2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue
Course Descriptions
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CL 223 - History and Storytelling in the Bible (3.00 cr.)
The Bible tells a history of the Israelites, early Judaism, the life of Jesus, and the early Christian church. How does its way of writing history compare to contemporary historiography, and to what we know from other sources? This course helps students understand the Bible's rhetorical, theological, and historical aims by reading the Bible's account of events and secondary sources. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 226 - Women in the Christian Tradition (3.00 cr.)
Examines the contribution of women to the Christian tradition, as well as questions addressed by their presence through the use of primary texts and monographs. Writings include Augustine's letters to women and such topics as the role of widows in the early church and medieval reformers and abbesses. The modern era includes women evangelicals, questions raised by some contemporary feminists, and women and religion in America. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/IG
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CL 227 - Commenting on Scripture from Philo to Facebook (3.00 cr.)
What happens when an artist like Taylor Swift releases portions of their journal that comment on their own songs? Does that change how you hear the song? Can you listen to that song "just as well" without knowing her commentary? Bringing these theoretical questions and more to bear on reading the Bible, this course explores the history, form, and function of commentaries on Scripture from early Jewish and early Christian commentaries, Renaissance and medieval art, children's Bibles, novelty Bibles, and online scriptural commentary. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 228 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome (3.00 cr.)
The Romans are famous for their success in war, building an empire stretching from Damascus to London and Gibraltar to Iraq. Defeats taught them self-sacrifice and the adoption of tactics and weapons from their foes. Constant warfare, both foreign and civil, deeply affected their politics, society, economy, and culture. After repeated victories, they developed a real love for "peace" (defined in a much different way than we conceptualize it) and even worshipped it as a divinity. The sources reviewed in this course come from narrative histories by participants and witnesses, public and private art and architecture, official and personal epitaphs, and love poetry. Monuments to wartime and to peace itself were significant (as they are for us). Topics studied include alliances, puppet rulers, corruption, depiction of defeated foes, "peace through conquest" ideology, and changes for conquerors and conquered. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/II/IPJ
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CL 229 - Images of God in Scripture (3.00 cr.)
Examines the various images/titles given to God in the Old and New Testaments from an historical theological perspective. Some images/titles discussed are God the Father, God the Mother, the Divine Warrior, the Good Shepherd, the Storm God, Christ the King, the Lamb of God, and God the Judge. Since our understanding of God is largely shaped by the image we have of Him, this course explores the influences these images/titles have had and continue to have on our approach to worship, on our concept of Church, and on our self understanding in relation to God. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 232 - Food, Hunger, and the Bible (3.00 cr.)
Investigates issues related to food and hunger in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, the ways in which these biblical concepts inform a Christian theology and spirituality of food, and how these biblical concepts relate to modern ethical and social justice issues including: poverty, hunger, and food access; food production; ethical labor practices in agricultural and food industries; sustainability; ethical treatment of animals; and community and hospitality. Students investigate biblical principles and apply them to current issues—both local and global. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE/IPJ
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CL 241 - Western Art: Paleolithic to Gothic (3.00 cr.)
A broad overview of the art of the West from the Paleolithic age to the Gothic era, focusing on Egyptian, Greek, Roman, early Christian, and Medieval art and architecture. Fulfills fine arts core requirement. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
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CL 246 - Who is Jesus? (3.00 cr.)
Explores the identity of Jesus Christ, as expressed in Scripture, the doctrine and tradition of the Church, as well as in art and literature. Emphasizes the historical context of Jesus' life, the variety of ways in which the significance of that life has been articulated over the centuries, and the ways in which one might discern faithful from unfaithful articulations. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC
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CL 253 - Death of the Roman Republic (3.00 cr.)
A study of the final century of the Roman Republic when Rome suffered under the struggles for personal power of men like Sulla, Mark Antony, and Julius Caesar. Focuses on primary sources with a particular emphasis on the writings of Cicero who documented the final years of the Republic in public speeches as well as private, biting personal letters. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 254 - History of Christmas (3.00 cr.)
