Course Catalog

Art & Design 

AR 214 Digital Animation and Motion Graphics  – Professor Gordon Glover

Digital Animation & Motion Graphics moves students with little or no knowledge of digital image creation and manipulation through the steps necessary to create animation, motion graphics, and video composites useful in web, television, gallery, mobile, and cinematic applications.

For Saint Michael’s College students:

CORE: Literature & The Arts

Business Administration

BU 214 Management – Professor Karen Popovich

This survey course covers the basic principles and management fundamentals of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Topics covered include leadership, group dynamics, team management, motivation, and communication skills.

Prerequisites: BU 103 or BU 113 or AC 141 or AC 143. Business majors and minors only.

Environmental Science 

ES 107 Environmental Science  – Professor David Heroux

This course is a science-based investigation of the Earth as a system, with application to understanding many issues in contemporary environmental policy. Science is an attempt to discover how nature works. Through careful observation, measurements, experimentation, and modeling, students will explore issues in contemporary environmental science. These include climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, ecosystem structure and function, population, biogeochemical cycling, energy, as well as investigations of environmental problems, their causes, and solutions.

For Saint Michael’s College students:

CORE: Scientific Inquiry

Philosophy & Ethics

PH 250 Logic: An Introduction – Professor Patrick Standen

PH-250 introduces students to the basic concepts of logic, the different kinds of inference structures or arguments, and the various techniques for identifying and evaluating inference structures or arguments, both informal and formal.

For Saint Michael’s College students:

CORE: Quantitative Reasoning

Political Science

PO 180 Current Issues in World Politics – Professor Jeffrey Ayres

This course provides students with an introduction to controversies and debates in world politics, through both a theoretical and case study approach.

For Saint Michael’s College students:

LSC: Social and Institutional; CORE: History and Society

Psychology 

PS 110 Lifespan Development – Professor Melissa VanderKaay Tomasulo 

Students will gain understanding of the development of human individuals through physical, cognitive, and socioemotional components from conception to death.  Theoretical and experimental approaches will be examined, and emphasis will be placed on applying these principles to relationships and situations across one’s lifespan.  The nature-nurture debate will also be addressed.

PS 256 Abnormal Psychology – Professor Sarah Hastings 

This course explores historical and contemporary ways of conceptualizing the origins, characteristics, and treatments of psychological/emotional difficulties and problems in living. Problems and disorders to be examined range from minor adjustment problems and common disorders such as depression to more rare, major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Through an in-depth examination of a variety of viewpoints on “abnormal” behavior, students are invited to think critically about their own and our society’s conception of “mental illness.”

Prerequisites/Restrictions: PS-101 or SO-101; Psychology/Criminology Majors and Minors & Public Health Majors Only

Sociology & Anthropology

SO 107 Social Problems – Professor Inaash Islam

This course is focused on contemporary social problems, particularly on how issues come to be “public” issues and eventually defined as problems in need of resolution. Often taught from the “constructionist” perspective, the problems that receive the greatest attention range from year to year and professor to professor. Common problems include, poverty, stratification, prejudice and discrimination, drug and alcohol abuse, gangs, violence, hunger, economic development and many other topics. As with Introduction to Sociology, this course focuses on the basic institutions of society.

For Saint Michael’s College students:

CORE: History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities