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A study of water, solutions, atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, chemical reactions thermochemistry, and gases. Laboratory work involves quantitative, computational, and spectroscopic analyses of chemical systems that are relevant to the 'real world'. Three lectures and one laboratory period or field-trip per week. Prerequisites: MATH 114 College Algebra or high school precalculus class (with grades grade of B or higher) and an annual safety training outside of class and high school chemistry or equivalent.
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A careful study of chemical reactions with respect to enthalpy, entropy, equilibrium, kinetics, and electrochemistry. Laboratory work involves the student-directed development of a technique for the quantitative and spectroscopic analyses of an environmentally important substance. Three lectures and one laboratory period or field-trip per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 223 (with grade of C- or higher) and an annual safety training outside of class.
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Focusing on experiential learning, this class introduces music from the insider's perspective in order for students to explore creative processes involved in music making. Class content is organized topically, including notation systems, ensembles, composition, improvisation, music philosophies, film music, and music and worship from both Western and non-Western perspectives. Students will develop informed listening skills and cultivate an appreciation for the many contexts of music in our daily lives. Familiarity with music notation is not required. This course is offered online through Lancaster; it is available to traditional students as well. (Offered through EMU Harrisonburg as a 2 SH course, CMUS 116.)
Core: CA
CMUS 116 Appreciating Music Making (2 SH)
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In just fifteen years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown to encompass thirty-one films and eight television series, with original scores and soundtracks by over twenty composers. This course will introduce students to the world of film music through the lens of the MCU. Topics covered will include film music history, leitmotifs and character themes, motivic development, orchestration and instrumentation, symphonic world-building, and the compositional process for film music. Discussion of Marvel Comics – their history and social themes – will also be considered. No prior knowledge of music or film history is necessary. (HONRS 311)
Core: CA
CMUS 204 Topics in Music-Introduction to Music Technology (2 SH)
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The landscape of music has changed. Being a good performer, composer, and music teacher are only a portion of the skills needed to build a successful music career in the 21st century. In this course students will learn the practical skills and knowledge necessary outside of the music studio to maximize their ability to build a career and life in music. Topics covered will include marketing your music, booking concerts, producing and distributing music, writing arts grants, and learning to engage the community. Offered alternating in alternate years . (Spring 2026)
CMUS 411 Conducting I (4 SH)
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Capstone course for the music major. Semester will culminate with a public performance of selected works for voices and instruments in which each student will perform in an ensemble setting. This course will include continued development of conducting techniques, completion of a choral arrangement, score analysis, historical analysis, program note writing strategies, and development of collaborative skills. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: CMUS 411. Offered in alternate years
CMUS 440 Seminar (1-3 SH)
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The course will provide an overview about information management and how it applies to the sporting industry. As students develop websites, write sports stories and use multimedia to cover sports, including photography, videography and broadcasting, they will learn about careers in sports information, how an organization communicates with the media and its constituents, and how communication in sport has evolved and continues to evolve. Prerequisite: WRIT 135 or equivalentWRIT 140. (Spring 2025)
Core: Communication Foundations
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This course continues the topics covered in CS 345 with data structures such as trees and other graphs. An introduction to basic algorithm analysis and design techniques, including divide-and-conquer and greedy algorithms. PrerequisitePrerequisites: CS 345 and MATH 170. (Spring 2025)
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An overview of the management and maintenance of organizational computing infrastructure including hardware, operating system, network, database and application software. Topics include installation, configuration, routine maintenance tasks, client/server application management, automation, and user support. PrerequisitePrerequisites: CE 165 and CS 265. (Spring 2026)
Core: WI
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A more in-depth look at algorithms including dynamic programming, network flow, and an exploration of NP completeness. PrerequisitesPrerequisite: CS 355. (Spring 2025)
Core: CI
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An exploratory course designed to provide the student a means for self-assessment as a potential teacher. Learning activities include active engagement, participation in school settings, and pedagogies centered on an ethic of care, restorative justice in education, constructivism, reflective practice, and expanding literacies for the 21st century. (A 20-hour practicum is included. ) ( 1 SH content; 1SH practicum)
Core: CE
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The professional block for Secondary Education is comprised of three courses: ED 351 General Curriculum & Methods for Middle and Secondary Teaching, ED 361 Secondary Methods Professional Field Experience (a practicum within a classroom), and ED 385 Content Area Methods for Middle and Secondary Teaching. The instructional team of ED 361 consists of the PFE instructor, the ED 385 EMU professor(s) with 6-12 content area expertise, and the classroom practicum teacher. The PFE instructor will work with you, your classroom practicum teacher, and the ED 385 professor(s) to ensure that your field experience is a positive one. Prerequisites: ED 245 and admission to Teacher Education. CorequisiteCorequisites: ED 351, ED 385.
