2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MSIT 3510 - Enterprise Architecture Design
Enterprise Architecture is the organizing logic for a firms IT infrastructure relative to its business processes/operating model. This course provides an introduction to EA Planning in support of Enterprise Strategy and helps the student to develop a solid understanding of the importance of enterprise architecture design.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3610 - CIO in Training
This course will provide students the opportunity to construct and present IT strategy for a fictional business. Student’s will be assigned the role of a newly hired Director of Information Technology for an emerging growth company and be to develop and present an IT strategy designed to support the growth of the business.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3710 - Cyber Security Risk and Threat Management
Explores understanding of risk management life cycles, risk profiling, formulating
risks, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies. The course also covers enterprise
vulnerability management from a people, process, structure, technology and
contracting perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3720 - Cyber Security: Information Assurance Strategic Management
This course covers what an Enterprise Information Assurance (aka Information Security or Cyber Security) Program should include regarding strategic goals and objectives, roadmap planning, people, process, structure and technology capabilities, services and competencies. A view through a CISO’s eyes in developing, growing, establishing talent management, investment planning and on-going compliance management for organizational cyber security preparedness.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3730 - Cyber Security Technology Operations and Delivery
This course covers the IT operations side of cyber security from a daily management responsibility. Highlighting operational challenges and solution approaches to maturing cyber security technology practices. Topics such as solution engineering, Incident Response, forensics, chain of custody, integration, Project delivery with other key IT Infrastructure, Systems, Databases and Applications are explored. This elective course also covers essential cyber safe practices to begin addressing significant weaknesses in vendor and organizational services/applications today that cyber attackers use as easy gateways into breaching organizations. Both Product and Application Development lifecycles are explored including agile methods.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3740 - Cyber Security Law, Regulations and Ethics
Given the nascent market for Cyber Security and the number of privacy concerns, This course will identify, review, decompose and discuss new approaches to a number of legislative bills, Laws, regulations and social concerns that continue to evolve related to cyber security exposure. Cyber security ethics and privacy have become a top global priority concern with social media service giants pushing the divide between innovation and privacy protection rights.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3790 - Cyber Security Warfare and Risk Management
This course focus on the managerial aspects of assessing and mitigating the pre-dominant cyber risks faced by an organization. Topics covered include access control models, info security governance an IT security program assessment and metrics. Coverage on the foundational and technical components of information is included to reinforce key concepts. This course will explore the current threat landscape and provide a strategic approach to securing enterprise assets.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3799 - Advanced Topics: Cyber Security (Capstone)
This core course will provide students more specialized focus areas of Cyber Security as individuals and/or small teams that will work with established business projects applying the knowledge and experience gained during the year in the Graduate Cyber Security Program at Clark University. This course also covers essential practice security architecture standards organizations must deploy and evolve with today’s cyber security challenges. Many industry control frameworks will be reviewed and explored across different industries to assist in applying effective an consistent cyber security controls across enterprise level assets. Topics such as cloud, mobility, identity blending, social media, Cryptography and Identity & Access Management are explored.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3800 - Cyber Security Policy Development and Assessmnet
Cyber Security executives must construct security policies aligned with and supportive of the enterprises’ business model and associated processes. This alignment helps insure that executive leadership is supportive and all employees within the organization follow the policies. This course examines the steps required in policy development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3820 - Business Intelligence
Businesses today are constantly changing, becoming more and more complex. Organizations, private and public, are under pressures forcing them to respond quickly to change and to be innovative in the way they operate. This drives them to be more agile and to make frequent and quick strategic, tactical, and operational decisions — decisions that often require considerable amounts of relevant data, information and knowledge. Processing these information assets, in the framework of the needed decisions, is what business intelligence is all about. This course addresses BI solutions which deliver computerized support for managerial decision making.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3830 - E-Commerce and E-Business
E-Commerce and E-Business continue to have huge financial impact, to fundamentally alter how business is done. Since 1995, the 16-year life-span of e-commerce, revenues have grown in the United States alone to almost $362 billion in retail, travel and media business (B2C) and $4.1 trillion in inter-business transactions (B2B). The change dynamics occurring run the gamut from dramatic redesign of business models (sometimes whole industries) and organizations to fundamental shifts in consumer behavior. Similar effects are felt in businesses globally in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Is this a business enabler, a technology trend, a social phenomenon?Rather than just an interesting alternative to better operational efficiencies, e-commerce has become a platform for new, unique services and capabilities that are just impossible in the physical world. There is no Google, no Amazon, no Facebook without it. The success of firms like these and still other emerging business models have an immediate and transformational impact on ¿old economy¿ counterparts. Understanding the business, technology and societal dynamics at play in e-commerce is fundamental for anyone today, as an employee, as a business partner, or as an entrepreneur in either profit or non-profit enterprises.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3840 - Project Management for IT
A blend of instruction, discussion and exercises this course is built around the project management best practices presented in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), with a special emphasis on Agile and Scrum methodoligies. It provides the foundation, tools, techniques, templates and methodology to - manage each stage of the project life cycle, working within organizational and cost constraints; set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs; get the most from project teams, and use state-of-the-art project management tools to deliver projects to scope, on-time, and within budget. Spanning the entire project life cycle, the course covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, and Procurement) and the five Project Management Process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing). Sections include the Fundamentals; Time and Cost Management; Quality Management; Risk Management; Release Management; Leadership, Communication and Management; and Managing Large Scale International projects in Virtual Environments.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3860 - Data Management for Information Technology
