Catalog Supplement
This catalog supplement is provided to give a brief overview of the new programs and courses that have been approved since the 2022-2023 catalog was published.
(updated March 22, 2023)
New Undergraduate Programs
| Program | College | Description | Requirements | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication-Communication and Media Studies Concentration | College of Arts and Sciences | The Communication and Media Concentration is a flexible option where students can design an academically rigorous, inclusive program of study around expanding media’s potential to positively transform the self and society. Our students are encouraged to explore widely and do the unconventional, becoming inclusive researchers, and intellectual leaders in all fields of Communication. Programs of study include a range of electives that encourage students to develop their expertise in analysis of media and its impact on society. | Standard Drexel Requirements | Fall 2023 |
| Medical Billing & Coding Certificate for Health Care Professionals | College of Nursing and Health Professions | Expertise in Medical Billing and Coding is a necessary skill set for laboratory professionals in today's healthcare environment. This skill set enables Health Care professionals to work with laboratory and hospital administrators to determine relevant workload statistics and assign, capture, and transmit relevant revenue statistics to hospital administrators and third-party payors. In addition, Medical Billing and Coding skill set is a recognized asset that will allow Health Care professionals to create opportunities for advancement in their professional careers. | Prerequisite coursework, with grades of C or above, one course of each of the following: Medical Terminology, Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology | Fall 2023 |
| Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies | College of Arts and Sciences | Our interdisciplinary program promotes the importance of gender equity and encourages the study, questioning and exploration of how gender and sexuality shape social roles, identities and knowledge. We explore how gender and sexuality are fundamental categories of political, social and cultural analyses necessary to the study of the diversity of human experience. Our curriculum emphasizes the intersectionality of gender and sexuality in their complex relations with race, ethnicity, class, religion, nationality, ability, age, transnational movements and other zones of experience. In our courses, students can explore gender and sexuality using the analytical tools and methodologies of a variety of disciplines in the humanities, arts and social sciences, including anthropology, literature, history, media studies, philosophy, and sociology, among others. | Undergraduate students with at least 30.0 credits. | Fall 2023 |
| Minor in Health Data Analytics | Dornsife School of Public Health | This minor prepares students to apply quantitative methods to a variety of real-world data analysis problems. | Undergraduate students with at least 30.0 credits. | Fall 2023 |
| Minor in Immune Engineering | School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems | Students who complete the minor in Immune Engineering will gain knowledge about the innate and adaptive immune systems, the importance of these systems for the success or failure of various treatments for diverse clinical applications, and how to manipulate these systems for therapeutic benefit. Given the increasing understanding of the importance of the immune system in biomaterial design, drug delivery, and cell and gene therapy, students earning a minor in Immune Engineering will be well positioned to work in the pharmaceutical, biomaterials, and cell and gene therapy sectors. | Fall 2023 |
New Accelerated Programs
| Program | College | Description | Requirements | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science BS / Ecology, Evolution and Earth Systems MS | College of Arts and Science | The BSMS program in Ecology, Evolution and Earth Systems is designed to provide an opportunity for highly motivated and qualified undergraduates to begin pursuing a graduate degree prior to completion of their bachelor’s degree in a 4+1 year format with 1 coop. | To be eligible for the BSMS program, students must apply between 90-120 credits and have a minimum 3.25 cumulative GPA overall and in their math and science courses. | Fall 2023 |
| BS Teacher Education (English)/MS Higher Education Leadership | School of Education | The BS/MS in Teacher Education with Secondary Education and MS in Higher Education Leadership offers a flexible, innovative curriculum with a unique emphasis on creative problem solving and the application of the latest technologies to learning. This accelerated degree program allows candidates to pursue a BS in Education (Secondary/English) with Pennsylvania initial state teacher certification and continue for a fifth graduate year to complete the MS in Higher Education Leadership. | BSMS application must be submitted during Sophomore year before 120 credits have been completed with cumulative 3.0 GPA to gain acceptance into BS/MS program. | Fall 2023 |
New Graduate Programs
| Program | College | Description | Requirements | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | This certificate provides a foundational introduction to the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to a wide range of modern technical challenges and areas of study. | Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, transcripts, essay, GRE accepted but optional | Fall 2023 |
| Biomedicine and Cell & Gene Therapy MS | College of Medicine: School of Biomedical Science & Professional Studies | Drexel's MS in Biomedicine and Cell & Gene Therapy is unique, as students are able to take courses in both the Drexel University College of Medicine and the College of Engineering. Students are taught by both medical school professors and engineering professors; our program operates at the intersection of these two fields, and our graduates can talk to professionals in both fields. Another unique feature of our curriculum is that every MS student takes a capstone course on the commercialization of a novel biomedical technology, and works with a team to develop a commercialization plan. Students also have the option of completing a virtual industry internship, to build their resume and experience. Students of all undergraduate backgrounds are welcome, as we will provide foundational coursework. | Post-college applicants must have completed a four-year degree program. An undergraduate degree in science is preferred but not required; although a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 is strongly preferred. | Fall 2023 |
| Computational Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | The aim is to provide a strong foundation in this emerging area, with a focus on mathematical foundations, algorithms, and real-world applications. The certificate program may also serve as an onramp to a Masters of Science in Computer Science, the Masters of Science in Data Science, or the Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning if completed with predetermined grade requirements. | Fall 2023 | |
| Computer Science Foundations Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Computer Science accepts applicants who hold Bachelor degrees in areas other than Computer Science and offers them opportunities to learn the fundamentals of programming and theory in computer science. The aim is to provide an efficient and systematic education on basics of computer science without any prerequisite knowledge. The certificate program may also serve as an onramp to a Masters in Computer Science, if completed with predetermined grade requirements. | Fall 2023 | |
| Computer Science Theory & Practice Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | This certificate covers core theoretical and practical concepts needed for computing, and prepares students to work with computational and algorithmic methods across a wide range of potential fields and applications. | Fall 2023 | |
| Computer Security and Privacy Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | This certificate provides broad technical expertise in software security, network security, and computer privacy. It includes introductory courses in security engineering and computer privacy that cover the technical fundamentals. Electives provide additional in-depth expertise in operating systems, computer networks, and cryptography, which are essential bodies of knowledge to be able to do technical work in modern computer systems security. | Fall 2023 | |
| Data Science Foundations Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | This certificate provide the basic skills in Python programing, exploratory data analytics using R, and other relevant electives. | Bachelor's degrees from an accredited university | Fall 2023 |
| Fundamental Concepts in Infectious Disease Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Medicine: School of Biomedical Science & Professional Studies | This 10 credit part-time online certificate program provides an academic credential for individuals seeking to gain critical thinking and problem-solving skills to explore human pathogens and the molecular mechanisms they use to cause disease. The program is ideal for individuals seeking foundational coursework in aspects of basic, translational, and clinical infectious disease research but do not have the time commitment and/or need for more in-depth course offerings provided by the Advanced Certificate in Basic and Translational Science of Infectious Disease (CAID). | Completed a four-year bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, immunology or a related field (no marine biology, botany, or environmental science degrees). Previous coursework in the areas of cell biology and/or molecular biology or equivalent knowledge (as determined by the program director when students apply) is required. | Fall 2023 |
| Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing & Informatics | The Drexel MS HCI/UX program is a professional degree that prepares students to design and evaluate technologies that support and complement human needs and abilities in a broad range of contexts such as work, wellness, home, entertainment, and artistic expression. | Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, transcripts, essay, GRE accepted but optional | Fall 2023 |
| Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Research and Design Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing & Informatics | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Research and Design provides foundations and practical skills for professionals who want to design and evaluate a wide variety of user experiences and computer interfaces. The certificate program may also serve as an onramp to a Master of Science in Information HCI/UX Major, if completed with acceptable grade requirements. | Bacherlor's Degree | Fall 2023 |
| Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Theory and Frontiers Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing & Informatics | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in HCI/UX Theory and Frontiers prepares students to work with novel interaction paradigms and specialized HCI/UX skill sets and populations, and to engage with advanced theoretical underpinnings of Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience. | Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, transcripts, essay, GRE accepted but optional | Fall 2023 |
| Industry Systems Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Engineering | BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent STEM BS degree. A GPA of 3.0 and/or significant work experience | Fall 2023 | |
| Infection Prevention and Control MS | Dornsife School of Public Health | The MS in Infection Prevention and Control trains students to work as professionals in the field of infection prevention in healthcare and public health settings. Coursework addresses infectious disease processes, epidemiological concepts, surveillance in the healthcare setting, prevention and control of infectious agents in the healthcare setting, principles related to safe environment of care, and patient and healthcare professional safety. The program includes a capstone experience in which students apply concepts and knowledge they’ve learned through coursework to address infection prevention challenge in healthcare setting. | Fall 2023 | |
| Information Systems Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing and Informatics | This certificate prepares students to apply and manage information systems to solve organizational problems. | Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, transcripts, essay, GRE accepted but optional | Fall 2023 |
| Machine Learning for Data Science Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing & Informatics | The Machine Learning for Data Science certificate provides a applied machine learning, recommender systems, deep learning, and other related electives in the area of ML for Data Science. | The post-baccalaureate certificate in Machine Learning for Data Science accepts applicants who hold bachelor's degrees from an accredited university. | Fall 2023 |
| Molecular Basis of Cancer MS | College of Medicine: School of Biomedical Science & Professional Studies | The Master’s Degree in Molecular Basis of Cancer program aims to provide students with in-depth understanding of academic and practical knowledge in basic and translational cancer research, with emphasis in molecular targets and therapeutics. This program is designed to help students establish or advance their career within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The specialized focus of the degree will be on research and development relevant to new diagnostics, therapeutics and treatment of cancers of various etiologies. | Fall 2023 | |
