2022-2023 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HS 402 - Intensive Independent Study II (3.00 cr.)
Permits further independent work by a student who has completed HS 401 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course, HS 401 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 403 - History Honors I (3.00 cr.)
An optional program available to select senior history majors by department invitation in their junior year. It aims to provide intensive research and writing on a precisely defined thesis topic in order to complete a sustained study of high quality. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair. The yearlong thesis project consists of two courses, HS 403 and HS 404 , which run consecutively.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 404 - History Honors II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of HS 403 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 405 - History Internship (3.00 cr.)
The Baltimore area supports many agencies and museums concerned with historical study. As well as learning about the historical documents, collections, and buildings managed by these organizations, history interns have the opportunity to gain work experience in the community. Students work with the instructor to choose and carry out unpaid internship projects supervised by professional staff at the Baltimore City Life Museums, the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore's two art museums, the Office of Urban Archaeology, The Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation, and other local historical agencies. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Counts once toward the history major; may be repeated for free elective credit.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 406 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis I (3.00 cr.)
An optional program available to select senior history majors by department invitation in their junior year. It aims to provide intensive research and writing on a precisely defined thesis topic in order to complete a sustained study of high quality. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair. The yearlong thesis project consists of two courses, HS 406 and HS 407 which run consecutively.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 407 - Seminar: History Honors Thesis II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of HS 406 . Written or electronic permission of the instructor and department chair.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 410 - Special Topics: The Crusades (3.00 cr.)
Students examine the Crusades, beginning with the efforts by western Europeans to assist the Byzantine Empire to defend its borders against Middle Eastern Islamic enemies. Those efforts set the stage for centuries of warfare between European crusader forces and Islamic forces for control of the Holy Lands. Students study the early history of the Crusades, from both the Christian and non-Christian view, as well as their effect on the early modern and modern history of the world. A significant research paper is required.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
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HS 413 - Medieval Military History (3.00 cr.)
The Middle Ages was a bellicose era. From the Germanic invasions to the Hundred Years War, from the Vikings to the Crusaders, the Middle Ages seems to have been made up of one major conflict followed by another. Traces the history of warfare throughout the Middle Ages as well as covering medieval strategy, tactics, combatants, technology, diplomacy, the role of religion, and the effects on nonmilitary society.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IGE/IM
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HS 416 - Sex and the City (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to key themes in both urban history and the history of sexuality by exploring the ways in which the development of modern urban centers in Western Europe and North America shaped and were shaped by the emergence of modern sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course traces the ways that urban space provided new opportunities for sex work and the development of sexual identities, while also showcasing the ways that sexual practices helped remake the ways cities are experienced through a intersectional framework that also takes into account race, gender, and class. Topics covered include industrialization and urbanization, public hygiene and urban design, sex work, consumer culture, and the development of gay, lesbian, and transgender subcultures.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IHE
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HS 417 - Germans in Africa, Africans in Germany (3.00 cr.)
Explores encounters between Germany and Africa across six German states (Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, East and West Germany, and reunified Germany). Topics include the establishment and loss of a German colonial empire in Africa, the presence of Africans and Afro-Germans (and later African-Americans) in Germany, and German debates about the relationship between race, gender, citizenship, and national identity.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/IAF/ICL/IGE
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HS 419 - Medieval Bodies (3.00 cr.)
While "the body" may be one of the most fundamental facts of human existence, even a moment's reflection would indicate that we experience our own bodies and the bodies of others in a dizzying variety of socially and culturally constructed ways. This course helps students engage with some of the many ways that the medieval world understood "the body." How did ideas about the body have an impact on medieval notions of sex and sexuality? What were the social and cultural ramifications of disability? How could the body function as a powerful point of contact between this world and the hereafter? Why did medieval political theorists describe society through bodily metaphors? In order to answer these and other questions, a multi-disciplinary approach to medieval history is used. Students examine works of philosophy, theology, law, and medicine in addition to literature, hagiography (the lives of saints), and material culture.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IHE/IM
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HS 423 - Disasters in American History (3.00 cr.)
Examines American history through the lens of disasters. Disasters offer a unique perspective from which to examine social, political, and economic structures and institutions. Explores disasters at various points in U.S. history in an effort to understand how these calamities have affected events; how the impact and understanding of disasters have changed over time; and ultimately, to provide a window onto the changing nature of American society over the past 200 years.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/IHE/IU
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HS 424 - Policing and Borders: Race, Violence, and Empire in U.S. History (3.00 cr.)
Analyzes the lengthy history of policing, border control, and violence in America. It begins with a central theoretical question: how have nations, including the U.S., defined and policed their borders throughout history? Readings pay particular attention to how borderlands and nation-states are and have been defined and informed by race, gender, and imperialism. Discussion will focus on the concepts of national demarcation and policing in global history. As a case-study, this course follows the long and complex history of the U.S.' southern border with Mexico. Readings and lectures will place discussions of the histories of European empires' attempts to negotiate sovereignty into conversation with the history of U.S. immigration policy. This course is suitable for students interested in global and U.S. history, racial politics, and temporalities of violence in the U.S..
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 429 - History of American News Media (3.00 cr.)
Since the nation's founding, the press has been a subject of both veneration and concern. On the one hand, it is perceived as a vital way to create the sort of informed citizenry that is necessary for a democratic society; on the other hand, critics argue that the media mislead voters or have undue influence on their opinions. This course looks at the way the technology, business practices, law, and politics have reshaped the media throughout history, and how the media, in turn, has influenced American democracy and sense of identity.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 431 - Introduction to Public History (3.00 cr.)
