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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course numbers followed by an ‘L’ are cross-listed with another department or program.
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Academic Support Programs
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ASP 120 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring
1 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This blended course serves as a formalized professional training course for peer tutors. This course will help tutors develop their own metacognitive abilities as they learn how to practically apply educational theories in their tutoring sessions. Tutors will also learn transferable professional skills such as: communication strategies, leadership skills, conflict management and consultation techniques, and experience working effectively with a diverse population of individuals.
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ASP 301 - Peer Educator Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Seminar | Graded (included P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Students will complete the 10 hour-long sessions of training and 25 hours of direct service required to become CRLA-certified peer educators in accordance with the College Reading and Learning Association training program. Students will also consider ways in which they are valuable contributors and advocates to their peers’ educational experiences at UMass Boston. Over the semester, students will participate in weekly classes that include discussing their personal strengths, identifying goals and challenges, and practicing strategies for connecting with students and faculty to creating a strong and collaborative learning environment in the classroom.
Enrollment Requirements:
English 101 and 102; FYS
Department consent required for enrollment
Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring
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Accounting/Finance
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AF 201 - Personal Finance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Introduces students to planning and managing personal and family finances. Topics include insurance and estate planning, relationships with banks, issues in home ownership and real estate, the fundamentals of investing in stocks and bonds, tax planning, leasing as compared with buying automobiles, and financing college education. This course cannot be counted toward the finance or accounting concentration in the College of Management.
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AF 310 - Intermediate Accounting I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course provides knowledge of financial accounting theory, with particular emphasis on the application of theory and on the practical problems arising from the limitations of traditional financial statements. It also provides in-depth analysis of the application of generally accepted accounting principles to asset and current liability items. In addition, students learn to research business problems through the use of the Internet; and discuss ethical issues faced by managers.
Course Note
This is the initial course in the intermediate accounting sequence, to be followed by AF 311.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite(s): AF 211 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 311 - Intermediate Accounting II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
. This course continues to develop accounting theory, using principles, concepts, and accounting pronouncements to analyze and resolve accounting issues. Students acquire an understanding of issues unique to corporations and complete the study of the balance sheet by examining long-term debt and equity issues. In addition, they discuss ethical issues faced by managers in today’s business world. Continuing emphasis will be placed on computer application skills, research skills and written and oral communication skills.
Course Note
This is the second course in the intermediate accounting sequence.
It is recommended that students take AF 301 before AF 311.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 310 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 , or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 315 - Accounting Information Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines the design, implementation, operation, and control of contemporary computer-based accounting information systems. Students complete projects which require the use of current information technology to solve real world problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 211 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 317 - Data Analytics for Accounting
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not Repeatable for credit
Description:
The professional accounting industry is undergoing a major shift from recent technological advances. The new skillset that is becoming more important for nearly every aspect of business is analyzing large amounts of data to find actionable insights, i.e., data analytics.
The course will discuss concepts and applications involving the analysis of data sources – large and small to facilitate decision making. Students will follow the “IMPACT” model i.e. Identify the questions; Master the data; Perform the test plan; Address and refine results; Communicate insights; and, Track outcomes. Software in the course would involve: Microsoft Track [i.e. Excel, Power Query, Power BI]. Application tools such as Pivot tables, Excel formulas, applied statistics and visualization applications will be included. Additionally, Structured Query Language [SQL] will be considered. Data from real companies, such as Lending Club will be used in analyses.
Enrollment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: MSIS 110 Introduction to Computers and IS.
