Catalog Supplement

This catalog supplement is provided to give a brief overview of the new programs and courses that have been approved since the 2023-2024 catalog was published.

(updated March 27, 2024)

New Undergraduate Programs

Program College Description Requirements Effective Term
Crime Analysis and Digital Investigations College of Arts and Sciences The minor in Crime Analysis and Digital Investigations is a course of study that focuses on the analytics of crime and data-driven investigations. It recognizes the importance of “big” data when it comes to the commission, detection, and prevention of crime and the identification of those responsible for criminal acts. Students completing the minor will be ideally suited to meet the demands of the growing job market for crime, fraud, and security analysts among criminal justice, defense, and intelligence agencies and in the private-sector security community. Fall 2024

New Graduate Programs

Program College Description Requirements Effective Term
Archives and Curation Post-Bacc Certificate College of Computing & Informatics Prepares students in acquisition, appraisal, arrangement and description, Curation, reference, outreach, and technology in archives. It also prepares students to address legal, ethical, cultural, and policy issues in archives while selecting and organizing materials in trusted repositories. Fall 2024
Applied Learning, Leadership and Innovation EdS School of Education This program is designed to prepare emerging leaders with the advanced knowledge, skills, and innovative strategies to excel in their field. Students enrolled in the EdS program will complete a series of core courses focused on key subjects including educational leadership, innovation, research, and evaluation. The program experience culminates with an applied Capstone project where students draw on the concepts and skills developed through the program. Fall 2024
Metadata and Digital Technologies Post-Bacc Certificate College of Computing & Informatics Prepares students to work with the organization, categorization, and retrieval of digital resources in a variety of professional settings. The certificate introduces students to metadata functions and schemes, information architecture theories and practices, digital library technologies, data curation, and digital stewardship. Fall Term
Public Policy Graduate Minor College of Arts and Sciences Provides students with a foundation in the American policy process, applied practice in policy research, analysis and nonprofit management. Fall 2024
Teaching Certification: Teacher Residency Post-Bacc Certificate School of Education Drexel University has partnered with public and select charter schools to develop a year-long, classroom-based teacher certification hybrid program. The Teacher Residency Program interviews and accepts exceptional and highly qualified candidates to enroll in Drexel's graduate-level teacher education courses. Accepted students serve as a Teacher Resident who work daily within a partnering school for a full year with a trained Mentor Teacher. Teacher residents work side-by-side with their Mentors to develop the skills needed to run a successful classroom. Teacher residents learn how to develop and deliver lessons, grow student engagement, manage time and classroom behavior, among many other skills that go into teaching. Fall 2024
Users and Library Services College of Computing & Informatics Provides students with an understanding of how diverse groups of people seek and use information in a range of contexts and introduces students to information services in libraries and other information organizations. Fall 2024

New Undergraduate Courses

Course No. Title Description Effective Term
AFAS 221 Freedom, Medicine and Slavery Covering the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this course examines the history of medicine alongside the history of slavery from Africa to the Americas and traces the continuing presence of African diasporic knowledge and practices against the transformation of white "men of science" into modern physicians and specialists. Fall 2024
AFAS 222 Freedom, Medicine and Slavery's Afterlives Covering from the end of the American Civil War to present, this course examines the history of medicine in the United States, focusing on the contributions of African and African-descended peoples to western medicine alongside the continuing presence of African diasporic knowledge and practices into the era of the modern hospital and medical industrial complex. Fall 2024
AFAS 307 History of Education and Anti-Colonial Resistance Fall 2024
BMES 407 Techniques in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Provides training and experiences for skills relating to Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in a hands-on laboratory setting. The course addresses cellular work in 3D scaffolds and histological techniques, as well as assays and experience quantifying experimental data in the field. Fall 2024
BSAN 261 Data Visualization for Business Analytics Data visualization enables business analysts to understand and present deeper and better insights into their businesses. These insights allow for greater managerial understanding and improvement in the quality of business decisions. This course is designed for students learning to use data visualization in business analytics, regardless of their technical or analytical backgrounds. Students will learn the fundamentals of data visualizations and the strengths and weaknesses of various visualizations. They will progress to learning to use data visualization software to conduct basic data analytics within an organization to support decision making, strategy formulation and operational improvements. Fall 2024
CIVE 411 Advanced Steel Design Covers a variety of special topics in steel design including (i) plate girders, (ii) composite beams, (iii) frame analysis and design (i.e., summation of P concept and direct analysis method), (iv) special connection detailing (e.g., moment connections and gusset plates), (v) beam, column, and frame bracing, (vi) fatigue and fracture. Fall 2024
CULA 230 Garden to Table Cooking This course uses a variety of culinary platforms, rather than recipes, to teach students to cook sustainably from the available harvest of the season with a goal of full product utilization or root-to-leaf eating. A variety of moist and dry heat cooking methods and preservation techniques will be incorporated. The class consists of readings, discussions, hands-on cooking activities, and guest demonstrations. Fall 2024
DANC 223 Dance Pedagogy I: Foundations of Dance Pedagogy This course explores the theoretical foundations for dance teaching and learning. Teaching methodologies and practices will be developed through academic and embodied coursework. Fall 2024
DANC 323 Dance Pedagogy II: Dance Education for Children and Youth Fall 2024
DANC 423 Dance Pedagogy III: Dance Education for Adolescents and Adults This course explores the theoretical and practical issues surrounding dance teaching and learning for adolescents, adults and senior adults in secondary education, private studio and community engaged settings. Fall 2024
DSMR 319 Beauty Merchandising & Marketing Learn how beauty products are developed, merchandised, packaged and marketed. This course will cover the history of the industry, iconic brands, and walk through the process of product ideation, development/testing, merchandising and distribution. Students will understand the importance of packaging & presentation. Fall 2024
