Spring 2019 Course Schedule - Updated Hourly

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Chemistry

CHEM 108 - Crime Science

Examines the role that the natural sciences play in analyzing physical evidence collected at a crime scene. Students begin by defining science and understanding why the government has placed special qualifiers on scientific expert witnesses. Students will survey the sciences used in a modern crime lab to undertand the principles behind the analyses. Three hours lecture, four hour laboratory per week.

CHEM 108L - Crime Science Lab

CHEM 110 - General, Organic and Biological Chemistry

Survey of chemistry. Atomic and molecular structure, solutions, states of matter. Naming of inorganic and organic compounds. Chemical reactions. Structure and function of the biological molecules of life. Nutrition and metabolism. Emphasis on chemistry in a clinical context. Laboratory includes experience with materials and techniques of clinical relevance. Four hours lecture, four hours laboratory per week. This course can not be used as a substitute for CHEM 111 or CHEM 113.

CHEM 110L - General, Organic and Biological Chemistry Lab

CHEM 111 - Introduction to Chemistry: Inorganic

Designed for students majoring in nursing, physical therapy, or nutrition. Covers basic concepts with special reference to inorganic compounds, including chemical equations, the periodic table, chemical bonding, and equilibrium. Assumes no previous knowledge of the subject or sophisticated background in mathematics. Laboratory correlates with and amplifies the lecture material and presents fundamental laboratory techniques, including instrumental methods. Three hours of lecture, one hour of Guided Inquiry Learning, one hour of pre-laboratory work, and a three-hour laboratory per week.

CHEM 111L - Introduction to Chemistry: Inorganic Lab

CHEM 112 - Introduction to Chemistry: Organic

Covers nature of the covalent bond, structure of organic compounds, and their reactions and reaction mechanisms. Introduces structure and biochemical functions of compounds important to life. Three hours of lecture and a three-hour laboratory per week. For concentrators in paramedical or science-related fields.

CHEM 112G - Intro. Chemistry: Organic Gil

CHEM 112L - Introduction to Chemistry: Organic Lab

CHEM 216 - Quantitative Analysis

CHEM 216L - Quantitative Analysis Lab

CHEM 221M - Cultural Ecology and Sustainability: Lessons From Iceland

Focuses on sustainability through community in one of the most remote, geologically unique, and environmentally friendly countries in the world. Participate in hiking expeditions, conservation and tree planting near Mt. Hekla, Iceland's most active volcano, and living in one the world's unique eco-villages to understand how this country has committed itself to become more sustainable.

CHEM 221T - Program Costs: Cultural Ecology and Sustainability: Lessons From Iceland

CHEM 223 - Introduction to Biochemistry

Covers chemical processes in living organisms, with special emphasis on human nutrition. Studies carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and enzymes; their function in living systems; and their metabolic pathways and regulation. Three hours of lecture per week.

CHEM 225 - Organic Chemistry II

Extends CHEM-224 to consider additional classes of organic compounds and the more intimate relationship between structure and reactivity as expressed in mechanistic terms. Three hours of lecture, one hour of Guided Inquiry Learning, one hour of pre-laboratory lecture, and a four-hour laboratory per week.

CHEM 225L - Organic Chemistry II Lab

CHEM 232 - Drug Design: From Concept to Market

Drug development is one of the most demanding and high-pressure fields in science and manufacturing today, but what does it take to develop a drug? What parameters determine that a drug will be developed to cure cancer, slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, or reduce the risk of heart attack? The objective of this interactive course is to teach students a better understanding of how drug development began, the process of drug discovery and development, and the highly interrelated activities involved in bringing a pharmaceutical discovery to approval and market.

CHEM 332 - Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Structure

Covers the wave mechanical treatment of atoms, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, theories of chemical bonding, and molecular structure. Laboratory work comprises spectroscopic and computer modeling studies. Three hours of lecture and a four-hour laboratory per week.

CHEM 332L - Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Structure Lab

CHEM 347 - Advanced Topics in Biochemistry

Covers modern biochemical techniques such as protein expression, protein purification, and enzyme assays. Emphasizes development of independent laboratory skills. No lecture and eight hours of laboratory per week.

