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Biology Students that wish to take upper level biology courses (200 level and above) must have met one of the following two criteria:
The average of the student’s grades in BI101 and BI102 must be greater than or equal to a C- (1.7).
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The student must have received transfer credit for BI101 and BI102.
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BI 360 Topics in Biology
This course is an In-depth exploration of a selected topic in the biological sciences. Topics are determined by instructor. Current research and methodology are emphasized.
Prerequisite: Written permission of the instructor.
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BI 370 Internship in Biology
This internship in a supervised professional setting involves a significant biological research component for a minimum of eight hours per week. It includes meetings with other interns and the instructor to analyze and discuss the work experience. It requires a journal or laboratory notebook, a written report, and a student evaluation of the internship. It is usually not acceptable as an elective in place of a 300-level course.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing in Biology and written permission of the major adviser and Chair. Interested students must submit a written proposal for an internship before registering for the course. Students also must carry at least 8 additional credits at Arcadia University while enrolled in the internship, unless regularly attending on a part-time basis.
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BI 380 Faculty Sponsored Research
(2 credits)
This course is a 2-credit laboratory or field research experience that can be taken repeatedly for elective credit with approval of the sponsoring professor and Department Chair. Students read and synthesize literature relevant to their research project and develop a research proposal under the guidance of their faculty research adviser. They then carry out this research project, analyze the data, and write a final research report. Because of the highly specialized nature of this course, students must obtain written approval by the faculty research adviser in order to register for the course, and students must register for the course at least one month prior to the first day of classes. This course cannot be counted as one of the 300-level Biology classes required of all Biology majors.
Prerequisite: BI 242 or permission of the instructor.
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BI 389 Independent Study
Independent, faculty-supervised laboratory or library research project is conducted at on- or off-campus facilities and summarized in a paper of appropriate length, style and format. Not usually acceptable as an elective in place of a 300-level course.
Prerequisite: Four courses in Biology, junior or senior standing in Biology, approval of the Department and a written proposal.
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BI 475 Biomedical Foundation Science I
(cross listed with PT675)
This course will include traditional biological sciences of microscopic anatomy, physiology of exercise, and neuroscience. In addition, there will be a survey of various medical and surgical conditions and their underlying pathological processes. Pharmacology and imaging techniques will also be included. Gross anatomy objectives are included although students are responsible for self-directed study in this topic. This biology course is only available to students in the 3+DPT program who have been accepted into the DPT program and have successfully completed the first three years of the 3+DPT program.
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BI 476 Biomedical Foundations Science II
(cross listed with PT676)
This course is a continuation of PT675, Biomedical Foundation Science I, and includes traditional biological sciences of microscopic anatomy, physiology of exercise, and neuroscience. It also presents a survey of various medical and surgical conditions and their underlying pathological processes. Basic concepts in pharmacology and imaging techniques are also presented. Gross anatomy objectives are included although students are responsible for self-directed study in this topic. This biology course is only available to students in the 3+DPT program who have been accepted into the DPT program and have successfully completed the first three years of the 3+DPT program.
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BI 490 Senior Seminar in Biology
This Capstone course involves the completion of a faculty-supervised laboratory, field or library research project in Biology, including a paper in appropriate style and format; participation in a weekly two-hour seminar; and formal presentation and defense of a poster.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: BI 201 , BI 204 , BI 211 , BI 242 , BI 290 and senior standing in Biology.
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CH 100 Language of Science
(2 credits)
Basic quantitative problem solving methods for introductory science courses. Includes scientific notation, dimensional analysis in the SI and US customary systems, elementary error analysis, simultaneous equations, and graphical and transcendental analysis.
Prerequisite: MA 100 .
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CH 101 General Chemistry I
An introduction to stoichiometry, atomic and molecular structure and geometry, and their relation to the chemical and physical properties of inorganic and organic substances. The historical development, methodology, and philosophy of current understanding of transformations of matter and energy are presented from an experimental viewpoint.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 100 or placement.
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CH 102 General Chemistry II
Continuation of CH 101 . Introduction to chemical energetics, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms, electrochemistry, and radiation chemistry, and their application to chemical reactions from a quantitative experimental point of view.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 101 or CH 111 .
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CH 111 Conceptual Chemistry I
Covers the topics of CH 101 with a greater emphasis on modern quantum theory. Designed for majors in the physical sciences and mathematics, it emphasizes mathematical analysis, including elementary calculus.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Placement.
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CH 112 Conceptual Chemistry II
Continuation of CH 111 . Covers the topics of CH 102 with a greater emphasis on modern quantum theory. Designed for majors in the physical sciences and mathematics, it emphasizes mathematical analysis, including elementary calculus.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 111 . CH 101 may serve as prerequisite with permission of the chair.
