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2012-2013 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Courses

 

Musicianship
  

Nursing
  

  • NUR 333 - Professional Nursing Concepts


    3 credit(s)
    This course initiates the process of perspective transformation that registered nurses typically experience during baccalaureate education that broadens the view of themselves, of nursing, and of the possibilities of their own practice. During this course students are introduced to the basic principles, knowledge base, and new skills they need to be successful in the program. These principles and skills are embedded in the RN-B.S.N. program.
    Prerequisite(s): Matriculation into nursing major.


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  • NUR 434 - Community Service Learning I


    3 credit(s)
    This course involves students in community service learning theory and practice. Through Project Horizon, the University of Hartford’s community outreach program, students partner with nonprofit agencies and programs serving primarily vulnerable populations. Engagement, reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination are the vehicles through which service learning is implemented. This course is designed to enhance students’ understanding of the social determinants of illness, community public health nursing, and civic engagement.
    Prereq/Corequisite: NUR 433 .


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Nursing Elective Courses
  

  • NUR 410 - Environment and Health


    3 credit(s)
    This course focuses on the impact of the environment and health on ourselves, our families, our patients, and our communities. Course content includes identifying environmental toxins, their consequences on our health and our future, and safer alternatives. This course also specifically addresses legislation, governmental policies, current research, and environmental health assessment of individuals and communities.


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  • NUR 445 - Emergency and Disaster Preparedness

    Course Cross-listed with NUR 645 
    3 credit(s)
    This course provides an overview of emergency and disaster preparedness. Beginning with definitions and scope of natural disasters, pandemics, and terrorism, students consider homeland security, planning and operations, roles of citizens and the professions, barriers to preparedness, legal considerations, psychological responses, and ethical issues. Using group facilitation and case study method, the course prepares students for a leadership role to advance community emergency preparedness, volunteer management, and community recovery activities. Information provides the foundation for personal and professional emergency-preparedness planning and action.
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate or graduate standing in nursing and health professions; other students by permission of instructor.


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Painting
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • PTG 350 - Professional Practices in Painting


    3 credit(s)
    This course is an introduction to professional practices within the field of painting. Students develop a realistic understanding of the ways artists build their careers through fellowships, exhibitions, residencies, and job opportunities, and gain practical knowledge in developing self-promotional materials, studio management skills, and gallery exhibitions. Presentations by practicing artists and art professionals, along with artist’s studio, gallery, and museum visits, are integral to this course.
    Prerequisite(s): DWG 310 , PTG 330 , and PTG 331 .
    Laboratory fee.


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  • PTG 360 - Painting Internship I


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed for painting majors participating in the internship program. Internships are offered to provide students with exposure to various painting-related working environments. Placement in an internship is determined in consultation with the department faculty and the internship coordinator. Grading is on a Pass/No Pass basis only. Internship experiences may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.5 GPA, and permission of instructor.


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  • PTG 361 - Painting Internship II


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed for painting majors participating in the internship program. Internships are offered to provide students with exposure to various painting-related working environments. Placement in an internship is determined in consultation with the department faculty and the internship coordinator. Grading is on a Pass/No Pass basis only. Internship experiences may be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, 2.5 GPA, and permission of instructor.


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Paralegal Studies
  
  
  
  

  • LAH 220 - Probate Practice


    3 credit(s)
    The study of all aspects of handling estates in the probate court, such as conservator estates, estates of minors, and decedents’ estates, with an emphasis on the preparation and filing of necessary documents. An overview of other areas of jurisdiction in probate courts includes such topics as removal of parental rights, adoption, paternity, termination of parental rights, custody/removal, standby guardians, guardianships, and trusts.
    Prerequisite(s): LAH 201  or permission of instructor.


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  • LAH 375 - Workouts, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcy


    3 credit(s)
    A consideration of workouts involving the restructuring of a business deal, usually loans; foreclosures involving title; litigation and negotiation strategies involved in taking property from a defaulting debtor; bankruptcy involving motivations for filing bankruptcy; procedures in carrying a case from filing to reorganization or liquidation; and types of conflicts among creditors and debtors. Attention is also given to consumer rights and environmental law implications.
    Prerequisite(s): LAH 201 , LAH 230 , and LAH 241 .


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  • LAH 413 - Employment Law


    3 credit(s)
    This course gives students a comprehensive overview of the most important facets of employment law. The course covers a broad range of issues relating to employment. Students review the historical background of employment law that provides the legal and conceptual basis for the modern statutory approach to regulating employment relationships. Specific attention is given to the concept of discrimination in the workplace and the two statutes that form the basis of much of the current litigation in the field of employment law: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and the Age Discrimination Act.
    Prerequisite(s): LAH 201 , LAH 210 , and LAH 250 .


