political and social issues in What has science contributed to our challenged the first semester students develop the ability to: the target culture. Both concepts and abstract populations? What are the personal and societal when speaking and writing, use short sentences, topics of human and personal interest including values toward challenged populations? How learned words and phrases, simple questions, music, literature, the arts, and the sciences. have history and religion contributed to those and commands; when listening, understand some values? Am I, are we, doing enough? Students ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, Prerequisite(s): GRM 233 or 3-4 review personal and societal fears about uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand years of High School German. disability, learn to confront and change negative short texts enhanced by visuals. During the attitudes and values, understand medical causes, second semester students expand their ability GRM 333 - Germany Today effects and treatment of a wide range of clinical from the first semester, and develop the ability to: Three Credits Spring Semester disorders, and develop a belief and value when speaking and listening, use and understand This sixth-semester course uses the latest system which includes positive attitudes toward learned expressions, sentences, and strings of events in Germany to refine the skills related the emotionally and physically challenged. sentences, questions, and commands; when to the “5Cs: underlying foreign language writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, pedagogy: Communication, Culture, Connection, understand important ideas and some details in Comparison, and Community. Students read, highly contextualized authentic texts. During both

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HCA 191 - Aids and Emerging Infections Historical development of the nation’s system HCA 323 - Healthcare Law Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of healthcare including visions for the future. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Review of healthcare policy development An examination of the biomedical, social, and implementation at the local, state, and Examines legal issues in provision of healthcare cultural, political, and historical issues federal levels; major healthcare and related services. What are the three sources of law? What surrounding AIDS and emerging infections. social issues and concerns are addressed should you do if your healthcare facility is sued for malpractice? What is informed consent? Do you Natural in both readings and class discussions. Fulfills the General Education have to tell a patient everything? What should be Scientific Inquiry requirement. Course is crosslisted with POL 220. documented in a medical record and when can such a record be released? When can a patient HCA 200 - Creative Process HCA 250 - Mind, Body, Spirit, and Health refuse treatment? When can a healthcare facility Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester refuse to treat a patient? What are a patient’s Developed to respond to an environment of rights? Negotiation and legal writing skills are This course reviews alternative approaches developed. Recommended for anyone interested shrinking resources and expanding regulation, to health promotion and health interventions. this course explores the creative process. in working in a facility providing healthcare social It contrasts Western medicine with strategies services, either as a manager or a provider. Examine theory and practice methods to increase that utilize the mind and spirit in building creative potential in yourself and those around defenses against illness and in coping with HCA 325 - Healthcare Finance you. Turn problems into challenges with active the problems of chronic pain. The increasing practice of theoretical concepts; consider issues roles of these alternative approaches in current Three Credits Spring Semester of ethics, supervision, innovation, productivity, healthcare delivery systems are discussed. Focuses on: How do I make sense of financial resource management and service development statements? How can I use accounting information in the light of what is known about creativity. HCA 300 - Quality Assessment Methods to manage effectively? How can I determine the This course is designed for any student. Three Credits Spring Semester relative “health” of healthcare organizations? How can I budget more effectively? What HCA 205 - Computer Concepts for Healthcare The purpose of this course is twofold: to provide special issues are raised in the complex area of Three Credits Fall Semester the tools necessary to conduct patient based third-party insurance reimbursement and how assessments that meet the internal and external will that affect an organization’s behavior? Principles of analysis, design, evaluation, measurement needs of community medical selection, acquisition and utilization of information practices, hospitals, and other Healthcare facilities; HCA 326 - Healthcare Supply systems in healthcare. Review of current trends to provide a working knowledge of the essential Chain Management in information technology and how information qualitative and quantitative Continuous Quality systems support high-quality patient care. Business Improvement measurement techniques necessary Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 software applications are an essential ingredient for process improvement in healthcare facilities. The role of supply chain management in the of the course and are used in student projects. healthcare industries: what are supply chains and Prerequisite(s): HCA 105. how do they work? The course studies not only HCA 208 - The Continuum of Long traditional logistics or operation management Term Healthcare Service HCA 301 - Health Communication but also marketing, new product development, Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters finance, and customer service. Material presented What is and who makes up the continuum? Introduction to the theory and practice of in lectures and through case studies. Who are its clients? The course examines communication within the healthcare context. medical care from hospitals to hospices, from Topics include interpersonal communication (e.g., HCA 330 - Healthcare Product nursing homes to informal care giving. Case provider-patient, physician-nurse, family-patient, and Service Delivery management, financing, and ethical issues are family-provider), communication within health Three Credits Spring Semester studied and evaluated. Focus is placed on the service organizations, and external communication This course is intended to teach the skills needed physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of clients between health service organizations and to keep organizations competitive in the constantly and families. Case studies are emphasized. third-party payers and regulators (e.g., conflict management, negotiation, public relations). changing healthcare environment. The course Prerequisite(s): HCA 105. Designed for those majoring or minoring in discusses developments in the healthcare field Communication or Healthcare Administration; that require managers to have heightened skills HCA 209 - Public and Community Health recommended for anyone interested in working in strategic planning and competitive analysis. Three Credits Spring Semester in a facility providing Healthcare services. The course also examines the models that exist for delivering quality service to consumers This course reviews the principles, legal authority, and how to build a base of loyal customers. historical development, and future of public HCA 303 - Quality Improvement and Methods in Healthcare health. The specific mission of public health HCA 334 - Comparative Health Systems with respect to the following topics is discussed: Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 infectious disease, environmental health, maternal Examines the critical principles underlying An examination of the organization, finance, and and child health, AIDS, substance abuse, and quality improvement principles and practices performance of healthcare systems in selected tobacco control. Disparities in health status, in the context of healthcare: motivating developed and developing countries to identify the relationship of poverty to poor health, the clinicians and patients to change their behavior; possible lessons that can be applied to other prioritization of the most prominent community methodologies for motivation; models or healthcare systems. Also, a consideration of the health problems, and the mobilization of local paradigms that govern professional thinking. resources to address them are considered. impact of globalization on health services delivery: Prerequisite(s): HCA 105. greater consumer responsibility, demographic HCA 219 - Epidemiology shifts, regulatory approval schemes, intellectual Three Credits Spring Semester HCA 321 - Economics of Healthcare property processes, public reporting of provider quality, and performance-adjusted reimbursement. The role of epidemiology as a tool for analyzing Three Credits Spring Semester health problems in managerial settings. Economic analysis of healthcare delivery markets, HCA 335 - Healthcare Employment Law Introduction to study designs, bias, confounding, physician and nurse shortages, insurance industry Three Credits Spring Semester and significance; association and causation. distortions, models of hospital behavior, demand and supply considerations, impact of market failure. Examines legal issues regarding interviewing, hiring, and disciplining employees. What HCA 220 - Healthcare Policy and Politics Prerequisite(s): ECO 176. Three Credits Fall Semester questions can you legally not ask during

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 67 academic LIfe an interview? What shouldn’t you say in HCA 490 - Directed Studies values, and historical experiences. Course a reference? When can you legally fire an Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters deals extensively with European and Native employee? Are personnel policies on a contract American encounters and evaluates their between the employer and the employee? Supervised reading and research. Permission continuing impact on indigenous communities. Training and motivational skills developed. of faculty member directing the project and the Department Chairperson required. Considered a United States History. HCA 336 - Supervision/Leadership HCA 495 - Field Study HIS 214 - Ireland: From Colony Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters to Nation State How do I establish a proper work setting, getting Three Credits Fall 2011 the most from myself and those who work for A limited number of 10 hours per week me? How do I hire, discipline and fire employees? field studies are available each semester. An introduction to Ireland: its history, people, How do I set proper objectives for the work For the highly motivated student. culture, and mystique. This course explores environment? How do I counsel the “problem Irish history from the Norman invasion to employee”? Heavy use of casework and role HIS 203 - Modern American Social History the present. Topics include the Cromwellian play with significant focus on understanding Three Credits Alternate Years: Not Offered 2010, 2012 settlement of Ireland, the Anglo-Irish estate and using leadership styles, and developing system, revolution and nationalism in Ireland from This course explores major social developments 1780, the Great Famine, and Irish emigration. conflict resolution and negotiating skills. since 1850: Industrialization and the history of labor, immigration, urban growth, race Considered a European History. HCA 337 - Strategic Management relations, and the history of women and the of Healthcare Organizations family. Readings focus on both primary and HIS 216 - Modern Britain Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 secondary literature with an emphasis on oral Three Credits Fall Semester history, local records, and material culture. Strategy formulation and evaluation for This course will cover the history of healthcare organizations. Employing an extensive Considered a United States History. Britain from the time of the Tudors to the study of strategic concepts along with case 20th century. It will focus on the political, studies, this course will focus on evaluating HIS 205 - Irish-American Experience social, cultural, and intellectual history of the external and internal environments of Three Credits Fall Semester England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. organizations. Tools and techniques for analyzing strategies will also be introduced. Irish background, different waves of Irish Considered a European History. immigration, Irish contributions to politics, religion, Prerequisite(s): HCA 336. business and fine arts, as well as the different HIS 218 - Winston Churchill’s World Wars interpretations of the Irish experience in America. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 HCA 410 - Healthcare Administration Senior Seminar Considered a United States History. This course will cover the World Wars by way of Winston Churchill’s well-known histories of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters HIS 207 - The Holocaust them; and in this way will be able to engage Stresses problem identification, selection of Three Credits Spring Semester with the historical and historiographical alternative solutions, solution implementation issue that arise from the interest and the and evaluation; case method is used; This course will offer an historical analysis influence of his version of events. management memos and senior research of the Holocaust of European Jews under paper required. Capstone course. National Socialism. This includes a study of Considered a European History. the origins of antisemitism, the rise of National HCA 411 - Special Topics in Healthcare Socialism, German Jews in the Weimar Republic HIS 219 - History of World and their exclusion from public life under Economic Development Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 National Socialism, the euthanasia action, Three Credits Spring Semester Through readings and discussion, this course Reichskristallnacht, ghettoization, deportation, reviews the relationship of poverty to wellbeing; and the concentration and death camps. For description, see ECO 219. the value of community organization in Cross-listed with ECO 219. mobilizing needed changes in the healthcare Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. system; the importance of a stronger role Considered a European History. Considered a World History. for women in healthcare deliberations; the cowardice of government inaction in the face Fulfills the General Education HIS 220 - Comparative Empires: of devastating health problems; the limits Moral Inquiry requirement. Spain and Portugal of modern technology in addressing some Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 of our most recalcitrant social problems. HIS 208 - The Immigrant Experience in American History Investigation of the historical foundations and development of the Iberian Empires of HCA 475 - Internship in Healthcare Three Credits Spring Semester Spain and Portugal, the first global maritime Administration A comprehensive survey of America’s immigrants empires of the modern era, and evaluation Six or Nine Credits/Three Credits from the colonial period to the present. It examines of their historical significance; Columbus and Fall and Spring Semesters/Summer both the unique history of various ethnic groups the age of exploration and conquest; and the Usually fulfilled by a 400-hour, for-credit who peopled America as well as comparative maturation and decline of the Iberian Empires. experience in the summer between third elements in their migration and settlement Considered a European and World History. and fourth years. Tailored to the student, patterns from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. placement requires a high level of employment- Considered a United States History. like preparation (resumes, interview, etc.). HIS 225 - History and Film Student evaluation is performed by the on- Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 HIS 209 - Native American History site preceptor and faculty advisor. Locations For years, Hollywood has offered an array of Three Credits Spring Semester may be selected from medical organizations films, both epic and provincial, that center affiliated with the program or identified by the An interdisciplinary survey of the aboriginal upon events in history. Using primary and student with respect to geographic needs or inhabitants of North America from pre- secondary written accounts, this course other criteria. Paid stipend usually available. history to the present. Confronts long-standing will view a comparative selection of these stereotypes of Native Americans and seeks films in the search for “historical” truth. a deeper understanding of native beliefs,

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Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 – Reformation Considered a United States and European History. An examination of the history of horror Three Credits Spring Semester films. This course is an excursion that will Rise of Medieval Europe through the HIS 227 - Renaissance and Revolutions: compare and contrast the fictional world of “barbarization” and Christianization of the Roman Early Modern Europe the macabre with the historical realities that Order. Idea of Empire and Christendom, the form and challenge our social and cultural Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 conflict of Papacy and Kingship. Feudalization lives. With the aid of film, literature, and art, of Europe and the rise of cities, popular This course examines the major developments this course will analyze the phenomenon of religious movements. The culmination and of a pivotal time in European history known the horror genre down through the ages. crisis of this order in Renaissance cities as the Early Modern Era (1400-1800). These Considered United States and European History. and its fragmentation in the political and developments include the educational reforms religious conflicts of the Reformation Era. of the Renaissance, the religious change and violence of the Reformation, the rise of centralized HIS 244 - Colonial Latin America Considered a European History. monarchies, European expansion overseas, the Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Enlightenment, and democratic revolutions. This course is a survey of the historical, economic, HIS 263 - Religion in America Three Credits Fall Semester Considered a European History. political, social, and cultural development of colonial Latin America from before the An examination of a variety of religious HIS 228 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations European discovery to the era of independence. ideas, institutions, and traditions in the It addresses the major themes and substance Three Credits Spring Semester United States from the colonial period to the of the three centuries of colonial government present. Special emphasis is placed upon In this survey of American foreign relations from and an appreciation for the complexity and questions of religious pluralism, religion and the late eighteenth century to the recent past, diversity of colonial Latin America. cultural identity, and religion in public life. we will explore significant trends and changes to explain the movement of the United States from Considered a World History. Cross-listed with REL 262. a fledgling nation, to regional power, to global Considered a United States History. empire, and, finally, to declining superpower. HIS 245 - Modern France Three Credits Fall Semester Considered a United States History. HIS 265 - Western Civilization I An examination of the rise of modern France Three Credits Fall Semester HIS 229 - Women and Gender in from the 1789 Revolution to France’s role in the search for European Union. This includes An examination of the historical development Early Modern Europe a study of the reign of Napoleon, the Franco- of culture and society in the pre-modern era Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Prussian War, the German Occupation and with a focus on the theoretical justifications This history of women, men and gender in early the Vichy regime, and De Gaulle and the Fifth for authority, law, freedom, and community. modern Europe, between the Renaissance and the Republic. The course will place special emphasis Considered a European History. early nineteenth century. The course will consider on the lives of French men and women. philosophical, medical and religious beliefs about Considered a European History. HIS 266 - Western Civilization II women and men, and the real and imagined roles that women played in early modern society: Three Credits Spring Semester queens, scientist, healers, witches and saints. HIS 247 - Modern Germany A survey of the rise of the nation state and Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 nationalism among the masses from the Considered a European History. A history of Modern Germany from the 1871 16th century to the present. This course unification under Chancellor Otto von Bismark explores such topics as industrialization, HIS 230 - History of Sexuality in America through the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification geography, modern warfare, colonization, Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 in 1990. The course material will consider totalitarianism, and the Cold War. This course traces the history of sexuality in such topics as German colonization, the World Considered a European History. America from colonial times to the present. It Wars, National Socialism, and Communism. explores the relationship between history and Considered a European History. HIS 270 - The Making of Modern China sexuality by examining the changing meanings of sexuality and its relationship to ideologies, Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 economy, family and other historical forces. HIS 251 - United States Economic History An introduction to the dramatic transformations Three Credits Fall 2011 (Not offered 2012-2013) in China’s political, economic and socio-cultural Considered a United States History. For description, see ECO 206. life from the seventeenth century to the present. The course will cover transitions from dynastic HIS 233 - American Catholic Social History Cross listed with ECO 206. to republican to communist rule, encounters Three Credits Spring Semester Not open to first semester students. with the West, socio-economic reforms, and the An historical presentation of the numerous challenges of modernization in the world’s oldest social issues, conflicts, and varied solutions in Considered a United States History. continuous civilization and bureaucratic state. American Catholicism from the late 19th century Considered a World History. forward with emphasis on how the many issues HIS 257 - Modern Latin America of society impacted Catholicism. The course Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 HIS 271 - World History I demonstrates how the application of faith and This course seeks to locate Modern Latin Three Credits Fall Semester various theological and philosophical theories America (c. 1800-present) within a global were used in resolution of social conflict. framework and to understand the origins and This course examines the history of humanity from the emergence of our species to the early Crosslisted with REL 233. development of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues that challenge and define Latin modern era. Explores how and why humans Considered a United States History. America today, including US foreign policy and shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to changing ethnic, gender, and class relations. settled agriculture societies creating cities, states, Fulfills the General Education and empires. Examines the consequences of this Moral Inquiry requirement. Considered a World History. transition for human societies and the environment. World Considered a History. HIS 241 - A History of Horror Films HIS 262 - Medieval – Renaissance

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HIS 272 - World History II China, Japan and Korea. These themes include HIS 305 - U.S. Popular Music Three Credits Spring Semester state formation and dissolution, religious beliefs, Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 political ideologies, philosophy and literature, Examines the history of the human community economic activities and social relations. In a seminar format, this course will analyze from the early modern era to the present. how American popular music reflected and Explores how and why industry, nation states, Considered a World History. shaped public notions about class, gender, and and European style economics have come race. Topics will include jazz, rap, rock and roll, to define the modern world. It analyzes the HIS 284 - East Asian History II rhythm and blues, country, and folk music. interconnections and interdependencies, Three Credits Spring Semester United States nowadays called “globalization”, that continue Considered a History. to define human historical development. An introduction to the turbulent histories of modern China, Japan and Korea, covering their HIS 306 - Contemporary America Considered a World History. major political, economic and socio-cultural Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 transformations from 1800 onwards. Themes HIS 277 - History of Brazil considered include encounters with Western This course studies the political, social, and economic life of the United States in the Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 military and economic expansion, the role of cultural exchanges in Asia, and the rapidly growing post World War II era. Historically significant This course examines the history of Brazil role of East Asia in present-day globalization. individuals, events, and programs and their from 1500 to the present and explores its contribution to the American nation are analyzed richly diverse culture, politics, economy, and Considered a World History. through presentations, critical reading, and writing. geography that ultimately tie it to the histories Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. of Europe, Africa, Asia, the U.S. Major themes HIS 285 - Women in America: 1630-1890 include: race relations, national development, Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Considered a United States History. military dictatorships, and popular culture. The history of women from the colonial era Considered a World History. through the end of the nineteenth century. HIS 308 - The Early Republic Examines the diversity of experiences among Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 HIS 279 - Modern Japan women of different races and classes in America, Explores the tumultuous years following the Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 focusing on issues central to female experience: American Revolution when Americans fought over reproduction and family life, work, religion and the meaning of the war and the future direction From shogun to skinkansen – a survey of Japan reform, and political struggles for civil rights. from the seventeenth century to the present, of the country. We will examine the major examining the political, social and economic Considered a United States History. conflicts of the period, including ratification of the changes that accompanied its transformation Constitution, slavery, reform movements, Indian removal, immigration and capitalist development. from feudal shogunate to modern nation-state. HIS 286 - Asian American History Topics covered include the Meiji Revolution, Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. modernization, the rise of nationalism, and Japan’s relations with Western and Asian powers. An introduction to the history of Asian migration Considered a United States History. and experience in the United States from Considered a World History. approximately 1850 to the present. Explores HIS 310 - Ancient Mediterranean the changing experiences of immigrants in Greece and Rome economic, social and political terms, and HIS 281 - American Nation I Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester situate this history within the larger context of immigration, race relations and multiculturalism A study of the ancient civilizations that Comprehensive study of American historical within modern American history. coalesced into Hellenistic Culture with a focus development with a focus on the development on the political, institutional, and intellectual of U.S. political principles, ideals, founding Considered a United States and World History. movements, which provided the context for documents, institutions, and processes. Topics the development of European Civilization. include modes of colonial life, geographical HIS 301 - Colonial America Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. perspectives, the Revolution and Constitution, Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 urban development, westward movement, Considered a European History. constructions of race and gender, popular This course examines the social consequences culture, the Civil War and Reconstruction. of colonization, migration and war in early America, 1500-1775. Emphasis is placed on the HIS 313 - Modern European Considered a United States History. evolution of regional cultures, and the interaction Intellectual History of British colonies with competing European Three Credits Fall Semester HIS 282 - American Nation II cultures (French, Spanish, Dutch), with Native This course will cover the intellectual history Americans, and with African-American slaves. Three Credits Spring Semester of modern Europe by way of and engagement An analysis and interpretation of the development Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. with four of the most compelling and influential of American politics, foreign policy, and domestic modern European thinkers: Darwin, Marx, Considered a United States History. society from Reconstruction to the present. Topics Nietzsche and Freud. Students will read include the gilded society, world power, the rise substantial selections from their texts as well of consumer culture, the New Deal, World War HIS 304 - U.S. Popular Culture as some of the intellectual historiography. II, the Cold War, affluence and discontent. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Considered a United States History. An investigation of U.S. popular culture focusing on its ability to illuminate important Considered a European History. HIS 283 - East Asian History I themes in the nation’s social, economic, and political development. A special emphasis HIS 320 - Historical Methods and Materials Three Credits Fall Semester will be given to twentieth-century popular Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters A broad survey of major developments in East culture. Important questions and themes will This course explores the nature and study Asian history from the time of its earliest written include popular culture’s role in perpetuating of history along with introducing students records (circa 1200 B.C.E.) to 1800 C.E. Draws attitudes regarding race and gender. to various types of evidence and their uses. on primary sources, secondary scholarship, and Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Majors will prepare a detailed proposal for examples of material culture to highlight key their Senior History Projects, including an themes in the political, social and cultural life in Considered a United States History. extended assessment of primary sources.

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Majors should register in their junior year in Examines the era of the Civil War and are used as guiding principles in this study. preparation for the Senior History Project. Reconstruction in U.S. history (1860 – 1880), including the war’s origins and consequences. Crosslisted with REL 333. Prerequisite(s): Juniors only. The course explores, in addition to the military Considered a United States History. aspects of the war, the major political, social, HIS 321 - African-American History I and economic development of the period. HIS 335 - The Debate Over Slavery Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Considered a United States History. in Antebellum America This course explores African-American history Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 and culture from the beginnings of slavery in HIS 328 - Pursuits of Happiness America to the Civil War. Themes include ethnic An examination of writing and speeches attacking in Revolutionary America origins in West Africa, the trans-Atlantic slave and defending slavery in the United States between trade, the emergence of plantations societies Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 the American Revolution and the Civil War. in the Americas, slave resistance, the abolition This course traces the events and conditions Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. movement, gender, Civil War and emancipation. that led North American colonists to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through Considered a United States History. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. political conflict, revolution, and war. We will Fulfills the General Education Considered a United States History. examine the breakup of empire in North America Moral Inquiry requirement. and consider how ordinary men and women, HIS 322 - African-American History II African-Americans, and Native Americans HIS 343 - Christian Theology as Ideology responded to and shaped revolutionary events. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Prerequisite(s): GENH 100 or GENH This course surveys the history of African- How the use of Greek philosophy and Roman 140 and Sophomore standing. Americans from emancipation to the present. imperial theory transformed the Gospel of It begins by exploring the meaning of black Considered a United States History. Jesus into a society that regarded its culture freedom during emancipation and Reconstruction. as providential history. This synthesis created It examines the economic and cultural lives of HIS 329 - The Vietnam Era and Its Legacy but eventually tore Christendom apart. The African-Americans as they confronted segregation political, economic, intellectual, and scientific Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 and Jim Crow laws in the American South. Other dynamics of Europe are incomprehensible topics include the Great Migration, Harlem An examination of U.S. policy toward Southeast without this theological development. Renaissance, black nationalism, and Civil Rights. Asia and the war in Vietnam from the 1940s to the present. The course explores the origins of Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. the U.S. military commitment in Southeast Asia Considered a European History. Considered a United States History. and the ultimate failure of U.S. policy. The effects of the war on veterans and the home front, the HIS 347 - Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany peace movement, and the legacy of the war for HIS 324 - From Jackson to Lincoln Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Alternate Years, Spring 2011 contemporary U.S. society is also examined. An in-depth study of the rise of Adolf Hitler and Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Examination of the major political, social, and the Nazi movement from the establishment of the economic developments in U.S. Society from the Considered a United States History. Weimar Republic through the end of World War II. election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828, to that of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. HIS 330 - United States Seminar: Topical Considered a United States History. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Considered a European History.

Offers an opportunity to study a specific area HIS 349 - The Inquisition: Myth and History HIS 325 - Lincoln and His America or problem in U.S. history in greater depth. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 An examination of the life and times of Abraham sources and secondary literature. Alternating Explores the myths and history of the Inquisition Lincoln, one of the most important and frequently topics to be announced prior to registration. as a social, political and religious institution in Europe, the Americas, and in Goa, India, studied figures in U.S. history. The course is Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. conducted as a seminar, and readings include from its Medieval inception to its final abolition Lincoln’s own speeches and writings as well Considered a United States History. in the nineteenth century. Students will seek as scholarly studies of his life and career. to understand why it was created, how it HIS 332 - America in the Nuclear Age functioned, the impact it had on the societies that Considered a United States History. sustained it, and why it was finally abolished. Three Credits Fall Semester HIS 326 - The Christian Churches This course explores the origins and evolution Considered a European and World History. in Nazi Germany of the nuclear age, both at home and abroad, HIS 351 - The French Revolution Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 looking at politics, diplomacy, as well as cultural and social trends. Students will also Three Credits Spring Semester An examination of the choices that the Catholic examine the continuing presence of nuclear This course focuses on the decade of political and Protestant churches made under the impact weapons as cultural symbols and threats to upheaval in France (1789-1799) that later became of National Socialism. The course will also world peace despite the end of the Cold War. examine the reaction of the churches to the a catalyst for widespread political changes in persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. countries all around the world. In addition to the key events of the Revolution, students explore how Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. Considered a United States History. ordinary people (including women and people of color) experienced this tumultuous event. Considered a European History. HIS 333 - The American Catholic Experience Considered a European History. Fulfills the General Education Three Credits Fall Semester Moral Inquiry requirement A critical examination and analysis of the HIS 353 - A World at War peoples, events, and ideas that shaped American Three Credits Fall Semester HIS 327 - American Civil War Catholicism from the era of discovery to the 21st and Reconstruction century. Catholicism’s minority status and the Organized violence represents one of the most Three Credits Spring Semester perennial tension being American and Catholic common of human activities. Warfare shapes,

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 71 academic LIfe and is shaped by, deep seated political, social, archives, and historic sites to interact with IND 142 - Applications of Learning Theory economic, religious, and technological values professionals, discover what public historians do, One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters and attitudes. For good or ill, warfare has played, and critically assess their public history offerings. and continues to play, a key role in shaping As a final project, students will collaboratively Cornell system of note-taking taught along the world we live in. The course explores produce a museum exhibition at Stonehill. with individual learning style assessment, exam warfare and its consequences from a world strategies and SQ3R method of text book reading. historical perspective from Paleolithic times to Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Learn how to break up large tasks and complex ideas into small understandable parts. Strategies ancient China and the Middle East to modern Considered a United States History. day forms of state and extra-state violence. have shown to produce significant improvements in GPA. Study skills class for first year students. Considered a World History. HIS 385 - Topics in U.S. Women’s History Three Credits Spring Semester IND 300 - Post-Graduate Preparation HIS 360 - European Seminar: Topical This course moves beyond a broad overview Seminar – Law School I Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 of the role of women in eighteenth and One Credit Fall Semester nineteenth century U.S. History to examine Offers an opportunity to study a specific area or Students will learn methods for answering each specific topics such as education, reform, labor, problem in European history in greater depth. of the LSAT question types as they appear on culture, and political organization in depth. Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary the LSAT. Test-taking strategies to maximize sources and secondary literature. Alternating Prerequisite(s): GENH 100 or GENH 140 and your strengths and minimize your weaknesses topics to be announced prior to registration. HIS 281, HIS 282 and Sophomore standing. will be emphasized. The course begins with a full-length, three-hour pre-test which will be Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Considered a United States History. corrected and discussed during the second class. Considered a European History. Mandatory homework will be taken from released HIS 411 - Senior Research Seminar LSATs and will support principles taught in class. HIS 362 - World History Seminar: Topical Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Classes during the first session meet twice a week Three Credits Fall Semester Training in historical research methodologies and on Sunday and Wednesday, for four hours per session, for the first month of the Fall Semester Offers an opportunity to study a specific area strategies with practical instruction in archival research, note taking, analysis, argumentation, and the last month and _ of the spring semester. or problem in World history in greater depth. Students enrolled in this one credit course will be Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary writing, citation, and oral presentation. This training will occur while engaged in billed an additional $300 on their semester tuition sources and secondary literature. Alternating bills. Pre-requisites: Junior or Senior Standing topics to be announced prior to registration. researching and writing the senior thesis, which is the History major capstone project. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. IND 301 - Post-Graduate Preparation Prerequisite(s): HIS 320; course must be Seminar – Law School II Considered a World History. taken concurrently with HIS 415. One Credit Fall Semester HIS 371 - The Age of Absolutism HIS 415 - Senior History Thesis Students will hear from law school admission officers, the pre-law advisor and other Stonehill Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Faculty, and will discuss strategies for applying to This course examines the political, social, and An independent, in-depth thesis designed in law school, the personal statement, develop a list cultural conditions surrounding the development HIS 320 - Historical Methods and Materials, of criteria important to the student, and a list of of strong, centralized monarchies of continental then carried out with the assistance of a faculty potential law schools. Law School II will meet from Europe and constitutional monarchy of England. member. Arrangements with the faculty must October to December in the Fall Semester only. Using film, art and primary sources students be made at least one semester in advance and explore the daily lives of both kings and no later than the fall of the fourth year. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing their subjects during this fascinating era. and Permission of Director. Prerequisite(s): HIS 320 Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. IND 357 - Topic in Interdisciplinary Studies HIS 475 - Internship in Historical Research Considered a European History. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This special topics course offers opportunities HIS 373 - Asian Encounters with Empire Internships are available to History students to give for study in various topics of interest within Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 them an opportunity to experience the relevance of the field of interdisciplinary studies. the past to the present through active participation An examination of the imperial experience in contemporary institutions and organizations. in East, Southeast and South Asia during the IND 400 - Final Integrative Project nineteenth and twentieth century’s, encompassing for Interdisciplinary Studies HIS 490 - Directed Study the impact of both European and Asian Three Credits Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters expansions. Themes include issues of race, gender, The final unit of an interdisciplinary minor is a modernization, orientalism and colonial legacies. An in-depth study of an historical question under required integrative essay, project, or performance. the tutorial direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. A student must register for IND 400 the semester Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. Approval he or she will complete the integrative unit. Once Considered a World History. of faculty member directing the project and enrolled in IND 400, the student and faculty Department Chairperson required. sponsor must submit a detailed plan of study to HIS 380 - Public History the Director of the Martin Institute. The student Three Credits Spring Semester HON 100 - Moreau Honors will need to answer the following question: What form will this integrative unit take? They must This academic and experiential course looks at Leadership Seminar note the specific description of the proposed unit, the practice, methods, and possibilities associated One Credit Spring Semester the learning outcomes that will result, the criteria with practicing history in museums, historic sites, for assessment, the frequency of contact between and archives. In the classroom, we will explore The Moreau Honors Leadership Seminar introduces student and faculty sponsor, and a preliminary list the nature of public history through curatorial, Honors students to the practice of leadership or readings and assignments. Students pursuing an archival, and preservation issues, as well as in academic and co-curricular activities such Interdisciplinary Studies Major may also register examine the roles of education, interpretation, as organizing lectures, musical or dramatic for IND 400 as a capstone with the approval of exhibitions, and living history. A substantial field performances, or tutoring in after-school programs. the Director of the Martin Institute. For more component has students encountering museums,

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 72 academic LIfe information please refer to The Curriculum or Explores the impact of cultural nationalism and understand important ideas and some details in contact the Program Director, Professor Peter the progress of 20th century literature in Irish highly contextualized authentic texts. During both Ubertaccio, Director of the Martin Institute. and English. Studies the work of J.M. Synge, semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure Prerequisite(s): Junior Standing, Completion others. Examines the Irish response to changes activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, of Interdisciplinary Minor Application. in modern Irish society including religion, the clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and family, social change, and the Irish economy. aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, IND 489 - Internship in Career Planning direction, buildings and monuments, weather Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters IRS 204 - Contemporary Ireland: 1922-2002 and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical Trains interns to assist first-year students in the Three Credits Spring Semester figures, places and events, colors, numbers, career decision-making process by: Providing an days, dates, months, time, food and customs, There is an underlying question examined through transportation, travel, and professions and work.) informational overview of the Career Planning the different topics – how has Irish society been Program, interviewing students, interpreting the changed by the economic transformation that ITA 231 - Intermediate Italian I Strong Interest Inventory, and giving tours of was initiated in the 1950s? Using sociological Career Services. Interns have the opportunity and political research in Ireland the course Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters to sharpen writing skills through weekly examines the planned economic growth and For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ reports of interview sessions. Designed to assist unplanned political and social changes that German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second Semesters third- and fourth-year students in developing have come to shape contemporary Irish society of Intermediate Courses (231-232) in French/Italian/ professional work habits, as well as strengthening and its place in Europe and the world. Spanish (German take GRM 231 & GRM 233) In the communication, interpersonal, and organizational Intermediate Courses students expand their previous skills. For more information please contact Dick ITA 131 - Elementary Italian I ability in their foreign language, and develop the Grant, Associate Dean of Student Achievement. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ability to: when speaking, use strings of related sentences; when listening, understand most spoken IRS 200 - Christian Ireland, 431-1169 For students with no previous study or 1-2 years language when the message is deliberately and Three Credits Fall Semester of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. carefully conveyed by a speaker accustomed to First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses dealing with learners; when writing, create simple Early Irish culture and society from the (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During introduction of Christianity in the 5th century, paragraphs; when reading, acquire knowledge and the first semester students develop the ability to: new information from comprehensive authentic through the 8th century Viking invasion and the when speaking and writing, use short sentences, beginning of the 12th century Anglo- Norman text. Content includes topics culturally pertinent learned words and phrases, simple questions, to the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, conquest. Emphasizes literature created out of and commands; when listening, understand some the rapprochement between the pagan tradition cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, on significant people and events in these fields. and the new religion. Includes extracts from uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand Old-Irish literature including the heroic saga, Familiar topics may include career choices, the short texts enhanced by visuals. During the environment, social issues, and political issues. Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley) second semester students expand their ability and lyric poetry produced in monasteries. from the first semester, and develop the ability to: ITA 232 - Intermediate Italian II when speaking and listening, use and understand IRS 201 - Medieval Ireland, 1169-1603 learned expressions, sentences, and strings of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Spring Semester sentences, questions, and commands; when For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ The impact of the 12th century Anglo-Norman writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second Semesters invasion on Irish social, political and cultural understand important ideas and some details in of Intermediate Courses (231-232) in French/Italian/ life. The creation of the pale region of Anglo- highly contextualized authentic texts. During both Spanish (German take GRM 231 & GRM 233) In the Norman dominance and the different culture semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, Intermediate Courses students expand their previous from that of Gaelic Ireland. Provides a brief home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure ability in their foreign language, and develop the historical survey of Gaelic Ireland in the early activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, ability to: when speaking, use strings of related middle ages and insight into the archaeology clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and sentences; when listening, understand most spoken of the medieval Irish Church. Introduces the aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, language when the message is deliberately and world of the Irish bardic poet and his work. direction, buildings and monuments, weather carefully conveyed by a speaker accustomed to and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical dealing with learners; when writing, create simple IRS 202 - Pre-Famine Ireland, 1603-1845 figures, places and events, colors, numbers, paragraphs; when reading, acquire knowledge and days, dates, months, time, food and customs, new information from comprehensive authentic Three Credits Spring Semester transportation, travel, and professions and work.) text. Content includes topics culturally pertinent The destruction of the Gaelic heroic world to the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, following defeat of Irish forces at the Battle ITA 132 - Elementary Italian II cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis of Kinsale and subsequent dispersal of native Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters on significant people and events in these fields. Irish and Old English aristocracy. Introduces Familiar topics may include career choices, the political, social and economic structures of this For students with no previous study or 1-2 years environment, social issues, and political issues. period and the disintegration of Gaelic Irish of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. cultural values and literary traditions from the First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses ITA 331 - Italy: Language and Identity (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During Elizabethan period to the famines of the 1840s. Three Credits Fall Semester Concludes with an overview of economic, social the first semester students develop the ability to: and demographic trends in pre-famine Ireland. when speaking and writing, use short sentences, ITA 331 is designed to refine and apply learned words and phrases, simple questions, language skills in writing, speaking, reading IRS 203 - Modern Ireland: 1845-1998 and commands; when listening, understand some and listening beyond the Intermediate level. ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, Topics on regional and national identity Three Credits Fall Semester uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand serve as a context for language acquisition. Introduces the patterns of modern and short texts enhanced by visuals. During the Students investigate what constitutes the Italian contemporary Irish life and culture from a second semester students expand their ability identity through the study of authentic texts multidisciplinary perspective. Investigates from the first semester, and develop the ability to: and Internet resources. Class projects involve the impact of famine on Irish society and when speaking and listening, use and understand individual research about the history, art and the subsequent Gaelic Revival and Anglo- learned expressions, sentences, and strings of popular culture of contemporary Italy. Irish Literary Revival from the 1880s until sentences, questions, and commands; when Prerequisite(s): ITA 232, or placement above the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, intermediate level, or consent of Instructor.

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ITA 332 - Italian Conversation This course traces the development of the news American life. No previous experience necessary. and Composition media, print, and broadcast, from their beginning Three Credits Spring Semester stages in the 1830s to the present. Primary attention LAT 231 - Intermediate Latin I is given to the economic, cultural, political, and Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters As a course leading to the Minor in Italian social dimensions of the development processes. Studies for many students, ITA 332 is designed Intensive review of Latin grammar with an to strengthen speaking and writing skills JRN 309 - Narrative Writing emphasis on the development of reading through advanced vocabulary acquisition, comprehension. Materials used will include a listening comprehension and the analysis of Three Credits Fall Semester variety of readings in Latin. For students with 2-3 short texts. Activities include discussions on Learn to use fiction writing techniques in the years of high school Latin or LAT 131 - LAT 132 cultural readings, conversations on current growing non-fiction narrative writing field. Students events as well as group and individual oral will learn how to get the best interviews from LAT 232 - Intermediate Latin II reports. Students write weekly compositions and people, how to develop characters, what type of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters use online collaboration tools such as blogs. research information is needed, where to get it and how to gather it to create riveting narrative stories. Intensive review of Latin grammar with an Prerequisite(s): ITA 331, or placement emphasis on the development of reading above the intermediate level. Prerequisite(s): JRN 100 comprehension. Materials used will include a variety of readings in Latin. For students with 2-3 ITA 337 - Contemporary Italy Through Film JRN 313 - Journalism Ethics and Law years of high school Latin or LAT 131 - LAT 132 Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters LC 205 - Integrative Seminar: HCA 105/BIO An understanding of contemporary Italian The theory and practice of journalism in society and culture by viewing, reflecting on, and the United States within the parameters 291 The Practice of Medicine and You discussing Italian films of the last sixty years. The of both legal and ethical constraints. Three Credits class will analyze 6-8 films, learning their context The seminar addresses medical issues of and through them the key events that have shaped JRN 421 - Journalism Practicum widespread concern: how diseases are diagnosed the national identity of Italy. Students will read a Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and treated; how structures of health care delivery selection of essays on Italian cinema and complete affect health status; and, how patient’s assertiveness Advanced news writing and research in the writing assignments and oral presentations. intervention skills are developed for success context of the student newspaper under the as a patient in the modern health care system. Prerequisite(s): ITA 232, or placement above the individual supervision of the instructor in a Class involves guest lectures, visits to health care intermediate level, or consent of Instructor. laboratory setting. May be taken twice. institutions, travel to the state house to see the legislative process at work, and team exercises. ITA 338 - Survey of Italian Prerequisite(s): JRN 100. Culture and Civilization JRN 475 - Internship in Journalism LC 207 - Integrative Seminar: CSC 201/ Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters CSC 211 Mathematical Experiments A broad overview of Italian culture from the Middle in Computer Science Opportunity for students, usually in Ages to the present, highlighting key historical Three Credits and literary developments of each century. their fourth year, to practice journalism Students will become familiar with a variety of with a news organization. Computers provide us with tools to explore mathematics in deeper ways than ever before. texts from different fields of knowledge. To have Prerequisite(s): JRN 100, minimum 3.0 cumulative They allow empirical testing of mathematical course count for Italian minor credit, students GPA, and permission of Internship Director. See conjectures with elusive proofs. Computers must read texts and write papers in Italian. Requirements for Internships in Communication. enable us to experimentally analyze algorithms Prerequisite(s): ITA 331 and ITA 332, whose performance defies theoretical analysis. ITA 337, or Consent of Instructor. JRN 490 - Directed Study This LC focuses on the delicate balance Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters between theory and practice in computer ITA 490 - Directed Study: Selected Topics Opportunity for upper-level students to do science, revealing the dual and sometimes Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters an advanced research project or investigation contradictory nature of computer science as both an engineering and a mathematical discipline. Foreign Language minors are encouraged in a field of special interest not covered by to spend a semester abroad in an approved a normally-scheduled course. Student and a LC 209 - Integrative Seminar: BIO 211/ international program of study or in one of the full-time faculty member familiar with the internships sponsored by Stonehill College. student’s area of interest agree on a plan of CHM 222 Organic Chemistry of the Cell study and research and on evaluation methods. Three Credits Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Prerequisite(s): Approval of both the faculty Students select, read, and critique primary member directing the project and the literature that ties together topics concurrently JRN 100 - Reporting and News Writing Department Chairperson required. learned in Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry II Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters in order to develop their abilities to understand Principles and practices of gathering, writing, and LAT 131 - Elementary Latin I and critically analyze the literature. The seminar editing news and feature material for mass media Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters culminates with student teams proposing an dissemination; stresses the craft of clear writing. experiment or series of experiments that address Introduction to Latin grammar and pronunciation. a specific area of interest on the boundary Development of listening, reading, and writing JRN 101 - Advanced Reporting between organic chemistry and cell biology. skills, and of the crosscultural effects of Latin on These proposals are presented in both written and News Writing the English language and of the Romans upon and oral forms, allowing fellow students to Three Credits Spring Semester American life. No previous experience necessary. evaluate and expand upon the proposed ideas. Focus on advanced writing, rewriting, and editing news articles. LAT 132 - Elementary Latin II LC 225 - Integrative Seminar: ENV 200/ Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): JRN 100. COM 320 Change the World? Introduction to Latin grammar and pronunciation. Three Credits JRN 222 - Development of Development of listening, reading, and writing In this LC, students will apply knowledge from American News Media skills, and of the crosscultural effects of Latin on the disciplinary courses to serve organizations the English language and of the Romans upon Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 addressing environmental and social justice

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 74 academic LIfe problems. Such community-based learning will 1860) electromagnetic wave. These mysterious LC 255 - Integrative Seminar: REL 252/ help each student understand the challenges and DeBroglie – Schroedinger waves of probability are VPH 225 Pagans and Christians: rewards of attempting to “change the world” as the essence of quantum mechanics. These waves Roots of Christian Worship well as develop a variety of transferable skills determine the structure of atoms and molecules, Three Credits in leadership, organizing and communication. i.e. they are the deepest foundation of both physics and chemistry. While the mathematics of This LC links a Fine Arts course investigating LC 228 - Integrative Seminar: HIS 207/REL 209 these quantum waves is similar to the classical Ancient Greek and Roman urban life and a Uncovering Judaism and Nazism in Europe waves already studied in PHY 221 and MTH Religious Studies course exploring the New Testament. Students will travel over Spring Three Credits 261, the physical, chemical, and philosophical consequences are breathtakingly different. Break to ancient sites in Italy (Paestum, Pompeii, The third course in this LC is a travel course and Rome) and visit ancient religious sites, – students travel to Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, LC 237 - Integrative Seminar: BIO view religious artifacts and investigate their Krakow), the Czech Republic (Prague), and 298/ENV 270 Ecology and Ethics in translation by the early Christian communities. Germany (Berlin). There, they examine historical Action: Restoring the Everglades sites associated with the Nazi Holocaust, sites LC 258 - Integrative Seminar: VPH 215/ Three Credits significant to and representative of Jewish life REL 303 the Mirror of the Renaissance and religious experience in Europe before the The integrative seminar of this LC is a travel Three Credits Holocaust, and those that demonstrate the course during Winter Break, camping in rejuvenation of Jewish life in the locations today. the Everglades! Students conduct ecological During the Renaissance the Virgin Mary studies while exploring the ethical dimensions symbolized a broad spectrum of popular and LC 229 - Integrative Seminar: REL 253/HIS of the development of South Florida and intellectual ideas; for example, images of the 333 20th Century American Catholicism: the current restoration of the Everglades. Madonna and naked Christ child could emphasize the humanity Jesus shares with all people. This Social and Ecclesial Developments LC 240 - Integrative Seminar: BUS learning community will explore the meaning Three Credits of religious images in the art and literature 333/PSY 204 Building Leaders Through class debates, guest speakers, field trips, of Renaissance Italy and northern Europe. class discussions and group presentations, this Three Credits LC will explore the historical and contemporary The LC will allow students to build leadership LC 259 - Integrative Seminar: ENG social teaching of the American Catholic Church. skills by engaging in community service 220/VPG 224 Moving Stories learning projects in conjunction with Brockton- Three Credits LC 230 - Integrative Seminar: SOC 212/ based service organizations. A psychology This learning community will introduce students CSC 101 Through the Looking Glass course in young adult development provides to basic structures and strategies of sequential Three Credits the basis for understanding the processes of learning and self-development while a business imagery. Students will create work in animation Using Cooley’s theory of the Looking Glass Self, course in organizational behavior provides and comics. Both narrative and non-narrative this LC explores how prevailing societal views models for the leader’s role in organizations approaches will be examined. Topics covered will about the poor and disadvantaged are reflected and offers students the opportunity to assess include pacing, design, point of view, structure, perspectives on social welfare and social policy. and develop their leadership potential. rhythm, character, and story development. Students learn from one another as they engage in round table discussions on issues such as LC 245 - Integrative Seminar: VPG 210/ LC 260 - Integrative Seminar: VPM 232/VPD 256 welfare reform, corporate welfare, universal health SOC 232 Society Through the Lens Staging and Performing Musical Theatre care, foster care legislation, and educational Three Credits vouchers. Additionally, students participate in Three Credits experiential learning activities, which bring greater “A photograph is worth a thousand words,” In this LC students will combine acting and relevancy to the policy issues being discussed. especially those created by students learning movement with singing and character analysis. Sociology and Documentary Photography. The Students will learn and perform a variety of LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH students in this LC will learn the art and technique music designed to develop their voices and acting abilities. The semester will culminate in a 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves of black & white photography and how to use performance of Songs and Scenes from American Three Credits Year-long Learning Community these skills to capture images that make people take notice of social issues such as racism, sexism, Musical Theatre. We welcome students interested With the creation of quantum mechanics in and problems of wealth and poverty in America. in theatre tech. No prior experience is necessary. the 1920s, physicists conceived of a new and The knowledge they acquire in the sociology unexpected kind of wave that is neither a class will be connected to the photographs LC 261 - Integrative Seminar: ENG 390/ Newtonian (c. 1700) mechanical wave nor a that they take to tell the stories of what they ENG 220 Freud and the Modern World Maxwellian (c. 1860) electromagnetic wave. These see as they perform community service and/or Three Credits mysterious DeBroglie – Schroedinger waves of observe in the greater Brockton community. probability are the essence of quantum mechanics. Students will examine the influence of These waves determine the structure of atoms and Sigmund Freud and Freudian psychoanalysis LC 254 - Integrative Seminar: EDU on 19th-21st century European and American molecule, i.e. they are the deepest foundation of 312/ENV 200 Children, Science and both physics and chemistry. While the mathematics culture, as popularized across a wide range of the Arts: Classroom Practice of these quantum waves is similar to the classical cultural productions, including literature, the waves already studied in PHY 221 and MTH Three Credits visual arts, film, television and new media 261, the physical, chemical, and philosophical This LC challenges students to use projectbased consequences are breathtakingly different. learning and environmental science to create LC 265 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 320/ECO 178 and implement curriculum products focusing on The Impact of News on Financial Markets LC 235 - Integrative Seminar: MTH the urban environment. Seminar hours will be a Three Credits 261/PHY 221 Quantum Waves mixture of urban environmental science labs, field Using tools of finance and economics, the Three Credits Spring Semester trips and group project time working with real impact of macroeconomic data releases, teachers and real students in Brockton. (Successful business and financial news on the financial Year-long Learning Community With the completion of the project tasks will require creation of quantum mechanics in the 1920’s, markets will be measured and evaluated. additional time with school clients beyond the Students will work on individual and group physicists conceived of a new and unexpected 3-hour seminar week.) kind of wave that is neither a Newtonian (c. research projects and make class presentations. 1700) mechanical wave nor a Maxwellian (c. Bloomberg financial software will be utilized as a tool to see the interaction between news

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 75 academic LIfe and financial markets on a daily basis. relevant topics. This LC will incorporate invited illness. By combining these three experiences speakers, peer presentations, lectures, readings, students will gain a deep and integrative insight Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for BUS 320: BUS 203. discussions, and on-campus and off-campus into neurodevelopment from psychological, events relating to the subject area. Students will biological and personal perspectives. LC 267 - Integrative Seminar: POL 357/REL 238 have the opportunity to research a topic of their The Immigrant Experience: Legal, Political, choice for the concluding project. Both women LC 283 - Integrative Seminar: SOC 316/ Cultural and Theological Dimensions and men are welcome to enroll in this LC. HIS 241 Into the Woods: Cultural Three Credits Year Long Learning Community Tourism, History and Folklore Students will critically reflect on and analyze LC 278 - Integrative Seminar: GENL 140/ Three Credits the multiple dimensions of the present day GENP 140 From Russia With Love (and Laughter, and Madness, and Beauty, The issue being examined is how folklore, history immigrant situation they encounter from their and myth intersect and contradict in popular and Revolution and Suffering) placements in a variety of Immigration Centers representations of Eastern Europe (past and in Fall River, Brockton, and Boston. The seminar Three Credits present) that are crafted for the tourist trade. will provide community-based learning and skill The issue being examined: The cliché of all development so that students can study and clichés about Russian Literature holds that it is LC 284 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 320/ experience directly the effects of government “philosophical.” Let’s see how philosophy and policy on the lives of individuals and families. COM 315 Business and Communication literature (and other arts) illuminate/challenge/ The theological reflection and social analysis in China: Changes and Challenges support one another, using texts selected by the will assist students in the integration of the Three Credits students (from a list prepared by the instructors) theoretical component studied in the courses. as our material, and small, student-led reading This is a travel LC designed to offer students Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for POL 357: groups (5 students per group) as our means. For not only a cross-disciplinary understanding of POL 123, POL 143, or POL 171. First Year Honors Students (Class of 2013) Only. business and communication in modern China from a theoretical/conceptual perspective but also LC 268 - Integrative Seminar: VPM 240/ LC 279 - Integrative Seminar: ENV 200/REL first-hand exposure to the changes and challenges China faces in business and communication. The PSY 271 The Making of Musical Minds: 335 Swamp Walks and Roadside Shrines: LC will take students to China on a 10-day faculty- The Religion and Science of Place Research in the Psychology of Music led trip in the spring semester of 2010. With its Two Credits Year Long Learning Community Three Credits fast and vast changes and development, China In this LC, students will gain a basic knowledge The seminar of this LC is a travel course during has currently become a center of international of musical theory and structure and then use Winter Break, camping in the Everglades! business activities and is a driving force for global this language to explore recent research in the Students will conduct environmental science growth and integration. With its unprecedented psychology of music through their own research analyses of the development of South Florida social and economic transformation and its unique and presentations. Students take Music Theory and the current restoration of the Everglades. transition from a centrally-managed economy in the fall semester and apply this knowledge We will also examine the role the environment to a more market-based economy, China offers in the spring Seminar as they read, critique and plays, could play, or should play in the life of plenty of opportunities to see and learn about present empirical studies on music perception/ the human community – and vice versa, the the social impact of its metamorphosis in terms cognition, the development of musical preferences, importance of the human community with of business and communication from domestic the social psychology of music, and related respect to the environment-exploring the various and global perspectives. This LC offers a cross- topics. In Research Methods, also taken in the religious traditions and communities of South disciplinary approach, covering communications, spring, they draw on this scientific literature to Florida. We’ll spend 8 nights camping in the business and finance, and exposes students to design, conduct and write-up an experiment Everglades (approximate dates: January 2nd the larger Chinese historical, social and cultural on a topic in the psychology of music. Note: through 10th). Tents and cooking supplies will environment. While in China, students will Introduction to Statistics (PSY 261) is a prerequisite be provided. Students must bring sleeping bags. attend lectures or seminars offered by business for the Research Methods course. All students scholars and practitioners on the campus of the must complete PSY 261 before (not during) the LC 281 - Integrative Seminar: HIS University of International Business and Economics spring semester of the Learning Community. 330/VPH 226 Art and Civic Culture (UIBE) in Beijing, and they will also participate in Urban Neighborhoods in field trips to business operations and cultural Prerequisite(s): PSY 261 and historical sites in Beijing and its vicinity. Three Credits Students will benefit greatly from this learning LC 269 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 333/ In this LC we will explore issues of identity, experience not only academically but also when BUS 336 Culture and Commerce place, and cultural synthesis through a they pursue internships and employment. Three Credits Spring Semester community-based learning project that brings together Stonehill students and Brockton Prerequisite(s): BUS 320 requires a This LC draws upon the disciplines of economics, residents to create an integrated public art prerequisite of BUS 203 and COM 315 psychology, sociology and anthropology to provide project that engages with local history. requires a prerequisite of COM 105. students with a context within which to understand behavior within and among organizations LC 282 - Integrative Seminar: BIO 200/PSY LC 285 - Integrative Seminar: SOC engaged in global commerce. Includes spring 101/VPT 216 Society on Stage break travel to the region being studied. 415 Neuroscience: Mind, Body, Community Three Credits Three Credits LC 272 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 336/ What makes us who we are? Is it our experiences? This LC will explore pressing social questions COM 313 Women’s Global Issues Is it our memory of our experiences? Is it our (about race, gender, social class, religion, etc.) through the dual lens of sociology and theater. Three Credits relationships with others? Is it our ability to know our loved ones? Neuroscientists have shown that Students will read plays, attend performances, This LC will explore women’s issues in a global brain disorders can selectively destroy each of and dig into sociology’s challenging topics with context, a theme that integrates the Gender these aspects of who we are. This LC combines the goal of coming to a greater understanding of and Communication and International Business aspects of biology (Topics in Biology) and how people utilize different vehicles to interpret courses. We will examine how women’s voices are psychology (Brain and Behavior) with a truly and inform others of some of society’s most encouraged and expressed in different cultures and unique and exciting experience in that students pressing issues. The integrated seminar will organizations. Specific topics will include: violence will participate in community-based service culminate with a public performance through against women, women’s human rights, women learning at the Yawkey House of Possibilities, which students will have the opportunity to leaders, women-owned businesses, marriage and a facility on the Stonehill campus that provides express their own perspectives on fundamental motherhood, work and family balance, and other care for children with neurodevelopmental issues confronting society today.

