USM Core Thematic Clusters: Descriptions, courses, prerequisites (updated Oct. 31 2014)
Thematic clusters provide students with opportunities to explore an issue, theme or topic from a
variety of perspectives. The clusters encourage students to integrate their learning by
juxtaposing competing and complementary ways of framing complex issues and problems at a
more advanced level. Satisfying the thematic cluster requirement involves successfully
completing any three courses in the cluster, from any two prefixes, and only one course with
the same prefix as the student’s major. Students may also complete any minor or a second
major in lieu of a cluster.
Aging Well
The "Aging Well" cluster will provide students with educational experiences that will better
prepare students in a variety of majors to meet the needs of an aging society. The nation's Baby
Boom generation has just begun to turn 65 and our society is facing an approaching age wave of
epic proportions. There will be an increasing need to prepare professionals with the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes to work with and care for this population. Currently the State of Maine and
nation as a whole are not prepared to meet the social, physical, and behavioral care needs of
people who are elderly. The "Aging Well" cluster will provide USM students with resources
needed to assist in their own and other people's aging process.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
CON 311 Psychosocial Interventions for Older
Adults
none
CON 313 Health and Later Years
none
CON 390 Evaluation and Assessment of Older
Adults
College Writing or any SOC or PSY course
HRD 310 Aging and the Search for Meaning
none
HRD 312 Spiritual Challenges of Aging
none
SOC 323 Sociology of Death and Dying
Soc 100, Soc 210
PHI 291 Death and Dying
Any 100 PHI or EYE
PSY 325 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
PSY 101 and 220 or HRD 200
SWO 375 Gender and Aging
none
NUR 332 Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing
NUR 100, 211, 209/210, 212/213, BIO 345, CON
302
STH 315 Introduction to Rehabilitation for Older
Adults
College writing and any PSY or SOC course.
American Society and Culture
Cluster course
Prerequisites
10
ARH 325 American Art
None
ECO 220 US Economic and Labor History
ENG 100C
ENG 367 Literature and Culture of the Early
Republic
ENG 120
ENG 370 Literature of Discovery, Exploration, and
ENG 120
Settlement
ENG 380 19th C. American Lit. and Culture
ENG 120
ENG 394 Modernism
ENG 120
HTY 366 Religion in American Society
Two of: HTY 121, 122 and 123 or permission
HTY 372 American Intellectual History I
HTY 121 or 122 or permission
HTY 373 American Intellectual History II
HTY 121 or 122 or permission
HTY 374 Photographing American History
None
HTY 394 American Popular Culture
None
HTY 399 Hispanic America
None
MUS 202 Music in America
none
MUS 325 History of Musical Theatre
ENG 100
POS 392 American Political Thought I
None
POS 393 American Political Thought II
None
SOC 371 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC 100, SOC 210
Applied Science and Technology
A firm understanding of theory provides a basis for providing contributions to the expanding technology
applications that dominate many aspects of everyday life. The Applied Science and Technology cluster
balances physical and mathematical theory with several applications; a theme that will be of keen interest
to students interested in pursuing careers in the technology sector or graduate studies in a wide variety of
interdisciplinary fields. Student skills developed include: the application of mathematical and physical
principles to the interpretation of data collected from sophisticated analytical instrumentation routinely
used by scientists; a broader and deeper understanding of theoretical principles that are relevant to
electronic devices and instruments; application of probability to the analysis of large volumes of
complicated data; connecting theoretical principles to device fabrication, microchips, nanoparticles,
software applications, and a host of other modern day technologies.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
CHY 377 Instrumental Analysis
CHY 231 and 371
ELE 216 Circuits I: Steady State Analysis
PHY 123 and MAT 153
EGN 260 Materials Science
PHY 123 and MAT 153
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ELE 351 Elctromagnetic Fields
MAT 252
ELE 364 Electromagnetic Fabrication
EGN 260
ESP 275 Energy Use and Societal Adaptation
ESP 101/102
ESO 375 Environmental Risk Assessment and
Management
ESP 101/102 and ESP 203
GEO 308 GIS Applications I
One of the following: ESP/GEO 108, GEO 208 or
305, GEY 202 or 204, GEY/GEO 340
MEE 230 Thermodynamics I
MAT 153 and PHY 121
PHY 211 Non-Classical Physics
PHY 123 or PHY 112 and MAT 152
PHY 221 Classical Physics I
PHY 121 and MAT 252(may be concurrent)
MAT 281 Introduction to Probability
MAT 140 or higher
Casco Bay Region: Where We Live
Explore your surroundings. Understand your community. In this cluster, you’ll examine our region’s
culture, transitions, diversity, and natural environment. You’ll reflect on our local identity and experience:
Who are we? Why are we the way we are? How does Portland, Maine, or New England fit within the
world? How do we relate to the ecosystem that supports us? The cluster fosters a sense of place and
connects you to the community. It motivates community stewardship, including a commitment to protect
what you love about Maine.
