Courses
CM 234 GLOBAL SPORTS MEDIA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the ethical, social, and political dimensions of sports media from a global perspective. Students will examine sports media organizations, industry practices, events, celebrity, and fandom on a global scale and develop a greater understanding of the impact of sports media on the global community.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 240 SPECIAL TOPICS IN GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES 3.0 Credit(s)
In this repeatable critical studies special topics class, students read/view, analyze and discuss key features of aesthetic traditions, modes of practice, cultural contexts and/or viewpoints through an examination of selected topics in the area of Global Media. Prerequisite: Take CM-101
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 232 GLOBAL JOURNALISM 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will immerse the student in international events, both current and historical. We will examine how American Journalists cover international news and compare and contrast how different countries cover these same major worldwide events. Students will explore the role the mass media and citizen journalists play in world events. Prerequisite: Take CM-101, CM-102
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 233 GLOBAL FILM AND TELEVISION 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students consider diverse film and television traditions from a global perspective, examining the aesthetic practices, cultural, and industrial contexts of these media outside of the U.S. Students engage in viewing, reading, class discussions and writing assignments that deepen their understanding of global film and television.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CIT 214 Woundedness, Vulnerability & Healing 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores how woundedness and vulnerability shape human beings' individual identities, personal relationships, and sense of one's place in a community. At the same time, we will discuss if and when healing is possible, to what extent religion and spirituality plays a role in that healing, and what healing even means given the variety of ways that human beings are vulnerable and wounded throughout life. The course will be discussion-based seminars, and, through an interdisciplinary pedagogy, will cover topics such as Scripture, disabilities (both physical and developmental), mental health, and social marginalization, amongst other issues. Students will be expected to engage in discussions based on assigned readings as well as complete a variety of writing assignments. The course fulfills the Humanistic Inquiry requirement for the Liberal Arts Exploration as we will critically examine and reflect upon fundamental concerns, issues, and topics related to the human condition of woundedness and vulnerability, as represented by influential thinkers and writers, often (although not exclusively) from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. In addition, this course supports the minor in Humanities and Health.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
CH 201 INTRO BIOCHEMISTRY CLINICAL NUTRITION 3.0 Credit(s)
This is an introductory level course for students pursuing a degree in clinical nutrition. The course provides an overview of the chemistry and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids. The structure and function of proteins and enzymes will also be discussed. Concepts are discussed in the context of human nutrition diseases to further understand how biochemical processes are relevant to human life. Prerequisite: Take CH-151 or CH-117
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 281 AUDIO FIELD PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed for students to develop the necessary skills to record professional audio outside the recording studio, at various locations for live performances. Students will be introduced to the craft of field recording, including gear, technique and tricks to use in the field.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MU 282 MULTITRACK STUDIO AUDIO PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to provide the students with the knowledge and skills associated with multitrack recording, which are essential building blocks in the field of Digital Audio Production.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HI 205 RELIGION AND REVOLUTION 3.0 Credit(s)
From the ongoing struggle against the permissiveness of sexual harassment waged by the "Me Too Movement," to the robust pro-life movement, to the calls for transgender rights, the legacies of the feminist as well as gay liberation movements, and the criticisms levied against these struggles are still salient and even disputed in political life today. Among those voices, religious leaders continue to passionately debate these issues using theological arguments to undermine and/or advocate for women's, gay, and trans peoples' liberation. Considering this story from the Catholic perspective, this course considers how Catholics engaged with these movements often vehemently debating, and sometimes embracing, the "new woman" of the 1920s, contraception, second-wave feminism, gay liberation, and abortion. This course will offer students the chance to engage with the longer history of feminist and LGBTQ movements in the twentieth century, while at the same time immersing them in how Catholics responded to historic debates about gender and sexuality that shaped political and cultural life in this era. Prerequisite: Take HI-100 or HI-102 or HI-110 or HI-115