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LC 290 - Integrative Seminar: CRM will be exposed to a variety of musical genres, (especially via the new Farm at Stonehill). 224/VPS 310 Mentoring Through familiar and unfamiliar. For a final project, students will assemble and customize their own electric This LC allows students to complete a Art – Theory and Practice natural scientific inquiry and a moral Three Credits guitar or bass, a fully functional instrument that visually expresses a key aspect of the LC. Although inquiry requirement along with the LC This LC is a unique year-long immersion in art, proficiency on the guitar is not required, openness requirement of the Cornerstone Program. community service and sociology. Students are to experimentation and performance is a must! paired with “kids at risk” from the greater Brockton There will be an additional $300 lab fee for this LC. LC 301 - Integrative Seminar: BUS area to create photographic-based art projects and 333/BUS 334 Responsible Business: to act as mentor to the child. To further students’ LC 294 - Integrative Seminar: SOC 232/VPT From Principles to Practice understanding of their outreach experience, they 216 Social Problems and Performance Three Credits will take CRM 432 Seminar: At-Risk Families and Youths, in the Spring and explore the issues Three Credits This learning community explores how responsible involved in at-risk adolescence. No experience Through play readings and performance, and humanistic management contributes to in photography or social work is required. difficult social problems such as: race, gender, the sustainable success of corporations. The You will learn the basics of photography while sexuality, poverty, crime, drugs, globalization, methods will focus on developing cause-and- building an experience that will stay with you oppression, will be presented, discussed and effect models and assessments of organizational for a lifetime. Students with an interest not only analyzed. Students in this LC will be exposed phenomena, including ethical factors and in art, but in Sociology, Psychology, Art Therapy to a variety of playwrights and material that use conventional business factors. Honors and Education, all are encouraged to participate. the medium of theatre as a way to tackle many Scholars may receive honors scholars credit by of the most difficult issues facing us today. The participating in this Learning Community. LC 291 - Integrative Seminar: POL 291/VPM end goal of the LC is a performance presentation This LC allows students to complete a moral 239 Indigenous Peoples in the Americas: that will not only allow an understanding of inquiry requirement along with the LC Music, Culture, and Governance the play texts but will also expose the Stonehill requirement of the Cornerstone Program. community to these social problems. Three Credits LC 302 - Integrative Seminar: SOC 101/WRI Students will explore in-depth the politics, culture LC 295 - Integrative Seminar: BIO 118/BIO 296 246 Self and Society: Exploring Identity and music of indigenous people in the Americas. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention This includes travel to Peru during January through Literature and Social Science Three Credits break. A case study of indigenous populations Three Credits in Peru will be done. Much of the travel time This LC will examine current diseases/illnesses This learning community combines literary will be spent in Lima. The trip is designed for affecting the U.S. population and research how studies and social science to explore issues related students to witness and study the economic, we can increase the quality and years of healthy to identity in American culture and society. social, and political divisions in Latin America. life through effective prevention and treatment Autobiography is a literary form in which the Students will immerse themselves in indigenous initiatives. Community based service learning individual frequently represents the group, and culture and music and learn how music bridges will be an integral part of this course. This LC autobiography can create or subvert societal norms. political and socioeconomic gaps. The travel is recommended for those interested in public Sociology is the scientific analysis of how the experience will provide a foundation for students health, health care, or any medical field. individual is formed by interaction with the group. to study and research indigenous populations. Objects of study will range from literary narratives LC 296 - Integrative Seminar: POL 351/SOC 216 (published and student generated) to cultural LC 292 - Integrative Seminar: HIS The Paradox of Sovereignty: Native Nations, phenomena, such as football games or homeless 380/VPH 226 Art and Civic Culture Public Policy, and the Politics of Power shelters. Sociological exercises will illuminate the in Urban Neighborhoods Three Credits micro-level phenomena that help us to develop our sense of self, while literary exercises will Three Credits The Paradox of Sovereignty refers to the complex, help us examine, express, or challenge societal dynamic relationship between Native American In this LC we will explore issues of identity, expectations. A final creative/investigative tribes and American democracy. This learning place, and cultural synthesis through a project will integrate the complementary community will explore the questions of who community-based learning project that brings roles of creative writer and social scientist. together Stonehill students and Brockton are contemporary Native peoples and how do residents to create an integrated public art we understand their place in the larger American This LC allows students to complete a social project that engages with local history. polity. Students will examine the legal, social and scientific inquiry requirement along with the historical context of Native nations and analyze LC requirement of the Cornerstone Program. LC 293 - Integrative Seminar: AMS 320/VPM 235 the complex legal and political relationships Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar within American government. Students will also LC 303 - Integrative Seminar: HIS 321/VPM gain expertise in policy analysis by working Three Credits 234 Listening to African American History with real world clients from Native nations. Three Credits Year-Long Learning Community This learning community explores the history The combined seminar will offer students the and literature of the guitar as instrument, icon, unique opportunities to directly learn from and This LC traces the development of African and artifact, focusing chiefly on the American experience a variety of Native communities American music within the context of the major cultural context from the nineteenth century to locally and throughout the United States. social, political, and economic changes that the the present. Linking a course in American Music African American community has experienced in the 20th Century and an American Studies LC 300 - Integrative Seminar: ENV 200/ since emancipation. The journey begins with seminar with an interdisciplinary approach, ENV 270 Food Justice: The Science plantation life and the development of the blues, we will track various kinds of American music, and Ethics of What We Eat and it follows the trail through cosmopolitan including classical, popular, blues, ragtime, New Orleans, the inspirations of gospel, the jazz, folk, and rock. Students will engage in Three Credits transformation of jazz with the migrations north independent research of styles, composers, and This LC will focus on ethical issues surrounding to Chicago and New York, and the introduction performers and will experiment with musical food production and distribution – and on of R&B and Rock-n-Roll. The journey ends with performance. We will also examine the guitar as taking action to address injustices. In particular, an examination of Hip-Hop and Rap as a window decorative object and cultural symbol, reviewing the students will be engaged in community- onto the post-civil rights era. A trip to New York traditional manufacturing history (of Martin, based learning, building connections between City will enable students to visit key landmarks that Gibson, Fender, etc.) and recent developments Brockton agencies that address food access were part of this musical and historical journey. in electronic gaming (Guitar Hero, etc.). Through (homeless shelters, food pantries) and the study of live and recorded music, students Stonehill’s attempts to assist this important work

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LC 304 - Integrative Seminar: VPM 180/ MIL 202 - Foundations of Tactical Leadership A one-semester introduction to differential PSY 271 The Making of Musical Minds One Credit Spring Semester and integral Calculus designed for Business Three Credits Year-Long Learning Community Administration majors. Topics include limits, Study examines how to build successful teams, derivatives, rates, exponential functions, In this LC, students will gain a basic knowledge various methods for influencing action, effective antiderivatives, graphs, logarithms and exponential of musical theory and structure and then use communication in setting and achieving goals, functions, antiderivatives, differential equations. this language to explore recent research in the the importance of timing the decision, creativity The course emphasizes computation, problem- psychology of music through their own research in the problem solving process, and obtaining solving and applications. Students may not and presentations. Students take Music Theory in team buy-in through immediate feedback. receive credit for MTH 119 and MTH 125. the fall semester and apply this knowledge in the spring Seminar as they read, critique and present MIL 301 - Leadership and Problem Solving MTH 125 - Calculus I empirical studies on music perception/cognition, Two Credits Fall Semester the development of musical preferences, the Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters social psychology of music, and related topics. Students conduct self-assessment of leadership Calculus of a single variable: functions, limits, style, develop personal fitness regimen, and derivatives, differentiation rules, applications learn to plan and conduct individual/small unit LC 305 - Integrative Seminar: BUS 340/COM of derivatives, integrals, techniques of tactical training while testing reasoning and integration, applications of integration, 311 Integrated Marketing Communication problem-solving techniques. Students receive Three Credits infinite sequences and series, first and second direct feedback on leadership abilities. order differential equations. May not receive Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) is credit for both MTH 125 and MTH 119. the intersection of marketing, public relations, MIL 302 - Leadership and Ethics publicity, advertising, and sales support to Two Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for MTH 126: MTH 125. promote organizations, products, and services. Examines the role communications, values, and IMC is a relatively new trend and, by definition, MTH 126 - Calculus II ethics play in effective leadership. Topics include interdisciplinary. IMC employs traditional media ethical decision-making, consideration of others, Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and approaches as well as new Web 2.0 and spirituality in the military, and survey Army Calculus of a single variable: functions, limits, social media applications. IMC represents a robust leadership doctrine. Emphasis on improving derivatives, differentiation rules, applications opportunity for students to apply marketing oral and written communication abilities. of derivatives, integrals, techniques of and communication theory and principles, integration, applications of integration, and gain critical, in-demand career skills. MIL 401 - Adaptive Leadership infinite sequences and series, first and second Two Credits Fall Semester order differential equations. May not receive MIL 100 - Leadership Laboratory credit for both MTH 125 and MTH 119. Not For Credit Fall and Spring Semesters Develops student proficiency in planning and executing complex operations, functioning as a Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for MTH 126: MTH 125. Required of all ROTC students, this 120-minute member of a staff, and mentoring subordinates. weekly laboratory stresses soldier skills, drill Students explore training management, MTH 143 - Mathematical and ceremony, performance-oriented military methods of effective staff collaboration, and instruction techniques, and practical applications Reasoning for Education developmental counseling techniques. of classroom theory. All students must attend the Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters laboratory in uniform. ROTC Advanced Course A one-semester course designed for Education MIL 402 - Leadership in a Complex World students are the primary instructors using the cadet majors. The course includes a review of algebra chain of command as the instructional framework. Two Credits Spring Semester and geometry. Further topics include: types All laboratory periods are supervised by Active Study includes case study analysis of military of numbers, algebraic structures, theory of Duty Army cadre. Land navigation practical law and practical exercises on establishing an equations, combinatorics, probability and exercises are taught during the spring semester. ethical command climate. Students must complete statistics, interpreting and analyzing data. a semester long Senior Leadership Project that The course emphasizes problem solving, MIL 101 - Leadership and requires them to plan, organize, collaborate, quantitative and logical reasoning. Personal Development analyze, and demonstrate their leadership skills. One Credit Fall Semester MTH 145 - Basic Quantitative Techniques Introduces students to issues and competencies MIL 405 - U. S. Military History Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters that are central to a commissioned officer’s One Credit Spring Semester Basic methods of data analysis: organizing responsibilities. Establish framework for This course is designed to be an exploration into and summarizing data, probability, probability understanding officership, leadership, and the evolution of modern warfare; with special distributions, statistical inference. Army values followed and “life skills” such emphasis on the technological developments, Fulfills the General Education Statistical as physical fitness and time management. organization adaptations, and doctrinal innovations Reasoning requirement. that have shaped the American military from MIL 102 - Introduction to Tactical Leadership its first conception in 1607 through the 1900’s. MTH 191 - The Language of Mathematics One Credit Spring Semester The successful completion of this course meets the military history pre-commissioning Three Credits Fall Semester Establishes foundation of basic leadership requirement for U.S. Army ROTC cadets. fundamentals such as problem solving, Covers basic concepts, reasoning patterns, and the communications, briefings and effective writing, language skills which are fundamental to higher goal setting, techniques for improving listening and MTH 101 - Pre Calculus mathematics. These skills include the ability to read speaking skills and an introduction to counseling. Three Credits Fall Semester and write mathematics, employ common patterns of mathematical thought, and read the write proofs. Algebraic equations and simplification: factoring, MIL 201 - Foundations of Leadership common denominators and conjugates. Graphs Prerequisite(s): MTH 126 or One Credit Fall Semester of equations. Lines, quadratic curves: equations consent of the instructor. and graphs. Graphing curves with intercepts Students identify successful leadership and asymptotes. Examples using algebraic, Fulfills the General Education Natural characteristics through observation of others logarithmic and exponential and trigonometric Scientific Inquiry requirement. and self through experiential learning exercises. functions. Use of mathematics technology. Students record observed traits (good and bad) in a dimensional leadership journal and discuss observations in small group settings. MTH 119 - Applied Calculus for Business Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 78 academic LIfe

MTH 193 - The Non-Euclidean Revolution Groups, rings, fields, rings of polynomials, MTH 393 - Numerical Analysis Three Credits Fall Semester extension fields, automorphisms of Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 fields, splitting fields, Galois theory. Book I of Euclid’s Elements; Plato and Both theoretical and practical problems in Kant on geometry; Euclid’s controversial Prerequisite(s): MTH 351. the computational aspects of mathematics: fifth postulate; Lobachevsky’s alternative approximation of functions, numerical geometry. An intellectual adventure spanning MTH 361 - Real Analysis I differentiation, solutions to algebraic and 2100 years, whose outcome changed the Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters differential equations; topics in linear way mathematicians view their subject. algebra. Also listed as CSC 393. Rigorous development of the theory of Fulfills the General Education Natural Calculus of one variable. Topics include: Prerequisite(s): MTH 251 and MTH 261. Scientific Inquiry requirement. properties of the real line, sequences, series, limits, continuity and uniform continuity. MTH 395 - Probability MTH 207 - Statistical Reasoning: Chance Additional topics from differential and Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 integral Calculus of one or more variables. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Mathematical theory of probability, axioms An introduction to the ideas and issues of Prerequisite(s): MTH 261 and MTH 191 and basic properties, random variables; probability and statistics and their application in continuous and discrete distributions, moments, everyday life. Topics include: experiment design, MTH 362 - Real Analysis II generating functions, special distributions, law descriptive statistics, chance and inference. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of large numbers, central limit theorem. Use of mathematical software in applications. Fulfills the General Education Statistical Rigorous development of the theory of Reasoning requirement. Calculus of one variable. Topics include: Prerequisite(s): MTH 251 and MTH 261. properties of the real line, sequences, series, MTH 225 - Statistics for Science limits, continuity and uniform continuity. MTH 396 - Statistics Three Credits Spring Semester Additional topics from differential and Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 integral Calculus of one or more variables. Probability; descriptive statistics; normal Continuation of MTH 395. Theory and application distribution, inference; hypothesis testing; Prerequisite(s): MTH 361. of statistics; random sampling; organization of analysis of variance; sampling theory; correlation data; descriptive statistics; sample mean and and regression. Examples from the sciences. MTH 363 - Modern Geometry additional special distributions, the theory Three Credits Fall Semester of Estimators, applications of Estimation, Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 or MTH 119. Hypothesis Testing and Regression. Mathematical The axiomatic approach of Hilbert to Euclid’s Fulfills the General Education Statistical software is used in applications of Statistics. Elements. Geometry from the viewpoint of Reasoning requirement. rigid transformations. Non-Euclidean Geometry. Prerequisite(s): MTH 395. The roles of coordinates, both global and local. Fulfills the General Education Statistical MTH 251 - Linear Algebra Geometrizations of low dimensional manifolds. Four Credits Spring Semester Reasoning requirement. Prerequisite(s): MTH 251, MTH 261. The development of the methods and underlying MTH 399 - Topics in Mathematics ideas for solving systems of linear equations. Topics MTH 364 - Differential include: vectors, matrices, linear transformations, Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 determinants and eigenvectors. Use of Equations and Dynamics MTH 420 - Senior Capstone: mathematical software MAPLE, in applications. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Mathematical Modeling Prerequisite(s): MTH 261. An introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods for ordinary differential equations. Four Credits Spring Semester Topics include first and second order equations, Students learn to create models of real MTH 261 - Multivariable Calculus existence and uniqueness of solutions, logistic world phenomena using mathematical tools Four Credits Fall Semester models, planar linear systems (including such as difference equations, differential Continuation of the sequence begun in phase portraits), regular singular points. equations, lineal algebra, and calculus. Calculus I and II. Functions of several Other topics selected from: flows, the stable Prerequisite(s): Math Major, Senior Standing. variables, analytic geometry, vectors, manifold theorem, and Laplace transforms. partial derivatives, multiple integration. Prerequisite(s): MTH 261. MTH 475 - Internship Prerequisite(s): MTH 126. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters MTH 371 - Combinatorics and Graph Theory Requires approval of the Department Chairperson. MTH 270 - Discrete Mathematics Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Three Credits Spring Semester Methods for determining, given some well MTH 490 - Directed Study Sets operations, Countability, Functions, Number defined operation, the number of ways it can Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Theory, Equivalence Relations, Recurrence be performed. Networks of dots and lines. Relations, Graphs, Combinatorics, Probability. Opportunity for upper level students to do Prerequisite(s): MTH 270. advanced work in a specialized area of mathematics. Prerequisite(s): MTH 191. Permission of faculty member directing the project MTH 377 - Number Theory and the Department Chairperson required. MTH 351 - Abstract Algebra I Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Mathematical induction, prime MTH 496 - Independent Research Groups, rings, fields, rings of polynomials, numbers, Diophantine equations, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters extension fields, automorphisms of congruences, sums of squares. Students carry out an independent research project fields, splitting fields, Galois theory. Prerequisite(s): MTH 251 and MTH 270. under the direction of a faculty member. The research may be part of an ongoing project being Prerequisite(s): MTH 270 conducted by the faculty member, or the student and MTH 384 - Theory of Computation faculty member may develop an original project. MTH 352 - Abstract Algebra II Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Prerequisite(s): Approval of the faculty Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters For description and semester schedule see CSC 384. member and the Department Chairperson.

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MTH 497 - Senior Thesis Philosophy in dialogue with the Arts on the where meaning and value come from, how one Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters question of the good. Problems of ethics can be hoodwinked by political ideologies, are examined using philosophic texts and whether the mind really exists, what to do about Students complete an independent scholarly works of literature and other arts. the loss of meta-narratives in our modern lives. work under the guidance of a faculty member, resulting in a substantial written work. Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. 140 and Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the PHL 283 - Aesthetics department; approval of the faculty member Fulfills the General Education and the Department Chairperson. Moral Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Spring Semester Philosophical principles of art and beauty. PHL 221 - Ethics and Moral Character PHL 241 - Elementary Logic Review of major classical and modern Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester theories. Discussion of specific works of art from different historical periods. An overview and discussion of the major ethical The art of reasoning or argument: deductive theories in the history of Western philosophy. and inductive. Terms as signs. Definition and Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Cross- Application to selected contemporary dilemmas. division of terms and concepts. Relations listed in the Art History program as VPH 212. between statements. Categorical deductive Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP reasoning. Propositional logic. Predicate logic. PHL 285 - Philosophy of Science 140 and Junior standing. Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 Fulfills the General Education A study of basic philosophical questions Moral Inquiry requirement. PHL 251 - Political Philosophy pertaining to the scientific endeavor and its Three Credits Fall Semester methodology. Topics for discussion include: PHL 222 - Ethics: Individual, Society, State the foundations of science and the criteria Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters A discussion of the major themes in the history for distinguishing science from non-science; of Western political philosophy. Key figures conditions for the emergence and development Ethical theories and problems in the matrix of include Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, the individual, state, and the global community. of scientific theories; reductionism and the unity Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls. of science project; skepticism and limitations of Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. the scientific method; implications of the scientific 140 and Junior standing. viewpoint for our understanding of the world Fulfills the General Education PHL 256 - Socrates in which we live and of the human condition (social and political implications of science). Moral Inquiry Requirement. Three Credits Spring Semester A course on the philosophy of Socrates. Students Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. PHL 223 - Introduction to Moral Reasoning will study Plato’s early Socratic dialogues as Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters well as texts by Xenophon and Aristophanes. PHL 305 - Hermeneutics Three Credits Spring Semester A non-historical introduction to ethics that Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140 . will focus on basic theories and problems. What is involved when we “interpret” a Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP PHL 263 - Philosophy of Economics book, a poem, a movie, a painting, or any “text”? A philosophical analysis of the 140 and Junior standing. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 activity of understanding and interpretation Fulfills the General Education The philosophy of economics is one of the as discussed by several Continental Moral Inquiry requirement. newer disciplines in practical philosophy. The philosophers of the twentieth century. subject matter, however, is as old as mankind Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. PHL 234 - Business Ethics itself: reflections about the relevance of economic Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters practices for our human existence, and worries about the way economic facts seem to encompass PHL 306 - Philosophy and the Unconscious Examination of ethical theories and their our lives. The objective of the course is to Three Credits Spring Semester application to the world of business. Specific introduce students to the many different areas Descartes and other modern philosophers argued topics include: contemporary views on economic in the field, such as the ontological, system- justice, corporate social responsibility, ethical for the transparency of the self. Yet, this position theoretic, aesthetical, and, of course, ethical was radically questioned and energetically rejected issues in advertising, preferential hiring and approaches to the subject of economics. reverse discrimination, privacy in employment. by a host of European and American philosophers, Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. psychologists, authors, poets and artists from the Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP late 19th century through the 20th century, and the 140 and Junior standing. PHL 264 - Philosophy of Architecture protest continues into the present day. In particular, the course will examine how the notion of the Three Credits Spring Semester PHL 235 - Biomedical Ethics “unconscious” has complexified our understanding Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An investigation, proceeding both historically of the self. Featured authors will include and transculturally, into how “meaning” is Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, and C.G Jung. Discussion and resolution of ethical problems embodied in architecture. Reflection is guided associated with the practice of medicine especially by Christian Norberg-Schulz, who Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. and the pursuit of biomedical research. has developed a phenomenological approach Topics include: ethical issues in human to the study of architecture based upon PHL 307 - Philosophy of Religion experimentation; euthanasia; abortion; fetal the central ideas of Martin Heidegger. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 research; and reproductive technologies. Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Cross- Religious experience; faith and reason; Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP listed in the Art History program as VPH 211. proofs for the existence of God and 140 and Junior standing. criticisms of them; the divine attributes. Fulfills the General Education PHL 265 - Readings in Contemporary Thought Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140 . Moral Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An introduction to the philosophy of our time. PHL 236 - Ethics and the Arts Texts chosen to be readable. A focus on humanistic Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters issues: how the unconscious controls behavior,

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PHL 318 - Problems in Social and the responses of his contemporaries. PHL 374 - Recent British and and Political Philosophy American Analytic Philosophy Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester This course examines selected topic in social PHL 361 - Descartes to Hume A general introduction to recent (20th Century) and political philosophy – not a survey of Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 philosophy in Britain and America. Themes the whole field, but those particular topics include: the attack on metaphysics; the nature of the instructor finds most interesting. Renaissance skepticism and the birth of values; the way language works; the foundations Cartesianism. Descartes’ mathematicism and the of logic, science and mathematics; the attempt Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. methodic doubt. The Meditations. The thinking to reconcile science and human values. self, proofs for God’s existence, Cartesian dualism, PHL 331 - Metaphysics and the problem of mind-body interaction. Locke’s Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 critique of innate ideas. Berkeley’s immaterialism. Special Numbers: PHL 400 - PHL 499 Hume’s empiricism as a prelude to Kantianism. Speculative study of being in light of PHL 421 - Senior Philosophy Colloquium its causes and principles. Major themes: Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. science of being as being, truth, goodness, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters substance, analogy, act and potency. PHL 363 - Kant The student will select a topic and two readers Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 after meeting with the course coordinator Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. in the fall semester. The presentation may Issues from The Critique of Pure Reason will be held in the first or second semester. PHL 332 - Philosophy of Knowledge be addressed first, such as the difference Credit given in spring semester. Three Credits Fall Semester between the thing in itself and appearance. Then Kant’s moral philosophy will be discussed Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. Nature and conditions of the act of human in detail. Slow and careful reading required. knowledge as such; the origin of human PHL 475 - Internship understanding and the possibility of knowing Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. truth within diverse human sciences. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters PHL 364 - Hegel, Marx, and Engels Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Three Credits Fall Semester permission of Internship Coordinator and Department Chairperson required. PHL 341 - Plato Roots of Marxism in Hegel and Feuerbach. Humanism of young Marx. Praxis and alienation. Three Credits Fall Semester PHL 490 - Directed Study History as dialectical. Nature of communism. Selected dialogues of Plato. Problems and topics Collaborative works of Marx and Engels. The Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters include: Plato’s criticisms of Greek philosophy; later Engels and modern materialism. Supervised reading and research on selected topics. the roles of love, poetry, and rhetoric in human knowledge and morality; the concept of forms. Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Prerequisite(s): Approval of faculty member directing the project and Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. PHL 371 - Existentialism Department Chairperson required. Three Credits Fall Semester PHL 342 - Aristotle PHY 101 - Basic Physics I Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 The Existentialist thinkers of the 20th Century vigorously protested the abstraction and Four Credits Fall Semester Aristotle’s philosophy of man, ethics, sterility of certain kinds of philosophical and Fundamentals of physics for students of biology. and metaphysics, and its importance theological discourse and demanded that we Topics in classical mechanics, heat and molecular to subsequent philosophers. confront the life and death, flesh and blood view of gases; electricity and magnetism, optics Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. issues of our existence. The course will examine and modern physics. Three periods of lecture and the sources of their existential protest in the two hours of laboratory a week for two semesters. PHL 353 - Medieval Philosophy thought of the 19th Century thinkers Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and progress through a Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 and MTH 126 . Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2014 discussion of the major figures and works in the Encounter of Greek philosophical theories Existentialist movement of the 20th Century. PHY 102 - Basic Physics II with Christianity as seen through the Four Credits Spring Semester Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. works of representative medieval thinkers, Fundamentals of physics for students of biology. especially Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, PHL 372 - Heidegger and His Influence Topics in classical mechanics, heat and molecular Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. view of gases; electricity and magnetism, optics Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. and modern physics. Three periods of lecture and An introduction to the thought of the most seminal two hours of laboratory a week for two semesters. PHL 354 - Thomas Aquinas and philosopher of the 20th century. Topics discussed include the critique of metaphysics, theology, Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 and His Contemporaries science, and technology; the structure of being-in- MTH 126 and PHY 101 . Three Credits Fall Semester the-world; time and history; anxiety, death, radical In the 13th century when Aristotle’s ideas were finitude and authentic existence. Consideration of PHY 121 - Physics I presented in Latin to the Christian theologians, Heidegger’s influence on contemporary thinking Four Credits Fall Semester a revolution in Western philosophical thought in philosophy and in all the major disciplines. Brief introduction to vectors and basic concepts of resulted. The problems concerning the origin of the Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. calculus; kinematics; Newton’s laws, force, work universe, the nature of reality and the individuality and power; conservative forces, potential energy; of the human soul became the central questions PHL 373 - American Philosophy momentum, collisions; rotational motion, angular in philosophical and theological discourse. At the momentum, torque; oscillations, simple harmonic Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 center of the intellectual controversies is the figure motion; gravitation and planetary motion; fluid of Thomas Aquinas. Thomas, the most rational of Principal movements of American philosophical dynamics; kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics; theologians or the most religious of philosophers thought: transcendentalism, pragmatism, heat capacity and transport. Three periods of provided profound and innovative solutions to realism, idealism, and naturalism. lecture and two hours of laboratory a week. metaphysical, epistemological and moral problems. This course will examine his sources, his solutions Prerequisite(s): GENP 100 or GENP 140. Corequisite(s): MTH 125.

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PHY 122 - Physics II Fulfills the General Education Natural equations of state, engines and refrigerators. Four Credits Spring Semester Scientific Inquiry requirement. Introduction to the microscopic or statistical view: Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; microcanonical, Brief introduction to the basic concepts of vector PHY 221 - Physics III canonical, and grand canonical distributions; calculus, such as line and surface integrals, integral Three Credits Fall Semester quantum statistics of bosons and fermions; version of Gauss’ theorem and Stokes’ theorem; black body radiation; electronic and thermal Coulomb’s law, insulators and metals; electrostatic Mechanical and electrical examples of properties of quantum liquids and solids. induction, potential energy; capacitance; currents, damped, forced and resonant oscillations; resistance, basic circuits, batteries; magnetism and the mechanical wave equation via Newton’s Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and currents; Ampere’s law; motion of free charges mechanics; the electromagnetic wave equation PHY 221, LC 235 recommended. in magnetic fields, mass spectroscopy; magnetic via Maxwell’s equations; traveling sound induction, Faraday’s law; Maxwell’s equations, and electromagnetic waves; diffraction and PHY 322 - Astrophysics and Cosmology electromagnetic waves; geometric and wave optics; interference, geometrical limit of wave optics. Three Credits Fall Semester light as photons, photoelectric effect. Three periods of lecture and two hours of laboratory a week. Prerequisite(s): MTH 125-MTH 126; Introduction to the structure of stars and and PHY 121-PHY 122. hydrostatic equilibrium; stellar nuclear fusion; Prerequisite(s): MTH 125 Corequisite(s): MTH 126. stellar evolution, the ultimate fate of stars, stellar PHY 222 - Classical Mechanics super-winds and supernovae; stellar remnants: PHY 192 - Astronomy in the Three Credits Offered Alternate Years white dwarfs, neutron stars and degeneracy Scientific Revolution pressure; x-ray sources; black holes and accretion Lagrange’s equations; central forces; kinematics Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters disks; how relativity predicts the expansion of the and equations of motion for rigid bodies; universe; quasars and gamma ray bursts; modern The development and establishment of heliocentric Hamilton’s equations; Hamilton-Jacobi equations; cosmology: microwave background radiation; theory. Topics include celestial observations, the small oscillations; elements of fluid dynamics. dark matter; vacuum energy; the formation of geocentric universe, Copernicus’ rejection of galaxies from gravitational instability; primordial geocentrism, Kepler’s and Galileo’s contributions Prerequisite(s): MTH 125-MTH 126; and PHY 121-PHY 122. synthesis of the elements; the Big Bang as a to heliocentrism, 17th-centuryobservations, test of our high energy physics theories. and the gradual acceptance of heliocentrism. The course stresses exercises, observation, PHY 291 - Planets, Moons and Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. establishment of data, preparation of tables, the Search for Alien Life and construction of mathematical models. Three Credits PHY 323 - Quantum Physics Fulfills the General Education Natural Earth and the solar system, the search for planets Three Credits Offered Alternate Years Scientific Inquiry requirement. around other stars and a discussion about the Schroedinger wave equation and the statistical probability of finding life on other planets or interpretation of the wave function; the time PHY 193 - Science and Belief their moons. Topics include: birth of the solar independent equation in one dimension – free system; early history of the Earth; emergence of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters particle, square wells, barriers, tunneling; the life on our planet; mass life extinctions; space equation in three dimensions – hydrogen atom History of the relation between science and exploration of planets and moons in our solar and angular momentum; identical particles and religion from Copernicus to David Hume: Catholic system and search for extraterrestrial life; recent spin; multiparticle states and entanglement; and Protestant reactions to the Copernican theory; successful search for planets around other stars; introduction to solids and Block theorem. the Galileo affair; rationalism and empiricism; possibility of discovering Earth-like planets Puritanism and science; the Enlightenment around other stars in the near future. The course Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and critique of religion; and the nature of belief in will include class activities, such as labs, and PHY 221 and MTH 251 (Linear Algebra), science and the role of “reason” in religion. repeated visits to our astronomical observatory. LC 235 is highly recommended.

Fulfills the General Education Natural Fulfills the General Education Natural PHY 324 - Electromagnetism Scientific Inquiry requirement. Scientific Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Offered Alternate Years PHY 194 - Physics in the Scientific Revolution PHY 292 - The Universe The sources, the properties and the waves of Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester electromagnetic fields and potentials; Boundary value problems in electrostatics; Magnetostatics The development of classical mechanics. Topics Structure and evolution of the Universe. Topics and Faraday’s law; Electromagnetic Properties include medieval Aristotelian principles of include: a brief history of our ideas about of media: dialectrics, diamagnetic, paramagnetic motion; the development of statics, kinematics the size of the Universe, from the Greeks to and ferromagnetic materials; Maxwell’s and dynamics along with mathematical advances Copernicus; the Newtonian revolution and equations in differential form; Relativistic in the 17th century; and Newton’s Principia. The the defeat of the anthropocentric view of the basis of electromagnetism; Electromagnetic course stresses exercises, observation, laboratory cosmos; Einstein and the geometry of space- basis of geometric and wave optics: lenses, experiments, establishment of data, and the time; the Milky Way and the discovery of other mirrors, diffraction, polarization. development of mathematical analysis and laws. galaxies; stellar evolution; supernovae; white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes; pulsars; Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. Fulfills the General Education Natural how stars produce the atomic building blocks of Scientific Inquiry requirement. life; Big Bang and the expansion of the universe; PHY 325 - Electronics discovery of microwave background radiation; Four Credits Offered Alternate Years PHY 196 - Quantum World and Relativity and the mystery of dark matter. The course Analog electronic circuits, from RL, RC, RLC Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters will include class activities, such as labs, and filters to transistors and operational amplifiers; repeated visits to our astronomical observatory. Introduction to the mysteries of quantum physics introduction to digital circuits. The course includes and relativity for the general student. Despite Fulfills the General Education Natural both theory and a strong lab component. nearly a century of confirmations, the basic rules Scientific Inquiryrequirement. of quantum physics and relativity are still strange, Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122. mysterious, and counter-intuitive, and fun to think PHY 321 - Statistical Physics about. This course examines these rules – their discovery, content, and experimental verifications Three Credits Offered Alternate Years – and the people who created them – Einstein, An introduction to the macroscopic view of Bohr, DeBroglie, Heisenberg, etc. You do not thermodynamics: temperature, heat, work, entropy, need to be a science major to take this course.

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PHY 401 - Great Experiments couples, first and second moments of areas and Prerequisite(s): POL 134 for POL majors; in Modern Physics I volumes, inertia, centroids, frames and trusses. no prerequisite for IS majors Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): PHY 121 POL 171 - Power, Order, and Justice Available experiments include: Cavendish experiment for the gravitational constant, PHY 425 - Solid Mechanics Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Young’s two-slit interference experiment, Fizeau’s Three Credits Spring Semesters The dilemmas facing all governments: On rotating mirror experiment for the speed of what principles should the political order be light, Maxwell’s speed of light via electrical The concepts of stress and strain and their based? What is the nature of the just state? What measurements, Thomson’s experiment for the relation are introduced. Axially loaded determines citizenship, political authority and electron charge/mass ratio, Millikan’s experiment members, temperature effects, torsion, bending, power? What is the good life, and how is it related for the electron charge, Einstein-Perrin’s for combined loading and stress transformations are to the political order; and the satisfaction of justice? Boltzmann’s constant, Planck’s constant via studied. Torsion, deflection of beams, stability and buckling of columns are discussed. photoelectric effect, Planck’s constant via POL 203 - Religion, Politics, and the Law hydrogen spectrum, Rutherford’s experiment Prerequisite(s): PHY 121 , PHY 420 Three Credits Fall Semester for nuclear size, Frank-Hertz experiment on Viewed through the lenses of U.S. Supreme inelastic electron-atom collisions. PHY 401 PHY 490 - Directed Study may be elected without PHY 402; however, to Court decisions, this course examines Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters complete all of the experiments students will the intersection of religion and politics in need both semesters. See Program Director. This is an opportunity for upper level American history. An exploration of how the students to do advanced work in a place of religion in the public arena has been Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. specialized area of physics or astronomy. understood in different historical periods. In addition, current issues where organized PHY 402 - Great Experiments PHY 496 - Independent Research religion and public policy clash are examined. in Modern Physics II Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters POL 221 - Education Policy and Politics Students carry out an independent research Three Credits Spring Semester Available experiments include: Cavendish project under the direction of a faculty member. experiment for the gravitational constant, The research may be part of an ongoing project An in depth investigation of the political dynamics Young’s two-slit interference experiment, Fizeau’s being conducted by the faculty member, or the and policy challenges in American education. rotating mirror experiment for the speed of student and faculty member may develop an This course explores the history and purpose of light, Maxwell’s speed of light via electrical original project. Approval of the faculty member education, problems facing U.S. public education measurements, Thomson’s experiment for the and the Department Chairperson needed. within an increasingly globally competitive electron charge/mass ratio, Millikan’s experiment world, governance structures, education for the electron charge, Einstein-Perrin’s for PHY 497 - Senior Thesis finance, and specific education policy issues, Boltzmann’s constant, Planck’s constant via standards and accountability, among others. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters photoelectric effect, Planck’s constant via hydrogen spectrum, Rutherford’s experiment Students complete an independent scholarly Prerequisite(s): POL 123 for nuclear size, Frank-Hertz experiment on work under the guidance of a faculty member, inelastic electron-atom collisions. PHY 401 resulting in a substantial written work. POL 222 - Political Ideologies may be elected without PHY 402; however, to Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the complete all of the experiments students will department; approval of the faculty member An introduction to Western political ideologies: need both semesters. See Program Director. and the Department Chairperson. basic philosophical concepts, the theory of Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. democracy and its critics, and various political POL 123 - American Government and Politics ideologies including conservatism, fascism, feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and socialism. PHY 403 - Topics in Physics Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An introduction to the institutions and participants Prerequisite(s): POL 171. This is an umbrella title to accommodate any in American politics; the development of physics offering not included in the above list. institutions and ideas from the founding era, POL 233 - Law, Politics, and Society The specific topics covered will be listed in the interaction among institutions and between Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011 pre-registration materials and will appear in the levels of government in the formulation and This course examines law in practice with a the student’s transcripts; for example, PHY 403, implementation of public policy, and the impact focus on how individuals operate within and Topics in Physics – Medical Physics. Student may of citizens and groups on political behavior. against the legal system. It explores the nature take several semesters of PY 403, because of a of law, its impact on the everyday lives of change in topic: e.g. Topics in Physics-Optics. POL 134 - Comparing States people, the judicial process, the art of legal Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters reasoning, and the role of courts in initiating, The variations in political systems of states directing, and resisting social change. PHY 404 - Topics in Astronomy will be explored in terms of the structures Prerequisite(s): POL 123. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of states and their ideologies shaping their politics and their public policies. The POL 235 - American Political Thought The mechanism for PHY 404 is the same international politics of states, how foreign as for PHY 403: examples are PHY 404 - policy is made, and how nations interact in Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Research in Extrasolar Planets, PHY 404 – conflict and cooperation will be examined. An exploration of the basic structure, values, and Stellar Evolution or PHY 404 - Cosmology. theoretical foundations of the American republic Prerequisite(s): PHY 121-PHY 122, and PHY 221. POL 143 - International Politics and its political development. The creation Three Credits Fall Semester and definition of American political thinking PHY 420 - Engineering Statics in the works of Locke, Jefferson, Madison, An exploration of the formation of foreign Tocqueville, Calhoun, Lincoln, and others. Three Credits Fall Semesters policy, the structure and processes of Introduces students to the basic principles of international systems, patterns of conflict, Prerequisite(s): POL 171. engineering statics. The course deals with forces economic and security issues, and institutions acting on rigid bodies under static equilibrium. and processes of conflict resolution. Topics include forces, force systems, moments,

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POL 245 - American Foreign Policy POL 291 - American Political History Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012 Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Administration of public affairs; how public policy The interplay between American interests and American governance from the 1960s to the is put into effect by government bureaucracies; the international political system is examined present, the interplay of political and cultural theories of government organizations; the in terms of decision-making. Political pressures, forces during critical episodes, the Cold War, political setting of bureaucracies; problems ethical considerations, a changing security agenda, the Great Society, the Civil Rights Movements, of budgeting and personnel; efficient and patterns of cooperation and conflict, trade and the Reagan Era, and the War on Terrorism. humane conduct of public business. aid, human rights and resource distribution. Political Ideologies, domestic and foreign Prerequisite(s): POL 123. policy challenges, broad political, cultural POL 247 - Elections in America and institutional changes are explored. POL 340 - European Politics Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): POL 123. Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Elections re the signature events of American The history, political structures, and politics democracy and provide a mechanism to ensure POL 310 - Political Science Research Methods of the major nations of Europe, the political democratic accountability. This course examines Three Credits Fall Semester (2012) ideologies and policies of Great Britain, Germany, how elections in America are structured and how France, and Italy. The European Union is central political parties shape the electoral system. The This course provides an introduction to the methods that political scientists use to answer to the course and its expanding membership course also examines how interest groups, the and deepening responsibilities are explored. media, and money impact electoral dynamics. questions. Students will learn analytical tools to critically evaluate and conduct research. The course Prerequisite(s): POL 134. Prerequisite(s): POL 123. will cover research design, hypothesis formulation, and various qualitative and quantitative POL 341 - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties POL 249 - Contemporary Global Conflict methods for collecting and analyzing data. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012 Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 Prerequisite(s): POL 123 The primary goal of this course is to provide a Conflicts around the globe are grounded in broad understanding of the civil liberties and ethno-national or ethno-religious foundations POL 331 - War civil rights enjoyed by persons in the United and exemplify this low level but intensely Three Credits Spring Semester States. The course explores the historical savage terrorism and war. The course will evolution of rights and liberties and their look at the explanations and analyze the The causes of war, military history with the interplay of strategy, technology and politics as application to current controversies. The causes of such wars and the strategies policy course covers freedom of religion, freedom makers offer to deal with the consequences. the central focus, the nuclear threat and terrorism in the contemporary period. Prevention and of speech, the right to privacy, freedom from the limitation of war and the moral and legal cruel and unusual punishments, protections POL 255 - Environmental Policy and Politics restraints on the activities of states are explored. against discrimination, and affirmative action. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012 Prerequisite(s): POL 123. The environment as a political issue, the rise POL 332 - The American Presidency of environmental concerns in America; the Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 POL 343 - Public Opinion & Voting Behavior influence of public opinion on environmental Three Credits Spring Semester policies; and some of the conflicts between The origins and growth of the American the values of economic growth, energy needs, presidency, the Executive office, and its occupant, The course focuses on trends in public opinion and environmental quality will be examined. the relationship between the office and democratic on public issues, measurement of public government, the separation of powers and divided opinion, and the forces affecting public opinion party government, and on the expansion of public POL 265 - Men, Women, and Justice and its expression in various public activities. administration during the twentieth century. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011 Specific issues explored in the course include Prerequisite(s): POL 123. public attitude formation, trends in public An exploration of the arguments about opinion on political issues, measurement of women made by some of the greatest Western POL 333 - Contemporary Political Theory public opinion, and political participation and moral and political philosophers, feminist voting behavior in American elections. criticism of these arguments, and assessment Three Credits Spring Semester of the reasoning of such arguments. This course explores contemporary political Prerequisite(s): POL 123. theory from the perspective of core political POL 273 - Politics of Developing Nations concepts such as liberty, rights, and democracy. POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 What does it mean to be free in a modern Three Credits Spring Semester society? What does it mean to have rights, and The application of theories of political Key issues in international relations: what rights should individuals have? What development to selected countries in Asia, the Terrorism, civil and ethnic conflict, economic does democratic theory expect of citizens? Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The interdependence, weapons of mass destruction, course also examines problems of political Prerequisite(s): POL 171 cannot international political economy, human development such as leadership, ideologies, be taken concurrently. rights, failed states, and global warming. political change, parties and political movement, nation-building, and constitutional development. POL 336 - Constitutional Law and Politics POL 345 - Inequity, Poverty, and American Democracy Prerequisite(s): POL 134. Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 This course focuses on the structural form and POL 285 - Modern Europe: Divided and United institutional powers of American government. The Democracy is based on the deal of political Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 central purpose of the course is to explore the equality. Yet inequality is an undeniable feature of question of constitutional interpretation. Who are American society, How do inequity and poverty An exploration of the savage wars and cold war the authoritative interpreters of the Constitution, affect the working if American democracy? This divisions in Europe in the twentieth century; what is the relationship between them, and what seminar examines the nature and extent of the creation of a new form of economic and interpretive methodology should they employ? poverty in the U.S., its causes and consequences, political union by the nations of Western and the antipoverty effects of existing and Europe after World War II; the expansion of the Prerequisite(s): POL 123. proposed government programs and policies. European Union after the end of the cold war. POL 337 - Public Administration Prerequisite(s): POL 123.

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POL 347 - Ethnicity and Conflict Management Prerequisite(s): POL 134 and POL 143 Prerequisite(s): POL 171 or GENP 100 or GENP 140 Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 POL 357 - Topics in Politics POL 390 - Politics in Washington, D.C. At the end of the Cold War global peace and security have proven short-lived due to Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012 the revival of ethnic conflicts. Competing From time to time, faculty members may offer A series of seminars during the semester will theories on nationalism and ethnic conflict, a special course in their field of expertise. The focus on an in-depth study of power and modern conflict management tools and course engages in analysis of selected topics politics in American government. During a approaches and case studies: Kosovo, Bosnia in one of the four area fields of the discipline: two-week stay in Washington, D.C., students and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Political Theory; American National Government; will combine traditional academic work Sri Lanka, and Chechnya will be examined. Comparative Politics; and International Relations. with seminars with prominent individuals in government, journalism and the nonprofit sector. Prerequisite(s): POL 134. Prerequisite(s): POL 123 or POL 134 or POL 171. POL 422 - Capstone Seminar POL 351 - Public Policy Analysis POL 358 - Massachusetts State Politics Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Spring Semester The course examines central themes, problems, The course examines the roles that values play A study of the organization, powers, processes and issues in the four fields of the discipline in the making of public policy, considers why and politics of state government in Massachusetts. (Political Philosophy, American Politics, some problems reach the public agenda, and Topics will include Massachusetts history, International Relations, and Comparative why some policies succeed. Using a variety of political institutions, budgeting, political leaders, Government) resulting in a major research paper. policy problems, students will hone their ability and contemporary issuers in the state. to analyze complex issues and develop concise Prerequisite(s): Political Science and International reports of their findings and recommendations. POL 360 - The United States Congress Studies majors only; Seniors standing. Prerequisite(s): POL 123. Three Credits Fall Semester POL 475 - Internship in Government This course explores the politics of the U.S. POL 353 - International Organizations Congress. Emphasis is placed on representation, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and State Building the legislative process, and policy making. Participation and research in local, Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 Congressional organization, namely committee state, and national government. systems and party leadership, are also Explores the extent to which international Prerequisite(s): Minimum of 2.7 GPA and examined to gain a deeper understanding organizations such as the United Nations and Junior Standing. Internship Application of Congressional decision-making. the World Bank are able to alter the contours of approved by Internship Coordinator and statehood and state sovereignty and whether such Prerequisite(s): POL 123. Department Chairperson required. international organizations serve or dominate state actors. Case studies are Afghanistan, POL 377 - International Political Economy POL 490 - Directed Study Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Iraq. Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): POL 134. The development of the modern international Supervised reading and research on selected topics. economy and strategies for the pursuit of wealth, POL 354 - Irish Politics order, and development, emerging trends shaping Prerequisite(s): Permission of the faculty member directing the project Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 the post-Cold War international economic order, the global monetary order, multinational and the Department Chairperson. The development of Irish nationalism, the creation corporations, economic aid relationships, food of the Irish state in 1922, and the building and energy politics, market reforms in non- PSY 101 - General Psychology of the Irish State. Economic development, Western and former communist societies. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Church-state relations, and education are explored as well as unsolved puzzle of the Prerequisite(s): POL 134. Principles underlying physiological psychology, Irish nation and state, Northern Ireland. learning, perception, altered states of POL 380 - Dirty Hands: Moral Dilemmas consciousness, human development, human POL 355 - Politics of East Asia memory and emotion, personality, social behavior, Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 intelligence, and the behavior disorders. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 The difficult “problem of dirty hands” that is This course provides an introduction to the making morally unpalatable choices when Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for all other courses methods that political scientists use to answer confronting mutually exclusive and competing in the Department except PSY 261 and PSY 204. questions. Students will learn analytical tools ethical claims. Works of modern political to critically evaluate and conduct research. The philosophy and classic literature explore PSY 110 - Psychological Science course will cover research design, hypothesis some possible responses to such problems. One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters formulation, and various qualitative and Prerequisite(s): POL 171. Early exposure to the research process in a quantitative methods for collecting and analyzing particular sub-field of psychology matching a data. Students will also construct a research design Fulfills the General Education faculty member’s area of expertise and/or interest. for a political science topic of interest to them. Moral Inquiry requirement. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101 (May Prerequisite(s): POL 134 or POL 143 POL 381 - Citizens of the World be taken concurrently). Three Credits POL 171 or GENP 100 or GENP 140 POL 356 - Politics of the Middle East PSY 201 - Developmental Psychology I Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 This course introduces students to ongoing Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This course will focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict debates within contemporary cosmopolitan political theory over what is morally required of Study of child development from conception and relationships among the Arab states; the through preadolescence. It emphasizes an roll of the major powers in the Middle east’ a us as our world increasingly becomes globally interconnected. Applications of cosmopolitan understanding of developmental research consideration of ideas and political manifestations methods and theories and examines the of nationalism,the impact of imperialism, problems theory to real world dilemmas such as how to respond to crimes against humanity and physical, cognitive, social, emotional, personality of development, and politics of oil, finally, the and moral aspects of development. impact of ethnicity, tribalism culture and religion how to assess actions of transnational non- in explaining politic in the Middle Eastern states. governmental associations will be explored. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101.

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PSY 203 - Developmental Psychology II Further examination of statistical techniques serious health problems (e.g. cancer and heart Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters used in the behavioral sciences. Topics include: disease), the efforts people make in promoting Two-way analysis of variance, repeated measures good health and preventing illness (weight Study of human development from early adulthood ANOVA, regression analysis, and nonparametric control, smoking cessation, etc.), the treatments to death. It emphasizes an understanding of techniques (e.g., Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal- received and the strategies used to cope with developmental research methods and theories and Wallace H test). Statistical analysis software medical problems and their stress/pain. examines the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, complements use of computational formulae. personality and moral aspects of development. Prerequisite(s): Pre-requisite: PSY 101. (PSY 201 is not a prerequisite for this course). Prerequisite(s): PSY 261. PSY 341 - Research in Social Psychology Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. PSY 271 - Research Methods in Psychology Three Credits Spring Semester PSY 204 - Human Development Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters In-depth training in conducting research in in the Young Adult Years Examines the research methods used in the field of Social Psychology. Students are Three Credits Fall Semester Psychology including naturalistic observation, involved in the design of the study, preparation field and laboratory experiments, and survey of materials, collection of data, data analysis, Overview of the theory and research examining methods. Discusses ethical standards in research, and preparation of the scientific report. psychological processes during adolescence and critiques research articles. Students design, and young adulthood. The focus will be on the implement, and write-up research study. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. Written consent fundamental changes of adolescence and young of the Instructor required. Course may be adulthood including, biological, cognitive and Prerequisite(s): PSY 101 and (PSY repeated once with Instructor’s permission. social-affective transitions. Emphasis on theoretical 261 or CRM 311 or SOC 311). perspectives and empirical research findings. PSY 342 - Research in PSY 303 - Group Dynamics Developmental Psychology PSY 205 - Theories of Personality Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Examination of small group behavior In-depth training in conducting research in the Surveys the Psychoanalytic, the Neo-Analytic, through experiential learning and research. field of Developmental Psychology through active the Biological, the Existential, the Cognitive, Includes discussion of group formation, participation in an ongoing program of research. and Trait-Factor approaches to a study of norms, communication, leadership, Students are involved in the design of the study, personality. Comparative analysis and case influence, and decision making. preparation of materials, collection of data, data study application of the major constructs as analysis, and preparation of the scientific report. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. presented in the works of various theorists. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. Written consent Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. PSY 305 - Theories of Learning of the Instructor required. Course may be Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters repeated once with Instructor’s permission. PSY 207 - Abnormal Psychology Surveys the functionalistic, associationistic PSY 343 - Research in Biopsychology Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and cognitive schools of learning – applying Course employs the DSM-IV system of classifying constructs such as limits, incentives, practice, Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and describing emotional dysfunctioning. It insight, transfer, and memory to education, Internship course involving in-depth research explores the etiology, course, and treatment child rearing, and adjustment therapy. training in the field of Biopsychology/ of major disorders. Dynamics and treatment Neuroscience. Held at the Brockton V.A. Hospital Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. modalities are approached from the research facilities; includes assisting in the conduct psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and of sleep research in animals and schizophrenia existential models. Examination of research and PSY 311 - Theories of Counseling research in humans. Scientific approaches range case studies, and a possible practicum experience. Three Credits Fall Semester from neuropsych testing & behavioral studies to neuroanatomical & molecular investigations. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. Current approaches to counseling and psychotherapy (Freudian, Adlerian, Coursework includes: 8 to 12h/wk hands- Rogerian, Gestalt, Behavioral, Rational- on lab work; attendance at 1h/wk seminar; PSY 209 - Social Psychology emotive, Reality and Transactional Analysis). a 20 min oral presentation or written paper; Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Integration of research and techniques. VA hospital employee paperwork & medical Problems, concepts, and methods in the study clearance. Lab work and seminar schedule Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. of social behavior; including conformity, attitude determined based on each student’s schedule. development and change, interpersonal attraction, PSY 315 - Psychology of Women Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. Lab visit and consent of group processes, and social cognition. instructor required. Useful background courses: PSY Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. 261, PSY 271, PSY 415, BIO 412 with lab. Course Examination of how and why women behave as may be repeated once with Instructor’s permission. they do, both from the perspective of cultural PSY 261 - Introduction to Statistics beliefs and scientific research. Topics include: PSY 347 - Research in Health Psychology Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters contemporary psychodynamic and social Three Credits Examines statistical techniques as used in the constructionist theories of women’s psychology; behavioral sciences. Topics include: descriptive theoretical models of gender identity and gender Training in the various facets of conducting statistics – measures of central tendency and roles as well as empirical bases for claims about health psychology research including hypothesis variability; inferential statistics – principles of gender differences; specific disorders associated generation, study design and methods, data hypothesis testing, z test, t test, simple ANOVA, with women; trends in current theory building; collection, and data analysis/interpretation. correlation and introduction to regression and language and communication bias. Projects may include the examination of and chi square. Statistical analysis software existing data, the initiation of new projects or Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. complements use of computational formulae. participation in ongoing projects at the UMASS Medical Center. Topic may include coping with Fulfills the General Education Statistical PSY 320 - Introduction to Health Psychology cancer, eating disorders, substance abuse, etc. Reasoning requirement. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): PSY 271, PSY 320, and Examination of how biological, psychological, PSY 262 - Intermediate Statistics Consent of instructor. May be repeated and social factors interact with and affect once with Instructor permission. Three Credits Spring Semester health, recovery and adjustment of patients with

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PSY 351 - Child Psychopathology how competency to stand trial is determined, Advanced Research Project under the and Its Treatment what psychological processes are involved in direction of a Psychology faculty member. Three Credits Spring Semester jury selection and jury decision making, the accuracy of eyewitness identification, and how Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Description of psychological disorders which children are viewed in the legal system. Faculty member directing the project present themselves in infancy and childhood and the Department Chairperson. (birth - 12 year olds). Exploration of specific Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. treatment approaches used to date. Discussion of REL 200 - The Ten Commandments the impact of childhood psychopathology on the PSY 450 - Advanced Psychology Seminar Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 family, school system, neighborhood, and nation. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters An examination of the Ten Commandments in Prerequisite(s): PSY 101 and PSY 201. Capstone course in which students will review their original context and the history of their and synthesize major empirical/theoretical interpretation as a code of ethics in Judaism PSY 411 - Counseling Practicum I areas of psychology, including abnormal, and in Christianity. Issues to be considered Four Credits Fall Semester personality, learning, cognition, social, include biblical authority, the relevance of developmental, statistics and physiological. ancient laws for modern societies, and ways they Effective listening skills: attending, have been selectively observed and ignored. questioning, paraphrasing, reflecting feelings, Prerequisite(s): PSY 271, Senior Standing in summarizing, self-disclosing, confronting; Psychology, and permission of Instructor. Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. child and adult therapy; field work. Fulfills the General Education PSY 451 - Applying Psychological Principles Prerequisite(s): PSY 205 or PSY 311 Moral Inquiry requirement. and permission of Instructor. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Capstone course examining and evaluating REL 206 - Islamic Traditions PSY 412 - Counseling Practicum II psychological principles and their application in Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 Four Credits Spring Semester today’s society. Topics include effective studying; breaking bad habits; influencing others and Studies the Arabian environment, Muhammed Group therapy work; practice applying Adlerian improving personal relationships; dealing with (founder), Qur’an (sacred writings), and mysticism, and Gestalt theory to individual counseling; self-defeating behaviors such as shyness, anger and sects, and legal and social institutions of Islam. professional and ethical issues; field work. anxiety; raising children; and improving motivation. REL 209 - Religion and Culture Prerequisite(s): PSY 411 and Prerequisite(s): PSY 271, Senior Standing in of the Jewish People permission of Instructor. Psychology and permission of Instructor. Three Credits Spring 2012 PSY 413 - Experimental Psychology PSY 475 - Internship in Applied Psychology I A survey of key texts, beliefs, and practices of Jewish culture and religious practice, including Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three or Six Credits Fall and Spring Semesters the Bible, classic texts, holidays and holy days, Laboratory course in human and animal Each student is expected to carry out a Zionism, modern American Jews, and Israel. learning. Each student is expected to explore supervised assignment in a professional setting operant shaping, extinction rates, multiple with emphasis placed on hospitals, schools, REL 210 - Religions of China and Japan scheduling, chaining, discrimination, clinics, courts, and personnel departments in Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 and temporal factors in learning. the local area. Registration must be approved An exploration of Confucianism and Taoism Prerequisite(s): PSY 101 and by the Department Chairperson, by the faculty in China, and Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, permission of Instructor. member supervising the project, and by the institution or agency conducting the program. with an emphasis on nature in these religions. PSY 415 - Brain and Behavior Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and REL 226 - The World of Paul Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters permission of Internship Coordinator and Three Credits Spring Semester Structure and function of nerve cells and Department Chairperson required. An investigation into the life, writings, and the nervous system. Research methods in legacy of the Apostle Paul. The course will biopsychology, effects of brain damage, PSY 476 - Internship in Applied Psychology II uncover the historical, philosophical, social, and physiological principles underlying sleep, eating, Three or Six Credits Fall and Spring Semesters religious forces that shaped the beliefs, practices, abnormal behavior, drug effects, and memory. Each student is expected to carry out a and experiences of the earliest Christians. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. supervised assignment in a professional setting with emphasis placed on hospitals, schools, Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 OR GENR 140 . PSY 419 - Cognitive Psychology clinics, courts, and personnel departments in the local area. Registration must be approved REL 233 - American Catholic Social History Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters by the Department Chairperson, by the faculty Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Examination of the principles of cognition. member supervising the project, and by the An historical presentation of the numerous Among the topics discussed are perception, institution or agency conducting the program. social issues, conflicts, and varied solutions in attention, short-term memory, long-term American Catholicism from the late 19th century memory, imagery, language, problem solving, Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and forward with emphasis on how the many issues reasoning, and judgment and decision-making. permission of Internship Coordinator and of society impacted Catholicism. The course Includes a laboratory component which Department Chairperson required. demonstrates how the application of faith and gives students hands-on experience with various theological and philosophical theories cognitive phenomena discussed in class. PSY 490 - Directed Study Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters were used in resolution of social conflict. Prerequisite(s): PSY 101. Supervised reading and research directed Cross-listed with HIS 233. PSY 421 - Psychology and the Legal System by Department member. Permission of Fulfills the General Education faculty member directing the project Moral Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Fall Semester and the Department Chairperson. Overview of the impact of Psychology on REL 234 - The Mystery of Evil the legal system. Topics covered include how PSY 496 - Independent Research Three Credits Spring Semester psychological research has influenced court Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters decisions, an examination of the insanity defense, An explanation of the questions of the origin of