The Casco Bay Region cluster is organized by the Honors Program, and all students are encouraged to
sample honors (HON) courses. Non-honors courses are also available. HON courses are seminars that
emphasize discussion, reflection, close reading of challenging texts, writing, research, and civic
engagement. Non-honors courses tend to be slightly larger and less likely to use a seminar format. All
300-level HON courses in the cluster are open to any USM student willing to engage with the course
material; however, if a student’s grade in an HON course is lower than B-, that student is expected to
finish the cluster with non-honors courses.
Non-honors Cluster Courses:
HTY 360 - History of Maine
Prerequisites
Schedule
none
every year
TAH 241- Tourism and Community Development none
Every year
SWO 383 - Social Work with Immigrants,
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
none (permission for cluster
students)
every year
ESP 200 - Environmental Planning
ESP101/2 or permission for cluster
students
every other
fall
ART 312 - Shaping the Terrain
permission
occasionally
ANT 360 - Public Archaeology (6 cr.)
ANT 103 or permission for cluster
students
every year
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BIO 231 Botany and lab
BIO 107
CHY 233 - Analytical Chemistry and lab
CHY 115 with minimum grade of C-
every year
(fall)
ESP 341 Limnology
BIO 105/106 or ESP 101/102 or ESP 125/126,
and CHY 113/114 or permission
Every year
ESP 303 Wetlands Ecology
ESP 101/ 102, CHY 113/ 114 or
permission
Every year
Honors Cluster Courses**
Prerequisites* Schedule
HON 351 - Reading/Writing Maine Environments: Virtual Sunset vs. Real
Sunset
none
every
year
HON 355 - Casco Bay Area Topics
when topics differ:
Course may be repeated for credit
none
every
year
HON 356 - Topics in Casco Bay Area Diversity Course may be repeated for
credit when topics differ
none
every
year
HON 359 - Honors Internship/Community Service
Honors Director every
permission
semester
HON 455 - Topics in New England Studies
Instructor
every
permission
semester
(normally 3.5+
GPA and senior
standing
Early Childhood Education
This cluster introduces the skills needed by professionals working with young children and their
families in various settings including education and childcare. These settings include schools and
educational institutions such as preschools, as well as in the Birth-Five field of childcare and
education.
Required courses include
One of the following:
Course
Scheduled offerings
SBS/HRD200 - Multicultural Human Development
See Maine Street
SBS305 - Child Development
See Maine Street
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Two of the following:
Course
Scheduled offerings
SBS 309 - Attachment
See Maine Street
SBS 310 - Childhood and Society
See Maine Street
SBS 375 - Infant Mental Heath
See Maine Street
SBS 399 - Resilience in Early Childhood and Across
the Lifespan
See Maine Street
SBS 450 - Assessing Individual Differences in
Children
See Maine Street
EDU 336 - Children's Literature
See Maine Street
SBS 341 - The Family
See Maine Street
ECE/SBS199 - Introduction to Early Childhood
Education*
See Maine Street
HUM 304 - Writing Children’s Literature
See Maine Street
HUM 370 - Literacy Studies
See Maine Street
LAC/SBS 340 – Language Acquisition and Literacy
development
See Maine Street
** Normally, students are required to select cluster courses with at least two different prefixes. A
mechanism is being developed so students can complete the cluster entirely with HON courses, as long as
those courses represent different disciplines (e.g., not all history courses or not all literature courses).
Education in a Democratic Society
The Education in a Democratic Society cluster provides an interdisciplinary examination of topics
related to schooling, learning, and education. Students are expected to gain an awareness of the
complexity of issues related to equity and access to education in a diverse, democratic society. A
variety of courses are identified for students interested in education in a broad sense to select
from. Students pursuing teacher certification should select a pre- professional sequence of the
following three designated courses: SED 335, EDU 305, SED 420.
