A Message from the Director of the M.A. in American Studies 29

A Message from the Director

The graduate program in American Studies at Fairfield University is an interdisci- plinary course of study drawing upon the expertise of full-time faculty members . They represent nine departments and programs including Black Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies, and Visual and Performing Arts . The American Studies program focuses on the cultural and intellectual life of the United States and is dedicated to providing a compre- hensive and critical understanding of the American experience . Students design a curriculum to meet their specific needs in consultation with an MASTER OF ARTS academic advisor . They may focus on a traditional discipline or explore a par- ticular topic . America is a culture of cultures, and our offerings are inclusive and IN respectful of the enormous diversity in the American people and their experience . To undertake the formidable task of developing a better understanding and appre- ciation of the complexities in the American experience, we employ the consider- AMERICAN STUDIES able resources of our University community while also encouraging students to avail themselves of the resources in the surrounding New York metropolitan region . In response to the personal and professional time constraints of our student population, classes normally take place in the late afternoon, evening, and occasionally on weekends . To facilitate a supportive mentor-learning environ- ment, all courses are offered in a seminar format . The graduate students in our program include professionals seek- ing intellectual and cultural enrichment, educators enhancing their professional development, full-time parents pre- paring to re-enter the marketplace, and others planning to pursue further professional studies or academic degrees . As director of the graduate program in American Studies, I invite you to join us in our quest for a better understand- ing of our nation’s cultural, intellectual, economic, religious, artistic, social, literary, and political traditions .

Dr . Martha S . LoMonaco Director of the M.A. in American Studies 30 M.A. in American Studies M.A. in American Studies 31 Course Descriptions AS 416 Civil Liberties II: Criminal Justice through feature films and documentaries, popular and MASTER OF ARTS IN This course examines the investigatory and adjudica- serious fiction, the American theatre of the time, popu- AS 401 Introduction to American Studies tory processes of the American criminal justice system . lar music, public and private art, and mass circulation AMERICAN STUDIES Using a seminar format, this course introduces stu- The course begins with a brief introduction to criminal and little magazines, while introducing them to an PROGRAM OVERVIEW dents to the interdisciplinary methodology of American law, its sources, and development . It then moves to interdisciplinary methodology . Three credits . Studies . While studying seminal works in the field, stu- an analysis of the evolutionary development of due dents also explore the intellectual, social, and cultural process focusing on the right to counsel, search, and AS 488 The Frontier in American Culture dynamics that have shaped the American experience . seizure, the role of the police in interrogations, confes- For the last five centuries, the frontier - understood as The master of arts degree in American Studies Three credits . sions, and investigations . The focus then shifts to an the place where “humanity” comes into contact with requires 33 credits . These include three required examination of the criminal trial and the respective its apparent absence in the shape of alien beings and AS 402 American Historiography courses totaling nine credits, seven electives total- roles of prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, and jury . landscapes - has been the subject of some of the most This seminar explores major themes in American ing 21 credits, and a required independent capstone Attention is also given to the issues of bail and "plea- lasting powerful American stories . In this course, we history by studying historiography, or the way project of three credits . Students choose from a range bargaining ." The course concludes with an analysis of concentrate on some of the major representations of historians have approached these topics . The of courses that have been designed specifically for the goals of punishment, the Eighth Amendment, and the frontier produced between the late 18th century to discipline of history is key for all American studies the M .A . program and may also take up to three the function of the correctional system . Three credits . the present in order to learn how to recognize and talk research, writing, and teaching . Since there is much advanced-level undergraduate courses, in which they about the position that the frontier and American “west- to, cover the course uses the summaries of research are expected to produce a graduate-level paper as an AS 420 Feminist Theory and Gender Studies ern” has occupied in our culture . Authors include Boon, and writing trends contained in the anthology added course requirement . In the past 30 years, the development of feminist Child, Stephens, Cooper, Black Hawk . Filmmakers commissioned by the American Historical Association, theory and women’s studies has affected all literary include Ford, Peckinpagh, Eastwood, Costner . Three The New American History (Revised and Expanded fields . Not only has women’s writing risen from obscu- credits . Required Courses Edition, 1997), ed . by Eric Foner, which contains rity and been re-evaluated, but feminist theory has Three core courses provide a general introduction to chronological and topical essays . Additional readings reconsidered the social and intellectual forces that val- AS 499 Independent Study the method and matter in the field of American Studies: include a classic monograph; recent monographs ued particular writing styles over others and created a Students arrange for independent study with a pro- considered cutting-edge in their subfields that we hierarchy that attached greater value to men’s writing . fessor willing to serve as a tutor and under whose • AS 401 Introduction to American Studies: The examine for what they reveal about the new historical In recent years, feminist theory also laid the ground- direction they will write a research paper of approxi- Interdisciplinary Method trends; and essays by leading cultural historians that work for gender studies (that focus on the construction mately fifty pages . This project should be completed are essential to a rounded view of American studies of gender), and sexuality studies, sometimes referred in one semester . All independent study must have the • AS 402 American Historiography: A Survey of Seminal approval of the program director . Students may take American Historical Texts practice . Three credits . to as "queer theory ." To help students of contemporary American Studies understand the main concepts of only one independent study toward the M .A . degree . AS 403 Issues in Contemporary • AS 403 Issues in Contemporary American Studies these important fields, the course provides a survey of Three credits . American Studies the most important writing and theories from the past This team-taught course features guest lecturers who ASAH 441 Fine Art vs. Anti-Art: 1917-1967 Elective Courses 30 years and offers opportunities to apply theories lead discussions on pertinent topics that are central Dr . Wayne Craven writes in American Art: History and to selected American literary works . No prior theory In consultation with their faculty advisors, students to contemporary American studies scholars . Topics Culture, As the new century opened America was a courses are required . Three credits . select seven courses to create an individualized pro- include the visual arts in America; retrieving the lost nation in transition, and ripe for many kinds of revo- gram of study, choosing from among more than 50 voice of Native Americans; women and work; the AS 450 The Supreme Court in the 1960s lutions - in politics, social systems, and certainly in electives offered during a three-year cycle . American musical debate; pop culture and American This course analyzes the dynamics of the Earl Warren literature and painting . [These] social shifting values politics; queer studies; the quest for community; the Supreme Court and its impact on American society and forces were occurring within American society Independent Capstone Project race factor in contemporary America; and whether or through decisions on such issues as reapportionment, at large ." Focusing on the 50 years from WWI to not technology drives history . Three credits . Vietnam, this class examines the artistic debates The program culminates in an independent research right to privacy, school prayer, libel, and civil rights . The course examines major criminal rights decisions of and ideological struggles manifested by American project of some scope and originality, completed under AS 410 Introduction to Women’s and the Court such as search and seizure, self-incrimina- art . During this time, there is a shifting barometric the close supervision of a faculty member . At the out- Gender Studies tion, and the right to counsel, and considers the impact needle of stylistic expression . On one side, we see set, the student chooses a topic and provides a pro- This course introduces students to the theories of these decisions on subsequent cases and current an entrenched, traditionalist school that retains the spectus