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 87 academic LIfe evil, the possibility of human evil, the ability to the religious, literary, and political history Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 name evil in the context of cultural pluralism, of ancient Israel. Students may not receive This class will explore the critical roles and the compatibility of evil with the existence credit for both this course and REL 260. played by women in the religious traditions of a God who is all-good, all-powerful, as well Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as the possibility of hope for overcoming evil. as Judaism and earliest Christianity. It will REL 252 - Introduction to the New Testament introduce factors that led to the decline of REL 235 - The God Question: Modern women’s influence as Christianity developed Three Credits Fall 2013 Challenges to Faith and Christian Responses a more institutionalized religious system. Three Credits Fall Semester Literature of the New Testament in its religious and historical context. Life and ministry of Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 , GENR An examination of some of the traditional Jesus, origins of earliest Christianity, the role 140 or Permission of Instructor. Christian arguments for belief in God, the of Paul, and the development of the Church. challenges to faith that have arisen since the REL 267 - Liberation Theology: 18th century, and some Christian responses to Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. Latin American Perspectives those challenges. Students will be encouraged Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 to develop their personal stances through REL 253 - Models of the Church: critical engagement with a variety of texts. Historical Developments An examination of the development of liberation theology in the historical, political, economic, Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 REL 236 - Faith in Christ and and cultural contexts of Latin America’s Religious Pluralism A study of various forms of the Church struggle to move from colonialism to freedom. from its Apostolic beginnings, through the Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 The course also explores feminist theology, institutionalization process and Vatican II ecological theology, and indigenous people’s Students will grapple with the issues involved reforms, up to the present development theology that are rooted in liberation theology. in Christianity’s engagement with other religious of Base Christian Communities. traditions through the lens of its understanding REL 268 - Images of Jesus of Jesus. Students will look at the development REL 254 - Global Catholicism Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 of the classical doctrines about Christ and their Three Credits Spring 2013 connections to Christians’ understanding of An introduction to Christology. After a strong their relationship to non-Christians in past eras. Examination of the Catholic Church as it is grounding in the various biblical depictions Students will also consider recent Christian understood in the historical, cultural, political, of Jesus Christ, the course examines portraits attempts to address the question of pluralism. economic and religious context in various of Jesus through the ages by close reading of regions of the world. The course will utilize the theological, narrative, and visual images of Christ. documents of the five Special Synods of Bishops REL 237 - Moral Conflicts: Case Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. Studies in Moral Confrontation from Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Oceania Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortations Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 in reaction to the Synods’ deliberations. REL 275 - Hard Rockin’ Jews: Judaism An examination of the possible moral responses and Pop Culture in Israel resulting from the application of Catholic Social REL 255 - Religions in the Roman Empire Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Teaching to a variety of contemporary conflicts Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 For 2000 years Judaism has been a minority – e.g. the death penalty, war, water, global religion in majority “other” cultures. With the warming, worker justice, corporate responsibility A study of ancient world views, mystery religions, establishment of Israel, Judaism became the – by applying values and concepts found gnosticism, and the rise of Christianity. majority culture of a nation-state. This course within the Catholic and Christian Tradition. REL 256 - Church and Social Justice examine how the religion of Judaism both Fulfills the General Education influences and is influenced by the secular Three Credits Fall Semester Moral Inquiry requirement. culture of the modern State of Israel. An examination of the Catholic Church’s Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. REL 238 - Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees: relationship to society and its responses to a variety of social, political, and economic issues. Justice Issues and Catholic Responses REL 300 - The Catholic Tradition: Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 REL 261 - Women in Early Christian Tradition Past and Present An examination of the “immigrant” dimension Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 of the American Catholic Church, past and A study of Catholicism from historical and present, exposing the injustices experienced by An exploration of the roles played by women theological perspectives to aid students in the marginalized outsider/newcomer, exploring in the development of early Christianity and attaining an appreciation for the richness the Catholic Church’s responses to these examination of the factors that led to the decline of the Catholic Tradition in the past and injustices utilizing Catholic social thought, and of women’s influence as a more institutionalized present. Scripture, sacramental life, doctrinal focusing on Hispanic culture and presence in Christian religious system developed. teachings and development, moral issues, and the Catholic Church and American society. Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140 the future Church direction are explored. and one additional REL course. REL 248 - Christian Prayer, REL 301 - Islam and the Bible: Jewish Liturgy and Sacrament REL 262 - Religion in America and Muslim Morality and Ethics Three Credits Fall 2012 Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 An introduction to the fundamentals of Christian An examination of a variety of religious As brother religions vying for the same sacred liturgy, including the meaning of the assembly, ideas, institutions, and traditions in the history, Islam and Judaism trace the genesis ritual symbol and gesture, proclamation of United States from the colonial period to the of their spiritual and biological communities sacred scripture, and blessing prayers in present. Special emphasis is placed upon back to the very same founding parents. Yet the context of relating liturgy to life. questions of religious pluralism, religion and Islam is not Judaism, Muslims are not Jews, and Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140 . cultural identity, and religion in public life. vice versa. Rather, the two traditions are, and Cross-listed with HIS 263. understand themselves to be, distinct entities REL 251 - Introduction to the Old Testament with distinct value systems. By comparing the Jewish and Muslim accounts of the shared Three Credits Spring 2012 REL 263 - Women’s Religions in the Biblical ancestors, as well the often colorful Literature of the Hebrew Bible. Survey of Ancient Mediterranean World

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 88 academic LIfe exegesis on these narratives, this course behavior, however, illuminate why intimacy is Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. will investigate various matters of moral and at the heart of Christian belief and ethics. ethical concern to these communities and the REL 325 - Theology and Community Service lessons thereby imparted by each tradition. Fulfills the General Education Moral Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Alternate Years: 2012, 2014 Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. An exploration of questions about the REL 312 - Archaeology and the Bible relationship of theology and community service Fulfills the General Education in contemporary society, in the context of Moral Inquiry requirement. Three Credits Spring 2012 a search for insight and understanding into Introduction to the archaeology of Palestine, personal experiences while volunteering service with special focus on the interrelationship REL 302 - Violence and Sex in the Bible in a local social service agency. Offered jointly of excavated and textual data. Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 by Religious Studies and Campus Ministry. Examines the dynamics of sex and violence REL 313 - Jerusalem: The Holy City Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. in ancient Israel as they are presented in the biblical text. Topics include the construction Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 REL 327 - Vatican II: Revolution Or Reform of gender, the status of women and men in A chronological study, from ancient times to the society and law, holy war, the characterization present, of the interplay between religion and Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 of physical violence as positive or negative, politics that led to the designation of Jerusalem as An in-depth reading and analysis of the principal the gender of God and its implications. the “holy city’’, through an examination of ancient Vatican II documents to demonstrate how and modern descriptions of the actual and the Catholicism today is transformed from earlier Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. ideal Jerusalem by warriors, visionaries, pilgrims, history. Contemporary issues, as understood in historians, archaeologists, and inhabitants. the light of the Vatican II Church, are explored. REL 303 - The Virgin Mary and Visions of the Feminine in Christianity REL 314 - Mysticism: The Experience REL 328 - Death Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 of Transcendence Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 The development of the Church’s understanding Three Credits Fall 2011 An examination of death, dying, and of the Virgin Mary and of other feminine aspects A study of mysticism from its origins in the bereavement from an interdisciplinary, of the transcendent in Christian spirituality. The Greek world to its expression in Christian and biological/medical, sociological, psychological, course begins with Mary’s ideological antecedents non-Christian forms. A “hands-on’’ approach philosophical, and theological perspective. and the issue of the “historical Mary.” It explores to mystical practices is encouraged, and the the relationship between images of the Virgin reading of mystical texts is supplemented by and theologies, controversies, and heresies, as REL 329 - Justice, Peace, Ecology field trips to contemplative communities. well as contemporary feminist understandings Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 of Mary and of the divine as feminine. The local and global environmental crisis REL 315 - Dreams and the Sacred Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. is examined from the perspective of Three Credits Spring 2012 contemporary theological developments, recent biblical scholarship, ecumenical REL 304 - Job and the Problem of Suffering A study of the role of dreams and other rites of divination in ancient and modern religious statements, and Roman Catholic social Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 experience. Biblical and classical sources are teaching communicated in various papal and An examination of the book of Job and its examined, and contemporary attempts to recover episcopal statements on the current crisis. poetic treatment of the human condition. The the sacred dimension of dreams also are considered. course also considers other ancient Near Eastern REL 330 - Topics in Religious Studies texts that deal with the issue of evil in the REL 316 - Neoplatonism Three Credits Offered Periodically world from a religious perspective, and later Three Credits Spring 2013 readings and retellings of Job by Blake, Frost, This seminar offers students and faculty an Jung, MacLeish, Fackenheim, and others. A study of the seminal writings of the opportunity to investigate in some depth a Neoplatonists, their sources, and their influence specific area of the study of religion not normally otherwise addressed by the department. REL 307 - Buddhist Ethics on the development of later religious traditions. Topics are announced prior to registration. Three Credits Spring 2012, Fall 2012 REL 317 - Gods, Kings and Justice This course can be taken more than once An exploration of traditional Buddhist ethics, in the Ancient World with permission of the department chair. moral arguments Buddhists have advanced about Three Credits Spring 2012 Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140 . contemporary issues, and points of comparison with philosophical and Christian ethics. Who speaks for Justice? Where does Justice come from? This course examines these and REL 333 - The American Catholic Experience Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. related questions by analyzing and comparing Three Credits Spring 2012 ancient texts such as the Babylonian law code of Fulfills the General Education A critical examination and analysis of the Hammurabi, Egyptian hymns, Homer’s Odyssey, Moral Inquiry requirement. peoples, events, and ideas that shaped American and the biblical prophets. Ancient works of art Catholicism from the era of discovery to the 21st treating issues of justice are also examined. REL 309 - Psychology and Religion century. Catholicism’s minority status and the Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. perennial tension of being American and Catholic are used as guiding principles in this study. An examination of religion from the Fulfills the General Education perspectives of the major psychological and Moral Inquiry requirement. Cross-listed with HIS 333. psychoanalytic approaches to human behavior. REL 323 - Gods and War: Religion, REL 335 - Popular Religion REL 311 - Ethics and Sacrament: Ideology, and Nationalism in Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011 The Church in Crisis Japan and the United States An exploration of the substance of popular Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Three Credits Spring 2013 religion: theories of ritual activity, superstition, The failure to integrate sexuality into An exploration of how religions in Japan and theories of the body, the nature of worship Christian life has created a crisis. The failure the United States have helped formulate national and prayer, and the role of sacred space. to understand human intimacy has eroded identities and mobilize citizens for war. Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. religious belief. Theories of ethics and human

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REL 336 - Women in the Islamic Tradition lens for evaluating globalization will be the REL 476 - Internship in Campus Ministry Three Credits Fall 2011 Catholic social tradition embodied in papal Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters encyclicals, Vatican documents, pastoral letters The treatment of women and women’s issues in and grass-root organizational responses. Familiarizes students with campus ministry the Islamic tradition through both primary sources fundamentals beyond Stonehill. Based on the (in translation) and secondary sources: women particular host institution’s faith tradition and REL 345 - Biblical Hebrew in Muhammad’s life and the role they played goals, students will plan retreats, justice and peace in Islamic society; the treatment of women and Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 initiatives, liturgical practices and similar functions. women-related issues in the Islamic tradition, A systematic introduction to biblical Hebrew Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.0 GPA and including both legal and non-legal matters; and emphasizing grammar and vocabulary with the permission of Department Chairperson. the writings of modern Muslim women scholars intention of reading short passages of biblical on Islam as they look at these same issues with a prose by the end of the semester. Daily preparation new perspective and present new interpretations. and active class participation mandatory. REL 477 - Internship in Parish Ministry Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters REL 338 - Sex and God: Jewish and REL 346 - Christian Celebration: The Mass A parish internship provides the opportunity Muslim Erotic Love Poetry Three Credits Spring 2012 to be involved in planning and carrying-out a multi-level religious education program, Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 An exploration of the theological study of youth ministry activities, community service An examination of the erotic love poetry the celebration of the Roman Catholic Mass, projects, and spiritual/liturgical events. penned by imams and rabbis of the 10th-13th with a focus on the historical development of centuries. We will explore the ways in which the Eucharist, various models of eucharistic Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.0 GPA and these pious standard-bearers of religion used celebration, and, the writings of John Paul permission of Department Chairperson. sacred images and accounts from the Bible/ II and Benedict XVI as a window on critical Qur’an and exegetical traditions in their ecclesial and social issues that surface with REL 478 - Internship in Catholic Ministry heteroerotic and homoerotic secular poems regard to the Mass in the modern world. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters and what messages were thus embedded. Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. This internship provides experience with the Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. practical aspects and operations of a Catholic REL 347 - Topics in Religious campus ministry program. Working with REL 340 - Jesus and Moral Decisions Approaches to Moral Issues campus ministers, and applying theological and Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters social principles, students will be introduced to retreats, liturgical ministry, service (local Jesus and Moral Decisions challenges students Explores how religious traditions address and overseas), and student ministry. to ask, “What would Jesus do?” when faced with moral issues, paying particular attention to contemporary moral decisions. Through the use assumptions about human nature and the Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.0 GPA and of Gospels, and secondary sources, students will good, the bases on which the moral system or permission of Department Chairperson. lead discussions and write essays that address religion(s) being studied generates arguments Jesus’ answer(s) to moral decisions today. about specific issues, that system’s modes of REL 490 - Directed Study moral argumentation, and its applicability to Fulfills the General Education Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters contemporary issues. The course also includes Moral Inquiry requirement. comparative analysis of the moral system relative Supervised reading and research directed to at least one other religious tradition. by Department member. Permission of REL 341 - Spiritual Autobiography the faculty member directing the project Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140 and the Department Chairperson. A close reading of a variety of spiritual Fulfills the General Education autobiographies from the second half of Moral Inquiry requirement. SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology the twentieth century to discern what Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters personal spiritual, religious, and ethical REL 411 - Approaches to the Study Principles and concepts; systematic analysis values may be coming to the fore at a time of Religious Traditions of groups, institutions, social interaction, when traditional expressions of communal Three Credits Fall 2011, Spring 2013 socialization, social processes, social structure, religion are in decline. It will center on the culture, personality and social changes. question: what does it mean to be “spiritual” An exploration of the basic questions and themes or “religious” in the twentyfirst century? in the academic study of religions, with a focus Fulfills the General Education Social on how the discipline of Religious Studies Scientific Inquiry requirement. Prerequisite(s): GENR 100 or GENR 140. developed and how it continues to change. GENR 100 or GENR 140 . SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization REL 343 - Christian Theology as Ideology Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 REL 412 - Senior Thesis Globalization is shrinking the world. How How the use of Greek philosophy and Roman Three Credits Spring Semester and why did this happen? This course will imperial theory transformed the Gospel of explore global change and the global processes Research, reflection, writing, and public Jesus in a society that regarded its culture as which effect political, economic, and cultural presentation under the direction of a providential history. This synthesis created but realms. Important topics include: globalization member of the Department, as well as eventually tore Christendom apart. The political, and the state, global politics, the global participation in senior seminar. economic, intellectual, and scientific dynamics economy and inequality, and globalization’s of Europe are incomprehensible without Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor homogenizing and diversifying effects. considering this theological development. or Department Chairperson. SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family REL 344 - Globalization: Catholic REL 475 - Internship in Religious Studies Three Credits Spring Semester Perspectives and Responses Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Concepts of marriage and family as Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.0 GPA and social institutions; intimate relationships; Exploring the various dimensions of globalization permission of Department Chairperson. human sexuality; roles, functions, change, and the range of Catholic perspectives and and problems of American family. responses to this global reality. The primary Prerequisite(s): SOC 101.

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SOC 210 - Survey of Research SOC 220 - Political Sociology SOC 233 - Language and Culture Methods for Sociology Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Three Credits Fall Semester This class is a sociological review and An overview of linguistic anthropology and A survey of quantitative and qualitative research analysis of political structure and power. sociolinguistics, the study of the relationship methods employed in sociology. Topics include The course will critically analyze: state between language, culture, and society. The problem selection and definition, the relationship structures, political parties, power, legitimacy, nature of human language will be explored by between theory and practice, literature review, civil society, and the welfare state. studying language in a variety of social contexts research design, ethical issues, sampling, with the goal of better understanding how data collection, analysis, interpretation and SOC 223 - Use and Abuse of Alcohol language and culture interact to reflect, maintain, representation. Research methods considered Three Credits Spring Semester alter, and create social worlds in which we live. include surveys, content analysis, interviewing, ethnography, and multi-method research. The use and abuse of alcohol in different SOC 234 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity cultures and ethnic groups is examined. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101. Analysis of symptoms, causes, new legislation Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 and treatment modalities concerning alcohol Immigration, history, patterns of intergroup SOC 211 - Sociology of Religion abuse. Special emphasis on the disease concept relations, modes of adaptation, social, economic, Three Credits Spring Semester of alcohol and modern drinking habits. and political conditions, and contributions of selected racial and ethnic communities: The Discussion of basic theories and methods used by SOC 227 - Human Services English and the Anglo-Saxons; Irish-Americans; sociologists to understand religious phenomena. Three Credits Fall Semester Italian-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Native- Consideration of the special problems of Americans; African-Americans; Latino- and religious groups in various cultural settings. Introduction to human service organization and Hispanic-Americans; and Asian-Americans. methods. Methods, such as individual, group, SOC 212 - A Great Society? and family counseling, community organization, SOC 236 - Sociology of Urban Space Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters social planning, and human service research, are considered. Organization of services Three Credits Fall Semesters This class explores society’s social and political into programs to address problems of child This course examines sociological theories debate over what role society should have abuse, the elderly, mental illness, alcoholism, and approaches to understanding urban, in social welfare, examines the principles of drug abuse, and crime, among others. suburban, and exurban spaces. Case studies President Johnson’s Great Society, and seeks an will consider how social class, culture, politics, understanding of those forces that create and Prerequisite(s): SOC 101. industrialization, immigration, economics, and perpetuate social class problems. Issues include: geography contribute to social identities of cities. poverty, child abuse, and mental illness. SOC 228 - Cultural Anthropology Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 Fulfills the General Education Social Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Scientific Inquiry requirement. This course is an introduction to cultural SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender anthropology and is designed as an exploration SOC 214 - Gender and Pop Culture into the diversity of ways in which human beings Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring 2012 perceive and order the social world. Topics Course will distinguish between sex and gender covered include kinship, gender, language, and critically examine how social historical This course will introduce students to the role ecology, economy, political organization, meanings about femininity and masculinity are popular culture has in creating gender norms globalization, religion and worldview from socially constructed, reinforced, and challenged. and expectations. Viewing gender as “socially a diverse array of cultural viewpoints. Considers how gender differences and gender constructed” this course seeks to critically Course readings and films include both inequality play out in a variety of institutions investigate how ideas about gender are created and classic and contemporary ethnographies. including education, the economy, the family, resisted through popular culture. The course focuses politics, religion, the media and medicine. Social on how cultural understanding of masculinity and Fulfills the General Education Critical perspectives, including feminist and Scientific Inquiry femininity circulate in popular culture. Various requirement. multi-cultural approaches, will be employed. pop culture genres are considered including advertising, television, film, and children’s media. SOC 230 - Families in Cross- SOC 290 - Drug Abuse and Addiction Cultural Perspective Three Credits Fall Semester SOC 216 - Native Americans Three Credits Fall Semester in the 21st Century The prevalence of drug abuse and the An examination of concepts of marriage and Three Credits Spring Semester types of drugs used in our society will be family as social institutions from a crosscultural considered. Special attention will be given This course analyzes the interactions between perspective. Drawing on both classic and to legislation regarding illicit drugs and Native Americans and non-Natives. It looks contemporary essays as well as in-depth prevention/intervention strategies. An historical critically at meanings of tribal sovereignty ethnographic studies of marriage and family review of Americans’ attitudes and practices and the changing dynamics of international in several different cultures, we will examine regarding illicit drugs will be included. relations. Federal and state policies related to the way in which intimate relationships land, constitutional governments, crime and law are construed in different societies. SOC 302 - Critical Issues in enforcement, tribal recognition, sacred cultural Contemporary Society artifacts, and economic development are assessed. SOC 232 - Crises, Conflict, and Control Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Three Credits Fall Semester SOC 218 - Images and Power: Popular Culture Systematic analysis of major contemporary Examination of the history of social thought Three Credits Fall Semester social problems with focus on their sources, around three themes: (1) crises of the world, patterns, consequences, and current efforts This course examines American popular (2) conflict between groups within a society at intervention and amelioration. culture as a site of cultural politics and explores and conflict between societies, and (3) representations of race, gender, sexuality and social control mechanisms ranging from Prerequisite(s): SOC 101. “success” that permeate our cultural space. global military intervention to the subtle Through a critical interrogation of a variety of manipulation of opinion within a society. SOC 304 - Introduction to Museum Studies pop culture forms, students will consider how Fulfills the General Education Social Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 norms and values are challenged, resisted, Scientific Inquiry requirement. transformed and created through pop culture. Survey of museology that introduces students

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 91 academic LIfe to the history of museums and debates about and religion, as well as issues specific to the Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and one their role in society. Through case studies region such as post-socialist transitions. additional SOC course. of ethnographic, history, and art museums Prerequisite(s): SOC 228 or SOC 101. students will explore the relationships between SOC 408 - Seminar: Studying Culture museums, their missions, those they represent, Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 and the communities in which they reside. SOC 328 - Community Organizing: People, Power & Change Students will be introduced to the practice of Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 or SOC 228. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 qualitative research from a theoretical and practical perspective. Students will be introduced to the SOC 305 - Sociological Theories Covers theoretical frameworks and practical qualitative methods: field research, interviewing, skills necessary to identify, recruit, and develop Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters oral history, and content analysis. Student will leadership, build community around that gain exciting hands-on experience and learn how Study of the theories of society from leadership, and build power from that community. qualitative research is a unique form of knowledge Comte, Durkeim, Marx, Weber, and other The reflective practice of the course is structured building. (Previously Seminar: Qualitative Research) classical theorists, as well as several major around work in an organizing project (e.g. youth, contemporary theories, including feminism. community, electoral, union, or issue) designed Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and at least to achieve a real outcome by semester’s end. one additional Sociology course. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101, plus one additional SOC course. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 , Freshmen/Sophomores SOC 413 - Seminar: Sociology of Education only with instructor’s permission. SOC 311 - Statistical Analysis in Sociology Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Three Credits Spring Semester SOC 329 - Anthropology of Violence This course examines the contributions of Three Credits Alternating Fall Semesters sociological theories and research to our An introduction to descriptive and inferential understanding go the structure and function statistical methods as applied to research in War, political and economic oppression, of educational systems in contemporary sociology. Topics include measures of central sectarian strife, poverty and disease are society. Current educational policies, programs tendency, dispersion, hypothesis testing pervasive in the world today, ravaging the lives and reforms will be reviewed and critically using parametric and nonparametric tests, of ever-growing numbers of people. Using analyzed. Research will include neighborhood contingency table analysis, t-tests, analysis a cross-cultural approach, we will explore and community level data as well as state, of variance, correlation and regression. The the impact of violence on society, its cultural national and international comparisons. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences legacies, and examples of building peace. (SPSS) will be used throughout the course. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 or SOC 228. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and SOC 210. SOC 415 - Seminar: American Inequality SOC 334 - Anthropology of the Holocaust Fulfills the General Education Statistical Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 Reasoning requirement. Three Credits Offered Periodically Survey of the range of stratification systems. In recent decades social scientists have increasingly Emphasis on the American stratification SOC 312 - Qualitative Research turned their attention to the Holocaust. The goal system – social caste and its relationship to Three Credits Spring Semester of this class is to examine these studies in order race, age, sex, religion, and ethnicity. to better understand the events, their causes, An in-depth exploration of qualitative research and their legacies from a range of perspectives: Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and one practices in sociology. Students will study victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and rescuers. additional SOC course. theoretical and methodological aspects of qualitative research and engage in hands- SOC 416 - Seminar: Love, Intimacy on projects utilizing the following methods: SOC 352 - Topics in Sociology oral history interview, or in-depth interview, Three Credits Not Offered 2009-2010 and Human Sexuality and ethnography. Students will also be Examines a topic of current interest in the Three Credits Alternate Years introduced to cutting-edge qualitative methods public sphere, such as urban homelessness, Students will apply a socio-historical approach including arts-based research practices. from a sociological perspective. The content to examine how sexual meanings are derived Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and SOC 210. and format of the course will be tailored to and sexual activity/desire is organized. Treating the topic area. Seminars in Sociology homosexuality and heterosexuality as social categories, the course will look at how categories SOC 314 - Peoples and Cultures of Europe SOC 405 - Seminar on Public Sociologies are structured, and will ‘denaturalize’ these Three Credits Not Offered 2011 - 2012 Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 categories and analyze the different institutional This course is an exploration of European settings in which sexuality is constructed. society and culture from an anthropological Public sociology-sociological research that emerges Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and at least perspective. Students will explore some of the from dialogues with publics-is both one of the one additional Sociology course. following themes: kinship, gender, political oldest and newest topics within the discipline. anthropology, ethnicity, ritual and religious This course will examine how sociologists can experience, as well as tourism, multiculturalism, connect with publics, explore methodologies SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression and issues of cultural integrity and integration and concepts, study global public sociologies, Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 and identify ways to promote public sociology. raised by the creation of the EU. Introduces the concept of oppression. Conditions Prerequisite(s): SOC 228 or SOC 101. Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and one of oppression to be explored include exploitation, additional Sociology course. marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. Emphasis on the SOC 316 - People & Cultures of SOC 407 - Seminar: Social Movements interaction among racism, sexism, classism, Russia & East Europe Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 anti-Semitism, heterosexism, and ageism, to Three Credits Spring 2012 show the interconnections among oppressions in Social movements allow the voice of the powerless An exploration of contemporary Russia everyday life. Reading assignments will challenge/ to be heard. This course will analyze the evolution and East Europe from an anthropology encourage the students to take action to end of social movements. It will examine barriers to perspective. Topics covered are those of oppressive behaviors and to affirm diversity and success and conditions that support movements. By central interest to anthropologists working social justice. (Previously Seminar on Racism) looking at historical and contemporary movements, throughout the world including: kinship, students will be able to understand important Prerequisite(s): SOC 101 and one gender, illness, and healing, politics, ethnicity, concepts in the study of social revolution. additional SOC course.

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SOC 475 - Internship in Applied Sociology First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses on significant people and events in these fields. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During Familiar topics may include career choices, the the first semester students develop the ability to: environment, social issues, and political issues. The Capstone course for the major, the Internship when speaking and writing, use short sentences, provides an academic experience in which the learned words and phrases, simple questions, Prerequisite(s): SPA 231. third- or fourth-year student (only) contributes and commands; when listening, understand some to the ongoing organizational process while ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, SPA 331 - Advanced Spanish I learning to apply sociological theories to uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand Three Credits Fall Semester observations of structure, function, and process in short texts enhanced by visuals. During the a particular social service agency or institution. For students with three or more years of second semester students expand their ability French/Spanish. First and Second Semesters Prerequisite(s): Written permission of from the first semester, and develop the ability to: of Advanced Courses (331-332) in French/ the faculty member supervising the when speaking and listening, use and understand Spanish In the Advanced Courses students internship and SOC 210 and SOC 311. learned expressions, sentences, and strings of expand their previous ability in their foreign sentences, questions, and commands; when language, and develop the ability to: when SOC 490 - Directed Study writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, speaking, use simple dialogue of paragraph understand important ideas and some details in Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters length in a series of cohesive and coherent highly contextualized authentic texts. During both paragraphs; when listening, understand most Supervised reading and research directed by semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, authentic spoken language; when writing, create Department member. Permission of faculty member home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure a series of coherent paragraphs; when reading, directing project and Department Chairperson. activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, acquire knowledge and new information from clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and comprehensive authentic text. Content embraces SOC 497 - Senior Thesis aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, concepts of broader cultural significance, including Three Credits Fall Semester direction, buildings and monuments, weather institutions, such as the educational system, the and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical government, and political and social issues in Fourth-year students will polish their figures, places and events, colors, numbers, communication skills and build on prior the target culture. Both concepts and abstract days, dates, months, time, food and customs, topics of human and personal interest including coursework. The goal is preparation of a transportation, travel, and professions and work.) paper suitable for presentation at an annual music, literature, the arts, and the sciences. meeting of a professional association during the Prerequisite(s): SPA 131. spring semester. Taught in seminar/workshop SPA 332 - Advanced Spanish II format, the course includes presentations from SPA 231 - Intermediate Spanish I Three Credits Spring Semester departmental faculty about conducting research Three Credits Fall Semester For students with three or more years of in sociology, criminology and anthropology. For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ French/Spanish. First and Second Semesters Prerequisite(s): Permission of German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second of Advanced Courses (331-332) in French/ Department Chairperson. Semesters of Intermediate Courses (231-232) in Spanish In the Advanced Courses students French/Italian/Spanish (German take 231 & 233) expand their previous ability in their foreign SPA 131 - Elementary Spanish I In the Intermediate Courses students expand language, and develop the ability to: when speaking, use simple dialogue of paragraph Three Credits Fall Semesters their previous ability in their foreign language, and develop the ability to: when speaking, use length in a series of cohesive and coherent For students with no previous study or 1-2 years strings of related sentences; when listening, paragraphs; when listening, understand most of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish. understand most spoken language when the authentic spoken language; when writing, create First and Second Semester of Elementary Courses message is deliberately and carefully conveyed a series of coherent paragraphs; when reading, (131-132) in French/German/Italian/Spanish During by a speaker accustomed to dealing with acquire knowledge and new information from the first semester students develop the ability to: learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; comprehensive authentic text. Content embraces when speaking and writing, use short sentences, when reading, acquire knowledge and new concepts of broader cultural significance, including learned words and phrases, simple questions, information from comprehensive authentic text. institutions, such as the educational system, the and commands; when listening, understand some Content includes topics culturally pertinent to government, and political and social issues in ideas and familiar details presented in a clear, the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, the target culture. Both concepts and abstract uncomplicated speech; when reading, understand cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis topics of human and personal interest including short texts enhanced by visuals. During the on significant people and events in these fields. music, literature, the arts, and the sciences. second semester students expand their ability Familiar topics may include career choices, the Prerequisite(s): SPA 331. from the first semester, and develop the ability to: environment, social issues, and political issues. when speaking and listening, use and understand learned expressions, sentences, and strings of SPA 333 - Survey of Latin American SPA 232 - Intermediate Spanish II sentences, questions, and commands; when Culture and Literature I writing, create simple paragraphs; when reading, Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall Semester understand important ideas and some details in For students with 2-3 years of high school French/ Study of Latin America through highly contextualized authentic texts. During both German/Italian/Spanish. First and Second art, history, and literature. semesters content includes: the Self (family, friends, Semesters of Intermediate Courses (231-232) in home, rooms, health, school, schedules, leisure French/Italian/Spanish (German take 231 & 233) Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of activities, campus life, likes and dislikes, shopping, In the Intermediate Courses students expand high school Spanish) SPA 332 or higher. clothes, prices, sizes and quantity, pets and their previous ability in their foreign language, aimals) and Beyond Self (geography, topography, and develop the ability to: when speaking, use SPA 334 - Survey of Latin American direction, buildings and monuments, weather strings of related sentences; when listening, Culture and Literature II and seasons, symbols, cultural and historical understand most spoken language when the Three Credits Spring Semester figures, places and events, colors, numbers, message is deliberately and carefully conveyed days, dates, months, time, food and customs, by a speaker accustomed to dealing with Study of Latin America through transportation, travel, and professions and work.) learners; when writing, create simple paragraphs; art, history, and literature. when reading, acquire knowledge and new Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of SPA 132 - Elementary Spanish II information from comprehensive authentic text. high school Spanish) SPA 332 or higher. Three Credits Spring Semester Content includes topics culturally pertinent to the language; e.g., history, art, literature, music, For students with no previous study or 1-2 years cultural affairs, and civilization, with an emphasis of high school French/German/Italian/Spanish.

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SPA 335 - Survey of Spanish a few poems of each of the following poets: VPD 251 - Dance Technique: Culture and Literature I Espronceda, Becquer, Dario, A. Marchado, J.R. Ballet, Jazz, and Modern Three Credits Fall Semester Jimenez, Neruda, Vallejo, Garcia Lorca, Guillen, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Salinas, Alberti, Miguel Hernandez, and Borges. Study of Spain through art, history and literature. The art of dance reflects the heritage, culture, Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. and diversity of its people. It relates to the Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of human condition and expresses experiences high school Spanish) SPA 332 or higher. SPA 348 - Science, Literature and Film in Spain and emotions. This course is designed to give Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 an overview of dance styles from the ballet SPA 336 - Survey of Spanish barre, a modern center, and jazz combinations. Culture and Literature II This course explores the intricate relationship The focus will be on placement, movement Three Credits Spring Semester between science, literature and film in Spain qualities, and effort needed to execute required through the study of diverse literary and shapes that are prevalent in these dance styles. Study of Spain through art, history and literature. cinematic works. The metatextural nature of these literary and cinematic pieces and the way Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of VPD 253 - Modern Jazz Dance high school Spanish) SPA 332 or higher. literature and cinema disseminate scientific knowledge and discourse will also be discussed. Three Credits Fall Semester Performance-based class in which Jazz SPA 337 - Spain Today Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. technique is taught and Jazz choreography Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 practiced. A class performance at the end of A study of post-Franco Spain, its SPA 349 - U.S. Hispanic Literature: Voices and the course might be coordinated with the political, social, religious directions. Experiences on Migration and Immigration Chorus and presented to the College. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Prerequisite(s): (Recommended 4 years of high school Spanish) SPA 332 or higher. In this course students will examine the VPD 254 - Modern Dance Technique topics on Hispanic migration and immigration Three Credits Not Offered 2010-2011 in United States, and discussed the social SPA 342 - Seminar in Spanish: Introduces fundamental movement principles justice issues and experiences of immigrants Latin American Literature and the basic elements of modern dance reflected in short stories, poems and novels. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 choreography. Through a structured dance Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. class, students explore the connection between Study of a specific literary movement and breath, body alignment, rhythm, movement, author, or genre. SPA 350 - Spanish Linguistics dynamics, space and motivation. Students can expect to raise the level of their technical ability, Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 while keeping the perspective that technique Addresses the problems of syntax (making SPA 343 - Seminar in Spanish: Cervantes serves expression and communication and that comparisons: English-Spanish), verb usage movement is a bridge between one’s inner life and Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 (all subjunctive tenses, all conditional tenses, the outside world. Video viewings and reading Study of a specific literary “future and conditional of probability or assignments will introduce important figures movement, author, or genre. conjecture,” agreement of tenses, all imperatives, and trends in 20th-century modern dance. morphology, phonetics/phonology, etc. Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. VPD 255 - Ballet I SPA 344 - Seminar in Spanish: Three Credits Fall Semester Contemporary Spanish Novel SPA 475 - Internship in Spanish Studies This course will cover ballet technique: the Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters principles of proper alignment, placement, ballet terminology and steps. Ballet barre and Study of a specific literary Opportunity for qualified students to work center will give students the practice required movement, author, or genre. with their foreign language skills in a variety of professional areas. Field placement depends for developing their dance ability. This class Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. on the student’s interests and abilities. is open to beginning ballet students and to those who have had more classical training. SPA 345 - Seminar in Spanish: Afro- Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. Hispanic Culture of the Caribbean VPD 256 - Dance for Musical Theatre Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 VPD 141 - Dance and Movement Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Study of a specific literary Explores the world of musical theatre through movement, author, or genre. Dance instills confidence, self-expression, and dance. Students will learn a variety of dance styles personal challenge, all useful daily living skills. associated with musicals throughout the decades. Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. An exploration of dance styles and music provides Tap, jazz, and ballet will be incorporated. students with the opportunity to develop these SPA 346 - Seminar in Spanish: Maya, skills, while experiencing their own flexibility. VPD 257 - Introduction to Dance Composition Aztec, and Inca Traditions Rhythm, space, and its effect upon movement Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 are also examined. Challenging for all levels. Explores the different approaches to dance Study of a specific literary VPD 186 - Introduction to Dance History choreography. The influence of music, costume movement, author, or genre. and lighting suitable for choreographic Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 Prerequisite(s): SPA 332 or higher. purposes and dance performance will also be The Dance History course will explore the history studied. Different dance styles will be utilized of movement through dance from the primitive by each student to create combinations that SPA 347 - 20th Century Hispanic Poetry age to the 21st century. Students will gain a will lend to fully composed original pieces Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2012, 2014 deeper understanding of the history of dance This course is an introduction to the theory in its social, political and theoretical context. VPD 355 - Advanced Jazz Dance of poetry, to poetic movements or the 19th Students will learn through lecture, video and Three Credits Spring Semester and 20th centuries (Romanticism, Modernism, required readings as well as movement technique. Impressionism, Symbolism, Poesia Pura, Intended for the student with some previous Surrealism, etc.) and to a stylistic analysis of dance experience. It expands the dancer’s basic understanding of alignment, develops a deeper

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 94 academic LIfe understanding of musicality including syncopation, In this hands-on studio class students, will a virtual still or movie camera to produce a digital and introduces complex movement skills. learn to design for publications. The structure, illustration or animation. The course emphasizes Students discover various styles and trends in construction, and production of magazines, 3-D graphics to solve various design problems. The American vernacular dance and learn to express newspapers, corporate publication will be use of sound in animation will be introduced. themselves through their own choreography. explored, along with their conceptual and aesthetic attributes and environmental concerns. Prerequisite(s): VPG 202 or VPG 203. VPD 356 - Ballet II Prerequisite(s): VPG 202 or VPG 203. VPG 405 - Advanced Study in Graphic Design Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Spring Semester Expands the knowledge gained in previous ballet VPG 302 - Package Design Opportunity for graphic design majors to classes. Students are encouraged to explore Three Credits Fall Semester the technical and artistic aspects of classical pursue advanced projects and research ballet. Each class will include barre and center This studio course is an introduction to the design related to their individual needs and interests. work as well as some study of current ballets. of packaging. Students will explore the concept Critiques with other members of the class of brand identity and apply branding strategies will help to give additional assessment and Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet training. to the design and production of packaging for are an important component of the course. products that are common in today’s market. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. VPD 357 - Dance Company Students will learn how to design visual continuity One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters for a 3-D format. Sustainable/environmentally- conscious packaging materials will be explored. VPG 423 - Graphic Design Portfolio The Stonehill College Dance Company provides Three Credits Fall Semester performing experience for qualified students Prerequisite(s): VPG 202 or VPG 203. through participation in a company that reflects the In this Capstone for Graphic Design concentrators, spirit of the College. The company is comprised of VPG 303 - Typography: Letterforms students will assemble a professional level portfolio. Each senior will review previous work auditioned dancers who will learn choreography, and Words in Graphic Design and be guided to choose and develop significant of well known area choreographers, in an Three Credits Fall Semester organized manner and perform in various venues design projects appropriate for specific career on and off campus throughout the semester. Students learn about the development and choices, including programs and job interviews. use of typefaces. Legibility, readability, Individual creative expression will be emphasized. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. history and perception will be examined. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Instructor. The impact of images accompanied by text Course may be repeated for credit. Course will be explored. Students use computers and VPG 475 - Internship in Graphic Design must be taken three times to earn the traditional methods to develop visual projects. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters equivalent of a 3-credit course. VPG 304 - Advertising Design VPH 181 - History of Art I VPD 360 - Dance Outreach Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Spring Semester Explores advertising concepts, media This one-semester survey explores major Unique opportunity for learning, community and techniques. Projects simulate actual developments in art and architecture from service and exchange. Stonehill students will work performed at an advertising agency. Antiquity through the 19th Century, considering lead children “at risk” from the Brockton area Students will experience the role of an historical events and ideological shifts which through various movement exercises. A piece will advertising designer as they develop skills contributed to the stylistic changes. Trips to be choreographed and performed at the end of in producing design for various media. Boston museums enhance class content. the semester. A dance background is required. VPG 305 - Web Site Design VPH 184 - Introduction to Arts Administration VPD 490 - Directed Study Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semesters This introductory course covers the processes Supervised reading and research directed involved in making visual communication for the The course will introduce students to the by Department member. Written consent web. Aesthetic concerns, conceptual skills, and many facets of arts administration in the of the Instructor is required. technical/production procedures will be covered visual and performing arts. Topics to be to facilitate understanding of and participation investigated will include: the role of arts in VPG 202 - Graphic Design Foundations in the process of web design. Students will work society; management strategies; funding venues; and legal and ethical issues in the arts. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters through initial ideas to a finished presentation. Students learn the various processes involved in VPG 306 - Motion Graphics VPH 209 - History of Photography graphic design from initial ideas/concepts through Three Credits Spring Semester working stages to finished presentation, applying Three Credits Spring Semester the principles of design to projects pertaining to This studio design course is an introduction to History of Photography is a general survey of the design and production of primary print and the use of computer software to create animations photographic practice from 1839 to the present. also screen-based solutions. Students sharpen and time-based visuals for use in professional Through lectures, exhibition viewings, class basic computer skills in preparing their projects. applications such as advertising, multimedia, discussion and student-led presentations, film, video and the web. The expressive and students will explore the aesthetic, social VPG 203 - Introduction to Digital Imaging informative impact of motion and time when and conceptual underpinnings of the medium throughout the last 170 years. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters presenting screen-based graphics, type and sound will be exposed. Software will include Using individual workstations, students learn Adobe After Affects and Macromedia Flash. VPH 211 - Philosophy of Architecture scanning, designing and working with pictures Three Credits Spring Semester using Photoshop. Students will be encouraged to VPG 307 - 3-D Graphics, use this medium as a form of personal expression For description, see PHL 264. as well as considering its practical application. Illustration and Animation An art background is helpful, but not necessary. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 VPH 212 - Aesthetics This studio graphic design course explores within Three Credits Spring Semester VPG 230 - Publication Design the computer the construction, modeling and For description, see PHL 283. Three Credits Spring Semester rendering of simulated 3-D objects in a virtual space. These objects are then photographed with

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VPH 214 - The Age of Cathedrals was shaped by the demands of monarchs and VPH 317 - Art and Psychology Three Credits Spring Semester popes. Also explored are cultural, religious, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 and scientific factors which influenced Examines the rise of the Gothic Cathedral changes in artistic style and technique. The relationship between works of art and from its roots in the Ottonian and Romanesque scientific inquiry into the human mind. periods. Great European Cathedrals Artworks which reflect psychological VPH 225 - Art of the City: Greece and Rome like Chartres, Notre Dame, Strasbourg, content are discussed in depth (for example, Salisbury, are discussed in detail. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 psychoanalytical interpretations of Van Gogh’s Urban architecture, sculpture and painting paintings; Surrealist painting and Freudian VPH 215 - Early Renaissance in Greece and Rome. All aspects of city life theory). Therapeutic uses of art are explored Art: Italy and the North during Antiquity will be explored: religious, in a workshop with an Art Therapist. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 civic, domestic, and social. Students will gain a deep knowledge of life in the ancient world VPH 330 - Topics in European or American Art Introduction to the art of the fourteenth and through the study of its cities and citizens. Three Credits Fall Semester fifteenth centuries in Italy and the North. Investigates focused topics in American art Students explore different types of art such VPH 226 - Art for Public Spaces: as altarpieces, civic art, and court art. Artistic and culture from the Colonial period to the Issues and Trends exchanges between Italy and the North are present. The topic will change each time the examined, and the role that patrons, the economy, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 course is offered. Possible areas to be explored and the military played are investigated. Students will be introduced to the changing include: The “Other” in America; Jazz Age trends in public art, focusing on developments and Depression Art and Culture; Modernist/ VPH 216 - Nineteenth Century Art: since the mid twentieth-century. New definitions Postmodernist Architecture. Recommended for Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism of art for the public realm will be examined. Art History and American Studies concentrators. Three Credits Fall Semester Controversial public art projects will be discussed as well as the complexities of public commissions VPH 332 - Museology An analysis of various stylistic developments and the shifting focus of funding organizations. Three Credits Fall Semester which occurred at a time when conceptual This course explores the history, theory, shifts and innovative techniques brought about VPH 227 - Modern American Architecture dramatic changes in the nature of painting and philosophy, and practice of museums. Students sculpture. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 will study exhibition approaches and strategies of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism This course examines twentieth and twenty-first display; collection development and conservation; are considered and placed in their appropriate century architecture in America and its European and educational programming. Visits to Boston- socio-economic, political, and aesthetic contexts. roots. Through classroom instruction via digital area museums will enhance class material. images, readings and field trips, students will VPH 217 - Early Modern Art: 1900-1945 focus on issues such as function, style, technology, VPH 430 - Art History in Italy Three Credits Spring Semester urbanism, and regionalism in order to understand Four Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 the forces that shape modern architecture. Some of the most profound innovations Combines in-class study with a travel experience. Explore the influence of antiquity in art occurred during the first half of the VPH 228 - American Architecture: From Twentieth Century. In this course, students on Renaissance art and architecture through Colonial Times through the 19th Century study major developments including Fauvism, class lectures and student presentations German Expressionism, Cubism, Dada and Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 at Stonehill and on-site observation in Surrealism in terms of style and theory and Historical survey of American architecture Florence, Rome and other sites in Italy. within cultural, social and political contexts. of the 17th through 19th centuries. Various A trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New styles of architecture and building types VPH 440 - Exhibitions and York City enriches classroom curriculum. will be studied in the context of location, Collections: An Inside Look function, materials and technology. Three Credits Fall Semester VPH 218 - Art Since 1945 An inside look at the art world. Visits to art Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 VPH 229 - Topics in Non-Western Art galleries, museums, auction houses, and corporate Major movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 and private collections acquaint students with a Pop Art, Minimalism, Super Realism, Neo- Examines the traditional and contemporary arts variety of art institutions and professions. Students Expressionism as well as works which go of various non-western cultures, focusing on a curate an exhibition at the Cushing-Martin Gallery: beyond traditional media (earthworks, video art, particular culture each time the course is offered. they visit artists’ studios to choose work; organize performance art, digital imaging). Day trips to Specific cultures to be studied include: Indian, the exhibition; hang work in the gallery; write a museums and galleries complement class material. Chinese, Japanese, African, and Native American. catalogue and press releases; and plan a reception. Capstone course for Art History Concentration. VPH 219 - Food and Body Image in Art VPH 314 - Masters of the Renaissance: Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael VPH 441 - Research Seminar in Art History Examines attitudes toward food in various Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 cultures as seen in art. Topics include An in-depth study of the works of these three Examines specific topics in Western art, food as necessity, ritualistic and religious High Renaissance artists, the evolution of applying art historical methodology and significance of food, eating as social/political their respective styles, and the environment in critical approaches to in-depth research with engagement, food and body image, and which they worked. Specific scholarly issues primary and secondary sources. Topic will medical/psychological issues related to food. are discussed in student presentations. change each time the seminar is offered. Students will produce an extensive research VPH 220 - From Bernini to Vermeer: VPH 316 - Art and Gender paper and give an oral presentation. Strongly Art of the Baroque Three Credits Spring Semester suggested for Art History majors and minors. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Issues of gender as explored by artists throughout Prerequisite(s): VPH 181 plus one 200 level Survey of the visual arts in Italy, France, Spain, the centuries. Notions of femininity and and one 300 level art history courses. Flanders, and Holland during the Seventeenth masculinity, sexual identity, and challenges facing Century. Students consider some of the world’s women artists are among the topics discussed. most evocative and emotionally stirring art that

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VPH 475 - Internship in Fine Arts This course teaches repertory for small vocal VPM 184 - History of Music II: Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters ensemble, and/or voices with instruments. Non-Western Traditions Students may work with instrumentalists from Three Credits Spring Semester An internship in a professional arts institution the orchestra section. Singers and players of all provides students with invaluable experience in levels will perform for the College community This introduction to world music covers the field. An intern typically works 8-10 hours at the semester’s end. Students should already indigenous vocal and instrumental music from per week on site. Internships are available at be able to read music. Course may be repeated the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, as well various galleries, museums and companies. for credit. Course must be taken three times as the non-western musical traditions of Europe to earn the equivalent of a 3-credit course. and North America. The class will examine VPM 132 - Instrument Methods and various types of music; the instruments which Musicianship: Jump on the Bandwagon VPM 139 - Guitar Ensemble best represent them, and the cultures in which Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 they are embedded. The class will attend One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters concerts of live music on and off campus. This class will enable students to master In Guitar Ensemble, students learn introductory fundamental musical skills in performing musical skills including basic jazz theory, scales, VPM 231 - Piano Workshop and reading music. The curriculum will notation and chord grids; basic guitar technique Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters focus on woodwinds and brass. Classes will and performance skills such as comping and include individual as well as group playing. soloing. These are applied to the study of four jazz This workshop provides an introduction to Students may rent instruments from a local standards or equivalent repertory. Course may be the study of the piano in a class setting, and vendor. No musical experience required. If repeated for credit. Course must be taken three is intended for beginning students. Students needed, instruments are available from a times to earn the equivalent of a 3-credit course. will learn to read music, basic music theory, local vendor for $50-100 per semester. piano technique, and both individual and VPM 140 - Studio Guitar ensemble performance. Students use digital VPM 133 - Collegiate Chorale pianos with headphones for individualized One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters instruction. The course culminates with a This course provides an opportunity for students performance for the college community. The Stonehill College chorus welcomes to study guitar in a private studio setting with students interested in singing. Music from individual instruction. Repertory will be tailored VPM 232 - Voice Workshop many historical periods and styles is sung to student needs. Curriculum will include: Three Credits Spring Semester while learning methods of vocal and choral Establishment and development of proper technique. Rehearsals culminate in two technique; note reading, notation and chord grids; Breathing, phonation, resonation and diction. concerts given in December and May. scales and chords; improvisation; performance Students learn physiology and classical voice production, while acquiring enhanced performance Prerequisite(s): Course may be repeated for skills, memorization, audition techniques Semester study will culminate in a public performance. skills through practice and performance in class. credit. Course must be taken three times to Singing repertory is drawn from various styles and earn the equivalent of a 3-credit course. Course must be taken three times to earn will be tailored to individual talents and needs. Course may be repeated for credit. Course the equivalent of a three-credit course. Ability to read music not necessary for this class. must be taken three times to earn the An applied music fee will be assessed to equivalent of a 3-credit course. Students will each student enrolled in VPM 140. VPM 234 - African Music: Crossing be required to purchase concert attire. the Atlantic and Home Again VPM 141 - Chamber Music Workshop: Piano Three Credits Fall Semester VPM 134 - Concert Band One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters Students will study musical traditions from One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters Studio piano students will meet one hour Africa and their impact on Western culture. The Stonehill College Concert Band is a performing weekly with an instructor in a private setting. Social and musical elements will be examined ensemble for experienced wind and percussion Repertory will be individually tailored to the through readings, listening assignments and class musicians. The band performs a variety of musical students’ needs and preferences. Course will discussions. Students will learn African drumming styles, focusing on traditional band literature. The also involve performance classes, master- through hands on practice and oral exercises. ensemble gives a performance each semester. classes, and coaching sessions, and will culminate in a public performance. Course A music instrument fee will be assessed Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Instructor. may be repeated for credit. Course must be to each student enrolled in VPM 234. Course may be repeated for credit. Course taken three times to earn the equivalent of a must be taken three times to earn the 3-credit course. An applied music fee will be VPM 235 - American Music in the 20th Century equivalent of a 3-credit course. assessed to each student enrolled in VPM 141. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 This class concentrates on developments in VPM 137: A - Chamber Music: Orchestra VPM 180 - Introductory Musicianship American music during the 20th Century. One Credit Fall and Spring Semesters Three Credits Fall Semester Classical, jazz, Broadway, popular, and folk are This course is an opportunity for orchestral string, This class introduces students to fundamentals explored, as well as the interrelation among orchestral woodwind and brass and percussion of music, including standard musical notation, music, theatre, dance and movies. Students instrumentalists to work together in a chamber meter and key signature recognition, rhythm, are encouraged to engage in independent orchestra. Repertoire and seating assignments keyboard harmony, and rudimentary composition. research of composers and styles. are based on experience level. Students who Emphasis is on acquisition of musical skills have instrumental performance experience are which build individual confidence and prepare VPM 237 - Musical Instruments of the World encouraged to participate. Campus performances the student for VPM 240 Music Theory. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 allow members of the chamber orchestra to This course is an introduction to ancient and showcase their talent! Course may be repeated VPM 183 - History of Music I: European Roots for credit. Course must be taken three times modern instruments. Students will develop Three Credits Fall Semester to earn the equivalent of a 3-credit course. an understanding of instruments through the This survey of European Classical Music covers use of listening exercises, video, and hands- Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Instructor. music composed between 1600-the present on experiences. Assignments will draw from day. Emphasis is on the styles and genres Western and non-Western repertories and will VPM 137: B - Chamber Music which have influenced modern classical and connect instrumental and cultural heritages. A Workshop: Vocal Ensemble popular music. The class will attend concerts in field trip to a live concert may be included. One Credit Not Offered 2011-2012 Boston. No musical background is necessary.