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  • LAH 430 - Communication Law in America

    Course Cross-listed with CMM 430 
    3 credit(s)
    Examines speech and communication rights and responsibilities in the United States. Focuses on the legal and ethical underpinnings of such matters as defamation, privacy, copyright, access to information, obscenity and indecency, and source confidentiality. Considers legal and ethical implications of media content and patterns of media ownership. Examines avenues of media and communication policy and the changes in media technologies and contexts that challenge legal and ethical constructs.
    Prerequisite(s): CMM 240 ; or POL 250  ; or LAH 201 , LAH 230 , and LAH 241 ; or permission of instructor.


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  • LAH 490 - Internship


    3–15 credit(s)
    Under faculty supervision, students are placed in a field experience in a law office, legal clinic, corporation, or government agency. In addition, students are expected to meet regularly with the faculty supervisor, keep diaries, and complete written assignments to integrate practical experience with prior course work. The minimum number of hours at the site varies with the credit hours earned; approximately 120 hours for 3 credits are expected.
    Prerequisite(s): Completion of major requirements, application for internship, and permission of instructor.


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Physical Education
  
  
  
  

  • PE 410 - Internship—Sports-Related Area


    3 credit(s)
    This internship is to provide students with an opportunity to augment their studies with a semester of work experience in the fields of education, recreation, sports marketing, or sports-related areas. Participation in a seminar is required as part of the field experience. Students work a minimum of 20 hours per week in a field assignment under the direct supervision of the director of physical education or an official designee.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the director of physical education and a 2.25 GPA.


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Physical Education: Special Topics
  

Philosophy
  

  • PHI 101 - Critical Eras in Philosophy


    3 credit(s)
    This course introduces students to one or two of the major historical periods in philosophy: ancient and medieval, renaissance, modern (the era of scientific revolution, 19th century, 20th-21st century. The specific topics are announced in the semester Schedule of Classes. In each case the course examines some of the major thinkers of the period and the questions that preoccupied them: for example, the ancients often focused on the “good life”; the medieval, on faith and reason; Renaissance thinkers, on human dignity; the moderns on sources of knowledge; 19th century thinkers on history and on political change; 20th century, on evolution and on language; 21st century, on complexity.


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  • PHI 102 - Ethics and Society


    3 credit(s)
    This course introduces students to individual and social ethics. It may present a survey of ethical issues and approaches, or it may concentrate on particular topics, including but not limited to the following: environmental ethics, philosophy of human rights, biomedical ethics, or women and social ethics. The particular focus is announced in the semester Schedule of Classes. Students learn how philosophy is informed by other disciplines and also how it is distinct in its approach.


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  • PHI 103 - Philosophy and the Arts


    3 credit(s)
    An introduction to major philosophical thinkers and ideas as investigated and presented through artistic media, including but not limited to film, literature, and visual art. The course may explore philosophical ideas as presented in several arts or it may concentrate on a particular art. The specific art(s) to be focused on are announced in the semester Schedule of Classes. Topics to be covered include the mind-body relation, varieties of ways of knowing, the nature of reality, various issues in ethics, and the role of art in society.


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Philosophy: Area One: Technical
  

  • PHI 213W - Philosophical Writing


    3 credit(s)
    This is a writing-intensive course concentrating on the writing, analysis, and criticism of philosophical arguments, in papers directed toward interpretation, application, or inquiry. Students review the core aspects of philosophical research and writing, and discuss tools for constructing and assessing significant terms; conceptual distinctions; and various types of arguments, including deductive, inductive, and abductive arguments.
    Prerequisite(s): PHI 110 


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Philosophy: Area Two: Systematic
  

  • PHI 210 - Individual and Society


    3 credit(s)
    Discussion of the relationship between the individual and society. Issues to be treated: ancient and modern conceptions of the self and of its relation to society; the need for a revision of our present concept of selfhood; the degree of our responsibility toward our fellow citizens, including future generations; the question of communitarianism and its relation to liberalism; and the relation of the political, the moral, and the personal.
    Prerequisite(s): PHI 110  or permission of instructor.


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  • PHI 232 - Biomedical Ethics

    Course Cross-listed with PHB 232 
    3 credit(s)
    A philosophical discussion of ethical considerations arising from aspects of biological and medical research and medical practice. The course will examine issues of relevance to both the researcher and the medical professional, such as euthanasia, animal experimentation, abortion, and patients’ rights.
    Prerequisite(s): PHI 110  or equivalent; or special admission on the basis of high-level professional experience in health or relevant research sciences (such admission to be approved by the instructor).


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  • PHI 233 - Organizational Ethics


    3 credit(s)
    Introduction to ethical theory as applied to organizations like businesses, governmental units, educational and service organizations. Discussion of whatever special characteristics of organizations may be ethically relevant. Consideration of the relations of organizations to society in general, to those they are intended to serve, to their individual components, and to other organizations, as well as the relationships of individuals to one another within an organization.