and bibliography . The project typically results and concepts of the interrelated fields of Women’s issues related to the cases . Three credits . noble beaux arts criteria for realism and classical in a research paper, but other proposals are welcome . Studies and Gender Studies, Masculinity Studies, and content . Artists to be studied in this school are: Henri, Sexuality/Queer Studies . We will discuss the develop- Projects must be completed within one year of their AS 461 The American Civil War Sloan, Hopper, Marsh, Cadmus, Benton, Curry, Wood, ment of these fields, their application in various disci- registration . This course employs the interdisciplinary method of Sheeler, Demuth and Wyeth . On the other side of the plines, and their importance in American Studies . The learning in examining the American Civil War . While aesthetic spectrum, we encounter rebels leading the course uses theoretical readings, novels, and popular using standard historical texts to establish the facts avant-garde . Sparked by the new "isms" of European Other course options films to explore aspects of gender studies in everyday regarding the War, the course focuses on the some- modernism, artists to be discussed include: Duchamp, Graduate students are permitted to apply up to three life . Three credits . times confusing and contradictory versions of the War Stella, Dove, O'Keeffe, Gorky, Pollock, Rothko, 300-level courses toward the M .A . degree in American depicted in literature, photography, feature films, docu- Frankenthaler, De Kooning, Motherwell . The culmina- AS 415 Civil Liberties Studies, with an added course requirement to produce mentary films, and other modes of expression . Three tion and convergence of these parallel tracks arrive This course examines the freedoms afforded by the a graduate-level paper . A list of appropriate courses is credits . with the neo-realist but equally avant-gardist Pop art Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the role of distributed to students each semester for their consid- movement of the 1960s . Warhol, Rosenquist, Johns, the federal courts, especially the Supreme Court, in eration . Descriptions of these courses can be found in AS 483 America in the 1930s and Wessleman use hard-edge realism to convey anti- protecting individual rights . It focuses on such areas the undergraduate course catalog . The Great Depression represents the catalytic agent establishment parodies and camp spin-offs of high cul- of law as freedom of speech and press, freedom of ins America’ extraordinary transformation in the 1930s, ture . The period between 1917-1967 becomes, then, religion, and the right to privacy . Particular attention is a decade during which the changes in the economic the pivotal shift when traditionalism is converted into a paid to the equal protection and due process clauses and political sectors provided the matter for American new cultural paradigm ending modernism as a distinct of the Fourteenth Amendment and the relationship to cultural life . This course acquaints students with the period . Three credits . such issues as school desegregation, voting rights, complexities of this pivotal period in American life affirmative action, and criminal procedure. Three credits . 32 M.A. in American Studies M.A. in American Studies 33 ASAH 444 American Master Artists ASEN 490 The Contemporary American ASHI 448 Social Movements in America: The ASHI 459 Working in America: A Social History and their Times Memoir Sixties This seminar explores the social history of work and This class focuses on a selection of American Masters This course is a study of some of the most important This seminar explores the decade of the 1960s in working people in the United States from the artisan who came to define the American experience as contemporary memoirs written by Americans in the American history, focusing on the social movements pre-industrial era, through the Industrial Revolution and visual innovators reflecting and transforming their last 30 years . With the readings, students will analyze that had a strong impact on the political, social, and the maturation of industrial capitalism, to the present times . Among the artists explored are: Thomas Cole, what makes a memoir a memoir and in particular, what cultural life of the United States . After surveying the postindustrial era . The seminar examines three broad Winslow Homer, John Sloan, Frank Lloyd Wright, is quintessentially American about each one . Three historical context of the decade, we read case stud- areas of working people’s historical experience: 1) Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, credits . ies in civil rights and the women's, anti-war, and labor work itself, including managerial systems and techno- Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Judy movements, and then interpret primary documents logical changes; 2) the self and community definitions Chicago . Each artistic biography is presented as a ASHI 437 American Prophetic Tradition from the era . We consider the effects of race, gender, of working people; and 3) the effect of labor questions filtered lens through which America's social, political, This intensive reading and writing seminar examines and class dynamics on the popular politics of this time, on politics and public policy . The course gives special literary and economic themes are manifested in paint- in some depth individuals and social movements in including the rise of a conservative political and cul- attention to the issues of slavery and its aftermath, erly expressions . Within this cultural framework, we U .S . history that acted out of religious and philosophi- tural movement . Three credits . immigration, and the place of women in the economy . examine the creative spirit of each age in the American cal traditions . Topics covered include biographies, Three credits . experience . The course combines classroom illustrated auto-biographies, writings, and diaries of such fig- ASHI 451 Crises and Turning Points in U.S. slide lectures, discussions, and field trips to study ures as Mary Dyer, Roger Williams, John Dickinson, Foreign Relations, 1776 to 2009 ASHI 479 Islam in America on-site major collections of American art at museums John Ross, Emma Willard, Lydia Marie Child, W E. .B . This seminar explores crises and turning points in U .S . The course treats the history of Muslims in America including: The Yale University Art Gallery, Wadsworth Dubois, Randolph Bourne, Walter Rauschenbusch, Foreign Relations from the American Revolution to from the early 19th century to the present . Topics Atheneum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Dorothy Day, Abraham Heschel, and Robert Coles . 9/11, the Iraq War, Afghanistan and up to the present, include: the basic tenets of Islam; changing and Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of The course looks at the prophetic roots of religious including the Alliance with France, the War of 1812, diverse religious traditions and ideas; Islam among American Art . Three credits . liberty, women’s suffrage, abolitionism, the labor move- Manifest Destiny, the Mexican War, Indian Removal, African-Americans; the role of women; concerns about ment, populism, Civil Rights, and the '60s . Five three- the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War, World War prejudice and unfair treatment; and political views and ASEN 447 Poetry in America page critical book reviews and one longer project are I, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam practice before and after the Sept . 11, 2001 terrorist A survey of major developments in American poetry required . Three credits . War, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and attacks . Three credits . from the mid-19th century to the late years of the the resurgence of China and Russia . Three credits . 20th century, this course emphasizes the poems of ASHI 439 The Tumultuous 20th Century: Key ASHI 481 The Arab-American Experience Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T . S . Issues in U.S. Political & Social History ASHI 452 Peace Movements in U.S. History The course covers the history of Arab-Americans from Eliot, and Langston Hughes . The course also offers The United States in the 20th Century has seen mas- This seminar explores the genesis and development of the late 19th century to the present . Topics include an introduction to the works of Ezra Pound, E . E . sive strikes, social upheaval, political challenge, and movements in opposition to war from the colonial era the sociology and politics of emigration from the Arab Cummings, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, and William unparalleled prosperity and growth . This intensive to the present day . Focal points are major U .S . wars, world; New York City as the mother colony; religious Carlos Williams, as well as to Beat poetry (Ginsberg, reading, writing, and discussion seminar examines key including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the communities and fault lines; work and livelihood, and Ferlinghetti), and to the confessional movement that issues and figures in the political and social changes Mexican War, the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino the relationship between ethnicity, religion, and class; dominated the second half of the 20th century (Robert of the 20th century - from Progressivism to Bill Clinton, War, and the major wars of the 20th century, includ- women and the family; Arab-American literature and Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath) . The focus is on the from the first Red Scare and the rise of the American ing the Vietnam War, interventions in Central America, music, and their contribution to Arab culture as a shifting patterns of poetic style and on the evolution of Civil Liberties Union to current struggles over politi- and the 1991 Gulf War . Sources include oral histories, whole; the role of the Arab-Israeli conflict and other American sensibility and experience as expressed in cal and civil rights in the context of the War on Terror . biographies, fiction, and drama as well as critical stud- Middle Eastern political issues in Arab-American life; the poems under discussion . Three credits . Three credits . ies focused on the social movements themselves . the image of the Arab and Arab-American in American Student requirements include a comparative primary- culture; and Sept . 