DSMR 332 Product Styling for Digital Commerce Student teams will combine their knowledge of photography and merchandising to understand and execute photo shoots for a broad range of ecommerce categories including apparel, beauty, footwear, jewelry, home décor, food, and electronics. The course with culminate with a photoshoot; conceptualized and created from start to finish. Fall 2024
ECE 413 Neuromorophic Computing This course will cover the principles of neuromorphic computing. Topics will cover 1) fundamentals of spiking neural network (SNN), which mimics the computation in mammalian brain; 2) supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms for SNN; 3) novel applications of SNN, including in vision and time series processing; 4) architectures for implementing SNN in hardware, aka neuromorphic hardware; 5) introduction to non-volatile memory technologies to implement synaptic processing in neuromorphic hardware; 6) software stacks for neuromorphic computing; and 7) design challenges in dependable neuromorphic computing. Fall 2024
ECON 380 Economic Crises: The American Experience The course combines economics, politics, and history to get a wide (but by no means comprehensive) view of the issues, politics, and events that have shaped the course of the US economy for the last 100+ years. Fall 2024
ENGL 230 Jewish Humor in Literature and Film Fall 2024
ENGL 250 Intro to Digital Humanities Fall 2024
ENTP 365 Navigating Ownership: Exploring 21st Century Organizational Models In the fast-paced world of innovative enterprise, entrepreneurs must understand ownership structures. This course offers a practical experience that will equip you with knowledge necessary to make informed decisions on your entrepreneurial journey. An ownership model determines how the business is owned, managed, and controlled, and governs the relationship between the business and its owners, employees, customers, and other stakeholders. You will delve into traditional structures, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, corporations, franchises, and family enterprises, as well as more modern organizational forms including b-corporations, ESOPs, and worker-owned cooperatives. Guided by readings, case studies, and guest lectures, you will examine the benefits and challenges associated with each. Fall 2024
ESL 005 Reading and Vocabulary I In order to get somewhere, you need to know where you are going. In "Novel Writing Intensive" we will build a novel, writing 4,500 words a week to get the full scope of the project down to set you on a path for a solid first draft and revision process. As it is difficult to revise Chapter 1 without knowing the last chapter, this class aims to prepare students with a complete working draft to start their thesis journey. The class readings will explore the first chapters of classic and contemporary novels to assess the choices made by writers when building these worlds and characters. Reflective practice is built in to cultivate the habits of purposeful writing and making choices to support your novel's development. A faculty student one-on-one will offer personalized guidance on the novel and its growth. Fall 2024
ESL 006 Writing and Grammar I Writing and Grammar level 1 is an introductory English as a second language course (CEFR Level A1), which is designed to introduce students to basic grammar and sentences. Fall 2024
ESL 025 Reading and Vocabulary II This course is designed to prepare students to read basic texts related to everyday life. Successful completion of this course is necessary to enroll in the next level. Fall 2024
ESL 026 Writing and Grammar II This course is designed to prepare students to write basic discourse using simple and progressive tenses. Fall 2024
ESL 029 Writing and Grammar III This course is designed to prepare students to write short paragraphs using simple and progressive tenses. Fall 2024
ESL 039 Reading and Vocabulary III This course is designed to prepare students to read and comprehend topics related to everyday life. Successful completion of this course is necessary to enroll in the next level.  Fall 2024
ESL088 Application Process Application Process is an intermediate to advanced course that provides instruction on how to apply to a U.S. college or university. International students who are nonnative speakers of English are the target audience. This 4-week online course is designed for Oman Ministry of Higher Education scholarship recipients and is not part of any degree program. Fall 2024
ESL 089 Writing for the Application This is an intermediate to advanced course that provides instruction in writing personal narrative essays for applying to colleges and universities. This course is designed to introduce content development strategies as well as essay analysis and writing proficiency that can transfer to improved personal narrative writing skills. Fall 2024
ESL 096 Technology and Digital Literacy Academic Fulbright Program This hands-on course walks participants through the different phases of research and helps them utilize technological software applications to help with and enrich each research phase of a given project – whether that be a presentation on a teaching skill or a research paper on specified subject content. This course will develop and refine skills with the use of tools that aid in deep brainstorming, organizing ideas, organizing and storing references, accurately formatting references, visualizing data, storytelling and collaborating – all skills that will play a key role in scholars’ Fulbright journeys. Fall 2024
ESL 097 Research and Writing Course Academic Fulbright Program This course will develop participants’ skills in research and writing required for graduate level work. The theme is The Bill of Rights and participants are required to: brainstorm multidisciplinary topic areas for research; create research questions; develop primary research protocols (i.e. questionnaires); research secondary sources through web-based research methods; synthesize research; write a paper in groups (approximately 5-7 pages) describing the research design and significant findings, and display the concept of their project for a viewing audience from the Drexel University community. Fall 2024
ESL 098 Communicating Effectively in the American Classroom This course focuses on developing participants’ skills for communicating effectively in the U.S. graduate classroom, in particular participating in the forms of oral language such as that needed for understanding lectures, interacting in and leading class discussions, and making academic presentations. Fall 2024
ESL 099 Challenges in American Culture This course uses readings, interactive discussions, role-plays, and other methods to address both immediate and longer-term acculturation concerns. The first focus is participants’ immediate needs regarding health and wellness, safety, housing, and transportation. Initial sessions will also cover foreign student rights in the U.S., healthcare and resources, and J-visa responsibilities. Fall 2024
FASH 205 Fashion and Culture This course delves into the exploration of the social and psychological dimensions of appearance and the human body, shedding light on their role in shaping hierarchies of privilege and power within the realm of fashion design. Fall 2024
FASH 304 Materials Exploration This course examines the relationship of fibers, processes and textile creation and form as it relates to the body. Fall 2024
FASH 335 History of Costume I: Preclassical to 1800 Traces the rise of Western costume from the ancient world through 1800, including political, economic, and social influence on aesthetic development in dress. Fall 2024