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CH 201 Organic Chemistry I
A study of the correlation of acid-base theory, reaction mechanisms, molecular structure, chemical energetics, stereochemistry, and spectroscopy, applied to organic functional groups, specifically alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alky halides, alcohols and ethers. Laboratory work stresses the synthesis, separation, identification and analysis of selected organic compounds using both micro- and macro-scale techniques. 1H- NMR spectra are routinely acquired and analyzed.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 102 or CH 112 .
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CH 202 Organic Chemistry II:
Continuation of CH 201 . Survey of the properties of organic functional groups: organometallics, conjugated systems, aromatics, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, amines, and carbohydrates. Mass, infrared, ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy. Laboratory work stresses the synthesis, separation, identification, and analysis of selected organic compounds using both micro- and macro-scale techniques. 1H-NMR spectra are routinely acquired and analyzed.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 201 .
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CH 203 Equilibrium and Analysis
Examination of the principles and theory of chemical equilibrium in the context of quantitative chemical analysis. Selected traditional analytical laboratory techniques are frequently applied to analyses of systems of biological and environmental interest. Instrumental techniques of analysis are introduced.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 102 or CH 112 .
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CH 290 Junior Seminar
(3 credits)
Career guidance, examination of the primary literature, database searches, development of research writing skills. A library research paper and oral presentation of it are required. Selections of a mentor and research project prepare the student for Faculty Directed Research and Chemistry Capstone.
Three seminar hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, CH 202 , CH 203 .
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CH 301 Physical Chemistry I
Study of the limitations of the degree of completion of chemical and physical processes by natural law. Thermodynamics is applied to the gaseous, liquid, and solid states. Homogeneous chemical equilibria and phase equilibria are treated from both experimental and conceptual viewpoints.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 203 , PH 202 or PH 212 , MA 202 .
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CH 302 Physical Chemistry II
Continuation of CH 301 . Considers the limitations on the rate of chemical and physical processes by natural law. Solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, quantum mechanics, and surface phenomena.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 301 .
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CH 303 Biochemistry
Principles of weak chemical interactions applied to the structure and function of macromolecules, especially proteins. Non-covalent binding of substrates and enzymic catalysis are treated both conceptually and quantitatively. Mechanisms of metabolic control, including allosterism and covalent modification, are related to protein structure.
Three class hours and four laboratory hours weekly.
Prereq/Corequisite: CH 202 .
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CH 304 Instrumental Methods of Analysis I
Spectrophotometric, chromatographic and mass spectral methods as tools for the separation, identification and analysis of chemical substances.
Three class hours and four laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 203 .
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CH 305 Inorganic Chemistry
Survey of the representative and transition elements in the context of atomic and molecular structure. Organometallic and solid-state principles are introduced as the foundation of coordination theory and the biochemistry of inorganic cations. Laboratory work emphasizes the preparation, properties and characterization of selected inorganic and bioinorganic compounds. Low and high temperature and vacuum techniques are applied to both aqueous and non-aqueous systems.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 202 , CH 203 . CH 301 , CH 302 highly recommended.
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CH 306 Advanced Organic Chemistry
Selected topics not covered in the introductory course: Hückel molecular orbital theory; correlation of structure and activity by linear free energy relationships; acidity functions and Brønsted catalysis law; symmetry and stereochemistry; pericyclic, electrocyclic, and sigmatropic reactions; kinetics and kinetic isotope effects; application of spectroscopic techniques. Laboratory work involves individual multi-step syntheses and molecular modeling projects.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 202 , CH 203 . CH 301 , CH 302 highly recommended.
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CH 307 Polymers and Biopolymers
Introduction to polymer chemistry, including contemporary polymer technology. The nature and synthesis of polymers; biological polymers and their reactions; thermodynamics and kinetics of polymerization; physical characterization, fabrication, testing, and use of both natural and synthetic polymeric materials.
Three class hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 202 .
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CH 333 Statistical Thermodynamics
(Also listed as PH 333 )
Principles of thermodynamics investigated from a modern statistical point of view, based upon ensemble theory. Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi- Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, transport phenomena, thermal interactions, kinetic theory, and their applications to a variety of molecular systems.
Three class hours weekly.
Prerequisite: PH 212 , CH 302 . CH 302 may be taken concurrently with permission of the chair.
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CH 345 Topics in Modern Chemistry
Topics vary according to the needs and interests of students and faculty. Past topics have included medicinal chemistry, practical spectroscopy and the history of chemistry. Credits and time requirements by arrangement.
Prerequisite: CH 202 , CH 203 .