SED 335: Students with Exceptionalities in
General Education
None
EDU 305: Foundations of Cultural and
Linguistic Diversity
HRD 200: Human Growth and Development
SED 420: Multi-Tiered Systems of Educational
Support
None
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SOC 331: School and Society
SOC 210 with C or better or permission of instructor
EDU 210: Theoretical Foundations of
Learning
None
EDU 336: Children’s Literature
None
ADS 300: Ethics and Youth with Disabilities
Core prerequisites: any 3 of the 4 second tier
requirements
MUE 411 Teaching Music Composition PK-12
(2cr) ; MUE 410 ProSeminar VII (1cr)
Prerequisite: MUE 350 ProSeminar VI. Corequisites:
MUE 410 ProSeminar VII, MUS 406 Composers’
Ensemble; MUE 450 Prerequisites: MUE 350
ProSeminar VI. Corequisite: MUE 411 Teaching
Music Composition PK-12; Composer’s Ensemble or
permission
Early Childhood Education and Studies
The Early Childhood Education and Studies Cluster introduces the skills needed by professionals
working with young children and their families in various settings including education and
childcare. These settings include schools and educational institutions such as preschools, as well
as in the Birth-Five field of childcare and education.
Course
Prerequisites—check Maine Street
SBS/HRD200 - Multicultural Human Development
SBS305 - Child Development
SBS 309 - Attachment
SBS 310 - Childhood and Society
SBS 375 - Infant Mental Heath
SBS 399 - Resilience in Early Childhood and Across
the Lifespan
SBS 450 - Assessing Individual Differences in
Children
EDU 336 - Children's Literature
SBS 341 - The Family
ECE/SBS199 - Introduction to Early Childhood
Education*
HUM 304 - Writing Children’s Literature
HUM 370 - Literacy Studies
LAC/SBS 340 – Language Acquisition and Literacy
development
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Environment and Society
This cluster of courses will explore how individuals and societies interact with and perceive their
environment, as well as how the environment, in turn, affects them. Students following this cluster are
expected to gain an appreciation of the effects of their individual and collective actions on the
environment, and learn to become better-informed environmental citizens. Service learning will be
encouraged.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
HST 394 Environmental History of Latin America
(previously HTY 400)
None
GEO 320 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEO 101J, GEO 102K, or GEO 103J
ESP 421 - Natural Resource Policy
ESP 101/102, ESP 220, or permission
ESP 308 - Global Environmental Problems and
Sustainability
Prereq: ESP 101/102, ESP 125/126 or
permission
SOC 370 - Sociology of the Environment
SOC 100 , SOC 210
ANT 222I – Peoples of the North
None
ANT 213 Human Ecology
None
ANT/GEO 450 – Ethnoecology: Local
Knowledge for Global Survival
Junior standing or permission of instructor
REC 233 Outdoor Recreation
None
ECO 326 Environmental Economics
ECO 102J or permission
ECO 327 Natural Resource Economics
ECO 102J or permission
PHI 212 Environmental Ethics
Any 100 PHI or EYE
ECO 335 Political Economy of Food
Any 100 ECO and ENG 100 or permission
TAH 231 Sustainability in Tourism and
Hospitality
none
Film and Society
This cluster provides an opportunity to study different social, cultural, and historical issues
through the medium of film in a variety of academic disciplines. Courses include film
appreciation, film theory, philosophy of film, different film genres, various national cinemas, and
topics such as women in film, and labor history through film.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
CMS 225 Screenwriting
CMS 102 and CMS 103
CMS 284 Film Appreciation
College writing
CMS 286 History of International Cinema to
1945
College writing
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CMS 380 Film Genres
College writing
CMS 384 Film and Cultural Studies
College writing
CMS 394 Theories of Film
CMS 284
CMS 484 Topics in Film
CMS 102, 103 and 284 and COM/MES major
CMS 486 Women in Film
CMS 102, 103 and 284 and junior or senior
standing
CRM 320 Film and Social Order
CRM 100 or permission
ENG 347 Topics in Cultural Studies: Stanley
Kubrick
ENG 120
ENG 348 Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies:
Shakespeare and Film
ENG 120
Eng 397 Studies in Irish Literature and
Culture: Irish Film
ENG 120
PHI 221 Philosophy of Film
Any PHI 100-level or EYE
PHI 312 Gender in African Lit and Film
Any PHI 100-level or EYE
HTY 399 Labor History through Film
none
POS 299 American Politics at the Movies
none
POS 299 Foreign Policy at the Movies
none
RUS 293 Survey of Russian Cinema
ENG 100
Geospatial Technologies
This cluster of courses provides students with a background in the theory and/or applications of geospatial
technologies. What we now consider routine applications such as Google maps to find street addresses or
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to navigate street networks involve the application of geospatial
technologies; a set of interlinked theories and concepts related to geography, cartography, mapping,
aerial imaging, surveying, and database design. These technologies are used routinely in fields as diverse
as urban and environmental planning, business and marketing, epidemiology, natural resources
management, art, landscape architecture and engineering. Courses within this cluster provide students
with a flavor for this rapidly expanding field and its novel applications.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
GEO 208 Cartography I
none
GEO 305 Remote Sensing
GEO108 or permission of instructor
GEO 308 GIS Applications I
one of the following: ESP/GEO 108, GEO 208, GEO 305, GEY
202, GEY 204, GEO/GEY 340, or permission of instructor.