ED 385 Content Area Methods for Middle and Secondary Teaching (2 SH)
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Focusing mainly on the work of contemporary poets, this course will equip students with the skills they need to enjoy, be surprised by, and learn from poetry. (Fall 2024)
Core: LI
ENGL 261 Global Literatures 1: Gods and Monsters (2 SH)
In this survey course spanning some of the earliest written documents to those published in the early 1600s, students will encounter thinkers who anticipated many of our own questions about meaning and our place in the universe. Who, if Anyone, created us, and what are our resulting obligations? How do we live in relation to our past? Where are we going, literally and metaphorically? Readings will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but texts may include The Epic of Gilgamesh, the book of Job, the Odyssey, Antigone, Paul’s letter to the church at Rome, The Ramayana, The Canterbury Tales, The Arabian Nights, Journey to the West, Lazarillo de Tormes, and King Lear. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Fall 2023, Spring 2025)
Core: LI
ENGL 262 Global Literatures 2: Freedom and Loss (2 SH)
Featuring literature published between 1600 and 1850, this second in a series of global literature courses also functions as a stand-alone offering and considers readings associated with political revolution, freedom, grief and loss, exploration, enlightenment, and colonialism. Selections will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but representative texts include The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues, The Tempest, The Ausbund, Paradise Lost, and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; selected poetry by Matsuo Basho, Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; and novels such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Spring 2024)
Core: LI
ENGL 263 Global Literatures 3: Intimacy and Independence (2 SH)
As the global literature sequence’s third offering or a course to be taken on its own, “Intimacy and Independence” focuses on select works of literature published between 1850 and the present that explore the precarious balance between personal autonomy and fruitful relationship. Selections will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but representative writers include Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ella Carla Deloria, Pablo Neruda, Lorraine Hansberry, Miriama Ba, and Uwem Akpan. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Fall 2024)
Core: LI
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This course concentrates on literature written for and by young adult (YA) readers. While relying on works typically classified as young adult literature, the course will also look at literary "classics" found within the curriculum for middle, junior, and senior high classrooms. Students will explore YA literature in different genres addressing current issues for young adults. Models of literary criticism employed within the study of these works will center on reader response theory. Open to sophomores and above. (Fall 2024)
Core: LI
ENGL 361 Global Lit Intensive 1: Gods and Monsters (3 SH)
In this survey course spanning some of the earliest written documents to those published in the early 1600s, students will encounter thinkers who anticipated many of our own questions about meaning and our place in the universe. Who, if Anyone, created us, and what are our resulting obligations? How do we live in relation to our past? Where are we going, literally and metaphorically? Readings will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but texts may include The Epic of Gilgamesh, the book of Job, the Odyssey, Antigone, Paul’s letter to the church at Rome, The Ramayana, The Canterbury Tales, The Arabian Nights, Journey to the West, Lazarillo de Tormes, and King Lear. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Fall 2023, Spring 2025)
Core: LI
ENGL 362 Global Lit Intensive 2: Freedom and Loss (3 SH)
Featuring literature published between 1600 and 1850, this second in a series of global literature courses also functions as a stand-alone offering and considers readings associated with political revolution, freedom, grief and loss, exploration, enlightenment, and colonialism. Selections will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but representative texts include The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues, The Tempest, The Ausbund, Paradise Lost, and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; selected poetry by Matsuo Basho, Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; and novels such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Spring 2024)
Core: LI
ENGL 363 Global Lit Intensive 3: Intimacy and Independence (3 SH)
As the global literature sequence’s third offering or a course to be taken on its own, “Intimacy and Independence” focuses on select works of literature published between 1850 and the present that explore the precarious balance between personal autonomy and fruitful relationship. Selections will reflect the instructor’s expertise, but representative writers include Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ella Carla Deloria, Pablo Neruda, Lorraine Hansberry, Miriama Ba, and Uwem Akpan. Students may attend the 200-level version class twice weekly for two credits or intensify to a 300-level three-credit course by attending a third weekly class meeting and completing additional assignments. Students may not enroll in both courses. (Fall 2024)
Core: LI
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A problem-solving based approach to the study of the theory and applications of engineering statics. Students will gain expertise in the areas of free-body diagrams, vector mechanics, and equilibrium, and will apply the principles of equilibrium to structural analysis and the analyses of internal and frictional forces. Prerequisites: MATH 185 , and PHYS 252.
ENGR 280 Engineering Dynamics (3 SH)
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An introduction to the concepts of fluid mechanics, including a laboratory component. Topics include hydrostatics; fluid kinematics; conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy; the Bernoulli equation; potential flows, and similitude. Prerequisites: MATH 310 , and PHYS 252. (Spring 2026)
ENGR 370 Strength of Materials (4 SH)
The behavior of materials and solid structures under a variety of load conditions will be studied in this course. Students will learn equilibrium, stress – strain response, and strain – displacement relations and apply them to solids analysis. Topics such as materials stretch, bend, twist, etc., the stress – strain response of different materials, the stress within externally loaded bodies, and beam theory with applications to beam deflections and design will be covered. Prerequisites: ENGR 270 , and MATH 195. (Fall 2025)
ENGR 380 Systems (4 SH)
This course introduces modeling and analysis of dynamical systems that include mechanical, electrical, fluid, and thermal systems. Both input-output and state-space models will be introduced. System analyses in the time domain, as well as the frequency domain, will be presented. This course presents fundamental materials in engineering practice across many disciplines. Prerequisites: ENGR 270 , and MATH 310.