Many, if not most, Americans get their history from non-academic sources, from films, museums, exhibitions, and from national mythologies passed down in culture. These sites provide both opportunities to reach broader audiences but also challenges when it comes to historical interpretation. Whose history should be presented? Who or what is included and who or what is left out, and why? What are the standards used to portray "accurate" history? What are the social and political factors involved in creating these sites? The various ways history is transmitted to the public and the issues and possibilities associated with these methods are discussed. A focus is placed on historical sites in Baltimore and the United States. Students propose their own public history projects.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HS 432 - Loyola: Slavery and Its Repercussions (3.00 cr.)
Explores Loyola Univeristy Maryland's relationship to slavery, Native American land dispossession, and Latin American immigrants and labor. The course traces the relationships backward and forward in time. Students conduct research in the Jesuit Maryland Province archives, which were used for Georgetown University's research of the 1838 sale of 272 Africans who were enslaved, as well as local archives in Baltimore and other archives farther afield. Students produce historical accounts and analysis of Loyola's connections to slavery, dispossession, and/or labor that will be published in a single volume, while incorporating a variety of genres and perspectives. As a result, students take part in creating a better understanding of Loyola, Baltimore, Maryland, and the U.S. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 441 - Special Topics: Gender and Power in Modern Africa (3.00 cr.)
Analyzes the impact of social, economic, and political change on gender relations in modern Africa. In particular, it explores the differential impact of colonization, wage labor, and cash crop production on women and men, which resulted in new forms of exploitation, as well as new opportunities. People's innovative response to opportunity, their resistance to negative social change, and how their changing identities informed their participation in nationalist and post-independence social movements are also considered. Formerly HS 389 .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/IAF/ICL/IG/IHE/IPJ
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HS 442 - Health and Illness in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Traditional medical history has emphasized the march of science and the ideas of the "great doctors" that were assumed to have led to the improvement in medical care and the "conquering" of disease. More recently, historians have looked to other complex explanations to explore the relationship between health care systems and societies. This course looks beyond just medical care to the social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors that have shaped the development of the priorities, institutions, and personnel in the health-care system in the Americas. It examines these relationships through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, science, and class.
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course, one HS300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IHE/IL
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HS 447 - War Memory (3.00 cr.)
Explores the formation of war memory, paying special attention to the ways in which individuals and communities mobilized representations of the past to achieve their contemporary goals. Working from a combination of text-based and visual primary and secondary sources, students navigate topics such as nationalism, imperialism, history textbook controversies, the Cold War, and the atomic bombs in an effort to understand the importance of historical memory in recent decades. Although the focus is on Japanese memories of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-1945), considerable time is also devoted to examining problems resulting from "memory wars" in places such as China, South Korea, the United States, and Germany.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
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HS 450 - Special Topics: History of Afghanistan (3.00 cr.)
Studies the history of Afghanistan from its emergence as a distinct political entity in 1747 to the return to power of the Taliban in August 2021. In the first part of the course, the impact of major power rivalry on state formation, modernization in the twentieth century, democratization in the 1960s, and the fall of the Old Regime in 1978 are studied. In the second half of the course, over four decades of war which witnessed varying regimes in power including Communists, Islamists, Taliban, and a U.S. backed government during the Global War on Terror after 9/11 are examined. A major theme of the course is to analyze why the 20-year effort to rebuild Afghanistan with the assistance of the international community from 2001-2021 failed and led to the re-emergence of the Taliban in power.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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HS 460 - American Revolution in Global Context (3.00 cr.)
For most American students, the American Revolution involved thirteen colonies fighting for their independence from Great Britain on battlefields ranging from Lexington to Yorktown. Few realize that the American Revolutionary War stretched from Lexington to Jamaica to Senegal and to India. This course explores the American Revolution in its global context. Students look at some familiar events (the Boston Massacre), but from new perspectives (those of the Irish soldiers stationed in Boston in 1770) as well Revolutionary events in some less familiar places (North American borderlands, the Caribbean, England, and India). Students explore some of the outcomes of the war for diverse groups, including runaway African American slaves who ultimately found themselves in Canada, London, Sierra Leone, and Australia. Throughout the course, students explore how and why events in places like Massachusetts produced a conflict that played out across the globe. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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HS 463 - Seminar: Colonial British America (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the British colonies in mainland North America and the West Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Particular attention is paid to three broad issues: the relationship between the physical environment and process of colonization; cultural interactions and conflicts between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans and the influence of those relationships on the development of colonial societies; and the social and economic integration of the colonies with one another and with the broader Atlantic world during this period. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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HS 465 - Seminar: Inside the Civil War (3.00 cr.)
Key topics in the social and political history of the Civil War are explored with the goal of gaining deeper understanding of the human and policy dimensions of the conflict. The experience of ordinary soldiers and civilians is the center of discussion; however, specific issues that challenged Americans during the conflict are also examined. These include guerrilla warfare and relationships between soldiers and civilians in war zones; the war's impact on slavery and race; prison camps and prisoner exchanges; attitudes toward death in American culture during the war; the war's different home fronts; patriotism and resistance; government authority and its limits; gender and family life; and experience and memory. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HS 466 - Seminar: Revolutionary Lives: Biography and the New Nation (3.00 cr.)
Employs biography as a lens to explore the era of the American Revolution and Early American Republic. Biographies of the famous (e.g., Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Paine) and not so-famous (e.g. a Boston shoemaker, a Maine midwife, and an enslaved African American in Charleston, SC) are used to examine how individuals shaped, and were shaped by, larger social, political, economic, and cultural shifts that occurred during these tumultuous years. The specific topics/biographies vary by year. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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HS 474 - Holocaust Memory in Germany and America (3.00 cr.)