GEY 340 Digital Mapping
Prerequisites: introductory course in GEY, GEO, or ESP and
additional 200-level course in any of the above areas.
ART 312 Shaping the Terrain
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
GEO 408 GIS Applications II
Prerequisite: GEO 308 or permission of instructor.
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GEO 458 Research Applications in GIS
GEO 308.
Health and Wellness
The Health and Wellness cluster will provide USM students with resources needed to support
their own personal efforts to improve their health and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Additionally,
students interested in careers relating to health and wellness will gain knowledge and skills to
assist others in their adoption and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
BUS 201 Personal Finance
none
CON 219 Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness
None
CON 280 Holistic Health I
None
CON 281 Holistic Health II
CON 283 Healing and Spirituality
None
PSY 366 Drugs, Mind and Behavior
PSY 101J & one semester
of biology
PSY 368 Health Psychology
PSY 101
PSY 390 Health Psychology Institute
none
SPM 400 Sports Nutrition Symposium
None
CON 252 Human Nutrition
BIO 211 or SCI 172
CON 270 Holistic Reproductive Health
None
CON 314 Wellness Education and Counseling
None
SOC 374 Mental Health
Soc 100, Soc 210
CON 288 Reiki: Energy Medicine
None
CON 490 Therapeutic Touch
None
CON 497 Substance Use and Abuse
None
Humans and Animals
Courses in this cluster are devoted to the theory, history, ethics, practices, and/or policy dimensions of
human/animal relationships. They may include examination of such topics as the following: how the
“animal” has shaped human philosophy; non-human animals and our food system; animals in religion; the
representation of creatures in literature; the role of animals in experimental science; service animals and
disabilities; animal abuse and the law; human/animal studies as a discipline.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
CON 285 Animal Assisted Therapy
None
PHI 212 Environmental Ethics
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
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CRM 327 Animal Abuse
CRM 100 or permission
ENG 347 Animal Studies
ENG 145
ENG 319 Topics in Genre and Form: Species, Sex,
Gender and Science Fiction
ENG 145
PHI 290 Problems in Philosophy:
Humans/Animals/Machines
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
Law
This cluster asks students to examine law from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will
learn diverse approaches to reading texts related to the law. The courses are united by the
desire to better understand the meaning of law. What the law intends to do and what it actually
does may be very different.
CMS 498: Freedom of Expression
Major + CMS 102 + CMS 103 + CMS 200
CMS 498: Discourse, Communication &
Critical Thinking
CMS 375 + junior
CRM 327 (SOC 380): Animal Abuse
CRM 100
CRM 334: Law and State
CRM 100
CRM 380 Restorative Justice
CRM 100
ENG 305: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Style
None
HTY 400: Crime and Punishment in
Latin America
HTY 200 + senior
PHI 245: Africa, Social Justice, and Exile
PHI 100 level or EYE
PHI 260: Philosophy of Law
PHI 100 level or EYE
POS 280: Issues Before the United
Nations
None
POS 315 Media Law
POS 101 or CMS 103
POS 463: Supreme Court and Con Law
POS 101
SOC 393: Women, Welfare and the
State
SOC 210 + junior
Leadership
The Leadership cluster is an interdisciplinary introduction geared toward anyone interested in
developing and expanding their leadership knowledge, skills, and practice, meeting head on the
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challenges of our dramatically changing world, and improving the quality and diversity of leadership in
organizations and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. Theories, research and
techniques of group and organizational leadership are examined with an emphasis in linking theory
and practice. As a socially constructed phenomenon, leadership will be explored as an activity and
process, not a position.
