Summer Undergraduate Course Descriptions
All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.
AMC 201 American Experience I
An interdisciplinary writing-intensive study of American history, literature, and culture from the pre-Columbian era to Reconstruction (1876). Taken by English, history, and education majors as sophomores, by most others as juniors.
Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities or American history requirements.
AMC 202 American Experience II
Continuation of AMC 201, an interdisciplinary writing and research intensive study of American history, literature and culture from late nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization to the present. No prerequisite for this course. Honors credit available for this course.
Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities or American history requirements.
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
ASL 101 Beginning American Sign Language I
This introductory course is aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in American Sign Language, and also offers insight into Deaf culture and Deaf community. This course does not fulfill Mount St. Mary's University's core language requirement.
BUS 301/302 Business Law I and II (3 credits each)
Introduction to legals rights and remedies. An analysis and study of the law of contracts, agency, employment, negotiable instruments, personal property, sales and insurance.
BUS 307 Business Management & Organization (ONLINE)
A study of the principles and processes of management, and the vital role played by the manager in the organization. Practical application includes a semester-long small business case analysis and a field research project.
BUS/IFSY 311 Information Systems (ONLINE - 8 WEEKS)
An introduction to the essential role of information and its management in the modern corporation. Emphasis is on computer-based information systems. Surveys several topics including systems development, database hardware and software concepts, the Internet and e-commerce, and ethical implications of information systems development.
BUS 313 Principles of Marketing (ONLINE)
An examination of the problems faced by the marketing manager in making decisions concerning markets, products, prices, channels, promotion and basic marketing strategy. Findings from the behavioral sciences will be applied to practical marketing problems. Prerequisites: ECON 101-102.
BUS 360 Corporate Finance (ONLINE)
First of a two-course sequence introducing the field of corporate financial management. Major topics to be covered include time value of money, financial statement analysis, risk and expected return, security valuation, cost of capital and capital budgeting. Prerequisite: ACCT 101 or permission of instructor.
CIVILIZATION (MODERN CIVILIZATION)
CVFA 102 Renaissance to Revolutions
A study of Western cultural history from the Renaissance through the Romantic Era, through the lense of music. Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities requirements.
CVFL 201 Dictators and Their Legacies in Spain, Italy and Germany
An historic study of the rise and fall of Francisco Franco in Spain, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Adolf Hitler in Germany. This course will also study various cultural products - literary works, films, works of art - from all three countries in order to better understand these dictators' legacies in their respective contemporary countries. Major events and ideologies that shaped twentieth-century Western history will be examined. Honors credit available for this course.
Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities requirements.
CVSO 201 The West in the Modern World: Ideas, Technologies and Trends
This course focuses on the development of a world capitalist system over the last 150 years. It examines the unprecedented rapid changes in the West in the last century and a half, due largely to industrialization. In the course of the West’s expansion, it has remade the world’s economies into today’s global economic system. This course will explore the historical particulars and the large-scale social patterns that have evolved. This course is part of the four-course Western civilization sequence and can also count as a sociology elective. Honors credit available for this course.
Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities requirements
COMMUNICATIONS
COMM 210 Media and Society
A foundational survey in the analysis of the major media of human communication, both print and broadcast. Some emphasis on history, law, and ethics.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CJUST 365 Drugs and Crime
An examination of the linkages between drugs (licit and illicit) and crime. Topics include history of drug use in the U.S., drug smuggling and dealing, competing hypotheses regarding the connections between drugs and street crime, and the debate over decriminalization and legalization. Special attention to how social research findings contradict media presentations.
ECONOMICS
ECON 102 Foundations of Economics: Microeconomics
This course introduces students to microeconomics: examination of economic behavior of individuals, firms, or markets. It begins with consumer theory, examining why people like goods and services and how they behave. It progresses to firm theory, e.g. production and costs, exploring such concepts as diminishing marginal productivity and economies of scale, as well as examining particular market types such as price takers, monopolies, and oligopolies. The course closes with capital and resource markets (e.g. wages, benefits, income, as well as natural resources). It often includes special applications such as market failures (e.g. externalities, public goods, information problems which are at the heart of many business/government and environmental issues), poverty, health care, education, social security, etc. There are NO prerequisites for this course.
ECON 360 Global Business and Economics (ONLINE)
This course will examine the challenges of globalization from the perspective of a business manager. Topics will include an analysis of global and national business environments, international trade and investment, the international financial system, and international trade and investment. This includes the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the US Export-Import Bank, the US International Trade Commission, and other agencies. Discussion in class will also include the cultural, ethical, and moral implications of these issues in international law and economics. Prerequisite: Econ 101-102
ENGLISH
ENGL 368/ENNW 368 Japanese Literature and Culture
Japanese history, religions, and culture provide a rich background for reading modern Japanese short stories. The influence of samurai ideas, Confucianism, and Buddhism will receive special attention.
Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities or English requirements.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
CVFL 201 Dictators and Their Legacies in Spain, Italy and Germany
An historic study of the rise and fall of Francisco Franco in Spain, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Adolf Hitler in Germany. This course will also study various cultural products - literary works, films, works of art - from all three countries in order to better understand these dictators' legacies in their respective contemporary countries. Major events and ideologies that shaped twentieth-century Western history will be examined. Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities requirements.
ENGL 368/ENNW 368 Japanese Literature and Culture
Japanese history, religions, and culture provide a rich background for reading modern Japanese short stories. The influence of samurai ideas, Confucianism, and Buddhism will receive special attention. Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities or English requirements.
FRENCH 315 French Civilization Through the Vallee de la Loire
Taking the Loire Valley as its text, this course introduces students to the major historical and cultural developments of French civilization prior to 1880 through readings and discussions of selected texts of historical and literary importance, works of art, architecture and music originating in this region. Prerequisite: FREN 202 or equivalent and enrolled in Tours Summer Study Abroad.
SPAN 101/102 Beginning Spanish I/II
These introductory courses are aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in Spanish and also offer insight into Spanish-speaking cultures. NOTE: During Mount Summer both courses are offered in a highly compressed, two week format during Summer Session I.
FRENCH
FRENCH 315 French Civilization Through the Vallee de la Loire
Taking the Loire Valley as its text, this course introduces students to the major historical and cultural developments of French civilization prior to 1880 through readings and discussions of selected texts of historical and literary importance, works of art, architecture and music originating in this region. Prerequisite: FREN 202 or equivalent and enrolled in Tours Summer Study Abroad.
FAAR 309 Graphic Design 1
Introduces the use of image-based software as a problem-solving tool for communication design. Emphasizes developing and integrating visual skills to communicate with meaning and purpose. Covers the design, layout and proper production of graphic communications.
FAAR 310 Graphic Design 2
An expanded use of image-based software as a problem-solving tool for communication design. Emphasis is on continuing the development and integration of visual skills to communicate with meaning and purpose. This course continues to cover the design, layout and proper production of graphic communications. Prerequisite: FAAR 309 or permission of instructor.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
BUS/IFSY 311 Information Systems (ONLINE - 8 WEEKS)
An introduction to the essential role of information and its management in the modern corporation. Emphasis is on computer-based information systems. Surveys several topics including systems development, database hardware and software concepts, the Internet and e-commerce, and ethical implications of information systems development.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
PSCI/IS 207 International Relations
An introductory examination of the nation-state system, with emphasis on the factors governing the behavior and interaction of states. Examines various international relations paradigms.
MATHEMATICS
MATH 105 Elementary Statistics
A noncalculus introduction to the fundamental concepts of probability and statistics. Topics include data collecting, displaying, summarizing, drawing inferences, set theory, probability, permutations and combinations, expectation, normal distribution, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, significance testing and simple linear regression. Appropriate application software utilized. Prerequisite: MATH 101 or placement by department.
MATH 247 Calculus (4 CREDITS)
An Introduction to the fundamental concepts of differential and integral calculus with an emphasis on limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of elementary functions. Applications to curve sketching, max-min values, related rates and areas will be given. Derivatives and integrals of elementary transcendental functions. Prerequisite: MATH 114 or placement by department. Students that placed into MATH 101/102 may not take Calculus until they have completed MATH 114.
NON-WEST
ENGL/ENNW 368 Japanese Literature and Culture
Japanese history, religions, and culture provide a rich background for reading modern Japanese short stories. The influence of samurai ideas, Confucianism, and Buddhism will receive special attention. Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities or English requirements.
THEOL 371*/THNW 371 World Religions
A comparative study of the religious families or traditions of India, China and the Islamic world. These traditions serve both to shape and to reflect their respective non-Western cultures. Thus they will provide an appropriate perspective from which to study these cultures. Satisfies the core requirement in non-Western culture.
PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 211 From Cosmos to Citizen (Intro. to Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval)
An investigation of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary responses to questions concerning the nature of the human reality, the nature and limits of human knowing, human freedom, human happiness or well-being, and the relation of the individual to society. Honors credit available for this course.
PHIL 212 From Self to Society (Intro. to Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary)
An investigation of modern and contemporary responses to questions concerning the nature of the human reality, the nature and limits of human knowing, human freedom, human happiness or well-being, and the relation of the individual to society. Different sections of this course explore the following themes: faith and reason; science and nature; the human person; individual and community; and culture and society. Prerequisite: PHIL 211. Honors credit available for this course.
PHIL 301 Moral Philosophy
An inquiry into the nature of the moral good, the structures of moral agency and the proper criteria for making choices that bear on human beings and their well-being. Seniors only.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PSCI/IS 207 International Relations
An introductory examination of the nation-state system, with emphasis on the factors governing the behavior and interaction of states. Examines various international relations paradigms.
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCH 100 Foundations of Psychology
Addresses psychology’s emergence as a social and natural science in the development of Western thought. Emphasizes scientific thinking about perception, development, learning, motivation, social processes, behavioral disorders and psychotherapy. Fulfills the social science requirement of the core and is normally the prerequisite for all other psychology courses.