By the early twenty-first century, the Holocaust—the murder of six million European Jews—had come to represent the epitome of evil, an event in history that stands as the reference point for contemporary morality. In 1945, this was not as clear. This course explores how the meaning of the Holocaust as a singular event emerged and changed across generations after 1945 in two very different national contexts: Germany and America. The class examines the role of public history sites such as exhibitions, memorials, and museums, and popular culture such as films and literature, and scholarly debates. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IGE/IU
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HS 475 - Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World (3.00 cr.)
An exploration of the causes, nature, and extent of early Christian persecutions until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. Topics include the Jewish-Greek-Roman environment of early Christianity; Rome's policies toward foreign cults; Christians' reputation for extreme promiscuity and cultic atrocities; comparison with competing cults; the danger of open profession of the new faith; and Christian acceptance of the ancient world. Given the muddled understanding of the early Christian persecutions, we shall examine and dispel the myths and bring some order to the chaos. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Same course as CL 324 .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/II
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HS 477 - Seminar: Legends in Medieval History (3.00 cr.)
Perhaps no other era in history has produced as many enduring legends as the Middle Ages. Robin Hood, Arthur of Camelot, Count Dracula, Macbeth, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, and innumerable saints all join dragons, witches, lycanthropes, and other fantastic beasts as major elements of medieval popular culture. Study of their historicity, legendary use, and effect on medieval society proves a valuable tool to understanding the intellectual history of medieval Europe. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IGE/IM
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HS 478 - Global Histories of Sexuality (3.00 cr.)
Can sex have a history? If so, what kind? This course takes a comparative and transnational perspective to the history of sexuality in pursuit of this question. It examines how societies from around the world and across time have regulated, constructed, and policed sexual behaviors and identities. The course asks how race, gender, class, and ability have inflected and shaped people's diverse sexualities and sexual experiences. In doing so, it showcases the ways that the history of sexuality reshapes our understanding of social, political, and cultural history more broadly. Topics vary by semester, but may include male homosexuality, lesbianism, (trans)gender identity and transsexuality, heterosexuality, sexual knowledge, regulation and policing, reproduction, sexual violence and crime, sex work and prostitution, queer and feminist politics, and health and medicine. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IG
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HS 481 - Seminar: Ethnicity and Political Violence in Modern Africa (3.00 cr.)
Explores how ethnicity factors into political violence in modern Africa. This includes looking at how the colonial state understood and used ethnicity to govern people, and how this approach to governing shaped the development of nationalist and then post-independence politics in key cases like Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. These cases are subject to change with each iteration of the course. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
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HS 482 - Asian Studies Seminar (3.00 cr.)
Examines the various traditions of Asia and relates them to present-day Asian life through reading, discussion, and research. Students write a final 15-20 page research paper on a topic of their choice in consultation with the instructor. Because the course also serves as the capstone seminar for the Asian Studies minor, it takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding modern Asia. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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HS 485 - Oral History and Philanthropy in the Americas (3.00 cr.)
This Student Philanthropy Service-Learning (SPSL) oral history seminar provides the foundations to understand, design, execute, and work with oral history interviews in research projects, including the basics of oral history interview practices, ethics, and such techniques as digitally recording, transcribing, and archiving an interview. The course examines the methodological and theoretical implications of studying people's lives through oral histories as a way to end the silences in other historical forms. Students analyze how gender, class, and ethnicity affect oral histories and how oral histories impact these identities. For many peoples in the world, oral history is the most important and common means of transmitting historical evidence. The interpretive challenges involved in gleaning evidence from oral narratives are examined. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
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HS 489 - Seminar: America in the Middle East (3.00 cr.)
Explores the complex history of America's interaction with the Middle East, beginning with the first Barbary war fought in North Africa in 1801 and ending with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Topics include Protestant Christian missionary activity; the American brand of orientalism; the United States' involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the Arabian Gulf; and the politics of oil and cultural encounters and exchanges. Students work with primary sources such as diplomatic documents and other official records, missionary reports, newspapers, memoirs, literature, art, and advertising. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL
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HS 490 - Seminar: Environmental History in Latin America (3.00 cr.)
Explores how humans and the environment have interacted over time in the Americas from pre-Columbian populations to the recent past. The study of historical change in human-nature interactions reveals both how people have affected the environment and how nature has shaped human actions. Because of the wide range of research methods and topics it embraces, the burgeoning field of Environmental History is both compelling and challenging. This course examines diverse views of nature, ecological effects of shifting agricultural and consumption patterns, the impact of technological advances, political ecology, conservation, and environmental movements. In part, this course seeks to define what constitutes "Environmental History" and to determine if there is a coherent set of problems and issues that this emergent field addresses. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Closed to students who have taken HS 422 .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IES/IL
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HS 491 - Seminar: Migration, Displacement, and Refugees: Middle East (3.00 cr.)
Explores the history of migrants, refugees, and displaced peoples from, to, and within the modern Middle East, from the nineteenth century to the present. After an introduction to the geography, history, and cultures of the region, and after a session dedicated to definitions and to theoretical and methodological approaches in migration and refugee studies, this course focuses on select topics: nomads as displaced people in the late Ottoman empire; the genocide by forced migration of Ottoman Armenians; forced population transfers at the end of World War I; the dispossession and statelessness of the Kurds; the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora to North, Central, and South America; foreign migrants ("guest workers") and human trafficking in the Arab Gulf; and the plight of Iraqi and Syrian refugees since 2003 and 2011, respectively. Students dedicate the last two weeks of class to a thorough examination of the current Middle East refugee crisis in Europe and in the United States, and welcome guest speakers from the Baltimore refugee community. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IPJ
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HS 492 - Minority Identity and Citizenship in the Modern World (3.00 cr.)
Explores the meaning and history of minority identities in the context of state formations across time and space, with an emphasis on the modern period. The following key questions structure the investigation: what constitutes minority and majority identities (the context matters)? Why and how does the category – minority – make sense in a national state formation as compared to an imperial state formation? How are minorities incorporated or excluded from nationalist narratives? And finally, what are the consequences of enforcing these categories in our modern world? Case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas are used to support discussion and research. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Fulfills seminar requirement for History majors.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/IAF/ICL/IPJ
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HS 493 - Seminar: Slavery and Freedom in Baltimore (3.00 cr.)
Nineteenth-century Baltimore was a major urban center in the Antebellum south and home to thousands of enslaved people. It was also home to one of the largest free black populations in the United States. It was a commercial and manufacturing hub amidst a plantation economy, one in which slavery and freedom existed side-by-side. It was an economic boomtown which by 1830 had become the 2nd largest city in the new United States. In short, Baltimore exemplified the possibilities, paradoxes, and contradictions at the heart of the American republic during the first half of the nineteenth century. This course examines slavery and freedom in Baltimore from the Revolutionary-era through the Civil War and explores briefly the legacy of slavery and racism for the city today. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF/IU
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HS 497 - Capstone Project in American Studies (3.00 cr.)
As the capstone experience for the American Studies minor, each student develops an independent research project, internship, or service-based project, to be advised by two professors from different departments and presented at an end-of-year American Studies Symposium. The project constitutes the culmination of the student's work in American Studies and provides an opportunity for the student to bring together the perspectives of two different disciplines on a research area of particular interest. A project proposal must be submitted to and approved by the American Studies committee prior to registration for either the fall or spring semesters of senior year. The project must contain both a research and a formal writing component (the equivalent of a 20-25 page research paper). Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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HS 498 - Seminar: Histories of Intellectual Disabilities (3.00 cr.)
Focuses onn intellectual disabilities in global and historical perspective. Challenging the notion that intellectual disabilities and their opposite, intelligence, are objective and unchanging realities, we examine how different societies throughout history have understood this relationship. Topics include the impact of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism on treatment of people with intellectual disabilities in premodern times, the invention of IQ tests, eugenics, involuntary sterilization laws, institutionalization, the extermination of intellectually disabled people during the Nazi Holocaust, the rise of special education, and the global disability rights movement. The course ends in Baltimore with a study of well-established local organizations like The Arc and of the infamous Rosewood Center, which operated from 1888 to 2009. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE/IPJ
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HS 499 - History Capstone (3.00 cr.)
The culmination of the history major, students draw on their content knowledge and skills to complete an original research paper on a specific topic chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Students meet regularly to discuss the research and writing process, including brainstorming a topic, completing primary source research, advancing a claim, integrating original research with existing literature, outlining and drafting, and revising. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: HS 100 , one HS 200-level course.
Restrictions: Open to senior history majors with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 201 - The Human Drama: The Ancient World (4.00 cr.)
The first in the four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 202 - The Human Drama: The Medieval World (4.00 cr.)
The second in the four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IM/IC
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HN 203 - The Human Drama: The Renaissance to Modernity (4.00 cr.)
The third in a four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. Written or electronic permission of the department.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC
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HN 204 - The Human Drama: The Modern World (4.00 cr.)
The fourth in a four-course, interdisciplinary exploration of human history, extending from the ancient to the modern world, which Honors Program students take in the freshman and sophomore years. Written or electronic permission of the department.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 210 - Eloquentia Perfecta (3.00 cr.)
A course in analytical thinking, writing, and speaking. Aimed at helping Honors students to become better readers, listeners, speakers, and writers, each section of the course focuses on a particular theme or topic. Students read texts pertinent to the section's theme or topic, analyze the arguments and rhetoric of those texts, produce their own analytical writing, and make oral presentations.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 215 - Engaging Nature (3.00 cr.)
An introductory science course which emphasizes close observation of the natural world, problem solving, and hypothesis development. It is designed to introduce students to science as a "way of knowing" and to the nature of scientific research and debate.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 216 - Honors Science: Special Topics (3.00 cr.)
An in-depth study of a topic in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, physics, or mathematics and statistics. Topic announced each time the course is offered. Fulfills the natural science core requirement for Honors nonscience majors.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 217 - The Chemistry Within Us (3.00 cr.)
Examines biomedical research and experimental medicine using an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on four major themes: frontiers of medical research; diseases; drugs, and drug development; and food science. Students are provided an opportunity to reexamine biochemical ideas at great depth. Includes specific applications and examples ranging from modern drugs and the drug design process to the chemistry of food and smells, and from cancer biology to stem cell research. Fulfills the math/science core requirement for Honors nonscience majors.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 220 - The Chemistry of Food and Cooking (3.00 cr.)
Examines the chemistry of food and cooking, providing students with an introduction to the qualitative aspects of organic chemistry viewed through the properties and reactions of food molecules. Other topics include the ethics of food production, culinary history, and food in culture. Fulfills the natural science core requirement for Honors students.
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 231 - Honors Seminar: Macroeconomic Principles (3.00 cr.)
Introduces macroeconomic equilibrium, its impact on unemployment and inflation, and the effect of economic policy initiatives on that equilibrium. Students learn to predict the qualitative effect of changes in economic aggregates on each other and on GDP. Topics include the business cycle; national income and product accounting; equilibrium in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply model; the multiplier; the national debt; financial intermediaries; money and its creation; fiscal and monetary policy; comparative advantage and the gains from international trade; commercial policy; foreign exchange markets; and the balance of payments. Effects of international transactions are incorporated with each topic. Fulfills the social science core requirement for Honors students. Same course as EC 103 .