Digitized business processes and data analytics are essential to the performance and competitive advantage of a modern corporation. The course is intended to provide insight and an IT leadership perspective to the principles of data management, visualization, data mining and AI/machine learning can be applied to enterprise intelligence.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3880 - Enterprise Data Architectures
Hadoop, the open source framework supporting extremely large data sets, has been evolving towards becoming a more integrated component of an enterprise’s overall IT architecture. This course is intended to provide a pragmatic understanding of Hadoop and how it’s evolution enables an enterprise to make more effective use of all forms of data.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3940 - Internship
Students secure placement in internships that complement their academic pursuits. Internships may be without pay or may pay a salary or stipend. Tasks assigned during an internship are expected to involve a balance of needed clerical work and challenging responsibilities allowing professional growth, with a time commitment of 20 hours per week. Interns report to a designated on-site supervisor who provides guidance and feedback on performance. Both the intern and the on-site supervisor interface with the academic coordinator to assure smooth progress during the semester. Periodic on-campus seminars with the academic supervisor provide an arena for feedback on issues common to all the interns; the academic coordinator also provides a wider perspective on concerns at individual internship sites. The internship is strongly encouraged for all students with fewer than three years full-time professional work experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3999 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSIT program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3030 - Freelance Writing and Strategy
The course defines what being a freelance professional means and how digital and social media have made access to freelance work possible. In this course students learn how to promote their business and become a specialist in a chosen field, or work as a consultant to businesses and organizations in need of promotional and marketing materials. Students will learn how to research and write compelling articles for both print and online formats.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3050 - Social Media and Marketing Communication
Social media have rapidly altered how organizations extend their brands, influence public opinion, and engage consumers and citizens through online tools. Moving beyond traditional mainstream media, social media have directly impacted how institutions market themselves and distribute news and information through new cost-effective tools such as blogging and podcasting. This course will explore how social media are effective and influential forces that can help individuals, politicians, businesses, and non-profit organizations with their marketing and media relations needs.
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MSPC 3070 - Organizational Communication
Analyzes communication theory in terms of its affects on behavior of the members of an organization. Internal and external communication is an essential aspect of organizational functioning, and the majority of managerial problems are rooted in communication. This course examines the major theoretical and practical aspects of communication in organizations as they apply to business and governmental contexts.
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MSPC 3090 - Public Relations
Analyzes basic principles of public relations through readings, lectures, case studies, class discussion and campaign design. History and definition of public relations provide the foundation for considering audiences, stakeholders, contingency planning, media relations and ethics.
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MSPC 3100 - Marketing Communication
Develops a solid understanding of the conceptual basis and theoretical structure of the principles of marketing and promotes best practice marketing and business solutions. Students act in a consulting capacity and develop a high-level strategic and tactical marketing plan for a client company that will use it to launch a new product/new venture, reposition the organization, or address a chronic problem. Focal points of the course include branding, concurrent marketing, international marketing, Internet marketing, and buying behavior.
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MSPC 3130 - Principles of Marketing
Provides practical and theoretical instruction to public sector professional administrators who are involved in the marketing efforts of their organizations. The central focus is on developing marketing plans. Topics include: strategic and tactical market planning; market segmentation; target marketing and positioning; social, legal, and competitive issues; managing products and services; developing new products and services; creative techniques; managing costs and pricing; and distribution and delivery of products and services.
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MSPC 3250 - Communication Theory
Examines origins, nature, and consequences of communication. Students review the role of theory and its applicability in understanding communication and interaction in life, work, and cultural contexts. Students are introduced to major theories of communication which includes semiotics, cybernetic, socio-psychological, socio-cultural, critical, and rhetorical traditions.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3280 - Global Talent Development
The world is changing before our very eyes. The dynamics in the global market place are changing. Twenty years ago organizations had training functions; ten years ago it was called learning and development, now it’s Talent Development. As Talent is essential for success of the organization, more and more companies are paying attention to their talent’s development and engagement. In this class, you will learn how to deliver successful presentation, training, e-learning as well as how to design, deliver and evaluate professional, management and leadership training in global settings. This class will be offered in a workshop style, with discussions, presentations and learning projects.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3300 - Professional Communication Seminar
This seminar provides an overview of the significance of communication styles and approaches in contemporary workplace environments. Students will engage in self-assessment of communication competence and learn strategies for enhancing written and oral communication abilities. In addition, students will develop listening and speaking skills, understand and apply theories of persuasion, plan and implement professional oral and visual presentations, learn how to contribute as an effective member of a workplace team, and explore and prepare for professional careers.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3320 - Ethics and Professional Life
Examines moral issues and dilemmas typically found in the law, advertising, education, business and journalism professions. Issues covered include privacy and confidentiality, truthfulness and deception, individual responsibility, social justice, personal character and professional regulation and, more generally, the dilemmas created by conflicts between professional and role-based morality and personal or ordinary morality.