Required Courses:
1. LOS 300 Organizational Theory
2. Choose any one of the following:
 LOS 350 Leadership
 LOS 270 Exploring Leadership on Campus, or
 Three credit Exploring Leadership Series: LOS 351 Transformational leadership, LOS 352
Servant Leadership, LOS 353 Authentic Leadership
3. Choose one:
SBS 300 Deviance and Social Control
SBS 311 Theories of Personality
HUM 330 Labor, Literature and the Arts
SBS 303 Abnormal Psychology
Course list
Prerequisites
HUM 330 Labor, Literature and the Arts
Any EYE
LOS 270 Exploring Leadership on Campus
none
LOS 300 Organizational Theory
none
LOS 350 Leadership
none
LOS 351 Exploring Transformational Leadership
none
LOS 352 Exploring Servant Leadership
none
LOS 353 Exploring Authentic Leadership
none
LOS 354 Exploring Complexity Leadership
none
LOS 355 Exploring Shared Leadership
none
LOS 356 Exploring Followership
none
SBS 300 Deviance and Social Control
none
SBS 303 Abnormal Psychology
none
SBS 311 Theories of Personality
none
Media Arts, Technology and Design
A cluster of courses from Digital Art and Design, Media Studies, and Information and
Communication Technologies that offer innovative lectures, critique and analysis components,
and hands-on laboratory experiences.
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Cluster Course
Prerequisite
ART 221/ART 222 (new number) Intro to Digital Art
Art foundation
ART 321 Exploring Time-Based Art (course name
change)
ART 221
ART 322 Multimedia Applications (COURSE NO
LONGER OFFERED)
ART 221
ART 323 Web Art: Concepts and Construction
(COURSE NO LONGER OFFERED)
ART 221
BUS 377 Information Visualization
Various; see Maine Street
CMS 203/204 (formerly 190/191)
CMS 102 and 103
CMS 220 Audio I: Radio Production
CMS 102 and 103
CMS 320 Topics in Media Production II (all)
CMS 102 and 103
CMS 340/341 Field Video Production
CMS 203/204
CMS 440/441
CMS 340/341
ITT 231 Technical Visualization
none
ITT 241 Info and Communication Tech
none
ITT 281 Internet Website Development
None ($150.00 course fee)
ITT 343 –Graphic Com Tech
none
ITT 342 Digital Publishing Technologies
none
ITT 344 Digital Video and Animation Technologies
none
MUS 370 Topics in Music Technology
none
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Modernism
This cluster will integrate art, literature, philosophy, history, and science in relation to ) the Modernist
period (roughly late 19th and early 20th centuries), the modernist cultural movements and aesthetic
schools that flourished throughout this period (imagism, cubism, futurism, etc.), and, more generally,
the wide-scale and far-reaching economic, cultural, intellectual, and scientific changes in the West that
gave rise to them: industrialization and urbanization, the rise of mass production in commerce and the
media, the development of new modes of perception, and transformations in conceptions of the self
both as an individual and in relation to groups (racial, national, familial). *ENG courses have a
prerequisite of ENG 100 for non-majors and ENG 245 for majors.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
ENG 391 Modern American Poetry
ENG 100, ENG 245*
ENG 394 Studies in American Lit since 1900: American
Modernism
ENG 100, ENG
245
ENG 396 James Joyce
ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 383 Harlem Renaissance
ENG 100, ENG 245
HTY 374: Photographing American History
ENG 100
HTY 394: World's Fairs and Exhibitions
HTY 200
ARH 327 Modern Art
ARH 112G
ARH 328 Contemporary Art
ARH 112
ARH 318 History of Photography
ARH 112 or permission
ARH 311 Gender Identity and Modern Art
none
PHI 350 Classic American Philosophy
Any 100-level Phi
PHI 399 Topics: The Frankfurt School
Any 100-level PHI
HON 202 Process, Progress or Permanence
none
ENG 321 Modernisms
ENG 100 or ENG 245
ENG 390 British Poetry Since 1900
ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 491/ENG 398 Modernism and WWI/Eliott
ENG 100, ENG 245
THE 353 Theater History and Literature III
THE 101
HTY 358 Early 20th-Century U.S. History, 1898-1938
HTY 123 or Permission
MUS 220 Twentieth Century Music
Music major or permission
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Professional Practices
This cluster addresses issues that transcend the particular discipline and span multiple practices that
graduates from various degree programs will engage in while performing in a professional environment.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
Offering
BUS 200 Introduction to Business
Not BUS ACC FIN GMG MKT
majors with fewer than 9
credits and student has not
taken BUS101
annually
BUS 316 Sport Event Management
Junior standing
annually
BUS 340 Managing Organizational Behavior
Junior standing
annually
BUS 345 Information Technology/Management Sophomore standing
Information Systems
Every fall and spring
BUS 377 Information Visualization
Any Core quantitative Every spring
reasoning course
BUS 399 New Product Development
BUS 260 (C minus or Annually