Prerequisite: EC 102 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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HN 232 - Honors Seminar: Introductory Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Surveys the multifaceted aspects of both the science and practice of psychology. Biological, cognitive, and social bases of behavior and mental processes are explored, as are the key features and importance of critical thinking skills and solid psychological research. Fulfills the social science core requirement for Honors students. Same course as PY 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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HN 234 - Honors Seminar: Politics (3.00 cr.)
The basic principles and problems of political science centered on the origin, powers, and limitations of the state, and the nature of the political process. Fulfills the social science core requirement for Honors students. Same course as PS 101 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Odd Years
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HN 237 - Honors Seminar: Social Power and Social Change (3.00 cr.)
A macrosociological view of major types of societies that have existed in the past or exist currently. Students are exposed to the major patterns, causes and consequences of social change in societies and institutions through comparative sociology. Fulfills the social sciences core requirement for Honors students. Same course as SC 202 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Even Years
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HN 318 - Parthenon to Pantheon: Greek and Roman Art (3.00 cr.)
An overview of ancient Greek and Roman masterpieces approached in thematic units focusing on four case studies: the Parthenon, the Prima Porta Augustus, the Aphrodite of Knidos, and the Pantheon. Fulfills the Fine Arts core requirement for Honors students. Same course as CL 318 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 320 - Art and Intellectual History: Renaissance to Modern (3.00 cr.)
Examines canonical art works of the western tradition in the context of key intellectual and artistic developments through close reading of primary sources and the formal and iconographic readings of works of art. Fulfills the fine arts core requirement for Honors students. Closed to students who have taken AH 111 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 321 - Introduction to Theatrical Production (3.00 cr.)
A comprehensive, experiential course in theatrical production. Students engage in major areas of production (acting, directing, design), as well as playwriting, theatre criticism, and the staging of an original theatre piece. Includes attendance at theatre productions on campus and in the Baltimore/Washington area. (Theatre tickets cost approximately $50.) Fulfills fine arts core requirement for Honors students. Closed to students who have taken DR 251 . Same course as DR 252 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 322 - Western Musical Traditions (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the major forms and styles in the western musical tradition, with an emphasis on guided listening of masterworks and the study of issues in musical aesthetics through scholarly and primary source texts. Aims to develop a more perceptive and informed listener and to introduce skills in music scholarship. Fulfills fine arts core requirement for Honors students, Class of 2018 and beyond. Closed to students who have taken MU 203 . Same course as MU 204 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 323 - Photographic Vision: Tools, Techniques, and Theories (3.00 cr.)
Students work with film and digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras in the studio, darkroom, and computer lab. Students learn to use their cameras to craft thoughtful, intentional photographs and to enrich their understanding through careful readings of core texts of photographic theory and analysis of historical and contemporary photographs. Fulfills fine arts core requirement for Honors students. Closed to students who have taken PT 300 . Same course as PT 301 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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HN 499 - The Examined Life (3.00 cr.)
Serves as a capstone for the Honors curriculum. It includes revisiting ethical concerns and issues raised in earlier Honors courses, rereading relevant texts, and introducing new texts and ethical issues when appropriate. Fulfills the Honors ethics course requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to senior Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IS 251 - Data Analytics and Information Systems (3.00 cr.)
Students examine the strategic role of information systems in organizations and the integration of data analytics into business activities enabling quality, timeliness, and competitive advantage. They are immersed in the collection, exploration, visualization and application of data to make informed business decisions. Students apply database, spreadsheet, and visualization skills to solve real world business challenges. Students develop a real-world data visualization project relatable to a business application of real world data.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IDS/IEN
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IS 311 - Enterprise Systems (3.00 cr.)
Today's organizations face an increasingly complex data ecosystem, where massive amounts of data from multiple sources are being generated. Building and transforming digital infrastructure to support operations and innovation efforts in a timely manner remain a major challenge. Students learn how large volumes of data are collected, stored, processed, and analyzed to help organizations uncover insights and drive business results. Cloud-first, open, and distributed architecture framework to support app deployment lifecycle is reviewed, including (1) Compute, (2) Storage, and (3) Networking services. Hands-on exercises involving various cloud services such as relational databases, object storage, load balancing, and data warehouse query reinforce students' conceptual understanding of cloud technologies. Students engage in a group project designing a solution concept diagram. Recommended completion during junior year.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IDS
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IS 352 - Introduction to Programming in Python (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to software development with an emphasis on real-world applications. Students are introduced to programming in a modern computer language with Python. Principles of program design, programming structures, data structures, program testing, and debugging are covered. Emphasis is placed on developing an applied analytics project relatable to a business application. CS 151 may be substituted for this course with permission of the department chair. No prior programming experience is required.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IS 353 - Data Management and Database Systems (3.00 cr.)
Students analyze, create a logical design, and implement the physical design for a relational database system. The course includes significant exposure to SQL (Structured Query Language) in both Microsoft Access and Oracle. Students are also exposed to the challenges associated with valuing data as a digital asset and with information lifecycle management (ILM).
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IDS/IMC
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IS 355 - Cyber Security and Networks (3.00 cr.)
Explores the technologies underlying networking, multimedia, digital business, and entertainment industries. This course balances technical and managerial content while covering a broad range of topics, including the strategic role of telecommunications, networking infrastructure, cyber security, encryption, audio, video, intellectual property rights, and ethics associated with cyber security.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
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IS 356 - Information Technology for Financial Services (3.00 cr.)