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VPM 239 - Music of Latin America VPS 104 - Drawing Foundations or collages, drawings or text, will be considered Three Credits Fall Semester Three Credits Fall Semester so that form and content enhance each other. This class studies the diverse genres of Latin This course will introduce students to the VPS 208 - Introduction to Watercolor American music as they developed from the basic mechanics of drawing: how to describe complex fusion of indigenous music and culture structure, form and space with line; the expressive Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 with African and European music. The music potential of line; and variety and sensitivity Teaches very basic use of watercolor and explores of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America, in mark making. Accurate observation and its potential. Each class will focus on specific has deeply affected music in the US and visualization of forms as well as linear and skills: materials preparation, wet-on-wet and provided an important key to understanding atmospheric perspective will be introduced. dry brush techniques, lifting color, basic color Latin American culture and people. theory, value, glazing and composition. A visual VPS 107 - Design Fundamentals survey of current artists working in the medium VPM 240 - Music Theory Three Credits Fall Semester will be presented throughout the course. Three Credits Spring Semester This course explores the elements and principles VPS 210 - Photography Workshop Music theory will teach musical notation, of design in the studio arts. Composition, reading, intervals, scales, and the basic keyboard space, line, shape, color, and texture will Three Credits Fall Semester harmony. Some exercises in ear training and be investigated in order to enhance creative This workshop combines an introduction rhythm are included. Student’s will compose problem solving. Emphasis will be placed to the history of photography with hands- brief musical compositions using FINALE, an on creating two-dimensional works of art on camera and darkroom experience. While interactive computer composition program. with various media and applications. acquiring technical proficiency in picture taking and film developing, students explore their VPM 331 - Advanced Piano Workshop VPS 201 - Three-Dimensional Design personal aesthetic vision. Student provides Three Credits Spring Semester Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 camera, film, and photography paper. This workshop is a continuation of VPM Working with media, including clay, plaster, VPS 222 - Introduction to 231 - Piano Workshop , and is designed for wood, and various natural materials, students students with a strong piano background. explore the formal and expressive possibilities Digital Photography Topics include major and minor keys, complex of three-dimensional art while solving Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 textures and rhythmic patterns, and is tailored to specific design problems. Discussions of Using digital media without heavy manipulation, individual needs. The class will play in several trends in both historical and contemporary students will become literate with the features public performances during the semester. sculpture are integrated with studio work. their cameras offer. Whether photographing Prerequisite(s): VPM 231 or the landscape, portraits, events, street or fine VPS 204 - Drawing consent of the Instructor. art photography, the visual language will be Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters employed to foster aesthetic and technical skills, as students work towards the production VPM 340 - Music Composition Designed to follow Drawing Foundations, this of a thematically cohesive portfolio. Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 course will explore representational drawing from observation, covering principles of space, Explores the techniques involved in developing form, light, rendering, composition and the VPS 223 - The Nature of Art: musical ideas into coherent compositions. mechanics of traditional drawing methods Discovering the Artist Within Students will develop facility in composition and materials. Students will also investigate Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 through individual assignments as well as through contemporary approaches to create expressive, Through the intersection of art and biology class discussion and critiques. Composition interpretive, and narrative drawings. exercises, extensive practice in using standard and using the act of “journaling” and art music notation, a longer project, and a public as a vehicle for investigation, students VPS 205 - Painting performance of compositions are required. explore their inner voices while looking Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters outward to observe the natural world. Prerequisite(s): VPM 240 or This course will expose students to a variety of consent of the Instructor. painting techniques and concepts. Focus will be VPS 224 - Sequential Imagery placed on composition, space, perspective, form, Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 VPM 450 - Capstone in Music color mixing, and material application. Through This course will introduce students to the use Three Credits Spring Semester direct observation, the use of references, and of sequential imagery in art. It will focus on This Capstone course draws together principle exploration of personal expression, students animation and graphic novels. Methods will components of undergraduate study in a semester- will develop essential skills in painting. include photography, Claymation and drawing. long research or creative project designed to Narrative and non-narrative approaches will demonstrate students’ skills, abilities and talents. VPS 206 - Printmaking Workshop be contrasted in order to better understand The project may connect two fields of study Three Credits Fall Semester each. Topics will include composition, or emphasize a particular field not formerly transition, pacing and exaggeration. As an introduction to different printmaking studied. Specific topic will vary by course. techniques, this course helps students appreciate Prerequisite(s): Senior standing the processes involved in creating prints and the VPS 243 - Documentary Photography and Consent of Instructor. distinctive expressive potential of each medium. Three Credits Fall Semester Linocut, engraving, etching, and monotype are Using examples ranging from photojournalism VPS 102 - Introduction to Color among the printmaking techniques practiced. to fine art students will use their eyes and their Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters cameras to tell the reality-based stories that are VPS 207 - Special Projects: Homemade important to them and to society at large. Students Using paint, pencil and paper students Journals and Artists’ Books are expected to complete long-term photographic are introduced to the principles of color projects using digital tools and produce cohesive and color interaction: students study and Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 portfolios in both print and electronic formats. apply the physical and optical properties This course explores constructed books as of color, its symbolic and expressive uses, containers for personal use and as works of art. and artistic theories governing its use. It will begin with creating a journal to fill with VPS 301 - Sculpture Workshop detritus from daily life, then move on to techniques Three Credits Fall Semester for traditional and unique methods of binding. This course guides students through the processes Using mixed media, the contents, whether photos

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 98 academic LIfe of modeling, mold making, and casting. Many basic with study of the anatomy of the head and VPT 212 - Musical Theatre sculptural issues will be addressed via the ancient progresses to the portrait in various settings. Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 and universal concerns of self-representation. Some drawing experience is required. The class will work outdoors when possible to Focusing on the history, artistic development, and performance of Musical Theatre, this course consider sculpture “in the raw,” using minimal VPS 327 - Landscape Painting tools and natural materials to create pieces. provides the tools to create fully developed Musical Three Credits Fall Semester Theatre performances. Through discussions and workshops on acting, character development, VPS 310 - Photography/multimedia Explores traditional and less conventional drawing and painting approaches to the physical proper vocal technique, staging/choreography, Outreach: Mentoring Through Art environment. Through dry and wet media, and the art form’s history, students will become Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters students work on site and in the classroom using informed Musical Theatre performers and critics. Combining art and community service, nature as the primary subject source. Students students are paired with “kids at risk” from strive to understand the nature of natural light, VPT 216 - Improvisation the greater Brockton area to create projects atmosphere, space and other general concepts Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters in photography, video, collage, drawing and relating to this historical artistic genre. Students will draw upon their imaginative sculpture. Workshops are conducted by experts resources and extend their awareness of themselves in adolescent counseling and juvenile criminal VPS 406 - Advanced Studio Seminar and others. Improvisation provides a creative justice. Students with an interest not only in Three Credits Spring Semester dramatic experience which emphasizes spontaneity art, but in Sociology, Psychology, Art Therapy, of response and the development of ingenuity. and Education, are encouraged to participate. In this Capstone Course students work in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media Is being offered as part of a Learning and more. Employing the technical and critical VPS 311 - Photography II Community Fall 2011 - Spring 2012. thinking skills they’ve developed over 4 years, Three Credits Spring Semester they strive to create their most mature, well- VPT 220 - Production and Stage Management This course emphasizes the increased development realized work in the personal studio space that of a personal vision, refinement of technical is provided. Readings, critiques, and Visiting Three Credits Spring Semester skills, and investigation of film processing and Artist Presentations enrich the experience. This course is designed to familiarize students darkroom procedures. Exposure to contemporary The semester culminates with a Senior Thesis with the organizational procedures involved trends and historical traditions through museum/ Exhibition in the Crushing-Martin Gallery. in performing arts productions beginning gallery visits deepen understanding of the medium with the skills needed for stage management as a means for creative expression. Student VPS 475 - Internship in Studio Arts and the coordination of artistic and technical provides camera, film, and photography paper. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters elements. Emphasis will be given to the facilitation of the collaborative creative process. VPS 322 - Installation Art in the 21st Century VPT 181 - History of the Theatre I Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 Three Credits Fall Semester VPT 225 - Play Production I One Credit Fall Semester Installation Art challenges the creator and audience The development of theatre from its primitive to expand their definition of art. It is often beginnings through major eras and countries Students receive credit for participating as actors, removed from the gallery to disrupt spaces in until the year 1700. The theatre will be assistants to the directors and designers, stage unexpected ways. Frequently, it addresses social studied as a social and cultural institution managers, technicians and crew members in issues, is time-based, involves the viewer, and mirroring the civilization in which it thrives. a main stage production. Specific assignments utilizes materials and practices that mirror the and hours worked must be approved by the complexity of contemporary culture. Students will VPT 182 - History of the Theatre II Program Director. Student must have worked use the campus to explore personal and universal Three Credits Spring Semester on a previous departmental production. Credit issues. The Course culminates in a “Day of Art.” is granted on a pass/fail basis including Theatre The role of theatre is explored from the 18th Arts majors and minors. Does not count towards century through the 20th century. The historical VPS 324 - Figure Drawing requirement for Theatre Arts major/ minor. methods and means of transforming the dramatic This course may be taken three times. Three Credits Spring Semester script into a theatrical production are analyzed in the context of the prevailing society. Designed to increase the student’s perceptual VPT 226 - Play Production II skills and provide an introduction to the human One Credit Spring Semester figure. Various drawing approaches are discussed VPT 203 - Acting I and utilized throughout the course. Emphasis Three Credits Fall Semester Students receive credit for participating as actors, is placed on anatomy and the structure of the assistants to the directors and designers, stage Beginning work on the actor’s physical, vocal, human form. Critiques and lectures help students managers, technicians and crew members in and emotional tools. Basic rules, mechanics, and develop an understanding of the critical issues of a main stage production. Specific assignments methods of analysis for developing a part in a play. drawing and its context within the History of Art. and hours worked must be approved by the Program Director. Student must have worked VPS 325 - Art Education: Theory and Methods VPT 205 - Stagecraft on a previous departmental production. Credit Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2010, 2012 Three Credits Not Offered 2011-2012 is granted on a pass/fail basis including Theatre Theatre is about magic and transformation Arts majors and minors. Does not count Topics include developmental theory, curriculum – the process needed to translate an image towards requirement for Theatre Arts major/ design, and numerous hands-on experiences to into a 3-dimensional form, utilizing fabric minor. This course maybe taken three times. explore visual creativity. Techniques of structuring, or wood, will be explored. Previous sewing time, space, and materials are addressed to support or carpentry experience is not necessary. VPT 300 - Acting II independent student work in various art media. Students will learn both sewing and scenery Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2013, 2015 Course results include the production of materials building techniques, as well as complementary to be used in the “real world” of public schools. Concentration on refinement of the actor’s areas such as lighting, fabric decoration and instrument through stage movement and scenery painting. Students are required to voice. To enlarge the student’s physical VPS 326 - Portrait Workshop work on a departmental production. Three Credits Spring Semester and emotional projection along with detailed characterization work. Students in Portrait Workshop explore the portrait using a variety of materials, including Prerequisite(s): VPT 203 or consent of the Instructor. charcoal, pastel, and paint. The course begins

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VPT 302 - Directing VPT 405 - Seminar in Theatre Arts I extensive feedback on student work, helping Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters them to gain more confidence with grammar, sentence structure, and other conventions of Analysis and interpretation of play scripts; Students are given the opportunity for further English usage within specific rhetorical contexts. basic blocking techniques; coaching of study in selected areas of design and technical actors; and the process of producing a play production for the stage. Topics will vary. WRI 147 - Poetry Lab on Metaphor from auditions through performance. May be repeated four times, if topics differ. Three Credits Fall Semester Prerequisite(s): VPT 181 or VPT 182, or VPT 406 - Seminar in Theatre Arts II An examination of the nature of metaphor VPT 203, or consent of the Instructor. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters in language and the function of metaphor in creative writing, especially students’ own work. VPT 305 - Advanced Stagecraft Students explore different subjects in dramatic Analysis of the precise nature of the difference Three Credits Offered Periodically literature and theatre history along with between metaphor and analogy, metaphor and further studies in performance, directing This course provides an in-depth, hands-on sign, metaphor and symbol. Exploration of how and playwriting. Topics will vary. May be poets – and writers in general – contextualize approach to constructing scenic art, utilizing repeated four times, if topics differ. scenic painting, props and costumes. Student and materialize metaphor, focusing on metaphor projects include the creation of period costume as a vehicle of discovery in the work of Atwood, VPT 415 - Theatre Practicum I pieces and the building of unique props. Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Garcia-Lorca. Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Prerequisite(s): VPT 205, or Allows students who have shown significant WRI 241 - Intermediate Writing: consent of the Instructor. interest and expertise to take on creative and The Art of the Essay managerial responsibilities in the areas of Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters VPT 306 - Introduction to Playwriting performance, directing, dramaturgy, design This seminar is designed for students who wish to Three Credits Fall Semester and technical aspects of production. Capstone advance and sharpen their written communication course for Theatre Arts concentration. Participants will be putting pen to paper with skills in a rigorous yet supportive workshop setting. One semester required for majors. weekly writing assignments covering the basic Students will explore approaches to writing in a concepts of playwriting; characterization, Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Program Director. variety of rhetorical situations related to various dialogue and plot development. This will be disciplines including natural and social sciences, an active participation class with students VPT 416 - Theatre Practicum II philosophy, religious studies, art, literature, and sharing and talking about their own and history. They will focus on planning, drafting Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters each other’s work in class as they develop and revising essays and other kinds of writing their scenes and one act dramas. Allows students who have shown significant with ongoing, constructive feedback from fellow interest and expertise to take on creative and classmates and the instructor. A central focus of the VPT 308 - Theatrical Costume Design managerial responsibilities in the areas of course will be the complex relationship between Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013 performance, directing, dramaturgy, design writers’ intentions and readers’ expectations and and technical aspects of production. Capstone Explore how history affects body decoration interpretations. Students will prepare a portfolio of course for Theatre Arts concentration. revised writing with a reflective introduction that and colors influence people’s attitudes, as you One semester required for majors. learn the criteria influencing costume design demonstrates critical reading and thinking skills. decisions. By using angles, colors, fabrics, and Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Program Director. a script, students will translate personalities WRI 256 - Reading and Writing Poetry into costumes. No sewing involved. VPT 475 - Internship in Theatre Arts Three Credits Spring Semesters Three Credits or more Fall and Spring Semesters Close reading and writing of poetry. Students VPT 312 - Scenic Design for the Stage Opportunity for the qualified student to will learn to approach and understand poetry Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2011, 2013 work in a professional theatre environment. as pleasure, meaning, language, form and Theatre is the place where different arts meet Interested students contact Program Director. finally, art as they engage questions of what and ultimately collide. It is the role of the constitutes a poem. The focus will be on poetry writing, but will also include expository and designer to forge an aesthetic equilibrium from VPT 496 - Independent Research analytical writing. Suitable for all levels. this complex interaction. Explore the practices Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters of scenographers: including script analysis, collaboration, research, visual thinking and Opportunity for upper-level students to do an WRI 261 - Writing Violence in God’s Name develop creative abilities using exercises to advanced research project or investigation in a Three Credits Spring Semester build intuitive responses and drawing skills. field of special interest not covered by a normally- scheduled course. The student and a full-time An inquiry into how religion and religious texts can be exploited to cultivate war. The course examines VPT 315 - Make-up for the Stage faculty member familiar with the student’s area of interest agree on a plan of study and research conflicts in Sri lanka, Israel/Palestine, and Northern Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2012, 2014 and on evaluation methods. Before registering, Ireland as well as conflicts in America. The course This course introduces students to the the student must obtain the signatures of the focuses on strategies for effective academic writing. basic concept of make-up design as an faculty director and the Program Director. illusionary technique in the performing arts. WRI 369 - Writing and Peer Consulting A combination of character study, painting, WRI 141 - First Year Writing Seminar: Three Credits Fall Semester lighting and 3-D design will be emphasized. Composition and Literature In this practicum, students will prepare to become Four Credits Fall and Spring Semesters peer consultants in the Writing Center. They will VPT 317 - Oral Interpretation develop consulting skills by analyzing theoretical This seminar is designed for students who wish to Three Credits Offered Periodically and research articles from professional journals, review or upgrade the essential skills of writing, by applying the theory and research results to Through individual and group projects, students critical reading, and textual analysis at the college their own writing in process and the writing of will practice selecting, adapting, and performing level. Drawing on a variety of texts from multiple other students, and by observing and participating a variety of literary material. Class work will disciplines, this seminar focuses on the thesis in the Writing Center one hour a week. include the study and presentation of poetry, driven essay, emphasizing idea development, prose, and play scripts along with critical analysis. drafting, revising, editing, and manuscript Prerequisite(s): Faculty recommendation preparation, with special attention to style, or permission of the instructor voice, and the writer’s craft. Instructors provide

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Enrollment and Registration the dates designated in the Academic Calendar may to make up the work missed. In such cases, it is be assessed a $50.00 late registration fee. Students the instructor who determines whether or not All degree seeking Students are admitted to who have not registered by the completion of the absence was legitimate; if it was, and if the the College by the Office of Admissions. the Add/Drop period will be administratively student has consulted the instructor as soon as withdrawn from the College and unable to possible, the instructor must give a make-up Full-time Students register until readmitted through a process examination or quiz, or provide the student with A student is attending full-time if registered initiated in the Office of Academic Services. an equivalent basis for evaluation. 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Non-degree students who wish absence on any particular day; provided, however, that such makeup examination or work shall not to apply for degree status must do so through Credit Overload the Admissions Office. If admitted, a maximum create an unreasonable burden upon the school. Students seeking a B.A. or B.S.B.A. may of ten (three or four-credit) courses taken at No fees of any kind shall be charged by the enroll in up to 17 credits per semester (or Stonehill College as a non-degree student may be institution for making available to the student such 18 credits for B.S. programs). Students, after applied toward completion of a degree program. opportunity. 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THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 101 academic LIfe took the examination. The Final Examination was not submitted by the instructor by the required will be determined on a case-by-case Schedule can be viewed on the Registrar’s final grading deadline. The “NS” will be basis based on the nature of the medical reason homepage: www.stonehill.edu/registrar.xml . replaced with a final grade upon receipt from presented. In the case of a medical course the course instructor. Quality points are not withdrawal, the Director of Academic Services Grades and Evaluation assigned and the NS grade is not included in shall contact, based on the nature of the medical Depending upon the course, faculty members the computing of the grade-point average. reason presented, either the Director of Counseling employ different means of evaluation. Since there and Testing or the Director of Health Services Military Science courses are graded “A” to (the Designated Healthcare Professional) and are numerous variations in faculty policies and “F”, but since grades are not included in the requirements, faculty members normally declare inform them of the need for a medical withdrawal students grade point average the grade is noted consultation. The Designated Healthcare their grading criteria explicitly, considering with an asterisk on the transcript (e.g. A*). mastery of course material, analytical skills, Professional will determine the documentation required, inform the student of the documentation critical oral and written expression skills, Mid-Semester Grades originality, and creativity. The quality of work in required, review the documentation, and provide a course is indicated by the following grades: At mid-semester, faculty members are asked to written confirmation to the Director of Academic submit grades to all undergraduates students Services that the documentation presented who have earned a grade of C- or lower in Undergraduate: is sufficient. In the case of a medical course any course to date as an indication of the withdrawal, upon receipt of written confirmation need for improved performance. Students and Grade Definition Quality Points of sufficiency, the Director of Academic their advisors are notified of any grades of Services may grant the course withdrawal. Per Credit Hour C- or lower that are submitted. These grades A Outstanding 4.00 are only an indication of current progress and Pass or “P” Grades are not recorded on a student’s transcript. A- 3.70 The grade of “P” is given to students who successfully complete a course in which they B+ 3.30 Incomplete or “I” Grades have exercised the Pass-Fail Option. To encourage B Superior 3.00 The grade of “I’’ can be submitted by the students to broaden their intellectual interest, instructor only after permission has been secured the College permits juniors or seniors to employ B- 2.70 from the Office of the Dean of Faculty. It will a Pass-Fail Option in one course each semester. C+ 2.30 be given to the student only when the failure The student who passes such a course will receive to complete the work of the course is due to a a grade of “P’’ with no quality points figured in C Satisfactory 2.00 serious reason such as prolonged illness. When the cumulative average. The student who fails C- 1.70 students receive Incomplete grades, they are such a course will receive a grade of “F’’ which granted a period of 30 days, beginning from the is counted the same as any other failure. The D Passing but 1.00 last day of final exams, to complete the course Pass-Fail Option can be used only in a course unsatisfactory work. Failure to complete the course work which is a free elective and which is taken in a during this period results in a grade of “IF.” F Failure 0.00 Department other than the student’s major or minor Department. For example, Majors or Minors IF Incomplete/ 0.00 Voluntary Course Withdrawal in Business Administration may not take a course Failure or “W” Grades Pass-Fail if it has a designation of BUS. Students AU Audit Students are expected to complete all courses, must fill out a Pass-Fail form in the Registrar’s required or elective, in which they are enrolled. Office during the first two weeks of the semester I Incomplete It is only for serious reasons that course in order to exercise the Pass-Fail Option. withdrawal should be considered. Prior to P Pass In addition to the above, any student, except withdrawal, students are strongly urged to a Foreign Language major or minor, who has S Satisfactory consult with their instructor, advisor, and/or previously completed the Foreign Language the Office of Academic Services, to review the U Unsatisfactory requirement, may elect the Pass-Fail Option academic consequences of withdrawal. Students in one or two additional Foreign Language W Withdrew are also urged to consult with Student Financial courses, even if this exceeds the maximum Services since withdrawals may have significant number of Pass-Fail courses allowed. impact upon a student’s current or subsequent Administrative Grades: eligibility for financial aid and/or billed charges. Grade Reports The grade of “W” is given only if a student has Students may access their grades on-line IP In Progress submitted a completed Course Withdrawal Form at the end of each semester. Upon written NS Not Submitted to the Registrar’s Office. Authorized withdrawal request of the student, the Registrar’s Office from a course will be indicated on the student’s will mail a copy of the transcript to the permanent academic record. Any student who does student or to the student’s parents. Grades of “AU”, “I”, “P”, “S”, “U”, and “W” are not not follow the required procedure for withdrawal assigned quality points and are not included in from a course will receive a failing grade. Grade-Point Average the computing of the quality-point average. Students may withdraw from individual courses The Semester grade-point average is based on all An “IF” (Incomplete/Failure) is issued when a until the last day for course withdrawal as courses taken in that semester, including failures. student has failed to meet the 30-day deadline determined by the Vice President for Academic It is calculated by (1) multiplying credits for each for completing the work in an incomplete Affairs or his or her designee. The last day course by quality points assigned to each grade (“I”) course. An “IF” is assigned 0.00 quality for course withdrawal will vary based on earned; (2) totaling points earned for all courses; points, and is calculated as an “F” when the Academic Calendar. Requests for course and (3) dividing total points by the number of computing the students grade-point average. withdrawal after the deadline will be considered credits attempted. 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Repeating a Course decision to the Academic Review Board. Requests The requirements for the degrees of Bachelor of Unless explicitly permitted in the course for such an appeal must be made in writing to Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Science description, a student may not repeat a course the Office of Academic Services within a time in Business Administration are the following: once having attained a passing grade in the frame noted in the letter of separation. Failure to appeal within the time stated will, under all but a. satisfactory completion of all course course. A student who fails to obtain a passing requirements, including general education grade in a course may repeat the course and the most extraordinary circumstances, disallow such appeal. If a student’s appeal is denied, at and major courses. Proof of a grade of can secure credit by passing it. Even after “C” or higher for each transfer course; a course has been repeated, the original least one full semester must elapse before applying for readmission. The right to appeal is restricted including those from Stonehill sponsored failure remains in the cumulative grade-point- programs (both abroad and domestic), average and on the permanent transcript. to two separations. A second separation results in permanent dismissal from the College. or those taken as part of SACHEM or any other consortia agreement, must be Grade Changes, Re-evaluation Period of Separation submitted to the Registrar’s Office by and Dispute Process the due date for final senior grades. During the period of separation, a student Only the instructor of a course can give a grade b. a cumulative grade-point average of a in that course or change a grade given. Any may choose to take courses at another accredited institution. If so, those courses must 2.00 or above, (a student who fails to question on the part of the student concerning the achieve the minimum 2.00 average at the correctness of a grade should be raised first with be pre-approved by the Office of Academic Services. Only grades of “C” or better will be end of the fourth year may be granted the instructor. If, after contacting the instructor on additional semester to achieve it); and the respective department chair, a student transferable. (“C-” grades will not transfer). c. satisfactory completion of 40 three or does not believe the grade to be equitable, a four-credit courses, at least 20 of which Grade Re-evaluation Request should be filed in Readmission to the College must be taken at Stonehill; beginning with the Dean of the Faculty’s Office. Such a request Following Separation those students who enter the Fall of 2010, must be made before the middle of the semester After having been separated for at least one satisfactory completion of 120 credits, with at following the one in which the grade was semester, a student may apply for readmission to least 60 credits taken at Stonehill is required; given. If, after receiving the explanation of the the College. To do so, the student should send instructor, the student still feels that the grade his or her request in writing or by e-mail to the d. attendance at the College for at is unjust, he or she may appeal to the Academic Office of Academic Services. Upon receipt of this least two years, one of which is Appeals Board within 2 weeks. Appeals should letter, a Petition for Readmission form will be sent normally the fourth year. be filed in the Dean of the Faculty’s Office. to the student. This process may be initiated any e. an Application for Graduation on time after March 15, but should be completed file in the Registrar’s Office. Academic Standing by July 1 for the fall semester. For the spring The student is responsible for payment of all semester, this process must be completed between financial obligations to the College, and the Students are not only to pass their courses, but October 15 and December 1. In the event a student diploma and academic transcript are withheld also must maintain an acceptable grade point is readmitted, there is no guarantee of either until such obligations have been satisfied. average. Academic status is determined at the housing on campus or financial aid. Inquiries end of each semester during the academic year. about on-campus housing and/or financial aid Degrees ordinarily are conferred by the College at should be directed to those specific offices. the public Commencement Exercises. Candidates To be in good academic standing, a student for degrees are to be present at these exercises must earn a minimum GPA of 2.00 and Academic Dismissal unless excused by the Office of Academic Affairs. maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.00. Students A student who has been readmitted who fail to achieve a 2.00 are subject to Graduation Dates academic probation, separation, or dismissal. after an academic separation may be permanently dismissed for the following: While Stonehill only holds one public Academic Probation Commencement Exercise in May, students who 1. Earning lower than a 2.00 in complete their degree requirements early may If a student earns lower than a 2.00, he/she a subsequent semester. earn their degree at the end of the summer is placed on Academic Probation. Probation 2. Violating the Academic Integrity Policy. (September 1st) or at the end of the Fall semester remains in effect until the student achieves (December 31st). May Commencement Exercises good academic standing. A first semester of Graduation Requirements will normally be held on the 3rd Sunday of May, probation has a variety of consequences, when May is a four week month, and on the 4th including that the student may be prohibited Class Year Assignment Sunday of May, when May is a five week month. from participation in extra-curricular activities. The Vice President for Academic Affairs has charge Academic Probation may be removed following of the classification, academic standing, and To be eligible for May Graduation successful completion of summer school/ progress of students. Regardless of the point of A student must satisfactorily complete intersession courses, taken at Stonehill admission, students are classified as sophomores all degree, major, and general education immediately after the semester in which if they have completed 10 courses; as juniors if requirements by no later than the final the probation is incurred, if the student’s they have completed 20 courses; as seniors if they due date for Spring senior grades. GPA reaches the appropriate standard. have completed 30 courses. Students who are no more than 2 courses short of their required The official date of graduation on the diploma and Academic Separation number are classified with the higher class. transcript will be the date of May Commencement. Students will be separated from the Beginning with the entering Class of 2014, To be eligible for September College for the following: students will be classified as sophomores when 1st Graduation 1. Earning a combination of 3 “F”s in any one they have reached 30 credits, as juniors when A student must satisfactorily complete all degree, semester or 4 “F”s in two successive semesters. they have reached 60 credits, and as seniors when major, and general education requirements they have reached 90 credits. Students who are 2. Qualifying for Academic Probation by no later than August 20th of that year. no more than six credits short of the required for the second successive semester, or number may be classified with the higher class. The official date of graduation on the for 3 non-consecutive semesters. diploma and transcript will be September Appeal Procedures following Requirements for Graduation 1. Diplomas will be mailed by October. Academic Separation It is the personal responsibility of the student

Students separated from the College by reason of to ensure that all academic requirements academic deficiency have the right to appeal the in the general education, major and minor programs are satisfactorily completed.

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To be eligible for December to the Registrar’s Office. Major Declaration Dean’s List 31st Graduation Forms are available on myHill and in the Full-time students achieve the distinction of Dean’s A student must satisfactorily complete Registrar’s and Academic Services Offices. List in any semester in which they successfully all degree, major, and general education complete all their courses (no grades of “I” or requirements by no later than the final Double Major “W”) and achieve a semester average of 3.50 or due date for Fall semester grades. A student may enroll in two majors, subject above with a minimum of 12 credits graded in a to the approval of the respective Department traditional rubric and no grade of “C” or below. An The official date of graduation on the Chairpersons or Program Directors and in exception to this policy will be made for students diploma and transcript will be December consultation with the Office of Academic Services. who receive an incomplete grade due to a course 31st. Diplomas will be mailed by February. This option must be requested by completing extending beyond the end of the semester. Part- Students who graduate on September 1st or the Declaration of Major Form and a four-year time students are not eligible for this honor. December 31st will be considered part of plan. Major Declaration Forms and Four-Year the following year’s graduating class year. Plan Forms are available on myHill and in the Honors at Graduation Students who continue part-time to complete Registrar’s and Academic Services Offices. Honors at graduation are awarded to recipients their degree requirements may not be eligible In some cases a student may need to enroll in of undergraduate degrees for the following for Financial Aid or student housing. more than 120 credits in order to satisfy the cumulative grade-point averages based on a requirements of both majors. In some cases minimum of 60 credits taken at Stonehill: Participation in Commencement students will be assessed additional fees. Exercises • Cum Laude: 3.50 • Magna Cum Laude: 3.70 Any student who has completed all official A student who satisfactorily completes two • Summa Cum Laude: 3.90 degree requirements by the final due date majors will receive one degree from the College, for Senior spring grades and who has an with this exception: If a student satisfactorily Stonehill College approved “Application for Graduation” on file completes the requirements for two majors and in the Registrar’s Office will be allowed to the second major is in a different degree program Academic Honor Code, participate in May Commencement Exercises. (B.A. vs. B.S. vs. B.S.B.A.), a second degree will be awarded, even if it is completed after Policy and Procedures Seniors who are within two courses of meeting the student’s official graduation. The student Academic Honor Code their graduation requirements and have submitted will be given the option of selecting which an approved “Application to Participate in degree will be presented at Commencement. In the context of a community of scholarship and Commencement” to the Registrar’s Office by the faith, and anchored in a belief in the inherent last day of spring final exams may be eligible to Declaration of an Interdisciplinary Major dignity of each person, the students, faculty, staff and administration of Stonehill College participate in the May Commencement prior to In lieu of declaring one major field of study, maintain an uncompromising commitment to completion of the final requirements. Students degree candidates may declare an individually academic integrity. We promote a climate of must also have an approved plan to complete designed interdisciplinary major before the end intellectual and ethical integrity and vigorously these final requirements during the summer of the first semester of the junior year or prior uphold the fundamental values of honesty, trust, on file with the Office of Academic Services as to enrollment in the final 45 credits. Should fairness, and the responsibility while fostering an part of the application to participate process. degree candidates declare an interdisciplinary atmosphere of mutual respect within and beyond major as a second major, they may do so up Students approved to participate in Commencement the classroom. Any violation of these basic values to the first semester of the senior year. prior to the completion of all final requirements threatens the integrity of the educational process, will be noted in the Commencement Program Students who wish to declare an interdisciplinary the development of ideas, and the unrestricted without final honors designation. Diplomas will major must complete the Declaration of Major exchange of knowledge. Therefore, we will not be mailed to these students upon completion form and submit a program proposal that includes participate in or tolerate academic dishonesty. and certification of all final requirements on the a statement describing educational goals sought, College’s next official date of degree conferment. and the sequence of courses that would enable Academic Integrity Policy September graduates who participate in the the student to achieve these goals. The course All member of the College community have the May Commencement prior to their degree content must be focused upon a specific theme, responsibility to be familiar with, to support, completion may not participate in the following and must include a significant number of courses and to abide by the College’s Academic Honor May Commencement. September graduates beyond the introductory level and a senior Code. This responsibility includes reporting who do not attend the May Commencement Capstone experience. The program proposal must knowledge of or suspected violations of this prior to degree completion are automatically be approved by a faculty advisor as well as by the policy to the appropriate faculty member or to included in the next May Commencement. Program Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Studies. the Director of Academic Services or designee. Normally, December graduates may not Selection of Minor Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy include but are not limited to the following actions: participate in the Commencement prior to A student may choose a disciplinary and/or degree completion. December graduates interdisciplinary minor area of study, either as an a. Presenting another’s work as are automatically included in the May alternative field of specialization or for intellectual if it were one’s own; Commencement following degree completion. enrichment. Generally a minor consists of no more b. Failing to acknowledge or document than six courses and ensures breadth and depth Selection of a Major a source even if the action is beyond the introductory level and outside the major. unintended (i.e., plagiarism); Degree candidates must declare at least one major field of study before the end of the first A student may declare a maximum of one c. Giving or receiving, or attempting to give semester of the junior year or prior to enrollment disciplinary minor and one interdisciplinary minor. or receive, unauthorized assistance or information in an assignment or examination; in the final 45 credits. Some majors require the To declare or change a minor a student must selection of a concentration within the major. submit a Minor Declaration Form, signed by d. Fabricating data; Students who enter the College with an intended the appropriate minor program advisor to the e. Submitting the same assignment in two major and complete that major will be considered Registrar’s Office. Minor Declaration Forms are or more courses without prior permission as having declared at the time of admission. available on myHill and in the Registrar’s and of the respective instructors; Academic Services Offices. Students wishing f. Having another person write a Undeclared students or students who wish to create an interdisciplinary minor will also paper or sit for an examination; to change their major must submit a Major be required to submit an additional application g. Unauthorized use or electronic Declaration Form, signed by the appropriate which is available in the Program Coordinator devices to complete work; or Department Chairperson or Program Director for Interdisciplinary Studies’ Office.

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h. Furnishing false information, including lying each division and fill any vacancies during the end of a semester) as soon as possible but within or fabricating excuses, for incomplete work. year by appointment. Members of the AIB may five business days of discovering the alleged Each year, the Vice President for Academic Affairs not serve of the Academic Appeals Board. violation, presents the evidence, and asks for an explanation. Specific time limits within the process is responsible for maintaining and publishing The Academic Appeals Board (AAB) is charged a set of procedures relative to the Academic may be extended for reasonable cause at the with hearing all requests for appeals resulting from discretion of the Director of Academic Services Integrity Policy. These procedures can be accessed an AIB hearing. A quorum of three AAB members through the Office of Academic Services. or designee. The faculty member and the student must be present to conduct a hearing. The AAB is may arrive at one of the following conclusions: comprised of one faculty member and one student Academic Integrity Procedures representative, chaired by the Dean of Faculty or • Both agree that violation did not Authority designee. Members of the College community may occur and the case is dismissed. No nominate student members for the AAB. From these 1. The Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA) written report is necessary. nominations, the Student Government Association is responsible for the overall administration of will appoint students to serve on the AAB for the • Both agree that the action was an unintentional the Academic Honor Code. Under the direction following academic year. The Faculty Senate will matter resulting from miscommunication or of the VPAA, the Director of Academic appoint one faculty from each division and fill any lack of understanding. The faculty member Services or designee has been charged vacancies during the year by appointment. Members and student agree to a limited sanction which with the day-to-day responsibility for the of the AAB may not serve on the Academic can include a reduction in the grade for the administration of the Academic Honor Code, Integrity Board. It is expected that all hearing board assignment, a requirement to rewrite and including the development and execution members be impartial. All decisions by the AIB submit the assignment and/or the requirement of all procedural rules related to academic and AAB will be arrived at by a simple majority that the student schedule an appointment with integrity. The Director of Academic Services vote. The chairperson will vote only in case of a or designee is also responsible for protecting the Writing Center personnel for assistance on tie. All board findings are reviewed by the Vice proper procedure. Reporting of the incident the rights of all parties involved throughout President of Academic Affairs before being released. the entire hearing process. All Academic to the Director of Academic Services is left Integrity Reports will be held in confidential In order to participate on either board, all members to the discretion of the faculty member. files in the Office of Academic Services. must complete a training process. The term of • Both agree a violation did occur and come to office for AIB and AAB board members will be 2. The Director of Academic Service or an agreement on appropriate sanctions within two years for faculty members and one year for designee gives each faculty member the five business days of their initial meeting. right to approach a student suspected of students. There are no specific term limits for board members. Student members of the AIB and AAB The faculty member imposes the appropriate violating the Academic Integrity Policy sanction, depending on the nature and severity to determine whether or not a violation must be full-time students in good academic and of the violation. The faculty member submits has occurred, and if so, decide the disciplinary standing. If a student member does not appropriate sanction for the violation. maintain good academic or disciplinary standing, an Academic Integrity Incident Report to the he or she will be removed from the AIB or AAB for Director of Academic Services or designee 3. The Director of Academic Services or designee that academic year. A member of the AIB or AAB who will send a copy of the report to the gives authority to the Academic Integrity may be removed from the Board for non-fulfillment student. The Director of Academic Services or Board (AIB) to conduct hearings on alleged of duties essential to the position. A majority violations of the academic integrity policy designee will review all reports to determine if vote of the members is required for removal. when an agreement cannot be reached a repeated offense has occurred. In cases of a between the faculty member and student Charged students are required to attend all hearings repeated offense, the AIB will be convened. regarding the violation or the sanction. related to academic integrity violations. Hearings • The faculty member and student are not able to 4. The Director of Academic Services or designee are not open to the public and are confidential reach an agreement about either the violation gives authority to the Academic Appeals in nature. Therefore, friends, parents, siblings, or or the sanction. The faculty members is then Board (AAB) to hear appeal cases regarding legal counsel may not be permitted in the room required to submit, within five business days where the hearing takes place but, may wait violations of the academic integrity policy. from when the initial meeting occurred with nearby for support purposes. However, charged the student, an Academic Integrity Incident Academic Hearing Boards students are encouraged to be advised by an Report to the Director of Academic Services or The purpose of the Academic Integrity Board advocate during the process, which is defined as designee who will send a copy of the report to (AIB) is to review statements from a charged a faculty, administrator, staff member or member student, the faculty member, and witnesses from the student body who is not an attorney. the student. The Director of Academic Services with knowledge of the incident when there is or designee will refer the case to the AIB. In the absence of a functioning AIB or AAB, a dispute over either the alleged violation or such as before the appointment of members In cases where the personal safety of a faculty sanction. The AIB determines whether or not the or at the end of an academic semester, the member is a concern, the faculty member may charged student violated the academic integrity Director of Academic Services or designee either request a third party to be present when policy, and determines the nature of the sanction may appoint an impartial group of faculty, meeting with the student or may report the violation if the charged student is found responsible. administrators, and students to review the case. directly to the chair of the AIB or designee without prior discussion of the incident with the student. The AIB contains representatives from students, faculty, and administrators. Because these Initiation of Academic Integrity Procedures The student and faculty member involved will hearings must occur soon after the alleged event, Faculty members must respect the student’s right to be contacted by the chair of the AIB to arrange a representing group of faculty and students will confidentiality during this process. Discussion of any a date, time and place of the hearing through a be trained so that a quorum of five AIB members matters related to the event that would violate the written notice. During this contact, the faculty can be present to conduct a hearing. The Board student’s confidentiality should be avoided. Faculty member and student can recommend witnesses. will be comprised of two faculty, two students, members seeking advice from others should not and Director of Academic Services or designee use the names of the alleged students and should Formal AIB hearings will be conducted as soon who serves as chair of the Board. The Director be careful not to reveal confidential information. as possible but no sooner than two business of Community Standards serves as an “ex officio” Designated staff members in the Office of Academic days nor more than ten business days after member of the Board, ensuring appropriate Services are available for confidential consultation. the charged student has been notified. procedures are followed. Members of the College Specific time limits within the process may be community may nominate student members of AIB. When a faculty member suspects a violation of the Academic Integrity Policy, the faculty member extended for reasonable cause at the discretion of From these nominations, the Student Government the Director of Academic Services or designee. Association will appoint students to serve on the meets privately with the student (in person, or AIB for the following academic year. The Faculty by phone with email documentation, if a face-to- face meeting is impossible, as can happen at the Students Rights to formal AIB Senate will appoint two faculty members from and AAB Board Hearings

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A charged student will be considered notified of the course. Sanctions of separation or dismissal originally heard the case for re- the charges once the Academic Integrity Incident from the College may only be imposed by the consideration of special issues; Report has been mailed to the student’s local AIB and AAB. In the case of a student with past c. change the original decision or or campus address on file with the College. academic integrity violations, these violations will sanction after reasonable review only be considered when a decision has been of the appeal request and the A student charged with allegedly violating the made and a sanction is being determined. Academic Integrity Policy will be entitled to: decision rationale of the AIB; or For a repeated offense, the AIB may separate d. Determine the appeal request merits a a. be notified of the date, time and place the student for a minimum of two semesters. If a formal appeal hearing and schedule a of the formal discipline hearing, as student who has been separated for past academic hearing no later than 10 business days from well as the names of the witnesses (if integrity violation is re-admitted and violates the the date the request is reviewed. Typically, applicable) called to the hearing; policy again, the AIB permanently dismisses the a formal appeal hearing would not be b. receive notice of the fact that failure to student from the College. Sanctions do not become granted unless significant prejudices result appear for a formal hearing may result effective until the appeal process is completed. from deviations of designated procedures. in the hearing being conducted in the 8. All decisions, once realized by absence of the charged student; The Director of Academic Services or designee may impose interim restriction(s) upon a student the AAB, are binding. c. provide in writing the names of witnesses pending a formal board hearing. Interim restrictions with knowledge of the incident that may become effective immediately without prior notice Academic Discipline Records appear at a formal discipline hearing on his/ whenever the Director of Academic Services 1. Academic discipline records are educational her behalf to the Director of Academic Services or designee, believes the student may cause records are maintained in the Office or designee, within twenty-four hours of the serious disruption to the College community. of Academic Services for seven years hearing. Character witnesses are not permitted; post-graduation. These records are kept d. be notified of the fact that he/she may request However, interim restrictions may include: confidential and are shared only under the additional information about the Honor Code; separation from the College; restriction of following circumstances: (a) in the case of a communication with named individuals or e. challenge the composition of the repeated violation of the Academic Integrity faculty within the College community; or the hearing board with cause; Policy; (b) upon request of student; and, restriction from attending a particular class. (c) upon request from law enforcement. f. present his/her case; Whenever reasonably possible, a meeting between 2. Academic discipline records are not considered g. decline to answer any questions or make any the charged student and Director of Academic to be part of a student’s permanent academic statements during a formal board hearing. Such Services or designee will be held prior to the record maintained by the College. However, silence will not be used against the charged imposition of interim restrictions. The charged a violation of the Academic Integrity student; however, the outcome of the formal students will have the opportunity to meet with Policy that results in a sanction of college hearing will be based upon the information the Director of Academic Services or designee to separation or college dismissal is considered of lack thereof presented at the hearing present his/her version of the facts, and to indicate part of the student’s permanent record. h. be advised by an advocate, who is defined as a why interim restrictions should not be imposed. faculty, administrator, staff member or member Following this meeting, the decision of the Director Interpretation and Revisions of the student body who is not an attorney. Of Academic Services or designee will be final. Any questions of interpretation or application i. be informed in writing of the decision of the Academic Integrity Procedures will and sanction, if any, within three Appeals be referred to the Director of Academic business days of a hearing; and 1. If a student and faculty member both agree that Services or designee for determination. j. request an appeal of the decision resulting a violation did occur and they are able to come from an AIB hearing with five business to an agreement on an appropriate sanction, Credit Earned Away days of receiving the decision in writing. A then this outcome may not be appealed. From Stonehill charged student is entitled to one appeal. 2. A charged student or faculty member may submit a request for an appeal of a decision Academic Integrity Board Hearings Procedure Transfer of Credit or sanction resulting from AIB hearing no All courses taken away from Stonehill must be The order of Academic Integrity Board later than five business days after receiving hearings will proceed as follows: pre-approved by the Office of Academic Services. written notice of the decision or sanction. Only courses passed with a grade equivalent to a. Review and signing of the Honesty Statement; 3. A request for an appeal is to be the Stonehill grade of “C” or higher are accepted b. Reading of the alleged violations(s); submitted in writing to the Director for credit transfer. An earned grade of “C-” will of Academic Services or designee. c. Charged student’s opportunity to not transfer. Transfer grades are not recorded on challenge member(s) of the Academic 4. The Director of Academic Services or designee the Stonehill transcript and are not included in Integrity Board for Bias; refers the request to the Dean of Faculty or the computation of the cumulative grade-point designee who serves as the chair of the AAB. average. Credits earned abroad must be transferred d. Charged student’s plea; 5. Appeals will be considered based to Stonehill College as soon possible after the e. Charged student’s statement; on the following criteria: semester abroad. It is the responsibility of the f. Faculty member’s statement; student to request that an official transcript be a. Failure to follow the stated processes sent directly to the Academic Services Office at g. Witness’ statement(s); or procedures that significantly Stonehill College. The Academic Services Office h. Person who believes he/she was prejudices the outcome; in consultation with the appropriate academic the victim of the student’s Academic b. Insufficient or inappropriate evidence departments makes the final determination Integrity Violation statement; used to justify a decision; or of the applicability of courses in transfer to i. Charged student’s closing statement; c. Unjustified sanction. a major or minor sequence, as well as to fulfillment of General Education requirements. j. Discussion and decision 6. Upon receipt of the request for an appeal, making in close session. the Director of Academic Services or Upper-level courses required for completion of designee will normally refer the request a student’s major, minor, or general education Sanctions to the AAB within 10 business days. requirements are normally taken at Stonehill Faculty members and hearing boards review cases 7. In reviewing the request the AAB may: College. A number of courses (not to exceed on their own individual merit and determine more than half the required courses in a major a. Determine there are no grounds for the appropriate sanctions. Possible sanctions can or minor) may be accepted in transfer toward appeal, thus upholding the AIB decision; include but are not limited to: warning, reduction completion of major or minor requirements with or loss of credit for the assignment, or failure of b. refer the case to the AIB that approval from the appropriate chairperson.

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International Study Students who have taken part in the Advanced A student registered at Stonehill College who wishes to take any course at an international college must Placement program during high school may request submit an on line application for admission to International Programs, available on the Stonehill College advanced credit. To receive credit, students must Web page: www.stonehill.edu/internationalprograms.xml. request that an official score report be sent to the Office of Academic Services. Requests should be made Students who are approved for the Study Abroad Program by the Director of International Programs must to: AP Exams, P.O. Box 6671, Princeton, NJ 08541-6671. obtain pre-approval for all academic courses they are planning to take at the international educational institution. Students must complete the Study Abroad Course Approval Form during the semester before As noted above, generally a score of 4 or 5 is they leave to be eligible to transfer credit back to Stonehill College. Students must have all courses accepted for transfer as major or elective credit. in fulfillment of their major and/or minor requirements and departmental electives approved by the Advanced Placement credit cannot be applied chairperson of the appropriate department. A member of the Academic Services Office must approve all toward the Critical Encounters Core curriculum. other courses for transfer. In addition, students who are granted Stonehill College credit for Advanced Placement tests are Second semester seniors generally are not allowed to enroll in courses elsewhere during the spring semester. not allowed to enroll in introductory courses in the same area(s) in which credit has been Advanced Placement granted. All Advanced Placement Credits are approved by the Office of Academic Services. The College participates in the Advanced Placement program administered by the College Entrance Examination Board. Each academic department establishes criteria for awarding placement and credit. International Baccalaureate (IB) Credit Policy Placement and credit awards are as follows: Stonehill recognizes the level of academic achievement represented by the successful Advanced Placement Course Score Stonehill Equivalent Credits completion of coursework in the International Studio Arts 4 or 5 Studio Arts Elective 3 Baccalaureate Program. Stonehill will award 6-8 credits (2 courses) of transfer credit for Art History 4 or 5 Art History Elective 3 each Higher Level (HL) exam with a score of Biology 4 or 5 Two Biology Electives 8 5, 6, or 7. Credit will not be given for Standard Level examinations. Students who have taken Calculus AB 4 or 5 Calculus I (MTH 125 ) or Math Elective 4 both AP and IB examinations in the same Calculus BC 4 Calculus I (MTH 125 ) or Math Elective 4 subject area do not receive credit for both. Calculus BC 5 Calculus I (MTH 125 ) & II (MTH 126 ) 8 The High School/College Dual Chemistry 4 or 5 General Chemistry (CHM 113 ) 4 Enrollment Policy Computer Science A 4 or 5 Computer Science I (CSC 103 ) 4 Stonehill College recognizes that some students may be offered the opportunity to enroll in college-level English Language Composition 4 or 5 General Elective 3 courses prior to their high school graduation. The English Literature/Composition 4 or 5 General Elective 3 College is willing to consider the acceptance of the academic credits earned in such courses. Ordinarily, Environmental Science 4 or 5 Environmental Science Elective 3 the College will accept no more than three courses in European History 5 European History Elective 3 transfer under this policy. Students who successfully complete dual enrollment courses at accredited French Language 4 or 5 Advanced French I (FRN 331 ) & II (FRN 332 ) 6 institutions should submit an official transcript to the Office of Academic Services by July 1. French Literature 4 or 5 Advanced French I (FRN 331 ) & II (FRN 332 ) 6 German Language 4 or 5 Advanced German I (GRM 331 ) & II (GRM 333 ) 6 Courses are evaluated on an individual basis, according to the following criteria: Government & Politics U.S. 4 or 5 American Government & Politics (POL 123 ) 3 • Transfer credit is given for courses in which Government & Politics Comp 4 or 5 International Politics (POL 143 ) 3 the student has received the equivalent of Human Geography 4 or 5 General Elective 3 a grade of “C” or higher, and which are comparable to courses offered at Stonehill. Latin: Literature 4 or 5 Elementary Latin I (LAT 131 ) & II (LAT 132 ) 6 • Final approval of all such courses will be Latin: Virgil 4 or 5 Elementary Latin I (LAT 131 ) & II (LAT 132 ) 6 made by the Office of Academic Services. Economics - Micro 4 or 5 Microeconomic Principles (ECO 176 ) 3 Transcript Requests Economics - Macro 4 or 5 Macroeconomic Principles (ECO 178 ) 3 In order to protect a student’s right to privacy, Music Theory 4 or 5 Music Theory (VPM 240 ) 3 a transcript can be released by the Registrar’s Office only at the written request of the student. Physics B 4 or 5 Two Physics Electives 8 Requests for transcripts must be made in writing Physics C 4 or 5 Two Physics Electives 8 to the Registrar’s Office and will not be accepted by telephone. Emailed requests will also not be Psychology 4 or 5 General Psychology (PSY 101 ) 3 accepted, except in cases where a scanned transcript Spanish Language 4 or 5 Advanced Spanish I (SPA 331 ) & II (SPA 332 ) 6 request with student’s signature is attached to the email. To obtain an on line transcript request Spanish Literature 4 or 5 Advanced Spanish I (SPA 331 ) & II (SPA 332 ) 6 form, go to: www.stonehill.edu/registrar.xml . Statistics 4 or 5 Basic Quantitative Techniques (MTH 145 ) 3 In accordance with the usual practice of colleges U.S. History 5 U.S. History Elective 3 and universities, official transcripts normally are mailed directly by the College, not transmitted by World History 5 Work History Elective 3 the student. A transcript is official when it bears the seal of the College and the signature of the Registrar. Students may request unofficial transcripts for personal use. Transcripts will be issued only when all financial obligations to the College have been satisfied. There is no fee for transcripts.