better) and So standing
CMS 255 Business and Professional
Communication
none
annually
EGN 304 Engineering Economics
MAT 152 Calculus A
Every other spring
ESP 375 Environmental Risk Assessment and
Management
ESP 101K or ESP 102K,
ESP
203W, or permission of
Every other fall
FIN 320 Financial Management
ACC 110 and ( ECO 101
or ECO 102 or EGN 304)
and
(MAT 210, MAT120, ITP
240, LCC 150,LAC 328,
Every semester
ITP 210 Technical Writing
ENG 100C or equivalent
Every semester
ITP 230 Project Management
None
Every semester
ITP 280 Industrial Organization, Management,
and Supervision
None
Every spring
ITP 350 Teambuilding and Facilitation
None
Every semester
ITP 490 Cost Analysis and Control
ACC 110 – Financial
Accounting and MAT 108
– College Algebra or
Every other spring
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RMI 320 Introduction to Risk Management &
Insurance
Quantitative Reasoning
Every semester
TAH 241 Tourism and Community
Development
None
Every year
TAH 211 Tourism Product Development
none
Every year
TAH 311 Event Planning and Management
none
Every year
ENT 299 Make, Model and Move:
Entrepreneurial Foundations for Creative
Ventures
none
Every year
STH 440 Professional Internship
Permission of instructor;
NOTE: Students applying
STH 440 toward the
Professional Practices
Cluster must complete a
minimum of three credits
with a passing grade.
Credits beyond the
minimum of three do not
apply to the Cluster
requirement.
Every year
Public Health
The Public Health cluster provides students with an introduction to the multitude of public health concerns
facing Maine and the world, and increases their ability to apply pertinent theoretical and practical
knowledge to contribute to a safe and functioning society. Professions that utilize knowledge of public
health include medical and allied health and human services, mental health, gerontology, and child and
family support. Public health approaches address the full spectrum of services, planning and evaluation. The
cluster will also strengthen the pursuit of graduate study in Public Health and Policy.
Choice of three from following list, one of which must be SBS/SCI 336 or SBS/SCI 337 (which may
be registered for under either prefix):
•
•
•
•
LOS or SBS 436 Risk, Public Policy, and Society
SBS 304 Food, Culture and Eating
SBS 308 Health, Illness, and Culture
SBS 335 Legal Issues in Health and Human Services (offered every Fall)
SBS or SCI 336 Introduction to Public Health (offered every Fall)
SBS or SCI 337 Introduction
to Epidemiology (offered every Spring)
SCI 315 Environmental Health
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Cluster Courses:
Course prefix, number, title
Prerequisites
Previous 2 year
schedule
LOS or SBS 436 Risk, Public Policy, and Society
none
Online Spr 11
SBS 304: Food, Culture and Eating
none
M 4:00 Sp 11
M 1:00 Fall 12
SBS 308: Health, Illness, and Culture
none
M 4:00 Sp 12
SBS 335: Legal Issues in Health and Human
Services
none
M 5:30 Fall 11
T 5:30 Fall 12
SBS or SCI 336: Intro to Public Health
None (Statistics
recommended)
Th 9:00 Fall 11 W
9:00 Fall 12
SBS or SCI 337 Introduction to Epidemiology
Recommended: Intro Bio &
Statistics
Th 9:00 Sp12
Th 5:30 Sp 13
SCI 315: Environmental Health
LCC 230
Online Sp 12
Religion in Human Culture NOTE: This cluster is no longer being offered. Courses are listed here
for students who began the cluster prior to its elimination.
The Religion in Human Culture cluster examines religion as a complex human phenomenon that can be
studied through different disciplinary perspectives. The cluster expands students’ knowledge of
continuity and change in religion across time and place. Courses emphasize the relationships among
religious thought, practice and cultural expression.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
ARH 322 Medieval Art History
ARH 111
ARH 323 Renaissance Art History
ARH 112
ARH 329 Asian Art
ARH 112 or permission
HTY 307 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
None
HTY/REL 312 Renaissance and Reformation
HTY 101 or permission
HTY 377/ REL 394 Chinese Thought and Buddhism
HTY 171 recommended
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PSY 399 Psychology of Religion
PSY 101J, PSY 102, PSY 205, and PSY206
REL 200 Humanity’s Spiritual Heritage
none
Resilience and Vulnerability
The Resilience and Vulnerability cluster provides students with an introduction to the concept of human
resilience, i.e., the ability to survive and thrive in adverse circumstances, and its contrasting concept,
vulnerability. This cluster will be of interest anyone whose career goals involve working with people but
especially for human services and policy-oriented fields such as psychology, nursing or medicine,
emergency medical response/first responders, public health and policy, and education. Courses in this
cluster are primarily offered through Lewiston Auburn College and on that college’s campus.