Is Christmas the commemoration of Jesus' birth? Or is it a pagan winter festival hiding behind a thin but deceptive veil of Christian images and ideas? Students discover the holiday is both of these things and a good deal more. Students examine the origins and many transformations of the holiday and how the holiday has both reflected and helped determine the course of history. Topics include the Christmas tree, gift giving, the suppression of Christmas, the Nativity accounts, pagan precedents, and Santa. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/IC/ICL
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CL 256 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles (3.00 cr.)
An examination of ancient Rome's spectacles, including gladiatorial combat, chariot racing, animal fights and exhibitions, and mock battles. The course explores the intersection of power, violence, entertainment, class, and sex in Roman spectacles. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 257 - The Golden Age of Athens (3.00 cr.)
An examination of what has been called Athens' golden age focusing on the political and cultural factors which made the fifth century unique. Subjects include the creation and workings of Athenian democracy, the victories of the Persian wars, the Greek Enlightenment, Pericles' rule of the best citizen, demagoguery and empire, the Peloponnesian War, and the "end" of Athens symbolized by the execution of Socrates. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 258 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome (3.00 cr.)
An examination of ancient Rome's greatest disasters: the destruction of Pompeii, the Great Fire of Rome, floods, and plagues. Students investigate the causes of these events; the Romans' efforts to navigate and make sense of them; and the transformations they brought to the ancients' environment, behavior, and thought. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IHE/II
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CL 259 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome (3.00 cr.)
An examination of the lives of and attitudes toward women in ancient Greece and Rome. Classic texts of ancient literature are read, masterpieces of art are viewed, and the sociology of ancient women is probed. Topics include the family; prostitution; women of the imperial family; Cleopatra; health, child bearing, and birth control; the source and psychology of Greek misogyny; jet-setters and women's liberation under the early Roman Empire; women and work; women in myth; women in early Christianity; the legacy of classical civilization for modern women. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IG/IHE/II
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CL 260 - Roman Private Life (3.00 cr.)
A study of family and social life in Ancient Rome which focuses on how environment and custom determine one another. Topics include women, crime, racism, pollution, class structure, private religion and magic, Christianity, blood sports, medicine, travel, theater, and death. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 261 - The Multicultural Roman Empire (3.00 cr.)
In conquering and attempting to unify lands as diverse as Egypt, Iran, Britain, and Algeria, the Romans undertook one of the greatest social and political experiments in the history of the world. They assimilated some of the peoples they conquered, but the vanquished, in turn, assimilated their Roman conquerors-it is no accident that one third century emperor was named Philip the Arab. This course examines the strategies by which the Romans attempted to hold together their vast, multicultural empire, and the strategies by which many of their subjects preserved and even promulgated their cultures. Be prepared for clash and compromise, oppression and respect, culture and race, and, of course, some very astonishing customs. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/II
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CL 270 - Greece and Rome on Film (3.00 cr.)
Sex, violence, insanity, and monsters are the main ingredients in Hollywood's recipe for movies about ancient Greece and Rome. By watching films like Gladiator, 300, Troy, Ben-Hur, and others, students discover the truth behind the extravagant images and see some very good (and very bad) films along the way.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
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CL 275 - History of Ancient Greece (3.00 cr.)
A study of Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great, with special attention to the development of the Greek polis or city-state and the various constitutional, social, economic, and religious forms which this took. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 291 - The Gladiator (3.00 cr.)
A first-year Messina seminar that uses ancient and modern texts (e.g., The Colosseum, The Roman Games: A Sourcebook) and films (e.g., Gladiator, Spartacus, The Hunger Games) to illuminate the intersection of cruelty, ideology, and entertainment in the ancient arena.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 292 - Race, Conquest, and Identity in Ancient North Africa (3.00 cr.)
