Prerequisite: None

This course provides tools to increase academic potential, to develop an educational plan, and to begin learning and applying strategies for success in college and life-long learning. Topics include the academic environment, personal and career goals, self-discovery, learning systems and study strategies, critical thinking, communication skills, career plans, and college resources and policies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Elective if a transfer

Prerequisite: None

The first of the course’s three principal assumptions is Rosemont College’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) undergraduate programs are “reading and writing” intensive; students’ opportunities for academic success are directly related to skills such as comprehension, interpretation, analysis and oral and written communication. The college’s tradition and philosophical underpinnings of “meeting the needs of the age” inspire the second assumption: Rosemont’s SGPS programs target both the traditional student and the adult learner, i.e., individuals who are working, possibly raising a family, and may have been out of formal academic settings for years. The SGPS provides courses for learners who may not have the opportunity to continue or complete education within traditional educational settings. This open-ended acceptance of students from all walks of life, across all age cohorts, and across a diversity of living and educational experiences calls for all learners to begin their academic endeavors with a course that introduces concepts, clarifies expectations, and provides guidance for success. The third assumption is based on the “learning curve.” Because acceptance into the SGPS is not predicated on standardized test scores, students of all levels of experience and expertise enter the program equally. However, not every student is prepared for the demand and expectations that govern accelerated degree requirements. This particular course intends to identify those different levels of writing competence and guide students toward appropriate intervention when needed. This introductory course will help allay anxiety, assess needs, and direct learners toward a path of academic success. This course is designed to assist all learners to reflect, assess, and plan the path best suited for their personal development.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Prerequisite ENG 0160 College Writing I.

This course, the second in a series of two, Composition and Critical Thought), focuses on generating and organizing ideas, conducting library research, and learning to use the APA citing format. Emphasis is placed on developing papers using principles of logical reasoning (Argumentative/Persuasive). Language style and audiences are also stressed. A library seminar is included in the course.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

An introduction to the management and planning of personal finance. Topics include the personal financial planning process, the management of personal financial assets, which includes credit and debt management, purchasing decisions and insurance, investment of financial resources, and controlling future resources.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is intended to help a broad base of people to become familiar with the basic building blocks of budget and finance. The course is designed to deal with the study of annual business budgeting processes including projections, forecasts, and reconciliation. Income statements, balance sheets, and budget cuts will also be studied.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: ECO 0105 or 0106 and ACC-0100.

A survey of corporate, international and personal finance that provides a foundation in the field. The course covers the role that financial institutions and markets play in the creation and management of capital. Basic concepts of finance are introduced including, but not limited to, the time value of money, risk and return, security valuation and financial statement analysis.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

This is a course in argument and persuasion. It asks the student to consider and develop critical thinking and writing skills and then apply the newly learned skills to well-constructed, well organized essays that argue points and explain a particular point of view.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course intends to offer learners a multi-layered approach to resolving the most natural, and often the most pernicious of human interaction, conflict. Regardless of the parties involved, conflict is ever present and must be resolved. As such, this course takes a perspective assuming that everyone, every day, is presented with conflicting ideas, data, information, positions, and decision-making. This relentless conflict calls on the use of cognitive and communication skills that appropriate the proper strategy needed to reach resolutions between the differing parties. Beginning with Roger Fisher and William Ury’s seminal work (1981) on principled negotiation, and including the traditional technique of positional bargaining (win/lose), this course encourages learners to challenge their assumptions, identify alternative techniques, and discuss the fundamental components inherent in all negotiations, i.e., issues versus interests. This course goes beyond the principles associated with the investigation of the many intricacies of negotiations and bargaining. Since negotiation is considered an artistic skill, classroom time is reserved for exercises is to practice developing the skills necessary to negotiate successfully.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Collecting, compiling, and assessing statistics related to the criminal justice system. Learning what raw data truly represent and utilizing numbers to convey useful, meaningful information.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course covers the federal guidelines of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the standards of the Incident Command System (ICS) presenting communication and operational best practices for handing crisis incidents from any size- big or small. It draws on the lessons learned from decades of emergency management, hazmat safety, risk and public safety planning and preparedness to give insight into the field’s evolution. Students will learn to use ICS forms, checklists and sample documents for improving organizational and interagency operations, and become certified in ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, and 800.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