Course prefix, number,
title
Prerequisites
Previous 2 year schedule
SBS 309 Psychology of
Attachment in Early
Childhood
Recommended: PSY 102, HRD/SBS
200, a course in Child
Development, or SBS 311
Offered annually (however missed in
2012 prior to hiring Reed)
SBS 303 Abnormal
Psychology
None
Fall, Spring, and long summer
session
HUM 349 Trauma and
Narrative
Completion of a 100-level College
Writing course (with grade of at
least a C), SOC 100, PSY 101 &
102, and ANT 101)
Adaptation of a course previously
offered biennially. Last offered
Spring 2013; now to be offered
every third semester.
SBS 343 Substance
Abuse
None
Spring semesters
SBS 344 Violence:
Causes and Control
None
Offered less than annually; to be
offered Fall 2013
SBS 308 Health,
Illness, and Culture
None
Offered annually. Last offered
Spring 12; offered Fall 13.
HUM 339 Ethnicity,
Immigration, and
Identity
Completion of College Writing and
Critical Thinking courses with a
grade of C or better.
To be offered once every three
semesters. Last offered Spring 13.
SBS 348 Responding to None
Mental Health Crisis in
the Community
Fall semesters
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HUM 290 Thinking and Completion of College Writing and
Writing, Writing and
Critical Thinking courses with a
Healing
grade of C or better.
New
SBS 311 Theories of
Personality
None
Fall semesters
SBS 367 Healthy
Prerequisite: permission of
Less than annually. Last offered Fall
Learners
instructor.
2011.
SBS 430 Applied
Social Policy
Prerequisites: either LCC 200 or
LCC 370 as well as junior standing
or permission of the instructor.
Every semester and once per
summer
SBS 364 Introduction
to Expressive
Therapies
None
Offered annually. Last run Summer
2012.
Resource Use and Global Change
The focus of this cluster is human use of essential resources including energy, water, ecosystem, and
mineral resources. Cluster courses examine this theme from science perpectives (quantifying resources,
technologies employed, impacts on ecosystems and climate) and from social science perspectives
(regulating use, equitable distribution, environmental and economic sustainability, impacts of use on
societies). Most students correctly perceive that issues related to this theme are among the most
important of this century.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
ESP 275 Energy Use & Societal Adaptation
ESP 101/102
ESP 313 Renewable Energy Technologies
CHY 113/114, ESP 101/102
ESP 308 Global Environmental Problems and
Sustainability
ESP 101/102, ESP 125/126 or
permission
ESP 421 Natural Resources Policy
ESP 101/102, ESP 220, or permission
GEY 205 Water Resources: Science and Issues
PHY 111 or 121
GEY 207 Atmosphere: Science, Climate, and Change
CHY 113/114
GEY 208 Environmental Geology
none
ECO 326 Environmental Economics
ECO 102 or permission
ECO 327 Natural Resource Economics
ECO 102 or permission
POS 363 Legal Process and the Environment
POS 101 or permission
POS 375 International Environmental Politics and
Policy
none
GEO 320 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEO 101, GEO 102, or GEO 103
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GEO 303 Economic Geography
ANT 101J or GEO 101J or GEO 203J
or ECO 101J or ECO 102J or
permission
PHI 212 Environmental Ethics
Any 100-level PHI course or EYE
Theory, Culture, and Society
This cluster groups together courses that explore and utilize theory in different contexts and disciplines
with the idea that bringing students and courses together will produce new intersections and new
innovations. Courses will explore such issues as representation as a philosophical, aesthetic, and
political problem.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
SOC 300 Sociological Theory
SOC 210
CMS 310 Media and Social Theory
CMS 102 and 103
PHI 380 Postmodernism
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
PHI 340 Late Modern Philosophy
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
PHI 399 War, Technology, Fascism: The Critical
Theory of the Frankfurt School
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
ENG 342 Topics in Contemporary Theory: Recent
Theories of Gender and Sexuality
ENG 100, ENG 245
POS 333 Theories of Democratization
POS 205 or permission
POS 290 Introduction to Political Theory: Lying and
Politics
None
POS 392 American Political Thought I
POS 290 or PHI 109 or HTY 121 or HTY 122 or
permission of the instructor
POS 393 American Political Thought II
ENG 341 Contemporary Critical Theories
ENG 100, ENG 245
Things French
The Things French Cluster provides students with the opportunity to explore aspects of French and
francophone culture, civilization, , history, literature, politics and society from a variety of perspectives.