PSYCH 320 Sport Psychology
Reviews psychological foundations of physical activity. Includes psychological perspectives on athletes, competition, personality, attention, arousal, anxiety, motivation, stress, aggression, violence, coaching, and crowd behavior, as well as issues such as the athletic pursuit of excellence, the effect of sport on personality and well-being, and the place of the spectator in our culture. Prerequisite: PSYCH 100.
PSYCH 350 Special Topics: Psychology of Music
A survey of the emerging fields of Music Psychology and Biomusicology. The course will include aspects of music in culture, music origins, the neural processing of music, sensation and perception of music, music therapy, and researched ties between music and behavior. Prerequisite: PSYCH 100.
SCIENCE - GENERAL
GNSCI 101 General Sciences (4 CREDITS)
Examines the concepts underlining modern sciences, focusing on physics, chemistry and biology, aiming in the understanding of the nature of science and the factors that affect our daily life, including a survey of relevant biological and chemical principles and processes. Designed as an introduction to physical and biological sciences for the non-science major.This course includes demonstrations, laboratory experiments and videos illustrating the material.
Prerequisites for pre-college students: GPA of 3.5 or equivalent and 1 year of high school physics, chemistry, or biology.
GNSCI 102 Discovery in Science: Sociobiology (4 CREDITS)
This course is designed to fulfill the core science requirement, exploring the nature of science through in-depth discovery of contemporary issues in the discipline of Sociobiology, which is the study of the evolution of social behavior in animals and humans. Students will gain an understanding of the scientific worldview, the process of scientific inquiry, the enterprise of science, and the role of science in history and society. By using quantitative reasoning and critical thinking, students will solve problems in an integrated lecture and lab setting. Specific issues addressed in this course include evolution of mate preferences, parental care, cooperation and conflict, learning and morality.
Prerequisites for pre-college students: GPA of 3.5 or equivalent and 1 year of high school biology.
SOCIOLOGY
SOC 100 Foundations of Sociology
A course designed to place sociology’s development as a social science in the evolution of Western thought; it will also cover the elements of social scientific thinking. Major emphasis will be given to the analysis of culture, social structure, socialization, institutions, social inequality and social change. This course fulfills the social sciences requirement for the core curriculum and is normally a prerequisite for all 300- or 400-level courses in sociology.
CVSO 201 The West in the Modern World: Ideas, Technologies and Trends
This course focuses on the development of a world capitalist system over the last 150 years. It examines the unprecedented rapid changes in the West in the last century and a half, due largely to industrialization. In the course of the West’s expansion, it has remade the world’s economies into today’s global economic system. This course will explore the historical particulars and the large-scale social patterns that have evolved. This course is part of the four-course Western civilization sequence and can also count as a sociology elective. Honors credit available for this course. Visiting Students: This course may meet your university's humanities requirements.
SPANISH
SPAN 101/102 Beginning Spanish I/II
These introductory courses are aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in Spanish and also offer insight into Spanish-speaking cultures. NOTE: During Mount Summer both courses are offered in a highly compressed, two week format during Summer Session I.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
SPED 433 Assessment in Special Education
Provides for the study, interpretation and use of a variety of commercial assessment tools used in the field of special education. Teacher candidates will collect and analyze data obtained in an inclusive classroom or special education setting. The data will be used to construct developmentally appropriate classroom activities. A field component is required. Prerequisites: SPED 308 and 411.
SPED 434 Special Education Curriculum Design & Adaptation
Explores ways to modify school curricula to accommodate differences in students’ learning styles. Theoretical bases for curriculum adaptation as well as practical application will be discussed. A field component is required. Prerequisites: SPED 308 and 411.
THEOLOGY
THEOL 200 Foundations of Theology
An investigation of the nature, sources and methods of Christian theology, with attention to classical and contemporary problems. Honors Section Available.
THEOL 202 The Gospels
An historical, literary and theological study of the Synoptic Gospels, with an emphasis on Mark. Special attention will be given to the Gospel concern for justice, dignity and freedom within human communities of both classical and modern periods.
THEOL 205 Sacraments
A study of the theology of the sacraments, with special attention to the history, development and renewal of liturgical worship. Exploration of the relationship between liturgy and life will illustrate the formative nature of liturgy toward the good and a commitment to its practice.
THEOL 371*/THNW 371 World Religions
A comparative study of the religious families or traditions of India, China and the Islamic world. These traditions serve both to shape and to reflect their respective non-Western cultures. Thus they will provide an appropriate perspective from which to study these cultures. Satisfies the core requirement in non-Western culture.
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
FAAR 309 Graphic Design 1
Introduces the use of image-based software as a problem-solving tool for communication design. Emphasizes developing and integrating visual skills to communicate with meaning and purpose. Covers the design, layout and proper production of graphic communications.
FAAR 310 Graphic Design 2
An expanded use of image-based software as a problem-solving tool for communication design. Emphasis is on continuing the development and integration of visual skills to communicate with meaning and purpose. This course continues to cover the design, layout and proper production of graphic communications. Prerequisite: FAAR 309 or permission of instructor.