Department consent required for enrollment
Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring
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AF 325 - Theory of Corporate Finance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Provides a sound understanding of the principles of and analytical techniques used in financial management. The course describes financial decision making by corporations and shows how it can be used to address practical problems and illuminate institutional aspects of the financial world. Topics include review of valuation concepts, cost of capital, advanced capital budgeting, capital structure theories, dividend policy, IPOs, long-term financing and working capital management.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 301 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 , or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 330 - Business Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Examines the body of law involved in the formation, operation, and termination of business organizations; in contracts; in debtor-creditor relations; in uniform commercial code (sales, commercial paper, secured transactions); in property, estate, and trust; in government regulations; and in issues of CPA liability. Course content encompasses the topics to be found on the CPA law examination.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 211 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 , or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 335 - Investments
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Provides the student with an understanding of capital market securities, operations, valuation, and investment techniques. Specifically, the course covers definitions of various investment vehicles, operation of the NYSE and NASDAQ markets, portfolio theory (CAPM and APT), valuation of stocks and bonds, and investor capital allocation decisions, including discussions of mutual fund selection.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 301 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 , or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 363 - Cost Accounting
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Examines the design, implementation and operation of cost accounting systems. With primary emphasis on cost analysis in manufacturing, the course explores cost standards, actual performance, and variances. To a lesser extent, it also applies concepts of cost accounting to manufacturing and service organizations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 211 and a minimum of 60 credits
Pre- or corequisite: MATH 134 , MATH 135 , MATH 140 , MATH 141 , MATH 145 , or MATH 146
Management students only
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AF 475 - Real Estate Finance & Investment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Deals with the financing, valuation, and development of real estate investments. The course examines the theoretical The course examines the theoretical and pragmatic models of valuation, the financial structure of successful developments, and the appropriate models of investment choice and portfolio management for real estate investors. It develops an appreciation of the similarities and differences between real and financial assets, and integrates the techniques of real estate analysis with those of corporate finance. Students are expected to participate actively in analyzing real estate investments and developments through case studies and through interaction with executives from the investment, development, and lending communities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AF 301 and a minimum of 60 credits
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AF 480 - Accounting Internship
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Provides students with opportunities for full- or part-time work experience in an accounting or finance setting. On-site supervisors and faculty sponsors provide guidance and supervision for each intern.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
Department consent required for enrollment
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AF 490 - Current Topics in Accounting
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is the capstone subject in accounting, and focuses on the understanding, options and application of current accounting situations. The objective of this course is to equip students with tools and techniques to be able to (a) understand and assess the quality of financial reports and identify significant accounting issues (b) use financial reports to assess the level and drivers of firm performance, (c) value companies, and (d) evaluate top managers. The course will also help students gain an understanding of theoretical models and sophisticated quantitative models in financial reporting and to integrate the concepts into real big data. Students will learn the required data analytics skills to understand, analyze, and produce solutions to challenges in accounting.
Enrollment Requirements:
Pre-Requisites:
AF 310 - Intermediate Accounting I, and
AF 311 - Intermediate Accounting II
Department consent required for enrollment
Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring
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AF 499 - College of Management Honors Thesis Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (no P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
The CM honors research seminar and thesis Program is a two-semester course sequence. In this seminar, students successfully complete a research while working closely with a faculty advisor to define the project, which builds upon work completed in the per-requisite course, CM Honors Research Seminar. The honors thesis project stretches and grows a student’s capabilities. Therefore, the program is structured around a series of assignments and milestones during which students will work with guidance from a faculty advisor and program coordinator toward a project that meets course goals.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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Advancing and Professional Studies
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CAPS 111 - Introduction to Biomimicry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is an introduction to the field of biomimicry. “Biomimicry” (from Bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Biomimicry asks the question: What would nature do? The goal is to create sustainable products, processes, and policies by learning from and “listening to” nature, to the wisdom held in biological and ecological systems that has been evolving and accumulating over the past 3.8 billion years. Natural systems and organisms provide stunning examples of effective communication, resource production and storage, and energy efficient design. Animals, plants and microbes are consummate engineers; they have found what works, what is appropriate, and most importantly, what is sustainable. Biomimicry might help create a solar cell that is inspired by a leaf with chloroplast and chlorophyll, a passive cooling system for buildings inspired by a termite mound, or find new strategies for restoring degraded ecosystems. People are nature, too. Human cultures with long term residency in particular ecosystems hold crucial knowledge for living sustainably in place.