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CH 351 Chemical Physics
(Also listed as PH361)
The foundations of quantum chemistry and its applications to chemical systems. The Schrödinger wave equation is applied to the harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom. Introduction to matrix mechanics. Group theory and its application to spectroscopy.
Three class hours weekly.
Prerequisite: PH 212 , CH 302 . MA 452 recommended. CH 302 may be taken concurrently with permission of the chair.
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CH 370 Career Internship in Chemistry
This part-time placement introduces the commercial or industrial aspects of the chemical profession, and develops practical knowledge of a functioning chemical or pharmaceutical business. Credits and time requirements by arrangement.
Prerequisite: Senior standing, permission of the chair.
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CH 389 Independent Study
An independent, faculty supervised library research project is summarized in a paper of appropriate length, style and format. Credits and time requirements by arrangement.
Prerequisite: CH 202 , CH 203 , approval by the department of a written proposal.
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CH 391 Faculty Sponsored Research
(2 credits)
Training in the acquisition of new knowledge under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Research may be conducted on campus or in off-campus research facilities.
At least eight laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of the chair.
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CH 392 Faculty Sponsored Research
(2 credits)
Continuation of CH 391 . The aim is to achieve publishable results, though a peer-reviewed publication is not necessary to complete the course, nor does its absence affect the grade a student receives.
At least eight laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: CH 391 .
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CH 490 Chemistry Capstone
(2 credits in the fall and 2 credits in the spring)
The results of a faculty sponsored research project are presented orally, by written thesis, and in poster format. The career guidance introduced in CH 290 is continued. Students must pass the standardized comprehensive undergraduate examination of the American Chemical Society.
Three seminar hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Senior standing, a GPA of 2.0 or higher in courses required for the major.
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CHI 101 Beginning Chinese I
CHI 101 is designed for students with no background in the Chinese language. The course introduces basic Chinese pronunciation, the writing system, numbering, and the necessary grammar components in order to perform the following basic communication functions: greetings, asking and answering questions; speaking about family, professions, time, dates, age, hobbies and pastimes. Chinese 101 will introduce the student to the knowledge and handling of approximately 150 Chinese characters
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CHI 102 Beginning Chinese II
CHI 102 will continue with the introduction of Chinese characters initiated in Chinese 101, presenting 200 new characters for a total of 350. Grammar components are introduced in order to develop communication functions in a social setting, and the corresponding Chinese civilities: talking on the phone, Chinese phone numbers; making appointments, asking a favor, and time expressions; talking about school life, routine, habits, and performance in Chinese class; descriptive complements, and ordinal numbers.
Prerequisite: CHI 101
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CHI 201 Intermediate Chinese I
Fully online course for students with two semesters of Chinese. Students are involved in weekly online activities, meeting online for conversation once a week, and other activities using Blackboard and Wimba/Skype for conversation. At the end of the course, students will read and write 700 Chinese characters.
Prerequisite: CHI 102
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CHI 202 Intermediate Chinese II
Fully online course for students with two semesters of Chinese. Students are involved in weekly online activities, meeting online for conversation once a week, and other activities using Blackboard and Wimba/Skype for conversation. At the end of the course, students will read and write 850 Chinese characters.
Prerequisite: CHI 201
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CJ 100 Crime and Punishment
(3 credits)
See description under CJ 160
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CJ 160 Crime and Punishment
This introduction to various aspects of the criminal justice system includes law enforcement, the judicial process, and corrections and punishment. It also surveys sociological understanding of deviant and criminal behavior and of the historical changes in why and how we punish those who violate the law.
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CJ 215 Organized Crime
This course introduces students to organized crime, covering the history and development of American organized crime, characteristics, definitions, types and theoretical paradigms of organized crime, criminal activity associated with organized crime and domestic and international efforts to combat both American and transnational organized crime. It examines the evolution of organized crime and its impact on investigative strategies and law enforcement. The course will look at a variety of national and transnational organized crime groups.
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CJ 220 Special Topics
This course provides in-depth analysis, from a criminal justice perspective, of a substantive social issue confronting the criminal justice system. Topics vary from year-to-year. May be repeated for credit.
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CJ 225 Criminal Investigation
This course covers the legal, scientific, behavioral, and investigative aspects of criminal investigations. Topics include investigative theory and processes, collection and preservation of evidence, sources of information, interview and interrogation, uses of physical evidence and forensic science, specific types of criminal investigations including death, homicide, sexual assault, robbery, burglary, arson, explosives, computer and white collar investigations, and case and trial preparation.