| Superintendent Certificate | School of Education | Prepares students for leading schools, districts, and other educational organizations by being agile in adapting to emerging opportunities and challenges. The curriculum is designed as practitioner-based through its internships and built upon a systems approach to leadership and organizational learning. Students will be eligible to apply for PA superintendent certification upon completion of this program and six years of satisfactory school experience, of which three must be in a supervisory or administrative capacity. | Master's Degree and 3 years of administrative expience. | Fall 2023 |
| Systems Engineering for Software Applications | College of Engineering | This graduate certificate will enhance the skills of software engineers who work in areas of product design and development related to a variety of industries, but mostly the Department of Defense (DoD). | A GPA of 3.0 and/or significant work experience | Fall 2023 |
| Translational Research in Infectious Disease Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Medicine: School of Biomedical Science & Professional Studies | This part-time online certificate program provides an academic credential for individuals seeking to gain critical thinking and problem-solving skills to explore how foundational knowledge of human pathogens is applied to develop effective diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics to treat human infectious diseases. The certificate is designed for working professionals who aim to advance their careers or transition into the field, as well as those who seek educational advancement, specifically those desiring credentials for entry into advanced degree programs, including MS, PhD, or medical programs. | Completed a four-year bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, immunology, or a related field (no marine biology, botany, or environmental science degrees). Previous coursework in the areas of cell biology and/or molecular biology or equivalent knowledge (as determined by the program director when students apply) is required. | Fall 2023 |
| Web Application Development Post-Bacc Certificate | College of Computing & Informatics | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Web Application Design prepares students to design web application to solve organizational problems. | Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, transcripts, essay, GRE accepted but optional | Fall 2023 |
New Undergraduate Courses
| Course No. | Title | Description | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFAS 219 | History of Policing Homosexuality | This course surveys the medical and penal criminalization of homosexuality from the late 19th to early 21st Century in the United States. It also traces the varied historical responses to the policing of homosexuality by LGBTQ+ people and other individuals who engage in same-sex sex. The course will approach policing (both medical and penal) with particular emphasis on how race, Blackness, gender performance, and class impact policing and the formation of homosexual identities through time. | FAll 2023 |
| AFAS 344 | History of the AIDS Pandemic | This course explores responses to the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia and the United States. It investigates the medical, political, and activist responses to the AIDS crisis with a special emphasis on the lesser-known perspectives of AIDS activists and organizations. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 146 | Basic Portfolio | This course focuses on the basics of portfolio creation, editing, and presentation while examining portfolio examples of current professionals in various industry roles that can serve as models for student portfolio development. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 213 | Rigging I | This class will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of IK and FK rigging, weight painting, and deformation solutions for humanoid characters. Lectures may also include common rigging solutions for other miscellaneous tasks and advanced-level topics. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 246 | Advanced Portfolio | This course focuses on building skills for the career-long practice of producing and maintaining a professional creative portfolio while allowing the students the opportunity to create or refine additional student-driven portfolio work that synthesizes their skills and experience from direct class assignments in their other coursework. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 301 | Procedural Animation | This class introduces students to the fundamentals of procedurally generated 3D content. Students will learn procedural tools for the generation of different effects systems in topics such as modeling, rigging, animation, visual effects, and look development. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 377 | Animation Workshop I | This course examines leadership and developmental roles involved in each stage of a collaborative production, from concept to finished project. Students will work in groups to research and plan an animation production that results in a pre-production prototype. | Fall 2023 |
| ANIM 378 | Animation Workshop II | This course provides an environment in which the pre-production of ANIM 377 Animation Workshop I can be taken through a full production effort. Students will work in groups to bring a selected prototype to completion. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 212 | Therapeutic Gaming | This course explores the theory and application of games as related to the fields of therapy, mental health, and development. The purpose of the course is to develop critical understanding of the benefits of gaming as it applies to holistic wellbeing. Students will first examine what the form and function of games are. Students will develop an understanding of what is defined as therapeutic. Specific dimensions of therapy, including cognitive, social, and emotional changes, will be explored. Students will also engage in critical examination of systemic and ethical issues related to the use of games in therapy, such as the presence of racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and other “-ism’s” in-game, in player communities, and in creator communities. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 213 | Visual Arts and Community Engagement | Students take on the role of art mentor under the guidance of a credentialed, licensed, art therapist in a community setting. Applied practice will integrate knowledge of art, psychology, education, community engagement, and art therapy for applied practice. Students will develop and facilitate responsive art engagements with a local community group. This course culminates with a student-generated portfolio that demonstrates an understanding of the value of civic responsibility through creative activities across the lifespan. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 313 | Foundations of Art Therapy: Theory and Practice | This course facilitates an exploration of the creative process as a way to understand more about self and other. Calling upon the history of materials and strategies informed by psychological, philosophical and applied approaches of therapeutic art and art therapy practices, students will engage in a rich, media- based approach to learning. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 314 | Introduction to Music Therapy | Music Therapy is a healthcare profession wherein musical experiences are used within a therapeutic relationship to address biopsychosocial goals. During this course, students will be introduced to the primary music therapy methods, goals and outcomes of treatment, and clinical case descriptions through audio and video material. | Fall 2023 |
| BMES 480 | 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 2023 |
| BMES 481 | 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 2023 |
| BMES 497 | Research in Biomedical Engineering | Provides guided research in biomedical engineering. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 416 | Geotechnical Site Investigation | This course will cover best practices for the geotechnical characterization of subsurface conditions required for successful planning, design, construction, and operation of civil infrastructure. The course provides historical, theoretical, experimental, and empirical development of different in-situ tests in geotechnical engineering. Practical applications and limitations of field-testing devices will be studied. Interpretation of test results and measurements for geotechnical site characterization will be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 418 | Natural Hazards and Infrastructure | Overview of natural hazards in the form of landslides, earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, scour, subsidence, tornadoes, wildfires, etc. Covers processes and risk to civil infrastructure through case histories and post-disaster reconnaissance to improve our understanding of these hazards and how to help us mitigate the risk posed by these natural hazards. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 421 | Foundation Engineering | Engineering properties of soils focused on soil shear strength and compressibility in determining the bearing capacity and settlement of shallow and deep foundations in sands, clays, and layered geotechnical profiles. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 422 | Lateral Earth Pressures and Retaining Structures | In this course, students will learn classical and modern lateral earth pressure theories, effects of wall friction and external loads (including earthquakes). Geotechnical design, including computer applications, of retaining structures including rigid and flexible retaining walls; Deadman anchors, sheet pile walls, mechanically stabilized soil reinforcement systems, and excavation bracing. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 423 | Engineering Ground Improvement | This course covers the improvement of soil properties to meet project requirements, including surface and in situ technologies: compaction, densification, precompression, stabilization with admixtures, grouting and dewatering. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 450 | Transportation Engineering | This course will introduce basic knowledge, mathematical models, and solution tools to various highway traffic problems. Topics that will be covered include components in highway systems (driver, vehicle, road, and intersection), probability and statistics for transportation engineers, queuing theory, traffic flow basics, highway capacity and level of service, traffic control, traffic safety, and emerging transportation technologies. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 451 | Transportation System Planning | This course introduces topics and concepts of transportation planning and methods to analyze the impacts of transportation systems on society. The core of this course is travel demand modeling, which employs mathematical models (Don’t be scared by the name; You will learn how simple some of them are after taking this course) to predict the distribution of travel demand across time and space. The course will also cover methods and case studies on transportation system impact analysis, including benefit-cost analysis and equity impact analysis. Emerging topics such as planning for new transportation technologies, the use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics in transportation planning will also be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 454 | Traffic Flow Theory | This course introduces topics and concepts of traffic flow theory and their applications, including models (single vehicle dynamics, car following models, lane-change models, etc.), data (sensing, data processing, model calibration and validation), and applications (microscopic traffic simulation, connected and automated vehicles). | Fall 2023 |
| CJS 305 | Crime and Popular Media | Turning on the news, streaming a popular crime show, listening to a podcast or viewing political memes sends a clear message and creates an often-inaccurate fear of crime. As a result, misinformed citizens may draw erroneous conclusions about crime, people who commit crime, and crime policies. Mass media and pop culture often misrepresent the complexity of crime and reality of those involved in the criminal justice system. Students will view popular media outlets and evaluate the legitimacy and efficacy of the sources while analyzing the accuracy of criminogenic factors and the criminal justice system as portrayed in movies, memes, podcast, and television shows. | Fall 2023 |
| CRTV 300 | Mind, Brain and Learning | This course focuses on current and emerging research related to the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Educations science. Neuromyths and evidence-based practices are explored. The course examines general neuroanatomy and processes associated with learning, memory, and emotion. Topics include neuroplasticity, brain imaging, differentiation, stress, and self-efficacy. | Fall 2023 |
