Courses

SP 265 SPEC. TOP. IN LATIN AMER. LIT   3.0 Credit(s)
Course description varies each time the course is offered. Prerequisite: Take SP-202 or by Placement
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HS 221 EMT AND CLINICAL SKILLS CERTIFICATION   0.0 Credit(s)
This course prepares students for certification as an emergency medical technician (EMT), utilizing basic knowledge and skills necessary to stabilize and safely transport patients ranging from non-emergency and routine medical transports to life threatening emergencies. Students will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to provide out of hospital emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical services (EMS) system. Various ways EMTs function as part of a comprehensive EMS response system, under medical oversight, will be covered. Students will learn to perform interventions with the basic equipment typically found on an ambulance. The critical link between the scene of an emergency and the health care system will be emphasized.  No Prerequisites. Open to All Majors.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

PO 256 POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES   3.0 Credit(s)
The course explores a wide range of common and significant political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, communism, fascism, libertarianism, populism and others. It also explores the meaning and use of the word "ideology" and how different ideologies can differ in scope or purpose.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HESA 201 STUDENT LEADERSHIP   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores student leadership in Higher Education, including leadership theory, group dynamics, and assessment.  Students will explore leadership theory and analyze the interaction of theory with practice.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

CIT 219 RACE, DIGNITY AND THE COMMON GOOD RACE DIGNITY COMMON GOOD   3.0 Credit(s)
W.E.B. Du Bois opened The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by saying "the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line." Despite the tremendous gains resulting from the Civil Rights Movement's activism, the "problem of the color-line" remains in place at the turn of the first quarter of the 21st century. This course examines the contributions of major Black authors toward addressing the "problem of the color-line" from the 19th century to today, with a focus on how Black authors have sought dignity and pursuit of the common good within a society beset by racist attitudes and legal structures that lead to disproportionate outcomes. The course puts these authors into dialogues with mainstays from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition to reflect on the nature of human dignity and our pursuit of the common good, and it especially elevates the contributions of under-discussed Black Catholics. The warrant for focusing on Black experiences and anti-Black racism is because this form of racism most directly shapes the history of racism in the US. Students will have the opportunity to investigate other groups' experiences of racism using the framework provided by our investigation of anti-Black racism. The course begins with literary texts from the 19th and early 20th century alongside legal texts to help students recognize the varieties of racial prejudice and their effects. It utilizes the distinction in Catholic theology between original sin and actual sin to help articulate the distinction to be drawn between, on the one hand, racist acts, laws, and norms for which particular actors are guilty and, on the other hand, the lingering consequences of such acts, laws, and norms, for which all are responsible, regardless of individual guilt, if we are to promote the common good and the healing of the "hidden wound" (Berry) of racism. Thinkers to be treated in this part of the course are court cases (Plessy v. Ferguson) and fiction writers (Kate Chopin, Flannery O'Connor, C.S. Lewis), as well as short excerpts from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the notions of sin, guilt, responsibility, and the common good (e.g., Plato, Augustine). The course then turns to a historical survey of major Black authors, focusing on their accounts of their own experiences and the philosophical and theoretical tools they develop to explain their experiences. This is the bulk of the course. Key figures are Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Black feminist authors, such as Audre Lorde and bell hooks, will also be included. Students will be prompted to see how the "racial contract" (as Charles Mills explains) can rewrite itself to accommodate shifting legal and social realities, such that racism persists (e.g., from slavery to Jim Crow, from Jim Crow to mass incarceration and police brutality, etc.). Major concepts and issues will include the role of literacy, the goal and function of education, the meaning of struggle, violent and non-violent resistance, the way that race hierarchy is a "fixed star" in white consciousness, double-consciousness, the Veil, oppression, and historically-minded sociological analysis. The course then turns toward systematic questions in our contemporary moment, following the conclusion of Coates's Between the World and Me. Integrating the key ideas and arguments from earlier figures, we ask what needs to change in our systems of education, law, norms, wealth distribution, etc. in order to promote Black dignity and heal the "hidden wound." Special emphasis will be placed on the dignity of labor, using texts from Tocqueville, Marx, Wendell Berry, Hannah Arendt, and Catholic social teaching (e.g., Laborem exercens). Special emphasis will also be placed on the contributions of recent Black Catholics (e.g., Brian Massingale on the necessity for lamentation). This class will serve to fulfill the Humanitistic Inquiry LAE requirement in that it will engage a number of historical and contemporary texts that raise important questions about how different groups of people engage one in another in American society, especially concerning race. It will prompt students to reflect on human nature, the nature of human dignity, and the nature of human community. The course will fulfill the Social and Global Awareness requirement by engaging with a number of social issues in US culture and their historical relations to experiences abroad (e.g., the treatment of Black GIs in WWII in Europe vs. in America, trips that each of the major figures covered took abroad and the different experiences they had there, etc.).
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