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First-Year Candidates for determined via the CSS PROFILE, has been met. be downloaded from an on-line catalog and submitted as a Word document; Fall Semester Admission The Early Action Plan is a non-binding program. This plan notifies a student in early January if they f. the short answer essay and the personal Application Deadlines: have been accepted without requiring a non- essay described in the Transfer Application. Early Decision – November 1 refundable $750 commitment deposit until May 1. Transfer applications should be filed no later than Early Action – November 1 The deadline to file a PROFILE form for financial aid November 1 for the spring semester and April Regular Decision – January 15 consideration is February 1. File the Free Application 1 for the fall semester. Transfer candidates that for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) no earlier than apply after the November 1 and April 1 deadlines Financial Aid Deadlines for January 1 and no later than February 1. Financial aid will be reviewed on a space available basis. filing the PROFILE form: notifications are issued between March 15 and April 1. Early Decision – October 15 If you apply for the Regular Decision Plan, you Transfer Credit Evaluation Early Action – February 1 should return all application materials to Stonehill Transfer credit may be awarded for comparable Regular Decision – February 1 no later than January 15. Notification regarding courses successfully completed at other accredited acceptance is between March 1 and March 15. The Enrollment Deposit Deadlines : colleges or universities. Students must have deadline to file a PROFILE form for financial aid earned a grade of “C” or higher in courses worth Early Decision – December 31 consideration is February 1. File the Free Application three- or four-semester hour credits to be eligible Early Action – May 1 for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) no earlier than for credit transfer. Upon acceptance to Stonehill Regular Decision – May 1 January 1 and no later than February 1. Financial aid a student will receive a preliminary evaluation of awards are mailed between March 15 and April 1. A All first-year candidates for admission must submit transferable credit. Once the student has committed $750 non-refundable deposit is required by May 1. by the established deadline a completed first-year to Stonehill College a more comprehensive evaluation will be forwarded to the student. application. Stonehill is an exclusive user of the Deferred Admission Common Application. Candidates must also submit Transfer students may be asked to submit course an official high school transcript, SAT or ACT scores Stonehill offers the opportunity for an accepted syllabi to ensure the appropriate evaluation of (optional), two Teacher Evaluation forms, a completed first-year candidate to postpone attendance for one courses. Final articulation of transfer credits in a Secondary School Report, and a $60 filing fee. Any or two semesters. A student who wishes to defer major or minor sequence and in the Cornerstone application for the fall semester received after the admission must request this in writing and explain the Program is determined by the Associate January 15 deadline will be reviewed on a space reason(s) for the deferral to the Dean of Admissions Director of Academic Services in consultation available basis. Spring semester first-year candidate and Enrollment, Stonehill College, 320 Washington with the appropriate academic department. applications must be submitted by November 1. Street, Easton, MA 02357-5610. Only candidates The high school requirements are such that the who have submitted the $750 non-refundable Transfer Student Residence curriculum must meet both the general requirements deposit may seek a deferral. Campus housing Requirement of a pre-college course and the particular requirements and financial assistance may not be guaranteed. of Stonehill College. Most successful applicants Deferment is nullified if a student attends another A transfer student must attend the College for have prepared for the rigors of Stonehill by taking college in the interim. A candidate who decides to at least two years, including the fourth year, to a demanding college preparatory program in high participate in college credit courses while deferred qualify for a Stonehill degree. During this time school including: 4 units of English; 4 units of can apply to Stonehill as a transfer applicant. the student must complete at least 20 courses. mathematics; 3 units of science; 3 units of foreign language; and 4 combined units of history, political Advanced Placement (AP), and International Candidates science, and social sciences. To these units are International Baccalaureate to be added 2 academic elective subjects. Applicants who are not U.S. citizens or Permanent Stonehill participates in the AP and IB programs Residents of the United States should submit the Although Stonehill College is test optional, students and will grant advanced credits to students who following items by January 15 for the fall semester are encouraged to submit SAT or ACT scores if they have taken the Advanced Placement or International or November 1 for the spring semester: believe it will be valuable supportive information Baccalaureate examinations while in high to the review process. Information concerning their school. (Refer here for Advanced Placement and a. a completed international application. Stonehill is respective testing organizations can be obtained on- International Baccalaureate detailed information.) an exclusive user of the Common Application. line at www.collegeboard.com or at www.act.org. The An International Supplemental Stonehill College code numbers are 3770 (SAT) and Form for International Applicants, 1918 (ACT). A student’s application cannot be acted Transfer Candidates and a $75 application fee; upon until the Committee on Admissions receives A student wishing to transfer to Stonehill b. an official copy of a secondary school transcript, the official high school transcript including grades for College from another college or university leaving certificate or national exam results with 9, 10, 11, and the first marking period of grade 12. must submit the following items: an official English translation if necessary; The Early Decision Plan is an early binding program a. a completed transfer application. Stonehill c. international transfer students should intended for the student for whom Stonehill is their is an exclusive user of the Common submit university transcripts and course first-choice school. Under the Early Decision Plan, you Application. Candidates must also submit descriptions from each university attended; are permitted to apply for regular admission to other a Stonehill Supplemental Information d. those students whose native language is not institutions, but you may apply to only one institution Form for Transfer Applicants, English must have official results of the Test for Early Decision. If you are accepted to Stonehill, b. Official’s Report, two College Instructor of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) you agree to enroll, submit a non-refundable $750 Evaluations, and a $60 filing fee; sent to the Stonehill Admissions Office. More commitment deposit by December 31, and withdraw information about registering for the TOEFL c. an official high school transcript; all other applications. Applicants not accepted for can be found on-line at www.ets.org/toefl/ Early Decision will be denied or deferred to the d. an official transcript from each post-secondary e. the International Student Financial Statement Regular Decision Plan. To be considered for financial institution which the student attended; along with financial documentation of assistance, file the College Scholarship Service (CSS) e. course descriptions for all courses a student the ability to meet educational and living PROFILE form by October 15. File the Free Application has taken at post-secondary institutions. expenses at Stonehill. Stonehill rarely awards for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) no earlier than Course descriptions can be submitted by financial aid to international applicants; January 1 and no later than February 1. As a financial sending in a college catalog with the student’s f. the submissions of official SAT aid candidate, you are not required to submit a name on the front cover and the courses or ACT scores is optional. commitment deposit unless your financial need, as taken marked, or course descriptions can THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 108 academic LIfe Financial Information and Scholarships

Financial Information Tuition and Fees Student Financial Services is located in Duffy Description Charge Academic Center. It is the source of all information regarding financial aid, provides counseling on Full-time Tuition*** $16,960 per semester* financial aid matters and alternative financing, and functions as the clearinghouse for all financial Part-time Tuition $1,131 per credit** obligations owed to the College by students. Within this office, the Associate Director for ****Room and Board charges are made up of the following: Student Accounts bills students for tuition, fees, room and board, traffic fines, residence Description Charge hall damage, etc. All billing questions should be addressed to Student Financial Services. Room per semester $3,923.50 This information is also accessible via the Board Overhead per semester $1,321.50 Internet on the College website at Meal Plan C (standard plan) per semester $1,185 www.stonehill.edu/x22510.xml Meal Plan A per semester $1,539 Notwithstanding any language to the contrary, Meal Plan B per semester $1,360 the College makes the presumption that all students must register each semester. If a Meal Plan D per semester $843 student fails to do so, College privileges may be revoked including but not limited to access to classes, the residence halls and meal plan. Miscellaneous Fees, as applicable No student can register until his/her obligations to the College, financial and otherwise have Description Charge been cleared through the appropriate office. Application fee, submitted with application form $60 • Bills for the fall semester are sent Study Abroad Fee $750 Spring semester only during July. Bills for the spring semester Resident Parking Decal $110 per year are sent during November. • Payment of fall semester billing is due by Commuter Parking Decal $50 per year August 15. Payment of spring semester Late Payment Fee 1.0% per month. Assessed on outstanding balance. billing is due by December 15. Non-Refundable Room Guarantee Charge $100 per year. Assessed to all students entering • Payment is made by check or money order, the housing lottery for the upcoming year payable to Stonehill College, and addressed and all students residing on campus for to the College Cashier, Stonehill College, at least one semester during the year. Easton, Massachusetts 02357. No payment Late Registration Fee $50 Assessed to students who do not register during is considered officially received until it has the designated registration period each semester. been receipted by the College Cashier. Returned Check Fee $60 per occurrence • A late payment fee of 1.00% per month is charged on any balance outstanding *BA or BSBA students taking 19 or more full by December 15. Bills are generated in after the due dates noted above. credits will be charged $1,131 for each the student’s name and sent to the permanent • When all outstanding obligations to the additional credit above 18. BS students address unless Student Financial Services is College have been satisfied and health taking 20 or more credits will be charged instructed by the student, in writing, to do insurance coverage has been verified, $1,131 for each additional credit above 19. otherwise. Part-time students who do not register for courses prior to July 1 for the fall and the Director of Student Financial Services **for students approved to take will notify the Registrar that the student is November 1 for the spring must pay all charges fewer than 12 credits in full when registering for their courses. eligible to register and/or start classes. ***Includes $100 per semester A late payment fee of 1.00% of any outstanding • To complete registration, the student must for Student Activities Fee finalize any required process on-line. balance will be assessed on the day following the ****This fee is mandatory. All resident students due date. Moreover, an additional 1.00% of the are required to enroll in one of the four meal unpaid balance will be charged for each subsequent plans listed above. Includes $50 Flex food funds. month in which a balance remains unpaid. Students are not billed separately for this charge. NOTE: Special Fees are non-refundable. Charges currently listed are subject to change. Students The College is not responsible for bills that are are charged for any breakage of laboratory lost in the mail, returned for address correction, equipment and/or any damage to campus facilities. or otherwise undeliverable. Students and their families should be aware that the due dates for each semester typically remain constant from year General Billing Information to year and, if necessary, it is their responsibility Each semester’s tuition and room and board to request a duplicate bill in time to meet the charges are billed and payable, with appropriate payment date, or, the student may view account fees, before the start of each semester. information on-line through myHill. The due date is not adjusted, nor is the late charge waived, if a Bills for the fall semester are mailed in July and bill mailed by the College in a timely manner is due in full by August 15. 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The College has the right to refuse personal c. Stonehill Basketball Scholarships and Tuition checks for any payment made after the due Exchange Scholarships are not transferable. Withdrawal Policies date and may require all future remittance via Students normally holding such funding and Procedures cash, bank check, or money order for students will be responsible for paying the College or families who have jeopardized their credit the full negotiated external program fees. Withdrawal from the College standing with the College. The College does not or from Residency accept direct payment using credit/debit cards. Health Insurance A student may voluntarily withdraw from Except for courses accepted in transfer from State law requires that students taking nine or the College for personal or medical reasons another institution, foreign or domestic, all more credits carry health insurance and annually or the College may involuntarily withdraw credits applied toward a degree are billed by and provide proof of such insurance to the College. a student from the College for disciplinary, payable to Stonehill, including credits earned at At the beginning of each academic year, all administrative or medical reasons. The College an off-campus location such as an internship site students enrolled in nine or more credits are billed must approve any withdrawal request. or a school where practice teaching takes place. for insurance coverage under Stonehill College Accident and Sickness Insurance policy offered by If an institution or agency charges a service fee Gallagher Koster Insurance. This premium may Voluntary Withdrawal from the to the College for the supervision of student be waived only when the College receives the interns, etc., the College will pay the fee if the College for Personal Reasons completed on-line waiver from Gallagher Koster student’s current tuition payment to the College Insurance at gallagherkoster.com. The insurance A student may voluntarily withdraw from the is sufficient to cover the fee. Otherwise the premium on your bill will be cancelled ONLY if College for personal reasons. Personal reasons student shall be responsible for paying the fee. the on-line waiver process is completed by the are defined as any legitimate reason other than payment due date. The standard late fee is charged a medical reason. A student who wishes to Billing for External Programs against the assessed insurance premium if the withdraw from the College for personal reasons waiver process is not completed on time, regardless must sign and complete the College Withdrawal The College has a policy of Direct Billing for of whether or not the insurance is waived. Form available in the Office of Academic matriculated Stonehill students who participate Students wishing to enroll in the College’s plan Services. A student withdrawing for personal in approved international or domestic external must complete an on-line acceptance at Gallagher reasons must receive the signed approval of the programs (whether internships or study abroad Koster Insurance. Coverage extends from August Director of Academic Services in consultation experiences) that are not provided by the College. 13 to August 12. You will not be permitted to start with the Vice President for Academic Affairs The College will contract with each program classes until Stonehill College receives electronic or his or her designee. Signed approval will provider to offer the agreed-upon academic confirmation from Gallagher Koster Insurance that normally only be granted upon the student’s experience and will forward all deposits and the waiver or acceptance process is complete. completion and submission of the College institutionally-negotiated program fees to the Withdrawal Form and the completion of an Exit provider on behalf of the students approved to Room Guarantee/Charge Interview with the Office of Academic Services. participate by the International Programs Office. Student I.D.’s must be returned at this time. For If the student ultimately attends the external Students planning to live on campus will be resident students, room keys must be returned to program, the College will be reimbursed for the assessed an annual $100 non-refundable Room the Residence Life Office. Students who withdraw pre-paid deposit and program fees through the Guarantee Charge. For new resident students, from the College after the last official date of tuition, fees, and room/board assessed to his/ this charge will appear on their accounts along classes are considered to have completed the her account. If the student does not attend the with room and board charges. For returning courses for which they were enrolled on the external program, for any reason whatsoever after resident students, this charge will be assessed last class day of that semester. In those cases the College has paid the deposit and/or program at the time of housing selection each spring where the specific last date of class attendance fees on his/her behalf, the student is obligated semester. This charge acts as a reservation fee. must be determined, the student’s faculty are to reimburse the College for the full amount of Any student who withdraws from campus housing contacted in order to establish such date. any non-refundable deposit, in addition to any after reserving a room for the following year charges for standard tuition, fees, and room and will forfeit his/her Room Guarantee Charge. Students contemplating a withdrawal or change board that are assessed to the student’s account. in their enrollment status are encouraged to Current resident students who do not intend to meet with Student Financial Services prior to Students in approved external programs will be return to housing for the following academic completing the withdrawal process to discuss charged and billed for current Stonehill tuition year must notify the Director of Residence Life in the financial impact of their decision, including and mandatory fees, plus Stonehill’s room and/ writing by the date by which housing selection refund eligibility, Satisfactory Academic Progress or board if the provider’s advertised standard forms are due in order to avoid the Room requirements, future eligibility for financial aid, program costs include room and/or board. If the Guarantee Charge. Those students who submit and the possibility of having to pay for a course program fee includes tuition but not room and housing selection forms and then withdraw from in which the student is no longer enrolled board, the student will be charged Stonehill’s housing will forfeit their Room Guarantee Charge. and for which (s)he will receive no credit. tuition and mandatory fees only. If the program Students residing on campus for at least fee includes tuition and room, the student one semester during the academic year Readmission to the College will be charged Stonehill’s tuition, mandatory will be charged the full annual fee. following Voluntary Withdrawal fees, and room and board minus the initial Students who previously attended Stonehill declining balance established for Meal Plan C. College but withdrew prior to completing their If the program fee includes tuition, room and Guarantee Deposits program must apply to the Office of Academic board, the student will be charged Stonehill’s All incoming students will pay a guarantee deposit Services for readmission. This process may be tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board. of $500 by the specified commitment date. The initiated any time after March 15, but should Students will retain all of their financial disposition of the deposit is based on residency be completed by July 1 for the fall semester. aid including institutional discounts status. Students accepted as commuters will be For the spring semester, this process must be with the following exceptions: credited the $500 deposit on the first tuition bill. completed between October 15 and December 1. a. non-institutional funds that stipulate that The guarantee deposit for accepted resident they are unable to be used for such purposes students will be divided to cover the $100 room Voluntary Withdrawals from will be returned to the funding source; guarantee charge (as described above). The Residency for Personal Reasons remaining $400 will be credited to the first b. non-basketball athletically related aid for tuition bill. These deposits are not refundable. A student may voluntarily withdraw from sports scheduled during the semester residency for personal reasons. Personal reasons abroad without special permission of the are defined as any legitimate reason other than coach of that intercollegiate athletic team;

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 110 academic LIfe a medical reason. A student who wishes to case, the student may be eligible to receive or designees, regarding the student’s successful withdraw from residency for personal reasons a refund based upon the alternative medical completion of academic coursework or ability to must sign and complete the Residence Withdrawal withdrawal refund calculation procedures. live independently in College residence halls. Form available in the Office of Residence Life. An involuntary medical withdrawal may be The Vice President for Student Affairs, in Students are not guaranteed or promised presented to the student by the Vice President consultation with the College’s Healthcare a return to residency after voluntarily for Student Affairs in consultation with the and Academic Professionals, will make the withdrawing from College housing. Students College’s Healthcare Professionals. An involuntary final decision of whether or not a student may seeking residency in such cases should medical withdrawal must involve a strong return to academic coursework or College discuss available options with the Director likelihood of one or more of the following: residence halls. No College office may grant of Residence Life or his or her designee. readmission or conditional readmission to a • Serious risk of physical harm to the student; student, or allow a student to register or receive Students who are suspended or dismissed • Serious risk of physical harm to other persons; financial or institutional aid, who has been from residency as a result of disciplinary away from the College for a medical reason sanction should refer to the requirements of • A reasonable risk of physical impairment without first receiving the written approval their hearing outcome letter to determine or injury to the student him/herself of the Vice President for Student Affairs. their eligibility for a return to residency. because of impaired judgment that would not allow the student to live While a student is on a voluntary or involuntary Medical Withdrawals independently in College residence halls; medical leave, he or she will not be eligible to participate in the housing selection process from the College or from • A reasonable risk of physical impairment or reserve a specific housing assignment. College Residency or injury to the student him/herself because of impaired judgment that If a student has left the College for any period would not allow the student to protect of time because of a medical reason, even if a Voluntary Withdrawals voluntary or involuntary medical withdrawal him/herself in the community; A student may voluntarily withdraw from the has not been processed, the student shall College or from residency for medical reasons. • A reasonable risk of physical impairment or be subject to the conditions of return after a Medical reasons include physical or mental health injury to the student him/herself because of medical withdrawal as described above. The conditions, which prevent or constructively impaired judgment that would not allow the College reserves the right to withdraw any prevent a student from participating in the student to perform the essential functions of student who fails to comply with this process. academic or residential programs offered by an educational program without requiring the College in any meaningful way. unreasonable modification of the program; or Refund Calculations A student who wishes to voluntarily withdraw • A serious risk of substantially altering from the College or Residency for medical the living, learning, or residential Refund for College Withdrawals reasons must first seek the approval of the Vice program(s) of the College. President for Student Affairs by sending a signed and Course Withdrawals notification to the Vice President for Student Affairs The reasons for the recommendation must be For fiscal reasons the College must anticipate that requesting a medical withdrawal. Normally, a documented in writing. Whenever reasonably enrolled students will complete the semester to student must commence the medical withdrawal possible, a meeting between the student which they were admitted and the number of process within 15 days of leaving the College. The and the Vice President for Student Affairs (or courses for which they have enrolled. Therefore, Vice President for Student Affairs shall designate designee) will be held prior to the imposition the College does not guarantee or promise the one of the College’s Healthcare Professionals to of an involuntary medical withdrawal for the availability of a tuition refund. If the College, in review the request and make a recommendation student to present his/her version of the facts its sole discretion, determines that a refund is to the Vice President for Student Affairs as to the and to indicate why an involuntary medical available, the following process outlined will apply. sufficiency of the grounds for the request. The withdrawal should not be invoked. Following Vice President for Student Affairs may require this meeting, the decision of the Vice President Student Financial Services will determine the additional information from the student in order for Student Affairs will be final. Once approved, amount of a tuition refund available based on to allow the Healthcare Professional to make an the terms of the involuntary medical withdrawal the official withdrawal date of the student as informed recommendation. In consultation with become effective immediately, and the student determined by the Director of Academic Services. the Healthcare Professional, the Vice President will be required to leave the residence halls or A student who does not follow the procedures for Student Affairs shall either approve or reject campus immediately. In the case of emergencies, for withdrawing may forfeit his or her rights to the request. If approved, the Vice President for advance notice may not be possible. a refund (within Federal Title IV Regulations.) Student Affairs shall notify the student and the The tuition refund is calculated less any fees and Director of Academic Services and the Director of Return to the College deposits. Fees and deposits are non-refundable. Residence Life, as applicable, depending on the When determining refunds, the College shall, at all nature of the withdrawal. In the case of a College or Residency After times, comply with federal and state regulations withdrawal, the Director of Academic Services Voluntary or Involuntary regarding the refund of federal or state financial shall, upon receiving the approval of the Vice aid funds. Current regulations require the college President for Student Affairs commence the College Medical Withdrawals to refund such funds on a pro-rated basis for withdrawal process. In the case of a residency In order to return to academic course work or any student who withdraws before 61 percent of withdrawal, the Director of Residence Life shall live independently in College residence halls, a the applicable semester has been completed. For commence the residential withdrawal process. student must present documentation in writing example, a student who completed 23 percent that the medical problem no longer precludes of the semester will keep 23 percent of his or Upon approval of a medical withdrawal, Student safe attendance at the College including the her federal and/or state funds. The remaining Financial Services and Residence Life Office shall successful completion of academic coursework 77 percent will be returned to the funding process refunds in accordance with the alternative or the ability to live independently in College sources. Students receiving College funds will medical withdrawal refund calculation procedures. residence halls. The student may be required to have their awards pro-rated according to the meet with the Director of Health Services or the College’s tuition refund schedule listed below. Involuntary Withdrawals Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, or For example, if a student receives 20 percent Normally, a medical withdrawal will result from designees, for an assessment. The student may tuition refund, he or she will forfeit 20 percent the student’s voluntary efforts. In exceptional also be required to permit his/her Healthcare of his or her College funding. Any balance circumstances, a student may be asked to leave provider(s) to consult with the Vice President for due to the College resulting from adjustments the College or the residence halls involuntarily Students Affairs, Director of Health Services or of aid is the responsibility of the student. until the circumstances have abated. In this the Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, Student/parent loans and government grants

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 111 academic LIfe are deposited in the student’s tuition account. the semester to which they were admitted as law and applicable regulations. If a credit balance results, the student will residential students. Therefore, the College does automatically receive a refund if federal financial not guarantee or promise the availability of a Fees are not refundable. aid exceeds billed costs. Otherwise, the credit room and board refund. If the College, in its sole balance will remain on the account and be applied discretion, determines that a refund is available, The Alternative Medical Withdrawal Refund toward subsequent semester charges unless the the following calculation process will apply. The Calculation may be granted only once in a student’s student or parent (as appropriate) specifically date of a student’s withdrawal from residency Stonehill career. The College recommends that all requests a refund. A refund, when due, will be shall be determined by the Director of Residence full-time students seriously consider purchasing made payable to the student and mailed to the Life, or his or her designee, and will be used by the tuition refund insurance offered by A.W.G. permanent address of the student, then on file the Associate Director for Student Accounts to Dewar Inc. through a mailing to all students. with the College, unless the College is instructed determine the pro-rated room and board overhead otherwise in writing. When the deposit of a charges. A student who does not follow the parent loan results in a credit balance, the refund withdrawal procedures may forfeit his or her right Family Tuition Schedule will be made payable to the parent and mailed to a refund. Room and board overhead charges Provided that family members are full-time to the parent’s home address then on file with will be refunded according to the following students, are matriculating at the same time, the College. The College endeavors to quickly schedule for all students who withdraw from and are not receiving any other scholarship or and efficiently process all refunds. Normally, the residency, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. tuition remission from or through the College, refund process takes approximately 14 business the following family tuition schedule will apply: days. However, the refund process may take longer The date of a student’s withdrawal from residency shall be determined by the Director based on the timing of deposit and confirmation • First student – Full Tuition of checks. Normally, deposited checks are held of Residence Life, or his or her designee, and for 10 business days after deposit by the College will be used by the Associate Director for • Second student – 75% of Full Tuition before the refund process begins. A refund will Student Accounts to determine the pro-rated room and board overhead charges. A student • Third and each subsequent not be made for an amount less that $25 unless student – 50% of Full Tuition a student has graduated or withdrawn. Refunds who does not follow the withdrawal procedures will not be done until funds for pending and/ may forfeit his or her right to a refund. The total family reduction will be divided and applied equally to each family member. or verified financial aid have been received Room and board overhead charges will be NOTE: Family members include only and applied to the student’s account. refunded according to the following schedule dependent members of a single household. The following tuition refund schedule applies for all students who withdraw from residency, to all enrolled students in any of the College’s whether voluntarily or involuntarily. programs who withdraw from the College Financial Aid for personal reasons or who withdraw Withdrawal: Refund: Current and prospective students are encouraged from a course or courses and/or change During the first two 80% to consider all expenses anticipated for the their status from full-time to part-time. weeks of classes entire period of education to determine if family During the third week of classes 60% resources need to be supplemented by financial Withdrawal: Refund: aid in order to meet these expenses. College For 15-week semester courses During the fourth week of classes 40% policy requires that all students who need During the fifth week of classes 20% financial assistance apply for all available aid from During the first two 80% federal, state, institutional, and private sources. weeks of classes After the fifth week of classes No refund Applicants for admission, transfer students, and During the third week of classes 60% returning students who wish to renew or be considered for need-based grants and scholarships, During the fourth week of classes 40% Alternative Medical Withdrawal loans and/or campus employment must file a During the fifth week of classes 20% Refund Calculations complete Financial Aid Application each year. After the fifth week of classes No refund A student who has complied with the procedures for and subsequently received approval for A Complete Financial Aid Application For 6/7-week courses a voluntary medical withdrawal or has been Consists of the Following: During the first week of classes 80% presented with an involuntary medical withdrawal 1. For every aid applicant: the Free Application by the College may be eligible for an alternate for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or Renewal During the second week of classes 40% refund calculation as outlined below. FAFSA, completed in its entirety and After the second week of classes No refund processed through the federal processor. Tuition charges will be pro-rated from the first Under the College Release section, list For 5-week courses or 5-day courses day of classes to the student’s last day of class Stonehill with federal code number 002217. Before the second class 80% attendance, based on the daily rate from the first 2. For full-time first year, transfer, and other through the last day of classes for that semester. After the second class No refund first-time aid applicants:The Profile Form from the College Scholarship Service (CSS) is Room and board overhead charges will be Part-time students who withdraw before required for consideration of all institutional pro-rated, from the first week of classes to the aid, including, but not limited to merit aid, the first day of a class will receive a end of the week in which the student actually full refund of tuition for that class. athletic aid, and need based aid. Priority relinquishes occupancy of his or her room. deadline for regular decision is February Full-time students who reduce their course 1. Under the College Release section, list Food charges will be adjusted in accordance load to fewer than twelve credits per Stonehill with the CSS code number 3770. with the amount remaining in the student’s semester after they have registered will have meal plan (declining balance) account at their charges pro-rated based on the full- Provided, as appropriate, to first- the point he or she departs the College. time rate. Pro-rations will be based on the time applicants by CSS and to renewal Tuition Refund Schedule outlined above. applicants by the College: Institutional aid will be pro-rated, calculated on a daily rate from the first through the 3. Non-Custodial Parent Statement. Room and Board Refunds last day of classes for that semester. 4. Stonehill Supplemental Application, For fiscal reasons the College must anticipate completed by returning students Government aid will be refunded that enrolled residential students will complete in accordance with state and federal

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Only if requested by the College: Standards of Progress for Financial Aid Recipients 5. Verification Form. Academic Standing and/or Good Academic Standing: A student who is on academic probation is 6. Verification of sibling college enrollment. considered to be on probation for financial aid purposes; such a student may still be eligible to receive 7. Signed copies of parents’ federal income financial aid during the probationary period. However, a student separated or dismissed from the College tax return, all schedules, and W-2 for academic reasons who is readmitted on appeal is not necessarily eligible for financial aid. (See forms; or Statement of Non-tax Filer. Academic Policies for the definition of Good Academic Standing.) 8. Signed copies of student’s federal income tax return and W-2 forms; In order to receive or continue to receive financial aid funded by the government and/or Stonehill College or Statement of Non-tax Filer. (including student or parent education loans, grants, scholarships and jobs), a student must maintain 9. Any other documents/material satisfactory academic progress as defined below. deemed necessary for verification. Satisfactory Academic Progress: A student must pass a specific number of the credits he/she attempts How to obtain necessary each academic year. (The number of credits attempted equals the number of credits in which the student financial aid applications: is officially enrolled at the end of each Add/Drop period) Credits that are graded “Incomplete” as well as credits from which a student withdraws after the Add/Drop period are considered credits attempted • First-Year Applicant: FAFSA is available but not satisfactorily completed. (If an incomplete grade is subsequently changed to a passing grade, on-line at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Hard copy satisfactory academic progress can be recalculated based on receipt of a passing grade.) In addition, a FAFSA is also available for download at student’s cumulative average at the end of two academic years of study must be at least 2.00, and his/her www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov; however, record must continue to meet this standard. A student must take courses at Stonehill College to raise their recommended filing method is on-line. cumulative GPA. The CSS Profile form is available on-line at http://profileonline.collegeboard.com. Students are reviewed annually for compliance with Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements, at the end of each spring semester. In addition to the cumulative average noted above, this review covers all • Transfer applicant: New and Renewal FAFSAs coursework attempted since the end of the previous spring semester, beginning with any credits taken in can be completed on-line at www.fafsa.ed.gov. the first summer session of the preceding calendar year. Hard copy of FAFSA is also available for download at www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov; To be in compliance a student must successfully complete at least 67% of all credits attempted, including however, recommended filing method is on- courses transferred in during the academic period being measured, as outlined below: line. The CSS Profile form is available on-line at http://profileonline.collegeboard.com. # of credits attempted: Must pass: # of credits attempted: Must pass: Renewal FAFSAs for returning students are 1-2 credits 1 credit 30 credits 20 credits now available on-line only, accessible with a PIN provided by the federal government. 3 credits 2 credits 31-32 credits 21 credits Further information regarding the PIN 4-5 credits 3 credits 33 credits 22 credits is available at www.pin.ed.gov. 6 credits 4 credits 34-35 credits 23 credits To receive federal financial aid, a student must 7-8 credits 5 credits 36 credits 24 credits also: be registered with Selective Service if male and at least 18 years old (or not be required to 9 credits 6 credits 37-38 credits 25 credits do so under federal law); have no federal student 10-11 credits 7 credits 39 credits 26 credits loans in default status; owe no refunds to the Pell Grant, SEOG or SSIG Programs (Title IV, HEA 12 credits 8 credits 40-41 credits 27 credits Grant) for attendance at any institution; be a U.S. 13-14 credits 9 credits 42 credits 28 credits citizen or eligible non-citizen; have no drug- related convictions while receiving federal or 15 credits 10 credits 43-44 credits 29 credits state financial aid (depending on type of offense) 16-17 credits 11 credits 45 credits 30 credits and certify this on the FAFSA form; and meet Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements. 18 credits 12 credits 46-47 credits 31 credits 19-20 credits 13 credits 48 credits 32 credits To maintain the integrity of the programs administered by Stonehill College and to insure 21 credits 14 credits 49 credits 33 credits the equitable distribution of available funds, the 22-23 credits 15 credits 50-51 credits 34 credits accuracy of information submitted on applications for all types of financial assistance, including 24 credits 16 credits 52 credits 35 credits loans, will be verified. Therefore, financial aid 25-26 credits 17 credits 53-54 credits 36 credits applicants and their parents are urged to use information from completed federal tax returns 27 credits 18 credits 55 credits 37 credits when filling out their Financial Aid Applications. 28-29 credits 19 credits 56 credits 38 credits It is not recommended that families delay filing the Financial Aid Applications until tax returns To regain eligibility for financial aid after unsatisfactory progress has been declared, a student must are completed, especially if it means a deadline complete the number of credits not passed within the period which resulted in the loss of aid and achieve will be missed but, rather, that tax returns be the required cumulative grade-point average. completed early. Using accurate information will result in fewer corrections to an application and, To continue to be eligible for federal Title IV funding, a student must complete in the aggregate, 67% of consequently, fewer adjustments to a financial all credits attempted, including credits transferred in, at the end of the established full academic period. aid award. Priority filing deadlines: Profile This ensures that no student takes longer than 150% of the normal time for completing his/her degree. and FAFSA by February 1 for early action and The time to degree completion includes all courses attempted, including courses from which the student regular decision incoming first-year students; has withdraw after the add-drop period, courses which are incomplete, and courses which have been and FAFSA by March 1 for returning students. accepted by the College in transfer. General Provisions: Repeat coursework taken for the purpose of increasing a previously passing grade cannot be considered in qualifying a student for financial aid enrollment status or satisfying a determination of non compliance with Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements.

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Appeals: The denial of financial aid because of failure to meet Satisfactory Academic Progress Federal Supplemental requirements may be appealed if the student believes there are special circumstances which should be considered. The appeal must include an explanation of why the student believes he/she failed to achieve Educational Opportunity satisfactory academic progress and what has changed that will allow the student to achieve progress by Grant (FSEOG) the end of the next financial aid payment period. A written appeal, sent within 15 days of notification of ineligibility for aid, should be addressed to the Director of Student Financial Services. Appeals will Stonehill College receives from the federal be considered by a representative committee from Academic Services and Student Financial Services. A government an allocation of FSEOG funds which it response will be mailed to the student within 15 days of receipt of such appeal. Appeals may be approved matches by 25%. The total funding is administered if justification presented is acceptable and it has been determined that the student is able to meet SAP by the College and is prioritized to applicants with standards by the end of the next financial aid payment period or is placed on an academic plan that will exceptional financial need. Pell Grant recipients ensure he/she is able to meet SAP standards by a specific point in time have the first priority. Awards range from $100 to $4,000 per year and are re-determined annually. A positive response to an appeal results in the student being placed on Financial Aid Probation. The The Free Application for Federal Student Aid student then re-gains eligibility for financial aid for the next financial aid payment period only. Progress (FAFSA) is the application for FSEOG funds. will be re-measured subsequent to the period of Financial Aid Probation to assure compliance with SAP after that one financial aid payment period. Federal TEACH Grant The College awards financial aid within two annual payment periods. The fall payment period includes Funded and administered by the federal courses that begin July 1 and after through December 31. The spring payment period includes courses that government, up to $4,000 TEACH Grants are begin January 1 and after through June 30. Courses taken within those two periods determine enrollment awarded to students who meet certain academic status for financial aid purposes. requirements and who indicate they may teach in Effective July 1, 2011 a federally defined high need school for four years upon graduation. The TEACH Grant reverts to an unsubsidized federal student loan if the obligation Stonehill College Scholarships to teach is not fulfilled within eight years of Each year the College offers a number of partial-tuition scholarships and grants to incoming and returning graduation. The FAFSA is the annual application students. While some scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit, it is required that a financial aid and an Agreement to Serve and entrance and exit application (CSS Profile) be on file with the College. Scholarships require a maintenance of a minimum counseling must be completed, but TEACH does cumulative average for renewal, but merit scholarship recipients need not file for aid in subsequent years not require that the student have financial need. unless they wish to be considered for other aid as well, including need-based grants, student loans, and work-study. (See here for a description of the financial aid application process for incoming and returning Federal Yellow Ribbon Program students.) Stonehill is a matching grant participant The names of the awards and application/renewal requirements are shown below: in the Yellow Ribbon Program for eligible veterans and their dependents. Name Application/Renewal Requirements Financial Aid Application ROTC Scholarships Cum Avg To Apply To Renew Students at Stonehill College may compete for Army ROTC Scholarships. Novak/Sakmar/Templeton Scholarship 3.3, SAP* Required No Moreau Honors Scholarship 3.3, SAP* Required No State Scholarships/Grants Presidential Scholarship 3.0, SAP* Required No Students should investigate the availability of scholarships/grants through their states. Eligible Dean’s Scholarship 2.9, SAP* Required No students should submit state scholarship/grant Stonehill Need-Based Grant SAP* Required Required applications by the appropriate deadlines. Stonehill Endowed/Restricted Scholarships SAP* Required Required Student Loans *Satisfactory Academic Progress Loans are available to Stonehill College Stonehill scholarships and grants may not exceed the amount actually charged for tuition. They are students from the following sources: credited only to semesters in which the recipient pays tuition to Stonehill. Half the amount of the The William D. Ford Federal Direct Student scholarship is applied to the fall semester and half to the spring semester, provided the recipient meets Loan Program. Loan limits are determined by the preceding criteria. These awards are not applicable to semesters in which tuition is paid to another the number of credits completed: up to $5,500 institution or program, nor may the entire amount be credited to one semester. Scholarships are awarded per year for students who have completed for and presume full-time continuous attendance, for a maximum of 8 semesters. fewer than 30 credits; up to $6,500 per year for students who have completed between 30 Restricted/Endowed Scholarships and 59 credits; and up to $7,500 per year for students who have completed at least 60 credits. Stonehill College awards funding that has been gifted to the College as endowment. Many of these Total borrowing may not exceed $34,500. scholarships carry restrictions as stipulated by the donors. To apply, returning students must file the This loan program is funded by the federal complete Financial Aid Application and a Restricted/Endowed Scholarship Application. This special government and administered by the College. application is available on-line at www.stonehill.edu under Financial Aid and Scholarships, between February 1 and April 1 for the following academic year. New students do not complete this special The Free Application for Federal Student Aid application. A complete list of available scholarships appears in this catalog and may be viewed on-line at (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility. There www.stonehill.edu are two types of Direct Loans: subsidized and unsubsidized. Students who demonstrate sufficient Federal Pell Grant financial need qualify for a base subsidized loan. The fixed interest rate on this loan is 4.5 Funded and administered by the federal government, eligibility for Pell Grant is based on exceptional percent with a federal origination fee of .5 percent financial need. Awards vary, based on an index established by the federal government. The Free net. No interest accrues on this loan while the Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the annual application for Pell Grant. Since it is the primary student attends school at least half time. Those source of federal student aid, all students who seek assistance of any kind are required to apply for the who do not qualify for the full subsidized loan Pell Grant. may borrow an unsubsidized Direct Student

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Loan plus the supplemental unsubsidized loan paid at the rate of $550 per month for ten months. of $2,000; however, the student must either The deadline to enroll for the Fall semester is pay the interest on this loan while in school or August 1; families interested in enrolling for the opt to capitalize the interest and pay it, along Spring semester only must call TMS directly. with the principal, upon leaving school. The fixed interest rate on the unsubsidized loan Notes is 6.8 percent, and the federal origination fee is .5 percent net. Repayment of principal for Students receiving institutional or government both types of loans begins six months after the financial aid (Perkins Loan, Supplemental student ceases to be enrolled at least half time. Educational Opportunity Grant, Pell Grant, State Scholarships, Direct Loan, etc.) or educational Promissory Notes for the Direct Student Loan assistance (Veterans’ Benefits) should consider the Program are available on-line through Student possible loss of, or reduction in, this assistance Financial Services at Stonehill or at the federal web before enrolling for other than full-time student site at www.dlenote.ed.gov. The loan funds (net the status. The effect on financial assistance must be .5 percent origination fee) are credited directly to considered in any decision to accelerate course the student’s tuition account, half in each semester. requirements or to reduce one’s course load. It is not necessary for a student to complete The College must anticipate for fiscal reasons a promissory note for every year in which (s) that all financial obligations to the College will he borrows through the Federal Direct Student be paid in full. Failure to meet these obligations Loan Program. A Master Promissory Note may result in Administrative Withdrawal from is completed for the first year in which the the College. In the event that a student leaves student borrows and remains in effect for each the College owing monies for tuition, room and subsequent loan borrowed for a total of 10 years. board, fees, fines, or holds delinquent loans, the The Federal Perkins Loan Program. This College reserves the right to withhold grades, federally-sponsored loan program is administered official transcripts, and/or additional services by the College on a funds-available basis. within the confines of the Buckley Amendment. Eligibility is based on need as shown on The College reserves the right to withhold the FAFSA. The interest rate is fixed at 5%; grades, diplomas and official transcripts and/ repayment begins 9 months after the student or to deny participation in graduation exercises ceases to be enrolled at least half time. to any student who owes monies, books, or equipment to the College or who has failed Student Employment to fulfill all obligations to the College, or who is in default on a federal student loan. In addition to the scholarship, loan, and grant opportunities described above, limited part- The College also reserves the right to refuse time employment is available to students who payment it determines to be unacceptable and the can, without jeopardizing their academic right to require that payment made after the due standing, devote time to campus jobs. date be by cashier’s check. Payments made after May 1 and prior to the end of the academic year The College participates in the Federal Work- must be in cash or by certified check. Personal Study Program, which serves to expand the checks will not be accepted after that date. opportunities for part-time student employment on campus. The Work-Study Office has If for any reason the College must refer an identified and classified Community Service account to an outside agency for collection, the positions off campus. These job postings College reserves the right to add any and all are designated as such and are reserved for legal and/or agency fees to the account balance. students who qualify for Federal Work-Study. The College also reserves the right to report the outstanding account to a credit reporting bureau. To be considered for academic year employment, a student must have a processed FAFSA on file in Student Financial Services. A comprehensive listing of financial aid programs is contained at www.stonehill.edu under Financial Aid/Financial Aid and Scholarships. Tuition Installment Payment Plan Many families prefer to spread tuition and fee payments throughout the year rather than make one large payment prior to each semester. The College offers a 10-month payment plan through TMS at a nominal fee: Tuition Management Services (TMS) 171 Service Ave, 2nd Floor • Warwick, RI 02886 (888)216-4258 • www.afford.com/stonehill Informational brochures and application forms are sent to all students. There are no interest charges; the current enrollment fee is $65. The amount of the contract and length of the payment period are chosen by the family. For example, an estimated out-of-pocket cost of $5,500 may be

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The Lee Abraham Scholarship The Reverend William F. Gartland, The Beatrice H. Mullaney Memorial Scholarship The John I. Ahern Memorial Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Frank & Susan Mullin Scholarship The Neil Ahern ‘69 Memorial Scholarship The Geraghty Family Irish Studies Scholarship The Lt. William C. Murphy Memorial Scholarship The Family of Charles Altieri Scholarship The Alfred F. and Martha Gomes The Michael D. Nessralla Memorial Scholarship The Joseph M. Alukonis Memorial Scholarship Family Scholarship The Helen and Albert Niemi Scholarship The Alumni Council Scholarship The Jack & Mary Gorman Scholarship The John and Cheryl Noblin Scholarship The Anheuser-Busch Scholarship The James “Lou” ‘53 and Mary Lou The Novak-Sakmar-Templeton Scholarship The Alan Bailey Memorial Scholarship Gorman Scholarship The Ann O’Connell Scholarship The Edward H. Baker Scholarship The Colleen Coyle Green Memorial Scholarship The O’Connor Family Scholarship The Balsamo Scholarship The Reverend Eugene Green/Beta XI Scholarship ** The Barbara Lutted O’Donnell Scholarship The Charles Barrett Scholarship Richard P. Gunville Memorial Scholarship The Robert M. O’Donnell Memorial Scholarship The Frank Basile Memorial Scholarship The James E. Hayden ‘76 Memorial Scholarship The Paul K. O’Leary Memorial Scholarship The Harold and Livia Baynes Memorial Scholarship The William Randolph Hearst The William C. O’Malley Memorial Scholarship The Carmi A. Belmont Memorial Scholarship Foundation Scholarship The Mark J. Oteri Memorial Scholarship The Barbara “Bonnie” Benoit Scholarship The William T. Herlihy Memorial Scholarship The Amy Hoar Palmisciano Memorial Scholarship The Susan Elin Benson Memorial Scholarship The Paula Ann Hiltz Memorial Scholarship The Peter Paolella Memorial Scholarship The Birmingham Scholarship The Hoffman Family Scholarship The Senator John Parker Memorial Scholarship The Blanchard Foundation Scholarship The Reverend William F. Hogan, The Fred C. Petti Athletic Scholarship The Philip and Sara Boyle Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Lisa M. Philo-Corcoran Memorial Scholarship The Sheila and William J. Boyle Scholarship The Honorable Timothy E. Holland The Pillar Society Scholarship The Reverend John F. Brady Memorial Scholarship Family Scholarship The James & Agnes Pires Memorial Scholarship The Lauren Michelle Branco Memorial Scholarship The Holy Cross Fathers Scholarship The Pohlad Family Scholarship The Brebbia-Grandy Family Scholarship The Joseph L. Hopkins Memorial Scholarship The E. Romeo and Edward D. Poirier The Doreen Brennan Scholarship The Henry C. Howley Memorial Scholarship Memorial Scholarship The Derek Brown Memorial Scholarship The Reverend Francis J. Hurley, C.S.C. Scholarship The John and Aliese Price Foundation Scholarship The Burke Scholarship The Italian Education and Cultural The Raynham/Taunton Greyhound The Ronald E. Burton Memorial Scholarship Interchange Scholarship Association Scholarship The Sgt. Robert H. Cairns Memorial Scholarship The Mary Lou & William Jackson Scholarship The Captain Janet M. Redgate, U.S.N., The Campanelli Foundation Scholarship The Junior League of Women’s Italian NC Memorial Scholarship The Joseph F. Carney Memorial Scholarship Club of Boston Scholarship The Christine Reynolds Endowment The Arthur J. and Margaret M. Carriuolo The Reverend Joseph P. Keena, for the Arts Scholarship Memorial Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Ray Richard Memorial Scholarship The Anthony E. Cascino Memorial Scholarship The Joseph F. Kelliher III Memorial Scholarship The Patty Roche Memorial Scholarship The Cavanagh Family Scholarship The Joseph F. Kenneally, D.M.D. Scholarship The Theresa Ryan Scholarship The Esther-Ann Chamberlain ‘68 Scholarship The Harold G. Kern Memorial Scholarship The Thomas and Mary Shields Scholarship The Thomas D. Christopher Memorial Scholarship The Kimberly Ann Kitchell Memorial Scholarship The Shields Merit Scholarship The Christopher J. Civale, ‘74 Scholarship The Robert and Dorothy (Oliger) The Birute T. Silvia Scholarship The C. James Cleary Memorial Scholarship Kruse Memorial Scholarship The Cardinal Spellman Scholarship The Reverend Gerald P. Cohen, C.S.C. Scholarship The Mitchell A. Labuda Memorial Scholarship The A. Michael Storlazzi Scholarship The William F. Connell Memorial Scholarship The William C. LaPlante Memorial Scholarship The Madelyn W. Sturtevant Memorial Scholarship The Connors Family Scholarship The Edward Scott “Teddy” Lehan The Reverend Lawrence Sullivan, The William J. Connors Memorial Scholarship Memorial Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Joseph M. Corcoran Memorial Scholarship The Fr. Joseph S. Lehane, C.S.C. Scholarship The Sullivan-Langsenkamp Memorial Scholarship The Reverend John J. Corr, C.S.C. The Diane Grueter Lincoln Memorial Scholarship The Richard J. Susi Memorial Scholarship Memorial Scholarship The Lockary-Hegarty Memorial Scholarship The Raymond Tashash Family Scholarship The Edward L. Coughlin Memorial Scholarship The Curtis L. Lopes II Memorial Scholarship The Ralph D. Tedeschi Memorial Scholarship The Timothy J. Coughlin Memorial Scholarship The Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship The Nancy J. Thurston Memorial Scholarship The Robert G. Cummings ‘61 Memorial Scholarship The Donald R. MacLeod Memorial Scholarship The David M. Tracy Scholarship The Darling/My Brother’s Keeper Scholarship The Edward (Ted) MacLeod Memorial Scholarship The Bessie Tsaganis Memorial Scholarship The DeSouza Ward Scholarship The Reverend Bartley MacPhaidin, The Val & Arthur A. Viano Fine Arts Scholarship The William F. Devin Scholarship C.S.C. Scholarship The Villa Nazareth Scholarship The Linda A. and Francis X. Dillon Scholarship The Trooper Gary E. Magee Memorial Scholarship The Richard A. Voke Scholarship The Jeffrey Ditmar Memorial Scholarship The Kerri A. Mahoney Memorial Scholarship The Joseph F. Walsh Memorial Scholarship The Reverend James W. Donahue, The Katherine Mance Scholarship The Honorable Martha Ware Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Stephen P. Mandill Memorial Scholarship The Washington, D.C. Area Alumni Scholarship The Ciaran Ryan Donoghue Memorial Scholarship The Peter J. Marathas, Sr. Memorial Scholarship The Rita and Frank Welch Scholarship The Reverend Peter Donohue, C.S.C. The Peter Mareb Memorial Scholarship The Herbert A. and Gertrude M. Memorial Scholarship ** The Reverend Richard Mazziotta, Wessling Memorial Scholarship The Jennifer Dow Memorial Scholarship C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Vincent P. and Mary L. Wright The Charles C. Ely Educational Scholarship The Father John E. McCarthy, C.S.C. Memorial Scholarship The Stonehill Environmental Scholarship Memorial Scholarship The Yawkey Scholarship The Ernst & Young Scholarship The McDonough Family Scholarship **Scholarships for part-time/independent students The Cheryl and Daniel Farley Family Scholarship The Matthew McDonough Memorial Scholarship The Fay Family Scholarship The Margaret McFadden Memorial Scholarship For more information on individual The Reverend Thomas M. Feeley, C.S.C./Saint The William G. McGowan Memorial Scholarship scholarships, please visit Thomas Aquinas Philosophy Scholarship The Ann and John McGrath Memorial Scholarship The Joseph & Joanne Finn Memorial Scholarship The John and Margarete McNeice Scholarship www.stonehill.edu under Admissions and The George R. Fish Memorial Scholarship The Miller-Moroney Scholarship Financial Aid, Financial Aid and Scholarships The Brassil Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship The Robert J. Mills Memorial Scholarship The John Kennedy FitzGerald Memorial Scholarship The Edmond N. Moriarty, Jr. Memorial Scholarship The Aline and Paul Flynn Scholarship The Gregory “Rodney” Moynahan The Follett Bookstore Scholarship Memorial Scholarship The Thomas Folliard Memorial Scholarship The Bill Mulford Memorial Fund for The Charles A. Frueauff Foundation Scholarship Independent Students** THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 116 STUDENT LIfe Mission Division

Educating the mind and the heart… their faith and to be more active members educational concerns by providing individual This vision of education as a work of forming of their local Christian communities. and group counseling as well as preventive services. The CTC staff offers programs and the whole person inspired Blessed Basil Finally, in its call to evangelize, Campus Ministry Moreau, C.S.C., the founder of the Congregation workshops throughout the campus aimed at extends an invitation to the entire College the developmental needs of college students of Holy Cross, and his religious family, the community to hear again – or for the first time founders and sponsors of Stonehill College. to help them maximize their potential and – the message of the Catholic tradition and its benefit fully from the college environment. In Stonehill College is proud to share in the relevance for our times. In this period of crisis in addition, a psychiatrist is accessible weekly educational legacy of Fr. Moreau. Moreau’s culture, Campus Ministry works collaboratively through the CTC for consultation services. vision of education as a “work of resurrection” with various departments as it seeks to revitalize the Church and form future leaders. inspires us to purse the blessings of new Health Services life that come from a diligent pursuit of Common to these diverse expressions of the faith all that is true, beautiful and good. is Campus Ministry’s effort to uphold everywhere Health Services is an appointment-based, Moreau’s vision of education as an art that the value of community and to encourage ambulatory care setting designed to manage never “deprives our students of anything a lived reflection on the importance of the the acute episodic health concerns of our full- they should know,” spurs us to academic common good on campus, in the neighboring time students. The management of chronic excellence in every discipline of study. community, in the family, and in the Church. health problems can also be coordinated in collaboration with the student’s personal Moreau’s vision of education as the formation Consistent with this effort, Campus Ministry physician. The facility is open Monday-Friday of the whole person such that the “mind is also committed to helping students of from 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. and is staffed by nurse will not be cultivated at the expense of the various faith traditions to find opportunities for practitioners. An internal medicine physician heart,” leads us to value the co-curricular and affirming and strengthening their own faith. is always available to the nurse practitioners spiritual dimensions of life at Stonehill. for consultation. After hours emergency care can be coordinated through Campus Police. And Moreau’s vision of education as the The Center for Nonprofit The office is located in the Chapel of Mary. work of forming students “into justice” Management underlies our mission of educating students The Health and Wellness Office provides health The Center for Nonprofit Management to lead “with courage toward creating a education, awareness events and prevention works with and builds the leadership and more just and compassionate world.” programs on a variety of topics including management capacity of community-based but not limited to stress reduction, physical The staff of the Mission Division, inspired by nonprofit organizations throughout southern activity, nutrition, smoking cessation and Blessed Basil Moreau’s vision of education, works Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island. healthy relationships throughout the entire with students and the entire Stonehill community The Center is focused on enhancing critical school year. Services range from workshops, to live the values of a Holy Cross education by management skills, while also fostering individual consultation or presentations preparing “good citizens for both earth and relationships with and among the region’s diverse by request. The office is located in the heaven.” Campus Ministry, the Farm at Stonehill, community-based organizations so that they may Roche Dining Commons, Room 113. and the Center for Nonprofit Management better achieve their missions. Drawing on expertise collaborate in fostering this noble mission. within the nonprofit sector and Stonehill, including Intercultural Affairs Office student interns, the Center conducts research and Campus Ministry provides workshops and other learning programs The mission of Intercultural Affairs at Stonehill is to contribute to the creation, influence, and The Department of Campus Ministry has a for the region’s nonprofit sector. Additionally, the sustainability of a community where the dignity five-fold charge: the ministry of Word and Center hosts the Developing Fundraising Leaders of all people is respected. Intercultural Affairs sacrament, pastoral care, service beyond the Institute in conjunction with the Advancement works to support students in academic, cultural, campus, religious formation, and evangelization. Division, a program for selected students aimed at developing nonprofit leadership skills. and personal endeavors and facilitates dialogue From every quarter, Campus Ministry summons with faculty, staff, and students on issues of the College community for the worship and Student Affairs privilege, power, and social justice. Intercultural praise of God, especially for celebration of the Affairs supports the whole Stonehill community Sunday Eucharist. In the Chapel of Mary, Mother It is the goal of Stonehill College to foster the total in creating a more inclusive culture though of the Church, the Word of God is heard anew, development of our students. While this is the opportunities such as Safe Space, the Diversity prayers are offered for the needs of all, and the responsibility of the entire community, the Student Networking Group, RACE Dialogues, Freshmen assembly is nourished at the Lord’s Table. Affairs Division provides many opportunities Leadership Through Diversity Program, the for integrating the intellectual, physical, social, Inclusive Excellent Grant, ALANA Leadership In times of sickness, bereavement, or crisis, and spiritual development of students. Program, and various heritage month events. In Campus Ministry is present to recall God’s gracious addition, Intercultural Affairs provides services promises of redemption from every loss, and to Below is an overview of the departments ranging from personal consultations to larger group extend the support of the community. Campus within Student Affairs. Additional information training in order to empower Stonehill community Ministry challenges students to discern the face regarding these departments and other members to thrive in a diverse and global society. of God in the suffering and the oppressed. departments associated with campus Staff members serve on the Bias Response Team life can be found by accessing the A – Z and the Bias Reduction Education Team. Diverse programs, such as HOPE, our alternative index on the College’s main website. spring break program (domestic and international), and Into the Streets, our community service Recreational Sports program, provide students with the opportunity Counseling and Testing The Recreational Sports Program at Stonehill to act on behalf of others through friendship and The mission of the Counseling and Testing collaboration with the young, the elderly, the seeks to provide formal recreational opportunities Center (CTC) is to support all full-time students to all students, faculty and staff by: physically challenged, and the poor and homeless. as members of a learning community. The CTC Through retreats, the Christian Initiation regards each student as a unique individual • offering opportunities for interesting and program, and spiritual direction, Campus and empowers her/his efforts to attain self- rewarding competitions involving men’s, Ministry offers students and other Stonehill understanding, integrity and academic success. women’s and co-recreational sports; Counselors assist students with personal and community members the opportunity to deepen • presenting a varied and diverse program

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of sports, recreational, fitness and wellness Office of Community Standards • Art Club activities so that the entire campus community • Asian American Society has the opportunity to participate regardless Stonehill College’s Office of Community Standards of athletic ability or preference; and serves to provide students with a living and • Colleges Against Cancer learning environment that reflects the values • Diversity on Campus • attempting, whenever possible, to expand of the Stonehill community and supports the current facilities and to accommodate College’s commitment to developing the moral, • disABILITY Enlightenment Project the recreational wishes or needs of spiritual, intellectual and social competencies of • EMS Club (Emergency Medical Service) the majority of participants. our students. To achieve this goal, Stonehill looks • French Club Throughout the academic year, there are over to the students to be partners in this process twenty intramural sports, eight to ten sport with the hope of creating an environment that is • General Self-Defense Organization respectful of the rights of all individuals within clubs and a variety of fitness and instructional • Hip Hop Club programs offered through this office. In addition, the community. Shared responsibility for the life the office is located within the Sally Blair Ames and governance of the College should lead all its • Mock Trial members to make the best of their own talents, Sports Complex, which offers over 55,000 • Model U.N. square feet of recreational and leisure space to work together, to be sensitive to one another, for members of the Stonehill community. to serve others, and to seek justice within and • Philosophy Society beyond the Stonehill Community. Therefore, the Office of Community Standards seeks to educate • PRIDE (Providing a Responsible, Intercollegiate Sport Clubs students regarding the rights and responsibilities Inclusive, & Diverse Environment) • Bowling of being a member of Stonehill College and • SEA (Students for Environmental Action) will call students to accountability for their • Cheerleading actions as a necessary part of community life. • Silent Witness Initiative • Dance Team • Spanish Club Student Activities • Golf (Men and Women) Governance & Programming • Men’s Lacrosse The Office of Student Activities is committed • Class Committees to enhancing the overall education of the • Men’s and Women’s Rugby Stonehill community through collaboration with • Commuter Council • Men’s Volleyball students, faculty, and staff in order to create • Diversity Committee social, cultural, recreational, and spiritual growth • Men’s and Women’s Ultimate Disc opportunities. Throughout the year, a variety of • Programming Committee • …and More! co-curricular, social and educational programs • SGA (Student Government Association) are organized for students by students. Stonehill Intramural Sports values the co-curricular program as an integral Media facet of the College and believes that these • ACRES (yearbook) • Basketball experiences enrich the quality of student life. • CAIRN (literary magazine) • Beach Volleyball Therefore, all students are encouraged to • Rolling Stonehill • Flag Football become involved in the many clubs and organizations as interested members or as • SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures • Floor Hockey student leaders. A complete list of all officially and Television Engineers) recognized student groups is listed below: • Indoor Soccer • The SUMMIT (College Newspaper) • Racquetball Clubs and Organizations • WSHL 91.3 • Softball Performance • Tennis Academic • Art Club • Accounting Association • Volleyball • Bellies that Dance • Anthropology Society • Walleyball • Capoeira Club • Biochemistry Club • …and more! • Chapel Choir • Biology Society • Cheerleading Team Residence Life • Chemistry Club • Dance Club The department of Residence Life works to • Education Society create in our residence halls a safe and secure • Dance Team environment that supports the academic • English Society • Girls from the Hill mission of the college, encourages individual • History Society student development, and fosters a community • Goose Troupe Improv Comedy Club of responsibility and compassion. The living- • Financial Management Association • RUCKUS Step Squad learning environments that we strive to build are • Marketing Management Association characterized by civility and cooperation, where • Stonehill Musical Theater Company • Neuroscience Society individual needs and desires are balanced with • Surround Sound the common good. By providing an enriching • Psychology Society residential experience, we will afford students • Religious Studies Society the opportunity to develop life-long skills to become contributing members of society. For Cultural & Special Interests more information, please visit the Residence Life • A.C.E.S. (Active Concerned Educated Students) website at http://www.stonehill.edu/x10000.xml. • Activism Club • Africa Service Project • Anthropology Society

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Political In addition, the Skyhawks are ranked second “Ace” the Skyhawk • Activism Club in the National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) Power Rankings used to assess the Stonehill’s mascot, “Ace”, is a crowd favorite who • College Democrats academic and athletic standards of all NCAA makes regular appearances at many events on • College Republicans and NAIA athletic programs. Stonehill earned campus. The origin of the Skyhawk mascot lies a 98% Academic Success Ranking (ASR) by the in the mists of Stonehill history. In the 1920s, the • Mock Trial NCAA, which considers the academic success beautiful 375-acre campus belonged to the wealthy • Model U.N. rate of the institution based on the graduation Ames family, and young Frederick Ames – an early rate of student-athletes while also giving aviator – had an airfield built on the property. • Young Americans for Liberty credit for any student-athletes who transferred Today, “Ace” leads spirited Stonehill students as they cheer the Skyhawks to even greater heights. Pre-Professional from the institution while in good academic standing. The Skyhawks’ ASR rating ranks fourth • Healthcare Society among all NCAA Division II institutions, with • Pre-Dental Society 11 teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%. • Public Relations Society 2010-2011 – A Year of • St. Thomas Moore Pre-Law Society Athletic Success Religious • NE-10 President’s Cup Champions • Catholic Daughters of the Americas • Sophomore Corey Thomas wins • Campus Christian Fellowship NCAA Division II Indoor High • The Good News Jump National Championship • Knights of Columbus • 7 NCAA Tournament Bids • Cross Country wins ninth NE-10 Championship Service and Volunteering • A.C.E.S. (Active Concerned Educated Students) • 12 All-Americans • Africa Service Project Skyhawk Student- • Circle K Athlete Success: • Habitat for Humanity • 98% Academic Success Rating from • Into The Streets Volunteer and the NCAA - 4th in Division II Service Organizations • 58 Division II ADA Academic • Knights of Columbus Achievement Award winners Recreational and Sports • 11 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District Honorees • High Adventure Club • 53% of student-athletes achieved 3.20 GPA • Riding Club • Running Club Varsity Teams • Ski/snowboard Club MEN • Swim Club • Baseball • Intramural Sports Teams • Basketball • Sport Clubs (Competitive) • Cross Country • Bowling Team • Cheerleading Team • Football • Dance Team • Ice Hockey • Golf Team • Lacross Team (men’s) • Soccer • Rugby Team (men’s and women’s) • Tennis • Ultimate Disk Team (men’s and women’s) • Track and Field (indoor and outdoor) • Volleyball Team (men’s) WOMEN Athletics • Basketball With 20 intercollegiate sports and a tradition • Cross Country of winning both on and off the field, the • Equestrian Stonehill Skyhawks are one of the top athletic • Field Hockey and academic programs in the country. • Lacrosse The Skyhawks, who compete in the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference, won the President’s • Soccer Cup for the second-straight year and third time • Softball overall in 2010-2011 and have finished in the top three in the President’s Cup standings in each • Tennis of the last six seasons. This prestigious award • Track and Field (indoor and outdoor) is given to the top performing athletic school in the Northeast-10, across all sports and seasons. • Volleyball