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CJ 226 Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction
This is an undergraduate-level course designed to provide the student with a foundation in crime scene investigation. The course is a complete and comprehensive look at processing a crime scene from the initial call to reconstruction of the crime scene for court presentation.
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CJ 230 Drugs and Society
This course addresses the different explanations of drug use and abuse and the impact of drugs on the body and on brain functioning. It examines the connection between drugs and crime, covering drug-related policies in the United States and abroad, including the war on drugs. It examines alternative drug policies, including a discussion regarding how other countries view drug misuse and how they approach the problem in terms of programs and policies. Students are asked to critically examine drug policies and programs.
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CJ 240 Rehabilitative Practices and Policies
This course examines the formal interventions intended to change the behavior of those convicted of crimes. In the past 30 years, the American criminal justice system has deemphasized rehabilitation in favor of more expressive punishments aimed at retribution rather than rehabilitation. This course examines what rehabilitative practices work and the philosophy underlying rehabilitation as a goal of punishment.
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CJ 248 Women and Crime
This course provides students with a perspective on the role of gender in crime and punishment. There are patterned differences in the roles males and females perform in the criminal justice system, in the crimes men and women commit, and in the crimes that victimize men and women. This course examines these questions from a historical and contemporary perspective, analyzing the changing legal status of women and the institutional response to women and victims and criminals.
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CJ 250 Policing and Society
Police officers are the public face of the criminal justice system. This course examines the organization and administration of the police in the context of social and political changes. Attention also is paid to the social and social psychological dimensions of policing, the culture of police officers, the impact of policing in communities, and policies governing the work of police officers and officials.
Prerequisite: CJ 160 .
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CJ 255 Courts and Justice
This course examines the structures and function of courts, the role of the courtroom workgroup, and the range of criminal sanctions. Students also identify and analyze issues of justice concerned with court-related policies and practices.
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CJ 260 Prisons and Corrections
The United States imprisons more people per capita than nearly all developed nations, and incarceration rates increased dramatically in the final quarter of the 20th century. This course examines the history of the prison as a means of punishment, the purpose and functions of prisons in modern society, and the successes and failures of the corrections system in the United States. In addition, the course considers shifts in the demographic profile of prisoners and the effects of increased incarceration on the home community of the incarcerated and the broader U.S. society.
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CJ 273 Criminal Minds, Criminal Roles
This course investigates the use of structural, cultural and social psychological theory in explaining criminal behavior. One focus of the course is examining criminal behavior from a life-course perspective to examine why much violent crime is committed during adolescence, why some people become career criminals while others “age out” of crime, and the manner by which race, class and gender affect criminality, given this manner by which suburban American culture impacts youth delinquency.
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CJ 275 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
This course is structured around comparisons of how crime and punishment are dealt with in other cultures and nations. The goal is to provide insight into other cultures, help illuminate underlying aspects of geopolitical conflict, and place the U.S. criminal justice system in sharper relief. Comparisons are drawn on what constitutes a crime, the judicial processes for determining guilt, and theories and practices of punishment.
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CJ 280 Crimes of Power and Privilege
This course provides a broad overview on white collar crime (i.e. definitions, theories, and characteristics). Additionally, the course will expose students to the various forms of white collar crime including but not limited to occupational crime, government crime, statecorporate crime, and state crime. Students will also examine national and international responses to these crimes.
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CJ 290 Surveillance
The increased intensity and extensiveness of surveillance is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary society. This course examines the role of surveillance in society, with special emphasis placed on surveillance as a means of criminal detection and social control. It considers a range of surveillance techniques, from hierarchical observation to CCTV monitoring of public space to the collection and sorting of personal data. Students are asked to consider these techniques in terms of sociological theories of power and social control.
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CJ 300 Race, Crime and Justice
This course examines historical and contemporary criminological theories and research on nexus between race and crime. In addition, this course will also provide an overview of the contemporary responses to race and crime in the United States as well as abroad. To understand the connection between race and crime, this course will draw on both scholarly research and popular culture to develop a critical understanding of social inequality with respect to minority involvement in the criminal justice system.
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CJ 310 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and the Law
In this course students will explore the origins, the history and struggle for civil rights. We will cover the impact that important social and political movements have had on changes in the law. In addition to the assigned texts, students will become familiar with Supreme Court decisions that have defined our constitutional rights in the modern era. The first part of the course will focus on civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s. The second half of the course students will study key provisions of the Bill of Rights, as well as Supreme Court decisions that have shaped these crucial protections against the power of the state.
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CJ 340 Juvenile Justice
This course addresses a variety of issues related to juvenile justice. It examines the juvenile justice system and all its components including the police, juvenile courts and juvenile sanctions. In it students discuss the benefits and drawbacks of various programs and policies aimed at reducing juvenile delinquency, including D.A.R.E., and trying juveniles as adults. Students also will examine the various theories about why juveniles engage in delinquency.