| CRTV 304 | Neurodiversity in Education and Workforce | This course focuses on neurodiversity. The neurobiology of learning and memory is explored from the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Education science within the context of educational and work environments. The impact of practice, stress, and environment are examined in connection to neuroplasticity, memory, performance, and brain imaging. Students are engaged in peer-review and self-evaluation as they demonstrate technical and applied knowledge, creative critical-thinking, and communication skills through presentations and projects aligned neurodiversity and Universal Design for Learning across real-world contexts. | Fall 2023 |
| CRTV 308 | Neuropedagogy and Assessment | This course explores the connections between neuropedagogy, the learning sciences, and Mind, Brain, and Education science, and creative thinking. Evidence-based practices are examined including metacognition, Universal Design for Learning, spacing, interleaving, cognitive load, and feedback. Students are introduced to formative, interim, and summative assessment as well as technology platforms, tools, and applications that support mastery and transfer of learning. Students demonstrate their understanding of neuroplasticity, neuropedoagogy, creative problem solving, and assessment through interactive real-world projects across educational and workforce environments. | Fall 2023 |
| CS 438 | Game Engine Programming | The goal of this course is to learn the general principles and techniques required to build a game engine from scratch. The course covers basic programming techniques for games, but without focusing on any specific programming language nor platform. Topics include game engine architecture, game loops, real-time 2D and 3D rendering, collision detection, input handling, networking, animation, scripting, Game AI, and 2D and 3D physics simulation. Additionally, students will also gain knowledge of existing game engines. | Fall 2023 |
| CS 455 | Computational Network Neuroscience | This course provides a broad introduction to computational network neuroscience, also known as connectomics, which is an interdisciplinary field between medicine, neuroscience, machine learning, and graph theory to students coming from a computing background. Processing of neuroimaging data to obtain brain networks, its analysis using basic statistical methods as well as advanced machine learning techniques, with applications on healthy and various patient populations will be covered. After taking the course, the student will become prepared for a postgraduate level research experience in the burgeoning field of connectomics. | Fall 2023 |
| CS 482 | Robust Machine Learning | This course introduces students to the understanding about the robustness and vulnerability of current state-of-the-art machine learning systems. Lectures will cover the theoretical foundation and algorithmic details of different types of adversarial attack and defense methods accordingly on multiple machine learning tasks including image classification, object detection, natural language processing, etc. Students will understand the intriguing property of deep learning systems and know the significance of robust and trustworthy machine learning. | Fall 2023 |
| DANC 114 | Philadelphia Dance, Let's Go! | Philadelphia Dance Let's Go! exposes students to a variety of dance performance opportunities available in the Philadelphia region. Through research, discussion, and attendance at dance productions, students will enhance their abilities to discuss, evaluate and enjoy dance. | Fall 2023 |
| DANC 250 | Screendance | This course is a practical introduction to Screendance for dancemakers interested in extending their experience in dance into a new technological realm. Screendance connects film (and filmmaking) with dance (and dancemaking) in an evolving hybrid performative practice. Through creative projects, students will develop their cinematic style and increase proficiency with both filming and editing movement. | Fall 2023 |
| DSMR 485 | Retail and Merchandising Seminar Leadership | This course will be taught in a seminar format and feature talks from various leadership areas in the retail, merchandising, and lifestyle product areas. Topics will consider how managers and leaders must develop teams to understand corporate culture, retail management & analysis, product quality, customer service, human resources, merchandising strategies, and future goals. | Fall 2023 |
| EAM 490 | Senior Seminar | This course serves as the finale of the student’s undergraduate education. Applying all the skills and principles learned at Drexel, each student builds a customized career toolkit and practices essential real-world skills during hands-on scenario exercises. A student may also choose to execute an independent senior capstone project as part of Senior Seminar. | Fall 2023 |
| EDEX 102 | Neurodiverse College and Career Seminar II | This course is a continuation of EDEX 101 and continues to impart to the student knowledge of social and academic skills by providing instruction on improvisational social techniques, daily living practices, and learning strategies to assist students in adapting to life in college. Each week a different topic will be introduced, and social participation will be incorporated into each topic. | Fall 2023 |
| EDEX 103 | Neurodiverse College and Career Seminar III | This course imparts to the student knowledge of social and academic skills by providing instruction on improvisational social techniques and daily living practices to assist students in adapting to life in college. Each week a different topic will be introduced, and social participation will be incorporated into each topic. | Fall 2023 |
| EDUC 122 | Development in Early Childhood Education | This course addresses the multifaceted complexities of typical and atypical child development, through the discussion of classic and emerging theories. The readings and class assignments make use of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. In this course students will apply their knowledge of typical growth and development in childhood to those children whose development is atypical. The course places specific emphasis on how student develop and learn through play. An ecological systems approach will be taken to explain possible reasons for atypical and atypical developmental patterns. Systems include biological, environmental, and societal. This course has a required field experience. | Fall 2023 |
| EET 412 | Electronics Manufacturing | This course is a survey of the electronics industry including the science, technology, economics and business of electronics manufacturing. The aim is to provide students with a working knowledge of how electronic products are made starting with basic ‘feedstock’ materials and producing sophisticated electronic components and systems. The course covers electronic materials, integrated circuit manufacture, packaging, electronics assembly (printed circuit boards), and testing, as practiced in industry. | Fall 2023 |
| ENTP 109 | Idea Accelerator I | This course is designed for you to learn and implement the steps necessary to accelerate the launch of a new business, process, product, or service. Gain the tools, skills, and demonstrated ability to transform an idea into a reality – better, faster, and cheaper. Supports and strengthens entrepreneurial concepts and strategies: ideation, project planning, requirements gathering, process building, and MVP implementation. This course will cover core capabilities needed by entrepreneurs to single-handedly move from ideation to launch, with less risk, higher probability of success, and increased sustainability. | Fall 2023 |
| ENTP 201 | The Starter's Toolkit | This course centers on entrepreneurial practice in terms of the fundamental tools and process for aspiring entrepreneurs. Apply your growing understanding of the foundational tools and process entrepreneurs use to adapt and evolve as the world changes rapidly due to technological, social, and economic transformation. Disruption has shaken every industry, global competition is fierce, job security a thing of the past. Virtually every one of you will engage in the workforce either as an entrepreneur and/ or as a member of an entrepreneurial team. This course offers a backdrop from which to meet that challenge, furnishing tools you will need to recognize and leverage entrepreneurial opportunities: resource use and adaptability, experimentation, customer focus, collaboration, and rational risk-taking. | Fall 2023 |
| ENTP 209 | Build, Measure, Learn | This course is designed to immerse you in the process and mindset associated with the entrepreneurial Build-Measure-Learn cycle through iterative design and prototyping with close customer engagement to ensure you are developing profitable offerings that are aligned with the value proposition of your target customers and marketplace. This involves the fundamental building blocks and methods for creating pre-MVP (minimum viable product) solutions using a wide range of no-code or low-code technology modeling tools in the context of customer discovery, and a continuous learning process as you directly test market interest and operational viability. This approach helps entrepreneurs to ensure that they are using scarce resources wisely during the “bootstrapping” stage of new venture development. | Fall 2023 |
| ENTP 309 | Idea Accelerator II | The course will focus on advanced topics related to the platform that are necessary for its long-term use. Students will continue building their MVP with the goal of having an updated MVP with business pitch deck at the end of the semester. This course is designed for you to continue to learn and implement the steps necessary to accelerate the launch of a new business, process, product, or service. This course mimics the real-world scenario of finalizing an MVP and pitch deck on a strict timeline. You will continue to refine the tools, skills, and abilities to transform an idea into a reality – easier, better, faster, and cheaper. | Fall 2023 |
| HIST 219 | History of Policing Homosexuality | This course surveys the medical and penal criminalization of homosexuality from the late 19th to early 21st Century in the United States. It also traces the varied historical responses to the policing of homosexuality by LGBTQ+ people and other individuals who engage in same-sex sex. The course will approach policing (both medical and penal) with particular emphasis on how race, Blackness, gender performance, and class impact policing and the formation of homosexual identities through time. | Fall 2023 |
| HIST 344 | History of the AIDS Pandemic | This course explores responses to the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia and the United States. It investigates the medical, political, and activist responses to the AIDS crisis with a special emphasis on the lesser-known perspectives of AIDS activists and organizations. | Fall 2023 |
| HIST 368 | Silences in African History | Colonization and capitalism deeply impacted the history of Africa, including in the way we understand the history. This course examines some of the silences in the historical record and considers the ways research can construct and reproduce the silences, as well as unveil them, in the history of the continent. What are these silences? What forces might be moving behind them? What hidden languages can we find when we question the silences? How do these silences affect our perception of the continent today? What are the ramifications in the world today? | Fall 2023 |
| HNRS 203 | Honors Seminar in Civic Engagement | This is the second course in the Program in Civic Foundation sequence. This course will focus on central ideas such as justice, community, systems of power and the role of the citizen. | Fall 2023 |
| HSAD 359 | Project Management in Healthcare | This course explores the operations and management of project activities in public health and healthcare settings care by employing proven techniques, tools, and methods that a team leader or administrator could use. Management skills are essential to the success of any health project or activity, or in any industry. The specific challenges inherent in the health environment require an understanding of the dynamics of project progression from conception and development, through implementation and attainment, to final closure, particularly within the context of the continually changing and evolving climate in the health field. | Fall 2023 |
| HSCI 450 | Unergraduate Research Experience | This course is designed to provide students matriculated in the undergraduate health and exercise science majors with a cumulative undergraduate research experience. Students leverage knowledge gained in prerequisite coursework, employ skills gained from laboratory-based courses and integrate their abilities to successfully design, implement and disseminate a scholarship research project. | Fall 2023 |
| IPS 361 | Exploring Multicultural Perspectives on Aging and Palliative Care | This course provides an introduction to the principles and practices of palliative care with a focus on aging and end-of-life. Learners will reflect on their beliefs, values, and biases around aging and death. We will explore historical, legal, and ethical aspects of aging, death, medical advancements in end-of-life care, and the development of the modern hospice and palliative care movement. Through engaging guest speakers and a global classroom, learners will be introduced to multicultural perspectives, the roles of the palliative care team, and the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork for improving quality of life for patients and their families. Course work will provide a deeper understanding of the physical, social, psychological, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of chronic and advanced illness. | Fall 2023 |