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MSPC 3330 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSPC program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3440 - Special Topics: Communication
This course addresses current or timely topics (in Communication) that are in a pilot phase or are known to be one time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester.
Fall 207 Section 02 - Topic: Mass Communication Theory and Criticism
This course explores prominent and emergent social scientific theories of mass communication. By tracing the historical study of mass communication and examining both traditional and contemporary models, students are asked to critically engage with scholarly work that helps explain the influence of media on individuals and society. Students will apply theoretical concepts to examples from popular contemporary media. Topics covered include: print to digital media history, theories of advertising and persuasion, political communication, news media, and social media.
Fall 2017 Section 01 - Topic: Foundations of Professional Studies
This course prepares students for graduate-level studies by strengthening their strategic reading and critical analysis skills and providing an introduction to basic academic research methods and citation practices. Students will develop and put into practice vital classroom competencies, including preparation, active participation, critical reasoning, debate, and presentation skills.
Summer II, 2017 - Professional Seminar
This course will serve as the basis to success in a career. The course focuses on three areas; leadership and followership, written and oral communication, and career planning and engagement. The concepts of leadership and followership are studied to help build the ability to form productive work relationships. A critical aspect of work place success is the ability to communicate in writing and orally. These elements are explored and practiced through assignments and class activities. Lastly, the course will address the value of planning activities and engagement in jobs over the course of a lifetime for better fulfillment, growth, and financial stability. Career is an integral component of a professional’s life and career can be maximized by an awareness of opportunities available consistent with individual talents.
May be repeated for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3450 - Global Marketing and Advertising
Explores the challenges and opportunities facing businesses in the new global economy. Areas of focus include cultural, political, economic and social system similarities and differences across the globe; the financial environment of international marketing; exporting and entry strategies.
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MSPC 3500 - Interpersonal Communication
In this course students explore interpersonal communication theory. The course will equip students with the tools to understand and think about the communication process, methods to research interpersonal communication, and the skills to call upon in interaction. Students work through a range of methodological, descriptive and interpretive critical readings to reach these goals. Throughout this course students will explore such topics as the development of the self-concept, perception, language, nonverbal communication, and conflict management.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3510 - Health Communication
This course examines the link between communication and issues of health and medicine. The material addresses the way patients and caregivers interact in the examination and hospital room, the way health care is provided, and the way people feel about the providers. The course studies media campaigns that seek to educate people about health. At every level, the importance of health communication is extraordinary. Communication skills are important for professional caregivers, but that is not all. The students will explore the work of Health Communication Specialists (a) in hospital education departments, teaching medical professionals to communicate more effectively; (b) in public relations, marketing, and human resource departments; (c) in patient satisfaction and patient advocacy programs; (d) in health care administration; (e) in media organizations covering health issues; (f) in nonprofit organizations; and (g) in organizations that educate the public and support public policy and research.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3510 - Health Communication
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MSPC 3620 - Cultural Diversity And Intercultural Communication
Creates an awareness of our unconscious prejudices, our verbal and nonverbal presentations and how this may influence our interactions with people from other cultures. By focusing on the history and contributions of various ethnic groups in the United States, students gain a heightened appreciation of difference and an understanding of culturally-specific needs.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3670 - Approaches to Cross Cultural Conflict Management
Explores the impact of intercultural differences on both the origin of conflicts and the characteristics of the conflict resolution process. Theory and research will explore the difference between interest-based and identity-based conflicts. Cases will be used to practice new competencies.
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MSPC 3690 - Organizational Conflict
Studies the theories and approaches geared to resolving problems in the workplace from interpersonal, small-group to interdepartmental conflict situations. Students examine the source of conflict in the workplace and the design of conflict management programs to help employees at all levels learn how to handle conflict constructively.
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MSPC 3750 - Advertising Theory and Practice
Applies advertising communication theory to campaign design and development. Students, in small entrepreneurial design teams, research and develop a complete advertising campaign with associated advertising genres, including objectives, design decisions, media strategies and campaign evaluation.
