2017-18 University Bulletin 
    
    Jun 26, 2024  
2017-18 University Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • ACG (0606) 370 - Special Topic: Police Science


    Credits: 4

    Examine the nature of ethics and morality via a broad survey of the great moral teachings of the Western Tradition including all major philosophical and religious orientations. Questions considered involve benefits of virtue, foundations of moral obligation, sources of moral law, toll of subjectivism, and personal morality versus social justice.

  
  • ACG (0606) 386 - Psychology of Criminal Behavior


    Credits: 3.00

    This course reviews psychological theories of criminal and aggressive behavior and give students an understanding of the etiology of psychopathy. Theoretical viewpoints from psychodynamic; cognitive; behavioral; social learning; and developmental psychologists are discussed. An overview of psychology of incarceration, juvenile offenders, gangs, serial murder, and sex crimes is addressed.


     

    Free Note: Cross-listed with PIA 386  

  
  • ACG (0606) 400 - Able Crim Jstce Elective


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • ACG (0606) 455 - Contemporary Development Criminal Justice


    Credits: 4.00

    Free Note: Capstone Course - Open to Seniors Only.  For Majors only.

  
  • ACG (0606) 490 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 to 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 125 - Introduction to Digital Art


    Credits: 4

    Introduction to Digital Art is a course for students who may have little or no background in traditional visual art. Using a variety of images (photographs, found images and text), students will explore visual form in Photoshop on the computer.

     

  
  • AHA (0610) 151 - Beginning Sculpture


    Credits: 4

    This course is an introduction to three-dimensional art in the media of clay, plaster, wood, stone, and other materials, as well as to the basics of modeling, carving and construction.

     

     

  
  • AHA (0610) 170 - Digital Photography


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 199 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 - 4

    Free Note: Independent Study form required.

  
  • AHA (0610) 201 - Ceramics


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 205 - Art History: Survey of Art Through the Ages


    Credits: 2-4

  
  • AHA (0610) 208 - Watercolor


    Credits: 3-4

  
  • AHA (0610) 214 - Beginning Painting


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 220 - History of Music


    Credits: 2-4

    This course examines the art of music from early beginnings through the centuries. The various styles and periods will be explored, focusing on the symphonies, concertos, sonatas, vocal and operatic literature by the great composers. The music will be illustrated at the piano by the instructor and through recordings.

  
  • AHA (0610) 230 - Special Topics


    Credits: 2

  
  • AHA (0610) 242 - Film and Contemporary Thought


    Credits: 4

    This course encourages students to analyze current films as an expression of socio-political thought in the world community. Students will view films by John Sayles, Woody Allen, and David Lynch, among others, and will discuss relationships between men and women, the political situation in Central America, and the technological future.

  
  • AHA (0610) 244 - Art History: Classical Antiquity


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 245 - Art History: Medieval Art


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 246 - Art History: Italian Renaissance Art


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 249 - Art History: Contemporary


    Credits: 4

    This course examines contemporary art from the late 20th century to present day.  Artists working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and video art will be considered and discussed in the context of a diverse global community.


     

  
  • AHA (0610) 250 - Introduction to Drawing


    Credits: 3-4

  
  • AHA (0610) 253 - Photography


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 254 - Drawing and Composition I


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 255 - Painting Studio


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 256 - Survey of American Art


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 311 - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock


    Credits: 4

    Through this course, the student traces Hitchcock’s early developmental years as a filmmaker in England, his early American period in Hollywood, and his final creative period.  Students will discuss Hitchcock’s film techniques, themes, and characterization and will view and analyze several of his classic films.

    Free Note: Enrollment will be limited to University College students.

  
  • AHA (0610) 313 - African American History thru Films


    Credits: 4

     

    This course will consider the history of African Americans as depicted in full length films and documentaries such as, Amistadt, Glory, Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Rosewood, Deadly Deception, Freedom Riders, and American Violet.  For each film, the historical accuracy and social context will be examined.



     

    Free Note: Enrollment will be limited to University College students.

  
  • AHA (0610) 314 - Genres of Film Comedy


    Credits: 4

    This course will make a comparative examination of several sub-genres of film comedy-slapstick, screwball, romantic, and satirical/farcical comedy-and determine the effectiveness of each sub-genre in successfully defining and communicating the human condition

    Free Note:

    Enrollment will be limited to University College students.

  
  • AHA (0610) 317 - Latino-American Experience Thru Film


    Credits: 4

    This course allows the student to examine the Latino-American experience as depicted in full length films and documentaries.  Students will view and analyze a number of films and documentaries.  For each film, the historical accuracy and social content will be considered.

     

    Free Note:

    Enrollment will be limited to University College students.

  
  • AHA (0610) 340 - Special Topics


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 351 - Advanced Sculpture


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 352 - Advanced Ceramics


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 360 - Special Topics


    Credits: 4.00

  
  • AHA (0610) 394 - Digital Photography II


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 409 - Advanced Printmaking


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 454 - Advanced Painting and Drawing


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHA (0610) 490 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 - 4

    Free Note: Independent Study Form required.