In-depth examination of the nature and function of securities markets, financial instruments, assessment allocation, and portfolio construction. The course will also include an emphasis on security analysis and valuation. Students may team-manage a simulated portfolio.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The course will focus on models and techniques that support effective and efficient decision processes. An experiential focus will be placed on the identification and avoidance of known cultural and cognitive biases, and other process pitfalls that can seriously hinder successful leadership decision-making.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is a brief introduction to Western philosophical thought. The course focus is on the following themes, Western philosophy, the nature of philosophy, and questions of Faith and Reason. Topics such as Epistemology- The question of knowledge, and Ethics-The questions of virtue, morality and justice will also be explored.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is intended to introduce the student to the study of logic, emphasizing the structure of arguments. The purpose is twofold: first, to develop analytical skills for understanding how arguments work, how they are structured, and how they are to be evaluated, and second, to develop compositional skills for constructing arguments and defending claims in order to express oneself clearly and forcefully. To this end students will study the types and structure of various forms of argumentation considering their validity as well as their persuasiveness.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: PSY 1001

This course provides an introduction to statistical concepts and methods used in the field of psychology, including probability and hypothesis testing. Specific topics covered include central tendency, variability, correlation, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and non-parametric tests. This course emphasizes a conceptual understanding of statistics applied in the context of psychological research.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

An overview of the field including realities and falsehoods of the mass media. An introduction to criminalistic procedure: how the sciences are used at and after crime scene investigations. Fingerprints, DNA, firearms analysis, hair and fibers, document examination, and more. Crime scene investigation procedures: preserving the scene, transporting, storing, and analyzing evidence. What type of evidence is “court-worthy” and how does that evidence need to be handled to be admissible in a court of law? Closing the case with the right expert testimony. Mock crime scene simulations and visiting experts who work in the field.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the core concepts of successfully managing Energetic Materials/ WMDs in critical and emergency response. This course evaluates the threat posed to society by chemical, biologic, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. Students will learn about explosive and incendiary devices that could be used as terrorist weapons, and explore historic overview of suicide bombing, characteristics of a suicide bomber, and how emergency organizations can disrupt a terrorist’s ability to carry out a suicide bombing. Completion of this course will provide students with two certifications from the US Department of Homeland Security in Energetic Materials.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course will examine the interrelationship between humans and their environment at various scales while providing an overview of the social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainability. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the principles, concepts, and tools used in various fields to gain a better understanding of environmental degradation, climate change, social inequalities, and how to build community resiliency in order to support a more sustainable future. This course investigates how the science of sustainability can improve decision-making processes in planning for a changing climate. Topics may include: The Origins of Sustainability, Cultural Influences of Sustainability, The Built Environment, Environmental Hazards and Human Health, Ecological Footprints, Water Resources and Pollution, Energy Efficiency and Resources, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture,
and Environmental Justice.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course introduces students to the millions of life forms that have lived during the 3.5 billion year’s records of life on earth. The course reviews the history and evolution of life on earth, and guides students in an exploration of the plants, animals, and other forms of life through lectures, class activities, and field observations. Students will document their own observations through sketches and field notes and will supplement their own observations with basic library and internet research. Through their own observations, students will discover how various organisms interact by forming and testing their own hypotheses’ and documenting their results. The course also examines the challenges and opportunities faced by each form of life on a planet dominated by human activities.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course will introduce learners to selected current issues affecting the environment from a scientific and social context. Topics are with a focus on implications for the global community. Key environmental issues are highlighted in the course, and students are encouraged to research additional topics in more detail through their independent research journals. Topics covered in the course include historical and ethical perspectives of the environment, the concept of sustainability, biodiversity, renewable and nonrenewable environmental resources, environmental health, and climate change. Each topic is discussed from a local/regional perspective as well as with suggestions towards global impacts and change.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Green Business will focus on best practices in sustainable business operations. Students will be engaged in discussions on how environmental issues shape competitive strategy, government regulation, investor relations, marketing, and finance business functions. Students will learn to apply tools for implementing sustainable practices such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Urban Ecology introduces students to plants, wildlife, and ecosystems of urban areas (like Philadelphia) as well as the physical and cultural forces shaping urban environments. This course meets the Science and Sustainability general education requirement. Students can only count each course towards one requirement.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course challenges and transforms the student into a change agent. Social Responsibility in Eliminating Systemic Racism develops a sense of social responsibility and strong intellectual and practical skills. This course fulfills the Multiculturalism and Gender or Global Awareness Culture requirement in the SGPS General Education program.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course examines a variety of ethical theories and applies a moral philosophy to a range of business issues such as corporate responsibility, whistle-blowing, equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, employee privacy, conflict of interest, advertising and marketing, product liability, employee safety, and international business.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