CHEM 347L - Advanced Topics in Biochemistry Lab

CHEM 354 - Research Methods

This course is intended to introduce the student to scientific research methods which include conducting critical literature reviews, experimental design, and data interpretation. Throughout the course, students will conduct peer-review of writing samples. The lab will consist of rotations throughout all the research labs in the Chemistry and Physics Department.

CHEM 354L - Research Methods Lab

CHEM 355 - Independent Study with Thesis

Consent of instructor required. Selection of a research project involving scientific literature search, followed by laboratory work required for solution of the problem. Results presented in a thesis and a poster presentation.

CHEM 390 - Chemistry Seminar

Required of all chemistry and biochemistry majors completing CHEM 355. Includes instruction and preparation for technical writing such as a manuscript or senior thesis. Students will prepare and practice several oral presentations, culminating with a seminar on their independent study research open to the entire Simmons community. Two hours per week.

Chinese

CHIN 102 - Elementary Chinese II

Continuation of CHIN 101. An additional 80 Chinese characters will be introduced.

CHIN 202 - Intermediate Chinese II

Continuation of CHIN 201. There will be more opportunities to practice speaking in class than in Elementary Chinese. An additional 80 Chinese characters will be introduced.

CHIN 325 - Masterworks of Chinese Modern Literature

Children's Lit.

CHL 313 - Survey Literature for Children and Young Adults

Provides a broad overview of the field of children's and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres.

CHL 400 - Virtual Orientation

This required orientation course introduces all graduate students in the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities to the full range of academic, administrative, and social expectations for students, and the environment in which they must meet those expectations. This course describes program requirements; university, college, and program policy; and offers information about the full range of resources available to the students in support of their program. It also offers basic tutorial and instruction related to the use of Moodle (our learning management system), library resources, and other key tools used to support student learning.

CHL 401 - Criticism of Literature for Children

Develops the individual critical voices of students and acquaints them with the literary canon and a variety of literacy perspectives through exposure to many influential schools of literacy criticism. Applies critical skills in the examination of a range of novels (realism and fantasy), short stories, biographies, nonfiction, and translated works published for children.

CHL 403 - The Picturebook

Explores picturebooks and their histories in detail. Considers medium, technique, and technology to investigate the development of the picturebook as a distinct artistic form. Develops a discerning eye and critical vocabulary essential for appraising text and illustration.

CHL 413 - Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Studies the adolescents quest for a sense of self as she or he must struggle to affirm identity in ever-expanding Joycian circles of influence. Focuses on fiction published for both young adults and adults, drawing from the work of Brock Cole, Robert Cormier, M.E. Kerr, Chris Lynch, Kyoko Mori, Walter Dean Myers, and Virginia Euwer Wolff, among others.

CHL 414 - Fantasy and Science Fiction

Provides a historical study and critical analysis of the development of fantasy and science fiction for children. Traces the growth of themes and genres in works studied and examines underlying themes as serious expressions of human hopes and fears in the past and for the future.

CHL 420 - Project Thesis/Tutorial

Requires preparation of a monograph, essay, or bibliographic compilation with a scholarly orientation.

CHL 422 - Editing the Children's Book Manuscript

Traces the editorial process from acquisition to development to production to publication, teaching essential editorial functions such as manuscript selection, proposal writing, and editing; illustrator selection and pagination; cover development; production options; and the creation of sales and marketing materials. Through a combination of editorial exercises, classroom discussions of genres and editorial functions, readings, and interviews with children's book editors in the field, this six-session course gives an in-depth, practical understanding of how children's literature is selected, refined, and produced for the marketplace.

CHL 424B - Verse Novels, Narrative Poetry

In this course we'll read and critique poetry for children and verse novels, which combine the pull of story with finely pared or lyrical language. We'll consider book-length narratives that rely on formal elements such as meter and rhyme and those written in free verse, depending for their power on well-chosen nouns and verbs, startling conjunctions, and echoing imagery. Some poetry may be more musical than linear, with an emphasis on concision and pacing, but poetry and prose exist on a spectrum, and we'll examine where borders blur.