| IPS 364 | Interprofessional Group Dynamics in Healthcare | This course focuses on the basic concepts of team formation and development, successful teamwork, and the importance of interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in today’s healthcare environment. Selected professions on the healthcare team will be examined. Consideration will be given to the responsibilities, scope of practice, and special concerns of each discipline. | Fall 2023 |
| JWST 307 | Literature of Genocide | Genocide is defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (U. N. Office on Genocide Prevention). This course will feature literature, film, and articles, by survivors themselves, historians and other writers, about major genocides and their perpetrators. Topics may include cases from any part of the world or century up to the present. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW I299 | Independent Study in Law | Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW I399 | Independent Study in Law | Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW I499 | Independent Study in Law | Self-directed course within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| MATE 220 | Fundamentals of Materials | Introduces materials and their properties; atomic view and architecture of solids; atomic motion in solids, mechanical, magnetic, electrical and optical properties of materials. Corrosion and degradation of solids. | Fall 2023 |
| MEM 210 | Introduction to Thermodynamics | Introduces thermodynamics from a classical point of view. Covers work, heat, entropy, thermodynamic properties, equations of state, and first and second law analysis of closed systems, control volumes, and selected thermodynamic cycles. | Fall 2023 |
| MET 300 | Principles of Engineering Design | This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of engineering design. Students will develop a thorough understanding of the design process through collaboratively thinking. This course will allow students to apply iterative design process in creating a new product while integrating the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm. Students will explore design challenges and employ the product design and development process to design a product to meet the challenge. | Fall 2023 |
| MIP 350 | Artist Development | This course introduces concepts including what an A&R rep does, historically and today; artist development in the major label and independent markets; and A&R methods using industry data. | Fall 2023 |
| MIP 393 | Advanced Sound Reinforcement | This course is an examination of current state-of-the-art sound reinforcement techniques. Special attention is paid to system design and optimization, digital mixing console operation, wireless systems, and concert recording. | Fall 2023 |
| MUSC 334 | The Power of Black American Music | Provides an overview of American Folk music established by Black Americans in the early 1600s. Attention will be given to the African and Caribbean heritage exploring the religious, economic, cultural, and social environment that gave birth to work songs, spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm & blues, soul, and hip hop. The course provides the opportunity to listen to music and highlight the musical inventions Black Americans brought to the new world. | Fall 2023 |
| NEUS 201 | Academics & Career: Neuroscience | This course prepares students for their post-college future in neuroscience. Through developing a portfolio of work, creating reflections on the undergraduate experience and coop, learning about job and graduate school opportunities, and preparing for the senior year, students prepare for graduation and beyond. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 333 | Appreciative Inquiry into Nursing: Science, Theory, and Patterns of Knowing | This course examines the scientific, theoretical, conceptual, and philosophical bases of professional nursing. Students explore classic literature and essays that have shaped and guided the development of the nursing profession. Nursing theories, grand and middle-range, are reviewed, critiqued, and considered as opportunities to influence the context of nursing care and to positively impact nursing outcomes. Students draw connections between theory and practice and consider how nurses’ ways of knowing influence allyship, advocacy, and activism. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 334 | Nursing Research: Investigations to Improve Health Outcomes | This course focuses on the nursing process as a whole and explores each of its component parts. Students will contrast quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. Critical appraisal tools will guide research study evaluations to determine the quality of selected studies. Institutional Review Board processes will be considered in the pursuit of human subjects’ protections. Nursing science will be examined as a component of empirical ways of knowing within the nursing profession. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 341 | Using Genetics and Genomics to Inform Nursing Care Delivery | The course focuses on pharmacogenetics with integration of related nursing practice concerns including ethical, legal, and social issues. This course focuses on specific diseases, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, prenatal diseases, and psychiatric illnesses. Students learn to conduct individual and family genetic risk assessments, construct human pedigrees, and identify red flags that necessitate comprehensive evaluation. Students investigate current issues in genetics, genomics, and pharmacogenomics and healthcare as well as genetic and genomic influences across the healthcare continuum. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 342 | Inclusive and Equitable Health Assessment: Promoting Health; Respecting Diversity | This course seeks to enhance professional nurses’ expertise in health assessment by broadening and deepening their comfort with and knowledge of healthcare system barriers to equitable and inclusive care. Current practices, particularly typical health assessment practices, are critiqued and opportunities for creating a clinical milieu and care encounter experience that are respectful and excellent are investigated. Physical examination, patient/client interviewing, history-taking and diagnostic tests are explored from the perspective of diversity, equity, and inclusion during care delivery, particularly health assessment. LGBTQ+ and other marginalized groups’ health assessment needs are explicated and explored. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 343 | Leading and Managing Complex Systems of Health | This course focuses on nursing leadership and management in the healthcare environment with the goal of enhancing students’ development as effective and productive leaders and team members. Leadership and management are differentiated. Just culture and quality and safety competencies, including patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, teamwork and collaboration, safety, quality improvement and informatics, are examined. The nurse leader’s responsibility for policy development and implementation are discussed. Personal opportunities for professional development are analyzed. Systems theory is explored and applied to nursing care delivery systems. Basic ideas of healthcare economics are identified and related to healthcare decision making and delivery. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 344 | Safety Science and Quality Improvement: Delivering a Safe and Excellent Care Experience | This course focuses on evidence-based strategies and resources that are designed and implemented to enhance the safety and improve the quality of delivered care in healthcare systems. QSEN competencies are examined as expectations of professional nursing practice. Safety science is investigated, and quality improvement methods are introduced. Events that pose patient safety threats and responses to safeguard patients are considered. Workplace violence in the healthcare environment and its negative implications to the healthcare team and patient safety are explored. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 347 | Educating Patients, Professionals, and the Public to Improve Health Outcomes | This course is designed to teach students best practices for educating patients, family members, professional and ancillary staff, and interprofessional colleagues. Students explore the contemporary challenges of health education with keen consideration of health maintenance; health restoration; and disease and disability prevention. Heath literacy in the adult population, including those clients living with disabilities and chronic illnesses, is emphasized. Assessment of instructional materials is practiced and opportunities for technology use in education are explored. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 348 | Responding to the Challenges of Global and Population-based Health Needs | This course focuses on global heath needs and population-based, aggregate-focused nursing care using epidemiology, public health models, population health nursing principles, and health agency reports. Students learn about social and structural determinants of health and the influence of these factors on the circumstances of health within community aggregates locally and internationally. Current health issues are analyzed and discussed from a nursing perspective with a focus on health outcomes. Disparities in health are examined. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 349 | Transitions of Care: Investigating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care across the Life Span | This course explores palliative and hospice care delivery models and differentiates them by investigating their goals, priorities, insurability, and impact on the patient and family health experience. Students examine these transitions in care and consider published databased literature and gray literature to develop a rich understanding of the opportunities inherent in these specialized approaches to symptom management, curative treatment, and end-of-life care. Opportunities for professional development are considered. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 351 | Healthy Aging: Personal and Professional Opportunities to Promote Aging Well | This course is designed to stimulate new ways to think about aging and creative, evidence—based opportunities to promoting aging well when guiding personal health and promoting the health of others. Critical and timely issues concerning aging are explored including aging in place, dementia care, transitions, hand-offs, and safety. Professional resources are investigated. Aging is examined within the context of intersectionality; and diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges and opportunities are prioritized. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 486 | Perioperative Nursing II | This course builds upon the foundation of Periop Nursing I and the scope, standards, and practice of the nurse in the delivery of patient centered, team based, collaborative, safe, evidence based and quality care for the perioperative patient. Emphasis will be on the continuation of essential foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes aligned with the fundamentals of perioperative practice designed for nursing schools by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Guidelines and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. Interrelated concepts of aseptic practices, universal protocol, quality and safety, positioning the perioperative patient, teamwork, collaboration and leadership will be stressed to enhance clinical judgement and clinical application. | Fall 2023 |
| NURS 487 | Perioperative Nursing III | This course builds upon the foundation of Periop Nursing II and the scope, standards, and practice of the nurse in the delivery of patient centered, team based, collaborative, safe, evidence based and quality care for the perioperative patient. Emphasis will be on the continuation of essential foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes aligned with the fundamentals of perioperative practice designed for nursing schools by the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Guidelines and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies. Interrelated concepts of aseptic practices, universal protocol, quality and safety, positioning the perioperative patient, teamwork, collaboration and leadership will be stressed to enhance clinical judgment and clinical application. | Fall 2023 |
| PROD 275 | Visual Communication for Product Design | This course explores the various types of visual communication and presentation fundamentals applying the layout and composition type, color, images, and graphic assets used in product and visual presentation applications. | Fall 2023 |