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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CAPS 112 - University Success Course
1 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is designed for students in the one-semester University Pathways program to aid in their transition to the college and campus environment. Through class activities, assignments, workshops and discussions students become oriented to the various campus resources and services available and begin to develop the academic skills necessary to excel at the university level. Topics will include academic expectations, UMass Boston’s institutional policies and procedures, goal-setting, academic fundamentals including critical university skills, major and career exploration, and finding balance between personal, social and academic life.
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CAPS 118 - Special Topics
1-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2
Description:
The study of special topics in general Education. Consult college’s description of current offerings to find out about the topics being explored this semester.
Course Note
May be repeated for credit.
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CAPS 131 - Business of Sports
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
The course will review the basic economic concepts of supply and demand, elasticity, monopoly, and competition and show how these concepts apply to professional sports, including broadcast contracts, merchandising venue stadium sponsorships, and trades. The course looks at the role of government in financing stadiums and the impact of professional sports leans on local economies and will also cover labor markets for professional athletes, college athletes, non-professional sports, and the increased participation of women in sports, professional and amateur.
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CAPS 174 - Survival Skills for the 21st Cent: Develop Personal, Organizational, & Community Resilience Skills
0 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course will examine resilience and the power to adapt stress, adversity, and trauma. Coping with and managing tragedy and crisis is important to the individual, his/her family and friend, employment, and other relationships that are part of our lives.
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CAPS 178 - Independent Study
1-3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 12 / total completions: 12
Description:
Work done by a student or group of students under faculty supervision on material not currently offered in a regularly scheduled course. Students wishing to undertake such work must first find a faculty member willing to supervise it; the work to be completed must be approved by the college Associate Dean.
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CAPS 211 - Cultural Links to Biodiversity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course investigates relationships between human cultures and the natural world. Linkages between the two are increasingly seen as keys to sustainable development and addressing world issues such as poverty and food supply. Over time, man’s relationship with nature has changed, especially as technology plays a greater role in our lives, and globalization begins to homogenize cultural views. Emerging areas of study focus on the links between culture and biodiversity. Definitions of culture reflect this connection by including the co-evolution of the natural environment and the shared systems of beliefs, values, norms, artifacts and institutions that commonly are part of the definition of culture. By exploring our changing cultural attitude towards nature through the built environment, agriculture, transportation, tourism, and the economy, the importance of cultural as well as biological diversity will be established.
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CAPS 212 - Introduction to Cybersecurity
Formerly SSCP Certification Exam Preparation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This cybersecurity course is intended to help prepare learners interested in taking the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP®) certification examination offered by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2. Cybersecurity is the field of computer science pertaining to the protection of software, host systems and networks. This course will cover a number of important topics including cryptography, software security, operating system security, network security, web security and malware analysis. This course prepares students to be specialized in cybersecurity with the fundamental concepts and technologies of cybersecurity to protect network assets by detecting, preventing, and deterring cyber adversaries. Presenters share cutting-edge knowledge, strategic tactics, and collaborative networks to enhance clinical practice.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 105 or CS 110 or permission of instructor
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CAPS 218 - Special Topics 200-level
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3
Description:
Various interdisciplinary special topics offered experimentally, once, under this heading, taught at the 200’s-level. Topics are announced each semester this course runs, during pre-registration.
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CAPS 318 - Special Topics 300-level
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3
Description:
Various interdisciplinary special topics offered experimentally, once, under this heading, taught at the 300’s level. Topics are announced each semester this course runs, during pre-registration.
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CAPS 330 - Bridge2Business Boot Camp
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (no P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Employers recognize the skills that students in the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences bring to the workplace. What can hinder these graduates’ employability, however, is a minimal understanding of the business world. This course seeks to remedy this lack of knowledge by preparing students with broad Liberal Arts and Social Science backgrounds for business environments. The course covers basic components of business processes and concepts. Guidance on some per-employment techniques is also provided.