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CJ 350 Communities and Crime
Why do some communities have so much more crime than others? What social conditions increase crime and violence in some neighborhoods while others are relatively free from such problems? What roles do race, class, and gender inequality play with respect to differences in crime? How do criminal justice institutions (such as the police and prisons) helpor hinder the crime problems faced by local communities? This course addresses these and other related questions to examine the ways in which crime and violence are connected with various aspects of the communities within which they take place. This course will examine ecological theories, structural theories, and theories of disorder to explain differences in crime rates between communities. Finally, this course asks students to seek out solutions to improving community structures and relationships.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: CJ160 is recommended
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CJ 350 Communities and Crime
Why do some communities have so much more crime than others? What social conditions increase crime and violence in some neighborhoods while others are relatively free from such problems? What roles do race, class, and gender inequality play with respect to differences in crime? How do criminal justice institutions (such as the police and prisons) help or hinder the crime problems faced by local communities? This course addresses these and other related questions to examine the ways in which crime and violence are connected with various aspects of the communities within which they take place. This course will examine ecological theories, structural theories, and theories of disorder to explain differences in crime rates between communities. Finally, this course asks students to seek out solutions to improving community structures and relationships.
Prerequisite: CJ 160 is recommended
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CJ 375 Theories of Deviance and Criminality
Why people engage in deviant behavior, including criminal activity, has long been the subject of sociological inquiry. In this course, a variety of theoretical perspectives are considered, including functionalist, radical, social psychological and structural theories. Among the questions to be asked are: Why do people commit deviant and criminal acts? What acts are defined as deviant and criminal, and why? Who has the power to define acts as deviant and criminal? Students will be expected to understand the various theories and their implications, as well as to develop an understanding of their own theory of deviance and criminality.
Prerequisite: CJ 160 .
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CJ 377 Domestic Violence
This course focuses on the causes and impact of domestic violence, as well as strategies for its prevention, and treatment for both those who have been abused, and for for abusers. Each week students focus on a different aspect of family violence including partner abuse, child abuse, sibling violence, and elder abuse. This course examines how the criminal justice system responds to domestic violence as well, and how that response has changed over time.
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CM 101 Introduction to Media Studies
This course is a comprehensive and critical introduction to processes, industries and institutions of mass media in this country and on a global scale. Beginning with brief historical backgrounds of media such as print, radio, film, television, Internet and the new media, the course spans through major issues in the study of media in contemporary culture. It is a focused course for career preparation as well as for thinking about critical issues in the media. Strong interaction and encounters with major media forms are required. Emphasis is on writing, conceptualization and analysis and basic techniques of research and presentation. Collaborative group projects also are included. Emphasis is on global dimensions of media through our global focus program.
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CM 103 Introduction to Media Studies
(3 credits)
See description under CM101
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CM 103 Introduction to Media Studies
(3 credits)
See description under CM 101
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CM 110 Speech Communication
In this foundational course in fundamentals of speech, persuasion, articulation and techniques of delivering an effective speech presentation, students develop skills and understanding of what makes a good public speaker, along with practical exercises for various speech situations. The development of speaker’s strategies, research, writing skills and oral skills in speaking and presentation are emphasized. Practical exercises focus on four modes of speech communication (interpersonal, interview, informative, and persuasive speaking). Students acquire greater ease and confidence in public speaking and presentation. The course includes theory as well as practice of successful speech communication.
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CM 111 Speech Communication
(3 credits)
See description under CM 110
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CM 120 Applied Communication
(2 credits)
Practical applications of media technology in a collaborative and hands-on classroom context. Recommended for communication majors, but open to all students interested in various forms of media practice. Course may be offered on special topics, but is most often run as a practicum in magazine, radio, television, or newspaper production.
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CM 150 Introduction to Film
This course provides a broad introduction to the art of watching, analyzing and writing about cinema. With a focus on developing analytical skills required for engagement with the medium, the course covers various styles of film, from the United States and around the world. Through a sustained exposure to the diversity and complexity of the art form, students develop their own critical approaches to film viewing and analysis. Readings in film studies and forms of writing in film are included. Emphasis is on writing exercises, group symposia and classroom participation. Film screening sessions are required either in class or outside the classroom.
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CM 213 Writing and Communication
This is an intermediate-level writing course emphasizing skills necessary for coursework and careers in communications, bridging the gap between freshmen composition and professional writing. It covers rhetoric, audience and voice; mastering the print code; organization and message; techniques of persuasion and argumentation; writing cultural reviews; and library research in communications. It features collaborative learning and peer-group editing.