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Introduction advice to a charged student, complainant discipline sanction, or has withdrawn from the or person who believes he/she was the College prior to the resolution of an informal Stonehill College, an academic community within victim of a student’s misconduct. The conference or formal discipline hearing. the Catholic tradition, committed to its Holy advocate may not be an attorney. The 14. Faculty: Any person hired by the College Cross roots, holds high expectations for how its advocate may not actively participate to conduct classroom or teaching activities members live and interact with one another. At during the formal discipline hearing. or who is otherwise considered by the the heart of these expectations is a respect for self 2. Appeals Board: A group comprised of College to be a member of its faculty. and others. Specifically, Stonehill is committed the Vice President for Students Affairs, or 15. Formal Discipline Hearing: A review to developing the moral, spiritual, intellectual designee, a student and faculty member and social competencies of our community. In of statements from a charged student, authorized to consider a request for an complainant, or person who believes he/ search of this ideal, Stonehill endeavors to create appeal from the CDC’s determination as to an environment in which integrated learning is a she was the victim of a student’s misconduct whether a student has violated the Community and witnesses with knowledge of an shared responsibility, pursued in the classroom Standards or from the sanction imposed. and laboratory, co-curricular and extra-curricular incident for the purpose of determining activities, athletic fields, residence halls, dining 3. Associate Vice President for Student the charged student’s responsibility for room and chapel. These expectations and Affairs (AVPSA), or designee: Person violating the Community Standards and competencies are our Community Standards. designated by the Vice President for Student to make recommendations for sanctions if Affairs to be responsible for the day-to-day the charged student is found responsible. Expectations administration of the Community Standards 16. Guest: A non-student who is and the Student Discipline System. an associate of a student. Students are accountable for their actions as a 4. Charged Student: A student alleged to 17. Hearing Officer:A College official authorized necessary part of community life. By voluntarily have violated the Community Standards on a case-by-case basis to determine whether choosing to affiliate with Stonehill College, students who has been notified that he/she must a student has violated the Community acknowledge to uphold these responsibilities. attend a formal discipline hearing. Standards and to impose a sanction when As Stonehill is a community committed to 5. Community Standards: Expectations a violation of the Community Standards Holy Cross and Catholic ideals and to the and competencies Stonehill College has been committed. An administrator may growth of each individual, the Community has established for its students. also serve as a chairperson of the College Standards established for student members of 6. Community Restitution Project: Discipline Committee (CDC) or a Residence the Stonehill Community are not always exactly Work projects on and off campus Area Discipline Committee (RADC). the same as those within society at large. The 7. College: Stonehill College. 18. Incident Report: A written College’s Community Standards go beyond summary of an incident. 8. College Discipline Committee (CDC): what is simply required for public order. They A group of students, faculty and college 19. Informal Conference: An informal meeting ask what is good and developmental for the officials authorized to determine whether of a student alleged to have violated the individual and for the Stonehill community. a student has violated the Community Community Standards, an administrator, To enter Stonehill College is to accept an invitation Standards and to recommend sanctions that complainant and the person who believes he/ to participate in a learning environment that may be imposed when a violation of the she was the victim of a student’s misconduct emphasizes “the education of the whole person” Community Standards has been committed. for the purpose of achieving resolution with all parties agreeing to the outcome. If an by promoting interdisciplinary inquiry and 9. College Official: Any person employed agreement is reached, the case will end with facilitating student learning and development. by the College (including student no opportunity for appeal. If no agreement Choosing to become a member of this community employees), performing assigned duties is reached, the case will be dismissed or requires a commitment to an open dialog about or action on behalf of the College in referred for a formal discipline hearing. the basic human questions fundamental to a an official (recognized) capacity. liberal education in the Holy Cross tradition, as 20. Interim Restrictions: Immediate sanctions 10. College Premises: All land, buildings, well as an individual responsibility to foster an taken against a student when there is facilities and other property in the environment in which this dialog can occur. information to show that the student’s possession of or owned, used or continued presence on the campus controlled by the College. Shared responsibility for the life and governance endangers the physical safety or emotional of the college should lead all its members to 11. Complainant: Any individual member of the state of a student or others or disrupts make the best of their own talents, to work Stonehill Community, or the College itself, that the educational process of the College. together, to be sensitive to one another, to submits an incident report accusing a student 21. May: Used in the permissive sense. serve others and to seek justice within and of having violated the Community Standards. 22. Member of the College Community: Any beyond the Stonehill community. As such, 12. Director of Community Standards: College person who is a student, faculty, college students are expected to inform College official who has the primary responsibility official or any other person employed officials whenever they are concerned about for the administration of the Stonehill by the College. The AVPSA, or designee, a student’s physical or emotional health or Community Standards, which communicate will determine a person’s status. safety or when they have knowledge regarding the mission and values of a Catholic a dangerous or potentially violent situation. institution in the Holy Cross tradition. The 23. Notice of the Charges: Written notice that a student is alleged to have violated the The Stonehill College Community Standards and Director will undertake a broad range of Community Standards and notice of the date, other policies are intended to contribute to the responsibilities including directing discipline time and place that a student must attend moral, intellectual, spiritual and social growth of case management to ensure that all discipline a formal discipline hearing, as well as the student members of the campus community. The referrals are addressed in a consistent and names of the witnesses called to testify. College will call students to be accountable for timely manner through appropriate campus their actions as a necessary part of community life. procedures and serving as the College’s 24. Non-Consensual Sexual Contact: Including, primary hearing officer for discipline cases. but not limited to, intentional physical contact Glossary of Terms 13. Disciplinary Hold: An administrative hold of a sexual nature (touching breasts, buttocks, placed on a student’s record when he/she or pubic area) with anyone without her/his 1. Advocate: Faculty, staff member or member does not respond to the request of a College consent, or attempts to commit the same. of the student body who, in a formal official to attend an informal conference or 25. Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse: discipline hearing, provides support or formal discipline hearing, has not completed a Including, but not limited to, penetration

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of a bodily orifice (vagina, anus, or mouth) and/or criminal court systems, or through of admission through the actual awarding by an object or by a body part and/or both. of a degree, even though the conduct may non-consensual fellatio or cunnilingus When student conduct may have violated occur before classes begin or after classes or attempts to commit the same. federal or state law, Stonehill College may take end, as well as during the academic year 26. Policy: The written regulations of the College. action against a student through the College or during periods between terms of actual While the policies may be referenced or Discipline System prior to, simultaneously enrollment and even if the conduct is not printed in College publications such as with, or following civil or criminal discovered until after a degree is awarded. The Hill Book, the only official version proceedings at the discretion of the AVPSA, or 3. The Community Standards and Student of the current policies is located on the designee. Discipline System apply to a student’s College’s Campus Web intranet site. Determinations made or sanctions imposed conduct even if the student withdraws from 27. Residence Area Discipline Committee under the Student Discipline System will not the College while a complaint is pending. (RADC): A group of resident students and be subject to change when criminal charges 4. The AVPSA, or designee, will decide, on a college officials authorized to determine regarding the same incident are resolved in case-by-case basis, whether the Community whether a student has violated the favor of or against the criminal law defendant. Standards and Student Discipline System will Community Standards of the residence 2. When a student is charged with a criminal be applied to conduct occurring off-campus. areas and to recommend sanctions that violation of federal, state or local law, the 5. Students are responsible for the consequences may be imposed when a violation of the student is responsible for all costs associated of their actions even when the conduct Community Standards has been committed. with the criminal violation. The College may have been influenced by their 28. Sanction: A requirement a student must will not request special treatment on the physical or emotional state (irrespective abide by or complete when found responsible student’s behalf. Individual students and of any medical or clinical diagnoses). for violating the Community Standards. other members of the College community 6. Students are responsible for the 29. Sexual Exploitation: Behavior which occurs acting in their personal capacities, may consequences of their actions even when when a student takes advantage of another interact with federal, state and local the conduct may have been influenced without his/her consent for his/her own authorities as they deem appropriate. by their use of alcohol or other drugs. advantage or benefit, to benefit or advantage 3. If the alleged offense is also being processed 7. A disciplinary hold my be placed on a anyone other than the one being exploited, or under the Student Discipline System, the student’s educational record when a student behavior that does not otherwise constitute College may advise off-campus authorities does not respond to the request of a College one of the other offenses specifically of the existence of the Community official to attend an informal conference or noted in the sexual misconduct policy. Standards and Student Discipline System formal discipline hearing, does not comply 30. S.H.A.R.E. Advisors: A group of trained staff and of how such matters are typically with a discipline sanction, or withdraws members who provide assistance, guidance, handled within the College community. from the College prior to the resolution of a and support throughout the College discipline 4. The College cooperates with law enforcement complaint. Students with a disciplinary hold process for both the person who believes or other agencies in the enforcement of may not be permitted to register for courses, he/she was the victim of another’s sexual criminal law on campus. The College also receive transcripts, receive a diploma, add misconduct as well as the alleged perpetrator. cooperates with the conditions imposed or drop courses, register for College housing 31. Staff: Individuals who develop, by criminal courts for the rehabilitation of or participate in other College activities. maintain, implement, and oversee the student violators, provided the conditions do 8. Students are responsible for the contents of various programs of the College. not conflict with campus rules or sanctions. their rooms, cars, lockers or person. Students 32. Stalking: A course of conduct directed may also be held responsible for shared at a specific person that would cause a Jurisdiction common areas. Student need not be present or notified when an inspection is conducted. reasonable person to feel fearful, intimidated, 1. The Stonehill College Community threatened or cause emotional injury. Standards and Student Discipline 9. Students are responsible for the 33. Student: Any person taking courses at the System apply to the conduct: conduct of their guests and should be with guests at all times. College, either full-time or part-time, pursuing a. Of any student or individual: undergraduate, graduate or professional i. Enrolled in or accepted for an studies; any person who withdraws from Prohibited Conduct academic course or program the College after allegedly violating the regardless of credits carried The following conduct will constitute Community Standards; any person who is not violations of the Community Standards officially enrolled for a particular term but ii. Who withdraws from the College after allegedly violating the and will be subject to action and sanctions who has a continuing academic relationship outlined in the Student Discipline System. with the College; any person who has been Community Standards but before a formal hearing takes place notified of his/her acceptance for admission or 1. ACTS OF DISHONESTY any person living in College residence halls, iii. Not officially enrolled for a particular although not enrolled at Stonehill College. term but who has a continuing academic 1.01 Acts of dishonesty including, but not relationship with the College limited to, furnishing false information to any 34. Discipline System: The process and faculty member, College official or department, procedures for addressing alleged iv. Living on or off campus forgery, alteration or misuse of any College violations of student misconduct. b. Of any student organization document record, or instrument of identification 35. Will: Used in the imperative sense. or misrepresenting oneself as another. This c. Which occurs: 36. Witness: Any person with knowledge may also include violations of the Academic of a student’s alleged violation of i. On College premises Integrity Policy. Alleged academic dishonesty the Community Standards. ii. At College sponsored activities violations will be addressed according to the provisions of the Academic Integrity Policy. iii. At all locations of the College such as Violation of Law and internship and study abroad locations College Discipline 2. PERSONAL CONDUCT iv. Off-campus that adversely affects the 2.01 Conduct that is in direct conflict with 1. Student conduct should not violate the federal College community or the pursuit of the values and expectations afforded by the law, state law, local ordinances, and/or the its objectives or calls into question the Community Standards, and therefore, may call Stonehill College Community Standards. suitability of a student as a member into questions a student’s ability to remain Violations may be addressed through the of the Stonehill College Community a member of the Stonehill Community. College’s Discipline System, through the civil 2. Each student will be held responsible for his/ her conduct from the time of acceptance 2.02 Violation of any federal, state or local law.

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2.03 Participation in the disruption or obstruction 4.03 (Deleted) the Student Discipline System consistent with of teaching, research, administration, living the provisions of the Community Standards. or other College activities, the free flow of 4.04 Failure to abide by the College Policy against Hazing. 4. If an incident report involves more than one pedestrian or vehicular traffic, interfering with charged student, the AVPSA, or designee, in the duties of law enforcement, fire or other 4.05 Attempted use or actual use of electronic his/her discretion, may determine whether agencies, breaking the peace or leading or inciting devices that invade a person’s privacy. an informal conference or formal discipline others in acts of disruption or obstruction. hearing concerning each student will be 4.06 Failure to abide by College weapons policies. 2.04 Attempted or actual theft, damage or conducted either separately or jointly. vandalism to property of the College or others. 4.07 Creating a fire hazard or a situation that 5. Students are required to attend informal endangers others such as false reports of fire or conferences and formal discipline hearings. 2.05 Failure to comply with the request of a bombs, possession of fireworks, failing to evacuate, 6. Informal conferences and formal discipline College official or law enforcement, fire or throwing objects from windows or tampering with, hearings are not open to the public and other public officials acting in the performance damaging or removing fire safety equipment. of their duties or failure to identify oneself to are confidential in nature. Therefore, these persons when requested to do so. 4.08 Improper use of College vehicles. friends, parents, siblings or legal counsel may not be permitted in the room where 2.06 Unauthorized possession, duplication 4.09 Violation of the College’s prohibition the conference or hearing takes place, but or use of keys to any College premises. against glass beer bottles. may wait nearby for support purposes. 2.07 Prohibited or unauthorized gambling. 4.10 Physical assault. An attempted intentional, 7. Students will be held accountable for abuse and/or unjustified physical contact with a person, of the Student Discipline System such as: 2.08 Failure to abide by College however slight, without his or her consent that a. The failure to obey a notice from a Network Use Policy. entails some injury, harmful, or offensive touching. College official to appear for an informal 2.09 Failure to register an event. 4.11 Verbal assault. Verbal abuse, bullying, conference or formal discipline hearing as part of the Student Discipline System; 2.10 Unauthorized solicitation. threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion or conduct which threatens or endangers b. Falsification, distortion, or 2.11 Unauthorized posting or distribution the health or safety of oneself or another misrepresentation in conjunction with of flyers, bulletins or posters. person or any action that may subject oneself the Student Discipline System; or another person to emotional injury. 2.12 Abuse of the Student Discipline System. c. Submitting or corroborating a false incident 4.12 Stalking. A course of conduct directed report or withholding information; 2.13 Failure to comply with any College Policy. at a specific person that would cause a d. Attempting to discourage an individual’s 2.14 Conduct that is lewd or indecent reasonable person to feel fearful, intimidated, proper participation in or use of such as public urination, public threatened, or causes emotional injury the Student Discipline System; defecation, streaking, or stripping. e. Attempting to influence the impartiality 5. ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS of an administrator or member 2.15 Failure to abide by Residence Life 5.01 Failure to abide by College alcohol policies. of a discipline committee; policies and procedures or the College Room and Board Contract. 5.02 Failure to abide by College smoking policies. f. Harassment or intimidation of a witness, administrator or member 2.16 Failure to abide by College guest policies. 5.03 Failure to abide by College drug policies. of a discipline committee, prior to, 2.17 Inappropriate communication during or after an informal conference 6. SEXUAL MISCONDUCT with College personnel. or formal discipline hearing; 6.01 Sexual Harassment. g. Failure to comply with a sanction imposed 2.18 Failure to maintain a hygienic under the Student Discipline System; or living and learning environment. 6.02 Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse (or attempts to commit the same). h. Influencing or attempting to influence 2.19 Assisting or encouraging another person another person to commit an abuse to engage in a violation of College policy. 6.03 Non-Consensual Sexual Contact of the Student Discipline System. (or attempts to commit the same). i. The unauthorized use of electronic 3. PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION 6.04 The use of drugs or alcohol to render another devices, including but not limited to cell AND REPRESENTATION person physically or psychologically incapacitated phones, cameras, and recording devices. 3.01 Failure to carry a Stonehill College I.D. card. as a precursor to or part of sexual activity. 8. The order of administrative, College 3.02 Unauthorized use of the Stonehill College 6.05 Sexual Exploitation (or attempts Discipline Committee (CDC) and Residence name, logo, mascot or other symbol. to commit the same). Area Discipline Committee (RADC) hearings will proceed as follows: 3.03 Unauthorized use of Stonehill a. Review and signing of the College directories. Authority Honesty Statement; 1. The Vice President for Student Affairs is b. Reading of the charges; 4. PHYSICAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH responsible for the overall administration c. Opportunity for a charged student and AND GENERAL SAFETY of the Community Standards and Student the person who believes he/she was 4.01 Trespassing or unauthorized entry Discipline System. Under the direction of the victim of a student’s misconduct to or attempted entry to or use of College the Vice President for Student Affairs, the challenge the administrator or member premises including, but not limited to, roofs, AVPSA, or designee, has been charged of the discipline committee for bias; balconies, roadways, ponds or waterways. with the day-to-day responsibility for the administration of the Community Standards d. Charged student’s plea; 4.02 Any action that threatens, endangers or and Student Discipline System. The AVPSA, e. Opportunity of a charged student and subjects another person to physical harm, incites or designee, is also a student advocate who the person who believed he/she was a person by provocation, excludes a person from ensures the protection of all students’ rights. the victim of a student’s misconduct participation in or denies a person the benefits of to make an opening statement; College programs, or otherwise subjects a person 2. The AVPSA, or designee, will appoint to discrimination based on race, gender, disability, staff to conduct informal conferences f. Complainant’s statement; age, marital status, religion, color, national origin, and formal discipline hearings. g. Witness’s statement(s); sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics. 3. The AVPSA, or designee, will develop policies h. Opportunity for a charged student and and procedural rules for the administration of

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the person who believed he/she was continued presence on the campus who believes he/she was the victim of a the victim of a student’s misconduct endangers the physical safety or emotional student’s misconduct, should select as an to make a closing statement; and state of the student or others or disrupts advocate a person whose schedule allows i. Discussion and decision- the educational process of the College. attendance at the scheduled date, time and making in closed session. place for the formal discipline hearing as delays will not normally be allowed due to 9. The administrator or discipline committee Formal Administrative, the scheduling conflicts of an advocate. members may ask questions of the CDC and RADC Hearings charged student, complainant, witness 8. The charged student, complainant and 1. The purpose of a formal discipline hearing is or person who believes he/she was the person who believes he/she was the to review statements from a charged student, victim of a student’s misconduct at any victim of a student’s misconduct and complainant, or person who believes he/ time during a formal discipline hearing. their advocates, if any, will be permitted she was the victim of a student’s misconduct to attend the entire portion of a formal 10. Formal rules of process, procedure and witnesses with knowledge of the discipline hearing at which information or evidence such as those applied in incident. A determination will be made is received (excluding deliberations). criminal or civil courts are not used as to whether or not the charged student 9. Admission of any other person to a formal in the Student Discipline System. violated the Community Standards. Then, discipline hearing (including witnesses) will 11. Staff, members of discipline committees recommendations for sanctions will be made be at the discretion of the AVPSA, or designee. and the Appeals Board will be impartial. if the charged student is found responsible. 10. Generally, the charged student and person 12. Decisions resulting from an administrative 2. Formal discipline hearings will be conducted who believes he/she was the victim of a or discipline committee hearing will be as soon as possible, but no sooner than student’s misconduct may present up to 4 final, pending the normal appeal process. 2 business days and no more than more witnesses with knowledge of the incident to than 10 business days after the charged 13. In the absence of a functioning RADC, provide information to and answer questions student has been notified of the charges. CDC, or Appeals Board, such as before from the administrator or chairperson of Maximum time limits for scheduling the appointment of members or at the the discipline committee. If the charged a formal discipline hearing may be end of an academic year, the AVPSA, or student and person who believes he/she was extended at the discretion of the AVPSA, designee, may assemble a Board comprised the victim of a student’s misconduct wishes or designee. Formal discipline hearings of students, staff, and/or faculty. to present more than 4 witnesses, he/she may be recessed at any time provided they must submit a written request to the AVPSA, 14. Student conduct that warrants action are reconvened within 5 business days. within the Student Discipline System or designee, indicating the names of the may result in forfeiture of all Stonehill 3. A charged student will be considered additional witnesses and why their testimony scholarships, financial aid or monies paid. notified of the charges once the notice would be beneficial. The request must be of the charges has been mailed to the submitted to the AVPSA, or designee, at least Initiation of Disciplinary student’s local or campus address on 24 hours prior to the formal discipline hearing. file with the College or emailed to the The College will try to arrange the attendance Procedures student’s Stonehill email address. of possible witnesses who are members of the 1. Any individual member of the College 4. Notice of the charges for a formal discipline College community, if reasonably possible. community may submit an incident report hearing will be in writing and will include the The name(s) of the witness(es) of the charged that a student allegedly violated the date, time and place that a student must attend student and person who believes he/she was Community Standards. The individual will the hearing, the name of the complainant, the the victim of a student’s misconduct are to be be listed as the complainant on the notice name of the person who believes he/she was submitted to the AVPSA, or designee, at least of the charges to the charged student. the victim of a student’s misconduct, as well 24 hours prior to the formal discipline hearing. 2. The College may submit a complaint as the names of witnesses called to testify. During the hearing, the charged student and that a student allegedly violated the 5. If a charged student, with notice, does not person who believes he/she was the victim of Community Standards. The College will appear for a formal discipline hearing, the a student’s misconduct may submit questions be listed as the complainant on the notice hearing may proceed as scheduled and to the administrator or chairperson of the of the charges to the charged student. the information in support of the charges discipline committee to be answered by each other or other witnesses. This method is 3. The incident report will be prepared may be presented and considered even if the charged student is not present. used to preserve the educational tone of the in writing and directed to the AVPSA, hearing and to avoid creation of an adversarial 6. A formal discipline hearing may accommodate or designee. An incident report should environment. Questions of whether potential concerns for the personal safety, well- be submitted as soon as possible to information will be received will be resolved being or fears of confrontation with the encourage the availability of witnesses at the discretion of the administrator or charged student, complainant, or person or information about the incident. chairperson of the discipline committee. who believes he/she was the victim of a 4. The AVPSA, or designee, will determine 11. All procedural questions are subject to whether a charged student’s alleged student’s misconduct or witnesses during the hearing. This can be done by providing the final decision of the administrator or violation of the Community Standards chairperson of the discipline committee. will be addressed through an informal alternate means of communication where conference or formal discipline hearing. and as determined in the sole judgment of 12. Decisions of the administrator or the AVPSA, or designee, to be appropriate. discipline committee will be made on 5. Upon receiving an incident report, the AVPSA, 7. The charged student, complainant and person the information presented during the or designee, may take one or more of the hearing on the basis of whether it is more following steps within 10 business days: who believes he/she was the victim of a student’s misconduct, each have the right to likely than not that the charged student a. Conduct an investigation to determine be assisted by an advocate of their choice. violated the Community Standards. if the incident report has merit; The advocate must be a Stonehill faculty, 13. After the formal discipline hearing b. Dismiss the incident report. Such administrator, staff member or member of concludes, the administrator or discipline disposition will be final and there the student body and may not be an attorney. committee will determine whether the will be no subsequent action; The charged student, complainant and charged student violated each section c. Schedule a formal administrative, person who believes he/she was the victim of the Community Standards that the CDC or RADC hearing; of a student’s misconduct are responsible for student is alleged to have violated. presenting their own information; therefore, d. Schedule an informal conference; or 14. The administrator who conducted the advocates are not permitted to participate administrative hearing and chairperson e. Impose interim restrictions when there directly in any formal discipline hearing. The of the discipline committee is responsible is information to show that the student’s charged student, complainant and person for providing a written summary of the

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formal discipline hearing including a brief k. Decline to answer any questions or make on the CDC for the following academic statement of the facts, decision as to whether any statements during a formal discipline year. The Vice President for Academic the charged student is responsible or not hearing. Such silence will not be used Affairs will appoint faculty and fill any responsible for violating the Community against the charged student or person who vacancies during the year by appointment. Standards, sanction, if any, and the rationale believes he/she was the victim of another The Vice President for Student Affairs for the decision and sanction, if any. student’s misconduct. However, the will appoint staff and fill any vacancies 15. The AVPSA, or designee, may consider the outcome of the formal discipline hearing during the year by appointment. sanction recommended by the discipline will be based upon the information or e. Student members of the CDC may committee and may impose sanctions lack thereof presented at the hearing; not serve on the Appeals Board or other than those recommended by the l. Be advised by a faculty, administrator, Residence Area Discipline Committee. administrator or discipline committee. staff member or member of the student f. Any member of the CDC may be removed 16. The charged student will be informed of the body who is not an attorney; from office for non-fulfillment of duties decision and sanction imposed, if any, of the m. Be informed in writing of the decision essential to the position. A majority vote administrator or discipline committee within and sanction, if any, within 3 business of the members is required for removal. 3 business days following an administrative days of a formal discipline hearing; and 2. Residence Area Discipline Committee (RADC) or discipline committee hearing. n. Request an appeal of the decision a. Each of the residence areas resulting from a formal discipline hearing will have an RADC. Rights of All Parties in within 4 business days of receiving b. Each RADC will be comprised of a group the decision in writing. A charged Formal Discipline Hearings of students and RAs from the residence student and person who believes he/ area (appointed by the RD/AC) and 1. A charged student and person who she was the victim of another student’s the RD/AC of that residence area, or believes he/she was the victim of another misconduct are entitled to one appeal. student’s misconduct will be entitled to: designee, who will serve as chairperson 2. An individual complainant/ and one student affairs administrator. a. Receive written notice of charges; victim will be entitled to: c. A quorum of 3 RADC members must be b. Obtain the name of the individual a. Be notified of the date, time and place of present to conduct an RADC hearing. complainant (if applicable); the formal discipline hearing, as well as d. Student members of an RADC may not c. View the incident report in the Student the names of the witnesses called to testify; serve on the Appeals Board or CDC. Affairs Office in the presence of a b. Receive notice of the fact that failure to e. Any member of an RADC may be removed Student Affairs staff member during appear for a formal discipline hearing from office for non-fulfillment of duties normal business hours or request a copy may result in the hearing being conducted essential to the position. A majority vote of a police report or a redacted copy in the absence of the complainant; of a Student Affairs incident report; of the members is required for removal. c. Receive notice of the fact that he/she f. The appointment of members to an d. Be notified of the date, time and place of may request additional information RADC will be made in the fall. the formal discipline hearing, as well as about the Community Standards and the names of the witnesses called to testify; Student Discipline System; and 3. Student members of the CDC or RADC must be full-time students in good academic and e. Receive notice of the fact that failure to d. Be advised by a faculty member, disciplinary standing. If a student member appear for a formal discipline hearing administrator, staff member or member of does not maintain good academic or may result in the hearing being conducted the student body who is not an attorney. in the absence of the charged student disciplinary standing, he/she will be removed e. The College will disclose, in writing, the or person who believes he/she was the from the CDC or RADC for that academic year. final results of any institutional disciplinary victim of another student’s misconduct; 4. The term of office for each member of the proceedings conducted against a charged CDC and RADC will be one academic year. f. Provide the names of up to 4 witnesses with student to the victim (or if the victim is knowledge of the incident who may appear deceased as a result of such crime or 5. RDs/ACs and RADCs may only recommend at a formal discipline hearing on his/her offense, to the next of kin) of any violent the following sanctions: Warning, Parental behalf to the AVPSA, or designee, within crime or non-forcible sex offense. Notification, Loss of Privileges, Restriction, 24 hours of the hearing. If the charged Fines, Restitution, Community Restitution student and person who believes he/she Discipline Committees Project, Educational Program/Project, was the victim of a student’s misconduct Referral, Relocation of Residence, Deferred wishes to present more than 4 witnesses, 1. College Discipline Committee (CDC) Loss of Residence or Weekend Restriction. he/she must submit a written request to a. The CDC will be comprised of a group 6. All decisions by the CDC and an RADC will the AVPSA, or designee, indicating the of members of the College Community be arrived at by a simple majority vote. The names of the additional witnesses and representing students, faculty, chairperson will vote only in case of a tie. why their testimony would be beneficial. administrators and staff members. The request must be submitted to the b. A quorum of 3 CDC members must be Informal Conferences AVPSA, or designee, at least 24 hours present to conduct a CDC hearing. prior to the formal discipline hearing. 1. An informal conference is an informal meeting of Character witnesses are not permitted; c. The Vice President for Student Affairs, or a student alleged to have violated the Community designee, will follow special procedures g. Be notified of the fact that he/she Standards with an administrator, complainant when hearing sexual misconduct and person who believes he/she was the victim may request additional information complaints, as outlined in the Hill Book. about the Community Standards of a student’s misconduct for the purpose of and Student Discipline System; d. Members of the College community may achieving resolution with all parties agreeing to nominate student members for the CDC. the outcome. If an agreement is reached, the case h. Challenge the composition of From these nominations, the outgoing will end with no opportunity for appeal. If no the discipline committee; and incoming chairpersons of the Student agreement is reached, the case will be dismissed i. Present his/her case; including questioning Senate and Commuter Council will or referred for a formal discipline hearing. witnesses and charged student/victim recommend to the SGA President the 2. Informal conferences will be through the Chair of the Committee; student government members to serve conducted as soon as possible. on the CDC for the following academic j. Additional accommodations, 3. The student alleged to have violated year. The resident assistant staff will including, but not limited to, the the Community Standards will be recommend to the Director of Residence use of technology, if either student informed in writing of the charges Life the resident assistant members to serve wishes to be in a different location; at the informal conference.

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4. The administrator is responsible for i. Assessment: A student may be referred to u. Student Organization Recognition in providing a written summary of the informal the Counseling and Testing Center, Health Jeopardy: A delayed removal of recognition conference including a brief statement of Services or other appropriate office or local as a recognized student organization. the facts and outcome of the conference. agency for consultation or assessment. Any proven violation during a specific 5. The outcome of the informal conference j. Disciplinary Probation: A period of period of time may result in the student will be made part of the student’s time during which a student may be organization’s immediate loss of discipline file and may be considered excluded from participation in all recognition for a specified period of time. in determining future sanctions. social and extracurricular activities v. Loss of Recognition: During a specific such as representing the College, period of time, a recognized student Sanctions participating in intercollegiate organization may not associate itself with athletics, SGA or study abroad. the College by using the College name, 1. In determining a sanction, the AVPSA, or facilities, or other rights and privileges designee, may consider the student’s present k. Relocation of Residence: Required assignment to another residence area. of recognized student organizations demeanor, past disciplinary record, the after which the group may reapply l. Deferred Suspension from Residency: nature of the misconduct and the severity for recognition. There is no guarantee Warning that if the student is found of any damage, injury or harm resulting re-recognition will be granted. If re- responsible for violating the Community from the misconduct or other factors. recognition is granted, conditions for Standards during a specific period of time, 2. The College has a special concern for re-recognition may be specified. Other the student may be immediately removed incidents in which persons are mistreated sanctions may be imposed instead of from the residence halls for a specific because of race, gender, disability, age, marital or in addition to those specified above. period of time after which the student status, religion, color, national origin, sexual In addition to the above sanctions, may reapply for housing. Reapplication orientation or other personal characteristic. student conduct that warrants action for housing does not guarantee immediate Such incidents damage not only individuals, within the Student Discipline System placement. Conditions for returning to but also the free and open academic may result in forfeiture of all Stonehill the residence halls may be specified. environment of the College. More severe scholarships, financial aid or monies paid. m. Suspension from Residency: Separation sanctions are appropriate for such misconduct. 6. More than one of the sanctions listed above of the student from the residence halls 3. Sanctions do not become effective until may be imposed for any single violation. the appeal process is completed. for a specific period of time, after which the student may reapply for 7. A campus department, separate from 4. Some College policies specify sanctions housing. Reapplication for housing does the Student Discipline System, may for violations. See individual policies not guarantee immediate placement. place a restriction on a student found for sanctions required, if any. Conditions for returning to the responsible for violating the Community 5. The AVPSA, or designee, may impose residence halls may be specified. Standards such as the loss of merit points for housing assignments, restrictions for the following sanctions upon any student n. Residence Hall Dismissal: athletes or the denial of study abroad, found to have violated the Community Permanent separation of the student campus parking or other privileges. Standards. See individual policies for from the residence halls. specified sanctions for certain violations. o. Deferred College Separation: A warning Appeals a. Warning: A notice, either verbal or written, that if the student is found responsible for that the student is violating or has violated violating the Community Standards during 1. The agreement reached as a result of an College regulations, must cease the a specific period of time, the student informal conference may not be appealed. conduct immediately and that continuation may be immediately separated from the 2. A charged student or person who believes or repetition of wrongful conduct may be College for a specific period of time after he/she was the victim of a student’s cause for more severe disciplinary action. which the student may reapply. Conditions misconduct may submit a request for an b. Parental Notification: The College may for readmission may be specified. appeal of a decision or sanction resulting notify parents/guardians when students p. College Separation: Separation of the from a formal discipline hearing no later under the age of 21 have been found student from the College for a definite than 4 business days after receiving responsible for violating the College’s period of time, after which the student notice of the decision or sanction. alcohol or other drug policies, when may apply to return. Conditions 3. A request for an appeal is to be submitted there is a serious health or safety issue for return may be specified. in writing to the AVPSA, or designee. regarding a student or if a student’s residency or student status is in jeopardy. q. Deferred College Dismissal: Warning 4. The RADC will review a request for that if the student is found responsible an appeal of the decision reached c. Loss of Privileges: Denial of specified for violating the Community Standards or sanctions resulting from a formal privileges for a designated period of time. during a specific period of time, administrative hearing with an RD/AC. d. Restriction: Denial of access to any the student may be immediately 5. The AVPSA, or designee, will review a campus facility, activity, class or program. dismissed from the College. request for an appeal of the decision This includes no contact orders. r. College Dismissal: Permanent separation reached or sanctions resulting e. Fines: Financial sanction. of the student from the College. from a formal RADC hearing. f. Restitution: Compensation for loss, s. Revocation of Admission or Degree: 6. The CDC will review a request for an damage or injury. This may take Admission to or a degree awarded appeal of the decision reached or sanctions the form of appropriate service or from the College may be revoked resulting from a formal administrative monetary or material replacement. for fraud, misrepresentation or other hearing with the AVPSA, or designee. g. Community Restitution Project: Assignment violation of the Community Standards 7. The Appeals Board will review a request for of an appropriate service project that in obtaining the degree or for other an appeal of the decision reached or sanctions will benefit the College community, serious violations committed by resulting from a formal CDC hearing. responsible student or others. a student prior to graduation. 8. Appeals will be considered based h. Educational Program/Project: Required t. Withholding Degree: The College may on the following criteria: attendance at an educational workshop withhold awarding a degree otherwise a. Failure to follow the process or procedures or completion of an educational project earned until the completion of the outlined in the Student Discipline System; that will benefit the College community, disciplinary process set forth in the responsible student or others. Student Discipline System, including the b. Insufficient or inappropriate evidence completion of all sanctions imposed, if any. used to justify a decision;

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c. New information that was not known 3. The Hearing Board for sexual misconduct exception of a violation of the Community at the time of the hearing; or cases shall be comprised of the designee Standards that results in a sanction of d. Unjustified sanction. of the Vice President for Student Affairs, College Separation or College Dismissal. who serves as the chairperson, and 9. Students may not appeal based upon 8d 3. Discipline records are maintained two staff, and/or faculty members. if they plead responsible to the charge by the Office of Student Affairs for in question and the sanction imposed 4. The Appeals Board for sexual misconduct seven years post graduation. generally follows the Sanctions for Student cases shall be comprised of the Vice President 4. In situations involving both a charged student Violations Guidelines as outlined in The for Student Affairs, or designee, who serves and student who believes he/she was victim Hill Book. Students may not appeal based as the chairperson, and two staff, and/ of a student’s misconduct, the records of upon 8b if they plead responsible at the or faculty members. However, the Appeals the process and of the sanctions imposed, if hearing to the charge in question. Board members cannot be the same members any, will be considered to be the educational who served on the original Hearing Board. 10. Deviations from designated procedures will records of both the charged student and the not be the basis for sustaining an appeal 5. No questions, statements or information about student who believes himself/herself to be unless significant prejudice results. the sexual activity of the person who believes the victim because the educational career she/he was the victim of another’s misconduct and chances of success in the academic 11. Upon receipt of the request for an appeal, with anyone other than the charged student community of each may be impacted. the AVPSA, or designee, will refer the request may be introduced. Requests for exceptions to to the appropriate appeals committee or this guideline must be made in writing to the board normally within 7 business days. Bias Response Protocol AVPSA, or designee, at least 72 hours prior to 12. The appropriate appeals the hearing. If the person who believes she/ Stonehill College is committed to providing a committee or board may: he was the victim of another’s misconduct multicultural academic community in which the dignity and worth of each of its members is a. Determine the appeal request merits a raises his/her own sexual activity with anyone respected. We recognize that an environment formal appeal hearing and schedule a other than the charged student, questions in which bias, hate, and disrespect for persons hearing no later than 10 business days may then be asked about that relationship. in our community disrupt the institutional from the date the request is reviewed. 6. The College will disclose, in writing, mission. The College, therefore, is determined to Formal appeal hearings will be conducted the final results of any institutional confront and discourage conduct and attitudes following the same procedures as set disciplinary proceedings conducted that exhibit bias and that harass or discriminate forth for formal discipline hearings. against a charged student to the victim against any of our community members on the b. Determine there are no grounds for the (or if the victim is deceased as a result basis of race, gender, age, marital status, sexual appeal thus upholding the decision; of such crime or offense, to the next of orientation, religion, color, disability, national c. Refer the case to the administrator, CDC kin) of any non-forcible sex offense. origin or other personal characteristics. or RADC that originally heard the case for consideration of suggestions; or Interim Restrictions Bias incidents may consist of slurs, epithets, name calling, use of degrading language, graffiti or slurs, d. Change the original decision or sanctions 1. The AVPSA, or designee, may impose intimidation, harassment or coercion directed at the after reasonable review of the appeal restriction(s) upon a student pending targeted person or group. Bias acts occur whether request and the decision rationale of the disciplinary proceedings. Interim restrictions the act is intentional or unintentional or is directed administrator or discipline committee. become effective immediately without prior toward an individual or group and may contribute 13. The Appeals Board is comprised of the Vice notice whenever the AVPSA, or designee, to creating an unsafe/unwelcoming environment President for Student Affairs, or designee, who believes the student may pose a serious for victims and social identity groups. Bias acts serves as the chairperson, a faculty member threat to self or others, property or cause are considered such even when presented as a (appointed by the Vice President for Academic serious disruption to the College community. joke, prank, or delivered with humorous intent. Affairs) and a student (appointed by the SGA 2. Interim restrictions may include: Separation President) to consider an appeal from the from the College or residence areas; relocation The College has developed procedures CDC’s decision as to whether a student has of residence, restriction to designated for addressing issues of bias within our violated the Community Standards or from College residence areas or other campus community. For a copy of these procedures, the sanctions imposed. All members must facilities by time or location; restriction of please contact the Office of Student Affairs. be present for a formal appeal hearing. All communication with named individuals decisions will be made by a majority vote. or groups within the College community; Interpretation and Revision or the requirement to obtain advance 14. Appellate decisions are final. 1. Any question of interpretation or application authorization to engage in a specified activity. of the Community Standards and Student Special Procedures for Hearing 3. Whenever reasonably possible, a meeting Discipline System will be referred to the Sexual Misconduct Complaints between the charged student and AVPSA, AVPSA, or designee, for final determination. or designee, will be held prior to the 2. The Community Standards and Student In addition to the procedures outlined in the imposition of interim restrictions. Discipline System will be reviewed at Community Standards and Student Discipline 4. The charged student will have the opportunity least every 2 years under the direction System, the following special procedures have been to meet with the AVPSA, or designee, to of the AVPSA, or designee. adopted for hearing sexual misconduct complaints: present his/her version of the facts and to 1. The person who believes she/he was the indicate why interim restrictions should not be victim of another’s misconduct will meet imposed. Following this meeting, the decision individually with the AVPSA, or designee, to of the AVPSA, or designee, will be final. provide input as to whether the complaint 5. Violations of interim restrictions may result in should be heard through an informal separation or dismissal from Stonehill College. conference or formal discipline hearing. The AVPSA, or designee, will consider Discipline Records such input and will decide whether the complaint will be heard through an informal 1. Discipline records are educational conference or formal discipline hearing. records and are maintained in the office of the AVPSA, or designee. 2. Formal rules of process, procedure, or rules of evidence such as those applied 2. Discipline records are not considered to in criminal or civil courts are not used be part of a student’s permanent academic in the Student Discipline System. record maintained by the College with the

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Introduction Student Alcohol Policy Intoxicated students and their guests will not be permitted entrance to College-sponsored Only in an environment free of substance Stonehill complies with all federal and state laws activities. Intoxicated students or intoxicated abuse can Stonehill College fulfill its mission of and local ordinances regarding the possession, use, guests in need of medical attention may be developing the academic, professional, social, sale, and/or distribution of alcoholic beverages. transported to the hospital for emergency cultural and intellectual potential of each member In conjunction with and in addition to these laws care. Intoxicated students or intoxicated of the community. The use of illegal drugs and the and ordinances, the College has adopted certain guests may be placed into protective custody abuse of alcohol impair the safety and health of standards to facilitate its regulation of the use by Stonehill Campus Police and transported students and employees and inhibit personal and and possession of alcohol by students and their to the Easton Police Department. All costs academic growth. For these reasons, the unlawful guests. The following are considered violations will be charged back to the student. use of alcohol and other drugs is prohibited on of the College’s standards with respect to the 13. Possession of a drinking game or the use campus and at College-sponsored activities. use, possession, and distribution of alcohol: or possession of a board game, table game, 1. Violation of any alcohol or alcohol-related ice luge, drinking funnel, beer tap or Campus Prevention and federal, state or local law or ordinance. other device that promotes or encourages abusive drinking or is used in a way that Awareness Programs 2. Being a student under the age of 21 not promotes or encourages abusive drinking. engaged in an employment or other Alcohol and other drug abuse education and permissive activity, in the presence 14. Operation of motor vehicle which prevention programs have been established and of an open alcohol container. contains alcohol, by a student under are coordinated by the Counseling and Testing the age of 21, regardless of the age 3. Possession, use, or distribution of alcohol Center with assistance from Health Services and of any passenger in the vehicle. other College departments. Programs provide by a student, under the age of 21, or training and direct services to the College possession, use or distribution of alcohol 15. Driving under the influence of alcohol or Community and offer preventative education and by the guest of a student, under the age of other drugs. outreach activities about the Substance Awareness 21 even if the guest is age 21 or older. Student drivers may be required to take Policy and alcohol and other drug abuse. 4. Procurement of alcohol for a student or sobriety tests. A student driver who fails a guest who is under the age of 21. sobriety test may have his/her car towed to a College supervisors, as well as student storage facility for pick-up when the student staff in the residence halls, receive training 5. Failing to abide by the drinking laws of the immediate locale while on an is sober enough to drive. All towing costs on a regular basis on issues regarding are the responsibility of the student driver. alcohol and other drug use and abuse. away program or College-sponsored or approved trip or program. 16. Possession of a full to empty common source The Counseling and Testing Center and Health 6. Possession, use, sale, or distribution of of alcohol, regardless of the size(s) or the Services are available for consultation concerning a false identification card, wristband, or container(s). individual students with alcohol or other drug other age or identity verification form. A common source of alcohol includes, problems. Services provided by the Counseling but is not limited to, a keg, pony and Testing Center include personal assessment 7. Use of an alcohol container as room decoration, vase or storage item. keg, beer ball, punch bowl (with or and counseling, group discussion opportunities, without alcohol), or gelatin shots. educational and alternative programming, 8. Possession of alcohol in a residence hall, information on Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholic or common area of a residence hall, in 17. Commercial delivery of alcoholic beverages to Anonymous and referrals to outside agencies. which alcohol is not allowed based on the residence halls or the College Mail room. The Counseling and Testing Center and Health the dry status of the hall or area. 18. Use of alcoholic beverages to render another Services have established working relationships 9. Possession of an open container of alcohol person physically or emotionally incapacitated. with area hospitals, community mental health in an area designated as a public area by the 19. Creation of materials that promote alcohol, centers and other social service agencies to College without prior approval from the Vice tobacco, or other drugs. facilitate referrals when treatment is needed. President of Student Affairs or the designated Athletic teams, club sports teams, student The Health and Wellness Office provides health College Official sponsoring, hosting, or organizations, residence hall councils and education, awareness events and prevention supervising an event in a public area. other groups or individuals are prohibited from programs on a variety of topics including but 10. Possession by a student, age 21 or older, or creating marketing or promotional material not limited to stress reduction, physical activity, possession by the guest of a student, age 21 such as clothing that promotes alcohol, tobacco nutrition, smoking cessation and healthy or older, of an amount of alcohol over the or other drugs. In addition, such items may relationships throughout the entire school year. limits specified (limits apply to full, partially not discriminate against individuals or groups Services range from workshops, individual full, and empty containers) by the College. and must be approved by the appropriate consultation or presentations by request. The office The limits specified by the College are: College official listed below. Appropriate is located in the Roche Dining Commons, Room 113. College official must also approve the use of – Twelve 12-ounce coolers, malts, or beers the Stonehill name, logo, or likeness. Questions OR concerning this policy may be directed to the General Provisions – Two 750 ml. bottles of wine Student Affairs Office. OR The students of Stonehill College shall not Athletic teams must receive the approval of the unlawfully manufacture, distribute, dispense, – One pint of hard liquor up to 80 proof. Director of Athletics, or designee. possess or use controlled substances, drug The total amount of alcohol in a Club sports teams must receive the approval of paraphernalia or alcohol. Drug paraphernalia residence hall room may not exceed the Director of Recreational Sports, or designee. is defined as any equipment, product or the total amount permitted for the material that is modified for making, using or residents of the room, age 21 or older. Recognized clubs and organizations must receive the approval of the Director of Student concealing illegal drugs such as bongs and 11. Possession of alcohol at a College event without Activities, or designee. hookah pipes. Any individual who violates this prior approval by the Director of Student prohibition will be subject to disciplinary action. Activities or the designated College Official Residence hall councils must receive Sanctions may include separation or dismissal sponsoring, hosting, or in charge of the event. the approval of the Director of from the College, mandatory participation in Residence Life, or designee. an alcohol or other drug abuse assistance or 12. Intoxication on College property or at 20. Possession or a full or empty excessive rehabilitation program or referral of the matter College sponsored or sanctioned programs or amount of alcohol. to law enforcement agencies for prosecution. activities.

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An excessive amount may include any restrictions being placed upon the townhouse 14. Hosts must contact RAs or Campus amount of alcohol over the limits specified. or suite, such as warning, loss of privileges Police when they would like assistance to host social gatherings, or the loss of controlling the social gathering. Entertaining in the privileges for students age 21 or older, to 15. Hosts are responsible for cleaning the location Residence Halls use or possess alcoholic beverages, etc. of the social gathering to avoid a cleaning charge. All townhouse or suite residents Students may entertain or socialize in their Procedures for Hosting are responsible for any cleaning or damage individual rooms provided the number of people Social Gatherings with charges resulting from a social gathering. in the room does not exceed 10 individuals 16. Residence Life staff members and Campus (including residents of the room). Students Alcoholic Beverages Police will monitor the student residence must be in compliance with campus guest 1. A townhouse or suite may request to host areas. Students are expected to be cordial, and quiet hours policies and may not disrupt a social gathering by submitting a Social cooperative and respectful of College officials. the learning or living activities of others. Gathering Application to their RD/AC by 4:30 17. A social gathering may be terminated at any pm on Wednesday for social gatherings to time when College officials determine the Reserving Common Lounges be held on the following Friday or Saturday social gathering poses a threat to the health for Social Gatherings night. Any resident who has a concern and safety of the community or is in violation with a gathering being held on a particular without Alcohol of any College policy. Such violations will be day or weekend may contact the RD/AC. addressed by the Residence Life Office and/ Students who wish to reserve a common 2. Requests will be processed on a first or the Office of Community Standards. area lounge for an event without alcohol come first serve basis by the RD/AC. must obtain approval from the RD/AC. Requests to hold a social gathering may Student Programs with Alcohol be denied based on the disciplinary Social Gatherings with history of residents, pending discipline 1. The Director of Student Activities, or matters, previous damages, etc. designee, has primary responsibility for determining the circumstances and whether Alcoholic Beverages in 3. Fifty percent +1 of the residents of the or not alcoholic beverages will be served at townhouse or suite must be present for the Residence Halls student programs held on or off campus. the duration of the social gathering. When approved by the Director of Residence 2. Students, age 21 or older, must present 2 4. The RD/AC will notify townhouses and suites of the Life, or designee, alcoholic beverages may be forms of ID to enter the alcohol service approval status of their requests by noon on Friday. present at social gatherings in common area area. Massachusetts residents must present lounges. A social gathering is when 15 or more 5. Only social gathering guests age 21 or a current Stonehill College ID card and a people are gathered, including non-members older (with the exception of students under valid Massachusetts driver’s license or valid of the house or suite, and alcohol is present. the age of 21 who live in the townhouse Massachusetts Liquor ID card. Out-of-state or suite) may attend a social gathering. The following conditions apply: residents must present a current Stonehill 6. A designated resident of the townhouse or College ID card and a valid driver’s license 1. Each September, the College will inform suite must be present at each entrance of the (not a duplicate) that confirms the student’s students whether or not the use or social gathering to check guests’ IDs. The date of birth documented in College records. possession of alcoholic beverages will designated residents must remain sober for 3. Guests, age 21 or older, must present a be permitted in common lounges. the duration of the social gathering. Residents valid driver’s license (not a duplicate) and a 2. Social gatherings may be held on Friday and and social gathering guests must present a valid guest pass and must be accompanied Saturday nights from 8:00 pm - 1:00 am. current Stonehill College ID card and a valid by their host at all times. In order to enter driver’s license (not a duplicate) that confirms 3. The Director of Residence Life, or designee, the alcohol service area, guests, age 21 or the student’s date of birth documented may approve up to 2 social gatherings older, must be accompanied by their host, in College records. Non student guests per residence area, per night, on a first- who must be age 21 or older. Up to two must present a valid driver’s license (not a come, first-served basis. In special guests per current student will be allowed. duplicate) and a valid guest pass and must circumstances, the Director of Residence 4. Students and their guests may not attempt be accompanied by their host at all times. Life may approve additional social to or bring alcohol into student programs gatherings with the approval of the Vice 7. The use or consumption of alcoholic or attempt to or remove alcohol from President for Student Affairs, or designee. beverages must be confined to the inside the service area or student programs. of the townhouse or suite. Possessing or 4. The number of guests present at a social 5. Underage students and their guests, consuming alcoholic beverages on porches, gathering in a townhouse may not exceed 50 regardless of age, may not attempt patios and in public hallways is prohibited. guests (including residents of the house). to enter the alcohol service area. 8. Hosts must ensure the noise level of 5. The number of guests present at a social 6. Safeguards must be taken to ensure an the social gathering does not interfere gathering in a suite may not exceed 30 orderly function to protect the rights of other with nearby residents or quiet hours. guests (including residents of the suite). members of the community against undue 9. Hosts must control excessive loitering 6. Social gatherings may not be held during interference, noise and other disturbances. outside the townhouse or suite. exam periods, when the residence halls 7. Students may be refused admission are closed, or during the summer. 10. Food and non-alcoholic beverages must to a student program if the validity of be available and prominently featured. 7. In order to host a social gathering, 50 their identification is questionable or if percent + 1 of the townhouse or suite 11. Gathering attendees may leave a social students are intoxicated or disruptive. residents must be age 21 or older. gathering and return. However, any 8. The sponsoring organization shall abide by individual reentering a social gathering 8. Social gatherings may not be advertised. the established laws of the Commonwealth must again present proper identification of Massachusetts, ordinances of the Town Violations of Social (see step 7 above) upon reentry. of Easton and policies of Stonehill College. Gathering Guidelines 12. Residents or guests who appear to be 9. Student organizations may not use intoxicated and who attempt to enter a student fees to purchase alcoholic 1. All violations of the Social Gathering social gathering will not be permitted beverages for student use. to enter the social gathering. Guidelines will be addressed by 10. Alcoholic beverages may not be offered free of the Residence Life Office. 13. Hosts must contact Campus Police charge to any participant at a student program. 2. Failure of a townhouse or suite to comply immediately if any social gathering guest with the above guidelines may result in appears to need medical attention.

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11. When alcoholic beverages are served, food paraphernalia is defined as any equipment, Additional Assistance and nonalcoholic beverages must be made product or material that is modified for available. The cost of refreshments must making, using or concealing illegal drugs Help concerning drug and alcohol-related problems not be prohibitive. Alcoholic beverages may such as bongs and hookah pipes. is available from several sources. Individuals not continue to be served if nonalcoholic 8. Stonehill College does not distinguish needing personal assistance, individuals who beverages run out. When alcoholic beverages between civil and criminal penalties know of someone who needs help or individuals are served, the student program must be associated with possession of marijuana. with questions concerning alcohol and drug supportive of alcohol education programs Possession of marijuana, regardless of the abuse may contact any of the following: that encourage responsible decisions about amount, is strictly prohibited on campus Counseling and Testing Center (508) 565-1331 the use or non-use of alcoholic beverages. property or at campus sponsored events. 12. Alcoholic beverages may not Health Services (508) 565-1307 be provided as awards. Substance Awareness Policy Student Affairs (508) 565-1323 13. Advertising promoting alcoholic beverages must not encourage any form of alcohol Effects of Alcohol Biennial Review abuse or place any emphasis on quantity Alcohol consumption causes a number of marked or frequency of use. The advertising of changes in behavior. Even low doses significantly In compliance with the Drug Free Schools and alcoholic beverages on campus may not impair the judgment and coordination required Communities Act, Stonehill College will conduct portray drinking as a solution to personal to drive a car safely, increasing the likelihood a biennial review of the College’s alcohol and or academic problems or as necessary that the driver will be involved in an accident. other drug programs, which will be coordinated for social, sexual or academic success. Low to moderate doses of alcohol also increase by the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs. Advertising of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of a variety of aggressive acts, According to the Act, the biennial review is due other promotional beverages may not including sexual and physical assaults. by October 1st of every even numbered year. associate alcoholic beverage consumption with the performance of tasks that require Moderate to high doses of alcohol cause skilled reactions such as driving or playing marked impairments in higher mental functions, sports. All posters must be in accordance severely altering a person’s ability to learn with the College’s Advertising Policy. and remember information. Very high doses cause respiratory depression and death. If 14. If a student program is held off-campus, combined with other depressants of the central the contracted server/facility must agree nervous system, much lower doses of alcohol in writing that it agrees to assume all will produce the effects just described. responsibility for serving alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages may not be served Repeated use of alcohol can lead to dependence. in common sources when students have Sudden cessation of alcohol intake is likely to direct access to serve themselves. produce withdrawal symptoms, including severe anxiety, tremors, hallucinations, and convulsions. Smoking on Campus Alcohol withdrawal can be life threatening. Long-term consumption of large quantities of 1. Smoking is prohibited in all campus alcohol, particularly when combined with poor buildings and facilities including all nutrition, can also lead to permanent damage of the student residence halls. to vital organs such as the brain and the liver. 2. Individuals who choose to smoke are expected to be at least 25 feet from Mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy may the building so as not to allow smoke give birth to infants with fetal alcohol syndrome. to travel back into the building. These infants have irreversible physical abnormalities and mental retardation. In addition, research indicates 3. Individuals who choose to smoke are that children of alcoholic parents are at greater risk expected to dispose of cigarettes and their than other youngsters of becoming alcoholics. packaging in proper trash receptacles. Effects of Drugs Student Drug Policy Cocaine or crack use may be fatal, depending 1. The possession of illegal drugs, including upon the cardiovascular response of the user. unauthorized possession of prescription This drug is highly addictive and withdrawal drugs, is strictly prohibited. results in severe depression. Tranquilizers and 2. The use of illegal drugs, including sedatives are also highly addictive, even in unauthorized use of prescription drugs low doses. Use of these drugs in conjunction prescribed, is strictly prohibited. with alcohol is extremely dangerous and may result in the user becoming comatose. 3. The distribution of illegal drugs, including unauthorized distribution of The intravenous use of drugs carries the additional prescription drugs, is strictly prohibited. risk of infection due to shared needles. HIV and 4. Being a student in the presence of hepatitis are transmitted in this way. Marijuana illegal drugs, is strictly prohibited. has properties of both depressants and stimulants and is considered a psychoactive drug. Marijuana 5. As required by federal law, students contains more tar than tobacco and causes lung are required to notify the College’s and bronchial disease, a chronic dry cough and Director of Financial Aid, or designee, respiratory irritation. Continued marijuana use within 5 days of being convicted of has also been connected with memory loss and a violating a criminal drug statue. motivational syndrome. Tobacco smoke contains 6. The use of drugs to render another carbon monoxide and may cause cancer and person physically or emotionally bronchial disease, a chronic cough and respiratory incapacitated is strictly prohibited. irritation. Smoking by pregnant women may result 7. The possession, use, sale or distribution of in fetal injury, premature birth and low birth drug paraphernalia is strictly prohibited. Drug weight. Chewing of tobacco may cause cancer.