FASH 336 History of Costume II: 1800-1920 Traces the history of costume from 1800 through 1920, including the political, economic, and social influence on aesthetic development in dress. Fall 2024
FASH 337 History of Costume III: 1920 to Present Examines fashion and dress trends from 1920 through the 21st century within their sociocultural, political, and economic contexts. The course also explores how globalization, technology, and mass media impact the aesthetics of dress. Fall 2024
FDSC 306 Food Composition & Behavior This course examines the composition of foods, and chemical and physical changes in food components that occur during food preparation and processing. Fall 2024
FMTV 101 Production Safety This course introduces first-year students to safety policy and protocols to be followed for all Cinema & Television production courses. Fall 2024
FOOD 302 Culinary Medicine Examines basic principles of applied culinary medicine and teaches students to integrate nutrition and culinary knowledge and skills to prevent and support treatment of chronic illness. Fall 2024
FYE 113 Academic and Career Exploration This course is designed to help students explore, discover, and refine academic and career interests and goals. Through active involvement in this class, students will explore campus culture, Drexel’s academic offerings, the role of academics and interests outside of the classroom and the philosophies of a college education, its roles, and its purposes. Students will also make progress towards establishing and refining academic and career goals. Falll 2024
GMAP 214 Concept Art for Games Introduces students to the process of designing and creating concept art for games as part of the overall development pipeline. Using a variety of techniques including sketching, photo and kit-bashing, and overpainting, students will learn to ideate and communicate concepts and prepare materials for subsequent stages of asset production. Fall 2024
GMAP 321 Advanced Game Playtesting In this course students will play the role of a game user researcher (GUR) and learn how to conduct more advanced and rigorous playtests and how to run professional-quality studies that support a better understanding of player behavior and identify usability issues. Students will develop and run a study using an existing game project. Fall 2024
GMAP 363 Architecture & Game Level Design This course is an interdisciplinary look at the overlap between architecture and game-level design. Students will engage with the construction of interactive spaces in both the physical and game worlds using form, space, and color to design virtual environments to guide players, tell stories, facilitate actions, and evoke emotions. Fall 2024
GMAP 464 Audio for Games This course is an advanced introduction into the use of industry standard middleware tools and game engine for designing game audio. Fall 2024
GST 105 Introduction to Research in Global Studies This course will introduce students to the main tools of research methods utilized in Global Studies and other social science fields. As different methodological approaches are used in Global Studies to address different research questions, the methodological focus of this course will vary from one term another. Students may be introduced to ethnography, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, survey design, or mixed methods approach. The course may be offered more than once a year with different research foci. Fall 2024
GST 200 Current Topics in Global Studies This course will cover contemporary issues in Global Studies. The topics covered in this course will change from quarter to quarter and will often be offered in collaboration with other departments on campus. Fall 2024
GST 300 Advanced Topics in Global Studies This course will cover contemporary issues in Global Studies. The topics covered in this course will change from quarter to quarter and will often be offered in collaboration with other departments on campus. Fall 2024
HIST 210 Freedom, Medicine, and Slavery Covering the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this course examines the history of medicine alongside the history of slavery from Africa to the Americas and traces the continuing presence of African diasporic knowledge and practices against the transformation of white "men of science" into modern physicians and specialists. Fall 2024
HIST 211 Freedom, Medicine, and Slavery's Afterlife Covering from the end of the American Civil War to present, this course examines the history of medicine in the United States, focusing on the contributions of African and African-descended peoples to western medicine alongside the continuing presence of African diasporic knowledge and practices into the era of the modern hospital and medical industrial complex. Fall 2024
HIST 307 History of Education and Anti-Colonial Resistance This course will explore historically complex moments in the history of education and the resistance forces that emerged during liberation struggles across the globe. Students in this class will engage with a critically historical study on the history and process of education that will allow us to think and reflect on educational experiences and also to think, imagine and develop possible strategies and praxis of the revolutionary pedagogy for liberation and decolonization. Some topics that will be approached in this course are 1) the theory of the hidden curriculum, 2) education under colonial and oppressive regimes, 3) social and political movements' educational practices, 4) their transnational approaches, and 5) historical ideas of learning, talent, opportunity and human difference. Fall 2024
HNRS 435 Philadelphia Civic Experience This course provides students with an opportunity to merge the foundational theories and concepts of civic engagement and democratic participation learned within their Honors Civic Foundations coursework with praxis through collaboration with a Philadelphia-based civic organization. Fall 2024
HNRS 455 Honors Reflection Seminar Throughout this course, students will explore their time at Drexel, reflect on their lived experience, and learning. The class will begin with an introduction to, and practice of, reflection. This provides the student with the opportunity to pause and digest their learning and growth Fall 2024
HSAD 364 Interprofessional Group Dynamics in Healthcare This course focuses on the basic concepts of team formation and development, successful teamwork, and the importance of inter-professional teamwork and collaboration in today’s healthcare environment. Fall 2024
HSCI 206 Human Anatomy and Physiology for Health Sciences I This course is a general study of the structures and physiology of the human body. Fundamental concepts of microscopic tissue structure, gross structures of organs and body system organization are taught. The course consists of both lecture and lab material. The lecture portion deals with the general principles and clinical relevance. In the lab, the student participates with practical examination of microscopic sections, tissues and organs, and the anatomical layout of human cadavers. The cell, tissues and musculoskeletal system will be covered in this course, as well as muscle and nerve physiology. Fall 2024
HSCI 207 Human Anatomy and Physiology for Health Sciences II This course is a general study of the structures and physiology of the human body. Fundamental concepts of microscopic tissue structure, gross structures of organs and body system organization are taught. The course consists of online lab and lecture material. The nervous, endocrine and digestive system will be covered. Fall 2024