A first-year Messina seminar that examines questions of race, imperialism, and cultural/ethnic identity in ancient North Africa, both before and after the Roman conquest. Students are exposed to global diversity and issues of justice, especially with reference to conquered populations, and to questions of assimilation and resistance.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 300 - Death of the Roman Republic (3.00 cr.)
A study of the final century of the Roman Republic when Rome suffered under the struggles for personal power of men like Sulla, Mark Antony, and Julius Caesar. Focuses on primary sources with a particular emphasis on the writings of Cicero who documented the final years of the Republic in public speeches as well as private, biting personal letters. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 303 - Ethics: Ancient, Modern, and Christian Approaches to Ethics (3.00 cr.)
Studies the ways in which Christians of the first six centuries answered the question: How should one live? Pays particular attention to the themes which emerge in their answers to this question; e.g., the imitation of Christ, holiness, and the virtues. While some New Testament texts are included in the reading, the primary focus is on the writings of the Church Fathers. The last section of the course studies the writings of twentieth-century ethicists and some contemporary literature to see how these themes of holiness and virtue are developed in recent ethical reflection and discussion. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC
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CL 307 - Peace and War in Ancient Rome (3.00 cr.)
The Romans are famous for their success in war, building an empire stretching from Damascus to London and Gibraltar to Iraq. Defeats taught them self-sacrifice and the adoption of tactics and weapons from their foes. Constant warfare, both foreign and civil, deeply affected their politics, society, economy, and culture. After repeated victories, they developed a real love for "peace" (defined in a much different way than we conceptualize it) and even worshipped it as a divinity. The sources reviewed in this course come from narrative histories by participants and witnesses, public and private art and architecture, official and personal epitaphs, and love poetry. Monuments to wartime and to peace itself were significant (as they are for us). Topics studied include alliances, puppet rulers, corruption, depiction of defeated foes, "peace through conquest" ideology, and changes for conquerors and conquered. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-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/II/IPJ
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CL 312 - History of Ancient Greece (3.00 cr.)
A study of Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great, with special attention to the development of the Greek polis or city-state and to the various constitutional, social, economic, and religious forms which this took. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS100-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 313 - History of Christmas (3.00 cr.)
Is Christmas the commemoration of Jesus' birth? Or is it a pagan winter festival hiding behind a thin but deceptive veil of Christian images and ideas? Students will discover that the holiday is both of these things and a good deal more to boot. Students examine the origins and many transformations of the holiday and how the holiday has both reflected and helped determine the course of history. Topics include the Christmas tree, gift giving, the suppression of Christmas, the Nativity accounts, pagan precedents and, of course, Santa. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS100-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/IC/ICL
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CL 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. Same course as .
Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 322 - Gladiators and Roman Spectacles (3.00 cr.)
An examination of ancient Rome's spectacles, including gladiatorial combat, chariot racing, animal fights and exhibitions, and mock battles. The course explores the intersection of power, violence, entertainment, class, and sex in Roman spectacles. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: II
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CL 324 - 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, the course examines and dispels the myths and brings some order to the chaos. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
Recommended Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/II
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CL 327 - Volcanoes, Fire, and Flood: Disasters of Ancient Rome (3.00 cr.)
An examination of ancient Rome's greatest disasters: the destruction of Pompeii, the Great Fire of Rome, floods, and plagues. Students investigate the causes of these events; the Romans' efforts to navigate and make sense of them; and the transformations they brought to the ancients' environment, behavior, and thought. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course.
Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS/IHE/II
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CL 329 - Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome (3.00 cr.)
An examination of the lives of and attitudes toward women in ancient Greece and Rome. Classic texts of ancient literature are read, masterpieces of art are viewed, and the sociology of ancient women is probed. Topics include the family; prostitution; women of the imperial family; Cleopatra; health, child bearing, and birth control; the source and psychology of Greek misogyny; jet-setters and women's liberation under the early Roman Empire; women and work; women in myth; women in early Christianity; the legacy of classical civilization for modern women. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS100-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/IG/II
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CL 335 - An Introduction to the Theology of Saint Augustine (3.00 cr.)
