Catalog Supplement
This catalog supplement is provided to give a brief overview of the new programs and courses that have been approved since the 2024-2025 catalog was published.
(updated December 19, 2024)
New Undergraduate Programs
New Graduate Programs
New Undergraduate Courses
| Course No. | Title | Description | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSCI 111 | Introduction to Health Professions | Introduces students to the variety of academic and career options in the health professions. Students will engage with health professionals from several fields, practice problem-solving from a variety of health professional perspectives, begin to think critically about health academic literature, and discover resources for pursuing health professions. | Fall 2025 |
| PBHL 330 | Ensuring Health and Sustainable Environments for Children | Examines how children, from infancy through adolescence, may be at risk from exposures to environmental hazards, their unique vulnerabilities as they develop and grow, major adverse health outcomes of concern among children, and disparities in these outcomes related to poverty, racism, and other social determinants. Students will explore hazards in the indoor and outdoor environments, in schools, and places of work, and will consider policy solutions for harm prevention and health promotion in thee settings from the local to the global scale. | Fall 2025 |
| PBHL 450 | Vaccine Design, Testing and Implementation | Students will learn basic immunology and infections disease epidemiological concepts important for understanding how vaccines work both at the individual and population level. Students will also learn the history of many important vaccines currently used today and some of the controversies surrounding those vaccines. Students will learn reasons for vaccine hesitancy and refusal and will then be tasked with developing strategies to overcome these barriers. | Fall 2025 |
New Graduate Courses
| Course No. | Title | Description | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| AADM 500 | Foundations of Cultural Practice | This course utilizes an ecosystems approach to examine the organization and function of arts and culture in the United States. Students will gain a greater understanding of cultural policy, the creative economy, arts and culture's impact, and its role within communities. We explore the wide range of enterprises and business structures that comprise the arts, culture, and creative sector. Students examine, reflect upon, the discuss topical articles, reports, and other required materials. Real-world examples, assigned and self-directed readings, and experts from the field provide context to a range of topical materials and subjects. Students engage in group and individual research projects and presentations, and practical exercises, to build their skills as arts, cultural, and creative leaders. | Fall 2025 |
| AADM 600 | Community Cultural Engagement | This course explores the relationship between arts, culture, people, and place. Using the lens of creative democracy, students will learn how arts and culture organizations build competency in creative placemaking, cultural planning, powering community change, and measuring impact. Students will reckon with questions of equity, inclusion, and justice in the cultural sector. A community-based learning course, Drexel students will learn side-by-side with artists and culture workers in an applied, experiential setting. Students will gain competency through projects and presentations, and practical experiences, to advance their skills as arts, cultural, and creative leaders | Fall 2025 |
| BMES 667 | Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Manufacturing and Regulatory Requirements | This course explores the principles and current challenges of manufacturing cell and gene therapy drug products while following regulatory requirements to maintain patient safety. This course provides insight info foundational introductory concepts of cell and gene therapy and manufacturing principles associated with each. Cell and gene therapy manufacturing life cycle is discussed in detail along with the current challenges associated with end-to-end supply/production. | Fall 2025 |
| BMES 669 | Techniques in Cell Engineering and Gene Therapy | This course provides training and experiences for skills relating to cell engineering and gene therapy in a hands-on laboratory setting. The course addresses cellular work and aseptic techniques, as well as experimental foundations of gene therapy, transfection and gene editing. Assays will be performed and experimental data of proteins and cellular readouts will be analyzed. | Fall 2025 |
| BMES 670 | Introduction to Immune Engineering | This course introduces students to the fundamentals of immune engineering, including the major cell types of the innate and adaptive immune systems and the major tools and techniques that are used to modulate the immune system for therapeutic or diagnostic benefit. | Fall 2025 |
| BMES 671 | Advanced Topics in Immune Engineering | This course exposes students to cutting edge topics in immune engineering, including novel targets, new tools and techniques and special applications. | Fall 2025 |
| BUSN 610 | Strategic Career Management and Professional Development | This course equips individuals with essential skills for career progression through two modules. The first module, conducted virtually, emphasizes self-awareness, self-leadership, and effective career management, drawing from career management literature. The second, in-class module features career advisors and industry professionals who provide practical guidance on career exploration and communication strategies. Students will also learn professional etiquette, resume writing, cover letter preparation, LinkeIn profile optimization, and networking. The course includes virtual lectures, interactive group sessions, and personalized meetings with career advisors, preparing students for internships or job searches. | Fall 2025 |
| BUSN 611 | Strategic Career Advancement for Professionals | This course is designed for experienced professionals seeking to advance their careers in evolving and uncertain market. Combining research-based insights with practical tools, students will develop a deeper understanding of career transitions, self-leadership, and strategic career management. The course consists of two modules: a virtual component focusing on self-awareness and advanced career strategies, and an in-person session with career advisors and industry professionals who provide guidance on communication, networking, and navigating career challenges. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to seize career opportunities and manage setbacks, preparing them for high-level career advancement. | Fall 2025 |