  
  • AHC (0678) 200 - Able Commonctns Elective


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • AHC (0678) 400 - Able Commonctns Elective


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • AHS (0611) 100 - Communications And Critical Thinking


    Credits: 1

    This course examines skills related to good study habits, informal logic, and written communication skills. The course focuses on the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate ideas, arguments, and opinions. Emphasis is also placed on ‘skills development’ in areas such as test-taking preparation, reading for speed and comprehension, note-taking, outlining, composition, and library research techniques.

  
  • AHS (0611) 101 - Expository Writing


    Credits: 4

    This is the first required course in the writing sequence. Through in-class examination of sentence, paragraph, and essay structure, students will sharpen their writing skills. Students will be introduced to all types of college writing, including the formal research paper.

  
  • AHS (0611) 103 - Writing And Rhetoric


    Credits: 4

    This course is a sequel to Expository Writing. Through reading, writing, discussion, and research, students will build upon skills learned in the first course. Effective writing is founded upon analyzing, structuring, and developing ideas, and these techniques can be transferred from the classroom to any writing task. Particular emphasis will be placed on the techniques of argumentation and persuasion.

  
  • AHS (0611) 104 - Formal And Informal Logic


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 106 - Conceptions of God: East And West


    Credits: 4

    This course treats the development of both Western and Eastern religions, to include the rise of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese and Japanese religions. Students will examine the common roots of religion in folklore and nature worship, as well as significant differences in perceptions of God and the Devil, to include cult and occult worship to gain a greater appreciation of not only their own religious roots but also of ones foreign to us. The class will take field trips to religious centers in the vicinity.

  
  • AHS (0611) 110 - Great Thinkers in Philosophy


    Credits: 4.00

    The ideas of major philosophers from antiquity to the present will be examined through reading and discussion of their work. Five or six significant thinkers will be covered each semester. Among those to be studied are Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Jung, Hegel, Sartre, and Camus.

  
  • AHS (0611) 111 - History of Art


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 112 - Conversational Spanish I


    Credits: 4

    This course focuses on conversational practice and will allow the student to develop various skills while learning the Spanish language.

  
  • AHS (0611) 113 - Conversational Spanish II


    Credits: 4

    This course focuses on conversational practice and will allow the student to develop various skills while learning the Spanish language.

  
  • AHS (0611) 114 - Conversational French I


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 115 - Conversational French II


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 116 - Conversational Italian I


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 120 - Special Topics


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 121 - Expository and Professional Writing


    Credits: 4.00

    This course prepares students for college writing and in particular to meet the practical demands of contemporary professional communications, including research and presentation of written analytical reports and project proposals, visual design of written material, and oral presentations. Practice in clear writing for focused audiences will be emphasized.

  
  • AHS (0611) 190 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 to 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 201 - Introduction To Literature


    Credits: 4.00

    This course examines the recognized masterpieces of Western literature. Assigned readings in fiction, poetry, and drama will include the writings of Hawthorne, Faulkner, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Sophocles, Chekhov, and Ionesco. Characteristics of principal genres and literary terms will be discussed.

  
  • AHS (0611) 203 - Introduction To American Literature


    Credits: 4.00

    The fiction, drama, and poetry of major authors, to include Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, James, Frost, Hemingway, Heller, Updike, and Arthur Miller, will be examined to offer students a comprehensive overview of significant trends and developments in American literature from the Puritan settlement to the present.

  
  • AHS (0611) 204 - Introduction To European Literature


    Credits: 4.00

    An introduction to the major European authors from the post-Gutenberg era to the present. The works of major authors, including Cervantes, Dante, Swift, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Zola, Kafka, and Mann, will be examined to offer students a comprehensive overview of significant trends and developments in European literature.

  
  • AHS (0611) 211 - Introduction To Poetry


    Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

    Students will examine the widely acknowledged poets of the Western canon, as well as modern, post-modern, and contemporary poets. Read a broad range of different styles, types, and kinds of poetry/verse, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, and learn about the architecture of poetry.

  
  • AHS (0611) 212 - Conversational Spanish III


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 213 - Conversational Spanish IV


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 221 - Intro To The Theater


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 222 - Theories of Acting


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 226 - Introduction To Drama


    Credits: 4.00

    This course covers the three great periods of Western theater: the Greek, the Elizabethan, and the modern. Students will read Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and modern dramatists. The plays will be studied from various historical, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.

  
  • AHS (0611) 232 - American Culture And Literature:18 And 19 Centuries


    Credits: 4

    A focused analysis of the four great trends - Religion, Reason, Romanticism, and Realism - that shaped the first 300 years of American life, literature, and culture. Authors to be studied will include Puritan writers such as Bradstreet, Sewall, and Mather; colonials such as Franklin, Paine, and Jefferson; Romanticists and Transcendentalists such as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman; and late-19th-century realists such as Twain, Howells, and Crane.