Studies the life and writings of the great fifth-century bishop and theologian, Augustine of Hippo. Topics include grace, free will, scripture, and the role of civil authority. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/IM
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CL 337 - The Multicultural Roman Empire (3.00 cr.)
In conquering and attempting to unify lands as diverse as Egypt, Iran, Britain, and Algeria, the Romans undertook one of the greatest social and political experiments in the history of the world. They assimilated some of the peoples they conquered, but the vanquished, in turn, assimilated their Roman conquerors-it is no accident that one third century emperor was named Philip the Arab. This course examines the strategies by which the Romans attempted to hold together their vast, multicultural empire, and the strategies by which many of their subjects preserved and even promulgated their cultures. Be prepared for clash and compromise, oppression and respect, culture and race, and, of course, some very astonishing customs. Same course as .
Prerequisite: One HS100-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/II
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CL 340 - Biblical Hebrew I (3.00 cr.)
An enriched beginning course emphasizing grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Intended for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 341 - Biblical Hebrew II (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of . Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 342 - Biblical Hebrew III (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of . Same course as .
Prerequisite: or .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 343 - Biblical Hebrew IV (3.00 cr.)
A continuation of . Same course as .
Prerequisite: or .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 347 - Jesus and the Gospels (3.00 cr.)
Students examine a variety of issues surrounding the portrayal of Jesus in the Gospels of the New Testament and in other early Christian writings. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC
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CL 350 - Prophets and Peacemakers (3.00 cr.)
The Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) contains stories about prophets as well as texts attributed to these prophets. This course examines both. In addition, students study prophetic activity from a sociological/cross-cultural perspective, examine New Testament reinterpretations of prophetic texts, and explore the possibility of modern prophets and modern applications of ancient prophetic texts. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/IPJ
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CL 353 - Special Topics in the Gospels (3.00 cr.)
Explores a focused area or theme in the Gospels – for example, the Beatitudes, the parables of Jesus, or the passion narratives. The class uses a seminar-style format to explore the chosen topic in its historical context and its relevance for today. May be repeated twice for degree credit with different topics. Same course as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 366 - Studies in Plato (3.00 cr.)
An inquiry into the epistemological, moral, and metaphysical writings of Plato's middle and later periods, with special reference to the relation of anamnesis, participation and the theory of forms in the middle dialogues to koinonia and the theory of the greatest kinds in the later dialogues. Same course as .
Prerequisite: and one additional PL200-level course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 380 - Platonic Political Philosophy (3.00 cr.)
Socrates and the founding of political philosophy; Thucydides and the crisis of the polis; the critique of Aristophanes; Plato's Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic, Theaetetus; Plato's modern enemies: Machiavelli and Mill. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 381 - Aristotelian Political Philosophy (3.00 cr.)
An investigation of the founding of political science by Aristotle devoted to a reading of Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, as well as selections from Aristotle's scientific and logical treatises. Subsequent contributions to the tradition are also considered, including those of Marsilius of Padua and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aristotle's modern enemies: Hobbes and Marx. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 388 - Socratic Political Philosophy (3.00 cr.)
Socrates, the first political philosopher, wrote nothing. His unique life and thought are known only through the writings of others-both friends and enemies. By reading works by Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and Nietzsche, students seek to understand the Socratic way of life. The famous "Socratic turn" is examined-Socrates' move from natural philosophy toward political philosophy and the study of "the human things." Students also examine Socrates' quarrel with poets, the Sophists, and the political community itself. Was the Athenian democracy right to put Socrates to death? Finally, Socrates' relations with his friends and students are examined-how and what did he teach them. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 390 - The Political Challenge of Socrates (3.00 cr.)