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CAPS 342 - Addictions Treatment Delivery Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is a practical study of treatment delivery systems and methodology of substance abuse treatment, including funding sources, administration of programs, and Federal and state laws and policies affecting treatment delivery. This course includes training in the fundamental twelve core functions of substance abuse treatment, and assistance in placement in a practicum setting. Assessment and referral utilizing American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Placement Criteria, private insurance behavioral health criteria, Medical/MASSHEALTH guidelines, and Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) Levels of Care is a key component of this course. Ethical decision-making practice in substance abuse counseling is an important aspect of this course. The course is structured around the continuum of treatment, utilizing the Global Criteria reflected in the International Certification & Reciprocity Commission Exam, which is recognized by national and State of Massachusetts credentialing authorities.
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INFOTECH 022 - Foundational in Data Visualization
0 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
The study of foundational information processing through data visualization technologies designed as a non-credit offering for students of the Boston Public School System.
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PRFTRN 256 - Therapeutic Mentoring
1.6 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
As youth mentors take on therapeutic roles, there is a need for competency in mental health theory, research, and practice. this course will cover the core competencies of therapeutic mentoring including the best practices in youth mentoring , supportive accountability, supervised practice, building working alliances, working within systems of care and relationship maintenance and termination.
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Africana Studies
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AFRSTY 100 - Introduction to African-American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This survey course examines the writings of African-Americans who have made unique contributions to the African-American literary tradition. The course explores these writings in terms of their sociohistorical context, making use of analyses of character, plot, and symbolism. It gives particular attention to the writers’ roles as social critics. Among the writers whose work may be considered are Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Ernest Gaines, George Jackson, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course presents an overview of the major theories in the field of Africana studies. It seeks to explore the Africana experience in a way that is orderly, systematic, and structurally integrated; and to convey an understanding of the cultural, historical, and political roots of this experience. The course focuses chronologically on major historical episodes through a study of ancient African civilizations, slavery, colonialism, and African liberation movements.
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 108 - African-American Social Movements
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Concepts of social movements as well as the appearance of social movements among African-Americans in the nineteenth century. Examination of twentieth century African-American social movements, especially Marcus Garvey’s movement, the Nation of Islam, the Civil Rights movement, and the Black Power movement. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 110 - African-American History I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
An intensive study of the social, economic, and political history of African-Americans from the slavery period through the Civil War, with particular emphasis on the social and cultural antecedents of African-Americans, Abolitionism and the Civil War.
Distribution Area: Humanities
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AFRSTY 111 - African-American History II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
An intensive study of the social, economic, and political history of African-Americans from the era of Reconstruction to the present. Topics include the African-American during Reconstruction, racism in America, and a critical examination of the variegated patterns of African-American response to American social conditions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Distribution Area: Humanities
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 113 - Islam and the African World
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course presents an overview of Islam as a religious construct in the African world. Specifically, the course will explore the nature of the relationship between Islam and Africa from the birth of the religion to the present. As a comparative and historical survey of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, the course explores facets of Islam in African history, culture and society. In addition, it explores the rise and diversification of Islam in the African diaspora, particularly in the Americas.
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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AFRSTY 116 - African Civilizations: Historical Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course provides a broad survey of the historical processes that have shaped African societies from the earliest traces of human culture to the abolitions of slavery.. Specific attention will be paid to such precolonial African societies as Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Mali, Ghana, and Great Zimbabwe among others. The changing nature of the relationship between Africa and the Western world will also be analyzed, and in this respect the trans-Atlantic slave trade will receive close attention. We will also critically reflect on the ways in which knowledge on African history has been constructed and how it may influence our image of the African continent.