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  • PHI 240 - Philosophy of Religion I

    Course Cross-listed with REL 251 
    3 credit(s)
    This course focuses on 19th century philosophy of religion in Europe immediately following the work of Immanual Kant. Various thinkers to be covered include Schleielermacher, Hegel, Hume, Feurbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and of course Kant. Issues to be covered include religious ethics, the relationship between faith and reason, the nature of religious belief, and concepts of the divine.
    Prerequisite(s): at least one course in philosophy or permission of instructor.


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  • PHI 250 - Philosophy of Love and Sexuality

    Course Cross-listed with GS 250 
    3 credit(s)
    This course offers a critical analysis of the concept of sex and love, particularly as it has developed in the Western philosophic tradition. It explores sex and love as a defining element of human life, even in that “all too human” desire to step beyond ourselves. The role of sex and love is explored through various themes, like the acquisition of knowledge (as an ideal of truth), its place within religious life, and its stakes in ethical and political community. Students gain an understanding of determinate theoretical methods, like phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory.
    Prerequisite(s): PHI 110  or GS 100 .


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  • PHI 265 - Studies in Native American Philosophy


    3 credit(s)
    An intensive inquiry into Native American values, epistemologies, concepts of identity and community, responsibility, and the environment. Content varies from semester to semester. This structure allows us to offer a number of particular courses, focusing on the worldviews of Native people. Students can study the Lakota/Dakota, Pueblo, Hopi, Navaho, Apache, Iroquois, or Pequot worldviews. Since Native cultures are intimately connected with place, every appropriate attempt is made to have a travel component for these courses. Reservation visits are arranged for students to meet tribal elders and learn oral histories. Readings by Native American thinkers are required. These courses approach Native cultures on their terms and as they would like to have their worldviews understood. All courses are designed and executed in consultation with Native scholars or tribal elders.


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  • PHI 350 - Ethics of Gender and Sexuality

    Course Cross-listed with GS 350 
    3 credit(s)
    Consideration of the presuppositions we bring to thinking about ethics and morality, and of the ways in which culturally constructed gender differences affect ethical theory and moral practice. We examine a series of important themes and issues in contemporary discussions of feminist ethics, e.g., sexuality, motherhood, community, cultural difference, human rights, and moral responsibility as it exceeds the framework of rights.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or PHI 110 , or permission of instructor.


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  • PHI 361 - Philosophy of Language and Theory of Meaning


    3 credit(s)
    A philosophical investigation of different theories of language and meaning, addressing such issues as the conveyance of cognitive, emotive, and evaluative meaning by linguistic and nonlinguistic means, the manner of formation and means of analysis proper to each type of meaning, and the efficacy of meaning within the context of originator and interpreter.
    Prerequisite(s): One second-level PHI course other than PHI 220 , or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course.


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  • PHI 383W - Gender, Knowledge, and Values

    Course Cross-listed with GS 383W 
    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    Philosophy is an ongoing process both of criticism and of construction. In this course we critically examine how the different branches of philosophy—ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and others—have been inadvertently impoverished by being grounded largely in male experience. We study a rich variety of constructive moves toward a philosophy more engaged with the experience of all human beings. These moves toward gender inclusiveness in philosophy have been made by feminist philosophers and others who have recognized the influence of gender on philosophical criticism and (re)construction.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or PHI 110 , and junior or senior standing; or permission of instructor.


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Philosophy: Area Three: Historical
  
  
  
  
  

  • PHI 372 - The Postmodern Impulse


    3 credit(s)
    Explores the history of postmodernism, after a brief review of modernism and modernity. Examines distinct but overlapping varieties of postmodernism, some from fine arts; others from philosophy, history, or social science. Themes cutting across the diverse strands of postmodernism include the ideas of representation, image, and sign, as well as ideas of power, multiplicity, and corporeality. Questions addressed range from how we are to read John Cage’s music, or Disneyland, to how we ought to situate ourselves in relation to world capitalism, identity politics, and cyberspace. Other movements severely critical of modernism are noted (e.g., pragmatism and critical theory). Readings include modern authors (Marx, Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, Nietzsche) as well as postmodern thinkers, such as Venturi, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and others.
    Prerequisite(s): One second level PHI course other than PHI 220 , or B+ or higher earned in one first-level PHI course; or permission of instructor.


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  • PHI 380 - Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy


    3 credit(s)
    This intermediate level course focuses on the flowering of philosophical thought that followed the work of Immanuel Kant. Various topics and schools to be covered include history as an articulation of reason, critiques of religion and morality, the relationship of humanity to nature, Existentialism, Idealism, Materialism, Positivism, Pragmatism, and Utilitarianism.
    Prerequisite(s): at least one 200-level PHI course, or B+ or higher in one 100-level PHI course, or permission of instructor.


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