Draws on the striking stance of Socrates in the Athenian crisis of the fifth century to illuminate a perennial tension now evident in our age of political hyper-partisanship. How are we to balance the need for political concord and patriotism against the need for critical independence and moral self-examination? Did Socrates deserve his hemlock for sowing disunity in a time of trouble, or was he the tragically unheeded voice of reasoned rehabilitation? Readings from ancient authors Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides, alongside moderns including Mill, Nietzsche, and Rousseau. Same course as and .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CL 450 - Senior Honors Thesis (3-6.00 cr.)
An optional program available to select classics or classical civilization majors in their senior year. A directed, intensive study of an author, topic, or theme from classical literature, history, or art and archaeology culminating in a written thesis and oral defense. Students are expected to confront scholarship and to do research at an advanced level. Students using this course as a substitute for two advanced language courses are expected to produce a very involved, two-semester honors thesis. By invitation only. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 201 - Media Writing (3.00 cr.)
Students learn basic story writing skills that can be applied across communication fields, including journalism, digital media, public relations, and advertising. In this course, students explore what news is, how to interview effectively, and how to distinguish fact from opinion or fiction. Students learn how to tailor their messages in advertising campaigns, to social media platforms, and how to direct their messages to the media in press releases. Students are also introduced to some basic grammar rules in communication fields and explore some of the ethical issues facing news journalists, advertising executives, and public relations professionals today. Required for communication majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 202 - Digital Tools (3.00 cr.)
Through a combination of lectures, on-site lab practices with applied projects, and online training resources, students gain working knowledge of fundamental digital media production skills required for advanced study in communication. Students learn the basic tenets of online applications, including: cloud storage and file management; print and web design; web content management; audio and video capture; editing and publishing. Required for communication majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 203 - Introduction to Communication (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the history, theory, practices, institutions, and impact of modern communications media in the United States, including audience experience of media, the media's impact on society, producing and consuming media, and media industries and careers. Includes readings in primary texts of the field. Required for all communication majors and minors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 301 - News Reporting and Writing (3.00 cr.)
A lab course devoted to learning the basics of news reporting and writing for print and online publication. The emphasis is on learning to report and to write the basic news story types that most entry-level journalists are expected to have mastered. Students learn the best practices associated with professional journalism, including objectivity, fairness, balance, and verification, as well as interviewing techniques and story research.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 302 - Free Speech, Free Expression (3.00 cr.)
Through close examination of major U.S. Supreme Court decisions, students explore the contours of free speech and free expression in America. The relationship of free speech to democracy; the need for and possible restrictions on robust debate; and the First Amendment protections for commercial speech are discussed.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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CM 303 - Media Ethics (3.00 cr.)
Features a comprehensive examination of the ethical issues and ideas informing today's communications media. Students examine real world, personal and workplace ethics, and case studies specific to advertising, public relations, journalism, and online and digital media. Does not fulfill the ethics core requirement.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 304 - Business Journalism (3.00 cr.)
Explores how journalists find and report stories about the economy, financial markets, companies, and the individuals who lead them. Students learn how to follow the money and to cover important stories about capitalism, innovation, jobs, and power in markets around the world.
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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CM 305 - Media and the Political Process (3.00 cr.)
An in-depth look at the relationship of all forms of media (including journalism, advertising, and public relations) to the political system in the United States. Readings drawn from both the scholarly and popular literature in the field.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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CM 306 - Popular Culture in America (3.00 cr.)
An upper-level introduction to the issues surrounding popular culture and ways to study it. The American arts and entertainment industry is an economic and cultural powerhouse that influences how we live our everyday lives as well as our beliefs and values. Students learn how to use different tools for analyzing songs, movies, TV shows and social media to go much deeper than just saying "I love" or "hate" a song or movie, including using interdisciplinary, cross-cultural comparisons to better understand the cultural work done by media texts.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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CM 307 - Fundamentals of Advertising and Public Relations (3.00 cr.)
