2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Jul 03, 2024  
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue

Course Descriptions

 

History
  

  • HS 396 - The Modern Middle East through Film

    (3.00 cr.)

    Provides a nuanced historical understanding of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred in the modern Middle East through the lens of film. Students engage in critical analysis of films produced in the Middle East or about the Middle East in order to understand how the lived experiences of women and men have been affected by European colonialism; the rise of nationalism and the creation of the modern nation-state; authoritarian regimes; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; the politics of oil and U.S. hegemony in the region; the rise of Islamist movements; and the 2011 Arab uprisings.

    Prerequisite: HS 100 , One HS 200-level course.
    Restrictions: Open to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL
  

  • HS 397 - Women and Gender in the Middle East

    (3.00 cr.)

    Designed to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the history of women and gender in the Middle East. In the Western media, Middle Eastern women are routinely portrayed as oppressed, and Islam is frequently cited as the most significant source of such oppression. But precisely how and to what degree are women oppressed in the region? In the first part of the course, a broad chronological survey from pre-Islamic times to present day is conducted, paying special attention to different interpretations of the foundational texts of Islam (the Qur'an and Hadith), Western representations of the "Oriental woman," and the rise of women's movements in the region. The second part of the course is comprised of an in-depth exploration of some of today's most contested issues including Islamic law, honor crimes, female genital cutting, same-sex sexuality, the veil, and women's participation in politics.

    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/IG
  

  • HS 398 - Global Histories of Disability

    (3.00 cr.)

    According to the World Health Organization, about 15% of the world's population (more than 750 million people) live with some form of disability. This course explores the history of disability in global and comparative perspective. It examines how different societies across time and place have determined who is able and who is disabled, who is normal and who is abnormal. Topics include Deaf history, blindness, madness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, eugenics, war veterans, disability rights movements, and the persecution of people with disabilities during the Holocaust. Students visit online disability museums and archives and work with a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. An optional service-learning experience may be included.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IPJ
  

  • HS 399 - Global Environmental History

    (3.00 cr.)

    Designed to provide a nuanced understanding of environmental history from a global perspective. Environmental historians explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world as one of many factors that have shaped the course of human events. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and analysis of primary and secondary sources, this course explores the ways in which humans have shaped their environments and have, in turn, been shaped by their environments for several millennia. Temporally, the course covers the time period between the moment that humans learned to control fire to contemporary debates surrounding the human role in global climate change. Topics covered include water management, diseases, climate change, sustainability, and transitions between different energy regimes, among other topics.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-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/ICL/IES
  

  • HS 400 - The Historian's Craft

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines both the tools historians use and the problems they have to solve. These issues are approached within a thematic and a regional context, combining an investigation of such variant sources as oral histories, personal memoirs, government documents, iconography, and film with the types of history that can be written using them. Despite the course's 400-level designation, it is especially designed and recommended for sophomore history majors for use in their subsequent courses. Students who belatedly declare the history major are urged to take the course as soon as possible since it must be completed before taking a seminar.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • HS 401 - Intensive Independent Study I

    (3.00 cr.)

    Permits a student to do close and vigorous study on a historical topic not available in the regular curriculum. Heavy reading/writing will normally be required, but precise definition of subject and specification of assignments will be determined by consultation between the instructor and student. 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.  
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • HS 408 - 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.

    Prerequisite: HS 100-level course, HS 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
  

  • HS 410 - Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe

    (3.00 cr.)

    Showcases the role women, people of color, workers, and the poor played in shaping modern European history. While introducing students to major themes and events in the history of Europe from the French Revolution to the present, the course centers the lives of supposedly marginalized people. Students investigate how and why the categories of gender, race, and class emerged, how they intersected and interacted with one another, and how they were deployed to oppress, regulate, and control people. At the same time, we look at how people resisted such oppression. Course topics include, but are not limited to, feminism, class conflict, imperialism and anti-imperialism, immigration and migration, and prostitution and homosexuality.

    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/ICL/IG
  

  • 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. The course 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
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IHE
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/IAF/ICL/IGE
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students in catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IHE/IM
  

  • 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
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • HS 425 - Race and Childhood in America

    (3.00 cr.)