11 and its aftermath . An analysis ASEN 486 Native American Literature ASHI 442 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race in U.S. source research paper, historical essay, or lesson plan, of the nature and evolution of Arab-American identity This course focuses on novels, short stories, and History as well as short critical essays on weekly reading, and against the backdrop of developments in the Arab poems written by American Indian writers during the This intensive reading, writing, and discussion semi- oral leadership in seminar . Three credits . world and the United States is one of the primary foci 20th century and, for purposes of background, reviews nar examines the history of U .S . immigration in the of the course . Two day-trips to "Arab New York" are a number of significant works composed prior to this 19th and 20th centuries . Arranged thematically within ASHI 456 History of the Cold War included . Three credits . century . The course examines these texts primarily for a chronological framework, the seminar situates the This intensive reading, writing, and discussion seminar their literary value, yet the course also explores the United States within the context of global migration focuses on the origins, deepening, and decline of the ASIT 481 Visions of Italy and America in Film broad image of American Indian culture that emerges patterns and economic development . The first part Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Adaptations and critiques of genres and themes indi- from these works, giving attention to the philosophical, of the course investigates patterns of migration and Union from 1917 to 1991 . Coverage concentrates on cate cinematic health . Italian cinema, which has given historical, and sociological dimensions of the material . community settlement, family strategies of survival interpretive turning points and crises, and the course rise to movements such as neorealism, commedia Three credits . and adaptation, and immigrant cultures . The second approaches the topic by understanding both sides of all'italiana, and the spaghetti western, has provided part analyzes the reception of successive immi- the conflict . The seminar places political and military the original material for adaptations by directors from ASEN 488 Award-winning American Novels grant groups . Most importantly, the course explores decisions in their social and cultural contexts, and other countries, notably the United States . The preva- In this course students will read a variety of award- how race, ethnicity, assimilation, acculturation, and pays special attention to the impact of the Cold War on lence of American adaptations is a measure of the winning contemporary American novels . The novels Americanization were defined by American govern- American society, including popular culture . Student artistic contribution of the Italian national cinema . In will be selected from among the most prestigious ment and society . Throughout, the course conducts a requirements include a primary source research paper this course we examine the phenomenon of adapta- prizes given in American letters each year, includ- critical evaluation of how historians and other scholars as well as short critical essays on weekly readings, tion and interpretation of Italian films from the postwar ing The National Book Award, National Book Critics have studied immigration and immigrant communities and oral leadership in the seminar . Three credits . period until today . After a condensed review of more Circle Award, The Pulitzer Prize, and the Pen/Faulkner and examines today’s perceptions of the American than 60 years of Italian cinematic history, we examine Award . These awards are given annually to the best immigrant experience . Varied readings include mono- several American interpretations of Italian film classics . novels published each year . The course will investi- graphs, oral histories, reform investigations, and a Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), gate what makes each novel “American” thematically, novel . Three credits . based upon James Cain's novel, revisits Visconti's culturally, and stylistically . Among the ten novels to Ossessione (1943) . Neil Simon's Sweet Charity (1966) be studied will be The Known World, Martin Dressler, and later Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Motherless Brooklyn, The Great Fire, and Confessions of Nat Turner. Three credits . 34 M.A. in American Studies M.A. in American Studies 35 re-tell Fellini's tragic tale of Le notti di Cabiria (1957) . ASMU 403 Critical Issues in American Popular organized sports in the United States convey? What ASSO 465 Urban Sociology: New York More subtle parallels are found in Neil LaBute's Nurse Music: Blues to Hip Hop is the political impact of American popular music? And This course examines the evolution of the city in the Betty (2000) and Fellini's Lo sciecco bianco (1956) . This course provides an in-depth look at the important how have citizens used political humor and satire of American experience by focusing on New York City . Brian DePalma's Blow Out (1981), starring John musical, social, and racial issues in American popular American politics to develop an outlook toward govern- Both New York’s unique history and contemporary Travolta, maintains the premise of Antonioni's Blow- music spanning from the media exploitation of the ment? Three credits . social structure are examined . Readings and classroom Up (1966) . Madonna and Guy Ritchie's 2002 remake blues in the 1920’s through current issues in hip hop . discussion are combined with three field trips to New of Swept Away (1974), as well as Garry Marshall's Subject areas will include blues and its origins, jazz ASPO 470 Race and the Supreme Court York on three successive Saturdays . Each field trip adaptation Overboard (1987), reveal the impact of and modernism, the obstacles of race in music, the From the 3/5ths compromise in the Constitution until explores an area of New York . Three credits . Wertmuller's original . These American reflections on death of rhythm and blues, rock’s evolution in the 50’s, today, the issue of race in America has been fought Italian films, themselves dark mirrors reflecting on the rap and hip hop culture, and issues in both postmod- through the prism of Court decisions . In this course ASSO 469 Women: Work and Sport themes and assumptions of American film hegemony, ernism and perverse modernism as seen by many we will examine race in America by examining the Gender stratification exists in most areas of every- offer another means to appreciate the powerful insights music and art critics . Three credits . Supreme Court decisions that have defined the issue . day life throughout American society . This course of self-reflection in the Italian postwar period . Three The course will examine not only the decisions but the concentrates on the varying experiences (based on credits . ASMU 414 Gershwin, Ellington, Copland political and social contexts in which these decisions class, race, and ethnic differences) of women in the This course examines three composers - George took place . The contradictions and anomalies of many workplace and on the playing field . Sex segregation ASIT 493 The Italian-American Experience Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Aaron Copland - who of these decisions go a long way in explaining the real- and sex integration as complex historical and con- Students analyze the concept of nationality and nation- helped define the sound and meaning of American ity of race in America . From the Court saying in Dred temporary processes constitute the main focus of the al identity in literature, film, and critical essays by and music . Beginning in the 1920s, each musician made Scott that Negroes had no rights and were not be citi- first part of the course . Within this context, economic about Italian-Americans and discuss the concept of major contributions to three great American musical tra- zens in the eyes of the Constitution to Brown vs . Board and social changes will be viewed as historically hav- race and racial origins together with the phenomenon ditions - popular music (Gershwin and Ellington), jazz of Education saying racial discrimination is inherently ing an enormous impact on the roles of women in the of emigration . The course addresses role and represen- (Ellington), and classical (Gershwin and Copland) . This unconstitutional the drama of America’s most important work force and how they have managed these roles . tation differences for men and women in this subgroup course explores their specific contributions to American social issue has been played out in our Courts . We will In turn, their experiences will be analyzed as catalysts of American society, with particular consideration given culture as well as