CHL 427 - Special Topics: Folk & Fairy Tales

This course acts as an entry point to one of the most fevered debates of children's literature: are fairy tales for children? To move toward an answer, students will examine the complicated and evolving histories of both collected and individual stories, in both traditional art forms (e.g., fiction, poetry, picturebooks, film, music) and material culture (Halloween costumes, theme parks, and even cocktails). Which stories do we remember, and why? How do we make meaning of their earlier forms, as well as their contemporary re-visionings? And, finally, how do we define the relationship between 'folk' and 'fairy,' literature and the child?

CHL 431 - Writing for Children II

Explores the writing of a book through various writing exercises and discussion of student work, and literature in the field. Elements of the picture book, such as illustration,design, format, and specific genres will be examined as they relate to the creation of a solid text.

CHL 438 - Greening of Children's & Young Adult Lit erature

Grounded in literary analysis and respect for the earth, ecocriticism is a way to respond to global injustices and accelerating climate crisis. It asks, what is the role of the humanities in addressing environmental issues and in forming possible solutions? To answer, this course will build a theoretical foundation for ecocriticism as it applies to children's and young adult literature. Drawing from a diverse range of voices and texts (e.g., The Lorax, The Birchbark House, The Hunger Games, The Hate U Give), we will work to decenter dominant paradigms, which privilege (white) human life above all other nature, by troubling ideas of what constitutes wilderness, consciousness, agency, and growth.

CHL 441 - MFA Mentorship I

Provides MFA students individual mentoring from a childrens book author, editor, or critic to develop a single project from its initial conception to submission in manuscript form to a publishing house. Consult with the program director regarding guidelines and deadlines for submitting mentorship proposal.

CHL 442 - MFA Mentorship II

Provides MFA students individual mentoring from a childrens book author, editor, or critic to develop a single project from its initial conception to submission in manuscript form to a publishing house. Consult with the program director regarding guidelines and deadlines for submitting mentorship proposal.

CHL 449 - Directed Study

CHL 450 - Independent Study

Provides students an opportunity to study a topic of their choosing in the area of curriculum development or literature education. Project should have practical application to the candidates professional work and represent a model for use by others.

CHL 513 - Survey of Literature for Children and Yo ung Adults

Provides a broad overview of the field of children's and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres.

Coll of Nat, Behav, & Hlth Sci

CNBH 665 - Leadership and Organizational Change in Health Professions Education

Communications

COMM 120 - Communications Media

Serves as an introduction to communication arts and theory, and the world of still and moving pictures. Involves the analysis of media from the point of view of the audience, and the production of media from the point of view of the communicator. Numerous screenings supplement examples and exercises in film, animation, multimedia, and the graphic arts. The atmosphere of the classroom is a media environment: a comfortable theater supported by light and sound.

COMM 121 - Visual Communication

Introduces the concepts of visual culture and visual literacy with an emphasis on how we perceive and analyze images. From the perspective of consumer and producer of images, the visual experience is deconstructed to illuminate meaning-making practices. Utilizes a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to two-dimensional images in print and on the screen.

COMM 122 - Media Writing Bootcamp

Introduces students to the fundamental skills of information gathering, writing, and copy editing for the mass media. Covers AP and other writing styles that students will eventually be expected to master to gain recognition as competent communicators. Includes news stories, press releases, web content, opinion articles, and memos.

COMM 124 - Media, Messages and Society

Explores how and why the media reflect, affect, create, and mold public opinions, ideas, and values. Examines issues related to the media and society and the content of print and nonprint media in terms of the written and visual messages they convey.

COMM 138 - The Poetry of Photography

Like a poem, the art photograph often uses metaphor, allusion, rhythm and profound attention to details. In this course, students will learn to create artful photographs, and acquire the skills and craft of using a 35mm camera, developing black and white film and making prints in the darkroom.

COMM 138L - Photography Lab

COMM 139 - Color Photography CSI

Teaches the art and craft of contemporary color photography with emphasis on using the medium as a means of personal expression. Hands on demonstration demystify how manual and digital cameras work, Students learn effective Photoshop and Camera Raw to produce color prints with impact.

COMM 139L - CSI Digital Lab

COMM 181 - Public Speaking & Group Discussion

Involves preparation and presentation of speeches and consideration of the impact of information and communication on listeners. Provides extensive practice in discussion about present-day problems and topics. Emphasizes rhetorical analysis, persuasion, and ethical issues in public speaking.

