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.

Summer 2025 Course Schedule

Last Updated: 04/02/2025 04:14AM

Chemistry

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.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/07/07 - 2025/08/20
Monday, Wednesday
9:00AM - 11:50AM
Michael Paul
4
TBD

CHEM 110L - General, Organic and Biological Chemistry Lab

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/07/10 - 2025/08/21
Thursday
5:00PM - 8:50PM
Michael Paul
TBD
Main Campus

CHEM 111 - Principles of General Chemistry

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.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/05/13 - 2025/06/26
Tuesday, Thursday
9:00AM - 11:50AM
Cristina DeOliveira
4
TBD

CHEM 111L - Principles of General Chemistry Lab

Offers students an opportunity to reinforce the concepts discussed during lectures and to obtain hands-on experience in general chemistry laboratory techniques and instrumentation, safety regulations & chemical hygiene. Specific learning objectives of the lab include identifying chemical compounds and periodic trends, determining molecular structure, verifying gas law and much more. Upon completion of this lab, students will have learned how to operate a variety of lab equipment and collect and analyze data. The grade from this laboratory component is factored into the grade earned for the required CHEM 111 corequisite.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/05/12 - 2025/06/30
Monday, Wednesday
9:00AM - 11:50AM
Cristina DeOliveira
TBD
TBD

CHEM 112 - Principles of Organic Chemistry

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.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/07/07 - 2025/08/20
Monday, Wednesday
5:00PM - 7:50PM
Jen Stallings
4
TBD

CHEM 112L - Principles of Organic Chemistry Lab

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/07/10 - 2025/08/21
Thursday
5:00PM - 8:50PM
TBD
TBD
Main Campus

CHEM 223 - Principles of 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.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/05/12 - 2025/08/20
Monday, Wednesday
1:00PM - 3:30PM
Cristina DeOliveira
4
TBD

Children's Lit.

CHL 435B - Creators and Aesthetics

Provides a unique opportunity to examine the entire body of a writer's work. Develops critical skills through study of the developing, revised, and completed works on writer for children or young adults. Requires corollary readings of literary criticism. A book-by-book exploration of the writer's evolution, style, themes, ideology, and ultimately achievement with an eye to the connections between books and to the author's work as a whole. CHL courses are open ONLY to CHL (MA, MFA, MAMFA, MAMAT, MAMS) students; they are NOT open to UGs and they are not open to other GR students unless by consent.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/05/20 - 2025/06/24
Tuesday
4:00PM - 7:50PM
TBD
2
TBD

CHL 509 - Summer Symposium and Institute

<div>In seminars during the Symposium, students study the works of speakers (writers, illustrators, publishers, critics) coming to the Institute. The Institute cuts across genre and age groups and engages one particular thematic focus through which to examine the current literature for young people.  Past topics have included:  &#34;Make Way,&#34; &#34;Love Letters,&#34; &#34;(Im)Possible Dreams.&#34;</div><b>Open to MA, MFA, MA/MFA, MA/MS students; other graduate students contact ChLit grad program director.</b>

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
OL01 2025/07/01 - 2025/07/27
Tuesday, Thursday
5:00PM - 7:50PM

Friday
5:00PM - 8:00PM

Saturday, Sunday
8:30AM - 7:30PM
Lauren Rizzuto
4
Main Campus

College of Health Sciences Online

CHSO 404 - Advanced Pathophysiology

This course is an organ system based advanced human pathophysiology course designed to teach the pathologic processes that underpin human diseases. Clinical case scenarios and discussions of common disease states across the lifespan are used to facilitate understanding of pathophysiologic concepts for more broad application to the clinical environment. The knowledge gained in this course provides the foundation for the management of primary care issues of individuals of all ages.<br /> 

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/05/13 - 2025/08/12
Tuesday
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Sarah Volkman
3
TBD
02 2025/05/14 - 2025/08/13
Wednesday
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Sarah Volkman
3
TBD

Connect

CNCT 201CD - Pathways to Career and Leadership

Pathways to Career and Leadership focuses on career and life planning. It represents a culmination of a two-course sequence that foregrounds the concepts of metacognition and self-directed learning. The course also focuses on the development of competencies in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the refinement of leadership skills.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 TBD TBD
Stephen Pusateri
1
TBD

Communications

COMM 312CD - Health Communication

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.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/05/15 - 2025/08/21
Thursday
8:00PM - 9:20PM
Marcie McClellan Dumolga
4
TBD

Computer Science

CS 232CD - Data Structures

Considers topics including abstract data types and objects, strings, vectors, linked lists, stacks, queues, deques, sets, maps, trees, hash tables, and applications of data structures. Surveys fundamental algorithms, including geometric algorithms, graph algorithms, algorithms for string processing, and numerical algorithms. Discusses basic methods for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/05/14 - 2025/08/20
Wednesday
6:00PM - 6:50PM
BJ Stubbs
4
TBD

CS 332CD - Algorithms

Surveys fundamental algorithms, including efficient search and sort algorithms, graph algorithms and dynamic programming. Discusses basic methods for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Students will understand the purpose and best use of alternatives from the rich canon of computational algorithms. Includes a weekly laboratory. 4 credits.

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

CS 335CD - Software Engineering

Students learn the principles of industry-quality software development through a series of team projects that require specific, efficient and maintainable code design and development. Team processes, critical thinking and problem solving skills will be emphasized.

Section Section Dates Time Instructor Credits Location
01 2025/05/13 - 2025/08/19
Tuesday
6:00PM - 7:50PM
Denise Carroll
4
TBD
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