HSCI 208 Human Anatomy and Physiology for Health Sciences III This course is the third of three lecture and laboratory courses that present a general study of human anatomy and physiology, including microscopic and gross anatomy observation. The course is designed as a foundational course for students pursuing a profession in the Health Sciences. In laboratory experiences, students examine anatomical models and specimens from human cadavers, conduct experiments, and apply knowledge learned in group discussions. Topics of the course include the cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, urinary, electrolyte balance, and reproductive systems. Fall 2024
JWST 230 Jewish Humor in Literature and Film This course explores the unique role of Jewish humor in literature and film in the 20th and 21st centuries in relationship to aspects of Jewish life ranging from assimilation to antisemitism, through a selection of novels, short stories, essays, plays, and film. Some of the authors whose works we may discuss and analyze include Philip Roth, Neil Simon, and Melissa Broder in addition to filmmakers such as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, the Coen Brothers, and Sasha Baron Cohen. Fall 2024
JWST 330 The Bible as Literature This course provides a close reading of selected books of the Old and New Testaments alongside selected literary works to discover both the literary qualities of these texts and their influence on literature. Fall 2024
JWST 350 Jewish Health and Medical Ethics This course offers resources for and approaches to Jewish biomedical and health ethics. We will examine Jewish positions on such topics as abortion, medical decisions at the end of life, advance directives, transplantation, reproductive technologies, and allocation of health care resources, considering the role of Jewish texts, values, and ethics in addressing contemporary health and medicine.  We will consider what role the history of antisemitism plays in modern considerations around Jewish bodies, paying particular attention to Nazi medical experimentation and the use of those studies in contemporary times.  We will look at the long history of antisemitism in the depiction of Jewish bodies and Jewish practice, considering what role these depictions have played in medical considerations. Fall 2024
JWST 377 Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah Students will examine the origins and development of Kabbalah, and will explore a wide range of subjects from the perspective of various Kabbalistic sources. Topics to be covered include: the origins of existence, the soul and its purpose, life and death, reincarnation, angels and demons, meditation, freedom of choice, human strengths and weaknesses. Fall 2024
MATE 426 Materials for Additive Manufacturing This course addresses additive manufacturing (AM) from a materials science and engineering perspective. Processing, structure, property relationships will be examined for metals, polymers, and ceramics as well as composites used in additive manufacturing. Fall 2024
MEM 260 Thinking Like a Mechanical Engineer Covers introductory data gathering, presentation, evaluation, and analysis. Students will acquire logic and programming skills by using spreadsheets and engineering analysis software tools. In-class assignments, mini-design problems, hands-on experiments, and computer-based activities are used to work with data and collaboratively solve more difficult problems that lead them to think like a mechanical engineer. Fall 2024
MEM 261 Introduction to Mechatronics for Mechanical Engineers Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles of mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science, and control theory to design and build automated systems. Students will learn in the intersection between hardware elements (i.e., sensors, actuators, and microprocessors) and software elements (i.e., software and control theory) and create their own mechatronics device. Fall 2024
MEM 360 Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering Design The course will cover numerical methods such as roots of equations, linear algebraic equations, systems of nonlinear equations, optimization, curve fitting, integration, and differential equations. Python will be used as a programming language. Fall 2024
MIP 212 Advanced Game Playsetting In this course students will play the role of a game user researcher (GUR) and learn how to conduct more advanced and rigorous playtests and how to run professional-quality studies that support a better understanding of player behavior and identify usability issues. Students will develop and run a study using an existing game project. Fall 2024
MIP 280 Record Label Operations This course is a general overview of record label operations including the different roles at labels, different types of labels, and how the role of labels have changed over time. Fall 2024
MIP 282 Streaming and Radio Promotion This course provides an overview of how radio and music streaming is used in record promotion and artist development and includes both theory and practical applications. Fall 2024
MIP 283 Community Recording Community Recording is an enterprise designed to foster empowerment and self-expression through music. It brings members of the Mantua, Powelton, and Drexel communities together to create a sustainable creative collective that produces and releases music and shares knowledge and techniques. Fall 2024
MIP 418 Audio for Media II This course will present advanced concepts and techniques utilized for creating post-production audio for video, television, and film. Students will also explore other current and future media, such as gaming and VR/XR/MR (virtual reality, extended reality, and mixed reality). Fall 2024
MIP 470 Music Industry Colloquium Students will be exposed to state-of-the-art research and industry experience from practitioners and researchers from the local and national stage. This course requires weekly participation in the department colloquium. Fall 2024
MIP 483 Mastering This course explores the various technical processes involved in professional audio mastering, including dynamic range control, spectral balancing, distortion, and noise detection. Fall 2024
MIP 490 Music Industry Research Methods This course is a general overview of research methods used in the music industry. The course presents a conceptual basis for designing research and assessing research quality and illustrates these concepts through in-depth reviews of research areas, including (1) qualitative studies, (2) surveys and (3) experiments. The course also touches on basic descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and measures of association. Fall 2024
MIS 368 Enterprise Cloud Systems Management Cloud computing offers organizations elastic, fine-grained, on-demand, pay-for-use computing resources, such as CPU power, memory, storage, or data transfer. The flexibility of the cloud allows customers to scale system capacities rapidly up or down, which entails lower computing expenses than with fixed, internally maintained resources. Enterprise cloud systems also foster resilience by enabling quicker deployment of new systems to support rapid changes in organizational processes and missions. This course focuses on the business and IT-related aspects of cloud computing and includes direct experience with the cloud services of one or more leading providers. Fall 2024
PHTO 120 Film Photography I A lecture-laboratory course in black-and-white photography. This class works to develop visual literacy and a comprehensive understanding of the camera and darkroom. Fall 2024