  
  • AHS (0611) 233 - Am Cultr&Lit: 20th Cent


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 247 - Art History: Modern European Art I


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 248 - Art History: Modern European Art


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 257 - History of The Arts


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 272 - Philosophy of Self


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 273 - Contemporary Moral Issue


    Credits: 3 to 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 282 - Religious Experiences of The West


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 283 - Religions of The East


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 292 - Myths About Women


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 320 - Spec Tops: Theater&Drama


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 330 - Special Topics


    Credits: 4

    Challenges the traditional approach to reading Shakespeare by focusing on an analysis of the texts that examines women’s relationships with each other, the nature and effects of the patriarchal structure, and the influence of the genre on the portrayal of women.

  
  • AHS (0611) 332 - American Social Protest Novel


    Credits: 4

    This course explores ways in which fiction is written as social protest.  These narratives originate in eighteenth century fiction.  Students will read fiction such as Sinclair’s The Jungle, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain, and Wright’s Native Son.

  
  • AHS (0611) 350 - Special Topics in Art


    Credits: 4.00

  
  • AHS (0611) 360 - Special Topics in Music


    Credits: 4

    This course will examine the symphonic form through the music Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

  
  • AHS (0611) 362 - Music in America


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 363 - The Opera


    Credits: 2 to 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 370 - Special Topics in Philosophy


    Credits: 2 to 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 372 - Mod Socl and Pltcl Thought


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 373 - Philosophy and Literature


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 374 - The Philosophy of Law


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 380 - Special Topics in Religion


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 390 - Special Topics, Communications


    Credits: 4

  
  • AHS (0611) 490 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 to 4

  
  • AHT (0682) 190 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • AHT (0682) 200 - Able Theology Elective


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • AHT (0682) 400 - Able Theology Elective


    Credits: 1 to 6

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 100 - Grammar in Context


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will analyze and apply English grammatical structure introduced in the Applied Integrated Skills course to tasks that they may eventually be asked to perform in university or at work.  In these tasks, students also develop their critical thinking skills by analyzing, responding to, and synthesizing main ideas.

    Free Note: Adelphi Internatinal pre-sessional students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 101 - Applied Integrated English Skills


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will practice multiple skills, including critical thinking, in every lesson, through the use of authentic and meaningful texts and language domains.  Students will discuss salient features of texts and then write or speak about related topics.

    Free Note: Adelphi International pre-sessional students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 102 - Special Academic Topic: Writing Workshop


    Students will learn to analyze expository texts and use their ideas to develop clear, organized academic writing through reading actively, maintaining a vocabulary journal, practicing a recursive writing process, and studying academic grammar and syntax, which will enable them to complete academic writing tasks independently and successfully.

    Free Note: Adelphi International Presessional Students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 103 - American Culture and Trends


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will learn and practice a specific lexicon, theme, or sociolinguistic context in each class through the exploration of pastimes, hobbies, and interests that form a significant part of American popular culture. Possible topics include professional and amateur sports, fashion, and social media.  

    Free Note: Adelphi International pre-sessional students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 104 - Special Academic Topic: Current Events and Debate


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will read and discuss articles and videos about recent events, including professional analysis and commentary.  Through guided discussion and debate, students will learn how to develop arguments and gather evidence to support their ideas.  Students will practice speaking and writing about relevant topics.

    Free Note: Applies to Adelpi International pre-sessional students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 105 - Special Academic Topic: Conversation Skills


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will learn conversation skills that will enable them to actively participate in academic conversations through practicing and assessing their own skills, such as asking for clarification, supporting ideas with examples, maintaining focus and developing ideas, and paraphrasing and synthesizing.

    Free Note: Adelphi International Presessional Students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 106 - Special Academic Topic: English for Business


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will increase their familiarity with business-related topics, develop business communication skills, expand their business vocabulary, and apply their new knowledge and critical thinking skills in workplace scenarios.  Through negotiations, case studies, and projects, students will develop verbal and writing skills that can be applied in academic and professional settings.

    Free Note: Adelphi International Presessional Students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 107 - Special Academic Topic: English Pronunciation


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will learn and practice the basic elements of English pronunciation, including stress, intonation, rhythm, thought grouping, and articulation of specific vowel and consonant sounds.  Through consistent instructor and computer-generated feedback, students will learn to identify challenging pronunciation areas and improve the intelligibility of their speech.

    Free Note: Adelphi International Presessional Students only.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 200 - English for Academic Purposes I


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will learn the necessary skills to effectively, accurately, and fluently speak, read, listen, and write in English with a focus on academic purposes, using active- and peer-learning activities to gain familiarity with a variety of technologies, texts, and contexts across disciplines to become successful English users professionally and personally.

  
  • AIE (AIIE) 201 - English for Academic Purposes II


    Credits: 0.00

    Students will learn the necessary skills to effectively, accurately, and fluently speak, read, listen, and write in English with a focus on academic purposes, using active- and peer-learning activities to gain familiarity with a variety of technologies, texts, and contexts across disciplines to become successful English users professionally and personally.

     

 

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