Provides a foundation for advertising and public relations practice. Students learn how these fields are inter-related and make up critical elements of any effective communications strategy. Students learn the basics of the strategic communication process, and become familiar with foundational research in persuasion and social influence. Additionally, students explore the ethical, regulatory, and social responsibility dimensions of these communication fields. In addition to serving as an introduction to the fields of advertising and public relations, students learn how these disciplines are ever-evolving to accommodate changing consumer interests and emerging media platforms. Required for communication majors specializing in advertising/public relations.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 308 - Multimedia Storytelling (3.00 cr.)
A practical exploration of how multimedia stories are crafted and their audience effects in news, persuasion, and entertainment. Students produce their own media stories in a variety of formats and strategies, apply design and aesthetic principles, and consider their legal and ethical responsibilities as media storytellers. Required for communication majors specializing in journalism and digital media.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN/IF
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CM 309 - Hearing the Movies (3.00 cr.)
Surveying representative works in a wide range of genres - from silent film, to film musicals, to contemporary epics - this course explores the technical relationships between soundtracks and image tracks, and investigates how the sonic dimension of film can influence narrative interpretation and audience responses. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
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CM 310 - Public Speaking (3.00 cr.)
Informed by classical rhetoric, students become skilled in the Jesuit tradition of eloquentia perfecta: clear thought delivered eloquently. Students research topics, write basic informative and persuasive speeches, practice speaking individually and in teams, and give and receive supportive critiques. This course helps students to build skills and confidence for oral presentations in other classes and the wider world.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
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CM 311 - Radio Storytelling (3.00 cr.)
Teaches students basic broadcast production and writing skills for audio storytelling. Students explore how stories are told in both traditional and unconventional methods. A focus is placed on best practices for broadcast interviews and how to build a story relying primarily on original materials. Students independently and collaboratively produce a series of audio stories and a magazine-style, longer podcast.
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 312 - Web I (3.00 cr.)
Offers students the conceptual understandings—such as design principles, Web usability, and search engine optimization—associated with website design and development. Students also learn essential skills with applications such as HTML, CSS, Content Management systems and other related programs needed to build effective websites.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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CM 314 - Communication Research (3.00 cr.)
Students learn to analyze and understand the broad range of methods used to systematically evaluate communication processes in advertising, public relations, journalism, and popular culture. Students learn how to design and select methods to conduct in-depth studies in all forms of mass communication and to analyze and understand research data and results.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IMC
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CM 315 - History of Graphic Design (3.00 cr.)
Examines graphic communication from the earliest forms of writing to modern day digital technology. In addition to readings from Meggs' History of Graphic Design, students are required to apply what they have learned to projects that bring history into perspective.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 316 - Travel Reporting (3.00 cr.)
Students learn to see the world through the eyes of a traveler by exploring contemporary forms of travel reporting, developing their own travel stories and critiquing those of others. Students can take the course when studying abroad or while residing on the Evergreen campus. Students on campus write about experiences, places, and events in and around Baltimore. This course is offered online only and can only be taken once.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 317 - Social Media for Social Justice (3.00 cr.)
An interdisciplinary communication seminar that links the use of social media to post-racial social activism through five key areas of engagement: 1) studying the use of communication technology to influence and participate in national conversations about race and racism, equity and social justice; 2) exploring the history of social movements and the ways in which they have helped to shape and influence this country; 3) analyzing the ways in which social media democratizes protest and political, social, and economic engagement; 4) researching the ways in which new communication platforms support the growing populist nature of decentralized protest movements in the United States; and, 5) deconstructing the ways in which social media engagement shapes the way people respond to social movements in real time.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF
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CM 318 - Data Visualization and Storytelling (3.00 cr.)