PHTO 220 Film Photography II Fall 2024
PHTO 224 Studio Lighting Techniques Fall 2024
PROD 212 Intro to Product Design This course introduces students to basic product design techniques. It combines lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and problem-solving exercises exploring product design as a creative process in the production of simple objects. Fall 2024
PROD 211 Form Studio This course is the basic introduction to the study of form and abstract visual relationships. It explores the issues concerning the organization of multiple elements of a 3-dimensional composition and form as it relates to the natural world. Its emphasis is on the abstract, rather than the literal, to remove stereotypical object identification. Fall 2024
SOC 339 Sociology of the Countryside This course examines the environmental and social role of rural communities. While cities seem to dominate modern social life, a significant proportion of the world’s population live and work in rural regions. In this course we will compare and contrast between rural and urban varieties of environmental concern and activism around regional environmental problems, like heatwaves or clean energy needs. Fall 2024
SOC 348 Plastics in Society This course examines the issues caused by the proliferation of plastics in society, using a social science approach. We will begin by reading research revealing how plastic waste and pollution harm ecosystems and nonhuman species and pose risks to human health. Fall 2024
SYSE 401 Introduction to Systems Engineering This course covers the complete system engineering process, touching on the many facets of engineering systems from needs and requirements generation to production to system operation. Students will learn to apply the systems processes and acquire skills to integrate user needs, manage requirements, conduct technological evaluation and build elaborate systems architectures. Fall 2024
WRIT 308 Writing Your Novel A fiction writing workshop that focuses on beginning the process of writing a novel. Its purpose is to help students develop their skill in creating their own fictional narratives. In addition, students will develop their skill as critical readers of fiction. Fall 2024

New Graduate Courses

Course No. Title Description Effective Term
ABA 637 Behaviorism: History, Theory and Philosophy This course will introduce students to the philosophy of behaviorism, theoretical approaches to understanding behavior, and an understanding of the history, principles, and dimensions of behavior analysis as a science. Students will learn to distinguish between the different forms of behaviorism; the experimental analysis of behavior and applied behavior analysis; and to identify the hallmarks of professional practice that are guided by behavior analytic theory and philosophy. Fall 2024
ABA 643 Behavior Change Through Consultation with Individuals and Systems This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively consult with education, mental health and behavioral health staff working in various settings as well as entire systems, in particular, schools as a whole. The course is designed to familiarize students with theories and models of an indirect-service delivery model that result in adult behavior change and the procedures and processes used. Students will be expected to apply the knowledge acquired through the consultative process and with a consultee. Fall 2024
ABA 731 Research Methods and Practice This course is designed to provide the student with advanced knowledge and intensive instruction in direct observation methods and within-subjects experimental designs. Students will learn the concepts, methods, and issues related to identifying and systematically evaluating functional relationships between environmental and behavioral variables. Topics will include: independent and dependent variables, the distinction between within- and between-subject research designs, selection of and the relative strengths and threats related to the various within-subject designs, issues related to reliability and validity, data collection and analysis techniques, procedural fidelity, and other ethical and professional practice issues. Fall 2024
BLAW 621 Legal Issues in Business Analyzes laws governing business transactions, relationships and organizations with a focus on ethical issues, legally enforceable contracts, employee/employer rights and duties, intellectual property, marketing law and legal issues surrounding data privacy. Related areas of the legal environment of various business disciplines will also be covered. Fall 2024
CFTP 701 Advanced Clinical Experience and Professionalism The purpose of this course is to 1) provide administrative oversight of students' pre-internship clinical experience, 2) support students in informing their research skill building in conjunction with clinical practice, and 3) guide students in professional development as emerging scientist-practitioners. Fall 2024
CFTP 723 Advanced Trauma in Couple and Family Therapy: Evidence-Based Approaches and Outcomes This course provides an extensive overview of contemporary evidence-based models for treating trauma, with a focus on research implications. Fall 2024
CFTP 727 Advanced Multicultural Considerations in Systemic Practice and Research: Theoretical Approaches This course develops multicultural cultural awareness and competency in working with diverse couple and family systems, with a focus on theoretical conceptualization. Comparative analysis of both seminal and postmodern theories (e.g., critical race theory, feminist theories, intersectionality) of family interaction and development will be explored. Fall 2024
CFTP 749 Leadership in Couple and Family Therapy This course introduces students to leadership theory and practice within the context of couple and family therapy. Fall 2024
CHP 515 Maternal Health: Problem Solving This course is focused on understanding the key drivers related to maternal mortality, drawing on insights from public health, medicine, sociology, and policy. Students will understand the importance of addressing complex social and structural factors that contribute to maternal mortality, while also highlighting the potential for effective interventions to improve maternal health outcomes. Fall 2024
CHP 662 Case Studies in Global Health This course is designed around specific case studies in global health, highlighting themes related to ethics and monitoring and evaluation. The course intends to holistically present how global health interventions are designed and measured, and the challenges, ambiguities and values embedded in how global health programs are implemented, recognizing the need to decolonize global health approaches, and recognize cultural diversity and social and economic inequities amid the broad scope of global health concerns. Fall 2024
CIT 507 Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness Meditation is a powerful technique that helps to promote health and well-being of the mind, body and spirit. Mindfulness practices reduce the negative effects of stress and improve focus and awareness in order to help one live a more meaningful life. This course explores the neuroscience and physiology of Mindfulness Meditation. Through weekly experientials students cultivate a personal practice for effective stress management, resilience and reflections rooted in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques. Fall 2024