COMM 186 - Introduction to Public Relations and Marketing Communications

Note: This is a hybrid course with some sessions meeting online. Explores the nature and role of communications in marketing and the integration of public relations, advertising, direct marketing, sales promotion, personal selling, and new media in the marketing communications plan. Analyzes marketing communications materials in various media and considers the economic and social implications of promotion. Includes a field assignment.

COMM 210 - Introduction to Graphic Design: Principles and Practice

Addresses formal principles, process, and production of 2D design. Complements design lectures, demonstrations, and student presentations with studio projects and critiques. Provides tools to develop conceptual skills; master mechanical tools; utilize design-driven software applications; prepare visual, written, and oral presentations; and learn the process and techniques needed to achieve quality design. Involves lecture/lab.

COMM 220 - Video Production

Explores the working methods and production of narrative, personal, documentary, and music video filmmaking. Examines historical examples from Maya Deren to the present, and requires students to plan, shoot, and edit their own short pieces. A course for women who want to make movies, it teaches the variety of conditions that lead to the creation of professional productions.

COMM 240 - Intermediate Graphic Design I: Typography

Applies the formal principles of design in the context of typography. Topics include type history and terminology, display and text type for print and screen communication, typographic hierarchy in information design, bookmaking, and concept-based design through typographic layout and manipulation. Includes lectures, discussions, class critiques, and computer lab sessions.

COMM 246 - Digital Imaging for Design

Explores creative approaches to acquiring, manipulating, authoring, and disseminating digital images. In the Adobe Creative Suite environment, students combine natural and digital media, working iteratively in order to achieve unique solutions to their challenges. In-depth exploration of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

COMM 250 - The Interactive Story

This course explores the interactivity and narrative strategies of digital media. Students examine a variety of traditional and online stories and how digital media can be a tool for expression and interactive audience engagement. Students learn basic media production and how to incorporate visual media into an online interactive story.

COMM 262 - Media Convergence

Media Convergence is the melding of digital images (still and moving), sound, and typography, to create media for a variety of platforms. This course addresses the rapid changes in media production and distribution and provides hands on knowledge necessary to create, produce, and distribute media. It integrates the study of media history, theory, and design with production skills in film, audio, video, print and digital media-to enable students to advance as media producers.

COMM 263 - Broadcast, Narrowcast, Interactivity

The field of journalism is changing rapidly- employing new technologies and tools to research, report, display and disseminate news. Students examine the latest methodologies and trends in broadcast, narrowcast and interactive media by looking at industry innovators. Using those examples, students continue to hone their own reporting. While working on verifying sources, students will gain the experience and confidence to tell stories in a 24-hour news cycle, effectively utilizing the latest industry tools of storytelling.

COMM 312 - Health Communications

This class surveys the field of health communications, looking at work that is being done in the field at the interpersonal, intercultural, mass media, public health and public campaign levels. It provides an overview to the exciting work being done in this practical and evolving field of communication research.

COMM 315 - Blogging & Opinion and Editorial Writing

Emphasizes persuading readers, or at least getting their attention. Develops research skills to defend arguments. Requires weekly blog and assigned news beats. Also requires regular reading of top columnists. Students produce editorials and columns suitable for publication.

COMM 323 - Digital Cultures: Communication and Social Media

COMM 325 - Public Relations Seminar

Surveys public relations methods, research, theories, practices, and campaigns. Discusses the ethics and values of public relations as a profession. Includes case study analysis.

COMM 340 - Advanced Design

Increases understanding of the designer's role as problem solver and professional design consultant. Provides opportunity to create new portfolio-quality work and explore development of a personal style. Projects include: a personal identity system with professional level rsum and cover letter, prototyping a complex multipage publication with text and images, a webzine or website, and a branding system.

COMM 344 - Senior Seminar: Storytelling

COMM 350 - Independent Study

Consent of department required.

COMM 370 - Internship

Consent of instructor and communications major required. Application due by Oct. 15 for spring semester or March 15 for summer or fall semesters. Students develop a personal marketing plan, including resume, cover letter, portfolio, LinkedIn profile, etc. Students practice job sourcing and interviewing and hear from recent grads and professionals in the communications field. Weekly blog required. NOTE: Contact department chair for special consent for 16- semester-hour internships. Senior standing required for eight semester hours.