| PROD 405 | Experimental Design | This course is a study into the experimentation and rapid three-dimensional visualization and manipulation of material, form, and function of designed objects no larger than the human body. Students will apply iterative hands-on design process to work through guided assignments to create self-directed project ideas for a variety of contexts. Students will deconstruct preconceived notions of everyday materials, objects, and functions—resolving ideas through technical problem-solving, analog and digital manufacturing, and various CAD software and digital tools. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 243 | International Comparative Forensic Psychology, Criminal Justice, and Law | This course will provide a cross-cultural comparison of criminal forensic psychology in Argentina and the United States. This course will emphasize similarities and differences between the criminal and juvenile justice systems in Argentina and the United States. In addition, we will discuss the treatment of psycho-legal issues in both countries, such as competence to stand trial, criminal responsibility, police interrogations, legal procedures, and the role of mental illness in psycho-legal issues. Professional and ethical similarities and difference will be reviewed. This course will emphasize the integration between research and practice in these two countries. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 412 | Methods in Human Neuroscience | This course is designed to explain the methods used to study the relationship between human cognitive and emotional states and human physiological functions. By learning about these methods students will gain a better understanding of how the human nervous system works and about how they can study human thoughts by measuring the workings of the human central and peripheral nervous systems. | Fall 2023 |
| SE 201 | Introduction to Software Engineering and Development | Introduces advanced software development fundamentals including memory management, typing and scoping, datastores and software testing. This course will be taught using a specified programming language of instruction. | Fall 2023 |
| SMT 350 | Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport | Course provides an overview of the concept of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), focusing on the economic, social and environmental impacts of the sport industry and the resulting challenges faced by sport organizations, their participants and their managers. The emphasis will be on assisting the student in understanding the concepts related to the role sport plays in CSR. Class sessions will be devoted to examining and discussing the reading assignments and current CSR issues in sport. Real world examples will be used to illustrate the concepts and principles. | Fall 2023 |
| SOC 278 | Global Climate Change and Society | This course provides an overview of theoretical and empirical work on the social dimensions of global climate change. It focuses on large-scale social institutions and organizational forms as driving forces of climate change in an unequal world, and how these driving forces condition societal solutions to the climate crisis. It will cover topics that are national, international, and global in scope. Attention is also given to the intersection between climate change and other major social issues. | Fall 2023 |
| SOC 342 | Global Environmental Movements | This course focuses on key collective actors and institutions that are involved in conflicts around environmental regulations, land and water rights, food sovereignty, and climate change. This course will emphasize how significant environmental concern differs across contexts. We will explore cases of indigenous movements, contrast environmental advocacy in the Global South and North, and the creation of U.S. environmental policies, including historical and cultural processes of change involving social movements, environmental advocacy organizations, foundations and the media. | Fall 2023 |
| UNIV L101 | The Drexel Experience | This course introduces first year students to university life, their major, our community, and Co-op. | Fall 2023 |
| UNIV L201 | Looking Forward: Academics and Careers | The course will introduce students majoring in Law to the range of legal careers and help them develop the professional materials to pursue employment and/or post-graduate study in fields most suited to their interests, values, and strengths. | Fall 2023 |
| WRIT 330 | Writing and Contexts | Offers writing practice and study of writing as it functions in other contexts (for example, Writing and the Brain, Writing and Freelance Work, Writing and Other Arts, Writing and Community Publishing). | Fall 2023 |
New Graduate Courses
| Course No. | Title | Description | Effective Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| AADM 690 | Equitable Cultural Practices | This course will examine equitable practices in museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Through readings and case examples, students investigate racial and social identities that influence practices within museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Students will design a strategic action plan to disrupt patterns of inequities within a cultural organization, presenting it during the final class for feedback from peers in a supportive and co-creative manner. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 500 | Theories of Counseling | This online, graduate level course provides a comprehensive survey of the major counseling theories and principles. Coursework includes the following theories: psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential psychotherapy, person-centered, gestalt, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, reality therapy/choice theory, postmodern approaches, family systems, multicultural perspectives, and integrative approaches. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 510 | Introduction to Addictions and Substance Use Disorder | This course provides a broad overview of the psychological and biological models of addictions and the ways in which addictions and substance-use disorders affect specific populations. The basic understanding of addictions and substance use disorders will equip students to develop specific skills and competencies in treatment of substance use disorders. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 537 | Psychopharmacology & Addictions | This course provides a broad understanding of psychopharmacology theories of substance use disorder and treatment. This course provides an overview on drug use as a social problem and a brief analysis on the history of drug policies in the United States. Coursework includes learning about the adverse effects and dynamics of substance use disorders on the nervous system and actions of drugs (stimulants, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, psychedelics, cannabis, as well as dietary supplements, over-the-counter drugs, performance-enhancing drugs, and medications for mental disorders) Preventing substance abuse and treating substance use disorders and drug policy alternatives are also discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 545 | Psychopathology & Co-Occurring Disorders | This course provides a broad understanding of psychopathology and co-occurring disorders. This course provides an overview on psychological symptoms and problems related to co-occurring disorders. This course also explores the treatment needs of persons with co-occurring disorders. Coursework includes learning about co-occurring disorders and types of medications prescribed to treat substance use and/or mental health disorders. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 646 | Multicultural Approaches in Addictions Counseling | This course explores how sociocultural concepts define and affect social, interpersonal, and professional interactions in addictions counseling. This class will explore an understanding of issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society, multicultural counseling and identity development and multicultural competencies. | Fall 2023 |
| BACS 672 | Family Trauma and Addictive Disorders | This course explores the assessment of the impact of both acute and chronic trauma on family members and the response of the family system. This course examines addiction in the context of the family system including relapse and recovery, emphasis on family system, techniques of addictions counseling, both internal trauma (domestic violence) and external trauma are investigated. | Fall 2023 |
| BIOT 512S | Biotechnology Journal Club | This course is designed to have students read and critically analyze recent research in the biotechnology. Each week a student will choose a high-impact paper of broad significance published within the last two years for presentation. All students are expected to have read the paper prior to the meeting and will participate in a roundtable discussion of the data presented in the figures and the authors’ conclusions. Various faculty members from the BIOT program will serve as moderators or facilitators during the group discussion (see schedule for details). This course is required for students in the BIOT MS program. | Fall 2023 |
| BIOT 560S | Biotechnology Internship | This course prepares students for transition into or advancement within the field of biotechnology through direct bench research training. The training consists of hands-on development of technical expertise under the guidance of a mentor who has experience in the field. In addition, a scholarly research paper on the methods learned will be prepared by the student. | Fall 2023 |
| BIOT 600S | Biotechnology Thesis Research | The BIOT Thesis Research is designed to identify and answer a primary research question in research biotechnology. The student demonstrates understandings and skills to design experiments to test his or her research hypotheses and perform an original and independent research project under the guidance of BIOT faculty members. | Fall 2023 |
| BMES 586 | Medical Technology Innovation: Biologics | Medical Technology Innovation: Biologics course is focused on biologics, in particular, emerging fronts in medical biotechnologies including biosensing, gene, cell, tissue and immune technologies. This courses provide a primer on basics of Biologics medical technology innovation from concept to commercialization, starting from laboratory proof-of-concept studies as well as translational research and technology transfer of research discoveries. | Fall 2023 |
| BMES 587 | Brain Technology Convergence: Your Brain on the Metaverse | This interdisciplinary course brings two futures together: Neurotechnologies and Virtual Immersive Virtual Worlds. Starting with a primer on natural (human) and artificial (computational) intelligence, virtual and immersive media and the Metaverse, students are introduced to emerging neuro-technologies including brain-computer interfaces (BCI), neuro-imaging, neuro-stimulation, neuroergonomics, brain-in-the-loop systems, human-robot teaming, humanoid robots and ‘human autonomy.’ The course then proceeds to application domains such as gaming, entertainment, health, aerospace, learning and behavioral economics. The content emphasizes ‘responsible brain | technology convergence’ that is respectful of our neurorights as individuals and responsive to potential social, professional, legal and ethical implications. |
| BMES 624 | Principles of Neuroimaging | This course introduces types and categories of neuroimaging methods that can measure brain anatomy as well as brain activity including MRI, PET, CT, SPECT, EEG and NIRS. For each modality, basic principles, technical foundations of its operation, neural signals, visualization and analysis of multidimensional data, relevant standards will be provided as well as an overview of the clinical and translational applications. | Fall 2023 |
| BST 698 | Statistical Collaboration in Practice | This course builds on the skillset and knowledge presented in BST 567/867 and BST 675/875 by creating an experience(s) that nurture critical thinking and interpersonal skills combined with understanding interdisciplinary content and applying statistical knowledge to excel as a biostatistician collaborator. Students will become members of the Biostatistics Scientific Collaboration Center (BSC) and work in close collaboration with BSC personnel and a non-statistician investigator. True to real-life experiences in interdisciplinary collaboration, types of student experiences (e.g. power analysis, development of analysis plan, execute analysis plan) will vary depending on the BSC deliverables for each investigator’s project. | Fall 2023 |