CIVE 545 Pavement Materials and Design Covers the recent design for flexible and rigid pavements, and innovation in sustainable pavement materials; stress-strain in pavement; soils and aggregates; geosynthetics; Asphalt Cement (AC) and Asphalt Cement Concrete (ACC) materials; Portland Cement Concrete (PCC); the pavement mechanistic-empirical (M-E) design approach; distress models; pavement rehabilitation design; sustainable pavement design and materials. Fall 2024
CIVE 639 Applied Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering Provides the basic knowledge necessary for developing finite element models of geotechnical engineering problems such as foundation settlement, SSI problems, seepage, consolidation, excavations, slope stability. Industry-standard finite Element software such as GeoStudio (Sigma/W, Seep/W), RocScience (RS2 and RS3), and PLAXIS, will be introduced to the students. At the end of this course, the students will be able to develop finite element models of various geotechnical systems including, foundations, earth dams, excavations, and tunnels, and learn how to present and interpret results for better decision making. Fall 2024
CW 610 Novel Writing Intensive In order to get somewhere, you need to know where you are going. In "Novel Writing Intensive" we will build a novel, writing 4,500 words a week to get the full scope of the project down to set you on a path for a solid first draft and revision process. As it is difficult to revise Chapter 1 without knowing the last chapter, this class aims to prepare students with a complete working draft to start their thesis journey. The class readings will explore the first chapters of classic and contemporary novels to assess the choices made by writers when building these worlds and characters. Reflective practice is built in to cultivate the habits of purposeful writing and making choices to support your novel's development. A faculty student one-on-one will offer personalized guidance on the novel and its growth. Fall 2024
DSRE 660 Design Rsearch Studio In this studio elective, students will continue to develop their Masters in Design Research (DSRE) skills. The DSRE studio project will include elements of speculation related to their chosen research path. Students will build on initial research outcomes to develop a prototypical project, which may include a physical artifact, prototype or a database, or a combination of outcomes. Professionally Juried. Fall 2024
ECE 512 Wireless Communications Fundamentals of modern wireless systems. Fundamentals of radio propagation and link performance. Cellular concept: interference, base stations and cell sites, handoffs, system capacity. Fading environments: multipath propagation, delay spread, Doppler Spread, statistically fading channel models. Multiple-access schemes: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA. Emerging methodologies: phases/adaptive antenna array, multi-array (MIMO) communication systems. Fall 2024
ECE 609 Mobile Sensing and Motion Planning This course will focus on sensing, control, and motion planning for mobile (ground and aerial) robots. It will be a mix of theoretical and applied subject matter where the students will learn about the fundamental mobile sensing and planning concepts and apply them through programming assignments and class projects. We will cover basic techniques such as state estimation, recursive filtering, localization, control, and planning algorithms that robots use to perceive, understand, and act in the environment. Fall 2024
ECE 657 Faultt-Tolerant Systems This course will focus on sensing, control, and motion planning for mobile (ground and aerial) robots. It will be a mix of theoretical and applied subject matter where the students will learn about the fundamental mobile sensing and planning concepts and apply them through programming assignments and class projects. We will cover basic techniques such as state estimation, recursive filtering, localization, control, and planning algorithms that robots use to perceive, understand, and act in the environment. Fall 2024
EDEX 540 Human Development in Education This course addresses the multifaceted complexities of human development, from birth through adulthood. Explores typical and atypical growth and development, including physical, cognitive and social-emotional development, from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood. Fall 2024
EDPO 622 Foundations of Education Policy This course is designed to acquaint students with foundational knowledge of the concept and structure of education policy in the United States. Students will explore landmark education policies and major thinkers who have influenced the development of the education system as it exists today. Students will also become familiar with various education policy resources and develop their critical thinking skills as both an analyst and consumer of education policy and data. By the end of this course, students will be able to identify and critically reflect on the development of education policy, key stakeholders and policymakers, and the societal impacts made by education policy over time. Fall 2024
EDU 781 Masters Capstone I This course is Course One of a two-part capstone research Master’s Project for individuals interested in pursuing a practitioner or thesis agenda. These courses are considered the capstone activity because the student will complete a Master’s Project demonstrating their research or creative ability, knowledge, and skills gained throughout the course work. A Master’s Capstone Project allows students to utilize research and creative ability methods to engage in problem-solving and use data-driven decision-making processes to develop a capstone product. Students will conduct an original research or creative project integrating all aspects of the “scientific process,” including innovation and research design. Fall 2024
EDU 782 Masters Capstone II This course is Course Two of a two-part capstone research Master’s Project for individuals interested in pursuing a practitioner or thesis agenda. These courses are considered the capstone activity because the student will complete a Master’s Project demonstrating their research or creative ability, knowledge, and skills gained throughout the course work. A Master’s Capstone Project allows students to utilize research and creative ability methods to engage in problem-solving and use data-driven decision-making processes to develop a capstone product. Students will conduct an original research or creative project integrating all aspects of the “scientific process,” including innovation and research design. Fall 2024
EDUC 580 Elementary Science and Social Studies Teaching Methods Among the topics covered will be planning science and social studies instruction to include inquiry and integrated concepts, developing authentic assessments involving a variety of tools, creating and maintaining a safe laboratory and learning environment that meets the needs of diverse learners, and the integration of technology into science and social studies education. Fall 2024
EDUC 870 Applied Leadership Portfolio Capstone Students will complete a reflective portfolio and then complete a project capstone. This course intends to pull together key aspects of leadership and innovation. Fall 2024
EDUC 871 Applied Leadership Project Capstone Students complete a project capstone that demonstrates the knowledge and skills gained throughout the program. This course moves the portfolio capstone into actionable leadership, still framed around the "How can we do this better?" It involves scenario planning, stakeholder integration, and the application of creative leadership in response to the challenges associated with an increasingly complex society. Fall 2024