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Controlled Substances: Uses and Effects

Narcotics Possible Effects: Euphoria, drowsiness, respiratory depression, constricted pupils, nausea Effects of Overdose: Slow and shallow breathing, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, possible death Withdrawal Syndrome: Watery eyes, runny nose, yawning, loss of appetite, irritability

Drug Name Trade/Other Name Medical Uses Dependence Physical/Psychological Opium Dover’s Powder, Analgesic, High/High Parepectolin antidiarrheal Morphine MS-Conen, Rosanol, Rosanol SR Analgesic, antitussive High/High Codeine Tylenolx/codeine, Robitussin A-C Analgesic, antitussive Moderate/Moderate Heroin Horse, Smack None High/High Hydromorphone Dilaudid Analgesic High/High Mependine Demerol, Mapargan Analgesic High/High Methadone Methadose, Dolophine Analgesic High/High-Low

Depressants Possible Effects: Slurred speech, disorientation, drunken behavior with the odor of alcohol Effects of Overdose: Shallow respiration, clammy skin, dilated pupils, weak and rapid pulse, coma, possible death Withdrawal Syndrome: Anxiety, insomnia, terrors, delirium, convulsions, possible death

Drug Name Trade/Other Name Medical Uses Dependence Physical/Psychological Chloraal Hydrate Noctec Hypnotic Moderate/Moderate Barbituates Amtyl, Seconal Anesthetic High-Moderate/ Sedative hypnotic, High-Moderate Anticonvulsant Benzodiazepines Dalmane, Xana Antianxiety, sedative Low/Low Librium, Valium Methaqualone Qaalude Sedative, hypnotic High/High Gluthimide Doridan Sedative, hypnotic High/High

Stimulants Possible Effects: Increased alertness, excitation, euphoria, increased pulse rate, insomnia, loss of appetite Effects of Overdose: Agitation, increase in body temperature, hallucinations, convulsions, possible death Withdrawal Syndrome: Apathy, long periods of sleep, irritability, depression, disorientation

Drug Name Trade/Other Name Medical Uses Dependence Physical/Psychological Cocaine Coke, Flake, Snow Local anesthetic Possible/High Crack Amphetamines Dexadrive, Obetrol Attention Deficit Disorder, Possible/High weight control, Narcolepsy, Delcobese Phenmetrazine Preludin Weight Control Possible/High Methylphenidate Ritalin Attention Deficit Disorder Possible/Moderate

Hallucinogens Possible Effects: Illusions and hallucinations, poor perception of time and distance Effects of Overdose: Longer, more intense “trip” episodes, possible psychosis, possible death Withdrawal Syndrome: Withdrawal syndrome not reported

Drug Name Trade/Other Name Medical Uses Dependence Physical/Psychological LSD Acid, Microdot None None/Unknown Mescaline/Peyote Mesc, Button, Cactus None None/Unknown Amphetamine DMA, MDMA, STP, MDA None Unknown/Unknown Phencycline PCP, Angel Dust, Hog None Unknown/Unknown

Cannabis Possible Effects: Euphoria, reduced inhibitions, increased appetite, disorientation Effects of Overdose: Fatigue, paranoia, possible psychosis Withdrawal Syndrome: Insomnia, hyperactivity, loss of appetite

Drug Name Trade/Other Name Medical Uses Dependence Physical/Psychological Marijuana Pot, Acapulco Gold None Unknown/Moderate Grass, Reefer Hashish Hash None Unknown/Moderate Hashish Oil Hash Oil None Unknown/Moderate

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Sanctions for Student Violations The sanctions below have been developed to educate students and ensure an environment that supports the academic mission of the College. Some sanctions have been developed to respond to repeated violations during a student’s career. Sanctions listed are possible outcomes. In determining a sanction, the AVSPA, or designee, may consider the student’s present demeanor, past disciplinary record, the nature of the misconduct, and the severity of any damage, injury, or harm resulting from the misconduct as well as any other factor.

Presence of Alcohol • Sanctions ranging from a warning to a 1st Alcohol Violation; • Parental notification. First Alcohol Violation in Career • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Community restitution project; • Fine; • Weekend restriction; • Parental notification for students under the age of 21. Second Alcohol Violation in Career • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Community restitution project; • Fine; • Consecutive weekend restrictions; • Deferred suspension from residency; • Parental notification. Third Alcohol Violation in Career • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Deferred separation from the College; • Parental notification. Fourth Alcohol Violation in Career • Separation from the College; • Parental notification. Common Source Violation • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Parental notification. Excessive Amount of Alcohol Violation • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Parental notification; • Multiple weekend restrictions, AND community restitution project, AND deferred separation from residency OR suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks. Use or Distribution of False Identification • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Educational project; • Multiple weekend restrictions, AND community restitution project AND deferred separation from residency OR suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Parental notification. Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Other Drugs • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; • College sponsored educational intervention program; • $300 fine; • Restricted driving and parking privileges for one year; • Suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Parental notification. Purchasing or Distributing Alcoholic Beverages for • Alcohol assessment and completion of recommendations; Students or Guests Under the Age of 21 • College sponsored educational intervention program; • Suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Parental notification. Use or Possession of Illegal Drugs • Drug assessment and completion of recommendations; • Suspension from residency for 16 consecutive academic weeks; • Parental notification. Presence of Illegal Drugs • Weekend restrictions; • Community restitution project; • Parental notification. Use of Alcohol or Drugs to Render Another Person • College dismissal; Emotionally or Physically Incapacitated as a Precursor to • Parental notification. or Part of Sexual Misconduct

Other Sanctions for Students Additional Fines and Holds Sanctions for Student The College may impose additional sanctions Failure to complete sanctions or disregarding Organizations as appropriate. Refer to the Student Discipline College requirements may result in the College The College’s response to student organizations System for a complete listing of sanctions. imposing an additional fine as well as placing found in violation of the Substance an academic hold on a student’s account. Awareness Policy will be determined This hold may impact a student’s ability to based upon the nature of the incident. register or obtain certain academic records.

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Stalking The College offers services to victims even beam instruments is also prohibited. Possession if they choose not to report the incidents. without appropriate authorization and/or misuse Stonehill College is committed to providing a The Student Affairs Office provides of the weapons will result in serious disciplinary campus environment free of violence for all services, advocates, and information for action by the College. Weapons of any kind may members of the campus community and visitors. student victims in a safe, supportive, and not be stored in any building or on the grounds As such, Stonehill does not tolerate stalking confidential setting. Human Resources can of Stonehill College, including personal vehicles. and will take effective means to end any acts provide similar services for employees. of stalking, up to and including dismissal or The use of prop weapons for theatrical termination of the offending individual. In some circumstances, a victim may wish to seek performances or activities on campus can present an order of protection from a court or appropriate a potential danger for students, faculty, and staff. Stalking is a course of conduct directed jurisdiction against the alleged perpetrator. In these There are well-documented cases where law at a specific individual that would cause a circumstances, Campus Police will assist victims in enforcement officers have mistaken a "toy" or reasonable person to feel fearful. A course their attempt to secure these orders. Victims may realistic replica for a real weapon, and serious of conduct is defined as “a pattern of actions also seek restriction of access to the College by injury or death has resulted. It is unreasonable over a period of time, however short, non-students or non-employees when appropriate. to expect the Stonehill College Campus Police evidencing a continuity of conduct.” or College employees to be able to distinguish a In certain circumstances, Stonehill College may "stage prop" or "toy" from a dangerous weapon. Stalking includes any behaviors or activities need to report an incident to law enforcement Any person, class, club, or other organization that occurring on more than one occasion that authorities. Such circumstances include any plans to use prop, replica, training or toy weapon collectively instill fear in a victim, and/or threaten incidents that warrant the undertaking of of any description on the Stonehill College campus her or his safety, mental health, or physical additional safety and security measures for as part of their activities must register all the details health. Such behaviors and activities may the protection of the victim and the campus of the activity with the Stonehill College Police. include, but are not limited to, the following: community. Additionally, in situations where the health and safety of the individual and/or campus Faculty, academic programs, and academic • Non-consensual communication including community is at risk, it may be necessary to organizations must receive approval from the Dean face-to-face communication, telephone notify additional appropriate College officials. of Faculty for the use of such items. All other calls, voice messages, text messages, email groups (whether or not a student group) must messages, instant messages, written letters, Stonehill College is committed to supporting receive the approval of the Dean of Students. gifts, or any other communications that are victims of stalking by providing the necessary undesired and/or place another person in fear safety and support services and reasonable accommodations. Crisis intervention and Gambling • Use of on line, electronic, or digital victim safety concerns will take precedence. Stonehill College students must abide by technologies including: Due to the complex nature of this problem, federal and state laws and College policies • Posting of pictures or information the victim may need assistance in obtaining prohibiting illegal gambling. Prohibited in chat rooms or websites one or more of the following: activity includes, but is not limited to: • Sending unwanted/unsolicited • No-contact order 1. Betting on, wagering on, or selling email or talk requests • Services of an advocate pools on any athletic event; • Posting private or public messages • Change in an academic schedule 2. Possessing on one’s person or premises on internet sites, social networking (e.g. room, car, etc.) any card, book, sites, and/or school bulletin boards • Alternative housing and/ or other device for registering bets; • Installing spy ware on a victim’s computer or office accommodations 3. Knowingly permitting the use of • Using Global Positioning Systems • An interim restriction/suspension one’s premises or one’s telephone (GPS) to monitor victim on the accused individual or other electronic communication device for illegal gambling; • Resources for medical and/ • Pursuing, waiting, or showing up uninvited at 4. Knowingly receiving or delivering a letter, or psychological support a workplace, place of residence, classroom, package, or parcel related to illegal gambling; or other locations frequented by a victim For assistance in obtaining these safety 5. Offering, soliciting, or accepting a bribe to accommodations, students may contact • Surveillance and other types of influence the outcome of an athletic event; the Associate Vice President for Student observation, whether by physical Affairs/Dean of Students at 508-565-1363 6. Involvement in bookmaking or wagering proximity or electronic means and employees may contact the Director pools with respect to sporting events; • Trespassing of Human Resources at 508-565-1105. 7. Playing cards for money; and • Vandalism If safety is an immediate concern, contact law 8. Unauthorized raffles. • Non-consensual touching enforcement at x5555 or dial 911 for assistance. College-approved non-cash legal gambling activities such as casino nights with prizes must • Direct physical and/or verbal threats Weapons be approved by the Director of Student Activities, against a victim or a victim’s loved ones or designee. The sponsoring organization • Gathering information about a victim from Possessing firearms, using firearms, attempting to must obtain appropriate licenses and complete use or threatening to use firearms whether, loaded required reports for legal gambling activities. family, friends, co-workers, and/or classmates or unloaded, explosives or other weapons, even • Manipulative and controlling behaviors, if legally possessed, is prohibited on the Stonehill Students who experience serious difficulties with gambling are urged to call Gambler’s such as threats to harm oneself or threats campus or at off-campus events. Weapons include Anonymous at (617) 899-7943 or Mass Council to harm someone close to the victim but are not limited to such items as switchblades, stilettos, nun-chucks, daggers, brass knuckles, on Compulsive Gambling at (617) 338-6020. • Defamation (lying to others bows and arrows, slingshots, BB guns, air guns, about the victim, etc.) pellet guns, air rifles (regardless of projectile Stonehill College encourages reporting of all velocity), taser guns, paintball guns, chemicals, incidents of stalking to law enforcement authorities fireworks and ammunition (whether metal, plastic, and respects that it is the victim’s decision whether or other materials). Any item that may be used or not to report the incident to the police. as a weapon is prohibited. Improper use of laser

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Opposition To Sexual or trust for sexual purposes. This includes Title IX Coordinators shall coordinate the College’s profiting momentarily, socially or politically compliance with Title IX, including identifying and Harassment And Other from the sexual exploitation of another. addressing any patterns or systematic problems that Forms Of Discrimination Sexual exploitation is one of the purposes of arise during the review of complaints. Regardless trafficking in persons (performing in a sexual of the primary responsibility of any coordinator or I. Introduction: manner, forced undressing and/or nakedness, their status as the senior coordinator, if any Title IX All members of the Stonehill community – coerced marriage, forced childbearing, Coordinator is directly involved in an investigation students, staff, faculty, and visitors – have a engagement in pornography or prostitution, or complaint, the other Title IX Coordinators right to a professional, academic, and working sexual extortion for the granting of goods, shall assume responsibility for any Title IX review environment free of unlawful harassment and services, assistance benefits, sexual slavery). involving such investigation or complaint. discrimination. Such harassment undermines III. Complaints of Sexual Harassment: the integrity of community relationships and is IV. Other Forms of Harassment unacceptable behavior at Stonehill College. If a member of the Stonehill community believes and Discrimination: that he or she has been subjected to sexual It is also unlawful and a violation of Stonehill Members of the Stonehill community who harassment or inappropriate sexual conduct, a first policy to harass any member of the community hold positions of authority have a particular step, if the person feels comfortable in doing so, because of his or her race, color, national responsibility to be aware of the power is to inform the person engaging in the conduct origin, ancestry, sex, religion, age, physical or inherent in their relationships with students that it is unwelcome and ask the person to stop. mental disability, sexual orientation or any other and subordinates and to avoid behavior that Retaliation against anyone who exercises his or characteristic protected by state or federal law. may be perceived as sexual harassment. All her right to confront the individual whose conduct Any individual who believes that he or she has members of the Stonehill Community, with is offensive, or who brings a complaint of sexual been subject to any type of harassment should academic or supervisory responsibility for harassment or cooperates in an investigation is feel free to institute the resolution and complaint another, must keep their relationships, especially unlawful and will not be tolerated by the College. procedure outlined above under Section III. those with students, on a professional level. The College is committed to investigating all Stonehill College maintains a “Zero Tolerance” complaints promptly and fairly. To the extent V. Government Resources: Sexual Harassment Policy. This policy not only practicable, the College will protect the confidentiality The College encourages individuals to initially applies to the workplace during normal business of the individuals involved and initially consider seek resolution of sexual harassment complaints hours, but also to all work-related social and informal resolution. The College is committed through its internal procedures; however, business functions, whether on or off the College to proceeding as necessary to eliminate sexual formal complaints can also be brought to these campus, and also while employees and students harassment and will take appropriate corrective action government agencies. The time periods for are on business, academic, or athletic related travel. which may include counseling, written warnings, filing are EEOC 300 days; MCAD 6 months: The College will take effective means to end any or other discipline up to immediate dismissal. sexual harassment, up to and including termination • Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of or dismissal of the offending individual. While students may contact any trusted Education,8th Floor, 5 Post Office Square, employee or faculty member to report an Boston, MA 02109-3921, (617) 289-0111 II. Sexual Harassment: incident, the following individuals have been designated as contacts for assistance in • Equal Employment Opportunity Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome addressing any sexual harassment concerns: Commission, John F. Kennedy Federal sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and Building, 475 Government Center, other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual • Rev. John Denning, C.S.C., VP Boston, MA 02203, (800) 669-4000 nature, when submission to such conduct of Student Affairs, x1363 is made either explicitly or implicitly a term • Massachusetts Commission Against • Pauline Dobrowski, Associate VP of or condition of employment; submission to Discrimination, 1 Ashburton Place, or rejection of such conduct is used as the Student Affairs/Dean of Students, x1363 Boston, MA, (617) 994-6000 basis for employment or academic decisions; • Katie Conboy, VP of Academic Affairs, x1311 or such conduct has the purpose or effect of • Whistleblower (Ethics Hot-line) 1-877-472-2110 Policy Against Hazing unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or creating an Employees may contact their department Stonehill College fully complies with intimidating, hostile, humiliating, or sexually head or the following for assistance in Commonwealth of Massachusetts Laws (Ch offensive working or academic environment. addressing any sexual harassment concerns: 269) regarding hazing. As such, the College has adopted the following policy against hazing The following are examples of conduct, • Lisa Conroy, Assistant Director of for all students including student leaders and which may constitute sexual harassment: Human Resources, x1105 athletes. Stonehill defines hazing as any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, 1. Sexual advances, whether or not • Thomas V. Flynn, General Counsel, x1413 team, group, etc., whether on or off-campus, they involve physical touching; • Whistleblower (Ethics Hot-line) 1-877-472-2110 which endangers the physical or emotional 2. Requests for sexual favors in exchange • Wellness Corp (Employee Assistance health of any student or other person no matter for actual or promised job or academic how well intended the end result or intent. benefits, such as favorable reviews, Program) 1-800-828-6025 salary increases, promotions, increased In addition to the above-named individuals, Types of hazing include the following: benefits or academic advantages; the following individuals have been designated • Hazing as a Public Display: Any and pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments 3. Lewd or sexually suggestive comments, all forms of public appearance, which of 1972 as the Title IX Coordinators for the College: jokes, innuendos or gestures; may result in adverse publicity to 4. Displaying sexually suggestive objects, • Maryann Perry, Director of Human Resources, the organization or the College. pictures, magazines, or cartoons; x 1105 (senior coordinator) - primary • Hazing as a Physical Abuse: Any 5. Commenting about or inappropriately responsibility for employee matters practice, whether internal or external, touching an individual’s body; • Beth Devonshire, Director of which could be detrimental to the 6. Inquiries or discussion about an individual’s Community Standards, x1323 - primary health or well-being of any person. sexual experiences or activities and other responsibility for student matters written or oral references to sexual conduct. • Hazing as Moral Indignity: Any action which by ethical, moral, and/or socially accepted 7. Sexual exploitation, which is defined for the • Cynthia MacDonald, Associate Director of purposes of this policy as any abuse of a Athletics, x1391 - primary responsibility standard of right and wrong may create in any position of vulnerability, differential power, for athletic and gender equity matters individual feelings of humiliation or disgrace.

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• Hazing as Scholastic Interference: Any The Athletic Department (for intercollegiate sports Statement of Policy and all practices, which place a person in teams), the Recreational Sports Department (for Stonehill College strictly prohibits sexual the position of being unable to attend, or club sports teams) and the Student Activities misconduct in all forms. Students found responsible properly prepare for, academic practices. Department (for recognized and unrecognized for violating this policy will face disciplinary student organizations) will annually submit to the Examples of hazing include, but are not limited to: sanctions, up to and including dismissal from the Student Affairs Office an attested acknowledgment College. Sexual misconduct includes the following: • Applying any substance to a person’s body or stating the group, team or organization has belongings such as whipped cream or paint; received a copy of Chapter 536, Commonwealth • Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse, which of Massachusetts Year 1985, An Act Prohibiting the includes, but is not limited to, penetration • Forced listening to loud, repetitive Practice of Hazing and that each of its members of a bodily orifice (vagina, anus, or mouth) music or recordings; or applicants has received a copy of Chapter 536, by an object or by a body part and/or non- • Verbal or written abuse, yelling or screaming; Commonwealth of Massachusetts Year 1985, An consensual fellatio or cunnilingus or attempts Act Prohibiting the Practice of Hazing, and that to commit the same, without effective consent. • Verbal or written abuse or harassment based the group, team or organization understands and upon race, color, national and/or ethnic agrees to comply with the provisions of Chapter • Non-Consensual Sexual Contact, which origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, 536, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Year 1985, includes, but is not limited to, intentional religion, veteran’s status, age, or association An Act Prohibiting the Practice of Hazing. physical contact of a sexual nature (touching with persons different from oneself; breasts, buttocks, or pubic area) of anyone Any individual or organization found without his/her consent, or attempts to • Whipping, paddling or other beating; responsible for practicing hazing, in any form, commit the same, without effective consent. In is subject to disciplinary action and sanctions • Nudity; including separation or dismissal from Stonehill addition, any disrobing of another or exposure • Participation in illegal acts; College and, in the case of a recognized to another without effective consent may also constitute non-consensual sexual contact. • Kidnapping; student organization, loss of recognition. • Sexual Exploitation, which occurs when a • Bondage; An individual involved in an alleged violation of the Stonehill College Policy student takes advantage of another without • Personal servitude; Against Hazing may not use consent as an his/her consent for his/her own advantage or • Pranks such as streaking/panty raids, acceptable reason for participation. benefit, to benefit or advantage anyone other than the one being exploited, or behavior unauthorized scavenger hunts, etc.; Anyone with knowledge that another person is the that does not otherwise constitute one of victim of hazing must immediately report such act • Forced or coerced stunt or skit the other offenses specifically noted in the nights/events with demeaning and/ to Campus Police at (508) 565-5555, Student Affairs at (508) 565-1363 and/or his/her RD/AC or RA. sexual misconduct policy. Examples of sexual or crude skits and/or poems; exploitation include, but are not limited to: • Preventing the use of limbs; Student Use of Electronic • Sexual exhibitionism • Forced or coerced wearing of Devices Policy • Prostitution or the solicitation of a conspicuous clothing not normally prostitute, escort, and/or stripper in good taste such as togas; Cellular phones, pagers, cameras, video and • Non-consensual video, photographing, audio taping equipment and other electronic • Extended deprivation of sleep, adequate or audio-taping of sexual activity and/ devices shall not be used in a manner that causes study time, rest or extended isolation; disruption in the classroom, library, in other or distribution of these materials via • Forced or coerced branding/tattoos/hair styles; College buildings or facilities, or at College events mediums such as the internet (e.g. lectures, masses, etc.). Individuals using • Going beyond the boundaries • Deprivation of food or water; electronic devices must obtain permission from of consent (e.g. allowing people • Forced calisthenics or exercise individuals to be photographed, videotaped or to watch consensual sex without beyond the physical limits; audio taped prior to photographing, videotaping or knowledge from the participants) audio taping on the Stonehill College campus or at • Exposure to settings or conditions that • Peeping or other voyeurism College-sponsored functions. Personal information adversely affect the physical health or safety should not be incorporated into photographs, • Knowingly transmitting a of any student or which subjects such student videotapes, audiotapes, websites and other media. Sexually Transmitted Infection or other person to extreme emotional stress; (STI) to another individual. • Individual or group interrogations; Policy Against Sexual • Sexual Harassment, includes, but is not limited to: • Involuntary consumption of any food, Misconduct liquor, beverage, drug or other substance • Sexual advances, whether or not or any other brutal treatment or forced Statement of Intent they involve physical touching physical activity which is likely to adversely Stonehill College is committed to providing • Requests for sexual favors in exchange affect the physical health or safety of a learning and working environment that for actual or promised job or academic any student or other person; and emphasizes the dignity and worth of every benefits, such as favorable reviews, member of its community. Sexual misconduct • Use of titles or forms of address that salary increases, promotions, increased in any form or context violates this principle denote personal servitude or authority. benefits or academic advantages and can threaten the safety, well-being, • Lewd or sexually suggestive comments, Hazing is banned in any form as a practice by educational experience, and career of students any organization, group or team, etc. regardless and will not be tolerated in any form. jokes, innuendos or gestures of whether or not the organization, group, or • Displaying sexually suggestive objects, team is recognized by Stonehill College. The Sexual Misconduct Policy describes the pictures, magazines, or cartoons College’s policy towards sexual assault. It Each group, team, or organization will distribute also provides guidance for those who have • Commenting about or inappropriately a copy of the Chapter 536, Commonwealth of been sexually assaulted, outlines the College’s touching an individual’s body Massachusetts Year 1985, An Act Prohibiting response to alleged incidents of sexual assault, • Inquiries or discussion about an the Practice of Hazing to each of its members and identifies relevant departments within individual’s sexual experiences or or applicants for membership annually. the College responsible for managing the activities and other written or oral policy and programs associated with it. references to sexual conduct

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For more information regarding sexual deciding what steps to take, such as obtaining • assistance, guidance, and support harassment, please see Stonehill’s counseling, seeking medical attention, preserving throughout the College disciplinary process Opposition to Sexual Harassment Policy. evidence, and reporting to authorities. Information, and/or the criminal justice process support, and advice are available for anyone Effective Consent who wishes to discuss issues related to sexual • assistance in coordinating academic concerns, such as missed classes, Stonehill College strongly encourages students assault, whether or not a sexual assault has assignments, or change of class section who choose to engage in sexual behavior actually occurred, and whether or not the person to verbally communicate their intentions seeking information has been assaulted, has been • assistance in contacting community resources, and consent as clearly as possible. accused of sexual assault, or is a third party. such as rape crisis centers or support groups In the absence of mutually understandable On Campus Resources: • general support and assistance as needed. words or actions, it is the responsibility of the • Campus Ministry – 508.565.1487 While S.H.A.R.E. Advisors are available initiator, or the person who wants to engage in to assist, it is always the survivor/accused • Campus Police – 508.565.5555 the specific sexual activity, to make certain that student who chooses what services or he/she has the consent from his/her partner. • Counseling and Testing Center – 508.565.1331 support she/he would like to utilize. Consent to some form of sexual activity does not • Health Services – 508.565.1307 necessarily mean consent to other forms of sexual Filing a Sexual Misconduct Report activity. In addition, consent to sexual activity • Human Resources – 508.565.1105 A person who believes he/she was the victim may be withdrawn at any time, as long as the of another’s sexual misconduct is encouraged withdrawal is communicated clearly, at which • Residence Life – 508.565.1290 to report the sexual misconduct. On and off- point all sexual activity must cease. Mutually • S.H.A.R.E. Advisors – during business campus support and the campus student understandable consent must be obtained by the hours (8:30am – 4:30pm, contact the discipline system may play important roles, and initiator at every stage of sexual interaction. Counseling and Testing Center for a Stonehill College provides support services to Consent is mutually understandable when a list of Advisors; after 4:30pm, contact students who choose to seek criminal or civil reasonable person would consider the words the Switchboard at 508.565.1000 prosecution as well as disciplinary action under and/or actions of the parties to have expressed • Student Affairs – 508.565.1363 Stonehill College’s Student Discipline System. a mutually understandable agreement between Several options for reporting are available: them to do the same thing, in the same • Title IX Coordinators – refer to The Hill way, at the same time, with one another. Book for a list of Coordinators or contact the 1. File a Report with Campus Police: General Counsel’s office at 508.565.1404 Campus Police will respond quickly Consent obtained through the use of fraud upon notification of an assault. A campus or force (actual or implied), whether that Off-Campus Agencies investigation may or may not lead to force be physical force, threats, intimidation • A New Day – 508.941.7400 initiating the Student Discipline System. or coercion, is not effective consent. • Signature Healthcare Brockton 2. File a Report with the Easton Police Consent may never be given by minors (in Hospital – 508. 941.7000 Department: Students can contact the Easton Massachusetts, those not yet 16 years of age), Police Department at 508-230-3322 or by mentally disabled persons, those who are Medical and Counseling Attention dialing 911 from a cell phone. Campus Police incapacitated as a result of alcohol or other drug A person who has experienced a sexual assault will be notified if dialing 911 from a campus consumption (voluntary or involuntary), or those is urged to seek appropriate medical evaluation phone. Campus Police can assist in notifying who are unconscious, unaware or otherwise as promptly as possible, ideally within 72 hours the local police if the student chooses. physically helpless. A person who knows or should of the incident. To help preserve evidence, the 3. File a Report with a Title IX Coordinator: have reasonably known that another person is victim is encouraged not to bathe or douche, Report the sexual misconduct to a Title IX incapacitated may not engage in sexual activity urinate, or drink any liquids. If oral contact Coordinator, who will forward the report with that person. Incapacitation means being has occurred, the victim is encouraged to to the Office of Student Affairs. The Title in a state where a person lacks the capacity to refrain from smoking, eating, or brushing IX Coordinator can help inform victims appreciate the fact that the situation is sexual, their teeth. In addition, if clothes are changed, about the process, procedures, and policies or cannot appreciate (rationally or reasonably) soiled clothes should be placed in a paper that apply in sexual misconduct cases. the nature and/or extent of the situation. bag, as plastic destroys crucial evidence. Other services provided by the Title IX Additional Clarification Regarding Coordinator include, but are not limited to: Sexual Misconduct S.H.A.R.E Advisors • making referrals as appropriate S.H.A.R.E Advisors are a group of trained staff • A person who is the object of sexual • furnishing materials for support and faculty members who provide support services on and off campus aggression is not required to physically and assistance to Stonehill students who have or otherwise resist a sexual aggressor experienced sexual misconduct and those • imposing interim measures and/ • Silence, previous sexual relationships, students accused of sexual misconduct. Students or no-contact orders and/or a current relationship with the can access S.H.A.R.E. Advisors by calling the • changing on campus student housing to a initiator (or anyone else) may not, in Counseling and Testing Center during business different on campus location (attempts will themselves, be taken to imply consent hours (8:30am – 4:30pm) and Campus Police after be made to move the charged student) 4:30pm. It is important to note that S.H.A.R.E • Intentional use of alcohol or other Advisors, as they are private, not “confidential” • providing assistance from the College drugs does not excuse a violation of resources, must make a formal report of sexual in completing the relocation the Sexual Misconduct Policy misconduct if one has not already been completed. • rescheduling exams and/or assignments • Attempts to commit sexual misconduct S.H.A.R.E Advisors are trained and available to • transferring class sections and/or aiding the commission of sexual assist the survivor and/or student accused of • processing temporary withdrawals misconduct as an accomplice are sexual misconduct in a variety of ways, including: • providing information on civil and criminal also prohibited under this policy investigation and adjudication processes • assistance with emergency rape crisis 4. File an Anonymous Report: Students who Obtaining Information, treatment and emergency medical services including accompanying the victim to wish to anonymously inform the College Support or Counseling of a sexual assault may file a Sexual the hospital, working with police, etc. Counselors at a variety of departments/agencies Assault Incident Report on line through both on-and-off campus can assist a person in the Community Standards web page. The

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information provided to the College in this conducted against a charged student to the Rights of an individual accused of manner will only be used for Clery Act data victim (or if the victim is deceased as a result an incident of Sexual Misconduct collection and will be kept confidential. of such crime or offense, to the next of kin) of Ordinarily, the College assures all students Anonymous reports cannot be used to any violent crime or non-forcible sex offense. accused of an incident of sexual misconduct will: initiate a formal student discipline process. 5. Take No Action: Students have the right Statement of Rights for Those Involved • be notified of a report of sexual misconduct not to file a report, yet they are highly in Incidents of Sexual Misconduct in accordance with College policy; encouraged to seek medical attention and It is the goal of Stonehill College to ensure • be entitled to present his/her case in counseling. Students who wish to file a that students have access to needed accordance with College policy; report at a later date may contact a Title IX resources, services, and information. Coordinator However, please note that a • be entitled to additional accommodations delay in reporting could weaken evidence Ordinarily, the College assures all students including, but not limited to, the use used to determine whether a student is involved in incidents of sexual misconduct will: of technology, if either student wishes found responsible for a sexual assault. • be notified of available spiritual and to be in a different location; The Investigation and Disciplinary personal counseling, mental health, • question witnesses, including the individual Process for Sexual Misconduct medical or student services, both on reporting the misconduct, through the Chair campus and in the community; Campus officials must take appropriate of the formal disciplinary committee; and actions to ensure that investigations of sexual • receive notification of options for and available • appeal the finding and sanction of a formal misconduct complaints are normally completed assistance in changing academic and living disciplinary hearing in accordance with within 60 days of receiving a complaint. situations after an alleged incident of sexual the standards for appeal established under Reports of sexual misconduct by a student misconduct, if so requested and if such “Rights of All Parties in Formal Discipline may be addressed through the College’s changes are reasonably available (no charges Hearings,” as published by the College. student disciplinary process, which is or investigation, campus or criminal, need described in further detail in the Hill Book. to occur before this option is available); Retaliation Additionally, for matters alleging sexual • have the matter investigated The College encourages students to report all incidents of sexual misconduct. Any misconduct, the student who believes he/she in a timely manner; was the victim of sexual misconduct will: threat of retaliation or other attempts to • be offered a S.H.A.R.E. Advisor to be present prevent the reporting of an incident of sexual • have the opportunity to be present during a formal disciplinary hearing; misconduct is itself prohibited and will result throughout the entire disciplinary hearing; in disciplinary actions and/or sanctions. • be informed in writing of the • be entitled to the same opportunity to have outcome of any formal disciplinary Amnesty others present during a disciplinary hearing hearing within 3 business days; as provided to the charged student; At times, students are hesitant to report the • not have irrelevant prior sexual history occurrence of a sexual assault to College officials • be informed of the outcome of the admitted in a formal disciplinary hearing; because they are concerned that they themselves, disciplinary hearing, including sanctions, in • be given the choice whether or not to have or witnesses to the misconduct, may be charged connection with his/her complaint; and with violations of the alcohol policy. While these reports of sexual misconduct resolved behaviors are not condoned by the College, • be permitted to appeal the outcome through an informal resolution; and of the disciplinary hearing. the importance of dealing with them pales in • be free from any behavior that may comparison to the need to address instances of Formal rules of process, procedure, or be construed by the College to be alleged sexual misconduct. Accordingly, in these rules of evidence such as those applied intimidating, harassing or retaliatory. cases, the College will not pursue disciplinary in criminal or civil courts are not used action against a student who claims, in good faith, in the Student Discipline System. Rights of an individual who may be to be the victim of a sexual assault in connection The hearing board will be comprised the victim of Sexual Misconduct with the reporting of a sexual assault, or against of a designee of the Vice President for Ordinarily, the College assures all students students named as witnesses to the incident. Student Affairs, who serves as the Chair, reporting allegations of sexual misconduct will: and two staff and/or faculty members. Privacy and Confidentiality • have reports of sexual misconduct responded Students have the right under federal law (Title The appeals board will be comprised of to in accordance with College policy; IX) to expect that reports of sexual misconduct the Vice President for Student Affairs, or • be present throughout the entire will be taken seriously by Stonehill College. Under designee, who serves as Chair, and two formal disciplinary hearing; federal law, if a student makes a formal report staff/faculty members. The Appeals Board about an act of sexual misconduct to a College members cannot be the same members who • be entitled to additional accommodations official (e.g. officials within Student Affairs, a served on the original hearing board. including, but not limited to, the use Title IX Coordinator, Resident Assistants, Resident No questions, statements, or information about of technology, if either student wishes Directors, Campus Police, and certain other staff the sexual activity of the person who believes to be in a different location; members with supervisory responsibilities), or when deemed necessary to protect the interests she/he was the victim of another’s misconduct • question witnesses, including the of the College community, the College has an with anyone other than the charged student charged student, through the Chair of obligation to investigate the complaint. To the may be introduced. Requests for exceptions to the formal disciplinary committee; this guideline must be made in writing to the extent possible, the College will protect the privacy Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, • appeal the finding and sanction of a formal of all parties to a complaint of sexual misconduct. or designee, at least 72 hours in advance of disciplinary hearing in accordance with An individual involved in sexual misconduct the hearing. If the person who believes she/ the standards for appeal established under can speak confidentially with certain persons in he is the victim of another’s misconduct raises “Rights of All Parties in Formal Discipline legally protected roles, such as counselors at the her/his own sexual activity with anyone Hearings,” as published by the College; and Counseling and Testing Center, campus ministers, other than the charged student, questions • choose whether or not to have a report and/or staff in Health Services. These offices will may then be asked about that relationship. investigated unless the College deems it pass along non-personally identifiable statistical The College will disclose, in writing, the final necessary to protect the safety of the College information to Campus Police for statistical purposes only. The only information which will results of any institutional disciplinary proceedings community or in compliance with applicable law. be released is that an incident was reported,

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 136 STUDENT LIfe the type of incident, and the general location of Campus Mail Service first-class mail or periodical mail. Note: the U.S. the incident (on or off campus). These statistics Postal Service has the final control over what are made available through publication in the Campus mail service and student mailboxes classes of mail may be forwarded and may choose Annual Campus Security Report. The College are located on the lower level of the Roche not to process bulk rate forwarded mail. Packages, will also notify a Title IX Coordinator, in writing, Commons Building. The Mail room is open boxes, etc. that arrive via the U.S. Postal Service that a sexual assault complaint has been filed. Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 are forwarded. Anything arriving via other carriers pm. The Mail room window is open Monday is returned to the sender with a forwarding address When the College, through a report to a through Friday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. if available. It is the obligation of the sender to College official, becomes aware of an incident forward these items. Bulk mail is not forwarded. The Stonehill College Mail Delivery System of sexual misconduct that occurred on-campus Bulk mail includes most catalogs, solicitations, operates for the purpose of receiving and and there is a potential for bodily harm or and nonprofit mailings. Bulk mail is recycled. danger to members of the College community, delivering college-related correspondence College staff will issue a timely warning to and U. S. Mail to all students. Mail for students that keep their boxes active the campus. While the College will provide for the summer is pulled and distributed first. Examples of misuse of campus mail enough information to safeguard the campus All other mail is forwarded on a daily basis. include the attempted distribution of: community, a student’s name or other personally identifying information will not be disclosed. • Chain letters, hate mail or mail Distribution of Notices Confidentiality with respect to a person accused with obscene content; and Flyers of having violated the sexual misconduct policy • Letters to gain personal profit is governed by the Family Educational Rights and (ex. pyramid schemes); and Departments or student organizations may Privacy Act (FERPA), also known as the Buckley send college-related flyers and notices to the Amendment. FERPA provides that personally • On/off campus political endorsements. campus community free of charge. Please identifiable information maintained in the All resident students are assigned a mailbox contact the Supervisor of Mail Services for size educational records of an institution shall not be with a combination and are responsible for and content restrictions and also for current disclosed, except as otherwise specified by law. picking up their mail daily. Students keep the number of copies needed for your target group. same mailbox and combination for their entire Flyers and notices must be delivered to Mail Education and Prevention stay at the College. Mailbox numbers and Services 3 days before the requested distribution date. These groups can also send work-study The College is committed to providing on- combinations will be given to all first-year resident students to place the flyers into boxes. going education and support programs students in their Orientation Packets over the aimed at the eradication of sexual assault. summer. Commuter students may rent a box for Outside vendors may distribute approved In addition, the College will evaluate on an a fee. Certain restrictions will be enforced. materials to the student mailboxes for a fee. ongoing basis, all policies and procedures When packages and accountable mail is received related to sexual misconduct. on campus, students are notified through their Student ID Cards and Hill Cards Stonehill Email account of its arrival. The packages Cancellations Due to are held in the Mail room for student pickup. All Students are given an ID card (Hill Card) as part of Inclement Weather packages must be picked up in a timely manner, their regular orientation to the College Community. so as not to create an overflow in the mail room. Students must maintain a current card for the As a residential campus, Stonehill College will hold entire period that they are affiliated with Stonehill classes and other activities whenever possible. The following format should be used for student College and must carry their Hill Cards at all times. Therefore, cancellations of classes due to inclement mail, where “xxxx” equals the student’s box The Hill Card is intended to serve as proof of an weather such as snow or ice will be kept to a number. The word “Box” should not be used individual’s status at the College and provides minimum, and students should plan accordingly. in the address, as it is often mistaken for a box access to many resources provided by the College. Individual faculty or instructors who may have at the local Post Office. Mail should never be sent to a student’s residence hall address. Any transfer, alteration, falsification or forgery a significant commute to campus may be forced of an Hill card constitutes a violation of to cancel their individual classes on a particular Student’s Full Name the Stonehill College Community Standards day while all other classes are in session. Stonehill College and may result in disciplinary action. In When classes are cancelled due to snow, ice, or 320 Washington St. # “xxxx” addition, fraudulent or illegal use of the Hill other inclement weather conditions, information Easton, MA 02357 Card may result in disciplinary action. is communicated on local radio stations: Please refrain from the use of nicknames, as it ID cards should not be defaced or modified in any slows down mail services or causes mail to be way. The use of stickers, pins or other items affixed BROCKTON returned to sender. Do not have packages delivered to Hill Cards is prohibited in order to preserve their WBET-AM 1460 WCAV-FM 97.7 under a parent’s name. Student mail is forwarded useful life. Hill Cards should be protected from over winter break as well as over the summer. damage or wear. Please protect the magnetically BOSTON encoded information by keeping the card away Student mail forwarding for summer begins after from magnetic fields such as those generated by WBZ-AM 1030 WMJX-FM 106.7 graduation. Mail is automatically forwarded to television sets, stereo speakers, bulk tape erasers, WRKO-AM 680 WBMX-FM 98.5 the mailing address on file with the Registrar’s radio transmitters and personal computers, which Office. Students who do NOT wish their mail to be could erase the information encoded on the card. WORCESTER forwarded to this address and have an alternative WTAG-AM 580 WSRS-FM 96.1 mailing address for the summer should contact The cardholder agrees to abide by the policy, the Mail room. Students who have graduated as amended from time to time, and to the NEW BEDFORD + must register all address changes directly with display of his or her picture on the Hill Card. WNBH-AM 1340 WCTK-FM 98.1 the Alumni Office. Mail may be forwarded to an The Hill Card is and at all times shall remain alternative address for a maximum of 90 days the property of Stonehill College. It may be Students may also call the College at unless on approved leave from the College. Only revoked at any time by the College if misused. (508) 565-5000 for a taped message. first-class and periodical mail is forwarded. First- It must be presented or returned upon Students may turn to campus cable TV class mail includes bills & statements, personal request by an appropriate College official. Channel 70 for cancellation information. correspondences and matter closed against postal inspection. The Mail room will attempt to forward The initial Hill Card is issued without charge. college/graduate school catalogs and applications, The cardholder is responsible for the care and CD, video and book club mailings which require safekeeping of the card. If the card is lost or stolen, a timely response even if they arrive other than there is a $25 fee for each replacement card. If a card becomes unusable because of normal

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 137 STUDENT LIfe wear and tear, it will be replaced at no charge. Communication With belongings such as closed lockers, refrigerators, Once a replacement card is issued, no refund closets, wardrobes, desks, bags or boxes. will be made, even if the missing card is found. College Officials The loss or theft of the Hill Card must be Students are expected to be respectful of faculty Thorough Inspection and staff. This includes, but is not limited to immediately reported to Dining Services. If such When the College has reasonable suspicion that loss or theft occurs after regular office hours or employers of third party vendors who work for the College. Verbal or written exchanges that a serious violation of federal, state and local on the weekend, the report should be made to laws or College policy is occurring, it may, with the Stonehill College Campus Police Department. are disrespectful, including swearing, will be addressed accordingly. Moreover, any form approval from the Vice President for Student It is important that the missing card is reported Affairs, or designee, or a lawfully issued search as soon as possible since the card could be of physical violence, intimidation, or threats is prohibited and will result in disciplinary action. warrant, thoroughly inspect a student’s person, misused. Until a student reports a card lost or room, motor vehicle and belongings without stolen, he/she is responsible for any loss of funds. his/her consent. Materials obtained will be Compliance with Requests confiscated and used in disciplinary procedures. Guest Policy or Directives Students are responsible for the conduct of their Students are required to comply with reasonable Federal, Commonwealth guests and for ensuring that guests adhere to requests, directives, or orders by authorized & Local Authority College rules and regulations. Stonehill College College personnel including members of the alumni are considered to be guests. Student hosts residence life staff, custodial staff, dining It should be noted that federal, state and local must be with their guests at all times. If guests services staff, maintenance/grounds staff, officials may exercise their legitimate authority violate College rules and regulations, the student faculty, secretaries/support staff and College in conducting search and seizure procedures host will be subject to disciplinary action and administrators. This requirement includes, but is without the consent of the College. the guests subject to immediate removal from not limited to, reasonable requests for students the campus and criminal trespass warning. to meet for appointments in administrative or faculty offices, to be cooperative at disciplinary All guests must be registered with the investigations and hearings and to properly College and must carry a valid photo I.D. identify oneself upon request. Students who fail and approved guest pass at all times. to honor requests or orders by authorized College Students are limited to hosting two guests personnel will be subject to disciplinary action. during any period of time. Students must obtain permission from their roommate(s) for a guest to Inspection of Student Rooms stay through the night. If a guest is under the age of 17, the Student must obtain permission from and Personal Belongings his or her Area Coordinator or Resident Director. One of the basic student rights is the right to Guests cannot stay beyond two consecutive days privacy. The right to be secured and protected in a one-week period without the approval of the against unreasonable inspections of student Residence Life Office. Behavior that is intrusive rooms and personal belongings is part of to the privacy of the roommate(s) is prohibited. this right to privacy. Students are responsible As a Catholic institution, Stonehill College for the contents of their room, car, locker does not condone cohabitation. or person. Students need not be present or notified when an inspection is conducted. Student Use of the Routine Entry & Stonehill Name Inspection of Premises Stonehill College is the owner of its name, logos, mascot and other trademarks and The College reserves the right to enter all campus has sole discretion over their use. premises on a regular basis to examine the same or to make such repairs, additions, or alterations, as it The use of the Stonehill College name, logos, deems necessary. In addition, the College reserves seal, crest, indicia or mascot is prohibited for the the right to enter the premises in order to take titles of publications, on manufactured articles those precautions that might be found necessary such as T-shirts or novelty items without the to protect the health and safety of the occupants approval of the Director of Student Activities, or or other persons therein. Students must be advised designee. Any goods upon which the Stonehill that the College will take disciplinary action name, logo or mascot appears without approval against any violators of College policy, even if the are subject to confiscation and may be destroyed. violation is observed as part of a routine operation. Student Eligibility for College Activities, Club Sports and Study Abroad/Away Programs Visual Inspection In order to hold leadership positions in student When the College has reason to suspect that a organizations, apply for or receive endorsement violation of College policy is occurring, the College for study abroad programs/away programs, or be reserves the right to investigate the situation and eligible for participation in club sports, students confiscate evidence of such violations. In addition, must meet the minimum requirement of being the College may make a visual inspection of in good academic and disciplinary standing. the student’s room, motor vehicle, and person. Programs or organizations may require more The possession or use of alcoholic beverages stringent or rigorous standards for eligibility. and containers, drug paraphernalia, suspicious odors, disruptive behavior or behavior which may be of concern, will generally be considered the basis for a visual inspection. As a follow-up to a visual inspection, the College may request permission from the student to inspect personal

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Nondiscrimination Policy the request for amendment. Additional legally dependent on either parent/ information regarding the hearing procedures legal guardian, parents may obtain non- Stonehill College is committed to providing a will be provided to the student when directory information (e.g. grades, GPA) multicultural academic community in which notified of the right to a hearing. The at the discretion of the College. the dignity and worth of each of its members is hearing procedures utilized by the College 3. Parents/legal guardians may obtain non- respected. As such, it is the policy of the college will vary based on the nature of the record directory information if the College to provide its students, faculty, and staff with that is the subject of the request. After the has a signed release from the student an environment free from discrimination. hearing, if the school still decides not to on file. Students may obtain a release amend the record, the parent or eligible Stonehill College prohibits discrimination on the form at the Registrar's Office. student has the right to place a statement basis of race, gender, disability, age, marital status, 4. Parents/legal guardians may be notified with the record setting forth his or her religion, color, or national origin in admission by the College if their student, under the view about the contested information. to, access to, treatment in or employment in age of 21, has been found responsible its programs and activities, except where such 3. The right to provide written consent before for violating the College’s Substance conditions may constitute bona fide qualification the College discloses personally identifiable Awareness (alcohol and drug) Policy. for the programs or activities in question. information from the student’s education 5. Parents/legal guardians may be notified records, except to the extent that FERPA by the College if their student’s residency The following person has been designated authorizes disclosure without consent. to handle student inquiries regarding the or student status (ability to live on- College’s non-discrimination policy: The College discloses education records campus) may be in jeopardy or revoked. without a student’s prior written consent 6. Parents/legal guardians may be Thomas V. Flynn, Esq. under the FERPA exception for disclosure to notified when their student is involved General Counsel school officials with legitimate educational in a health or safety emergency. Stonehill College interests. A school official is a person Easton, MA 02357 employed by the College in an administrative, (508) 565-1413 supervisory, academic or research, or support Directory Information staff position (including law enforcement At its discretion, the College may provide Inquiries concerning the application of until personnel and health staff); a person Directory Information without the consent nondiscrimination policies may also be referred to: or company with whom the College has of the student in accordance with the Regional Director contracted as its agent to provide a service Provisions Act, which information includes: U.S. Department of Education instead of using College employees or Student name, current enrollment, address, e-mail Office for Civil Rights officials (such as an attorney, auditor, or address, telephone number, class year standing, 5 Post Office Square collection agent); a person serving on the full-time or part-time status, schedule of classes, Boston, MA 02109-3921 Board of Trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary photograph, date and place of birth, major or grievance committee, or assisting another and minor fields of study, dates of attendance, Student Education Records school official in performing his or her tasks. degrees and awards received, including Dean’s list and graduation honors, most recent previous The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act A school official has a legitimate educational educational institution attended, participation in (FERPA) affords students certain rights with respect interest if the official needs to review an officially recognized activities and sports, weight to their education records. These rights include: education record in order to fulfill his or and height of members of athletic teams. 1. The right to inspect and review the student’s her professional responsibilities for the Students may instruct the College to withhold education records within 45 days of the day College. Upon request, the College may Directory Information by notifying the Registrar the College receives a request for access. also disclose education records without consent to officials of another school in in writing within two weeks after the first day of A student should submit to the registrar, dean, which a student seeks or intends to enroll. class for each semester. Request for nondisclosure head of the academic departments, or other will be honored by the institution for only one 4. The right to file a complaint with U.S. appropriate official, a written request that academic semester; therefore, authorization Department of Education concerning identifies the record(s) the student wishes to withhold Directory Information must be alleged failures by the College to to inspect. The College official will make filed each semester in the Registrar’s Office. arrangements for access and notify the student comply with the requirements of of the time and place where the records FERPA. The name and address of the may be inspected. If the records are not Office that administers FERPA is: Student Personal Property maintained by the College official to whom Family Policy Compliance Office Stonehill College is not responsible for students’ the request was submitted, that official shall U.S. Department of Education personal property. Students are strongly advise the student of the correct official to 400 Maryland Avenue, SW encouraged to have personal property insurance whom the request should be addressed. Washington, DC 20202-5920 for their belongings. This type of insurance 2. The right to request the amendment may be available and covered under applicable of the student’s education records that Disclosures To Parents/Legal homeowners’ insurance policies or it is available the student believes are inaccurate, Guardians Of Students as separate insurance coverage from many misleading, or otherwise in violation of the providers. Students and their parents should student’s privacy rights under FERPA. FERPA gives parents/legal guardians certain check their current insurance policies for coverage and consider additional coverage, if necessary. A student who wishes to ask the College rights with respect to their student’s education to amend a record should write the records. When a student reaches the age of College official responsible for the 18 or attends a post secondary institution, Student Use of Stonehill record, clearly identify the part of the regardless of the age of the student, the Directories record the student wants changed, and FERPA rights transfer to the student. specify why it should be changed. Guidelines for the disclosure of information Stonehill College maintains a number of directories to parents/legal guardians are as follows: and address lists to facilitate personal contact If the College decides not to amend the between students, faculty, staff, alumni, and record as requested, the College will notify 1. Parents/legal guardians may obtain directory volunteers. These directories or address lists the student in writing of the decision and information at the discretion of the College. may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval the student’s right to a hearing regarding 2. If it is determined that a student is

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 139 STUDENT LIfe system, or transmitted in any form or by any Equity in Athletics include whipping, beating, branding, forced means without the prior written permission of the calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced Vice President for Student Affairs, or designee. Disclosure Act (EADA) consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, Any use of the addresses or other information In compliance with the EADA, Stonehill drug or other substance, or any other brutal such as mailing labels or e-mail distribution College provides information on men’s and treatment or forced physical activity which is lists for any multiple mailing without the prior women’s athletic programs, including the likely to adversely affect the physical health or written permission of the Vice President for number of participants by gender for each safety of any such student or other person, or Student Affairs, or designee, is prohibited. varsity team, operating expenses, recruiting which subjects such student or other person expenditures, athletically-related student aid, to extreme mental stress, including extended Demonstrations and revenues. The annual report is available deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation. from the Athletics Office located in the Merkert Demonstrations must be registered twenty-four Notwithstanding any other provisions College Center. General information regarding of this section to the contrary, consent (24) hours in advance and must be approved in the College’s student financial assistance writing by the Vice President for Student Affairs, shall not be available as a defense to programs, tuition and fees, and refunds is any prosecution under this action. or designee. All demonstrations must be peaceful available from the Student Aid and Finance and orderly. Demonstrations may be organized Office located in the Duffy Academic Center. Chapter 269: Section 18. Failure to report hazing and led only by members of the Stonehill College community. Demonstrations or other forms Section 18. Whoever knows that another person of expression may not compromise the rights Fair Information Practices is the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime shall, of other members of the College Community, Stonehill College complies with Massachusetts to the extent that such person can do so without nor interfere with the general operation of the General Laws Chapter 66A, Fair Information danger or peril to himself or others, report such College. Free speech is a cherished foundation of Practices. Questions regarding this law can crime to an appropriate law enforcement official academia. Forms of expression, however, may not be addressed to: Registrar, Stonehill College, as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever discriminate against or harass individuals on the 320 Washington Street, Easton, MA 02357. basis of race, gender, disability, age, marital status, fails to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. sexual orientation, religion, color, gender, disability, Campus Sex Crimes national origin or other personal characteristics. Chapter 269: Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 Stonehill College maintains the right Prevention Act to 19; issuance to students and student to enforce all rules of conduct and to The Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act is a groups, teams and organizations; report immediately dispatch campus police or federal law that provides for the tracking of Section 19. Each institution of secondary education request outside law enforcement assistance convicted, registered sex offenders enrolled and each public and private institution of post to respond to any criminal or violent acts. as students at institutions of higher education, secondary education shall issue to every student or working or volunteering on campus. group, student team or student organization which Solicitation Members of the campus community may obtain is part of such institution or is recognized by the information concerning Massachusetts registered institution or permitted by the institution to use No student or person representing any company sex offenders on line at www.state.ma.us/ its name or facilities or is known by the institution is permitted to offer any product or service sorb or by contacting any of the following: to exist as an unaffiliated student group, student for purchase on the Stonehill College Campus team or student organization, a copy of this section without prior approval from the Director of Sex Offenders Registry Board and sections seventeen and eighteen; provided, Student Activities, in consultation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts however, that an institution’s compliance with this Vice President for Student Affairs. In addition, P.O. Box 4547 section’s requirements that an institution issue students may not operate a business on campus Salem, Massachusetts 01970 copies of this section and sections seventeen and or from their residence hall room without the Easton Police Department 46 eighteen to unaffiliated student groups, teams or express written consent of the Vice President Lothrop Street organizations shall not constitute evidence of the for Student Affairs or his or her designee. North Easton, Massachusetts 02356 institution’s recognition or endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations. Clery Act Stonehill College Campus Police 320 Washington Street Each such group, team or organization shall Stonehill College complies with the Jeanne Easton, MA 02357 distribute a copy of this section and sections Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy seventeen and eighteen to each of its members, and Campus Crime Statistics Act. This report Massachusetts Law plebes, pledges or applicants for membership. contains a summary of Stonehill College’s It shall be the duty of each such group, team Campus Police Department’s procedures Against Hazing or organization, acting through its designated along with required crime statistics. Massachusetts Law requires that the following officer, to deliver annually, to the institution an attested acknowledgment stating that such Stonehill College is committed to assisting information be issued to students, student group, team or organization has received a all members of the Stonehill community in groups, teams and organizations: copy of this section and said sections seventeen providing for their own safety and security. The Chapter 269: Section 17. Hazing; organizing and eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, College’s annual security compliance document or participating; hazing defined. pledges, or applicants has received a copy of is available on the Stonehill College Website at sections seventeen and eighteen, and that such http://www.stonehill.edu/police/report.pdf. Section 17. Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined group, team or organization understands and If you would like to receive a booklet called herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more agrees to comply with the provisions of this “Annual Security Report” which contains this than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment section and sections seventeen and eighteen. information, you can stop by the Campus in a house of correction for not more than one Each institution of secondary education and Police Office located in the “Old Student Union year, or both such fine and imprisonment. each public or private institution of post Building” or you can request that a copy be secondary education shall, at least annually, mailed to you by calling 508-565-5555. The term “hazing” as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean before or at the start of enrollment, deliver to any conduct or method of initiation into any each person who enrolls as a full time student student organization, whether on public or in such institution a copy of this section private property, which willfully or recklessly and sections seventeen and eighteen. endangers the physical or mental health of any Each institution of secondary education and each student or other person. Such conduct shall public or private institution of post secondary