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CM 215 Public Speaking for Business
This course is intensive training in speech delivery and oral presentation techniques, with skills in rhetoric or presentation as well as persuasion in group, community and corporate settings. It offers workshops in various techniques of elocution. Exercises include writing presentations, using visual aids, techniques of persuasion and personal presentation.
Prerequisite: CM 110 ; or permission of the instructor.
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CM 235 Organizational Cultures
This course is a survey of the communication practices and cultures in a variety of organizational settings. It is a study of constitution of processes of cultures in group and institutional dynamics of organizations, with special emphasis on diversity in workplace democracy, corporate contexts, structural and linguistics practices. Case studies are of organizational cultures, use of observation, interpretation and analysis in reading and working with organizations. The course is a balanced consideration of various methodologies in the study of cultures to study organizations. Individual and group work is emphasized.
Prerequisite: CM 101 .
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CM 250 Visual Cultures
This introductory study of contemporary visual cultures examines our assumptions about visual imagery, modes of visual thinking and reflecting and analysis of images in social and cultural contexts. Emphasis is on methodical reading of critical texts and exercises in analyzing images as well perspectives on visual cultures, with strong consideration of social history of mechanical inventions (camera, cinematograph, television, computer, virtual machines). Explorations are of alternative forms of visual imagery and their cultural significance.
Prerequisite: CM 101 and Advanced sophomore standing.
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CM 268 Visual Media and the Web
This course is an exploration of methods of Web design using HTML, XHTML, JavaScript and multi-media software tools such as Photoshop, Image ready, Dreamweaver and FrontPage. The course is designed to give the student a solid foundation in HTML scripting, JavaScript code, FTP file transfers, image preparation for the Web. Students develop skills to communicate and design effectively their messages in a local and global context. Students create and maintain their own websites, as well as develop Web pages and sites for community organizations and school functions.
Prerequisite: CM 101 or permission of the instructor.
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CM 270 Practicum in Communication
(2-4 credits)
In this course on experiential projects in communications, students may make arrangements for work experience in the communications field, with a minimum of six hours per week. Supervision is by an adviser and workplace supervisor. Evaluation includes proficiency tests in practical areas and a report on the utilization of communications skills/technology. It does not replace internship requirements. May be taken twice with the permission of the adviser.
Prerequisite: CM 101 ; or permission of the instructor.
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CM 275 Video Production I
This introductory course is for students to learn about all phases of video production. Students acquire skills in conceptualizing ideas, planning for production, preparing storyboards and shooting scripts, camera operation, lighting and editing. Emphasis is on independent thinking, rigorous planning, purposeful and reflective ideas and collaborative group work. It prepares students who have little or no background in video production for further training and practice in the art form, with greater complexity in using technologies as well as themes and styles. It requires practice in studio and field recording as well as editing and group work.
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CM 317 Public Relations
This study of principles and practices of public relations and the rhetorical concerns of oral and written communication surveys strategies, “packaging,” layout and evaluation for various audiences. It emphasizes writing in every stage and provides introductory preparation for public relations careers as well as general background in communications. It includes guest lectures, frequent short writing assignments and an individual project.
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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CM 319 Writing for Television
Practice and principles of writing for television. General and specific principles of writing for different formats with consideration of audiences, scope of the medium and creative freedom in the production process. Course will compare and analyze different TV genre and their formats, as well as produced television scripts and their final products on the small screen. The course is designed to be an all encompassing simulation of what a typical television writer will encounter when hired on a real working, weekly television show.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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CM 325 Media Studies
A specialized course in reading and analyzing critical perspectives on mass media from a cultural studies perspective, this course introduces students to canonical works in critical theory, cultural studies and other contemporary models of analysis. It includes perspectives of simulation and simulacra, public sphere, gender roles, politics of identity, cultural perspectives on everyday life, creative industries and multiple aspects of globalization. It includes research, position papers, analytical papers and presentations.
Prerequisite: CM 250 ; or permission of the instructor.
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CM 340 Special Studies in Communication
This is advanced course on special topics such as media criticism, issues in cultural studies, theories of communications and interdisciplinary perspectives in communications, with in-depth study of specific issues. Topics vary according to the interests of students and faculty. Recent topics include: “The Body in Film, TV and Culture,” “Culture and Communication,” “Postmodernism: the Visual Arts,” “Internet Culture,” and “Women’s Cinema.”