EOH 635 Managing and Analyzing Environmental Epidemiology Data In this course, students will gain hands-on, practical experience planning and implementing environmental or occupational epidemiologic data analyses using statistical software applications. Through lectures, in-class exercises, and by working through an independent analysis, students will develop the expertise and confidence to plan, implement, interpret, and report results from an environmental epidemiology analysis. Fall 2024
FASH 535 History of Costume I: Preclassical to 1800 Traces the rise of Western costume from the ancient world through 1800, including political, economic, and social influence on aesthetic development in dress. Fall 2024
FASH 536 History of Costume II: 1800-1920 Traces the history of costume from 1800 through 1920, including the political, economic, and social influence on aesthetic development in dress. Fall 2024
FASH 537 History of Costume III Examines fashion and dress trends from 1920 through the 21st century within their sociocultural, political, and economic contexts. The course also explores how globalization, technology, and mass media impact the aesthetics of dress. Fall 2024
FOOD 502 Culinary Medicine Examines basic principles of applied culinary medicine and teaches students to integrate nutrition and culinary knowledge and skills to prevent and support treatment of chronic illness. Fall 2024
HMP 830 Health Services Research II The goal of this course is to deepen students’ expertise in causal inference methods for quantitative health services research, especially methods students may have touched on only briefly in other courses. The class will particularly focus on natural experiments and matching methods that students can employ to evaluate the effects of social and biological exposures, healthcare access, and the public policies that govern them. Covered content will include econometrics (e.g., difference-in-differences and its extensions; instrumental variables; RDD; etc.) as well as more traditional epidemiologic approaches (i.e., matching methods and their extensions). Students will use statistical software to estimate models, interpret results, and gain a clear sense of how to apply these methods in practice. Fall 2024
INDS 601 Corporate Sustainability for Managers Corporate sustainability is at the forefront of the important topics for executive management teams and boards of directors of corporate organizations, whether they are public companies, private enterprises or non-profit entities. Topics such as climate change and social justice can no longer be ignored by corporations. Whether the acronym is CSR, ESG, or DE&I, the issues around corporate sustainability have exploded in prominence in recent years and are now some of the most important matters confronting executives and directors. This course provides an exploration of sustainability in the context of corporate governance and how it has evolved. The role of management and the board is examined including duties and corporate purpose and culture. Fall 2024
INFO 501 Information Professionals, Resources, and Services This course introduces the social, ethical, cultural, and legal issues that affect information professionals and organizations. It studies the structure and components of the information professions and the evolving role of information professionals. Fall 2024
INFO 509 Information & Social Justice This course explores key concepts of social justice, such as privilege, power, marginality, and intersectionality, and their relationship to information and information systems. Fall 2024
INFO 652 Information Behavior This course introduces students to core concepts of information behavior and information practice and surveys research related to the information needs, seeking, and use of a wide range of information user groups. Fall 2024
INFO 881 HCI/UX Capstone I Students initiate and complete an in-depth project in HCI/UX research and/or design. The aim of the sequence is to equip students with a resulting project that showcases their skills (e.g., a portfolio piece or publication). Through the project itself, as well as self-reflection and discussions with classmates, students will synthesize and further practice everything they have done in the HCI/UX master’s degree program as part of transitioning to their next chapter in life. Fall 2024
INFO 882 HCI/UX Capstone II This is the second quarter of the two-quarter capstone sequence, which is intended to be taken at the end of the HCI/UX master’s program. In this sequence, students initiate and complete an in-depth project in HCI/UX research and/or design. The aim of the sequence is to equip students with a resulting project that showcases their skills (e.g., a portfolio piece or publication). Through the project itself, as well as self-reflection and discussions with classmates, students will synthesize and further practice everything they have done in the HCI/UX master’s degree program as part of transitioning to their next chapter in life. Fall 2024
IPS 700 Foundations of Interprofessional Collaboration In today's complex healthcare landscape, effective collaboration among healthcare professionals is paramount to ensuring patient safety and high-quality care. This interdisciplinary course is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to excel in interprofessional collaboration, leveraging the TeamSTEPPS framework to enhance teamwork and communication, ultimately contributing to improved patient safety outcomes. Fall 2024
IPS 862 Capstone Project I This purpose of this course is to support and enhance students in the design of the proposal for a DHSc Scholarly Project that demonstrates progression toward achieving required competencies. Students will identify practice problems and solutions as they relate to their area of academic focus. Fall 2024
IPS 863 Capstone Project II The purpose of this course is to support students in the production of a scholarly, translational contribution or an original contribution to the profession. This course supports the student in the ongoing development, implementation, evaluation, defense, and planned dissemination of the final project. Fall 2024
LSTU 570 Health Care Fraud: Regulation, Investigation, and Enforcement Health care fraud is a significant challenge in the United States. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, national health care spending was estimated to exceed $4 trillion in 2020. By one estimate, up to 10% of health care spending may be due to fraud and abuse, resulting in significant financial losses for consumers, government, and private plans and perhaps even more problematic, posing serious harm to patients. The course will be divided into three parts. First, discuss the criminal, civil, and administrative regulation of health care and the authorities enforcing those rules. Second, discuss the methods by which fraud is investigated and their limitations. Third, apply the knowledge gained in the first two segments to specific areas of health care enforcement, including elder abuse. Fall 2024
MATE 526 Materials for Additive Manufacturing This course addresses additive manufacturing (AM) from a materials science and engineering perspective. Processing, structure, property relationships will be examined for metals, polymers, and ceramics as well as composites used in additive manufacturing. Ideas and concepts from powder processing, solidification processing and welding applicable to AM will be discussed. Critical analysis of the literature and special topics via term projects will be used to provide opportunities for students to explore in depth AM topic areas of their own interest. Fall 2024