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MSPC 3760 - Contemporary Issues in Communication
Examine the new trends in the field of communication and their consequences and impact on society. This course will explore trends in mass communication, organizational communication, and new findings in interpersonal communication that are influencing the way people think, live and work.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3770 - Political Communication
This course offers an introduction to political communication, a preeminently practical activity whose role in informing, influencing and legitimizing decisions is crucial to both domestic and international politics. The course looks at fundamental themes of political communication, such as agenda setting, framing, and branding. The course also looks at relevant media formats - infotainment for example - or trends - the emotive news - or technology - the new media. This course is based on the idea that to achieve effective political communication it is necessary to know how media work in general and in the context of politics, and how citizens, journalists and politicians make sense of and use political messages.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3780 - Theory and Practice of Persuasion
This course is designed to provide an understanding of persuasion theory and practice from both the perspective of the consumer and producer of persuasion. A comprehensive view of persuasion is presented and students learn by analyzing how persuasion operates at both an interpersonal and social level. That is, by understanding how persuasion operates interpersonally, students will recognize the component and processes of persuasion, which operate in public discourse and mass mediated messages. This course will focus on the process of persuasion in many different areas including advertising, interpersonal interactions, news media, rhetoric, and social movements.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3800 - Global Communication Strategy
In this course, students gain an understanding of the foundations, scope, and challenges of global marketing, as well as the cultural environments of global markets.
Organizations and businesses are always facing new challenges including slow domestic market growth, international competition, deregulation of formerly protected industries, short product life cycles, and emergence of global brands. This course will equip you with skills to understand and handle current and developing challenges in global marketing and how to create and implement successful strategies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3860 - Gender Communication
Examines the symbolic, social, cultural, political, and personal ways in which gender impacts our daily communication activities in American culture. As “men” and “women,” “boys” and “girls,” we learn an intricate system of communication that shapes the ways we understand and are understood by others. This course takes a practical look at how people speak, write, and interact non-verbally through the use of gender-specific codes and suggests alternatives to “gendered” communication rituals that hinder us.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSPC 3940 - Internship
Students secure placement in internships that complement their academic pursuits. Internships may be without pay or may pay a salary or stipend. Tasks assigned during an internship are expected to involve a balance of needed clerical work and challenging responsibilities allowing professional growth, with a time commitment of 20 hours per week. Interns report to a designated on-site supervisor who provides guidance and feedback on performance. Both the intern and the on-site supervisor interface with the academic coordinator to assure smooth progress during the semester. Periodic on-campus seminars with the academic supervisor provide an arena for feedback on issues common to all the interns; the academic coordinator also provides a wider perspective on concerns at individual internship sites. The internship is strongly encouraged for all students with fewer than three years full-time professional work experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3999 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSPC program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MUSC 010 - Introduction to Music
Designed for the nonmajor, the course expands the concept of the musical experience and develops discriminating listeners. The course includes an introduction to principles of rhythm, pitch, timbre (and their notations); the principles of structure; the aesthetics of music; specific forms including fugue, sonata form, variations; and selected historical styles.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 012 - Pop Music in the USA
Beginning with what is (arguably) the start of the popular in American music, this course will examine Tin Pan Alley, Blues, Country, R&B, Swing, early Rock ‘n Roll, Motown, the Folk Revival, the British Invasion, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk, Disco and Heavy Metal, as well as some more recent music. The course will focus on understanding the stylistic and historical practices of this wide range of popular music. The principle perspective of the class will address popular music as an audible text as an artifact of, and contributor to, popular music culture. No previous musical experience (such as the ability to read or play music) is assumed. However, a willingness to listen to all of this music carefully and to engage a variety of theoretical approaches is presumed.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 014 - Introduction to World Music
This largely nontechnical survey course seeks to foster a meaningful understanding and appreciation of diverse musical experiences from around the globe. Our explorations will alternate between two distinctive approaches: (1) studying the musical cultures of specific geographical areas and (2) discussing broader topics of comparison between cultures. The ultimate aim is for each student to attain a more holistic, global perspective from which to savor each experience. Assignments will help students to listen more actively and also examine how their own basic assumption about music - what they take for granted - may comprise just one corner of a larger and richer “world” of musical possibility.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 018 - Private Instruction Instruments and Voice
Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice Areas offered for non credit include: piano, jazz piano, voice, jazz vocal, clarinet, saxophone, flute, classical guitar, jazz guitar, violin, viola French horn, trumpet, bassoon, trombone and low brass, cello, percussion, string bass, and conducting. In areas not currently offered at Clark, the music program will find a qualified instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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MUSC 021 - Making Music
Fall 2015 FYI
In this introductory first year intensive students will study the essentials of music through singing, playing and composing. Students will learn to read and write musical notation as well as participate in an ensemble. The course will emphasize music comprehension skills and analytical techniques by critiquing, creating and taking apart music from a broad spectrum of cultures and genres. Students will be exposed to music they have not heard before as well as become familiar with a host of tools necessary to comprehend and thoughtfully perform and critique a variety of different musics. This course is recommended for those interested in pursuing music as a minor or major. The course is a pre-requisite for MUSC 121 .