THE HILL BOOK 2011-2012 140 STUDENT LIfe education shall file, at least annually, a report with or alcohol to such a person under twenty-one heroin at a private party or dormitory suite risks the board of higher education and in the case of years of age, shall be punished by a fine or three a serious drug conviction. Sale and possession of secondary institutions, the board of education, hundred dollars. Any person without a license “drug paraphernalia” is illegal in Massachusetts. certifying that such institution has complied with to serve alcohol may not serve someone under Under Federal law, distribution of drugs to its responsibility to inform student groups, teams 21 years of age, unless their relationship is that persons under the age of 21 is punishable by or organizations and to notify each full time of parent and child or husband and wife. Any twice the normal penalty with a mandatory one student enrolled by it of the provisions of this person who furnishes any such beverage or to three years in prison depending on the class section and sections seventeen and eighteen and alcohol for a person under 21 years of age shall be of drugs; a third conviction is punishable by also certifying that said institution has adopted a punished by a fine of not more than $2,000 or by mandatory life imprisonment. These penalties disciplinary policy with regard to the organizers imprisonment for not more than one year or both. apply to distribution of drugs within 1,000 feet and participants of hazing, and that such policy of a college or school. Federal law sets greatly has been set forth with appropriate emphasis Any person who transfers, alters, or defaces heightened prison sentences for manufacture in the student handbook or similar means of an identification card, or who makes, uses, and distribution of drugs if death or serious communicating the institution’s policies to its carries, sells, or distributes a false identification injury results from the use of the substance. students. The board of higher education and, in card, or furnishes false information in the case of secondary institutions, the board of obtaining such a card, shall be guilty of a The Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended education shall promulgate regulations governing misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine suspends aid eligibility for students who have the content and frequency of such reports, and of not more than two hundred dollars or by been convicted under federal or state law of shall forthwith report to the attorney general any imprisonment for not more than three months. the sale or possession of drugs, if the offense such institution which fails to make such report. occurred during a period of enrollment for It is unlawful for a person under 21 years of age which the student was receiving federal student knowingly to drive a car with alcohol in it unless aid. For more information contact the Stonehill Drug Free Schools and accompanied by a parent. To do so may result in College Student Aid and Finance Office at 508- Communities Act a fine of up to $50 or suspension of the driver’s 565-1088 or the Federal Student Aid Information license for three months, or both. Persons may not Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1- 800-433-3243). Stonehill College, in accordance with federal drive while drinking from an open container of legislation and College policy, is committed an alcoholic beverage. Violators shall be punished Notice of Federal Student Financial Aid to providing a drug-free, healthy and safe by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than Penalties for Drug Law Violations: $500. Persons may not drive while under the environment for all students, faculty and staff. A student who has been convicted of possession influence of alcohol or any intoxicating substance. The unlawful use, possession, manufacturing, or sale of illegal drugs while receiving federal Violators shall be punished by a fine of not less distribution or dispensation of a controlled Title IV financial aid loses eligibility for federal than five hundred nor more than five thousand substance and the illegal use or possession of and state government financial aid (including dollars or by imprisonment for not more than alcoholic beverages on campus or at College Title IV, HEA grant, loan, or work-study two and one-half years, or both such fine and sponsored activities is prohibited. If it is assistance) for a period of time specified in the imprisonment. If a police officer has reasonable determined that a violation of this policy has law (HEA Sec. 484(r)(1)); (20 U.S.C. 1091(r)(1)). grounds to believe a person is driving under the occurred, disciplinary action up to and including The period of ineligibility depends on whether influence, a breathalyzer test may be given. If the dismissal of students and referral for the conviction was for possession or sale of the person arrested refuses to submit to such test prosecution may result. Applicable legal sanctions (including conspiring to sell) illegal drugs. For or analysis, after having been informed that his for the unlawful use, possession or distribution further information, please visit the College's license or permit to operate motor vehicles or right of alcohol and other drugs are summarized in website at http://www.stonehill.edu/x22719.xml. the following section. This information appears to operate motor vehicles in the commonwealth here to meet the requirements of the Drug-Free shall be suspended for a period of at least 180 Schools and Communities Act. In addition to this days and up to a lifetime loss, for such refusal, no Delivery of Services such test or analysis shall be made and he shall policy, other College policies remain in effect. Stonehill College assumes no liability for the delay have his license or right to operate suspended in or failure in providing educational or other services accordance with this paragraph for a period of 180 or facilities due to causes beyond its reasonable Summary of Alcohol and days. Conviction for a first offense be punished by control. Causes include, but are not limited to Other Drug Laws a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than power failure, fire, strikes by College employees five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not The legal drinking age in Massachusetts is 21 years or others, damage by natural elements, and acts less than thirty days nor more than two years, or of age. A person over 21 years of age may not buy of public authorities. The College will, however, both, and for a second offense by imprisonment alcohol for a person under 21 years of age, unless exert reasonable efforts, when it judges them to in the state prison for not more than five years or their relationship is that of parent and child or be appropriate, to provide comparable services, in a house of correction for not less than thirty husband and wife, and even in those situations facilities, or performance; but its inability or failure days nor more than two and one half years, or liquor must be bought at a package liquor store, to do so shall not subject the College to liability. by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, not a restaurant or tavern. Whoever furnishes any or by both such fine and imprisonment. such beverage or alcohol for a person under 21 Stonehill College will endeavor to make available to its students a fine education and a stimulating years of age shall be punished by a fine of not Massachusetts has criminal penalties for use of and congenial environment. However, the more than $2,000 or by imprisonment for not controlled substances, or drugs, with penalties quality and rate of progress of an individual’s more than one year or both. Alcohol may not be varying with the type of drug. In general, narcotic, academic career and professional advancement purchased or attempted to be purchased by a addictive, and drugs with a high potential for upon completion of a degree or program are person under 21 years of age. A person may not abuse have heavier penalties. Possession of largely dependent on his or her own abilities, lie about his/her age to purchase alcohol, present drugs is illegal without valid authorization. While commitment and effort. In many professions and false identification, or make arrangements with penalties for possession are generally not as great occupations, there are requirements imposed by someone older to buy alcohol for him/her. Any as for manufacture and distribution of drugs, federal and state statutes and regulatory agencies person knowingly makes a false statement as to possession of a relatively large quantity may be for certification or entry into a particular field. the age of a person who is under twenty-one considered distribution. Under both state and These requirements may change while a student years of age in order to procure a sale or delivery Federal laws penalties for possession, manufacture is enrolled in a program and may vary from of such beverages or alcohol to such person and distribution are much greater for second state to state or country to country. Although the under twenty-one years of age, either for the use and subsequent convictions. Many laws dictate College stands ready to help its students learn of the person under twenty-one years of age or mandatory prison terms and the full minimum about requirements and changes in them, it is the for the use of some other person, and whoever term must be served. Massachusetts makes it student’s responsibility to initiate the inquiry. induces a person under twenty-one years of age illegal to be in a place where heroin is kept to make a false statement as to his age in order and to be “in the company” of a person known to procure a sale or delivery of such beverages to possess heroin. Anyone in the presence of

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Board of Trustees Resources, Lisa S. O’Donnell Services, Kristin E. Silva Assistant Director of Human Resources/ Assistant Director of Career Vicki Balsamo ‘81 Benefits, Lisa A. Conroy Services, Kristine Shatas Thomas F. Bogan ‘72 Patrick Burke ‘84 Manager of Training and Professional Assistant Director of Career Development, Lily A. Krentzman Services, Darcy Lynch James J. Clark ‘76 Daniel J. Coughlin, Jr., ‘74 Human Resources Generalist, Career Counselor, Mary Ann Joyce Patricia A. Anzelmo Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., Esq. ‘78 Career Counselor, Andrew S. Leahy Rev. William R. Dailey, C.S.C., Esq. Human Resources Generalist, Kathy A. Falcone Interim Library Director and Circulation Daniel P. DeVasto ‘70, P‘94 Director of the Child Care Center, Librarian, Susan P. Conant Tracey J. Deloughrey William F. Devin ‘60 (Vice Chair), P‘88 Director of Archives and Historical John E. Drew ‘65 Academic Division Collections, Nicole B. Casper Rev. Thomas A. Dziekan, C.S.C. ‘71 Cataloging Librarian, Cheryl Brigante Rev. Anthony R. Grasso, C.S.C., Ph.D. Administration Collection Development Librarian, Betsy Dean Patrick W. Griffin ‘81 Provost and Vice President for Elizabeth G. Hayden ‘76 P’04 Academic Affairs, Katie Conboy Periodicals and Electronic Resources Librarian, Geri H. Sheehan Michael W. Herlihy ‘83, P’05 Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Head Reference Librarian, Joseph C. Middleton Rev. Daniel J. Issing, C.S.C. and Dean of the Faculty, Joseph A. Favazza Alan J. Juliano, P’11 Reference Librarian, Patricia McPherson Rev. James Lies, C.S.C. Director of Academic Assessment, Linda A. Dillon Reference Librarian, Heather Perry Rev. Thomas P. Looney, C.S.C., Ph.D. ‘82 Reference Librarian, Jane Swiszcz Thomas J. Lucey Assistant Dean of General Education and Academic Achievement, Todd Gernes Systems Librarian, Jennifer Macaulay Thomas J. May ‘69 (Chair) Sherilyn McCoy, P’12 Director of the Center for Teaching Disabilities Compliance Officer, Rev. James E. McDonald, C.S.C., Esq. and Learning, Stacy Grooters Thomas V. Flynn, Esq. Leo J. Meehan III ‘75 Director of the Office of Community Kathleen M. Miller ‘79 Based Learning, Corey Dolgon Advancement Division Marsha A. Moses, Ph.D. ‘75 Director, Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Institute Administration for Law and Society, Peter Ubertaccio Hugh R. Page Jr., Ph.D. Vice President for Advancement, Rev. John R. Paige, C.S.C., Ph.D. Dean of Academic Achievement, Craig Almeida Francis X. Dillon Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., Ph.D. Associate Dean of Academic Assistant Vice President for Advancement Robert F. Rivers ‘86 Achievement and Director of Academic and Director of Major Gifts and Planned Rev. John J. Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D. Services, Richard J. Grant Giving, Timothy J. Lawlor Lawrence C. Salameno, J.D., Ph.D. (Hon. ‘08) Associate Director of Academic Major Gifts Officer, David L. Dugas Theresa A. Salameno Ph.D. (Hon. ‘08) Services, Kathleen Joint Major Gifts Officer, Lori D. Harris F. Robert Salerno P’06 Associate Director of Academic Carmel Shields, Esq. Services, Shelley A. Sandler Leahy Planned Giving/Major Gifts Officer, Sharon M. Doyle Rev. David T. Tyson, C.S.C., Ph.D. Academic Advisor, Richard Dufault Special Gifts Officer, Stephen H. Muzrall Officers of the Corporation Associate Director, Disability Services and Academic Achievement, Elizabeth Orlando Special Events/Stewardship President, Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., Esq. ‘78 Coordinator, Kim Wheeler Associate Director, Writing Center and Vice President for Finance and Academic Achievement, Devon Sprague Development Researcher, Daniel J. Meagher Treasurer, Jeanne M. Finlayson Director of International Director of Alumni Affairs, Anne M. Sant Clerk, Thomas V. Flynn, Esq. ‘93 Programs, Alice M. Cronin Associate Director of Alumni Assistant Clerk, Eileen K. O’Leary Assistant Director of International Affairs, Peter F. LaBreck Programs, Jennifer McKernan Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs, Office of the President International Programs Advisor, Emily Brazer Robert F. Conceison, Jr. Registrar, John D. Pestana Director of Communications and Media President, Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., Esq. ‘78 Relations, Martin McGovern Associate Registrar, Nancy Krushas Counselor to the President, Associate Director of Communications Assistant Registrar, Zachariah D. Brown Thomas V. Flynn, Esq. ‘93 and Media Relations, Kristen Magda Manager of Student Information Assistant to the President, Margaret Carr Design Specialist, Lu Ann Totman Systems, Irene Russo Director of Development, Douglas J. Smith Office of the President, Data Specialist, Veronica Dunn Executive Administration Director of Academic Development, Assistant Director of Bonnie L. Troupe Development, Steve Luttge General Counsel, Thomas V. Flynn, Esq. ‘93 Director of the Annual Fund, Lisa A. Richards Director of Career Services, Heather Heerman Director of Human Resources, Maryann B. Perry Assistant Director of the Annual Employee Compliance Officer, Maryann B. Perry Associate Director of Career Fund, Stacy King Services, Christina Burney Development Associate, TBA Associate Director of Human Associate Director of Career

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Director of Corporate and Foundation Lieutenant, Campus Police and Student Affairs Division Relations, Marie Kelly Safety, Catherine Farrington Administration Director of Conference & Event Enrollment Management Services, Christopher C. Augeri Vice President for Student Affairs, Rev. John Denning, C.S.C. and Marketing Division Associate Director of Conference Administration & Event Services, Regina Egan Associate Vice President for Student Affairs/ Dean of Students, Pauline M. Dobrowski Vice President for Enrollment Director of Facilities Management and Marketing, TBD Management, Bruce Boyer Director of Community Standards, Beth Devonshire Director of Space Planning, Susan Viera Special Assistant to the Vice President Director of Residence Life, Ali T. Hicks for Enrollment Management and Controller, Jennifer Mathews Associate Director of Residence Marketing, Samuel Smith Assistant Controller, Leanne Velasquez Life, Peter Wiernicki Dean of Admissions, Daniel Monahan Manager of Finance Information Assistant Director of Residence Associate Dean of Admissions, Joseph Dacey Systems, Jacqueline Gouveia Life, Kristen Pierce Associate Dean of Admissions, Amy Tiberio Payroll Manager, Debra Walsh Director of Student Activities, Jim Hermelbracht Assistant Dean of Admissions, Evan Grenier Assistant Vice President for Planning, Assistant Director of Student Activities for Co- Stephen J. Beauregard Curricular Programs, Heather Cantwell-Miller Assistant Dean of Admissions, Catherine Hogan Budget Manager, Lucia Darling Assistant Director of Student Activities for Campus Programs, Lina Macedo Senior Admissions Counselor for Director of Planning & Institutional Multicultural Recruitment, TBD Research, Laura Uerling Director of Intercultural Affairs, Liza Talusan Admissions Counselor, Tim Cushing Associate Director of Planning & Assistant Director of Intercultural Institutional Research, Jean Hamler Admissions Counselor, Amber Nadeau Affairs, Jacqueline Guzmán Chief Information Officer, Tamara Anderson Admissions Counselor, John Pepin Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, Maria Kavanaugh, LICSW Admissions Counselor, Heather Steliga Director, Enterprise Application Services, David Doherty Associate Director of the Counseling and Manager of Admissions and Enrollment Testing Center, Kelly Paton, LMHC Information Systems II, Jamey Reddicks Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Lauri Doniger Staff Social Worker/AOD Coordinator, Assistant Vice President Student Financial Services/ Meghan M. Dwyer, LICSW Director of Financial Aid, Eileen O’Leary Director of Network Services, Mark Tufts Director of User Support Director of Health Services, Diane Leary, FNP Associate Director, Student Financial Services, Ferayi Karakaya Services, Doreen DelMonaco Assistant Vice President for Intercollegiate Manager of Help Desk Services, Athletics & Recreation, Paula Sullivan Associate Director for Student Christopher Banwarth Accounts, Jennifer Heine Director of Intercollegiate Director of Media and Videographic Athletics, Brendan Sullivan Assistant Director for Student Services, Michael Pietrowski Loans, Janice Lindstrom Senior Associate Director of Intercollegiate Manager, Voice Communication Athletics, Cindy MacDonald Assistant Director, Student Financial Services, Ginny Murphy Services, Rebecca DiFalco Associate Director of Intercollegiate Assistant Director, Student Financial Mission Division Administration Athletics, Nick Smith Services, Jason Martin Assistant Director of Intercollegiate Vice President for Mission, Athletics, Pam Arpe Manager of Student Financial Paul J. DaPonte, Ph.D. Information Systems, TBD Director of Intercollegiate Athletic Enrollment Management Research Director of Campus Ministry, Rev. Communications, Doug Monson Hugh Cleary, C.S.C., Ph.D. Analyst, Brian Oles Head Athletic Trainer, Peter Krysko Campus Minister, MaryAnne Cappelleri Financial Aid Counselor, Hilary Ferrie Associate Athletic Trainer/Director of Director of Marketing, Heather Bruntil Campus Minister, Rev. Thomas Strength & Conditioning, Barry Darling M. Halkovic, C.S.C. Associate Director of Web Assistant Athletic Trainer, Gwen Chiaranda Campus Minister, Joseph Miller Marketing, Shane LaPrade Director of Recreational Sports, John Leahy Campus Minister, Rev. Pinto Paul, C.S.C. Senior Marketing Manager, Chris Augustine Assistant Director of Recreational Graphic Designer, Alexis Sneff Music Minister, TBD Sports, Derek R. Jenesky Web Content Manager, Geoffrey Smith Alumni/Athletics Chaplain, Rev. Robert Wiseman, C.S.C. Finance Division Administration Director of the Center for Nonprofit Management, Georgia Antonopoulos Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, Jeanne M. Finlayson Program Officer of the Center for Nonprofit Management, Sarah Varadian ‘10 Associate Vice President for Finance/ Operations, Craig W. Binney Farm Manager, Bridget Meigs Director of Purchasing/Business Services, Gregory J. Wolfe Director of Campus Police and Safety, Chief Peter Carnes

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NOTE: The year listed in parentheses after the Maurice H. J. Morin, Associate Professor Antonio Barbagallo, Professor of name of each faculty member is the date of his of English, (1975); A.B., M.A., Providence Foreign Languages, (1989); B.A., or her first appointment to the Stonehill College College; Ph.D., Brown University. University of Massachusetts, Boston; faculty. “Additional Study’’ indicates at least 30 M.A., D.M.L., Middlebury College. credit hours beyond the Master’s degree. Robert B. Peabody, Professor of Biology, (1979), B.S., Duke University; M.S., Clemson Peter H. Beisheim, Professor of Religious University; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Studies, (1968); A.B., St. John’s Seminary; M.Ed., Emerita/Emeritus Faculty State College at Boston; M.A., University of Fred C. Petti, Director of Recruiting, Notre Dame; Ph.D., Fordham University. Barbara P. Aalto, Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Philosophy (1968); Psychology, (1968); A.B., Bates College; M.A., A.B., Stonehill College; M.A., St. John’s Elizabeth Belanger, Assistant Professor Boston University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. University; Ph.D., Boston College. of History, (2006); B.A. Kenyon College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. David J. Arthur, C.S.C., (Rev.), Associate Virginia G. Polanski, Associate Professor of Professor of Philosophy, (1954); A.B., University Writing, (1987); B.A., Houghton College; M.A., Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Assistant Professor of Notre Dame; M.A., Catholic University of Syracuse University; M.A., Niagra University; of Biology, (2010); B.S., University of America; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo. Arizona; Ph.D., Indiana University. Marlene Benjamin, Associate Professor Chet A. Raymo, Professor of Physics, Matthew C. Borushko, Assistant Professor of Political Science, (1987); B.A., St. John’s (1964); B.S., University of Notre Dame; of English, (2009); B.A., University of college; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University. M.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. John J. Broderick, Professor of Sociology and Margaret R. Boyd, Assistant Professor of Sociology Criminology, (1965); A.B., University of Louvain; Richard A.K. Shankar, Associate Professor of and Criminology, (1999); B.A., Carleton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Hampshire. Sociology, (1976); B.A., California State College; M.S.W., Wilfred Laurier University; M.A. University Toni-Lee Capossela, Professor of Writing, (1991); M.A., Chico State College; Ph.D., Boston College. of Connecticut; Ph.D., Boston University. B.A., Boston University; Ph.D., Brandeis University. Dolores A. Shelley, Professor of English, (1967); Maureen E. Boyle, Assistant Professor of George H. Carey, Professor of Chemistry, A.B., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Boston Communication, (2010); B.S., University of (1968); B.S., Boston College; Ph.D., College; M.A., University of New Hampshire. Bridgeport; M.A., Anna Maria College. Illinois Institute of Technology. Joseph A. Skaff, Associate Professor of Kenneth J. Branco, Professor of Anne T. Carrigg, Professor of History (1965); A.B., Islamic Studies, (1969); A.B., Stonehill Sociology and Criminology, (1984); B.A., Stonehill College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. College; M.A., University of Dhaka; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Additional Study, McGill University. M.S.W., Ph.D., Boston College. John J. Carty, C.P.A., Associate Professor of Business Administration, (1963); B.B.A., Judith A. Sughrue, Associate Professor of George H. Branigan, Associate Professor of University of Massachusetts, Amherst; History, (1964); A.B., Regis College; M.A., Education, (1976); B.A., George Washington M.B.A., Harvard Business School. Additional Study, Catholic University. University; Ed.D., Boston University. Maryjean V. Crowe, Associate Professor Soo Tang Tan, Professor of Mathematics, Ralph J. Bravaco, Professor of Computer of Visual and Performing Arts, (1994); (1977); B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Science, (1975); B.S., Seton Hall University; B.S., Massachusetts College of Art; M.F.A., Technology; M.S., University of Wisconsin; M.S., University of Southern California; Rhode Island School of Design. P.H.D., University of California, Los Angeles. M.S., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. James P. Dillon, Professor of Philosophy, Richard J. Trudeau, Associate Professor Linzy Brekke-Aloise, Assistant Professor (1959); A.B., M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Boston College. of Mathematics, (1970); A.B., M.A., Boston of History, (2005); B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M. Div., Harvard University. College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University. Barbara L. Estrin, Professor of English (1974); B.A., Smith College; M.A., Harvard Francis M. Walsh, C.S.C. (Rev.), Associate Kirk Buckman, Assistant Professor of Polotical University; Ph.D., Brown University. Professor of Psychology, (1966); A.B., Stonehill Science, (2011); B.A., Clark University; M.A., Johns College; S.T.L., The Gregorian University; M.A., Hopkins University; Ph.D., Brandeis University. Paul R. Gastonguay, Associate Academic Fairfield University; Ph.D., Boston College. Dean, Associate Professor of Biology, (1969); Carole G. Calo, Professor of Visual and Performing B.S., Bates College; M.S., Rivier College. James L. Wiles, Professor of Economics, Arts, (1992); B.F.A., Boston University; M.A.T., (1955); A.B., Boston College; A.M., Tufts University; Ph.D., Boston University. Mario Giangrande, Professor of Italian, Ph.D., Harvard University. (1962); A.B., Boston College; Dip. d’Et. Univ., Richard M. Capobianco, Professor of University of Nice; Ph.D., Boston College. Celia Wolf-Devine, Associate Professor Philosophy, (1989); B.A., Hofstra University; of Philosophy, (1987); B.A, Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. James J. Kenneally, Professor of History, M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. (1958); B.S., Boston College; M.Ed., Tufts Robert H. Carver, Professor of Business University; Ph.D., Boston College. Administration, (1982); B.A., Amherst College; Faculty M.P.P., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Robert J. Kruse, C.S.C., (Rev.), Counselor J. Richard Anderson, Professor of Business to the President, Professor of Religious Anthony J. Celano, Professor of Philosophy, Administration, (1979); B.A., Allegheny (1982); B.A., University of Delaware; M.S.L., Studies, (1961); A.B., Stonehill College; College; M.S., Northeastern University; S.T.D., The Gregorian University. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies; Additional Study, Boston University. M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto. Elizabeth V. Mahoney, Professor of Spanish, Karen L. Anderson, Associate Professor Wendy Chapman Peek, Professor of (1959); A.B., Emmanuel College; M.A., Boston of Education, (2003); B.S., M.S., Long University; Additional Study, Brown University. English, (1990); B.A., Rutgers University; Island University; M.S., BankStreet College M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Benjamin R. Mariante, Professor of Sociology, of Education; Ph.D., Boston College. (1971); A.B., San Luis Rey College; S.T.B., James Chichetto, C.S.C., (Rev.), Associate Professor Franciscan School of Theology; M.A., University of Writing, (1974); A.B., Stonehill College; M.A., of San Francisco; Th.D., Harvard University. Holy Cross College; M.A., Wesleyan University.

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Thomas J. Clarke, Professor of Religious Studies Thomas P. Gariepy, C.S.C., (Rev.), Professor John D. Hurley, Professor of Psychology, and History, (1969); A.B., Stonehill College; of Healthcare Administration, (1985); A.B., (1967); B.S., M.Ed., State College at S.T.L., The Gregorian University; M.A., Columbia Stonehill College; M.A., M.Th., University of Boston; Ed.D., Boston University. University; Ph.D., Brandeis University; Psy.D., Notre Dame; M.P.H., Ph.D., Yale University. Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Glen Ilacqua, Assistant Professor of Business Hilary Gettman, Assistant Professor of Administration, (2005); B.S., M.S., Bentley College. Scott A. Cohen, Associate Professor of Business Administration, (2008); B.A., Eastern Daniel Itzkovitz, English, (2004); B.A., Keene State College; Nazarene College; J.D., Harvard Law School; Associate Professor M.A., The Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland. of English, (1997); A.B., Sarah Lawrence Ph.D., University of Virginia. College; Ph.D., Duke University. Mitchell Glavin, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Christopher A. Ives, Virginia Cortijo, Assistant Professor of Administration, (2007); B.Sc., Massachusetts Professor of Religious Business Administration, (2010); B.A., Institute of Technology; M.Sc., London School Studies, (2001); B.A., Williams College, M.A., Ph.D., University of Huelva. of Economics; Ph.D., Brandeis University. M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School. Magdalena James-Pederson, Lincoln G. Craton, Associate Professor of Brian Glibkowski, Assistant Professor of Business Assistant Professor Psychology, (1995); B.S., Tufts University; Administration, (2008); B.S., Bowling Green of Chemistry, (2003); B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. State University, M.B.A., Loyola University of Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Chicago; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Carlos A. Curley, Associate Professor of Mark Kazarosian, Associate Mathematics, (1988); A.B., Boston College; Andre L. Goddu, Professor of Physics, (1990); Professor of Economics, (1997); B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Northeastern University. B.A., San Luis Rey College; M.A., California M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. State University, San Francisco; Ph.D., Kathleen Currul-Dykeman, Hossein S. Kazemi, Associate Professor Assistant Professor University of California, Los Angeles. of Sociology and Criminology, (2008); B.A., of Economics, (1982); B.S., University of University of Massachusetts at Amherst; J.D., Leslie Ann Goldberg, Assistant Professor Tehran; M.A., Ph.D., Clark University. Suffolk University School of Law; Doctoral of Visual and Performing Arts, (1999); B.A., Pamela M. Kelley, Instructor of Sociology Candidate, Northeastern University. University of Colorado; M. Music, University and Criminology, (2002); B.A., Rhodes of Colorado; Mus.A.D., Boston University. Maria A. Curtin, Professor of Chemistry, College; M.A., Syracuse University; Doctoral (1993); B.S., Merrimack College; M.S., Fordham John J. Golden, Associate Professor of Foreign Candidate, Northeastern University. University; Ph.D., Brandeis University. Languages, (1988); B.A., Fordham University; M.A., Bonnel A. Klentz, Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Warren F. Dahlin, Jr., Assistant Professor (1985); B.A., University of Kansas; M.A., of Healthcare Administration, (1978); B.A., Robert G. Goulet, Professor of English, Ph.D., University of Montana. Nasson College; M.S., Boston University. (1968); Ed.B., Rhode Island College; David D. Kinsey, Assistant Professor of Visual and M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. Deno Del Sesto, Assistant Professor Performing Arts, (2010); B.F.A., Ringling College of Chemistry, (2011); B.A., St. Anselm Sarah Gracombe, Associate Professor of of Art and Design; M.F.A., Yale University. College; Ph.D., Tufts Unviersity. English, (2004); B.A., Brown University.; John R. Lanci, Professor of Religious Studies, Ph.D., Columbia University. Rudy F. de Mattos, Assistant Professor (1990); A.B., New York University; M.Th., University of Foreign Language, (2010); M.A., Ph.D., Jared F. Green, Associate Professor of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. University of Texas at Austin. of English, (2002); B.A., Swarthmore Anna Lännström, Associate Professor of College; Ph.D., Brown University. Nathaniel P. DesRosiers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, (2003); B.A., State University of New Chemistry, (2011); B.A., Stonehill College; M.T.S., Richard E. Gribble, C.S.C., (Rev.), Professor York-Potsdam; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Brown University. of Religious Studies, (1995); B.S., United Geoffrey P. Lantos, Professor of States Naval Academy; M.S., University Claus Dierksmeier, Business Administration, (1986); B.A., Professor of of Southern California; M.Div., M. Sacred Business Administration, (2002); M.A., Gettysburg College; M.B.A., University of Theology, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley; Rochester; Ph.D., Lehigh University. Ph.D., Universitat Hamburg. Ph.D., Catholic University of America. Robert Dugan, Patricia Leavy, Associate Professor of Sociology Associate Professor of Computer Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Professor of Sociology Science, (2002); B.S., M.S., Worcester Polytechnic and Criminology, (2002); B.A., Boston and Criminology, (1995); A.B., Pennsylvania University; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. Institute; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. State University; Ph.D., Boston College. Helga Duncan, Associate Professor of English James B. Lee, Professor of Business Mevan Gunawardena, Assistant Professor Administration, (1998); B.S., Loyola-Marymount (2005); B.A., University of Colorado, Colorado of Physics and Engineering, (2009); Springs; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. University; M.S., University of Hawaii, Manoa; B.Sc., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona. Norah C. Esty, Associate Professor of Mathematics, M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University. Mary Joan Leith, Associate Professor of (2007); B.Sc., Montana State University, Ph.D., Marilena F. Hall, Associate Professor of University of California at Berkeley. Religious Studies, (1988); A.B., Harvard/Radcliffe Chemistry, (2000); B.S., McGill University; College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. William Ewell, Assistant Professor of Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. Political Science, (2009); B.A., Providence Ronald Leone, Associate Professor of Nancy E. Hammerle, Associate Professor of Communication, (2000); B.A., Rhode College; M.A., Duke University; Doctoral Economics, (1980); A.B., M.A., Temple University. Candidate, University of North Carolina. Island College; M.S., Boston University; Rachel Anne Hirst, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Syracuse University. Richard B. Finnegan, Professor of Political of Biology, (2011); B.S., Stonehill College; Louis J. Liotta, Professor of Chemistry, Science, (1968); A.B., Stonehill College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. M.A., Boston College; Ed.M., Harvard (1993); B.S., Pennsylvania State University; University; Ph.D., Florida State University. Michael A. Horne, Professor of Physics, M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University. (1970); B.S., University of Mississippi; Richard A. Gariepy, Shari L. Lowin, Associate Professor of Religious Associate Professor M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. of Business Administration, (2000); B.S., Studies, (2002); B.A., Columbia College, Columbia Northeastern University; M.S., Union College. Amy Houston, Assistant Professor of History, University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (2008); B.A., Albertson College of Idaho; Shane J. Maddock, Professor of History, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University. (1999); B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut.

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Peter J. Mahoney, Instructor of Foreign Monique A. Myers, Associate Professor of Valerie G. Robertson, Instructor of Visual and Languages, (2011); B.A., Stonehill College, Communication, (2004); B.S., M.A., Emerson Performing Arts, (2009); B.A., Roger Williams M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University. College; Ph.D., University of Denver. University; M.F.A., Florida State University. Gregory D. Maniero, Associate Professor of Jane G. Nash, Professor of Psychology, (1992); B.A., Ann Marie Rocheleau, Assistant Professor Biology, (2004); B.S., University of Wisconsin- Grinnell College; M.S., Ph.D., Ohio University. of Sociology and Criminology, (2006); B.A., Parkside; Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder. Assumption College; M.A., Boston College; Anna Ohanyan, Associate Professor of Doctoral Candidate, Northeastern University. Christian L. Martin, Associate Professor of Foreign Political Science, (2005); B.A., Yerevan Languages, (1998); L.L.M., Universite´ de Haute State University; M.S., Nova Southeastern Robert Rodgers, Assistant Professor of Political Bretagne; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. University; Ph.D., Syracuse University. Science, (2008); B.A., B.S., Syracuse University; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; Juan Carlos Martin, Assistant Professor of Erin L. O’Hea, Associate Professor of Psychology, Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University. Foreign Languages, (2006); B.A., Brigham Young (2009); B.A., Lafayette College; M.A., Connecticut University; M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., College; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. John C. Rodrigue, Professor of History, Lawrence University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. and Theresa Salameno Endowed Chair in Andrea Opitz, Instructor of English, (2008); History, (2007); B.A., Rutgers University; A.M. Jose Luis Martínez, Associate Professor B.A., Freie Universität Berlin; M.A. University Columbia University; Ph.D. Emory University. of Foreign Languages, (1998); B.A., of Montana; Ph.D., University of Washington. Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Pedras; Robert A. Rosenthal, Professor of Brendan O’Sullivan, M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Assistant Professor of Economics, (1975); A.B., Queens College; Philosophy, (2009); B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. Alessandro Massarotti, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. of Physics, (2001); M.A., University of Debra Salvucci, C.P.A., Associate Professor Irvin L. Pan, Rome; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Assistant Professpr. (2011); of Business Administration, (1984); B.S., B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Johns Hopkins Boston College; M.S.T., Bentley College. Anne F. Mattina, Associate Professor Unviersity; Ph.D., Yale University. of Communication, (1997); B.A., David L. Sander, Assistant professor Angela Paradise, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Assistant Professor of of Religious Studies, (2008); B.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. Communication, (2007); B.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., University of Colorado. M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Wanjiru Gakau Mbure, Assistant Professor of Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Patricia H. Sankus, Professor of Visual Communication, (2011); B.A., Daystar University; and Performing Arts (Theatre Arts), (1980); Jose C. Pérêz, M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Associate Professor A.B., University of New Hampshire; of Foreign Languages, (1980); B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University. Edward T. McCarron, Associate Professor M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. of History, (1992); B.A., Drew University; Shane Savage-Rumbaugh, Associate Rose J. Perkins, M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, University of New Hampshire. (1987); B.A., University of Detroit; B.A., (1997); B.F.A., School of the Art Institute Rhode Island College; M.A., University of of Chicago; M.F.A., Cornell University. John McCoy, Associate Professor of Colorado; Ed. D., Northeastern University. Psychology, (2008); B.S., Albright College; Laura Thieman Scales, Assistant Professor Margaret E. Pierce, M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University. Assistant Professor of English, (2007); B.A., Yale University; M.A., of Education, (2011); B.A., Swarthmore Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Lee McGinnis, Assistant Professor of Business College; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard Unviersity. Administration, (2009); B.A., Idaho State John A. Schatzel, C.P.A., Professor of Business George A. Piggford, C.S.C., University; M.S., Kansas State University; Associate Administration, (1976); B.S.B.A., State University Professor of English, (2004); B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln. of New York at Albany; M.B.A., University of Duquesne University; M. Div., Notre Dame Massachusetts, Amherst; D.B.A., Boston University. Edward F. McGushin, Associate Professor of University; Ph.D., University of Montreal. Philosophy, (2011); B.A., University of North Cheryl S. Schnitzer, Associate Professor Stephen J. Pinzari, Associate Professor Carolina-Chapel Hill; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. of Chemistry, (2000); B.A., Skidmore of Education, (1979); B.Ed., Keene State College; Ph.D., Tufts University. Constantinos Mekios, Assistant Professor College of the University of New Hampshire; of Philosophy, (2006); B.Sc., S.U.N.Y.; M.Ed., Ed.D., University of Maine. Bettina R. Scholz, Assistant Professor of M.A., M. Phil., Columbia University; Political Science, (2010); B.A., Wellesley Christopher Poirier, Associate Professor of M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Psychology, (2004); B.A., Stonehill College; M.S., J. Ginger Meng, Assistant Professor of Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Gregory J. Shaw, Professor of Religious Studies, Business Administration, (2008); B.E. Tianjin (1986); B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Eugene P. Quinn, Assistant Professor of University; M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Boston College. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Mathematics, (2006); B.S., Providence Katie L. Nolin, Assistant Professor of College; M.S., University of Rhode Island; Allyson Sheckler, Assistant Professor of Visual and Biology, (2008); B.A., Skidmore College; Ph.D., University of Rhode Island. Performing Arts, (1995); B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D. Stony Brook University. M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Boston University. Sharon Ramos Goyette, Associate Professor Susan M. Mooney, Associate Professor of Biology, of Biology, (2004); B.S., Boston College; Shai Simonson, Professor of Computer Science, (1985); B.S., Stonehill College; M.A., State University Ph.D., Tufts University; Post Doctoral (1991); B.A., Columbia College of Columbia of New York, Buffalo; Ph.D., Boston University. Fellow, Harvard Medical School. University; M.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Akira Motomura, Associate Professor of Lisa M. Redpath, Instructor of Visual and Robert E. Spencer, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, (1995); B.A., Yale University; Performing Arts, (2008); B.S., Edinboro Administration, (2010); B.S., M.S.T., Bentley M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Boston College; J.D., Suffolk University Law School. University; M.L.S., Simmons College. Sean Mulholland, Associate Professor Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., Professor of History, (2000); of Economics, (2009); B.S., M.A., Eddie Rhee, Associate Professor of Business B.A., Stonehill College; M.Div., University of Saint Ph.D., Clemson University. Administration, (2008); B.A., Sogang University; Michael’s College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston College. M.B.A., Ph.D. University of Iowa. Michael Mullen, Executive in Residence of Gary Stanton, Assistant Professor of Visual and Business Administration, (2010); B.S. Fordham Performing Arts, (1999); B.S., State University University; M.B.A., Indiana University. College at Buffalo; M.F.A., University at Buffalo.

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Hsin-hao Su, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Faculty Fellows Linda A. Dillon, Director of Academic (2006); B.S., Feng Chia University; M.S., National Assessment, Assistant Professor, (1975); B.A., Tsing Hua University; M.S. Johns Hopkins Geoffrey T. Anders, II, Philosophy (2009); B.A., Regis College; M.Ed., Northeastern University. University; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. B.S., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., University of Virginia; Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University. Corey Dolgon, Director of Community Based Jennifer A. Swanson, Associate Professor Learning, Professor of Sociology and Criminology of Business Administration, (1997); B.B.A., Barry C. Knowlton, History (2007); (2009); B.A., Boston University; M.A., Baylor University of Minnesota; M.B.A., University of B.A. Assumption College; M.A. Syracuse University; Ph.D., Univeristy of Michigan. Hartford; Ph.D., University of Rhode Island. University; Ph.D. Boston College. *Joseph A. Favazza, Associate Vice President Karen Teoh, Assistant Professor of History, (2010); Robert D. Pritchard, Economics (2008) for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University. , B.A., M.A., Boston College; Doctoral Professor of Religious Studies, (2005); B.A., Candidate, Northeastern University. St. Meinrad College; S.T.B./M.A., Ph.D., Leon J. Tilley, Associate Professor Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM. of Chemistry, (1996); B.A., Grinnell David Simon, Physics (2011); B.S., Ohio State College; Ph.D., Indiana University. University; M.A. Johns Hopkins University; Todd S. Gernes, Assistant Dean of General Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Education and Academic Achievement, Associate Michael E. Tirrell, Associate Professor of Professor of History, (2008); B.A., M.A., Heather J. Yu, Biology & Neuroscience Psychology, (1979); A.B., Stonehill College; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.A., (2010); B.S., University of Massachusetts; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Hampshire. Brown University; Ph.D., Brown University. Ph.D., Boston University. Heiko Todt, Assistant Professor of Richard J. Grant, Associate Dean of Academic Mathematics, (2011); M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Administrators Achievement and Director of Academic Services, Pennsylvania State University. Assistant Professor, (1969); A.B., Maryknoll Erica L. Tucker, Assistant Professor of Sociology with Faculty Rank College Seminary; M.Ed., Boston College. and Criminology, (2005); B.A., Beloit College; Emerita/Emeritus Stacy Grooters, Director, Center for Teaching M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. and Learning, Assistant Professor of English, Maura Geens Tyrrell, Professor of Biology, (1975); Bartley MacPháidín, C.S.C., (Rev.), President (2007); B.A. Central College; M.A. Miami A.B., Trinity College; Ph.D., University of Delaware. Emeritus/Chancellor, Associate Professor of University; Ph.D. University of Washington. Religious Studies, (1966); A.B., Stonehill College; Daria Valentini, Professor of Foreign Languages, S.T.L., Th.D., The Gregorian University. Thomas M. Halkovic, C.S.C., (Rev.), (1998); Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Campus Minister, (1990); A.B., Stonehill Catholic University of Milan; M.A., Ph.D., Linda Sullivan, Registrar Emerita, Associate College; M.Th., University of Notre University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor, (1961); A.B., Stonehill College. Dame; C.A.S., Fairfield University. Edward S. Vaughn, Jr., Associate Professor Faculty Joan D. Halpert, Costume Designer, of Business Administration, (1981); B.S.B.A., Instructor of Visual and Performing Arts, Suffolk University; M.B.A., Boston College; * Craig A. Almeida, Dean of Academic (1986); B.S., Skidmore College. J.D., Suffolk University Law School. Achievement, Associate Professor of Biology Nancy E. Krushas, Associate Registrar, (1996); B.A., Bridgewater State College; Josef Velazquez, Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor, (1994); A.B., Stonehill Ph.D., University of New Hampshire. Philosophy, (1998); B.S., University of College; M.Ed., Bridgewater State College. Scranton; M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University. Barbara M. Anzivino, Laboratory Martin McGovern, Director of Communications Instructor, Chemistry Department, Assistant James Wadsworth, Associate Professor of and Media Relations, Assistant Professor Professor, (1987); B.A., Regis College. History, (2002); B.A., Idaho State University; of Writing, (1986); B.A., M.A., University M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona- Tucson. Sheila A. Barry, Pre-Allied Health Professions College Dublin; M.S., Boston University. Advisor, Assistant Professor of Biology, Candace Walters, Associate Professor of Visual Kathleen M. McNamara, Director of Placement (1980); A.B., University of Massachusetts, and Performing Arts, (1994); B.F.A., Hartford and Supervision, Assistant Professor of Education; Boston; M.Ed., Bridgewater State College. Art School, University of Hartford; M.F.A., B.A., College of St. Elizabeth; M.Ed., LesleyCollege. Boston University School for the Arts. Craig W. Binney, Associate Vice President for Patricia McPherson, Assistant Reference Librarian, Finance, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Christopher Wetzel, Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor, (2006); B.S., Northeastern (1985); B.S., Stonehill College; M.S., University Sociology and Criminology, (2009); B.A., University; M.L.S., Simmons College. of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.B.A., Babson University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., College; Additional Study, Boston University. Bridget Meigs, Farm Manager, Instructor of Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Environmental Science, (2011); B.S., Queens Cheryl Brigante, Cataloging Librarian, Assistant Stephen S. Wilbricht, C.S.C., Assistant University; M.P.S., Cornell University. Professor, (1998); B.S., Southern Connecticut Professor of Religious Studies, (2010); B.A., State College; M.S., Drexel University. Joseph C. Middleton, Head Reference Librarian, M.Div., University of Notre Dame; S.T.D., Assistant Professor, (1998); B.A., Queens College, The Catholic University of America. Nicole Casper, Director of Archives and Historical University of New York; M.L.S., Simmons College. Collections, Assistant Professor, (2001); A.B., Timothy Woodcock, Assistant Professor Stonehill College; M.L.S., Simmons College. Heather B. Perry, Reference Librarian/Inter of Mathematics, (2007); B.S., Stonehill Library Loan, Assistant Professor, (2000); College; M.S., University of Virginia. *Katie Conboy, Provost and Vice President A.B., Stonehill College; M.L.S., University of for Academic Affairs, Professor of English, Stephanie Wykstra, Assistant Professor Albany, State University of New York. (1987); B.A., University of Kansas; of Philosophy, (2009); B.A., Yale Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Shelley A. Sandler Leahy, Associate Director University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. of Academic Services, Assistant Professor, Paul J. DaPonte, Assistant Professor of Religious Eunmi Yang, Assistant Professor of (1986); B.A., Southeastern Massachusetts Studies, (2009); B.A., Providence College; B.A., Education, (2009); B.S., Korea University; University; M.Ed., Suffolk University. M.A., Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University. Geraldine H. Sheehan, Periodicals Librarian, Betsy Dean, Collection Development Librarian, Xuejian Yu, Professor of Communication, Assistant Professor, (1986); B.A. Assumption Assistant Professor, (1998); B.A., Wheaton College; (1992); B.A., Shanghai University of International College; M.L.S., Simmons College. M.L.S., M.A., The Catholic University of America. Studies; M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia; Ph.D., University of Kansas.

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Samuel B. Smith, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing, Assistant Professor, (1985); B.A., Gonzaga University; M.A., Ohio University, Athens. Devon Sprague, Associate Director of the Center for Writing and Academic Achievement, Assistant Professor of Writing, (2011); Joan F. Sozio, Laboratory Director, Biology Department, Assistant Professor, (1980); B.S., Stonehill College. Jane M. Swiszcz, Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor, (1993); B.A., University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth; M.L.A., University of Rhode Island. * Peter N. Ubertaccio, Director of Martin Institute, Associate Professor of Political Science, (2001); B.A., Catholic University of America; Ph.D., Brandeis University. *Holds Tenure on the Faculty.

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“Ace” the Skyhawk...... 119 Cornerstone Program of General Education...... 3 Grades and Evaluation...... 102 Absenteeism Due to Religious Holiday...... 101 Correspondence...... 2 Graduate School in Economics or Finance...... 23 Academic Division Administration...... 142 Counseling and Testing...... 117 Graduation Dates...... 103 Academic Honor Code...... 104 Course Withdrawal for Medical Reasons...... 102 Graduation Requirements...... 103 Academic Integrity Policy...... 104 Credit Earned Away From Stonehill...... 106 Graphic Design...... 42 Academic Integrity Procedures...... 105 Credit Overload...... 101 Guarantee Deposits...... 110 Academic Life...... 3 Curriculum...... 3 Guest Policy...... 138 Academic Partnerships...... 5 Dean’s List...... 104 Hazing...... 133 Academic Policies and Procedures...... 101 Deferred Admission...... 108 Health Insurance...... 110 Academic Progress...... 101 Degrees and Accreditation...... 1 Health Services...... 117 Academic Resources...... 8 Delivery of Services...... 141 Healthcare Administration...... 29 Academic Services...... 8 Demonstrations...... 140 High School/College Dual Academic Standing...... 103 Directed Study...... 7 Enrollment Policy, The...... 107 Accounting...... 16 Directory Information...... 139 History...... 30 Adding and Dropping Courses...... 101 Disability Services...... 8 History of the College...... 1 Administrators with Faculty Rank...... 147 Disciplinary Minor...... 4 Honor Societies...... 7 Advanced Placement...... 107 Disciplinary Procedures...... 123 Honors at Graduation...... 104 Advanced Placement (AP)...... 108 Discipline Committees...... 124 Independent Research...... 7 Advancement Division Administration...... 142 Discipline Records...... 126 Informal Conferences...... 124 Alcohol And Other Drugs...... 122 Disclosures To Parents/ Inspection of Student Rooms Alcohol Policy...... 127 Legal Guardians Of Students...... 139 and Personal Belongings...... 138 Alternative Medical Discrimination...... 133 Intercollegiate Sport Clubs...... 118 Withdrawal Refund Calculations...... 112 Distribution of Notices and Flyers...... 137 Intercultural Affairs Office...... 117 American Studies...... 10 Double Major...... 104 Interdisciplinary Minor...... 4 Anthropology...... 12 Drug Free Schools and Communities Act...... 141 Interdisciplinary Studies...... 30 Appeals...... 125 Economics...... 22 Interim Restrictions...... 126 Art History...... 41 Education...... 23 International Baccalaureate (IB) Credit Policy...... 107 Asian Studies...... 12 Education Studies Minor Without Licensure...... 25 International Business...... 16 Athletics...... 119 Electives...... 4 International Candidates...... 108 Auditing Courses...... 101 Electronic Devices Policy...... 134 International Internship Program...... 6 Authority...... 122 Emerita/Emeritus...... 147 International Internship Program...... 7 Bias Response Protocol...... 126 Emerita/Emeritus Faculty...... 144 International Programs...... 6 Biennial Review...... 129 Engineering...... 25 International Study...... 107 Billing for External Programs...... 110 Engineering Dual-Degree Programs...... 5 Internships...... 7 Biochemistry...... 12 English...... 25 Intramural Sports...... 118 Biology...... 13 Enrollment and Registration...... 101 Irish Studies...... 31 Board of Trustees...... 142 Enrollment Management and Italian Studies...... 28,32 Boston College Graduate School...... 40 Marketing Division Administration...... 143 Joseph W. Martin Institute for Law and Society...... 8 Business Administration...... 15 Entertaining in the Residence Halls...... 128 Journalism...... 31 Business School...... 23 Environmental Studies...... 26 Laptop Computer Requirement...... 16 Campus Mail Service...... 137 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA)...... 140 Law School...... 23 Campus Ministry...... 117 Examinations...... 101 Library...... 8 Campus Prevention and Awareness Programs.....127 Experiential and Independent Licensure Program: Campus Resources...... 2 Learning Programs...... 6 Early Childhood Education (PK-2)...... 24 Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act...... 140 Faculty and Staff Listing...... 142 Licensure Program: Cancellations Due to Inclement Weather...... 137 Faculty Fellows...... 147 Elementary Education (1-6)...... 24 Career Services...... 8 Faculty List...... 144 Mailing Address...... 2 Catholic Studies...... 17 Fair Information Practices...... 140 Major...... 3 CDC and RADC Hearings...... 123 Family Tuition Schedule...... 112 Management...... 17 Center for Nonprofit Management...... 8 Federal Pell Grant...... 114 Marine Studies Consortium...... 5 Center for Nonprofit Management, The...... 117 Federal Perkins Loan Program, The...... 115 Marketing...... 17 Chemistry...... 18 Federal Supplemental Educational Massachusetts Law Against Hazing...... 140 Chiropractic Medicine...... 5 Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)...... 114 Mathematics...... 31 Cinema Studies...... 19 Federal TEACH Grant...... 114 Medical Withdrawals from the College...... 111 Class Attendance...... 101 Federal Yellow Ribbon Program...... 114 Mid-Semester Grades...... 102 Clery Act...... 140 Federal, Commonwealth & Local Authority...... 138 Middle Eastern Studies...... 32 Clubs and Organizations...... 118 Finance...... 16 Military Science...... 32 Communication...... 20 Finance Division Administration...... 143 Miscellaneous Fees...... 109 Communication With College Officials...... 138 Financial Aid...... 112 Mission Division...... 117 Community Standards and Financial Information...... 109 Mission Division Administration...... 143 Student Discipline System...... 120 Financial Market Occupations...... 23 Mission of the College...... 1 Compliance with Requests or Directives...... 138 Foreign Languages...... 27 Moreau Honors Program...... 4 Computer Information Systems...... 21 French...... 28 Moreau Honors Program...... 30 Computer Science...... 21 Full-time Students...... 101 Music Concentration...... 42 Controlled Substances: Uses and Effects...... 130 Gambling...... 132 Neuroscience...... 33 Cooperative Agreements with Post-Graduate Gender and Sexuality Studies...... 28 Non-Approved Programs...... 6 Programs in the Health Sciences...... 5 General Billing Information...... 109 Non-Degree Students...... 101 Cooperative Agreements with German...... 28 Nondiscrimination Policy...... 139 Simmons College (Boston, MA) Grade Reports...... 102 Notice...... 2 for Accelerated Graduate Admissions...... 5 Grade-Point Average...... 102 Nuclear Medicine Technologist...... 6

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Nurse Practitioner...... 6 Student ID Cards and Hill Cards...... 137 Nursing...... 6 Student Loans...... 114 Office of Community Standards...... 118 Student Personal Property...... 139 Office of the President...... 142 Student Programs with Alcohol...... 128 Office of the President, Studio Arts...... 42 Executive Administration...... 142 Study Abroad Program...... 6 Officers of the Corporation...... 142 Substance Abuse Awareness Policy...... 127 Part-time Students...... 101 Substance Awareness Policy...... 129 Pharmacy...... 6 Summary of Alcohol and Other Drug Laws...... 141 Philosophy...... 34 Teaching Assistants and Peer Tutors...... 8 Philosophy of the College...... 1 Telephone...... 2 Physical Therapy...... 6 The Administration...... 142 Physician Assistant (PA)...... 6 The Cornerstone Program Physics and Astronomy...... 34 of General Education...... 9 Political Science & International Studies...... 37 Theatre Arts Concentration...... 42 Pre-Professional Advising...... 5 Thorough Inspection...... 138 Prohibited Conduct...... 121 Transcript Requests...... 107 Psychology...... 37 Transfer Candidates...... 108 Public Administration...... 38 Transfer of Credit...... 106 Public Health, Biotechnology, Tuition and Fees...... 109 Exercise Physiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences...... 6 Tuition Installment Payment Plan...... 115 Recreational Sports...... 117 Varsity Teams...... 119 Refund Calculations...... 111 Violation of Law and College Discipline...... 121 Refund for College Withdrawals Visual and Performing Arts...... 41 and Course Withdrawals...... 111 Visual Inspection...... 138 Refunds, Room and Board...... 112 Voluntary Withdrawal from the College...... 110 Registrar’s Office...... 8 Weapons...... 132 Registration...... 101 William D. Ford Federal Religious Studies...... 38 Direct Student Loan Program, The...... 114 Residence Life...... 118 Withdrawal Policies and Procedures...... 110 Restricted/Endowed Scholarships...... 114 Writing...... 43 Room and Board...... 109 Writing Center, The...... 8 Room Guarantee/Charge...... 110 ROTC Scholarships...... 114 Routine Entry & Inspection of Premises...... 138 S.H.A.R.E Advisors...... 135 SACHEM Exchange Program...... 5 Sanctions...... 125 Sanctions for Student Violations...... 131 Scholarships...... 116 Secondary Education Minor...... 25 Selection of a Major...... 104 Selection of Minor...... 104 Senior Thesis...... 7 Sexual Harassment...... 133 Sexual Misconduct...... 122 Sexual Misconduct...... 134-136 Smoking on Campus...... 129 Social Gatherings...... 128 Sociology and Criminology...... 39 Solicitation...... 140 Spanish...... 28 Special Non-Degree Students...... 101 Special Procedures for Hearing Sexual Misconduct Complaints...... 126 Stalking...... 132 State Scholarships/Grants...... 114 Stonehill College Abroad Programs...... 6 Stonehill College Scholarships...... 114 Stonehill Directories, Student Use of...... 139 Stonehill Home Page...... 2 Stonehill in Los Angeles...... 7 Stonehill in New York...... 7 Stonehill in Washington, D.C...... 7 Stonehill Name, Student Use of the...... 138 Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)...... 6 Student Activities...... 118 Student Affairs...... 117 Student Affairs Division Administration...... 143 Student Drug Policy...... 129 Student Education Records...... 139 Student Employment...... 115

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