| CHEM 572 | Chemical Reactions in Metabolism | Introduces chemical reactions and mechanisms in the major metabolic pathways, including carbohydrates, fatty acids, and amino acids, toward energy generation and use. Will also discuss the catalytic and regulatory mechanisms of enzymes in metabolic reactions and their relevance to physiology. | Fall 2025 |
| CHEM 573 | Tools in Biochemistry | This course provides the conceptual foundation for biochemical methods used in contemporary biochemistry research. The course will focus on experimental biochemical tools and methods for biochemistry research related to nucleic acids and proteins. The course exposes students to data analysis and interpretation by including practical examples and discussion topics. | Fall 2025 |
| CIVE 514 | Steel Bridge Design Team | As the name suggests, this course is centered around the annual Student Steel Bridge Competition (SSBC) supported by AISC and ASCE. In general, the competition (and therefore this course) is intended to introduce students to the complex and multifaceted process by which steel bridge superstructures are designed, detailed, and fabricated - progressing from specification review and conceptual design through final design/detailing and construction. SSBC is the single-best project available to graduate civil engineering students, as it simulates the critical thinking and decision making required to design and construct our nation's bridge infrastructure. | Fall 2025 |
| CRTV 617 | Neuroscience of Learning and Artificial Intelligence | This transdisciplinary course navigates the intersection of the neuroscience of learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and the workforce, exploring the impact on education, teaching, and training. The course introduces neuroanatomy, neuroplasticity, neurodiversity, and the mechanisms of memory and emotions, to understand the biological bases of learning and behavior. The course examines cognitive processes related to learning, creativity, and human intelligence. Students will gain a foundation in AI including neural networks, large language models, generative AI, robotics and robotic processes automation. Ethical issues related to AI are addressed. Students engage in real-world AI application to support creativity, ideation, complex problem-solving, and transformative learning. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 551 | Critical and Speculative Design for Digital Media | This course challenges students to think beyond traditional design principles by engaging with speculative and critical design approaches. Students create projects that question conventional narratives and explore new ways of applying digital media in storytelling, game design, or interactive installations. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 552 | Visual Storytelling in Digital Media | Focused on the principles of visual communication, this course teaches students how to craft compelling visual narratives for various digital platforms, from animation and games to interactive media. Students learn how to blend narrative structure with design to engage and captivate audiences. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 553 | Experimental Digital Media Lab | In this hands-on lab, students experiment with emerging tools and techniques, applying their creative vision to produce innovative digital media projects. This course encourages risk-taking and exploration, helping students develop unique projects that push the boundaries of digital art and design | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 561 | Digital Media Technologies | This course introduces students to a variety of tools and platforms used in the production of digital media, including game engines, immersive development platforms, and tools for real-time rendering. Students will develop projects using these tools, gaining a practical understanding of how to create digital experiences. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 562 | Interactive Media and User Experience | This course teaches students the principles of interaction design and user experience (UX), with a focus on creating intuitive, user-centered interfaces for digital platforms. Students will design and prototype interactive experiences, learning how to create engaging interfaces for various digital media formats, such as games, apps, and interactive installations. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 563 | Emerging Technologies in Digital Media | Students explore and experiment with the latest technological innovations shaping the digital media landscape, such as machine learning, AI-driven content generation, and immersive media tools. This course encourages students to apply these technologies in creative ways, exploring the potential future of digital media production. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 571 | Digital Media Project Management | This course equips students with the skills to plan, execute, and manage complex digital media projects. Topics include project management, team coordination, timeline development, and risk assessment. Students will learn to balance creative goals with technical and logistical constraints, ensuring that digital media projects are completed on time, within scope, and to a professional standard. The course emphasizes the importance of leadership, communication, and problem-solving in the successful delivery of digital media projects. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 572 | Digital Media Research Strategies | This course introduces students to various research methodologies and analytical approaches essential for digital media projects and academic inquiry. Students will learn to design research studies, collect and analyze data, and apply findings to inform digital media creation and critique. The course covers both qualitative and quantitative research methods, emphasizing their application in digital media contexts. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 573 | Critical Theories in Digital Media | This course explores critical media theory and its direct relationship to digital media creation and design practice. Students will engage with theoretical frameworks, such as media studies, cultural studies, and critical technology theory, to analyze creative works in digital media, examining how artistic practices shape, and are shaped by cultural and societal forces. This analysis will inform students' ability to critically evaluate and apply theory to their own creative projects in digital media. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 664 | Advanced Topics in Digital Media | In this course, students will explore specialized areas within digital media, such as emerging digital trends, interdisciplinary innovations, and advanced design methodologies. The topics covered will vary based on current industry demands and faculty expertise. This course encourages students to employ advanced technologies and apply critical thinking an creativity to solve complex digital media problems. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 674 | Ethics and Social Impact of Digital Media | This course examines the ethical challenges posed by emerging technologies, such as AI and immersive media, with a particular focus on their implications for artistic and design practices in digital media. Students will explore topics such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, and digital inclusivity, and will apply this ethical understanding to the creation and critique of artistic digital media projects. This course fosters a deeper understanding of the responsibilities that digital artists and designers hold in shaping media that is both innovative and ethically sound. | Fall 2025 |
| DIGM 675 | Future Trends in Digital Media | This course explores the future of digital media through the lens of creative and design practices, examining potential technological, cultural, and societal shifts. Students will engage in forecasting exercises, speculative design, and research to anticipate how art and design in digital media will evolve in response to emerging technologies. Through speculative projects, students will create future-focused media works, blending design thinking and critical analysis of technological trends. | Fall 2025 |
| ECE 513 | Introduction to Radar | This course will provide an introduction to radar systems, range equation and radar signal processing techniques as well as the nature of physical observables and propagators, the effects of the propagation medium on sensor performance, the relationship between signals and noise, and the characteristics of critical sensor functions (including detection and tracking). Radar subsystems will be studies, including antennas, transmitters, receivers, and signal processors. This class will also feature a project component for students to identify, research and present open problems that are relevant to radar systems | Fall 2025 |
| ECE 514 | Basic Electronic Warfare Concepts | This course will provide an introduction to electronic warfare (EW), including electronic support, electronic attack, and electronic protection. Topics including jamming/anti-jamming techniques, low probability of intercept waveforms, EW detection, EW identification, and EW countermeasures. This class will also feature a project component for students to identify, research and present open problems that are relevant to EW systems. | Fall 2025 |
| EDCR 610 | Organizations and Institutions: Concepts and Principles | This course provides students with a foundational understanding of the multi-paradigmatic nature, behavior, structure, and dynamics of organizations and institutions. It covers a broad range of organizational concepts, principles, policies, processes, and practices that apply across diverse settings, including schools, higher education institutions, corporations, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and NGOs. Students will explore the role of leadership, learning, and policy in shaping organizational and institutional culture, behavior, and overall effectiveness. | Fall 2025 |
| EDLT 505 | Virtual Learning Environments | This course delves into the innovative and evolving realm of Virtual Learning Environments (VLES). Learners will explore the theoretical foundations, design principles, and practical application of VLEs, examining how these platforms transform traditional educational paradigms and enhance learning experiences. A special focus will be placed on learning and identity in the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual learning environments. | Fall 2025 |
| EEDD 805 | Global Leadership: Cultural Immersion and Perceptive-Taking | This course pairs academic instruction with a two-week international immersive experience. Students explore intercultural collaboration as it relates to leading complex systems and the essential capacities of perspective-taking. Students are introduced to the inner-development goals that will guide their development as leaders throughout the program, while exploring the field of adult development and its relationship to leadership and perspctive-taking. | Fall 2025 |
| EEDD 806 | Change Agency in Complex Adaptive Systems | This course develops change agency through a focus on inner development. Students will engage with tools and inventories designed to enhance leadership capacity and nuanced applications of system thinking. They will map their change agent skills and abilities while examining personal and organizational systems of resistance to change as a precursor to strategy development in the context of complex, adaptive systems. | Fall 2025 |
| EEDD 807 | Strategic and Human Development in Complex Adaptive Systems | This course considers the role of strategy in static and complex adaptive systems, utilizing a variety of tools and frameworks for application to problems of practice. Students explore their own growth related to inner development goals and consider how culture can promote human and organizational developments. | Fall 2025 |
| EEDD 820 | Research Seminar | This course is a continuing seminar that involves exploring relevant literature, reflecting, and refining a theory of action around a specificied problem of practice in service of a reflective case study dissertation. Students will access current and historical literature and document their personal and professional growth in this program, including specific turns and insights. Specific foci will change each term and be aligned to student progression toward their dissertation. The course is designed to capture students' evolving thinking and developmental milestones, culminating in a reflective case study dissertation. | Fall 2025 |
| EDSP 565 | Virtual Learning Environments | This course delves into the innovative and evolving realm of Virtual Learning Environments (VLES). Learners will explore the theoretical foundations, design principles, and practical applications of VLEs, examining how these platforms tranform traditional educational paradigms and enhance learning experiences. A special focus will be placed on learning and identity in the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual learning environments. | Fall 2025 |
| EOH 530 | Ensuring Healthy and Sustainable Environments for Children | Examines how children, from infancy through adolescence, may be at risk from exposures to environmental hazards, their unique vulnerabilities as they develop and grow, major adverse health outcomes of concern among children, and disparities in these outcomes related to poverty, racism, and other social determinants. Students will explore hazards in the indoor and outdoor environments, in schools, and places of work, and will consider policy solutions for harm prevention and health promotion in thee settings from the local to the global scale. | Fall 2025 |
| ESTS 510 | Foundations I: Introduction to STEM Education and Society | This course is the first in a three-course sequence designed to critically engage students in the design, research, and application of STEM education principles. Each course builds on the last, offering a comprehensive exploration of STEM learning environments, research methodologies, and social justice in education. | Fall 2025 |
| HRM 535 | Wine Regions of the World | Provides a detailed study of the classification, production, identification, and service of alcoholic beverages, with a major emphasis on wines. Uses a systematic approach to tasting and evaluation. Must be 21 years old prior to the first day of the term. | Fall 2025 |
| INDS 605 | Human Plus: Augmenting Decision Intelligence through AI | Humans and digital technologies reciprocally effect and transform each other within the complex, fast-evolving external environment. This close, ongoing relationship is increasingly dynamic and multi-dimensional. Making faster, more consistent, and higher-quality decisions at scale can enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Leaders must leverage decision intelligence models to facilitate highly accurate and contextualized decisions within the organizational culture. In this course, students will explore the human-centric aspects of decision intelligence, understand how the concept of decision intelligence improves decision-making, examine how artificial intelligence techniques support, automate, or augment aspects of decision-making and learn ethical managerial procedures. | Fall 2025 |
| LAW 691S | Intensive Course Abroad: France | This course covers fundamentals of French and European Union law through a series of lectures and a one-week visit to a law school in Rennes, France - Faculty de Droit et Science Politiques of Universite de Rennes. The visit includes additional lectures from professors affiliated with the University and expeditions to major cultural sites in the region with legal or historical significance. In addition to participating in formal activities, students have the opportunity to meet with students at Universite de Rennes to learn about legal education and legal careers in France. The course also includes post-trip class meetings to share reflections on the visit and present their topics and research for a term paper. | Fall 2025 |
| LAW 766S | Artificial Intelligence and the Law | This course will delve into the way artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly shaping and reshaping different legal systems around the world, focusing on the US, the EU, China, and Canada. It will focus on AI's usage and influence upon different legal areas such as the criminal justice system, national security, and elections. To illustrate the legal shift AI has created throughout the world, students will review three case studies focusing on facial recognition, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Chinese social credit system. This course will then examine the different solutions suggested by scholars and government officials for AI governance to allow the wide usage of this technology, while mitigating its negative effects. | Fall 2025 |
| LAW 767S | Information Privacy Law | This course will explore legal institutions, protections, and norms, including tort law, consumer protections, surveillance safeguards, and the interplay of state, federal, and international privacy regulations. The purpose of the course is to provide a foundation for both law students who are considering tech-focused careers and those who have no concerted interest in technology being a key professional focus. | Fall 2025 |
| LSTU 690 | Foundations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging | This course examines, in depth, the discipline and practice of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). The coursework explores the legal basis from which DEIB developed and the forces of law and society that have guided its evolution. The professor will guide students through critical analysis and iterative dialogue regarding the challenges that DEIB has faced, overcome, and been molded by. By the end of this course, students will be able to explain the purpose and impact of well-designed, well executed DEIB practices on organizations across industries, and develop an evidence-based rationale for continued organizational commitment to DEIB. | Fall 2025 |
| MGMT 610 | Artificial Intelligence in Strategic Decision Making | In this course, participants will explore the potential impact of AI on strategic management and decision-making within organizations. Moving beyond the technical aspects, this course will focus on the management and leadership implications of AI adoption. Participants will discuss the need for effective human-AI collaboration as well as the practical applications of AI in solving decision-making problems. Participants will utilize conceptualize frameworks and hands-on exercises to learn how to identify potential AI opportunities and evaluate their impact on human decision-making. Participants will also discover how to design decision-making processes that leverage the strengths of both human judgment and AI-generated insights. | Fall 2025 |
| NFS 626 | Sport and Exercise Nutrition | An advanced level course covering nutrient needs to maximize exercise performance. Energy metabolism, with emphasis on macronutrient, micronutrient, hydration, body composition and dietary supplementation during different levels of exercise will be emphasized | Fall 2025 |
| NPM 500 | Foundations of Nonprofit Management | This course offers a comprehensive introduction to nonprofit organizations and the nonprofit sector within which they are embedded. It covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of the nonprofit sector, the diverse kinds of nonprofits, an overview of administrative/management functions, international nongovernmental organizations, the history/development of philanthropy, and the relationship to human service practitioners. Students will also gain a thorough understanding of the legal and public policy frameworks that establish nonprofit organizations and regulate their activities. | Fall 2025 |
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