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 100 - Studying Music Historically and Critically
This course is designed to introduce music majors and minors to the historical and critical study of music. The course is required for all music majors and minors and is a prerequisite for other more specialized music history courses. The course surveys major style periods of Western music (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern). Along the way, you will develop the knowledge base and the methodological tool-kit needed for more advanced coursework in music. We will study major works, that are representative of these style periods, and get to know and understand them though listening, analysis, criticism and contextual history. Over the course of the semester you will encounter and try out some of the major musicological approaches ranging from contextual cultural history, listening as analysis, critical interpretation, and music history as detective work. There is no formal prerequisite, but since the course is designed for students who anticipate majoring or minoring in music it is expected that students enrolling in the course will have some musical background and basic music-reading skills.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 or permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 101 - Bach and Before: Studies in Music before 1750
This course explores European music from the Middle Ages through the Baroque period, or from the 10th century AD to ca. 1750. This broad swath of music history encompasses a fascinating variety of music: Gregorian Chant, Medieval polyphony, the Renaissance a capella style, the birth of opera, and the culminating achievements of the High Baroque.
Through a mix of listening, reading, discussion, and assignments of various types, the course explores how music evolved and participated in major cultural, historical and social transitions between the Middle Ages and the Age of Absolutism. Several final weeks of the semester are devoted to the greatest musical figure of the mid-18th century, Johann Sebastian Bach.
We will weave elements of cultural studies, historical and social context, and aesthetics into the mix. Themes will include the impact of new technologies on music (changing systems of music notation and rhythmic control, music printing, and instrument design), competing notions of music as order and/or emotion, and the performance of extreme states of emotion, tragedy and power in Baroque music.
Previous musical experience and the ability to read music are helpful, but not required. Curiosity about music and the willingness to listen deeply to a range of musical styles are, however, absolutely necessary.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 102 - Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods
This course explores European music from the mid-18th century through the end of the 19th century. This era was in many ways a high point in the history of musical art and many of the greatest and most beloved composers were active during this time, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms and Mahler. Through a mix of listening, reading, discussion and various written assignments, students will develop an understanding of representative works by these composers, build a sense of the social and cultural contexts in which they worked, as well as sharpen their aesthetic appreciation of this music. Previous musical experience is helpful, but not required.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 104 - Music and Modernism in Society, 1885-1945
This course is an exploration of different roles played by classical music in modern culture between 1885 and 1945. This course is not a comprehensive survey; rather, it explores selected set of specific topics and context in some depth. By plunging into the often extreme aesthetic experience of 20th-century art music, we will get to know, appreciate and understand (and love!) works by a number of the major composers of the era. We will grapple with crucial issues of music and cultural politics, especially in the context of war and 20th-century totalitarianism. We will also focus on issues of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art, as well as representations of sexuality and gender in operas of the time. The course is designed to serve the need of music majors and minors as well as those of interested non-majors. We will, of course, deal very directly with music, but the intention is to do so in ways that do not exclude those who have little or no formal training in music. The essential prerequisites are a willingness to approach the music we address with open ears and mind and a desire to grapple with ideas and art.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 121 - Theory I: Principles of Tonal Analysis
Explores the system of tonal music commonly employed by composers of the 18th and early-19th centuries, as well as by composers of popular music today. This study, incorporating exercises, composition, analysis and performance, also examines the way students listen to music in general, thus leading to a deeper understanding of the musical process.
Corequisites: MUSC 004 or MUSC 005
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 122 - Tonal Analysis II: Form and Chromaticism
Extends the study of Western tonality to encompass more advanced techniques such as chromaticism and modulation. Culminates with late-19th-century chromaticism, which reveals both the extraordinary possibilities and ultimately the limitations of using the tonal system as an organizing force in music.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 .
Corequisites: MUSC 004 or MUSC 005
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 125 - Musical Acoustics
Musical acoustics is an interdisciplinary study of the physical, perceptual, and cognitive character of musical sound-a unique blend of science and art. Topics include the elementary physics of vibrating systems, waves and wave motion; the human ear and its response; time- and frequency-domain analysis of sound; room acoustics and reverberation; and the acoustics of musical instruments-the human voice, strings, winds, and percussion. The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of acoustics in music making. The class meets as a lecture with a mandatory weekly hands-on laboratory.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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MUSC 141 - Computers and Music
The computer is, arguably, the most distinctively contemporary musical instrument. A project-based and historically grounded introduction to the computer as a musical tool, this course covers a variety of technical topics such as multitrack digital recording and mixing, the fundamentals of sound synthesis, and digital signal processing. A series of cumulative technical assignments through the semester lead to a large composition project. A variety of musical repertoires will be studied through recordings and readings.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 142 - Recording Practice and Audio Art
Many following Brian Eno have observed that the recording studio is the musical “instrument” most characteristic of our time. The majority of the music we encounter is produced using its facilities, production techniques and aesthetics. In the first half of the semester, we’ll work with the industry standard digital audio workstation (DAW) ProTools to make a polished multitrack recording. This part of the class will introduce you to sound recording as a process and an art, and will also cover the supporting science and technology that makes it possible. In the second unit, you will be more composer than engineer. You will create a short composition in a “sound collage” style called musique concreté beginning with recordings of voices and software for processing and editing.