the cultural forces in American soci- examine that drama . Three credits . of societal change . The last part of the course focuses to the ethnic roots of these differences . It also exam- ety that shaped these contributions . No musical back- on women as athletes . Their varied experiences in this ines the ways in which poetry, prose, and film reveal ground is required . Three credits . ASRS 442 Jews and Judaism in America world parallel to a large extent their experiences within Italian ethnicity in 19th- and 20th-century America, with What has it meant in the past and what does it mean the workplace . The underlying theme is that the sports special emphasis on the sense of otherness that this ASPO 433 United States Foreign Policy today to be a Jew in America? Viewing Judaism and arena mirrors the larger society particularly in terms of immigrant group experienced . Three credits . This course reviews the United States’ involvement in Jewishness as inseparable from one another, Jews gender roles . What is seen as “acceptable and non- world affairs from the 1930s to the present, with special remain a distinct, though by no means homogeneous, acceptable” behavior for women in the everyday world ASMU 401 The History of Jazz attention to the rigors and logic of the Cold War . The religious and ethnic group in American society . This is reflected in their roles as athletes . The impact of This course traces the development of American jazz course includes discussions of constitutional and other course explores the religious, cultural, social, econom- gender on socializing children into sport and sport itself from its origins in black musical traditions . Topics factors in the making of foreign policy, and students ic, and political diversity that exists among American as a socializing agency is the foundation for critically include the roots of jazz in ragtime, blues, work songs, debate major contemporary policies and commitments . Jews, as well as distinctive beliefs, concerns, and assessing the outcomes of Title IX and the existence of and march music . Also addresses the development Three credits . experiences that continue to unite them . The course homophobia in sport . Three credits . of different jazz styles, such as Dixieland in the '20s, pays special attention to issues related to immigration, swing in the '30s, bop in the '40s, and present-day evo- ASPO 461 The American Presidency acculturation, gender, and African-American/Jewish ASTA 420 American Drama and Society lutions . The course emphasizes connecting the histori- This course examines the role of the President in the relations . Three credits . This course explores the social, political, and economic cal period with the music of jazz - America's original art political system and considers the origins, qualifica- forces that have shaped the United States via the music . Three credits . tions, and limitations of the office from which the ASSO 412 Contemporary American Society themes and perspectives expressed in its drama . The President functions as chief executive, legislative This course analyzes the dominant ideology and val- course covers the late 18th century through the pres- ASMU 402 The History of Rock leader, and link with the courts . The course evalu- ues that have shaped American culture - namely, the ent, paying particular attention to dramas and more This course surveys the musical and social trends that ates presidential achievement of domestic and foreign Protestant ethic - and how and why these values are populist forms of entertainment that specifically address resulted in the emergence of rock and roll as an impor- policy goals by examining presidential powers and the changing . The course also analyzes major institutional the notion and development of a distinctly American tant musical and cultural force in America . The course President’s roles as party leader and politician . It also trends that have transformed and continue to transform voice and ideology . Students begin with Royall Tyler's traces the roots of rock, blues, and country styles and, reviews questions of reform . Three credits . America and the modern world - bureaucratization, 1787 comedy, The Contrast, which offers the first showing how they merged with popular music, stud- industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the business wholly American character - Jonathan the "true-blue" ies periods from the 1950s to the present, along with ASPO 467 Politics in Film corporation, science, and technology - and the effects This course examines how some major political values Yankee - and end with Tony Kushner's monumental Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Beatles, of these institutions in producing new personality types, two-part drama, Angels in America (1991), which jux- the British invasion, folk music, Bob Dylan, jazz and are expressed in mainstream American films from the mass society, and rapid social change . The course pro- 1920s to the present, exploring values such as individ- taposes American Judaism and Mormonism within the art rock, Jimi Hendrix, the west coast movement, and vides a macro-sociological framework . Three credits . context of politics, homo- and heterosexual relation- the music industry . The social, political, and cultural ualism, community, democracy, civic responsibility, the state, and legitimacy . In addition, the course discusses ASSO 463 Urban/Suburban Sociology ships, and the AIDS epidemic . In between, students aspects of rock as they have affected American life pro- consider the work of seminal American dramatists vide an American studies emphasis . Three credits . several major topics related to politics, including race This course explores the nature of the city and growth relations, war, and feminism . Three credits . of metropolitan regions in the contemporary world; the (O'Neill, Miller, Williams, and others) as well as trends ecological approach and the use of demographic data in popular theatre forms (minstrelsy, wild west shows, ASPO 468 Politics of Mass Popular Culture in the analysis of modern urban communities; social vaudeville, burlesque, musical comedy) in creating This course surveys the political aspects of American organization of metropolitan regions and the emer- the totality of the American cultural experience . Three popular culture by examining the relationship between gence of urban-suburban conflict; big-city politics, com- credits . sports and politics, the politics of rock music, and munity-control, and regional government as dimensions political humor and political satire of American poli- of organization and disorganization in city life; and city tics . Mass popular culture often serves as a regime- planning and urban development at local and national maintaining diversion . Questions explored during the levels as efforts to solve the urban crisis . Three credits . course include: What values and political positions do 36 M.A. in American Studies ASTA 421 Ethnic American Performance & Society ASTA 453 American Popular Entertainments and The course will explore the social, political, economic, Social History and cultural forces that have shaped the United States Popular entertainments have great power . "They tell us via the themes, perspectives, and production choices what is on the minds of ordinary people at any given expressed in its ethnic drama and performance . We moment - their concerns, biases and anxieties - and in will consider plays and performance pieces (such as turn refine them and restate them in a palatable, eas- pow-wows, Chinese New Year celebrations, and the ily understood way," wrote Professor Emeritus Brooks like) created by African-Americans, Asian-Americans, McNamara of New York University of this new field of Latino/a Americans, and Native Americans, all of whom scholarly inquiry that plumbs America's popular enter- have been marginalized voices existing outside of tainments as a means of understanding its social his- mainstream theatre, an arena historically dominated by tory . This course will examine critical live entertainment white males . We shall pay particular attention to issues forms that flourished in the years between the conclu- of race, gender, and class apparent in both the play sion of the Civil War and the end of the 1920s largely texts as well as in the ideological perspectives of the due to increased leisure time, improved transportation, playwrights . We also will note the choice of subjects, and rapidly developing cities . Popular entertainment- themes, and environments and consider how these are amusements aimed at a broad, relatively unsophisti- placed within the larger context of American culture and cated audience-were frequently American reinventions society . Three credits . of European imports, such as the circus, while oth- ers, like the Minstrel Show, were uniquely American ASTA 452 The Arts in America: 1950 to the creations . We will begin the course with an intensive Present look at the Minstrel Show as a key to the solidification During the second half of the 20th century, American and perpetuation of American racist stereotypes and MASTER OF ARTS visual and performing arts developed a unique voice then consider Circus, the Wild West Show, Vaudeville, and vision that no longer simply imitated European Burlesque, Medicine Show, Chautauqua, and popular models . This course examines that development in the- dramas such as Toby, Tab, and Tom shows, as mani- atre, dance, music, fiction, poetry, and the visual arts, festations of American society of the late 19th and early IN noting particularly the cross-fertilization that sparked 20th centuries . Three credits . cross-disciplinary movements such as the beats, Black Mountain College, happenings, and performance art - all within the larger social, political, and economic con- COMMUNICATION text of the times . The course also considers more tra- ditional forms, including American musical comedy (our great contribution to world theatre) and popular culture trends such as prime-time television, top-40 radio, and theme parks, discussing the notion of "high" and "low" art . Ultimately, the course considers how art is a reflec- tion and interrogation of the prevalent culture, and what it tells us about the intellectual, political, and economic forces that shape American society . Three credits . 