PS 282 SERVICE DOG TRAINING   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Selected Sacred Heart University students will have the opportunity to raise a psychiatric service dog for a teen or young adult struggling with their mental health while also working in conjunction with the Sacred Heart University Canine Cognition Lab on research in relation to canine behavior. The course is broken down into two main categories: training and research. Interested students should contact the instructors to schedule an interview and obtain approval to register for the course
Offered: All Semesters All Years

SP 212 CONVERSATION II   3.0 Credit(s)
Emphasis on intensive oral practice, short speeches, and group discussions. Prerequisite: SP-211 or by Placement
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

BI 205 ESSENTIALS OF NEUROSCIENCE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course is an introduction to neuroscience, a discipline in which the biological and psychological sciences are integrated. This broad overview addresses topics ranging from the cellular physiology of neurons to issues of human language, cognition, and mental illness. A prerequisite to BI 305. Prerequisite: Take BI 111, 112 and PS 110
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

BI 265 CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   4.0 Credit(s)
The focus of this course is on the science of conservation biology in the context of environmental policy, socioeconomic demands, and environmental ethics. Prerequisite: Take BI-202 and BI-204
Offered: Spring Semester Even Academic Years

CJ 239 POLICE ADMINISTRATION & SUPERVISION   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines management principles as they apply to police organizations. Includes discussion on the organization and management of police personnel at all levels of operation. Prerequisite: TAKE CJ-101
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

CJ 232 POLICE COMMUNITY RELATIONS   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines various human relations issues that affect policing and police management.  Explores programs established by the police in community relations and community involvement in police policies. Prerequisite: Take CJ-101
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

EC 203 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces macroeconomic concepts and analysis of unemployment and inflation within the context of the business cycle, the determinants of economic growth, the role of interest rates in savings and investment, the interaction of money and the banking system, and corrective monetary and fiscal policies. Students gain an international perspective by assessing the role of international trade and exchange rates in the modern global economy. A prerequisite to EC 301, EC 302, EC 303, EC 316, EC 321, EC 342, EC 373, and EC 399 Prerequisite: Take EC-202 AND MA-106 OR MA-109 OR MA-110 OR MA-151
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CJ 248 INTRODUCTION TO FRAUD EXAMINATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the legal elements of fraud and fraud investigation. Explores the methods of preventing, detecting, and deterring fraud in organizations as well as preserving the chain of custody for the court and compiling evidence for court proceedings. Prerequisite: TAKE CJ-101
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

IL 299 INFO. LITERACY:SPECIAL TOPICS   1.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: TAKE HI-201
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

AN 250 DOING ETHNOGRAPH:QUALITY RESEARCH   3.0 Credit(s)
The aim of this course is for students to develop an understanding of and an ability to use ethnography as a method of social science research. Combining theoretical and applied readings and practical assignments, the focus is on participant observation and interviewing, writing field notes, and the transformation of field data into ethnographic documents. In addition, students develop an understanding of the epistemological, political, and ethical issues surrounding ethnographic research. Prerequisite: SO-110 OR AN-110
Offered: As Needed Contact Department