At a time when information is critical to corporate success, financial service firms continue to be the largest consumers of information technology (IT). The impact of IT across U.S. and European equities markets, brokerage companies, bond trading, and electronic banking is examined alongside new applications of fintech. Students gain a thorough understanding of how IT is used by financial services firms for competitive advantage. The course builds on the theory of equities markets by allowing students to engage in simulated stock market transactions and to apply financial theories in a practical, real-world setting.
Prerequisite: FI 320 or BH 320 , IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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IS 358 - Business Intelligence and Data Mining (3.00 cr.)
Students are introduced to data mining as a technology to discover information and knowledge from large datasets for business decisions. Students utilize SAS Enterprise Miner™ to perform data mining using methods such as clustering, regression and decision trees. Students develop a real world project using leading business intelligence technology for data mining. Forms the foundation for customer relationship management in marketing and for forensic accounting. Required to be eligible for the SAS™ BI Certificate.
Prerequisite: EC 220 or ST 210 or ST 265 ; IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 ; MA 151 or MA 251 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/FO/IDS/IFS/IMC
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IS 360 - Management of Global Information Technology (3.00 cr.)
Exposes students to the challenges of establishing a successful and globally competitive information technology (IT) industry outside the U.S. Students study historical, economic, political, labor, and social factors leading to the establishment of country-specific centers of IT excellence. In particular, students study what led multinational corporations to base their overseas activities within a specific location. Students are expected to attend a series of classes during the regular semester and to then travel to the international destination to meet with company executives and to tour company facilities. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 or CS 301 or CS 312 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with cumulative GPA of 2.500 or higher.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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IS 452 - Special Topics in Information Systems (1-3.00 cr.)
Students explore information systems in a variety of formats and subject areas.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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IS 453 - Information Systems Analysis and Design (3.00 cr.)
How do you design a set of tools to help people organize and execute work when your organization is experiencing change all the time? This course introduces the development of information systems in organizations. Students learn an overview of systems analysis and design - planning, analysis, design, and implementation phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Students apply the Agile, Design-thinking approach to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test mobile-first solutions (i.e., a mobile app) to solve real-world business problems. Students use several tools and techniques to help manage projects, ideas, user stories, prototypes, and collaborate with others in sprints. Students share and inform audiences of their project through oral and written presentations. Topics also include the roles of the systems analysts, designers, developers, and product owners, as well as global and ethical concerns in systems development.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IMC
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IS 458 - Web-Enabled Entrepreneurial Project (3.00 cr.)
Students explore and apply effective use of the technologies associated with responsive web applications and digital business including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Responsive Design, and jQuery, all essential to modern companies. In this capstone course, students integrate skills from previous information systems courses, develop a plan for an entrepreneurial business using best practices, and create a sophisticated web-enabled senior project in a cloud environment. The course is interactive, team-oriented, and results driven.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 , IS 352 or CS 151 , IS 353 , IS 358 , and IS 453 ; or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS
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IS 459 - Research Project in Information Systems (3.00 cr.)
Students develop individual research in a specific area of mutual interest with a faculty member. The student must begin with a written plan for the project and conclude with a written research report. Written or electronic permission of the department chair.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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IS 460 - Data Visualization (3.00 cr.)
Investigates the processing and cleaning of real-world datasets and their appropriate representation in visual form. Data resides in a multitude of databases and formats and comes in a variety of forms such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Making data understandable to non-technical users requires knowledge of the best techniques for presenting data to aid in its interpretation. This course focuses on the use of data visualization coding techniques in software applications such as Tableau™, Python, and R. Students discover how to create bar charts, line charts, dual axis plots, histograms, trellis charts, pie charts, donut charts, nested pie charts, bump charts, heatmaps, spider plots, maps, and more. Prior programming experience is highly recommended.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or DS 303 , EC 220 or ST 210 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IMC
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IS 470 - Sports Analytics (3.00 cr.)
Big data continues to dominate the world of professional sports as exemplified by the movie Moneyball, which showcased the innovative use of data by the Oakland A's baseball franchise. This course examines the use of data in a variety of professional sports including football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Students use statistics and coding languages, such as R and Python, to dissect a variety of data forms. When possible, students use their skills to participate in the NFL Big Data Bowl competition in January each year. Prior coding experience is essential for this course as is a basic knowledge of statistics and an ability to communicate complex results to a professional audience.
Prerequisite: EC 220 or ST 210 , IS 352 or CS 151 or ST 310 .
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS
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IS 499 - Internship in Information Systems (1-3.00 cr.)
Students participate in individual study and group preparation and reflection while working in a technology-related position for an enterprise. Students work with an executive or information systems professional, performing duties that are matched with Loyola coursework. Each internship is constructed by an information systems professor in conjunction with the on-site internship supervisor. Students work with the professor before engagement and at the end of the term.
Prerequisite: IS 251 or BH 251 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IB 282 - Global Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Examines the social, political, and economic contexts that influence global businesses and explores how global businesses address the unique challenges and opportunities presented by globalization. Students develop the analytical skills to assess cultural differences between U.S. and non-U.S. businesses, and identify tensions, interests, and responsibilities among global stakeholders, institutions and public policy. The learning method can involve reflection papers, case analysis, current event analysis, team work, and class discussion. Some sections of IB 282 are designated as a service-learning course and work with a Baltimore organization to obtain hands-on experience.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA/IES
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IB 300 - Introduction to Czech Business and Culture (3.00 cr.)
The Prague Summer Study Abroad program is a one month study abroad experience based in Prague, the Czech Republic. The program usually occurs during the month of July. Students must enroll in two courses. Classroom learning is integrated with multiple cultural experiences, historical tours, business site visits, and weekend trips outside Prague to World Heritage sites. The classroom and experiential assignments and activities provide an integrated framework for understanding Czech culture and business. Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 required. Application and instructor permission required. A fee is charged, amount varies. Same as MG 300 .