Prerequisites: MUSC 141 or permission of instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 151 - Jazz History
Studies the evolution of jazz style from its 19th-century beginnings to the present, styles covered include ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, progressive, cool, free-form and third-stream. Requires a research paper and a final exam.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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MUSC 153 - Jazz Theory & Style
In this course, students will explore the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic concepts, which serve as the backbone of traditional and modern Jazz theory. Topics will include, but is not limited to; modes, harmonic progressions, chord substitutions, chord scale relationships, intervallic melodic construction, rhythmic motivic development etc. Students will develop a working knowledge of each concept through a combination of improvisation exercises, ear training, style analysis, song arrangement and original composition.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 or permission
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall 2015
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MUSC 170 - Clark Concert Choir
A chorus of 30 to 40 voices, the choir presents two major concerts each year on the Clark campus as well as in off-campus appearances.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 171 - Clark Chamber Chorus
This is a small, specialized singing group chosen from the larger Clark Concert Choir by the conductor.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 172 - Concert Band
Concert Band consists of 25 members performing two major concerts a year.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 173 - Chamber Music Ensembles
Small Chamber Music groups, vary in instrumentation, depending on auditions/enrollment at the beginning of each semester are coached by music faculty instructors of Clark University. These groups have extending opportunities to work on amazing chamber music repertoire and perform it on/off campus in recitals.
Prerequisites: Audition required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 174 - Jazz Workshop and Combo
Includes ensemble performance practice with weekly rehearsals throughout the year.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 175 - Clark Sinfonia
The Clark Sinfonia is a string orchestra, which expands to include wind players for some repertoire. It offers two major concerts a year.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 176 - A Capella Singing & Performance
Designed for students who sing, or are interested in singing, in an a capella group or a choir, this course introduces the fundamental aspects of a capella singing and conducting. Topics covered will include the anatomy of the voice and classical vocal technique; alternative vocal techniques including beat box, scat, overtone singing and yodeling; basic conducting and expressiveness through gesture; effective rehearsal practices; lyric diction; basic harmony, intonation and blend; and how musical structure affects performance practices. The format of the class will alternate between seminar and lab. All students are expected to sing.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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MUSC 180 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice
Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice Areas offered include: piano, jazz piano, voice, jazz vocal, clarinet, saxophone, flute, classical guitar, jazz guitar, violin, viola French horn, trumpet, bassoon, trombone and low brass, cello, percussion, string bass, and conducting. In areas not currently offered at Clark, the music program will find a qualified instructor. Music 180 is covered by tuition and receives course credit (two semesters of MUSC180 is one full course unit). Students enrolled in MUSC180 meet weekly with an instructor, participate in two music workshops, and fulfill a concert attendance requirement. Only declared music majors and minors are eligible to take MUSC180.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 182 - Performance Workshop
The Music Program’s Performance Workshop offers music students instrumental study and performance opportunities outside of regular lessons. This class is perfect for incoming students who would like to begin performing in their first year of college or for students currently taking lessons who would like to enhance their performance skills. Students majoring in the performance track are strongly encouraged to take this course. All aesthetics and genres are taught, from classical and jazz to pop. Performers of all stripes are encouraged to enroll.
This class builds on important aspects of any training in performances such as cultivating repertoire, considering performance injury, practice techniques, mental focus, building instrumental technique, learning how to give, process and understand criticism and how to cultivate professionalism as a performing artist (resume building, cv building, how to take auditions, etc.)
Anticipated Terms Offered: every two years
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MUSC 191 - Improvisation and Aleatory
In this course, students will be immersed in both the theory and the practice of improvised, aleatoric, and open-form music, with a view to a variety of traditions but with a focus on post-WWII avant-garde and experimental Western musics. Students will compose an aleatoric piece, perform aleatoric compositions and freely improvised pieces, study a substantial repertoire of musical works and theoretical writings, and give a historical or theoretical presentation, leading up to a substantial final project.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: every two years
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MUSC 201 - Music, Media & Public Spheres
Much of studying music at school focuses on the acquisition of skills, techniques and technological proficiencies for performance & composition, the development of an historical, formal and critical understanding of musical styles, and the presentation of this knowledge to the University community. “Music–making, Media & Public Spheres” presumes this background, but shifts the focus toward the world off-campus. This course is primarily intended as a platform to provide support to students as they design and complete their capstone projects that involve music. The presumption is that these projects will contain a significant component that is directed to off-campus constituencies (audiences, other music professionals, businesses, entrepreneurial enterprises). A project might consist of preparing, planning and executing an off-campus concert or recital, or designing and mounting a netLabel (a record label that distributes its music primarily through digital audio formats), which publicly presents recordings of student–produced music. This seminar will provide a context and support for these endeavors both academically and as a community of practice. This community will include both student musicians (composers, performers, critics, technologist) as well as Communication & Culture students interested the production of musical media. This course will begin with a through study of how musical media structures public spheres, as well as how people use musical media to participate in the public sphere. Subsequent units will address issues related to contemporary contexts for musical creation, professional and commercial musical industries and institutions, the Internet as a determining site for music–making and consumption, and music as a live event.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year.