38 A Message from the Director of the M.A. in Communication M.A. in Communication 39 Theses or projects must be completed within one year THE MASTER OF ARTS of their registration . IN COMMUNICATION Faculty research interests PROGRAM Research interests of the Communication faculty include: A Message from the Director Alternative Mass Media The Master of Arts degree in Communication requires Audience Analysis 36 credits . These include three required courses total- Children’s Media We invite you to join us in our advanced study of communication . Communication ing nine credits, seven electives totaling 21 credits, Communication and the Environment is a fundamental social process; all human activities are imbued with communica- and a required thesis or project, totaling at least six Communication for Social Change tion . Our lives are constructed, maintained and affected by verbal, nonverbal and credits . Students choose from a range of courses that Communication Research Design and Methodologies mediated communication . When you pursue an M .A . degree in Communication have been designed specifically for the M A. . Program Comparative Media Systems you will be better prepared to: and may also take up to two graduate courses in allied Conflict Communication areas, including marketing, management, nursing, or Copyrights and Intellectual Public Domain education . Crisis Communication • understand yourself personally Cultivation Theory Required Courses Distance Education • enhance your relationships e-Government Three core courses are required for all students in the Economics of Information • appreciate the ethical dimensions of communication M .A . Program: Gender-Related Issues in Communication • advance your career • CO 400 Communication Philosophies, Theories, and Global Media Systems Research Traditions Group Decision-Making • analyze how organizations, societies, and cultures are both affected by and contribute to communication Health Communication • CO 420 Communication Research Design and • utilize specific philosophies, theories, methods, and techniques required to practice and study communication Health Education Methodologies Healthcare Advertising • contribute communication solutions to social problems Healthcare Organizational Communication • CO 440 Ethics and Communication Healthcare Provider Education Elective Courses Instructional Communication Our M A. . in Communication allows you to explore diverse areas of study from interpersonal to organizational com- Intercultural Communication munication, and from health communication to media studies . In addition to enhancing professional careers, a Students take seven courses, focusing on communica- International Communication Master’s degree in Communication is also a potential pathway for those interested in continuing on for a Ph .D . Our tion, theoretical and research traditions, communica- Interpersonal Communication faculty are a diverse and experienced group of scholars, researchers, teachers and professionals . The faculty look tion processes, applications, and allied coursework Latin America Media and Culture forward to working with you to further your personal, professional and academic goals . in related areas . Two of the seven electives can be Mass Media and Popular Culture approved graduate courses in other disciplines . In Media Criticism We believe that an academically rigorous and personally focused M A. . program in Communication, which is based addition, students may take one Independent Study Media Effects on the strong values and ideals of a traditional Jesuit education, will contribute significantly to your personal devel- course and/or one Internship course . Students design Media Institutions opment, professional success, and your contributions to various communities and organizations where you live and their curriculum in consultation with the Graduate Negotiation and Management work . Program Director . New Media Technologies Organizational Communication Required Courses Organizational Rhetoric Dr . Michael Pagano, Political History of the Mass Media Students must take six credits of thesis- or project- Public Opinion Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. in Communication related work: Public Relations Program CO 560 Thesis Proposal Risk Communication CO 561 Thesis Research Social Uses/Effects of the Media OR Spiritual Communication CO 570 Project Proposal Telecommunications Policy CO 571 Independent Project Training and Consulting Written Communication

Thesis or Independent Project The program culminates in an independent research project of some scope and originality, completed under the close supervision of a Communication Department faculty member and a second faculty reader . At the outset, the student chooses a topic and provides a prospectus and literature review . The project typically results in a thesis, but other proposals and projects are welcome . 40 M.A. in Communication M.A. in Communication 41 Course Descriptions analysis perspective, intended to facilitate students’ research perspectives on leadership are reviewed and course is focused on organizational communication in a understanding of institutions as dynamic points of con- critically analyzed . Student projects include case stud- global economic environment and helps students pre- CO 400 Communication Philosophies, Theories fluence for organizations, norms, and individual agents . ies and reviews of role-model leaders . Three credits . pare for cross-cultural management issues, decision- and Research Traditions As part of the course’s requirements, students conduct making for multinational organizational effectiveness, This class is designed to provide an introduction for a research project exploring recent developments in CO 524 Negotiation and Conflict Management: and a consideration of global economic and labor the graduate student to the diverse and voluminous media regulation and/or decision-making processes Communication Approaches issues . Three credits . research in the area of human communication . As within one of the major media institutions covered dur- This course explores a selection of conflict situations such, it covers an extremely wide range of intellec- ing the semester . Three credits . with particular emphasis on organizational and com- CO 537 New Media Studies tual, scientific, and historical material . It is a survey munity settings . Theoretical exploration focuses on The digital and social media that have emerged in the course, but we will deal with selected areas in depth . CO 440 Ethics and Communication the nature of conflict, and negotiation and dialogue as past decade are reshaping our world in profound ways This course will not only introduce the areas of human Coursework includes a comprehensive overview of communication processes . The course privileges win- - this course explores those developments in light of communication theory and research, but it will also the development of ethics from ancient to contem- win and dialogic approaches and provides experiential both extended history and the contemporary moment . introduce the process of theorizing and thinking about porary thought and practices . Emphasis is placed on learning in simulations in which teams of students Through a mix of scholarly and journalistic readings, we communication . Therefore, the nature of theory, the ethical agenda, problems, and responsibilities of negotiate detailed and practicable outcomes for resolv- will inquire into the ways in which culture, community, research, and intellectual inquiry is an important part of contemporary organizations in diverse cultures . Case ing contemporary organizational and societal prob- and identity are undergoing change alongside market- this course . Three credits . studies and student research focus on contemporary lems . Three credits . ing, politics, and the “mass” communication industries . issues in the ethical communicative performance . The Our focus will include a wide variety of new media CO 410 Perspectives & Theories in relationship between Jesuit philosophy and applied CO 526 Consulting and Problem-Solving platforms, practices, and issues drawn from social net- Organizational Communication communication work in organizations is also explored . This course focuses on the ways communication sci- working, mobile, and online content, as we cultivate a This course is intended to highlight organizations Three credits . ence may be used to solve organizational problems critical lens on society’s increasing digitalization (and its and how they are created, maintained and changed and accomplish organizational agendas . A survey of discontents .) Three credits . through social interaction . Communicating by orga- CO 498 Communication Practicum organizational issues provides the context for perceiv- nizational members is essentially organizing . The Communication Practicum is a semester-long intern- ing opportunities