Restrictions: Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IB 315 - International Management (3.00 cr.)
Investigates business policy, strategy, structure, and process in an international context. Focuses on the international business environment and management practices outside the United States. Students develop an understanding of the complex and varied role of the general manager in a nondomestic environment. Topics include the international environment; the role of the general manager overseas; and global strategies, policies, and processes. The learning method is action-based learning with a focus on case studies, company projects, and current event analyses related to international management issues and concepts. Same course as MG 315 .
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , MG 201 or BH 201 .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IB 370 - Special Topics in International Business (3.00 cr.)
Readings and discussion in selected areas of international business. Past topics include emerging markets and international and comparative management. The learning method varies depending on topic. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , 60 credits.
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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IB 372 - Cross-Cultural Exchanges (3.00 cr.)
Due to globalization internationally-based employees working in multinational firms have become more connected. Many employees primarily work and collaborate with colleagues around the world. Yet, most managers have little, if any, understanding of how culture of employees impact interaction in the workplace. This course provides new insights and strategies for dealing with cross-cultural complexity that affects their individual and team's effectiveness in the workplace. The course also enables students to maximize their study abroad/international experiences by way of theory and practice, sharing and collaborating with one another, and learning from one another's methods, assumptions, values, knowledge, and points of view. The learning method is highly experiential with a focus on lectures, self-assessments, mini cases, class discussions, presentations, exercises, site visits, real life simulations, and team/individual projects.
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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IB 415 - International Management (3.00 cr.)
Investigates business policy, strategy, structure, and process in an international context. Focuses on the international business environment and management practices outside the United States. Students develop an understanding of the complex and varied role of the general manager in a nondomestic environment. Topics include the international environment; the role of the general manager overseas; and global strategies, policies, and processes. The learning method is action based learning with a focus on case studies, company projects, and current event analyses related to international management issues and concepts. Same course as MG 415 .
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , MG 201 or BH 201 , 60 credits.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2020-2021 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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IB 473 - Global Strategic Alliances (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with a hand-on, experientially-based knowledge of the role, evolution, selection, and management of strategic alliances. Through readings, assignments, and activities, students develop their capacities to use the vocabulary and understand the drivers of strategic alliances, understand the alliance life cycle and each of its concentration components, identify the critical aspects in managing strategic alliances, and conduct a comprehensive alliance partner selection analysis. The learning method can involve the case method, simulation and action learning, in the form of a consultancy project. Same course as MG 473 .
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , MG 201 or BH 201 , 60 credits.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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IB 482 - Global Strategy (3.00 cr.)
An upper-level seminar for international business students that brings together the managerial and environmental dynamics at work in the global economy. Incorporates all aspects of international business to enable managers to develop, implement, and evaluate a global strategy for the firm, be it family-owned, or a transnational corporation. Specific firms, industries and/or regions may be selected for study. The learning method can involve the case method, simulation and action learning, in the form of a consultancy project. Same course as MG 482 .
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , BH 201 or MG 201 , 60 credits.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IB 499 - International Business Internship (3.00 cr.)
To augment classroom learning with practical field experience, internships are arranged in area companies and state, federal, or international organizations. Periodically, students meet with the instructor in groups or individually. Students engage in weekly blog posts/responses and discussion boards and complete monthly reflections, including a final paper. A minimum of 150 hours of internship in the host organization is required. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. A journal of activities and a final report are required.
Prerequisite: IB 282 or BH 282 , 60 credits.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 101 - Introductory Italian I (3.00 cr.)
A thorough grounding in the four language skills: reading, understanding, writing, and speaking, as well as an understanding of the structure of the language and the literature and culture of the country. For students with no previous knowledge of the language. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 102 - Introductory Italian II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of IT 101 . Laboratory study outside the classroom is required.
Prerequisite: IT 101 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 103 - Intermediate Italian I (3.00 cr.)
A systematic consolidation and expansion of the four basic skills: reading, understanding, speaking, and writing. To increase and perfect students' acquired abilities/proficiencies in the language, and broaden their understanding of the country's culture and literature. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required. Summer sections offered abroad only.
Prerequisite: IT 102 or IT 161 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 104 - Intermediate Italian II (3.00 cr.)
A capstone course reviewing and reinforcing language skills learned in IT 101-103 to help students attain intermediate level as defined by ACTFL guidelines in the five skills: reading, writing, speaking, comprehension, and culture of Italy and Italian-speaking areas. Course includes use of the language in context, with authentic readings, discussion in Italian, and film clips. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required. Summer sections offered abroad only.
Prerequisite: IT 103 or appropriate score on placement exam.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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IT 161 - Comprehensive Beginning Italian (6.00 cr.)
A review course for students who have had three years of language study in high school and for students who wish to begin a second modern language. The material covered is essentially the same as for the IT 101-102 sequence, except that it is covered in one semester instead of two. This includes a thorough grounding in the five language skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge, as well as an understanding of the structure of the language, cultures, and literatures of the countries that speak Italian. Special emphasis is placed on preparing students to begin work at the intermediate language level. Open to students who wish to begin study in a second modern language or who place into IT 102 . Contact time includes six 50-minute class sessions per week. Counts as two, three-credit courses. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required. Required for students who have completed three years of high school Italian, who wish to continue language study in Italian, and who place into IT 101 . Closed to students who have taken IT 101 , IT 102 , or the equivalent.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 162 - Comprehensive Intermediate Italian (6.00 cr.)