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 122 - Black Cinema: American Myth, Racial Ideology, and Hollywood
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
What is “Black Cinema”? How did “Black Cinema” originate? What gives “Black Cinema” a distinct voice of its own? Must “Black Cinema” only be directed by African Americans, feature an all Black cast , or only address a Black audience and “Black issues” in order to qualify as “Black Cinema”? Should we differentiate between “Black Cinema” and “Cinema”? What are the ethical, social and political implications central to making these distinctions? This course examines those questions while chronicling the history and present state of “Black Cinema” (from the early 20th century filmmaking of Oscar Micheaux; Blaxploitation films of Gordon Parks and Melvin Van Peebles; fiction films by Charles Burnett, Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, Steve McQueen and Dee Rees; documentaries by Marion Riggs, Stanley Nelson and June Cross; as well as animation films made for TV and media streamed online).
Distribution Area: Arts
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AFRSTY 141 - Haitian Creole I for Beginners
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is designed for those who do not speak and understand Haitian Creole and are interested in learning its grammatical structure, its lexicon and its syntax is order to develop meaningful conversational and writing skills along with reading and listening comprehension. This course aims at helping learners develop understanding of academic Haitian Creole language and substantial capacities to participate in basic social and cultural conversations.
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AFRSTY 142 - Cape Verdean Language I for Beginners
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
The beginner’s Cape Verdean Language course will introduce participants to spoken and written forms of the Cape Verdean Language. The main objective of the course is to teach students to understand and to speak Cape Verdean language as a means of communication through solid instruction of syntax and lexical features of the language within a cultural context.
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AFRSTY 150 - African Images in Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines the different ways in which African writers have represented the continent of Africa by focusing on their struggle to develop authentic forms and images. Through the reading of selected folk tales, novels, and poems from different African societies, participants consider such issues as the influence of colonialism on creative writing; the politics of African culture; race and class; the images and status of women.
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 200 - Living While Black: Contemporary Issues in the African Diaspora
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
A writing- and research-intensive critical examination of contemporary and long unfolding social, political, cultural, historical, public health, and economic issues within and across the Black Diaspora, including the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific spaces of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin and South America, Europe, and the Pacific Islands. This course will engage the burgeoning scholarly and theoretical fields of Black Studies, enabling a full and rigorous commitment to a trans-national and trans-disciplinary approach to the problems of black social life within colonial modernity and racial capitalism. This course will closely examine the complex of issues that affect African and African-descended individuals, their families, and their communities within the context and in the aftermath of European colonization.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: AFRSTY 101 or Sophomore standing
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AFRSTY 204 - Afro-Latin America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Students will develop an in-depth understanding of the particular experiences of African and African descended peoples in Hispanophone, Lusophone, and to a lesser extent the Francophone territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. This course seeks to help students explore the particularities of slavery in the Americas, the Haitian Revolution and its impact on articulations of race and nation in the region, debates on “racial democracy,” the relationship between gender race, and empire, and recent attempts to write Afro-Latin American histories from “transnational” and “diaspora” perspectives. Students will explore the scholarship by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists and examine the links between scholarship and struggle and between social analysis and social transformation.
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AFRSTY 210 - The Making of the African Diaspora
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This seminar explores global and transnational experiences; social, political, cultural and economic issues confronting people of African descent in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa from the seventeenth century on. Topics include theory, methods, and historiography of African Diaspora. In addition, this course will introduce student to racial theories or formations such as mestizaje-notions of racial mixing in Brazil and Blanqueamiento-the process of ‘whitening’ in Spanish speaking nations in South America in efforts to erase the “black” population or presence.
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AFRSTY 225 - The Origins of Caribbean Civilizations
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course explores Caribbean society from the Columbian era to the period of emancipation. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the foundations of Caribbean civilizations in the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking areas of the region. Special emphasis is given to the rise of African communities in the New World. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 230 - African-American Women’s History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course introduces students to the major issues in the history of African-American women. Topics include the role of women in pre-colonial Africa, the slave trade, the female experience in slavery, free women, African-American women and religion, and the role of African-American women in the early twentieth century.