and requirements for internal and CO 540 Intercultural Communication course examines organizational communication from ship or other type of placement carried out by graduate external consulting . Special attention is devoted to the This course examines the relationship between com- both functional and constructivist perspectives . Three students in Communication in local, national or inter- consultant’s role in addressing both the presenting munication behavior and cultural factors such as credits . national contexts . These placements are determined in technical problem and the contextual organizational nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, class, sexuality, conjunction with, and carried out under the supervision management situation . The course provides experi- and religion . We will focus on cross-cultural sense- CO 420 Communication Research Design and of, a faculty member . Practicums allow students to gain ential learning in which teams of student consultants making, relationships, problem-solving, and organizing Methodologies professional experience; where possible these activi- develop and present proposals responsive to the with particular application to business, education, and A detailed review of research methods and procedures ties should relate directly to thesis projects and other needs of the client . A comparison of consulting in for- health care encounters . The course reviews the social relevant to measuring the phenomena and character- long-term academic interests . Students must commit profit and non-profit settings is included . Three credits . science research of variations in normative communi- istics of human communication behavior in a variety to a minimum of 120 hours at an approved work site cation behavior, as well as the theoretical approaches of contexts and relationships . Quantitative, qualitative, (internships cannot be done at a student’s place of CO 528 Professional Rhetoric and Presentations to understanding the relationship between worldview/ and critical approaches are reviewed and practiced in employment) and are also responsible for completing This course focuses on developing and practicing cultural values and preferred communication practices . course projects . Applications of research methods to additional academic requirements . Three credits . written and oral presentations for professional set- Examples will be used from a variety of nations, as well describing and evaluating communication are studied . tings . Coursework includes reviewing strategies and as those within the diverse cultural landscape of con- Three credits . CO 500 Interpersonal Communication tactics for enhancing interpersonal and social influence temporary United States . Three credits . This course is a critical examination of the major theo- through the development of sound reasoning skills, CO 430 Written Communication ries of interpersonal communication and an exploration audience analysis techniques, use of source materials, CO 541 International Communication Explores how written communication by its very nature of interpersonal communication research in relational effective extemporaneous delivery, and the appropri- This course provides an exploration of the geopoliti- is drastically different from verbal and other nonverbal and organizational contexts . Student projects will use ate use of technological support within the organiza- cal forces that shape the flows of media messages forms of communication . Considers the effect a print- social science research methods to examine factors tional setting . Additional applications are considered worldwide, as well as an overview of the economic and able form of communication has on the message, the influencing interpersonal communication such as lan- for scholarly, scientific, policy, and public arenas . The regulatory structure of media industries worldwide . It sender and receiver, and the potential legal issues guage, perception, nonverbal behavior, power, status, course requires the preparation, practice, and critical surveys theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain associated with written communication . This course and gender roles . Three credits . assessment of several written and oral presentations . the ways in which different institutional frameworks focuses on the impact of written messages for intraper- Three credits . affect mass communication within and across regional sonal, interpersonal, small group, organizational, inter- CO 502 Small Group and Team Communication borders . In this sense, the course is designed to offer cultural, and mass media communication . Examines This course is a study of the communication dimen- CO 530 Media Theory and Criticism students opportunities to discover a comprehensive pic- the historical transformation in content, style, and per- sions and dynamics of small groups, teams, and net- This course introduces graduate students in ture of common and interdependent processes under- ception from letters, memos, and notes to the evolving works of organizational actors . Coursework and proj- Communication to the study of media in the US . It lying the individual development of media industries electronic formats for written communication including: ects focus on interpersonal processes and structures focuses on the major theoretical trajectories that have in each region . Students also learn about emerging e-mails, blogs, chat rooms, e-networking/e-cultures, for tasking and relating effectively in organizational shaped the field, empirical research that has emerged market and research trends concerning international wikis, etc . Three credits . settings . The special characteristics of virtual team and as canonical, and contemporary critical approaches media . Issues related to free flow of messages, social technology-enhanced decision-making work are investi- that inform not just how we study media as scholars, responsibility, universal access, intellectual commons, CO 431 Media Law and Institutions gated . Three credits . but also how we understand media as consumers . participatory communication, developmental communi- The course concentrates on the legal and economic Three credits . CO 522 Communication and Organizational cation, and cultural diversity in the global exchange of environment of U .S . mass media . Topics include media messages are addressed through discussion of examination of major doctrines of media law, organiza- Leadership CO 535 Globalization, Communication, and This course focuses on the communication behaviors Culture current, real-life cases, as well as through design and tion and operation of individual media industries, the execution of an original research project . Three credits . economic structure of U S. . media markets, the role that constitute leadership . Models explore interpersonal Globalization has produced the increased flow of of media watchdogs and advocacy organizations, as influence, power in organizations, leading decision- goods, capital, people, knowledge, images, crime, well as media users’ forms of collective action . The making teams and task-oriented groups, and develop- pollutants, drugs, fashion, viruses, and beliefs across course’s content is approached through an institutional ing situational leadership skills . Early and contemporary territorial and ideological boundaries of all kinds . This 42 M.A. in Communication CO 548 Health Communication Communicating to people about health has become oneof the most active areas of communication research and practice . This course focuses on the the- ory and practice of communication in health settings . Topics covered include doctor-patient communication, health campaigns, effects of media on health, intercul- tural issues in health communication and risk commu- nication in relation to health practices . Three credits . CO 559 Topics in Communication Research This course is taught when a particular faculty member has a compelling proposal for a topic that has been approved by the department . Preference will be given to topics related to contemporary issues or to a current faculty research project . Three credits . CO 560/561 Thesis Proposal / Thesis Research CO 560 Thesis Proposal and CO 561 Thesis Research operate as independent study experiences under the supervision of a faculty advisor and the secondary supervision of one additional faculty reader . Each proposal and thesis should have a total of two read- MASTER OF ARTS ers, the faculty advisor and one additional reader from the Communication Department who has taught the student . At the student’s request, a faculty member IN from another department who has taught the student in a graduate course could serve as a third reader . In unusual circumstances (e .g ., a conflict between the CREATIVE WRITING faculty advisor and the second reader) a third reader for CO 561 Thesis Research would be assigned by the Graduate Program Director . The thesis will be orally presented to the faculty . Three credits each . CO 570/571 Project Proposal / Independent Project CO 570 Project Proposal and CO 571 Independent Project operate as independent study experiences under the supervision of a faculty advisor and the secondary supervision of one additional faculty reader . Each proposal and thesis should have a total of two readers, the faculty advisor and one additional reader from the Communication Department who has taught the student . At the student’s request, a faculty member from another department who has taught the student in a graduate course could serve as a third reader . In unusual circumstances (e .g ., a conflict between the faculty advisor and the second reader) a third reader for CO 571 Independent Project would be assigned by the Graduate Program Director . The project will be presented to the faculty and should have some kind of public presentation or impact . Three credits each . CO 598 Independent Study This course allows students to thoroughly investigate communication concepts, theories, or issues presented in a previously completed graduate communication course . Independent study does not substitute for any other required course(s) in the graduate program and students' investigations must be scholarly in intent . An independent study may be taken only once . (Prerequisites: Graduate Director's approval and a communication faculty member's sponsorship) . Three credits per semester (three credit limit) . 