MEM 679 Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Science and Manufacturing This course aims to equip engineers with the skills to harness the power of computational data analysis and machine learning techniques, particularly in the realms of experimental science and manufacturing processes. Rather than diving deep into the mathematical foundations of algorithms, the focus here is on providing engineers with the practical knowledge and tool sets required for applying these computational methods in real-world scenarios. Fall 2024
MGMT 970 Seminar in Leadership Research This course provides students with a critical review of both classical and contemporary leadership research from the field of organizational behavior. The course covers a variety of leadership topics, including ethical leadership, transformational leadership, servant leadership, team leadership, and visionary leadership, and is geared toward helping students gain a level of expertise in leadership research that can aid in generating original research ideas that can extend their chosen area of study. Fall 2024
MKTG 620 Social Impact Marketing The course will cover what social marketing is and how it is implemented and also will focus on what the SDGs and/or “wicked problems” are and how they may be addressed through an organizational marketing lens. The course uses marketing strategies and tactics learned in all of your other marketing courses to address these social problems. Thus, the marketing toolkit remains the same, and the course will largely focus on understanding these social problems as well as the social psychology that motivates behavior change so that effective and efficient marketing mixes directed at motivating behavioral change can be designed. Fall 2024
MLAS 507S LAT Certification Prep This course will prepare the student to sit for the AALAS LAT certification exam. The AALAS Technician Certification Program sets professional standards for the advancement of laboratory animal science. Fall 2024
MLAS 508S LATG Certification Prep This course will prepare the student to sit for the AALAS LATG certification exam. The AALAS Technician Certification Program sets professional standards for the advancement of laboratory animal science. Fall 2024
PA 562 Clinical Skills Lab I Designed to prepare the PA student with a problem-oriented, clinical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of common primary care disorders. The course uses clinical reasoning and clinical skills application laboratories based on clinical scenarios to facilitate skill development. Fall 2024
PA 563 Clinical Reasoning Lab I This is the first of two courses designed to prepare the PA student with a problem-oriented, clinical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of common primary care disorders. The course uses clinical reasoning and clinical skills application based on clinical scenarios to facilitate skill development. Fall 2024
PA 564 Clinical Skills Lab II This is the second in a series of two courses designed to prepare the PA student with a problem-oriented, clinical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of common primary care disorders. The course uses clinical skills application laboratories based on clinical scenarios to facilitate skill development. Fall 2024
PA 565 Clinical Reasoning Lab II Designed to prepare the PA student with a problem-oriented, clinical approach to the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of common primary care disorders. The course uses clinical reasoning application laboratories based on clinical scenarios to facilitate skill development. Fall 2024
PA 639 Family Medicine Rotation This course is a clinical course that provides the PA student with patient care experience in an ambulatory family medicine setting under the supervision of a licensed medical practitioner. Students refine clinical skills learned in preparation for practice and increase knowledge of disease mechanisms and patient management for common primary care disorders. Fall 2024
PA 644 Flex Core Clinical Rotation The Flex Core Clinical Rotation is a clinical course that provides the PA student with one of the seven core rotations (behavioral medicine, women's health, pediatric medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, surgery or urgent care setting) health patient care experiences under the supervision of a licensed medical practitioner. Students apply knowledge and skills learned in the didactic year to patient evaluation, and begin to apply patient management strategies to patients in an assigned clinical setting. Fall 2024
PTRS 541 Topics in Pathophysiology I Covers selected health conditions, body systems, and both intrinsic and extrinsic influences on health and wellbeing. The course explores themes of complexity and chronicity in the context of physical therapy care using a biopsychosocial model. Fall 2024
PTRS 607 Topics in Pathophysiology II Covers selected health conditions, body systems, and both intrinsic and extrinsic influences on health and wellbeing. The course explores themes of complexity and chronicity in the context of physical therapy care using a biopsychosocial model. Fall 2024
RSCH 740 Foundations in Research Methods This course provides an overview of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methodologies. This course emphasizes why particular methodologies may be suited to particular research agendas. Fall 2024
RSCH 757 Application of Evidence to Practice The focus of this web-based course is on finding, appraising, communicating, and applying knowledge and research to the health professions. Participants will develop competencies in clinical decision making for individual patient/clients and development and evaluation of health care services. Fall 2024
SE 611 Software Analytics Software repositories archive valuable software engineering data, such as source code, execution traces, historical code changes, mailing lists, bug reports, and chats. This data contains a wealth of information about a project’s status and history. By doing data science on software repositories, researchers can gain an understanding of software development practices, and practitioners can better manage, maintain, and evolve complex software projects. Software analytics techniques may be applied to various tasks such as code summarization, code comment generation, question-answer extraction, sentiment analysis, etc. This class provides students with an understanding of and hands-on experience with ML and NLP techniques that represent knowledge and solve existing SE problems. Fall 2024
SYSE 650 Transition of the Integrated System from Design to Production Taking a new product, system or asset from the design stage to large-scale production in a profitable, efficient manner can challenge the processes of even the most advanced companies. Lapses in these processes drive up the cost of new products and hinder their launch into the marketplace. This course provides an expeditious roadmap that considers every phase of the systems life cycle leading to production. It identifies customer requirements, discusses product concept, and covers master scheduling and risk analysis, as well as design considerations, prototypes, and tooling essentials. Among other things, it also explains how to identify and augment facility requirements, initiate production ramp up, evaluate packaging, and institute defect control. Fall 2024
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