| BST 898 | Statistical Collaboration in Practice | This course builds on the skillset and knowledge presented in BST 567/867 and BST 675/875 by creating an experience(s) that nurture critical thinking and interpersonal skills combined with understanding interdisciplinary content and applying statistical knowledge to excel as a biostatistician collaborator. Students will become members of the Biostatistics Scientific Collaboration Center (BSC) and work in close collaboration with BSC personnel and a non-statistician investigator. True to real-life experiences in interdisciplinary collaboration, types of student experiences (e.g. power analysis, development of analysis plan, execute analysis plan) will vary depending on the BSC deliverables for each investigator’s project. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 510 | Principles and Practices in Music Therapy | An introductory orientation to foundational principles and practices in the music therapy profession. This course will critically discuss the historical and foundational underpinnings of the profession, contemporary practices of defining music therapy, current scope of practice and state of the profession, and critical, artistic reflexivity to support an anti-oppressive lens. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 512 | Music Therapy Across the Life Span | This course provides an overview of theory and research pertaining to musical development and psychological aspects of musical experience across various domains, including perception, cognition, affective and neurological responses. Implications for practice are explored through applied methods and techniques in music therapy across the lifespan. Components of the course include social and cultural perspectives in musical development and theoretical approaches for varied therapeutic outcomes. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 578 | Clinical Improvisation Skills | An experiential course exploring music therapy improvisation. This course is designed to support the development of improvisatory techniques used within therapeutic relationships. Established models of clinical musical improvisation with individuals and groups and the use of verbal processing in conjunction with the musical experience will be explored. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 590 | Clinical Musicianship I: Piano | This course provides methods for learning to accompany self, individuals, and groups within music therapy applications. Additional emphasis is placed upon establishing a musical relationship through clinical improvisation methods for piano/keyboards. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 591 | Clinical Musicianship II: Guitar | This course provides methods for accompany self, individuals, and groups using guitar within music therapy applications. Additional emphasis is placed upon improvisational guitar techniques that support the establishment of the musical relationship. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 615 | Community-Centered Processes in Music Therapy | This course is designed to facilitate understanding of community-centered music therapy processes across medical, wellness and prevention, and community arts and health settings. Attention is given to anti-oppressive, ecological approaches to therapeutic care. Students explore culturally sustaining practice models, systems, and policies through interdisciplinary approaches to facilitate therapeutic care. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 679 | Advanced Clinical Improvisation and Analysis | This course explores intersubjectivity in the co-creation of musical therapeutic relationships and application of advanced musical skills in experiential formats utilizing piano, guitar, percussion, and voice. Client musical expressions are explored through developmental, multi-relational, and intersectional analysis. Approaches to post-analysis therapist response will be explored. | Fall 2023 |
| CATX 685 | Professional Identity & Contemporary Practices in Music Therapy | A culminating course exploring professional identity and contemporary practice issues in music therapy. This course provides in-depth discussion of professional entry as it relates emerging discourse on the therapeutic relationship and professional practice, requirements for professional licensure and credentialing, and career entry and development. Post graduate professional development, supervisory roles and processes, professional affiliations, personal and creative development, and advocacy will be explored to support student entry into the music therapy profession. | Fall 2023 |
| CHP 519 | Methodology and Methods for Health Equity Research: The Health of Black Communities | This course teaches students how to leverage theories of structural marginalization to inform methodological approaches to and design of health equity research and practice. Focusing on health inequities in the Black community as a case study, the course first discusses the state of evidence with a lens towards challenges in successful translation into action. Next, we distinguish between methodology and methods in order to focus on the use of two frameworks of structural marginalization used to generate this evidence base: critical race theory and structural racism. The course concludes by having students apply their understanding of theory and foundational frameworks to critique current methodological approaches to addressing a select Black Health issue. | Fall 2023 |
| CIT 553 | Health Coaching for Lifestyle and Behavior Change | This course explores the core tenets of integrative health and wellness coaching in diverse health care settings. Coaching elements include developing the coaching partnership; assessing lifestyle factors, strengths and life satisfaction; using motivational interviewing to determine values and actionable health goals; and identifying barriers and resources. The course presents the evidence base on the impact of healthy lifestyle practices and the mind-body-spirit connection on positive health; and introduces tools and strategies rooted in the theory, research and practice of health and wellness coaching to obtain optimal and sustainable health and well-being. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 516 | Geotechnigal Site Investigation | This course will cover best practices for the geotechnical characterization of subsurface conditions required for successful planning, design, construction, and operation of civil infrastructure. The course provides historical, theoretical, experimental, and empirical development of different insitu tests in geotechnical engineering. Practical applications and limitation of field testing devices will be studied. Interpretation of test results and measurements for geotechnical site characterization will be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 518 | Natural Hazards and Infrastructure | Overview of natural hazards in the form of landslides, earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, scour, subsidence, tornadoes, wildfires, etc. Covers processes and risk to civil infrastructure through case histories and post-disaster reconnaissance to improve our understanding of these hazards and how to help us mitigate the risk posed by these natural hazards. | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 554 | Traffic Flow Theory | This course introduces topics and concepts of traffic flow theory and their applications, including models (single vehicle dynamics, car following models, lane-change models, etc.), data (sensing, data processing, model calibration and validation), and applications (microscopic traffic simulation, connected and automated vehicles). | Fall 2023 |
| CIVE 633 | Lateral Earth Pressures and Retaining Structures | In this course, students will learn classical and modern lateral earth pressure theories, effects of wall friction and external loads (including earthquakes). Geotechnical design, including computer applications, of retaining structures including rigid and flexible retaining walls; Deadman anchors, sheet pile walls, mechanically stabilized soil reinforcement systems, and excavation bracing. | Fall 2023 |
| CRTV 600 | Mind, Brain and Learning | This course focuses on current and emerging research related to the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Educations science. Neuromyths and evidence-based practices are explored. The course examines general neuroanatomy and processes associated with learning, memory, and emotion. Topics include neuroplasticity, brain imaging, differentiation, stress, and self-efficacy. | Fall 2023 |
| CRTV 604 | Neurodiversity in Education and Workforce | This course focuses on neurodiversity. The neurobiology of learning and memory is explored from the learning sciences and Mind, Brain, and Education science within the context of educational and work environments. The impact of practice, stress, and environment are examined in connection to neuroplasticity, memory, performance, and brain imaging. Students are engaged in peer-review and self-evaluation as they demonstrate technical and applied knowledge, creative critical-thinking, and communication skills through presentations and projects aligned neurodiversity and Universal Design for Learning across real-world contexts. | Fall 2023 |
| CS 589 | Responsible Machine Learning | With the rapid deployment of machine learning models in domains such as lending, sentencing, and hiring, it is essential to understand the ethical aspects and negative consequences of such models. In this course, we focus on three of these aspects: fairness, explainability, and recourse. | Fall 2023 |
| CTCN 565 | Movement Observation and Assessment III | This course provides an overview of theory and research findings related to dance/movement therapy assessment for application to the understanding of the individual, interpersonal, and family functioning. Students will practice using selected movement assessment approaches and explore collaborative and context-sensitive processes for meaning-making. Through critical examination, the therapeutic implications of various movement observation frameworks will be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| CTCN 575 | Therapeutic Processes & Relationship Skills I | This course provides a skill-based exploration of psychotherapeutic processes and practices. Through verbal and non-verbal micro-skills, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intercultural aspects of the therapeutic relationship will be explored. Focus is placed on the development of therapeutic relationships during the initial phases of therapy and the role of the therapist in supporting safety and growth. Expanded awareness of personhood, including social location, intersectionality, and embodied social, emotional, cultural, and cognitive resources will be cultivated to support therapeutic relationship. | Fall 2023 |
| CTCN 656 | Movement Observation and Assessment IV | This course supports the development of skills and knowledge for therapist responsibilities in the assessment, evaluation, and appraisal of clients as related to dance/movement therapy treatment planning and process. Students design and implement evidence-informed and culturally responsive clinical assessments and treatment plans using movement as primary clinical information. | Fall 2023 |
| CTCN 675 | Therapeutic Processes & Relationship Skills II | This course provides advanced exploration of psychotherapeutic processes and skills across theoretical models within therapeutic practice. It is designed to support advanced application of verbal and non-verbal micro-skills across major theoretical models and approaches in counseling psychotherapy. This course will focus on the middle and closure phases of therapy. Students will begin to personal orientations in relation to counseling practices. | Fall 2023 |
| CTCN 677 | Crisis & Trauma Approaches in Therapeutic Practice | This course provides an overview of current theory and approaches for crisis intervention and trauma. This course will take an ecological approach exploring roles, responsibilities, strategies, and techniques to provide trauma-informed interventions with individuals, groups, and community-based strategies. Prevention models utilizing approaches rooted in developmental affective neuroscience relevant to the mind-body impact of trauma as well as systems theories of trauma effects, resilience, trauma recovery, and integrative models will be emphasized. | Fall 2023 |
| ECE 551 | Digital Systems Design | A project-based course on design concepts, tools and implementation of systems with embedded processors, library IP (Intellectual Property) cores and custom IP cores, synthesis and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation. | Fall 2023 |
| ECE 605 | Quantum Computing and Informatics | Implementation of computing and information processing depends on physical laws. Laws of quantum theory could make it possible to circumvent some current limitations of classical computers and information processing methods. This course introduces the concepts of quantum computing and informatics with a particular emphasis on comparison with its classical counterparts. The course does not discuss technology or devices that can be used to implement quantum computers. Instead, it is meant to provide logical foundation for the quantum computation paradigm culminating in the discussion, analysis and simulation of simple quantum computing algorithms and information transfer fundamentals. | Fall 2023 |
| ECE 608 | Decision-Making for Robotics | Robots today are equipped with sophisticated computing, communication, and sensing resources. It is becoming increasingly important to develop efficient decision-making algorithms that make full use of the robot's capabilities. In this course, we will discuss the state-of-the-art algorithms that aim for that. Topics range from Information-theoretic Planning, Planning under Uncertainty, Adversarial Planning, to Learning and Perception. | Fall 2023 |
| EDUC 899 | Proposal Writing Seminar | This course is designed to support students in completing a defensible dissertation proposal. | Fall 2023 |
| EOH 517 | The World's Water | Water is essential for life. Worldwide, 25% of people lack safely managed drinking water services and nearly 50% lack safely managed sanitation services. Safe and sufficient water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) are key for health and human rights. WASH services are a critical component of responses to infectious disease epidemics and ensuring infection prevention in healthcare facilities. Contaminated drinking water, inadequate water supply, or poor sanitation and hygiene all contribute to disease burden and decreased quality of life, particularly among the most vulnerable populations. This course will discuss a wide variety of topics related to WASH around the globe and the U.S. and will explore how WASH problems are compounded by emerging infectious diseases, climate change and rapid urbanization. | Fall 2023 |