44 A Message from the Director of the M.A. in Creative Writing M.A. in Creative Writing 45 ENW 446 Poetry THE MASTER OF FINE The course is an intensive, ten-day program of study . Students must submit two creative pieces to their ARTS IN CREATIVE respective workshop faculty prior to the residency and WRITING PROGRAM attend daily workshops . Within the workshops, they must actively participate, both orally and by provid- A Message from the Director ing written comments on their peers' work . Students must attend at least six afternoon seminars, lectures, Program Overview or panel discussions presented by resident faculty and visiting experts . Preparation for each event involves Fairfield’s low-residency MFA is a non-traditional Master’s program that trains stu- The Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing is a two- students having completed a required reading list . After dents of all ages and backgrounds who desire to become creative writers . With a year low-residency program of study leading to the the seminar, a student must submit written critiques of highly qualified and supportive faculty, a program that is both rigorous and yet can Master's degree, with concentrations in fiction or non- what they learned . Finally, all students must attend eve- be adapted to the student’s own particular writing needs and interests, workshops, fiction writing, or poetry . Students attend two annual ning readings by faculty . At the end of the residency, lectures, discussions, and panels that offer both the theory of writing as well as ten-day residencies followed by a five-month indepen- students work out a semester plan with their assigned the practical issues of getting published, a setting that is inspirational, and a nur- dent course of study with a single faculty mentor . A mentor for the following semester . This plan must be turing writing community - all of this combines to help writers develop their ability total of 60 credits are needed for graduation, including approved and signed by the mentor and submitted to as fiction writers, nonfiction writers, poets, or screenwriters . four residencies, two independent study semesters theA MF administration . Six credits . Our nationally recognized faculty and guest authors have won many awards and in the craft of the student’s choice, a critical thesis, a honors, including having been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, nominated for the creative thesis, and a final public lecture and reading ENW 447 Independent Study: Fiction This course is a five-month, intensive distance-learning Pen-Faulkner awards, selected as New York Times Notable Book authors, Barnes by the student . writing program of study developed by both the student and Noble Discover Great New Authors, received Guggenheim and National and his or her assigned mentor . Under the mentor's Endowment for the Arts fellowships, won and several times been finalists for the guidance, the student will develop a plan to improve Connecticut Book Award, been selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Course Descriptions his or her ability to write in one genre of fiction (e g. ., Paperback Book Club, as well as many other honors and awards . ENW 444 Fiction the short story, the novel, the historical novel) . The stu- Our workshops, seminars, and lectures are designed to provide the student with both a rigorous theoretical basis for The course is an intensive, ten-day program of study . dent will be required to write a minimum of 100 pages, writing as well as a practical, hands-on experience for getting published or becoming editors, publishers, or working Students must submit two creative pieces to their spread out over five monthly submissions to the men- in various writing-intensive fields . Our setting, Ender’s Island, is also the perfect writer’s retreat . Situated on eleven respective workshop faculty prior to the residency and tor, and the mentor will respond with specific written acresf of the coast of Connecticut, the island’s remoteness forms the ideal setting for peace and quiet, for the intro- attend daily workshops . Within the workshops, they notes analyzing the work's strengths and weaknesses . spection needed to write . Finally, for each residency editors and publishers from prestigious New York trade houses, must actively participate, both orally and by providing In addition, the student will be required to read a mini- as well as agents from literary agencies will gather for panel discussions to talk about the nuts and bolts of getting written comments on their peers' work . Students must mum of two books per month and to write two essays published, and to chat individually with students . attend at least six afternoon seminars, lectures, or on some element of the craft, totaling ten craft essays panel discussions presented by resident faculty and during the term . The mentor will provide feedback on visiting experts . Preparation for each event involves all of the student's writing, accentuated by both a mid- Dr . Michael White students having completed a required reading list . term assessment of the student's development and a Director of the MFA in Creative Writing After the seminar, a student must submit written cri- final assessment along with a grade . Nine credits . tiques of what they learned . Finally, all students must ENW 448 Independent Study: Nonfiction attend evening readings by faculty . At the end of the This course is a five-month, intensive distance- residency, students work out a semester plan with their learning writing program of study developed by both assigned mentor for the following semester . This plan the student and his or her assigned mentor . Under must be approved and signed by the mentor and sub- the mentor's guidance, the student will develop a plan mitted to the MFA administration . Six credits . to improve his or her ability to write short personal ENW 445 Nonfiction essays or the memoir . The student will be required to The course is an intensive, ten-day program of study . write a minimum of 100 pages, spread out over five Students must submit two creative pieces to their monthly submissions to the mentor, and the mentor will respective workshop faculty prior to the residency and respond with specific written notes analyzing the work's attend daily workshops . Within the workshops, they strengths and weaknesses . In addition, the student will must actively participate, both orally and by providing be required to read a minimum of two books per month written comments on their peers' work . Students must and to write two essays on some element of the craft, attend at least six afternoon seminars, lectures, or totaling ten craft essays during the term . The mentor panel discussions presented by resident faculty and will provide feedback on all of the student's writing, visiting experts . Preparation for each event involves accentuated by both a mid-term assessment of the stu- students having completed a required reading list . dent's development and a final assessment along with After the seminar, a student must submit written cri- a grade . Nine credits . tiques of what they learned . Finally, all students must attend evening readings by faculty . At the end of the residency, students work out a semester plan with their assigned mentor for the following semester . This plan must be approved and signed by the mentor and sub- mitted to the MFA administration . Six credits . 