Courses

Below you will find the current course offerings listed by semester and then alphabetically by department. Students and Faculty should log in to workday.simmons.edu and view the live course listings for the current semester. The current semester listings below are updated weekly. If you have any questions about these courses, please contact the Registrar's Office at or 617-521-2111.

Spring 2025 Course Schedule

Last Updated: 12/13/2024 07:12PM

Arts Administration

AADM 234 - Museum Studies

Provides a practical and theoretical introduction to Museum Studies. Students examine how museums organize and exhibit their collections, serve diverse audiences, use new technologies and fundraise. They also apply scholarship on museum history, theory and ethics to real-world institutions. Graduate students complete supplementary assignments.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Heather Hole
4
Main Campus

Accounting

ACCT 110 - Financial Accounting

Develops the ability to read, understand, analyze and interpret a company's financial statements. Also develops decision-making skills based on accounting information that may vary according to perspective, such as investor, creditor or manager.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/22 - 2025/05/09
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00AM - 10:50AM
Ray Pfeiffer
4
TBD

ACCT 120 - Managerial Accounting

Introduces concepts and methods used to report business performance information to data users and managers. Assists students in making sound business decisions needed to manage organizations effectively. Students will learn the skills required for collecting, analyzing, and presenting internal financial information.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/08
Tuesday, Thursday
11:00AM - 12:20PM
Ray Pfeiffer
4
TBD

ACCT 120CD - Managerial Accounting

Introduces concepts and methods used to report business performance information to data users and managers. Assists students in making sound business decisions needed to manage organizations effectively. Students will learn the skills required for collecting, analyzing, and presenting internal financial information.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
6:00PM - 7:20PM
Sheila Ruth
4
TBD

ACCT 201 - Intermediate Accounting II

This is a course in financial accounting (reporting). As the second of a two-course Intermediate Accounting sequence, it examines investments; current and long-term liabilities; leases; pensions; shareholders' equity; stock-based compensation; earnings per share; and the statement of cash flows.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/08
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00PM - 3:20PM
Ray Pfeiffer
4
TBD

ACCT 220 - Business Applications in Excel

Students will learn about the use of various advanced functions of spreadsheets to become more efficient and effective in making accounting and business decisions in the corporate environment. Students will develop skills and gain knowledge through the use of hands-on exercises to be completed outside of class.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 TBD TBD
Yulong Li
2
TBD

ACCT 301 - Accounting Information Systems

The course prepares students to be effective users, evaluators, developers, and auditors of accounting information systems. At its core, the course focuses on internal controls. A key objectives is to develop the ability to evaluate information systems and to design control systems that mitigate risks associated with information systems.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Sheila Ruth
4
TBD

Art

ART 100 - Objects & Ideas: A Museum History of Art

Introduces the history of art based on the worldclass museum collections in the Boston area. Introduces Ancient Egyptian, Asian, Islamic, Native and South American art, as well as European art. Includes class discussion and weekly field trips to museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Counts towards the art minor.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/24 - 2025/05/09
Friday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Kate Minniti
4
Main Campus

ART 111 - Draw What You See

Drawing requires developing awareness of how and what you see - perceptually, personally and culturally. In this introductory course, students develop formal/technical skills, learn to use various wet and dry media and drawing processes, and stretch the imagination while exploring the complexity of vision.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/23 - 2025/05/08
Thursday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Guhapriya Ranganathan
4
Main Campus

ART 112 - Color Studio

This introductory studio course immerses you in the evocative and complex world of color and its applications in art, design and culture. Students learn color theory and develop technical, perceptual and conceptual skills through hands-on weekly assignments, both formal and experimental. Working in paint and mixed media, you will explore the interdependent relationship between color and issues of visual communication.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Colleen Kiely
4
Main Campus
02 2025/01/22 - 2025/05/07
Wednesday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Colleen Kiely
4
Main Campus

ART 117 - Printmaking

Presents a variety of basic printmaking processes including wood block, dry-point etching, stenciling, embossing, monotype, and digital lithography. These techniques will be used to explore the transformation of drawings, designs, and ideas into prints.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/23 - 2025/05/08
Thursday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Helen Popinchalk
4
Main Campus

ART 138 - The Poetry of Photography

Like a poem, the art photograph often uses metaphor, allusion, rhythm, and profound attention to detail. In this course students learn to create artful photographs while acquiring the skills and craft of using a 35mm camera, developing black and white film and making gelatin silver prints in the darkroom. 35mm cameras available for students.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/22 - 2025/05/07
Wednesday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Hogan Seidel
4
Main Campus

ART 138L - Photography Lab

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Hogan Seidel
TBD
Main Campus
02 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/06
Tuesday
6:00PM - 8:50PM
Hogan Seidel
TBD
Main Campus
03 2025/01/24 - 2025/05/09
Friday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Hogan Seidel
TBD
Main Campus

ART 139 - Color Photography CSI

Clear-eyed observation with a camera is similar to a detective solving a mystery. Students improve their photography with assignments that stretch both visual and critical thinking skills. Students engage with their unique style and vision by learning to manually operate a digital camera (DSLR) and apply Camera Raw and Photoshop to produce dynamic color prints. DSLR cameras available for students' use.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/24 - 2025/05/09
Friday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Melissa Taing
4
Main Campus