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CIT 232 WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? 3.0 Credit(s)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Catholics and Community "Who is my neighbor?" This question inspired the Good Samaritan parable in the Gospel of Luke, and it resounds today. How do places, communities, and the built environment help people embody the Catholic Intellectual Tradition? This course introduces an interdisciplinary Catholic Studies approach to social structures and material cultures by reading "the signs of the times" in local buildings, local objects, local practices, and local policy choices. We understand what it means to be a neighbor when we take the "local" seriously: this course focuses on connections between the universal and the particular through our social location at Sacred Heart University and the greater Bridgeport region. What is SHU's relationship to the pioneering vision of the Second Vatican Council and Bishop Curtis's idea to empower the vocation of the laity here at home? How have Catholics and their institutions related to the ideal of neighborly communities? How does the Catholic Intellectual Tradition encourage us to learn by serving others? Students will be invited to encounter neighbors different from themselves and to situate those stories within a larger framework. Students will also consider how generational and neighborhood divides can be overcome through dialogue, encounter, and shared commitments to justice and the common good.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
CIT 215 HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND FAITH 3.0 Credit(s)
Drawing from the values and perspectives of Catholic Social Teaching through the lens of Social Work practice, this course critically examines social justice concepts and develops intercultural skills needed to address issues of social justice with individuals and diverse communities. Through a cultural immersion experience abroad, students will be engaged with local communities and participate in community-based learning opportunities which address issues such as: human rights, human dignity, solidarity with the poor, and the common good.
Offered: Spring Semester Odd Academic Years
ENG 264 DIGITAL WRITING FOR MAGAZINES 3.0 Credit(s)
In Digital Magazine Writing, students will engage with the various forms of writing that exist across online publishing. Students will learn to differentiate between digital media platforms and identify ways to engage with an online audience for a specific topic. In addition, students will learn the process of digital publishing, from crafting a concise pitch to learning strategies to make their writing reach their desired audience. At the conclusion of the semester, students will have crafted a digital writing portfolio that can be shared with a target audience and potential employers. Prerequisite: Take ENG-253, FYWS-125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
HI 286 THE SOVIET UNION 3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the history of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, focusing on revolutionary movements, the construction of a socialist economy, nationality policy, Stalinism, World War II, the Cold War, Soviet culture and society, and the fall of the USSR. Consideration also given to Ukraine and Russia since the end of Soviet rule in 1991. Prerequisite: Take HI-100 or HI-102 OR HI-110 or HI-115
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MA 201 INTRODUCTION TO LATEX 1.0 Credit(s)
LaTeX is the free, open-sourced software that is the industry standard used for typesetting professional documents that involve mathematical notation. This course introduces essential components of a functioning LaTeX file, including document classes, preambles and packages, mathematical symbols, commands, display math, spacing and alignment, arrays, image insertion, and references. Students will be given multiple opportunities to practice typesetting documents using LaTeX. Templates for future use will be supplied and reviewed. This course is Pass/Fail. Prerequisite: Take MA-151; min grade of C or permission of dept chair
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CIT 231 BECOMING HOLY 3.0 Credit(s)
How does someone become holy? In this course, students engage the virtues- as theological/philosophical ideas, as ways of being depicted in art, and as values exemplified in the particular lives of Catholic saints-in order to answer that very question. This seminar interrogates saints, both canonized and living in our midst, as an entry point into a larger reflection on how particular lives connect to a universal Church, as well as how virtues might help us in our own journeys in becoming holy. After opening the course with discussions about sanctity and saint-making, students will be immersed in a study of virtues contextualized in lives of saints located around the globe. Students will encounter and conduct an interdisciplinary study of the biographies and contexts of key historical figures that will challenge assumptions, as well as broaden perspectives about what the word "Catholic" means. The Greek word catholicam means universal. In the end, they will consider how collectively these lives form the communion of saints. How might Catholicism make a universal impact? How do we see the universal in particular lives? Students will learn how to identify as well as shape a life worth living, and perhaps, even how to become holy.
Offered: All Semesters All Years