    Using race as the primary category of analysis, this course demonstrates that childhood is not merely a biological stage, but a social construction. Ideas about race, in conjunction with gender, class, and sexuality, have profoundly shaped the category of childhood and one's experience as a child in America. Students learn how childhood, as both a set of ideas and experiences, has been racialized from the nineteenth century through the late twentieth century. Core questions include: How has racial thought and ideas about race shaped ideas about childhood and children? How does race determine who gets to be considered a child? How has race and ethnicity shaped children's lives? What does the history of childhood tell us about race in the U.S.? How have children come to form a racial identity or understand race? The course also examines how structural (i.e. the legal system, policy, education) inequality and racial thought worked in tandem to shape our ever-evolving cultural understanding and experiences of American childhood.

    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: IAF/IHE
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • HS 430 - African American Women's History

    (3.00 cr.)

    How does our understanding of American history change when we center on Black women? From Harriet Tubman to the blueswomen of the early twentieth century; queer Black feminists of the 1970s to Anita Hill, this course explores how Black women have engaged with and shaped American culture, politics, and society from the antebellum period through the twentieth century. Students explore how race, color, gender, class, and sexuality have shaped ideas about and experiences of Black womanhood in America and learn how to use creative and rigorous historical methods to locate Black women's experiences, which often have been placed on the periphery of American history. While this course is historical in nature, students are encouraged to think critically about contemporary issues related to African American women, and to trace the continuities and discontinuities between Black womanhood in the past and present.

    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: IAF/IG
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • HS 441 - 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
  

  • 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 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/IHE/IL
  

  • HS 445 - Modern Iran Between Monarchy, Democracy, and Theocracy

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the modern history of Iran. The course is divided into four parts beginning with the rise of the Qajar dynasty in the late eighteenth century, the pro-Western secular monarchy of the Pahlavi Dynasty from 1925-1979, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran's relations with the West and its role as a regional power within the Middle East. The central themes examined in the course include the beginning of modernization in Iran, impact of European hegemony and great power politics on Iran's internal development and foreign policies, Western efforts to control Iran's oil revenue, factors that led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and internal political dynamics and foreign policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran vis-à-vis the West and the greater Middle East.

    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
  

  • 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
  

  • HS 450 - 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.
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
  

  • HS 460 - Seminar: 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 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
  

  • HS 462 - Seminar: The U.S. in the 1960's

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the history of the U.S. in the 1960s, going beyond the mystique that surrounds "the '60s"—Camelot, rock 'n' roll, the hippies, and so on—to investigate the political, social, and economic forces that defined the era. What were the contradictions of the supposed "golden age" of postwar American capitalism? How did the decade's social movements (civil rights and Black Power, feminist, New Left, anti-war, among others) transform the meaning of American citizenship? How did the U.S. role in the world change amid global decolonization, the Cold War, and the war in Vietnam? How did the modern conservative movement emerge and come to prominence? A major theme of the course is the relationship between popular movements and state power in times of social and political upheaval. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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 200-level or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Restrictions: Closed to students with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
  

  • 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 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
  

  • HS 470 - Seminar: European Imperial Societies

    (3.00 cr.)

    Explores the impact of imperialism on European societies. Rather than viewing imperialism as something that happened "over there", leaving Europe untouched, this course focuses on how Europeans and their metropolitan societies, political structures, laws, cultures, etc. were indelibly shaped by imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics may include gendered and racial conceptions of national and imperial identities, the intersections of science and colonialism, mass culture and propaganda, migration and citizenship, everyday encounters with empire in Europe, and the impact of decolonization, among others. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
  

  • HS 474 - Seminar: 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IGE/IU
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IC/II
  

  • HS 476 - Seminar: Italy in the Middle Ages

    (3.00 cr.)

    For many, mention of the Middle Ages brings to mind images of knights, kings, and castles. Few might think of republics, finance, and cosmopolitan sensibilities. But that is just a taste of what we find in the rich and varied societies of medieval Italy. Italy in the Middle Ages was not the unified nation-state we know today, but a region of sometimes warring, sometimes allied city states in the north, the multicultural kingdom of Sicily in the south, and the heartlands of the papacy between. This seminar allows students to explore the history and historiography of medieval Italy, with particular emphasis on law and statecraft, religious and civic culture, and trade and Mediterranean interconnectivity. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: II/IM
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IM
  

  • HS 478 - Seminar: 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IG
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL
  

  • HS 485 - Seminar: 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course. 
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IES/IL
  

  • HS 492 - Seminar: 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/IAF/ICL/IPJ
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IAF/IU
  

  • HS 495 - Seminar: East Asia in the Global 1960's

    (3.00 cr.)

    Examines the turbulent 1960s in China, Japan, and South Korea, with an emphasis on political, social, and cultural upheaval in all three countries. The Cultural Revolution in China, the April Revolution in South Korea, and the AMPO and student activism in Japan were vibrant and violent moments of change as individuals negotiated new identities and new relationships between themselves, their governments, and the world. These movements are treated as arising from concerns specific to each place, and as part of a "global 1960s" during which people all over the world sought to re-imagine their societies. As such, the course links regionally and nationally specific developments to those taking place outside of East Asia through readings in a diverse range of scholarship. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 200-level or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
  

  • 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 200-level course or HS 300-level course.
    Recommended Prerequisite: HS 400 .
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IHE/IPJ
  

  • 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, HS 300 .
    Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): One HS 400-level course.
    Restrictions: Open to senior history majors with catalogue year 2022-2023 or beyond.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

Honors Program
  

  • 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 first and sophomore years.

    Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
    Years Typically Offered: Annually
  

  • 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 first and sophomore years.

    Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IM/IC
  

  • 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 first 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
  

  • 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 first and sophomore years. Written or electronic permission of the department.

    Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

    Interdisciplinary Studies: II
  

  • 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
  

  • 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. Recommended for performing arts majors with a concentration in theatre, performing arts majors with a comprehensive concentration, and theatre minors.​ Fulfills fine arts core requirement for Honors students. Closed to students who have taken DR 251 . Theatre tickets cost approximately $30. Same course as DR 252 .

    Restrictions: Restricted to Honors students.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

Information Systems
  

  • 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
  

  • IS 301 - Location Analytics

    (3.00 cr.)

    Data is used by several industries, notably those in financial services and healthcare, along with city, county, state, and national governments, to generate insights about populations, transportation, and epidemiology. Data that is tied to a location and can be identified through zip codes and other means (latitude, longitude) can afford unique insights to help decision makers. Students in this course use GeoDA (a free open-source GIS tool) to mine location data to solve business intelligence problems in the areas of logistics, market analysis, and real estate management.

    Prerequisite: IS 251  or BH 251  or CS 151 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 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
  

  • 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 and the forces that govern the retention of those activities. Students are expected to attend a series of classes during the regular semester and to then travel to an 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 students with a cumulative GPA of 2.500 or higher.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

    Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IES
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 . 
    Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies

    Interdisciplinary Studies: DS/IMC
  

  • 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
  

  • 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. Written or electronic permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite: IS 251  or BH 251 . 
    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
    Years Typically Offered: Annually

International Business
  

  • 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/SR
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

    Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN/SR
  

  • 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.
    Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • IB 371 - Global Sustainable Business Case Study

    (1.00 cr.)

    Designed for students willing to work for, contribute to, and represent the department and the Sellinger School of Business and Management at case competitions at school, regional, and national levels. The course develops skills at analyzing strategically oriented cases in international business, sustainability, and/or management areas. In addition, students learn presentation skills in a supportive environment with feedback from peers, faculty, alumni, and board members. Does not fulfill major or minor elective requirements. May be repeated three times for degree credit. Same course as MG 371 . (Pass/Fail).

    Restrictions: Restricted to business administration majors with a concentration in international business, international business majors, sustainability management majors, or international business minors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Annually
  

  • IB 372 - Cross-Cultural Interactions in Business

    (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: Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

    Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
    Years Typically Offered: Varies
  

  • 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 , 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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

Italian
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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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