Distribution Area: Humanities
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 241 - Haitian Creole II for Intermediate Learners
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is designed for those who speak and understand some Haitian Creole with limited fluency and are seeking ways of improving their language skills, overcoming grammatical snags, increasing their vocabulary, and understand the idiomatic use of the language along with the proverbs - [every day language as well as texts that have proverbs.].
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: AFRSTY 141 or placement test
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AFRSTY 250 - The Civil Rights Movement
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines the American Civil Rights movement as it developed during the period from 1954 to 1965, and as it changed during the period from 1966 to 1986. The course assesses the roles played by individuals, movements, governments, and political leaders in the process of social change.
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 251L - African-American Art
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course surveys the history of art by artists of African descent in the United States since the 18th century. The primary focus will be the analysis and contextualization of works of art made between the late 1800s and the present by Black U.S.-based artists. This course examines how and why Black artists have employed assorted forms of artistic expression in all media to assert and question personal, racial, and national identity. We will consider the relationship between African-American art, art in the U.S., and art in the wider Black Diaspora as well as interrogate the usefulness of the racialized category of “African-American art.” Via critical analysis of work in all media, students will explore the continuities and disruptions of major traditions in art and analyze concepts of race and racism, from the times of colonialism through to our contemporary moment.
Course Note
ART 251L and AFRSTY 251L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as ART 251L
Distribution Area: Arts
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 260L - African-American Folklore
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines the development and the significance of African-American folklore through study of its various genres: music, tales, legends, shorter verbal forms, material culture, folk belief, and folk humor. Emphasis is given to both African survivals and Indo-European influences in these genres.
This course is cross-listed as AMST 260L
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 270 - The Black Image on Stage and Screen
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course explores the history and development of how Africans and African Americans are depicted on stage, on the movie screen, and in television. Starting in the days of Shakespeare (Othello, Aaron in Titus Andronicus) the course will take a path that includes the days of minstrel shows, Race movies, Magic Negroes, Blacksploitation, The Black Arts Movement, the “post-racial” age, and on into the images of tomorrow. By the end of the course, students will not only have the knowledge of how racial identities develop through media such as television and motion pictures, but will also be able to view future depictions of blacks and other persons of color on stage with a critical eye to certain stereotypes.
Distribution Area: Arts
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 280 - Special Topics in Africana Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3
Description:
Various specialized topics are offered once or twice under this heading. Topics change from year to year and are announced before the beginning of each semester.
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AFRSTY 300L - Women in African Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course challenges stereotypical constructions of Africa and African woman in mainstream media by considering internal and external historical relationships that have shaped and redefined the cultures, ideas, institutions, politics, and social relations of several specific groups of African women. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the course addresses issues and challenges of contemporary Africa, and explores many of the themes and concerns that have run throughout Africa’s gendered, complex, and changing history. Popular culture sources, as well as scholarly studies and activist writing, will be employed to help illuminate the lived experiences and perspectives of contemporary women living in various African societies.
Course Note
AFRSTY 300L and WGS 300L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as WGS 300L
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 301 - African-American Intellectual Thought
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
A survey course of the significant writings of African-Americans from the period of Emancipation to the present, with special reference to issues concerning the educational, political, sociological, and psychological status of African-Americans in the United States.
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AFRSTY 308 - Africana Feminisms in the Black Diaspora
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines the lives, struggles and accomplishments of African Diasporic women along the axes of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation. Critical to understanding Africana women’s lived experiences is an appreciation of for the ways that these women integrate political action and consciousness into their daily, familial and communal lives utilizing ethnographic and (auto)biographic readings to allow women of the African Diaspora to speak for and about themselves. This course examines the multiple ways African Diasporic women shape histories in the Americas and Africa, connecting the politics of Africana Feminisms and Black/Women’s Liberation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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AFRSTY 310 - Modern Caribbean Society
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course undertakes a phenomenological and interpretive analysis of the organization and social structure of modern Caribbean societies. After a brief examination of the colonization and slavery period, it concentrates on the contemporary era with a special focus on key factors that have shaped the cultural parameters and the internal dynamics of the social systems of these Creolophone, Francophone, Anglophone Hispanophone and Dutch-speaking Caribbean societies. Special attention is therefore given to the salient racial, ethnic, social, political, economic and cultural issues that have significantly influenced and contributed to present day Caribbean societies.