COMM 380 - Field Experience

An eight to 10 hours-per-week field placement in the Greater Boston area, based on the student's background and interests, available to students who have already completed COMM 370. Students must apply before October 15 for spring semester; March 15 for summer or fall semester. Students take what they learned in Comm370 and work in class on scheduling information interviews and applying for jobs.

COMM 390 - Studio 5: A Communication Workplace

Consent of instructor required. Provides a faculty-supervised workplace where students undertake projects for nonprofit clients while working as collaborative teams. Requires analyzing client communications needs and providing optimal solutions on budget and deadline. Integrates relevant issues of agency/client relationships, vendor relations, and project management.

Cross-Registration

CR 101 - Colleges of the Fenway

CR 102 - Colleges of the Fenway

Computer Science

CS 110 - Foundations of Information Technology

Foundations of Information Technology is a broad introduction to issues and concepts that are fundamental in the IT field. These include aspects of system administration, user support, applications installation and management, hardware troubleshooting and ethical use of technology. This course emphasizes knowledge combined with practical, hands-on experience.

CS 110L - Foundations of Information Technology Lab

CS 112 - Introduction to Computer Science

Introduces computer science and programming using a high-level programming language (currently Python). Teaches program design in the context of contemporary practices both object oriented and procedural. Presents fundamental computer science topics through initiation and design of programs. Requires significant projects.

CS 113 - Gui and Event-Driven Programming

Continues CS-112, with emphasis on graphic user interface and event-driven programming (currently Java). Requires significant projects.

CS 113L - Gui and Event-Driven Programming Lab

CS 225 - Health Informatics

Introduces students to major uses of information technology in the health care industry. Studies components of a computer system and major health informatics applications, how a database is organized, and general issues such as consistency, concurrency, back-up, security, integrity, and recovery from failure. Use of Access and introduction to SQL. Teaches how to model health care problems on Excel. Introduction to Electronic Health Records and underlying technologies and standards (XML and UML), Finding and evaluating on-line health information.

CS 327 - Cybersecurity

Addresses the need for authentication, confidentiality, and integrity of data in a networked environment. Examines the services and mechanisms currently available to prevent successful attacks. Includes security models, encryption, digital signatures and certificates, authentication techniques, email confidentiality, firewalls, web servers, malware, and security management strategies.

CS 327L - Cybersecurity

CS 330 - Structure and Organization of Programming Language

Provides a comparison of computer languages and language paradigms(object-oriented, procedural, functional, event-driven) with respect to data structures, control structures, and implementation. Investigates these issues in several languages (currently JAVA, C++, Perl, Ruby, and Scheme). Presents formal language specification including regular, context-free, and ambiguous languages.

CS 330L - Programming Languages Lab

CS 333 - Database Management Systems

Offers comprehensive examination of the design and implementation of relational database management systems (DBMS). Teaches the logical organization of databases, E_R design, normalization and use of SQL for data description and retrieval, including triggers and stored procedures; concurrency and security issues and typical solutions. Includes a major project building web interfaces to databases using PHP and MySQL. Introduction to No_SQL solutions.

CS 333L - Database Management Systems Lab

CS 343 - Systems Analysis and Design

Teaches the strategies used in designing a complex computer-based application system: identifying stakeholders, gathering information, writing requirements, analyzing for technical and financial feasibility, setting priorities, planning and managing projects, and designing for usability. Includes extensive use of cases and UML for in depth examples. Involves team projects.

CS 347 - Applied Data Science

This course builds on skills learned in previous data science courses and shows students how to practically apply in various technological paradigms using real world data and situations. Students will work in teams to assess the appropriate tools and methodologies to apply to their particular case study. This is a required course for undergraduate majors and for master's students in the Data Science & Analytics programs.

CS 349 - Directed Study

Consent of instructor required. Directed study addresses coursework required for the major or degree not being offered formally that semester. Students work under the close supervision of a faculty member. Consent is required for a directed study, which does not count toward the independent learning requirement.

CS 350 - Independent Study

Consent of instructor required. Requires a written proposal, regular meetings with faculty advisor, a final presentation, and a written report.

CS 350T - Program Costs: Rwanda

CS 370 - Internship

Consent of department required.

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