A look into the codes, standards, and the decision – making processes that apply to the professions within the criminal justice system: police, correction officers, forensic scientists, attorneys and judges.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Africana Studies and to the foundational concepts and institutional experiences upon which the field is built. Intro to Africana Studies provides a basic understanding of the history of the field and how various American interest groups fought to establish and develop academic programs that focused on the study of Africa and its diaspora populations.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course explores the arrival of European traders, the Triangular Slave Trade, and the Middle Passage. The Atlantic Slave Trade provides an understanding of how Africans were captured, transported, and sold into slavery. This course fulfills the Humanities requirement in the SGPS General Education program.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course challenges and transforms the student into a change agent. Social Responsibility in Eliminating Systemic Racism develops a sense of social responsibility and strong intellectual and practical skills. This course fulfills the Multiculturalism and Gender or Global Awareness-Culture requirement in the SGPS General Education program.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course looks at the scope and practice of law in the global business market including a direct focus on economics, the law in relation to international commercial transactions, licensing procedures, tariffs and taxes, and other intricacies which are used to regulate international dealings between government entities or multinational initiatives.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is an introduction to the study of International economics. It introduces the theory of supply and demand, and how the theory is applied to explain the functioning of international markets. It introduces interdependence and the basic theories economics. The course also explores international trade and finance. Students will learn to read/interpret graphs and use them as a means of communication. They will gain familiarity with the law of supply and demand, equilibrium price and quantity, the difference between a change in demand and a change in quantity demanded, and the difference between a change in supply and a change in the quantity supplied both domestically and internationally.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Africana Studies and to the foundational concepts and institutional experiences upon which the field is built. Intro to Africana Studies provides a basic understanding of the history of the field and how various American interest groups fought to establish and develop academic programs that focused on the study of Africa and its diaspora populations.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course introduces students to the kingdoms and queendoms of Africa prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade. We Were Kings and Queens provides a basic understanding of the great civilizations throughout the continent of Africa and their ways of life, ruling, organization, technological advancements, and more.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course explores the arrival of European traders, the Triangular Slave Trade, and the Middle Passage. The Atlantic Slave Trade provides an understanding of how Africans were captured, transported, and sold into slavery. This course fulfills the Humanities requirement in the SGPS General Education program.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course investigates the African beginnings of Black people in America, how black identity evolved from disparate and diverse origins, and how people built a new culture from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The Black Experience provides an overview of the cultural influence of Black lives and broader issues of the African Diaspora as it pertains to the advancement of the United States.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course journeys through centuries of Black inventions and innovations that have led to the advancement of the United States. Black Contributions to the Development of the United States provides an overview of Black persons, groups, and establishments that have spearheaded or aided in technological, educational, political, social, scientific, and/or health advancements.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course addresses mass incarceration of Black people and the concept of school to prison pipeline. The New Jim Crow provides an examination of different pieces of literature, such as Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, to explore real-life experiences that demonstrate the rebirth of a caste like system in the United States.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course challenges and transforms the student into a change agent. Social Responsibility in Eliminating Systemic Racism develops a sense of social responsibility and strong intellectual and practical skills. This course fulfills the Multiculturalism and Gender or Global Awareness-Culture requirement in the SGPS General Education program.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course in “special topics” addresses specific issues within Africana Studies and current events that are not currently explored in other existing courses within the discipline. The course subject matter or content may vary within specific sections across terms as indicated by that course’s title and description.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The purpose of this course is to provide practical training in the fundamentals of effective public and professional presentation, with emphasis on the research, preparation, and delivery of informational, persuasive, impromptu, descriptive, business, question and answer, and personal experience speeches. Locating sources, outlining, media support, observation and active listening will be stressed in the discussion of contemporary and traditional speech communication issues.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary concepts about the meanings and functions of communication in organizations. In addition, this class will consider the theories that are the foundation of communication. The focus of the course is strategic communication – how to analyze an organizational situation, select appropriate strategies from among various options, and carry out those strategies effectively. In order to understand how to solve communication problems, it is essential that students have a firm grasp of the theories that are the backbone of communication behavior.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is a survey of the political, economic, military and cultural development of the lands now known as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Major topics will include the High Caliphate, the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalism, the rebirth of Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf Wars.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is an introduction to the study of popular film as both a prescription for and expression of cultural mores and norms of behavior within society. Students are encouraged to become active observers, as opposed to passive spectators, of Hollywood films that both reflect and generate culture within the United States. This course first looks at the manner in which organized religion is portrayed in film, particularly Islam and Christian Fundamentalism. Secondly, students will critique the compulsory heterosexuality, female body image, and conventional notions of beauty in Disney animated films. Students will also evaluate the manner in which racism, sexism, and classism are either perpetuated or challenged by popular Hollywood films. Finally, students will develop the skills to write critically about the cultural impact of select films.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This Turbo looks at new ways to understand a central fact of American history—Immigration. The course focuses on current issues in immigration to the United States and also encompasses selected aspects of 19th and 20th century immigration. Through a combination of readings, discussion, and film, the course seeks to establish the history, politics, and sociology of immigration to the United States with emphasis placed on immigration as an active process within the larger event of global migrations. Students have the opportunity to examine the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on this process, and discuss and write about how the political, social, economic, and religious factors, to varying degrees, effected both immigration from the homeland and immigrant acceptance in America.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The course will focus on an Introduction to the history and theory of leadership, to critical thinking and methods of inquiry as they bear on the basics of leadership, to the ethics of leadership, and to relevant leadership contexts. The focus will be on the analysis of the historical concepts, evaluating contemporary theories of leadership and then applying the theoretical concepts to actual leadership situations.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