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 320 - Problems in Urban Education
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course looks at the relationship between young people growing up in the cities and the efforts to reform urban schooling. The course examines the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of formal “education” in the city. Questions posed include: What is education? Why educate? Who is educated in the city? What impact does urban education have upon its recipients and their families, culture, community? What is the relationship between urban education and the American social order? (Course offered in the fall only.)
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AFRSTY 326L - Multiracial Experiences
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course explores the experiences of multiracial individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. We will explore historical and current meanings of race and racialization, including the personal, community, and political implications of racial categorizations, racial purity, and newer ideas of multiraciality and changing boundaries. We will consider racial identities and the negotiation of multiple, complex and contradicting meanings of race and racialization. We will also explore the diverse meanings and experiences of multiracial individuals in specific relation to various racial groups, including White European Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos. Finally, we will consider issues related to community organizing for, by and in relation to multiracial peoples.
Course Note
ASAMST 326L and AFRSTY 326L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as ASAMST 326L
Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 341 - Haitian Creole III for Advanced Learners
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is designed for those who speak and understand Haitian Creole with some fluency but seeking ways of perfecting their language skills, overcoming grammatical snags, increasing their vocabulary, and mastering the idiomatic use of the language along with the proverbs - [every day language as well as texts that have proverbs].
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: AFRSTY 241 or placement test
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AFRSTY 343L - African Diaspora Archaeology: Uncovering Roots, Routes, and Resistance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is an introduction to African Diaspora archaeology, a burgeoning area of study within the sub-discipline of historical archaeology. Students will explore the concept of diaspora as a means to critically understand the factors underlying the forced dispersal of African people. Participants will consider how archaeological studies of the African diaspora have yielded alternative interpretations of the black past. Throughout the semester, students will examine how archaeologists have investigated the physical and culture landscape, foodways, ritual and religion and objects from everyday life to reveal the ways the black people have resisted and responded to enslavement and other forms of racial oppression.
Course Note
ANTH 343L and AFRSTY 343L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as ANTH 343L
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 350L - Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course deals with the interrelationship of race, class and gender, exploring how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the United States. Focusing on race, class and gender as distinct but interlocking relationships within society, the course examines both the commonalities and the differences that different historical experiences have generated.
Course Note
AFRSTY 350L and AMST 350L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as AMST 350L
Diversity Area: United States
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AFRSTY 352L - Harlem Renaissance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and “imagined” communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses.
Course Note
AFRSTY 352L and AMST 352L and ENGL 352L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as AMST 352L and ENGL 352L
Distribution Area: Humanities
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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AFRSTY 355L - Black Popular Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course requires students to engage with Black/African diasporic cultural products intended for a mass audience. The macro-contents of American and global consumer capitalism and the micro- categories of ethnicity, gender, and sexualities are used as a framework for the critical analysis of production, consumption, and reception of African American popular culture in the US and abroad.
Course Note
AFRSTY 355L and AMST 355L are the same course.
This course is cross-listed as AMST 355L
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
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AFRSTY 404 - Race, Class, and Health Inequalities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course provides students a comprehensive overview of health inequalities in African and African diasporic communities. The course examines topics such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and other research studies that have placed people of African descent at risk.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: AFRSTY 101
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AFRSTY 406 - Race, Class, and Environmental Justice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the beginnings of the environmental justice movement with a particular focus upon African and African diasporic communities. The course provides an integrated overview of ethical principles and dilemmas that arise from environmental justice; elements of toxicology and epidemiology related to communities of color; environmental health disparities, including gene and environmental interaction; and the economics and social impacts of environmental racism.
Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: AFRSTY 101
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AFRSTY 440 - Post-Colonial Literature: Africa and the Caribbean
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course examines contemporary African and Caribbean literature in its historical, cultural, and intellectual context. Emphasis is on the ways different writers have attempted to develop new literary forms in order to create authentic images of their cultures and communities. The course also looks at the continuing influence of colonialism on the literary and social life of these communities.
Course Note
There is no prerequisite, but AFRSTY 290 is strongly recommended.
Diversity Area: International
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AFRSTY 441 - Techniques of Haitian Creole Translation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course is designed for those who speak and understand Haitian Creole with great fluency but seek ways of perfecting their language skills, overcoming grammatical snags, increasing their vocabulary, and mastering the idiomatic use of the language along with the proverbs for the purpose of translating Haitian Creole to English and vice versa and doing interpretation in courthouses, hospitals, and other venues.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: AFRSTY 341 or placement test
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AFRSTY 478 - Independent Study
1-3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99
Description:
Students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty.
Course Note
Students wishing to register for independent study must do so through the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
Instructor consent required for enrollment
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AFRSTY 479 - Independent Study
1-3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99
Description:
Students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty.
Course Note
Students wishing to register for independent study must do so through the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
Department consent required for enrollment
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AFRSTY 480 - Topics in Africana Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Repeatable for credit - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99
Description:
Intensive study of special topics varying each year according to instructor.
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AFRSTY 490 - Internship
3 Credit(s) | Internship | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Students will attain “hands on” active learning within a mentored environment to gain experience for careers in museums, archives, digital technology, education, politics, public agencies, law, libraries, nonprofits, or private businesses.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: Juniors or seniors only
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Alcohol, Chemical Dependence Treatment Services Program (non-credit)
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ACDTSP 001 - Use of Alcohol and Other Substances in Society
3-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course surveys the broader problems caused by the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs in society.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 002 - The Role of The Professional Counselor Treating Substance U
3-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course gives participants an overview of the system that provides alcoholism/ chemical dependency treatment services
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 003 - Counseling Clients With Substance Use Disorders
3-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course presents techniques for the successful treatment of persons with addiction, with specific focus on cognitive-behavioral and motivational strategies
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 005 - Neurochemistry and Psychopharmacology of Substance of Use
3-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course introduces the participant to the basic principles of pharmacology, anatomy and physiology.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 006 - The Family and Group Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
3-4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course will provide an overview of the role of alcoholism /chemical dependency in the family system and the various intervention and treatment approaches used in assisting families troubled by alcoholism or chemical dependency.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 007 - Capstone Practicum
30 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Participants enroll in the practicum work under supervision in licensed alcoholism/chemical dependency treatment facilities with people in need of treatment.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 012 - MA License and Drug Course Review for LADC
1 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Massachusetts Licensed Alcohol and Drug COunselor (LADC) State Test Review Workshop - Workshop prepares counselors to take State exam to obtain a Massachusetts State Licence and prepares for the International Consortium and Reciprocity Commission (CRC) process.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 018 - Criminal Justice and Substance Use Disorders
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
Students will learn how the two systems of addiction and criminal behavior overlap and examine the roles and responsibilities that have resulted in greater communication and interdependence among the courts, adult and juvenile justice professionals, and the alcohol and other drug abuse treatment professional. Many corrections agencies routinely provide substance abuse treatment services. Substance abuse treatment agencies provide court liaison and monitoring services. Case management of drug-involved offenders is provided by substance abuse treatment staff.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 043 - Practice of Addictions Counseling
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course provides the student intern with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide addiction counseling that meets the standards of best practices within the field.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 044 - Substance Use Disorders and Co-Occurring Mental Health Illnesses
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/No Credit
Not repeatable for credit
Description:
This course teaches participants how to effectively integrate the treatment of substance abuse and mental illness.
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