Presenting data clearly and meaningfully is a storytelling skill in communication, journalism, and relevant professional fields. It is also a visual communication skill. The course considers data not only as a multimedia storytelling component but also as a narrative – both visual and textual. Topics covered include principles and ethics of data visualization, data story narrative structure, data research, spreadsheet essentials (such as Pivot Table), and industry-standard data visualization applications that are needed in data storytelling.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 321 - Mobile Media and UX Design (3.00 cr.)
Studies the contextualized understanding of the social and economic impacts of mobile media, such as smartphone apps, in a global society and in our everyday lives. Also, introduces the concept of mobile user experience (UX) and mobile design principles, the creative process of app prototyping and mobile-optimized content creation, and knowledge about the latest trends in app and mobile web design.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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CM 322 - Graphics I (3.00 cr.)
Students learn basic concepts of file formats, bitmap picture editing, vector drawing, and page layout while developing skills in industry-standard computer graphics software tools. For visual journalists, designers, and media producers. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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CM 324 - Video I (3.00 cr.)
Students learn digital moviemaking, camera handling, lighting, editing, motion tilting, basic animation, and studio techniques for broadcast television, DVD, Internet streaming, and podcasts.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
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CM 325 - Social Media and Culture (3.00 cr.)
Examines how social and emerging media and technology are being used in communication and media to influence cultural meaning and experiences on both a personal and professional level. This includes discovering and exploring the connections between creation, marketing, promotion, fan culture, social media influencers and engagement with audiences and media, and how that impacts society and culture today.
Generally completed during junior or senior year.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 326 - Recording Studio I (3.00 cr.)
In this hands-on course, students work in Loyola's recording studio and learn the skills of live and studio multi-track recording, practicable with both professional and non-professional equipment. Through various projects, students gain an understanding of fundamental principles of sound and music recording, and attain facility with recording equipment, recording and editing techniques, and software applications. Practicing the proper and creative use of these elements, students learn how the recording process does not simply document music and speech, but is in fact an integral part of expressive sonic creation. Same course as .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CM 327 - Video Art (3.00 cr.)
An examination of the aesthetics and history of video art, as well as a study of the techniques of video production. Students produce numerous short and long video works. Same course as , .
Prerequisite: or or or or .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
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CM 330 - Stereotypes in U.S. Media (3.00 cr.)
Students use critical-cultural approaches to examine how narrative and documentary films, television shows, online media, and music videos have constructed racial, gendered, and class images of U.S. society. They also examine how these images intersect, inform, and influence our perceptions, biases, and behaviors. Students view, discuss, write, and reflect on these issues as they consider appropriate responses to these social constructions, including ways in which the camera can be used to redefine social images and spaces to enhance respect for diversity.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF
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CM 333 - Backpack Video Production (3.00 cr.)
Explores professional field production techniques. Students are equipped with the skills required for creating a variety of visual multimedia content. Topics include aerial videography, photography, VR video, motion graphics, and cloud-based production workflows.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 339 - Philosophy of Information and Media (3.00 cr.)
Today we are living through one of human history's great media shifts, on par with the invention of the written language and the printing press. A shift of this magnitude invites philosophical reflection: both historical and phenomenological reflections on the nature of reading, writing, and thinking as well as a general examination of the way media affects consciousness. In this course, students trace the history of media shifts and their impact by looking at thinkers as diverse as Plato and Marshall McLuhan. Special attention is given to reflection on the internet and social media, with readings from earliest theorists of the internet such as Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson and contemporary critiques of the internet such as Nicholas Carr, author of "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Same as .
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 340 - Advanced TV Reporting and News Producing (3.00 cr.)
Students build on skills in reporting, videography and editing for television news, and also gain experience producing a live newscast. Rotating through different job roles, students report, anchor, produce, and write for a hyper-local, Loyola-focused newscast, with the goal of building a "reel." News, sports and weather are included.
Prerequisite: or ; or .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 341 - Global Trends in Social Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the trends and tactics global marketers, media companies, and transnational media agencies are using to get messages out around the world.
Prerequisite: .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CM 342 - Media, Culture, and Society
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