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CM 350 Video Production II
This course covers all phases of video production (pre-planning, scriptwriting, preparing storyboards, shooting, editing, sound mixing and master-tape preparation). Each student produces a (two-track sound) documentary/video essay on a social topic. Students work on a collaborative basis, creating responsible crews among themselves. The course emphasizes the ethics, principles and practice of independent video production. All-round training is in production techniques, organizational ability to work in groups, and qualities of independent thinking embedded in awareness of the social and historical potential of the medium.
Lab time required.
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CM 352 Film and TV After 9/11
This course is a thorough study of how the events of Sept. 11, 2001, influenced the aesthetics, the politics and narrative structure of film and television. phenomenon. Films include: 11’09”01-September 11 (2002), Paradise Now (2005), The Great New Wonderful (2005), World Trade Center (2006), Flight 93 (2006), and Kandahar (2001). Also included are TV shows 24 (six seasons) and Sleeper Cell (two seasons). Also included are the so-called classics of terrorism and film: The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) and Born in Flames (1983). Close viewing, critical reviews of films, readings on terrorism and film/media and class participation are required.
Prerequisite: CM 101 and recommend CM 150 .
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CM 354 Popular Cinema
This course reviews critically popular films of recent times from the perspective of major issues in contemporary culture, with a broad survey of key themes such as the dominance of remakes, diversity and multiculturalism, violence, technological visions and revisions of history in widely accepted films. It requires close viewing of films, class participation, writing critical reviews and analytical papers on key themes, films and filmmakers of the past decade and a half. Readings in cultural and media studies also required.
Prerequisite: CM 101 and recommend CM 150 .
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CM 356 World of Work in Popular Film
In this course, students develop critical insights into the complexities of the film industry by examining popular Hollywood films from the 1930s through the new millennium that are set in the business world. Students analyze films such as Citizen Kane, 9 to 5, Wall Street, and Disclosure by considering the social, cultural, political, and economic conditions in which they were produced. The course examines the social significance of these films, including such factors as the presentation of myths such as the American Dream, narratives of capitalism and social mobility, and images of race, class, and gender.
Prerequisite: CM 150 , junior standing, or the permission of the instructor.
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CM 357 Media Movies
Not regularly scheduled.
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CM 358 World Cinema
This course provides an introduction to the versatility of world cinema. Film remains the richest medium around the world, as each culture and each country develops for itself a unique mode of expression in cinema. Several directors have brought to film an ingenuity that is distinctly cinematic and on par with the greatest achievements of other art forms. Even in the wake of the worst effects of globalization and the dominance of Hollywood form, its industry, its marketing and financial power, cinema around the world claims the distinction of new heights of brilliance, vast depths of its talents and a historic as well as cultural character that is unlike any other form.
Prerequisite: CM 101 and recommend CM 150 .
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CM 359 Short Film
Short film is an undefined but highly ubiquitous category in world cinema. It is often measured for its length but also for its brevity as well as for its expansive and flexible reach. This course is a thorough examination of this art form as old cinema itself, and as expansive as cinema around the globe. This broad survey includes some classic works, the Academy Award winning films, achievements of European cinema, various new formats within short film (anthology film, DVD compilations, etc.), and the forceful reemergence of this art form on the Internet. The course includes extensive viewing, comprehensive journal entries, research and writing on films.
Prerequisite: CM 101 and recommend CM 150 .
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CM 362 Creative Video
This advanced course in various phases of video production utilizes students’ understanding of the relationships between concepts/theories of culture and identity to independent production. Students develop their own projects in narrative, dramatic, experimental, and documentary or other formats of video production. The course develops particular emphasis on understanding of space, time, and construction of narrative elements and centrality of form to this visual medium. Students work in individual and group projects. It is a challenging course for students to explore relationships between personal and the political and formal and conceptual worlds in race, gender and sexuality.
Prerequisite: CM 275 and permission of the instructor.
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CM 408 Screenwriting
A sustained and complete project on writing a feature film screenplay. The emphasis will be on writing visually, as well as introducing tools of critical analysis through critique of student’s original screenplays. Students will learn every aspect of the screenwriting process from story and structure, to outline, to screenplay, to rewriting, to protecting and selling a finished script. The course is designed to be an all encompassing simulation of what a typical screenwriter will encounter when his/her idea is sold to a Hollywood studio, and developed into a completed screenplay ready for production.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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CM 411 Crisis Communication
Introduce students to crisis communication theory. Learn to apply theory by analyzing and critiquing famous crisis communication case studies. Theoretical lessons will be reinforced through the addition of practical elements like basic media training, mock press conference, environmental scanning and issue management for a real organization. Students will further synthesize their learning by developing a crisis communication plan that will apply the strategies and tactics covered during the semester.