The material covered is essentially the same as for the IT 103-104 sequence, except that it is covered in one semester instead of two. It consists of a systematic consolidation and expansion of the four basic skills: reading, understanding, speaking, and writing. To increase and perfect students' acquired abilities/proficiencies in the language and broaden their understanding of the country's culture and literature, the second half is a capstone reviewing and reinforcing language skills to help students attain the intermediate level as defined by ACTFL guidelines in the five skills: reading, writing, speaking, comprehension, and culture of Italy and Italian-speaking areas. The course includes the use of the language in context-with authentic readings, discussion in Italian, and film clips. Counts as two three-credit courses. Contact time includes six 50-minute class sessions per week. Laboratory study outside the classroom is required. Closed to students who have taken IT 103 , IT 104 , or the equivalent.
Prerequisite: Open to students who have completed IT 102 or IT 161 or placed into IT 103 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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IT 201 - Italian Composition and Conversation I (3.00 cr.)
Students develop their ability to write and speak correctly and creatively in Italian through models of advanced linguistic structural patterns, related grammar, examples of usage, and composition exercises. Oral practice enhanced through the use of videos.
Prerequisite: IT 104 or IT 162 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 202 - The Living Language (3.00 cr.)
A transition between language study on the lower-division level, where grammar and oral practice are stressed, to more advanced upper-division courses in which the language becomes the primary means of expression and communication. Special emphasis is put on the study of Italian immigration into the United States, considering different aspects with the help of Italian literature, history, movies, and personal narratives.
Prerequisite: IT 104 or IT 162 or IT 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II/IU
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IT 205 - High Intermediate Italian: Meeting the Italian B2 Level (3.00 cr.)
A continuing study of Italian language, literature, and culture at the high-intermediate/low-advanced level. Materials include newpaper readings, films, literary works, composition, and interviews to review and expand students' knowledge in accordance with the vocabulary and format of the exam. At the end of the course, students should be ready to take the Italian CILS (Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera) exam at the B2 level offered each spring. This level is considered as recognizing an applicant's sustained ability to adequately converse in Italian and is the level from which one may apply for entrance to an Italian university without sitting the normally obligatory language assessment. Passing the exam results in a permanent certification. A fee is charged for the exam and is payable directly to the testing agency.
Prerequisite: IT 104 or IT 162 or IT 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 210 - Italian Composition and Conversation II (3.00 cr.)
Develops writing and speaking ability in Italian through models of style, related grammar, composition exercises, and the Internet. Comprehension and speaking are developed through the use of varied media.
Prerequisite: IT 104 or IT 162 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 215 - Contemporary Italian Culture (3.00 cr.)
Students explore modern Italian society and culture through readings, such as literary texts, articles, and reports concerned with contemporary issues. A variety of media are used to address fundamental aspects of Italian culture, perspectives, and social structures. By the end of the course students can produce clear, detailed text and discuss a wide range of subjects, explaining a viewpoint on relevant issues in contemporary Italian society. All lectures, assignments, and exams are in Italian.
Prerequisite: IT 104 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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IT 216 - Exploring the Text (3.00 cr.)
A preparatory course for students who will take advanced literature and culture courses where narrative texts are analyzed in Italian. Students watch films, read plays, poems, short stories, and novels and learn to analyze their structures and themes. All texts are read in the original Italian and placed within their historical, literary, and cultural contexts. The concepts of genre, style, and periodization are also studied. Students learn to discuss literature, cinema, and cultural movements with the correct terms and vocabulary. They will improve their ability to read, write, speak, and analyze in Italian. Students also learn how to conduct secondary research, as well as organize and write a research paper. All lectures, assignments, and exams are in Italian. This course is a recommended prerequisite for all Italian courses at the 300-level and above.
Prerequisite: IT 104 or IT 162 or IT 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 301 - Italian Literature and Civilization I: Origins to Reformation (3.00 cr.)
A study of the historical, political, and artistic development of the Italian peninsula from the first appearance of the Italian language to the Reformation (circa 960-1600), based upon literature. Major authors and movements of the Middle Ages and Renaissance are included.
Prerequisite: One IT 200-level course or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II/IM
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IT 302 - Italian Literature and Civilization II: Romanticism (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of IT 301 . A study of the historical, political, and artistic development of nineteenth century Italy—from the nationalistic movements to the first years of the country—based upon literary movements of the times. Courses need not be taken in order.
Prerequisite: One IT 200-level course or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 303 - Italian Literature and Civilization III: Realism (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of IT 302 . A study of the historical, political, and artistic development of Italy from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1950—from the first years of the country through the postwar years—based upon literary movements of the times. Courses need not be taken in order.
Prerequisite: One IT 200-level course or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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IT 304 - Italian Literature and Civilization IV: Contemporary Italy (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of IT 301 and IT 303 . A study of the historical, political, and artistic developments in Italy since 1950, based upon literary and related movements of the times. Film of other genres may be included. Courses need not be taken in order.
Prerequisite: One IT 200-level course or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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IT 310 - The Cinema of Italy (3.00 cr.)
A comprehensive but selective overview and analysis of the landmarks of Italian cinema, predominantly from World War II onward. The course examines the ways in which Italian cinema reflects the evolution of modern Italy in terms of changing social, political, economic, and cultural developments which characterize twentieth-century Italian life. All lectures, assignments, and exams are in Italian.
Prerequisite: One IT 200-level course or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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IT 312 - Advanced Grammar, Reading, and Composition (3.00 cr.)
Expands students' ability to express and comprehend complex and nuanced concepts in reading, writing, and speaking. The study of grammar is in context at an advanced level. This course requires laboratory work outside of class in addition to reading, composition, and viewing videos.
Prerequisite: IT 201 or equivalent.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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