46 M.A. in Creative Writing ENW 449 Independent Study: Poetry This course is a five-month, intensive distance-learning writing program of study developed by both the student and his or her assigned mentor . Under the mentor's guidance, the student will develop a plan to improve his or her ability to write poetry . The student will be required to write a minimum of 20 new poems, spread out over five monthly submissions to the mentor, and the mentor will respond with specific written notes ana- lyzing the work's strengths and weaknesses . In addi- tion, the student will be required to read a minimum of two books per month and to write two essays on some element of poetry craft, totaling ten craft essays during the term . The mentor will provide feedback on all of the student's writing, accentuated by both a mid-term assessment of the student's development and a final assessment . Nine credits . MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS 48 A Message from the Director of the M.A. in Mathmatics M.A. in Mathmatics 49 For Those Interested in Pure Mathematics: THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN • Geometry MATHEMATICS PROGRAM • Topology • Advanced Abstract Algebra Message from the Director • Numerical Analysis Program Overview • Foundations and Set Theory Because of its beauty, precision, and usefulness, mathematics has always attract- The master of science in mathematics program wel- • Number Theory ed not only the most profound and theoretical minds, but also pragmatic thinkers comes students of ability and with a strong under- who are eager to apply its insights to the problems of the world around us . graduate background in mathematics or a related field, such as computer science, engineering, physics, Fairfield University’s master’s degree program in mathematics is designed for stu- finance, economics, or certain social sciences . Certificate in Financial Mathematics dents who have a strong undergraduate background in mathematics or a related field . Our program caters to students in many different situations, including, but The M .S . in mathematics requires completion of 30 The University also offers a four-course Certificate in not limited to, middle- and secondary-school teachers, those seeking to teach in credits . These include four required courses totaling Financial Mathematics for those who wish to improve two-year colleges, business professionals whose work is quantitative in nature, 12 credits; five electives totaling 15 credits; and a cap- their knowledge of financial markets or to understand students desiring solid preparation for entrance into a doctoral program, and those stone experience of three credits . In consultation with the mathematics behind the computer models in the who are just attracted by the beauty of mathematics . a faculty advisor, each student designs an individual- field of finance . The program is designed for math- ized program of study meeting his or her needs . ematically trained professionals and those with a Full-time Fairfield University faculty members teach in the master’s program, background in finance . Participants acquire additional bringing a wealth of expertise to the classroom . The breadth of their specialties Required Courses quantitative and qualitative skills important to advanc- enriches the program and the options available to students . This benefit translates ing careers in investment banking, hedge funds, and into an ability to allow our students to design individualized programs of study, in consultation with a faculty advisor, MA 435-436 Algebra and Linear Algebra financial markets . related to their personal goals . (a six-credit, two-course sequence) MA 471-472 Real and Complex Analysis The four courses (12 credits) may be applied at a The curriculum features a common core of 12 credits, supplemented by a series of electives that make specializa- (a six-credit, two-course sequence) later date to the requirements for a master’s degree in tion possible . Because our program caters to working adults, classes generally meet one evening a week during the mathematics at Fairfield University . fall and spring semesters and are available in the summer, as well . Elective Courses Course Descriptions As director of the graduate program in mathematics, I invite you to peruse the course descriptions and faculty cre- The examples that follow illustrate three possible areas dentials that follow and join us in a more focused study within the field I so enjoy . in which students might specialize within the M .S . MA 451/452 Probability and Statistics program . In each case, students complete the required This graduate-level treatment of the theory of prob- courses noted above, in addition to electives such as ability and mathematical statistics includes probability Dr . Benjamin Fine those listed below . These are suggestions only - a spaces and finite counting techniques, random vari- Director of the M.S. in Mathematics student needs not restrict himself or herself to those ables and distribution functions, density, mass func- courses in a specific category . tions, and expectation . The course also examines the standard random variables; multivariate distributions; For Teachers and Prospective Teachers functions and sums of random variables; limit theo- • Geometry: Euclidean and Non-Euclidean rems - weak and strong law of large numbers and the central limit theorem; theory of estimators, maximum • Topology likelihood techniques; theory of estimation; hypoth- esis testing theory - decision analysis; and Bayesian • Foundations and Set Theory methods . The course also discusses the historical • Use of Technology in the Classroom development of probability and statistics, and its place in the mathematical trichotomy - algebra, analysis, and • Number Theory geometry/ topology - and is highly recommended for those wishing to specialize in quantitative analysis . For Business-Oriented Professionals Three credits each course . • Probability MA 471/472 Real and Complex Analysis • Statistics This required, two-course sequence offers a grad- uate-level treatment of real and complex analysis, • Applied Statistical Methods including the completeness of the real numbers; the • Applied Mathematics and Differential Equations complex number field and its properties; the topology of Euclidean n-space and its generalizations to metric • Classical Financial Mathematics and topological spaces; convergence and continuous functions; sequences of functions; general differen- tiability; the theory of integration and the Lebesgue integral; complex analytic functions and the differences with real functions; the complex integral; and Cauchy’s 50 M.A. in Mathmatics 51 Theorem and consequences . The course also incorpo- MA 555 Statistical Consulting rates an overview of the relationship of real and com- An introduction to the techniques of statistical consult- plex analysis to the undergraduate calculus sequence, ing, this case-study-driven course focuses on problem and a discussion of the historical development of real evaluation and study design . Three credits . and complex analysis . Six credits for the two-course sequence . MA 565 Use of Technology in the Classroom Designed for teachers, this course surveys various MA 510 Foundations and Set Theory computer software mathematics packages suitable for The foundations of modern mathematics lie in set use in the classroom, such as Maple, Mathematica, theory and logic . This course provides a graduate-level MATLAB, SKETCHPAD, and ISETL . The course treatment of these areas in the foundation of theoretical includes a description of the programs and discusses mathematics . Three credits . how they can be integrated into a classroom setting . Three credits . MA 531/532 Applied Mathematics I and II Modern financial mathematics depends heavily on the MA 577 Numerical Analysis theory of differential equations and applied mathe- This course provides a graduate-level treatment of matics . Topics in this two-course sequence include: numerical analysis and the numerical solution of math- mathematical modeling, ordinary differential equations ematical problems and includes an introduction to com- and their solutions; linear differential equations; linear puter implementation of numerical algorithms . Formerly systems; series methods; transform methods; Laplace listed as MA 571 . Three credits . transforms; partial differential equations; boundary value problems; Fourier series and Fourier analysis . MA 578 Mathematics of Financial Derivatives Six credits for the two-course sequence . This course covers the theory of financial derivatives, including an explanation of option pricing theory and MA 535 Advanced Abstract Algebra investments, the idea of financial derivatives, stochastic A collection of topics in advanced abstract algebra, this differential equations, and the Black-Scholes model . course includes field extensions and Galois theory as Three credits . well as some advanced areas of group theory . Formerly listed as MA 540 . Three credits . MA 583 Geometry This course offers a graduate-level treatment of MA 537 Number Theory Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry and is highly This graduate-level survey of the problems and tech- recommended for teachers . Formerly listed as MA 520 . niques of number theory includes elementary number Three credits . theory and introductions to analytic and algebraic num- ber theory . Formerly listed as MA 545 . Three credits . MA 585 Topology This course provides an introductory, graduate-level MA 550 Classical Financial Mathematics treatment of point-set and algebraic topology and This course covers the basic mathematics of classical topological methods . Formerly listed as MA 525 . Three financial investments . It will include the basic formu- credits . las for compound interest and effective yields, infinite series and exponential functions, annuities and perpe- MA 590 Capstone Project tuities, amortization and sinking funds, time value of By arrangement with a faculty mentor, students may money, and bond and stock discounts . Three credits . choose to work on a project or thesis independently to fulfill the capstone requirement . The details and format MA 551 Applied Statistical Methods of the project are designed by the student and mentor . This course offers a graduate-level treatment of applied Three credits . statistical methods used in the physical sciences, social sciences, and business . Students examine basic statistical testing including sampling techniques; the theory of estimation and standard hypothesis testing; regression analysis techniques including multivariate regression and model building; correlation techniques; analysis of variance and factorial designs; chi-squared analysis; and other discrete data techniques . Three credits . MA 553 Statistical Forecasting This course on statistical forecasting and forecasting techniques includes the study of smoothing methods, multiple regression and model building, and Box- Jenkins ARIMA models . Three credits .