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MUSC 210 - Seminar in Music History and Criticism
The Music History Seminar takes up specific topics and themes in music history that open onto larger cultural contexts and interdisciplinary lines of inquiry. The seminar is based on active discussion and student research with a depth and a focus not possible in a survey course, and will develop the student’s critical skills, as well as the ability to write and talk about music in meaningful ways. Seminar topics change each year. The course welcomes music majors and minors, as well as interested students from other disciplines. May be taken more than once for credit. MUSC 102 and/or MUSC 104 are recommended, but not required.
Spring 2015 Music and Politics
The topic of this year’s Seminar in Music History will be Music and Politics. The seminar will explore interactions between music and politics. We will study the intersections of politics, culture, and music primarily in two particular contexts, Germany in the first half of the twentieth century and the US in the second half of the century. Focal points will include musical politics before and during the Nazi era in Germany, music and cold war politics in both countries, and the politics of popular music in the US in the 1960s and 1970s and beyond. The latter part of the semester will be driven by projects on topics chosen and designed by students. The course is open to any interested student. The coursework will be designed to be accessible to students who have little or no formal training in music. The crucial prerequisite is a curiosity about music, politics, history, and cultural critique.
May be repeated for credit.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 216 - Workshop in Music Criticism and Analysis
In this course, students work in collaborative groups to formulate and pursue projects in the field of music criticism and analysis. The workshop will culminate in original team projects that synthesize musical analysis, historical criticism, media, and/or performance. Each time the course is offered it will be designed around a core set of questions that engage important issues in current musicology. The coursework will involve historical, analytic and critical modes of inquiry that build upon skills developed in foundation courses, notably Music 100, Music 121, and Music 122.
Prerequisites: MUSC 100 and MUSC 121 or instructor permission.
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MUSC 220 - Composition Seminar
Rotating topics include composition, film music (Soundtracks), musical analysis, orchestration and contemporary performance practice.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 and MUSC 122
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 225 - Jazz and Popular Music Composition and Performance
This course provides students the opportunity to collaborate in the composition and performance of their own jazz and popular music. Students take the course either as composers, performers or critics, and each choice has its own specific set of course requirements, creating a thoroughly integrated community of practice. Each week students workshop their original compositions, constructively critique other student works and discuss important and influential repertoire in jazz and popular music. Fulfills an Aesthetic Perspective.
Prerequisites: Pre-requisite, MUSC 121 or interview/audition
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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MUSC 230 - Senior Tutorial in Music History
Develops work (e.g., a paper, composition or performance) in consultation with the instructor. For majors only.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 235 - Community Music and Social Action
How can artists and arts managers/administrators contribute as citizens of a democracy? In what ways can people committed to the arts serve the wider world through their work? In this course, we will explore arts education and policy as it relates to positive social change, and examine artistic initiatives that have been focused on positive social impact.
In this course we will develop a response to these questions, and we will explore the notion that the classical musician, the artist, is an important public figure with a critical role to play in society. The course will include inquiry into a set of ideas in philosophy of aesthetics; a discussion about freedom, civil society, and ways that art can play a role in readying people for democracy; discussion on philosophy of education as it relates to the question of positive social change; and an exploration of musical and artistic initiatives that have been particularly focused on a positive social impact.
We will examine these questions from the perspective of theorists, educators, teachers, administrators and artists. All participants will have hands-on opportunities to engage with the community as part of the course, including working with youth in Neighborhood Strings, a free music program for the at-risk population of Main South, and/or interning with the Worcester Chamber Music Society or other prominent local arts organizations.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: AP & DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: biannually
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MUSC 240 - Senior Tutorial in Composition
Develops work (e.g., a paper, composition or performance) in consultation with the instructor. For majors only.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 242 - Soundtracks
How do sounds and music work in conjunction with (and against) moving images? This class will address this question, both on a practical, do-it-yourself level with a variety of exercises and projects, as well as through a critical and analytical approach with screenings, readings and discussion. The course is organized into three sections. First, we will examine the elements of narrative sound and introduce the practice of audiovisual analysis. In the middle section of the class, we will focus on post-production techniques. This constellation of practices found in classic narrative films through contemporary ones (that is, the body of films with which most of us are most familiar) will be the subject of scrutiny and emulation through a series of exercises dealing with dialogue, music, and sound effects. Third, we will look at a variety of historical conventions‹sound and music in silent and transitional/early sound films as well as experimental cinema‹and concentrate on live performance of music and sound effects to accompany silent film.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 or MUSC 141 or SCRN 107 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: offered periodically
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MUSC 250 - Tutorial in Jazz Composition
Student writes original scores for performance by a workshop ensemble.