| EOH 653 | Environment of Care | This course will review the role that the healthcare environment has in the transmission of infectious diseases. Students will learn about the importance of maintaining a safe and clean environment via engineering controls, maintenance of air handling and water systems, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization. Students will learn about specific environmental vectors and vehicles for disease transmission, how to monitor the environment to prevent disease, and how to respond to outbreaks associated with the environment in healthcare. | Fall 2023 |
| EOH 656 | Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infections | This course will review the role that the healthcare environment has in the transmission of infectious diseases. Students will learn about the importance of maintaining a safe and clean environment via engineering controls, maintenance of air handling and water systems, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization. Students will learn about specific environmental vectors and vehicles for disease transmission, how to monitor the environment to prevent disease, and how to respond to outbreaks associated with the environment in healthcare. | Fall 2023 |
| EOH 698 | Infection Prevention and Control Capstone I | The Capstone Project comprises the culminating experience for MS students in Infection Prevention and Control. Students engage in a project that emphasizes practical applications of concepts and skill development. The Capstone is organized as a 3-credit project over two quarters. Students will engage in discussion and peer-mentoring, providing feedback and support to their peers via an online classroom experience. In the first course of the two-course sequence, students will work on project development and design. | Fall 2023 |
| EOH 699 | Infection Prevention and Control Capstone II | The Capstone Project comprises the culminating experience for MS students in Infection Prevention and Control. Students engage in a project that emphasizes practical applications of concepts and skill development. The Capstone will require students to synthesize and apply concepts related to infection control and prevention in either a healthcare or other selected setting. Students will engage in discussion and peer-mentoring, providing feedback and support to their peers via an online classroom experience. Students will conduct and complete a project demonstrating mastery of the program’s competencies. Students are required to complete a high-quality written product and presentation at the end of this course. | Fall 2023 |
| EPI 555 | Vaccine Design, Testing, & Implementation | The emergence of new pathogens, decreased uptake of vaccines in some populations, and increased transmission opportunities caused by globalization has led to a rising prevalence of new infectious diseases as well as reemergence of older diseases. In this course, students will learn basic immunology and infectious 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 2023 |
| EPI 806 | Bias and Validity in Epidemiology | This course is a doctoral-level seminar where students engage in discussions and debate about the concepts of bias and validity in epidemiology. The course will cover the theoretical basis of bias and confounding and its implications in practice. Students will perform quantitative bias analysis to explore its impact. The course will review the seminal as well as contemporary papers in bias and validity. Students will learn practical skills that are essential to any rigorous epidemiological investigation and can be used when applying for funding and conducting dissertation research. | Fall 2023 |
| ESTM 535 | Teaching Secondary Computer Science | This course emphasizes the major issues in learning and teaching computer science in the secondary school. Topics will include instructional practices, learning theories, philosophies of assessment, and curriculum in the secondary school. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on issues of equity and inclusion. Additional field-based experiences are required. | Fall 2023 |
| FASH 524 | Advanced Fashion Design in 3-D Space | This is an advanced level of Fashion Design in 3D Space. Students will work on special 3D Fashion projects and/or a self-directed project. | Fall 2023 |
| FASH 534 | Virtual Costume Design | Using 3D virtual design software, students create historic and futuristic 3D costume design to enhance a virtual story. Through historical costume research students will learn how to use costume design to develop narrative. This course is open to students across the University | Fall 2023 |
| FASH 655 | Advanced Machine Knitting | Advanced Machine Knitting is a further exploration into the software and machinery used in knit product production. Students will participate in all stages of product development from yarn and stitch selection, swatch sampling, gauge analysis, pattern writing, knitting output, and assembly methods. | Fall 2023 |
| HMP 558 | Organizational Stress through a Trauma-Informed Lens | This course prepares students to become knowledgeable and capable employees and managers. Regardless of where one works, the impact of chronic stress is inevitable, and the toll it takes on individuals as well as members of families and various communities is high. This course will focus on group dynamics and all that goes awry when organizations experience acute stress, traumatic experiences, and chronic stressful conditions. The course prepares students to understand the dynamics and impacts of organizational stress and develop ideas for responding to it when they are in management positions. | Fall 2023 |
| HMP 604 | Resource Allocation and Budgeting for Government and Non-Profits | his is a course in resource allocation and budgeting for non-profits and government. It is intended to give students an understanding on how budgets are created, what they mean, and how they reflect an organization’s values and mission. It is not a finance course. Students will be asked to read, analyze, discuss and create budgets within a larger context of planning, program development, and management in public health. | Fall 2023 |
| HMP 658 | Trauma-Informed Leadership | A paradigm shift is underway in understanding human beings and human groups and for want of a better term, this has become known as “trauma-informed” knowledge. The course integrates a knowledge base aimed at preparing leaders in any public health organization to create trauma-informed organizational cultures. This course is organized around key trauma-informed concepts and values embodied in using the word P.R.E.S.E.N.C.E as an acronym, with each letter representing two interconnected principles: Partnership and Power; Reverence and Restoration; Emotional Wisdom and Empathy; Safety and Social Responsibility; Embodiment and Enactment, Nature and Nurture, Culture and Complexity, and Emergence and Evolution. | Fall 2023 |
| IDM 602 | Validating Product Ideas | This course will teach students how to design, implement, and measure multichannel experiences with greater impact for customers, businesses, and society. | Fall 2023 |
| IDM 617 | User Research Methodologies | Understanding the user is the fundamental backbone of User Experience Design. This course will teach students how to construct, implement and analyze user interviews in a way that will allow them to gain deep insights into their target audience. | Fall 2023 |
| IDM 618 | Storytelling for User Experience Design | Students will learn how to use stories to understand the user, his/her goals and objectives, explain research, and describe design concepts. | Fall 2023 |
| IHS 518S | Human Skeleton | This course will examine the developmental, evolutionary, and functional biology of the human skeleton. We will identify bones and teeth from the human skeleton using photographs, 3-D models, and other online resources. This course provides a foundation for bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and human evolutionary studies as well as human anatomy. | Fall 2023 |
| INFO 609 | Accessible and Inclusive Design | Introduces students to the methods, standards, and principles for designing and evaluating interactive technologies for diverse users. Focuses on people not typically considered in technology design, including people with disabilities, children, the elderly, women, and people from other vulnerable populations. Offers students hands-on experience in designing and evaluating technologies for a broad spectrum of users, and invites students to reflect on the role of design in shaping a just society. Covers models of disability, assistive technology, universal design, accessible visual design, and web accessibility standards. Additional topics may include localization, technology and mental health, feminist HCI, technological racism, and related issues. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW 719S | Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Law | This course is designed to provide an overview of blockchain and cryptocurrency law. On the technology side, students will obtain a basic understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, current and anticipated blockchain use cases, and significant projects in the industry. Building off this learning, students will analyze and evaluate the way lawmakers and regulators are dealing with this cutting-edge technology in the U.S., particularly in the areas of securities law. Ethical and jurisdictional considerations will be discussed throughout as applied to the role of regulators and the courts evaluating the technology. Students will be introduced to blockchain business representatives as guest speakers, and will draft and present an analysis of a selected blockchain company. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW 789S | Genetics Law and Ethics | This seminar will explore key legal, ethical and policy issues in the collection, storage and use of genetic data. Genomics is revolutionizing health care as breakthrough technologies emerge at an accelerating pace in areas such as gene therapy, precision medicine and Crispr gene editing. Law and policy are struggling to keep up and strike a balance between nurturing this innovation and protecting privacy and other individual rights. The seminar will focus on the ways genetic science intersects with principles of health law and ethics in pursuit of this goal. Among the issues to be explored are duties of clinicians, patient rights, discrimination risks, eugenics, insurance underwriting, privacy threats, and property rights in data. | Fall Semester 2023 |
| LAW 805S | Public Interest Law and Policy | This course will explore the role of the public interest lawyer in social policy reform, including impact litigation and non-litigation advocacy. Teams of 2-3 students will choose an issue they care about, learn about advocacy strategies and, through role playing, research, and drafting, experience what they could do to address their chosen issue. The course will include pre-trial litigation and non-litigation exercises and activities (e.g., class action complaints, mock depositions, draft legislation, mock public testimony, draft settlement agreements...), lectures and class discussions on a wide range of issues. | Fall 2023 |
| LAW 875S | Litigation Legal Research | The goal of this course is to prepare law students for research in civil litigation practice. Students will learn how to use electronic and print resources to find, evaluate, and use primary and secondary sources to support each stage of the litigation process. Classes will contain an overview of research tools, explanations on how to use them effectively and efficiently, and assignments demonstrating their proper use. Grading is Credit/No Credit. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU I599 | Independent Study in LSTU | Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU I699 | Independent Study in LSTU | Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU I799 | Independent Study in LSTU | Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU I899 | Independent Study in LSTU | Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU I999 | Independent Study in LSTU | Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU T680 | Special Topics in Legal Studies | Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU T780 | Special Topics In Legal Studies | Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU T880 | Special Topics in Legal Studies | Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study. | Fall 2023 |
| LSTU T980 | Special Topics in Legal Studies | Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study. | Fall 2023 |
| MATE 595 | Synthesis of Functional Solids | Chemical and materials sciences have traditionally focused on understanding structure-property-performance relationships with the goal of predicting where the atoms should be placed to achieve a targeted property or process. Much less effort, however, has been directed toward a predictive science for synthesis – understanding how to get the atoms where they need to go to produce the desired structure. The course will provide an overview of the chemical methods used for the synthesis of inorganic functional materials and demonstrate how material properties change depending on the synthesis route. Content will be structured by the synthesis approach and practical material function. | Fall 2023 |