Course offerings are drawn from Art History, English, French, History, Philosophy and Political Science.
ENG courses have a prerequisite of ENG 100 for non-majors and ENG 245 for majors.
Cluster Course
Prerequisites
FRE 291: French Civilization I
None.
FRE 292: French Civilization II
None.
FRE 293: Topics in French/Francophone Cinema
None.
FRE 294: Topics & Themes in Francophone Studies
None.
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FRE 367 Genres and Periods in French Literature
FRE 331
FRE 369 Topics and Themes in French Literature
FRE 331
POS 245: French Politics and Government
ENG 100 or ENG 104 or
permission of instructor.
ARH 322: Medieval Art
ARH 111G
th
ARH 326: 19 European Art
ARH 112
ARH 327: Modern Art
ARH 112
HTY 360: History of Maine
None.
HTY 312: Renaissance and Reformation
HTY101I or permission of
instructor.
ENG 325 Epic and Romance
ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 326: Topics in Cultural Studies: Colonialism and
Francophone writing
ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 347: Topics in Cultural Studies: Stanley Kubrick
ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 353: Medieval Women Writers
ENG 100, ENG 245
War and Peace
Peace-making and war-making shape the world. Courses in this cluster analyze, from different
disciplines and perspectives, the ways in which war and peace have been made by human beings over
time. Courses deal with causes and effects of conflict, and contrasting ideas about war and peace.
Students will also look at non-violent as well as violent means used to respond to international and
internal wars. This cluster of courses includes peacemaking as well as war making, and examines formal
methods of diplomacy and the impact of people's peace movements around the world and over time.
Students will examine the ways in which wars and peacemaking have been portrayed in media, and
arts, and in education.
Cluster course
Prerequisites
CMS 380 Film Genres: Combat War film
CMS 284
HTY 324 World Wars I and II
Junior or Senior status
HTY 334 The Holocaust
HTY 102
HTY 339 European Women’s History
HTY 356 The Civil War and Reconstruction
HTY 122 or permission
HTY 379 Diplomatic History of the US II
HTY 123 or permission
HTY 388 Revolutions of Modern China
none
HTY 380 The 1960’s
none
POS 385 Conflict and Security
POS 104 or permission
POS 335 Politics of Western Europe
POS 101 or permission
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POS 405 The European Union
POS 101, 102, 104, 205 or permission
POS 406 Research in the European Union (summer
study abroad course)
POS 101, 102, 104, 205 or permission
SOC 327 Social Movements
SOC 210
ENG 346 Politics of Identity in Contemporary Irish
Literature and Culture: Northern Ireland
ENG 100 (non-majors), ENG 245 (majors)
Working Class Studies
The working class studies cluster includes courses that examine many aspects of work and workers, but
focus especially on the relationships among individual lives, work, class processes and dynamics, and
capitalist development. These courses address the practical problems of work, workers, and their
organizations, as well as broad conceptual and theoretical issues including, but not limited to, the
relationships among labor, work, and class; a critical examination of class processes and dynamics; a
critical examination of capitalist development; the intersections of class with race, ethnicity, gender,
and generation; and historical perspectives on all of these topics.
Course prefix, number, title
Prerequisites
SOC 327: Social Movements
SOC 100, 210, or permission
SOC 348: Sociology of Work
SOC 100, 210, or permission
SOC 358: Women’s Work
SOC 100, 210, or permission
SOC 392 Poverty: Perspectives and Policies
Soc 100, 210, jr./sr. standing or
permission
ECO 220I U.S. ECONOMIC AND LABOR HISTORY
ENG 100C
ECO 321 UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY
CAPITALISM
Any 100 level ECO or permission
ECO 323 U.S. LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
HISTORY
ENG 100C
GEO 202 Making a Living
none
GEO 303 Economic Geography
one of following: ANT 101J,
GEO 101J, GEO 203J, ECO 101J, ECO 102J, or
permission
GEO 302 Gender, Work, and Space
None
HTY 399 Labor History Through Film
None
HTY 357 Gilded Age
none
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