Prerequisites: MUSC 151 and permission of program director.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 260 - Senior Tutorial in Theory
Student develops work (e.g., a paper, composition or performance) in consultation with the instructor. For majors only.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 270 - Senior Tutorial in Computer Music
Develops work (e.g., a paper, composition or performance) in consultation with the instructor. For majors only.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 280 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice (Honors Level)
Areas offered: same as MUSC 180 above. Students enroll in MUSC 280 for the final two semesters of the honors track, and a fell recital is required as the culminating project for those two semesters.
Prerequisites: Four semesters of MUSC 180 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 290 - Capstone Project
This course provides the student with faculty supervision, advising, and mentoring as s/he prepares an independent senior-year project. The course is only open to seniors
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MUSC 291 - Portfolio Masterclass
Portfolio Masterclass is a course designed for third- and fourth-year music students to pursue independent studies and capstone projects in a collaborative environment. The course will bring together a collaborative group of students working on either capstone projects, junior or senior recitals, honors projects and other independent studies. By combining this diverse array of student work into one integrated workshop, the course will create an environment of critical self-reflection and shared learning through active involvement with the diverse disciplines encompassed by the music curriculum. May be repeatable for credit.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: MUSC 121, MUSC 141, and MUSC 100
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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OM 4600 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
This 1 unit course is required of students who enrolled in their first semester of M.B.A. courses in the fall 2011 semester forward. Operations management involves the efficient use of resources to create goods or services that satisfy the needs of customers and clients. In both the profit and nonprofit sectors, successful management requires economically rational decisions regarding the design and operation of processes that transform such resources into goods or services. The course develops students’ abilities to identify and structure operating problems and to identify appropriate techniques for resolving them. Examples of topics covered include: operations strategy, process analysis, basic forecasting methods, location selection, capacity management and utilization, inventory management, quality management/assurance, project and supply chain management.
Please note: Course previously offered as OM 4600 Operations Management. Students who took the course under that designation should not register for this, as it is the same course.
Prerequisites: MIS 4500 , STAT 4300 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall and Spring semesters
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OM 5910 - Directed Research
For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. The Directed Research Course Request Form should be completed and submitted to Associate Dean Andrea Aiello (aaiello@clarku.edu). For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor. This directed research is done in the subject area of operations management.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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PH 298 - Internship
An internship in public health research through the Mosakowski Institute.
Anticipated Terms Offered: every semester (as needed)
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PH 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall & Spring (as needed)
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PHIL 050 - Relativism & Absolutism Across the Disciplines
We explore rival claims of relativists and absolutists in ethics, religion, math and the sciences, and consider some varieties of pluralism as option to these claims. Ours is a case-study approach. We study and evaluate the ‘Asian values argument’ against the universality of human rights, a feminist criticism of empirical science, and consider the exclusivism of contemporary religious fundamentalism. We begin with experiments in color perception and some simplified examples of alternate mathematics, and then study claims of cognitive differences across cultures. These case studies prepare us for an engagement with texts from Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson, Nietzsche, Hegel, Habermas and Tillich that help us to think about a family of issues concerning meaning, interpretation, and truth that span disciplinary divides. Fulfills the verbal expression requirement.
Prerequisites: VE placement required
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
VE Eligible
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PHIL 070 - The Educated Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Epistemic Values
Research in artificial intelligence is not limited to the project of manufacturing thinking machines. The scope of AI is in fact much more ambitious: artificial intelligence—and cognitive science in general—hopes to uncover the nature of all mental activity. At issue is the question: What conditions must be satisfied for any being, human beings included, to have a mind? One of the primary aims of this course is to describe the issues and questions that vex cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind. We will examine some of the scientific models of thinking currently available—mechanistic and computational models in particular—and attempt to assess some of the prominent criticisms that have been leveled against those theories. Additionally, however, we will pay particularly close attention to issues that touch on our “epistemic values.” Philosophers have focused, and not without good reason, on rather modest and mundane types of mental states—basic sensory awareness and simple propositional knowledge, for example. We will take up the task of examining a wider range of epistemic (that is, “knowledge‐based”) values— including understanding, comprehension, wisdom, good judgment and education. We will ask what it means to possess and cultivate these values against the background of a mechanistic conception of the world and the mind.
Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) Designation: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
Placement Guidelines
VE Eligible
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