A music appreciation course designed to introduce the student to a variety of genres of music (Gregorian Chant, Classical, Jazz, Motown, Present Day). This weekend/five (5) week course will enhance the skill of listening and provide exposure to composers and music literature. The enjoyment of listening will be a bridge using these five (5) periods of music to your daily life situations using therapeutic music activities.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is intended to introduce the student to the study of logic, emphasizing the structure of arguments. The purpose is twofold: first, to develop analytical skills for understanding how arguments work, how they are structured, and how they are to be evaluated, and second, to develop compositional skills for constructing arguments and defending claims in order to express oneself clearly and forcefully. To this end students will study the types and structure of various forms of argumentation considering their validity as well as their persuasiveness.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course is a brief introduction to Western philosophical thought. The course focus is on the following themes, Western philosophy, the nature of philosophy, and questions of Faith and Reason. Topics such as Epistemology- The question of knowledge, and Ethics-The questions of virtue, morality and justice will also be explored.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

What is the foundation of ethical judgment? On what basis do we make judgments about right and wrong, good and bad? What constitutes human happiness and the best way for people to live? This course takes up a variety of possible answers to these questions and focuses on how these answers can be practically brought to bear on contemporary moral issues such as racism, poverty, health care, reproductive freedom, and human sexuality.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is a general introduction to the science of behavior and mental processes. The basic concepts, principles, methods and research findings of psychology are studied. Emphasis is on those topics and research areas that are important to the understanding of human behavior and thought. These include biological and environmental influences, sensation, perception, development, learning, cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, mental health, and social interaction. Introduction to Psychology is also designed to give students a solid foundation for reading and understanding materials in more advanced psychology courses.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course explores current research findings and significant theoretical perspectives related to the cognitive, socioemotional and physical domains of human development and growth across the lifespan. A major theme of the course is the interaction between nature and nurture in
human development.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Explores how drugs and crime are interrelated issues and how these issues affect society. The development and implementation of laws pertaining to prescription and non-prescription use and abuse. Discussions of drug courts and drug treatment approaches are discussed. What are the real effects that chemical dependency has on our society?

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course offers an interdisciplinary, scientific approach related to the study of criminal behaviors. Includes an introduction to the organization of the criminal justice system; theories of crime causation; crime typologies; research methods utilized to collect and analyze crime trends; and analysis of the crime trend statistics themselves.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

In this foundational course, students will learn the fundamental elements, principals, and vocabulary of art. Students will participate in a step-by-step process of acquiring the tools to read or see line, shape, value, color, texture, space, motion, emphasis, rhythm, and proportion – by comparing paintings and advertising design work. At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to go to an art museum with a strong understanding of the work they’re seeing, and with a sophisticated vocabulary to express that understanding. These skills will carry over into the workplace and help students evaluate advertising and graphic design.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

In this hands-on course students will create and post their very own Web sites to the internet. The capabilities of the World Wide Web along with the fundamentals of web design will be taught. Students will plan the content, structure and layout of a Web site. Students will learn to build links between the pages, add color, backgrounds, graphics, tables, hot buttons, and animation.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course will give students the opportunity to explore art making in a variety of medium and learn about some of the basic principles of composition, color theory and mark making. The instructor will lecture on and give examples of the work of significant artists in each of the categories that we address in our studio sessions. We will arrange a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art that will enrich students’ understanding of the arts in the 20th Century.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This class revolves around the camera phone as a contemporary cultural ideal and the deeply invested interrelationship many people have with it. Picture taking is a key element addressed. However, also addressed are the ethical residuals of such embedded technology. Course Fee: $75.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

A music appreciation course designed to introduce the student to a variety of genres of music (Gregorian Chant, Classical, Jazz, Motown, Present Day). This weekend/five (5) week course will enhance the skill of listening and provide exposure to composers and music literature. The enjoyment of listening will be a bridge using these five (5) periods of music to your daily life situations using therapeutic music activities.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)