ART 139L - Color Photography CSI Lab

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/22 - 2025/05/07
Wednesday
6:00PM - 8:50PM
Melissa Taing
TBD
Main Campus
02 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
8:00AM - 10:50AM
Melissa Taing
TBD
Main Campus

ART 142 - Introduction to Art History: Baroque to the 20th Century

Introduces painting, sculpture, and architecture from Europe and the United States made between 1600 and the present. Explores the careers of key artists and interprets objects from this period, considering such issues as obstacles and opportunities for women artists at various periods, changing views on what art should accomplish in society, and the development of unconventional approaches to art during this century. Uses the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Gardner Museum to study the work of such important artists as Rembrandt, Leyster, Vigee-Lebrun, Cassatt, Monet, O'Keeffe and others.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/08
Tuesday, Thursday
12:30PM - 1:50PM
Shannon Bewley
4
Main Campus

ART 213 - Painting: Observation to Expression

Develop basic painting skills while exploring the expressive potential of paint. This course instructs the beginning painter in the materials and techniques of oil painting. Students learn various indirect and direct approaches to painting-underpainting, glazing, impasto, wet-in-wet-developing formal, perceptual and critical skills. Emphasizes color as it relates to both individual expressive concerns and pictorial structure, and introduces students to examples of historical and contemporary painting.</p>

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Colleen Kiely
4
Main Campus

ART 220 - Photo Screen Printing

Introduces a variety of photo screen printing techniques and encourages translation of photographic imagery into expressive and personal statements. Designed for students without prior experience in photography or screen printing.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/06
Tuesday
2:00PM - 4:20PM
Helen Popinchalk
4
Main Campus

ART 232 - Advanced Digital Workshop

A playful digital workshop engaging students in cutting-edge editing techniques to hone their craft of archival inkjet printing. Students work on long-term projects, in color and or black and white, using digital files or film. Visiting artists and field trips to Boston's leading galleries and museums complement class investigations around critical ideas and applications. Both 35mm and DSLR cameras are available for students' use.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Hogan Seidel
4
Main Campus

ART 243 - Making Art Modern: Radicals and Revolutionaries in the 19th Century

In the 19th century, artists developed new and radical ways to envision the world. Revolutionary artistic movements flourished in response to urbanization, industrialization, and colonialism. Along with these cultural forces, changes in patronage prompted artists to explore new styles and techniques like expressive color and the brand-new medium of photography. Through class discussion and site visits, students become familiar with the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts and study in person the works of Cassatt, Manet, Degas, Monet, and others.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/24 - 2025/05/09
Friday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Shannon Bewley
4
Main Campus

ART 347 - Art of the Gardner Museum

Examines the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in depth: the patron who built it, the artworks it holds, and its professional practices today. Using the Gardner as a case study, explores historical and current approaches to curation, connoisseurship, collection building, education, archives, and community outreach. Includes multiple site visits.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/23 - 2025/05/08
Thursday
2:00PM - 4:50PM
Heather Hole
4
Main Campus

ART 350 - Independent Study

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 TBD TBD
Heather Hole
8
TBD

Africana Studies

AST 232 - Race, Gender, Health

Examines the unique perspective of health care from the cultural lens appropriate to women of color. Historical, social, environmental, and political factors that contribute to racial and gender disparities in health care are analyzed. Students will develop cultural competency tools for more effective health care delivery.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Dawna Thomas
4
Main Campus

AST 234 - African American Political Thought in Theory, Novels, and Film

Examines the dimensions and patterns of African American experiences in historical and contemporary political/legal and economic perspectives. Principal topics include European American constructions and institutionalization of discriminatory belief and behavioral systems; generational effects in politics, economics, media, and education; analogous experiences of Native, Hispanic, and Asian Americans; and shaping agendas for economic and political empowerment.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/27 - 2025/05/05
Monday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Lena Zuckerwise
4
TBD

AST 249 - Inequalities

The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet we live in a society riddled with inequality. Too often this inequality is hidden from many Americans. The purpose of this course is to understand where inequality exists and how it is able to sustain itself. Students will read articles and books on how racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia are prevalent in society�s economic, social, and political structures. They will also examine how these create a society where some are guaranteed privileges and opportunities while others are denied it.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/08
Tuesday, Thursday
5:00PM - 6:20PM
Foster Kamanga
4
TBD
02 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/08
Tuesday, Thursday
11:00AM - 12:20PM
Foster Kamanga
4
TBD

AST 307 - Black History At the Movies

This course examines a range of films made by, for, and about Black Americans in popular commercial cinema. Students explore representations of Black people and culture, specifically how these movies characterize American race relations and critical historical periods such as slavery, Jim Crow, and the long civil rights movement.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/23 - 2025/05/08
Thursday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
4
TBD

AST 350 - Independent Study

Consent of instructor required.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 TBD TBD
TBD
4
TBD

AST 375 - Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project

Black history has been preserved largely through a rich oral tradition. This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and best practices of conducting oral histories. In this fieldwork-based class, students will examine what it means to be Black at Simmons by conducting their own oral histories with alumni.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/06
Tuesday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
4
TBD

AST 575 - Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project

Black history has been preserved largely through a rich oral tradition. This course introduces students to the theory, methods, and best practices of conducting oral histories. In this fieldwork-based class, students will examine what it means to be Black at Simmons by conducting their own oral histories with alumni.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/01/21 - 2025/05/06
Tuesday
11:00AM - 1:50PM
Tatiana M.F. Cruz
4
TBD
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