ENGR 390 Engineering Design III (2 SH)
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An introductory course in the theory and practice of corporate financial management. Topics covered include the role and function of financial markets, interest rates, time value of money, valuation of financial assets, capital budgeting analysis, cost of capital, risk and return, capital structure decision, dividends and working capital management. Prerequisites: ACTG 221, EMU Core MATH QR and TI requirement completed, and admission to the program.
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The student will explore payment and reimbursement methods in the US healthcare system. Students will examine forms, practices and processes and the role of the healthcare information specialist and the need for accurate data exchange. Prerequisites: HCML 101 , and HCML 111. Offered through Lancaster
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This course will equip the student with a knowledge of future health leaders, managers, and administrators to an understanding of the U.S. healthcare system. The student will become equipped to teach staff, clients, family, and the community regarding healthcare needs. Prerequisites: WRIT 135 , BIO and BIOL 209. Offered through Lancaster
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This course will equip the student with experience in the healthcare field. The student will research, gain access, and participate in 30 hours of observation. Offered through Lancaster HCML 220 Healthcare Policy (3 SH) The student will be equipped with knowledge of the social, political, and economic context of US healthcare and the distribution of medical care, pharmaceuticals, public and private insurers and managed care organizations. Policies as well as basic economics will be discussed as well as policies addressing healthcare disparities. Prerequisites: HCML 131 , and HCML 240. Offered through Lancaster
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This course will equip the student with knowledge of the concepts and methods of healthcare management in the community. The student will develop programs for health improvement and community assessment. Healthy People 2020 topics will be discussed and used as a guide to determine healthcare deficits and advantages within the student’s chosen community. Prerequisites: HCML 240 , and HCML 320. Offered through Lancaster
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A survey of the Anabaptist movement and Mennonites throughout the world from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries. Issues include pacifism, wealth, political participation, community and tensions between faith and the dominant culture. Particular attention is given to the Anabaptist vision and its relevance for 21st-century American life. (CHST REL 365) (Spring 2025)
Core: HI
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A historical survey of the Middle East. The particular focus may vary based on the instructor's expertise. The role of past and present U.S. foreign policies in these countries will be highlighted. (Fall 2024)
Core: HI
HIST
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This course provides an overview of the stories of Christianity, beginning with the New Testament period up to the sixteenth century of the Common Era. It describes the successes and failures in the life and witness of Christians as they spread west into Europe, east toward China, and south into Africa. It evaluates diverse Christian approaches shaped by these themes: women/men, mission/enculturation, church/state, war/peace, and wealth/poverty. (CHST 435)
HIST 441 History Internship (1-3 SH)
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This course offers an embedded tutoring practicum situated in a specific course and supervised by the course professor. Course requirements introduce students to a collaborative tutoring pedagogy and guide students through observations and supervised tutorial sessions to develop confident, skilled tutors of peers. A 40-45 hour practicum is required. Students may enroll for a maximum of three credit semester hours for peer tutoring over one to three semesters. Prerequisite: Consent of course professor and academic program professor.
Core: CE
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This course supports experiential learning in which students apply their academic foundation in supervised work settings. Students who have completed an internship or have an internship in progress are eligible to enroll in this course. The internship is intended to enhance students' professional growth, competencies and professional exploration. Students will identify and develop skills and experiences directly relevant to achieving intended career goals, reflect on their experiences and find meaning in them, and develop a better understanding of their chosen career field and evaluate that field as a long-term career path. Students may earn 1 credit semester hour per 40 hours of direct service in a company/organization (up to 3 creditssemester hours).
Core: CE
LARTS 499 Independent Study (1-3 SH)
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Global Literatures III explores a selection of romantic, realist, modernist, post-modernist, and post-independence poetry, drama, fiction, and prose non-fiction. Although the course focuses in particular on the Anglophone tradition, readings also reflect the emergence of a global literary marketplace in the twentieth century and celebrate the contributions of various ethnic and minority writers. This course is offered online through Lancaster; it is available to traditional students as well. Students may not take both ENGL 204 263/363 and LIT 230.
LOML 320 Leadership Development (3 SH)
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This course serves as preparation for calculus; topics include trigonometric functions and identities, logarithms, exponential functions, summation notation, advanced algebraic manipulations, and an introduction to limits. Prerequisite: Math MATH 114 or equivalent.
MATH 150 Elements of Calculus (3 SH)
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