Prerequisite: CM 317 : Public Relations
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CM 460 Senior Seminar I
This course is an overview of the methods and principles of systematic inquiry in the field of communications. It develops a discrete model of the disciplines as a humanistic field by examining communications as a human science (consisting of hermeneutics, phenomenology, structuralism, ethnography, rhetoric and dramaturgy). It shows how communications employs such social science research methods as content analysis, survey research, field research and experimental research to establish critical contextualization. Besides introductory readings, it includes critiques of published studies. The course prepares the way for the required Capstone course, CM 490 .
Prerequisite: CM 325 .
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CM 471 Internship in Communication
This internship in a supervised professional setting for a minimum of eight hours per week includes seminar meetings with other interns to discuss the work experience as it relates to theories of communication. It requires a written project based on the internship. Students in the evening program must consult with the adviser regarding course load during internship and other internship requirements.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in Communication or Global Media and approval of the faculty in the Communications program. Students also must carry at least eight additional credits at Arcadia University while enrolled in the internship unless regularly attending on a part-time basis.
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CM 489 Independent Study in Communication
This course is in-depth research on an individually defined scholarly project. It should address specific interests of students in analytical, critical, academic study of a topic. A final paper of high quality is required. It may be taken for substantive production exercise in video with emphasis in analytical presentation. It is designed to enlarge a student’s learning experience. Only one Independent Study is allowed during study at Arcadia. Some of the topics covered in the past: “Organizations as Cultural Systems,” “Semiotics of Photography” and a documentary on the Immigrant Experience of the Vietnamese.
Prerequisite: CM 325 , 3.0 cumulative GPA and permission of the instructor and faculty in the Communications program.
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CM 490 Senior Seminar II
This advanced course in communications studies is designed to serve as the culminating academic challenge to Communications majors. It includes readings in communications studies; requires integration of the internship experience and of the cumulative course work in undergraduate studies; and demands presentation of the portfolio and a final research project in the student’s area of interest. Readings emphasize a survey of contemporary analytical, critical and theoretical issues in the area of communications studies in particular, and the liberal arts and the humanities in general. The final project is to be presented to the University community during the Senior Thesis Week.
Prerequisite: CM 325 and CM 460 .
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CS 104 The Computer as a Tool
This course is an introduction to the computer as an information processing tool. It surveys general purpose programs: word processing, spreadsheets, database management and presentation graphics. It presents fundamental computer concepts: hardware, software and introduction to programming. It analyzes specialized uses of the computer in the arts, education, humanities and sciences and considers the role of the computer in society.
Prerequisite: Completion of MA 095 ; or placement into MA 100 or higher.
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CS 105 Computers and Technology in Education
Not regularly scheduled.
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CS 107 Website Development
This course examines the principles of Web page development from a technical standpoint. It is not a course in design, although it does touch on that area. After considering the relationship between design and function, students begin to write and demonstrate Web pages. Web pages will be implemented using both raw HTML and a code generator such as Dreamweaver. If time permits, Java Script will be introduced.
Prerequisite: CS 104 or the equivalent.
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CS 128G Modern Programming Languages: SAS
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CS 201 Problem-Solving with Algorithms and Programming I
This course is an introduction to the understanding of computer systems, the use of structured programming concepts, algorithm development, debugging and data analysis. It is taught with a high-level programming language. Currently the language is Java.
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CS 202 Problem-Solving with Algorithms and Programming II
A continuation of CS 201 . Topics considered in this course include recursion, dynamic memory allocation (linked lists) and an introduction to professional programming techniques.
Prerequisite: CS 201 with a grade of at least C-.
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CS 203 Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
This is an advanced course in the application of analysis and design techniques to algorithms that act on data structures.
Prerequisite: CS 202 with a grade of at least C-.
Corequisite: MA 230 ; or permission from the Department.
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CS 225 Research Writing for Computer Science
This course is intended for second-semester sophomores, it focuses on helping students gain facility with the following major types of computer science writing: instructions/manuals/code documentations, literature reviews, critiques, data presentations, research proposals and system-improving proposals. Exposure to these various types of writing will serve students well in future courses and their career.
Prerequisite: EN 101 , CS 201 and MA 230
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CS 227 Computer Networking Fundamentals
This course is an introductory study of current computing networking technologies, systems, equipment, and management/configuration software. It includes hands-on lab sessions and course projects.
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CS 228 Modern Programming Languages
This course is an introduction to contemporary computer languages such as 228A: Python; 228C PROLOG; 228D LISP; 228E Visual Basic; 228G SAS; 228H C++; 228K SASII. Content and credit hours vary depending on the interests of students and instructor. It may be repeated for credit with permission of the adviser.
Prerequisite: CS 202 or CS 128.
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