| MCAN 521S | Advanced Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer | The main goal of this advanced course is to provide an in-depth understanding of various topics in current cancer biology research. This course has been designed to expose students to the advanced concepts of cancer biology and the latest conceptual, technical and therapeutic discoveries. Students will become familiar with topics related to cancer biology, including cancer stem cells, cancer metabolism and cancer microenvironment, as well as with the basic cancer bioinformatics tools. The course is structured around a combination of lectures, readings, individual exercises, and small group exercises in a problem-oriented fashion. | Fall 2023 |
| MCAN 553S | Biochemistry of Cancer Therapeutics Discovery | This course will provide in-depth coverage of the development of cancer therapeutics, with a special emphasis on the key role of biochemistry at each stage. Biochemical knowledge and skills are required from the early identification of a cancer therapeutic target and hit compounds, through hit-to-lead optimization, to establishing preclinical “absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity” profiles (ADMET) for lead compounds. Discussion of emerging areas in therapeutic design and case studies, both from literature and on-going research programs, will be included to give context to the lecture series. | Fall 2023 |
| MCAN 554S | Current Topics in Cell Biology | The main goal of this advanced course is to provide a comprehensive analysis of various topics in cell biology. This course has been designed to introduce students to the advanced concepts of cell biology. The scope of this course includes but not limited to: signaling, DNA repair, innate immunity, RNA processing, aging, and apoptosis. This course is based on historical and current research results and incorporates historical and recent conceptual breakthroughs and methods in the field of cell biology. The course is structured around a combination of lectures, readings, individual exercises and small group exercises in a problem-oriented fashion. | Fall 2023 |
| MCAN 560S | Practicum in Molecular Basis of Cancer | This course will enable students to conduct research in their specific field of interest related to molecular basis of cancer. It consists of an independent project that the student wish to pursue in their career and is under the supervision of an expert in the field outside of Drexel University College of Medicine. Students can choose benchwork, literature-based research, or development of new technical advances in their specific fields of interest. | Fall 2023 |
| MCBG 515S | Techniques in Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics | This course is designed to teach students essential strategies and techniques in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Genetics, with a goal of preparing students to understand the techniques used in modern primary literature and their own research. The course is structured around a combination of readings, lectures, individual exercises and small group exercises in a problem-oriented fashion. The course will emphasize practical applications of applied Molecular and Cellular Biology and Genetics, including experimental design and choice of techniques. | Fall 2023 |
| MIIM 571S | Cell and Gene Therapy 1 | Explores the concepts of cell and gene therapy including types and strategies; choice of the therapeutic target; viral and non-viral vectors; barriers to gene delivery; ethics; genotoxicity and immunological considerations for cell and gene therapy; and managing adverse results from concept to delivery, including alternative preclinical models. Developing a therapeutic from preclinical to market, and case studies of cell and gene therapies on the market will be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| MIIM 572S | Cell and Gene Therapy 2 | Explores gene therapy strategies such as gene silencing, gene editing, stem cells and tissue regeneration, autologous cell therapy, and gene therapy for cancer, ocular, neurodegenerative, metabolic, liver, cardiovascular, skeletal muscle, and other conditions. The future of cell and gene therapy including the current status and limitations of gene therapy treatments will be discussed. | Fall 2023 |
| MIIM 573S | Regulatory Affairs for Cell and Gene Therapy 1 | Explores cell and gene regulatory affairs from pre-clinical IND-enabling studies to product licensure. The course is designed to introduce the historical basis for and continuing evolution of gene therapy regulations in response to patient safety events, emerging technologies, and product type. Content will be presented to educate students on the overall product development and approval process, including research and analysis methods, regulatory agency interactions, and the CTD (Common Technical Document) structure. | Fall 2023 |
| MIIM 574S | Regulatory Affairs for Cell and Gene Therapy 2 | Explores cell and gene regulatory affairs from product licensure and into post-approval life cycle management, post-approval change reporting categories, accelerated approval mechanisms, managing agency inspections, and international market requirements for cell and gene regulatory affairs. Specific focus will be on developing skills in formulating regulatory strategies from a scientific, risk-based approach by exploring hypothetical scenarios a regulatory affairs professional may encounter. | Fall 2023 |
| MIIM 620S | Advanced Omics | Recent advances in molecular biology and computational achievements have generated an explosion of data that surveys biological processes on a massive scale. Collectively referred to as ‘omics scale data, these techniques have revolutionized our ability to explore complex phenotypes in microbiology & immunology. This course covers the history, application, and computational analysis of ‘omics scale data and provides hands-on analysis experience. | Fall 2023 |
| MUSL 620 | Sustainable Cultural Practices | This course will examine sustainable practices at the leadership level in museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Through readings and case examples, students investigate green and sustainable practices in museums, arts, and cultural organizations. Students will design a program to initiate green practice within a museum, presenting it during the final class for feedback from peers in a supportive and co-creative manner. | Fall 2023 |
| MUSL 690 | Culturally Responsive Museums | This course will examine community-responsive and culturally-specific museums in the United States. Through readings and case examples, students investigate these unique museums and the communities they serve. Students will perform site visits to three culturally-specific museums, observe the practices of three museums, and maintain a reflective journal of their experiences. | Fall 2023 |
| NEUR 610S | Graduate Neuroscience III | There are 2 modules covering cellular and circuit neurophysiology, and Systems and Behavioral neuroscience. The lectures given by experts in the field build on the basics covered in Graduate Neuroscience I and provide in depth detail on aspects of cellular physiology and behavioral studies. Lectures cover fundamental concepts, experimental design, data interpretation and analysis and identify gaps in the respective fields. | Fall 2023 |
| NEUR 611S | Advanced Neuroscience | In this course, students will research a topic in systems and behavioral neuroscience that is outside of the immediate area of their thesis project. Students will be guided through integrating this knowledge into an original review paper. Therefore, in addition to learning about a topic related to (yet distinct from) their thesis project, they will learn how to write and critique review papers for a professional scientific journal, going through the submission, editorial, and revision processes. This course will consist of lectures, discussions, and one-on-one meetings. | Fall 2023 |
| NFS 660 | Capstone Project in Nutrition and Dietics | Completion of a scholarly project in the form of a program evaluation, quality improvement project, comprehensive literature review, or research project. Requires review of the literature, project design, conduct of the project and presentation of the results. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 601 | Introduction to Data Science for Psychology | This course is a high-level introduction to data science for psychology graduate students. It is designed for students without previous programming experience to develop basic literacy and comfort with data science. The course will cover rudimentary programming skills in three languages that are commonly used in graduate-level academic research in psychology and neuroscience (R, Python, and MATLAB). By gaining a foundational understanding of key programming concepts and practicing with basic syntax and skills in multiple (similar) programming languages, students will feel prepared to take graduate-level data science and statistics courses in which basic programming skills are assumed. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 680 | Data Analysis in Psychology I | The purpose of this course is to acquaint Masters students in Psychology with the problems confronted by the social scientist in creating and working with a numerical database, including some coverage of the use of computers in calculating both parametric and non-parametric statistics. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 681 | Data Analysis in Psychology II | The purpose of this course is to acquaint Masters students in Psychology with the advanced statistical tools most frequently used in clinical psychology research. The class will give you a basic theoretical background in the procedure, and it will familiarize you with computer-based analysis. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 682 | Data Analysis in Psychology III | The purpose of this course is to acquaint Masters students in Psychology with advanced statistical tools most frequently used in psychological research. The class will give you a basic theoretical background on the procedures, and it will familiarize you with computer-based analysis. Emphasis will be placed on the application and interpretation of statistics. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 709 | Data Analysis in Psychology I | The purpose of this course is to acquaint PhD students in Psychology with problems confronted by the social scientist in creating and working with a numerical database, including some coverage of the use of computers in calculating both parametric and non- parametric statistics. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 742 | Neuropsychological Case Analysis and Integration | Reviews the analysis of neuropsychological data, including the integration of historical, interview, behavioral, and formal assessment data. Emphasizes integrating traditional interview and observation techniques and the ability to conceptualize actual clinical cases in oral and written form. | Fall 2023 |
| PSY 809 | Statistical Programming and Modeling with R for Psychology | This course provides an introduction to applied statistical modeling with R in psychology. It covers R basics including how to program in R, writing R functions, debugging and organizing R codes. In addition, students will learn foundational data science tools, such as data cleaning, data visualization,creating reproducible data analysis reports, and building interactive web applications. Examples and data will be provided to illustrate how to conduct effective data analysis using R. Advanced statistical modeling tools will be discussed including linear models, logistic regression, Poisson regression, and models for data with a zero-inflated distribution. Step-by-step tutorials on how these analyses can be conducted using R will be provided. No previous experience of using R is required. | Fall 2023 |
| RMER 535 | Retail Lifestyle Product Forecasting | Retail Lifestyle Product Forecasting is a course that will help adult learners understand how retailers predict the products that we purchase. Using the ideas of forecasting, analysis and popular culture, students will learn what retail businesses look for to obtain economic success. | Fall 2023 |
| RMER 585 | The Inclusive Retail Leader | This course will engage learners in diverse idea-generation approaches for retail management and how to apply them. Learners will shift away from linear retail leadership thinking and engage in the process of creativity. Learning activities will also explore how creativity and motivation drive this development. An inclusive retail leader needs to understand the importance of professional relationships, networking, and how to establish and manage a local and global workforce. | Fall 2023 |
| TVMN 615 | Diversity in Media Management | Inclusion must not become a buzzword or a box to check. It must be a practice television and media management professionals exercise intentionally, not only through the voices shared on the screen, but also in the voices heard throughout the content creation process. This class examines how television management professionals can make decisions in a thoughtfully inclusive way. The course examines historical context and current initiatives within the media industry to help television and media management leaders develop creative and practical solutions to promote greater diversity, equity, and inclusivity. | Fall 2023 |
| WEST T580 | Special Topics in WEST Studies | This course focuses on topics of current interest to faculty and students; specific topics for each term will be announced prior to registration. | Fall 2023 |
| WEST T680 | Special Topics in WEST Studies | This course focuses on topics of current interest to faculty and students; specific topics for each term will be announced prior to registration. | Fall 2023 |
