College of Humanities and Natural Sciences
Undergraduate Bulletin
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Undergraduate & Graduate Dates to Remember*
Fall Term 2009
August 26-30 Wolfpack Welcome
August 31 Classes begin
September 4 Add deadline
October 30 Last day to withdraw & last day
to apply for graduation
December 11 Last day of classes
December 12-18 Final Exams
Spring Term 2010
January 8 New Student Orientation
January 11 Classes begin
January 15 Add deadline
March 12 Last day to withdraw & last day to apply for graduation
April 28 Last day of classes
April 30 - May 6 Final Exams
May 8 Commencement - all colleges
*College of Law dates on Law Bulletin
DEAN: Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Ph.D., OFFICE: 202 Bobet Hall
ASSOCIATE DEAN: Judith Hunt, Ph.D.
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The College of Humanities and Natural Sciences serves as the anchor for all undergraduate study at Loyola. The liberal arts and sciences are key to the cultural and intellectual formation of the individual.
Students in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences have distinguished themselves in scholarship, research, and service. In recent years, students have been awarded prestigious Rhodes, British Marshall, Mellon, and Fulbright scholarships. The college regularly recognizes the academic excellence of our students through the Dean's List, published at the end of each academic term.
The centerpiece of Loyola's liberal-arts education is the Common Curriculum, housed in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences and required of all Loyola undergraduates regardless of the college in which they are enrolled. Writing, literature, and mathematics requirements combine with philosophy, history, religious studies, and other courses to afford students the perspective, skills, and knowledge that can enable them to form their convictions, beliefs, and commitments in an atmosphere of study and reflection.
BACHELOR DEGREES
The college offers the bachelor of arts degree in the fields of classical studies, English (with concentrations in literature or writing), history, languages (French, Spanish, Latin American Studies, Classical Studies), philosophy, psychology, and religious studies; the bachelor of science degree in the fields of biological sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. Students who wish to earn a bachelor’s degree through programs not regularly available in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences may consult the associate dean about the possibility of a contract degree. The college also offers programs in pre-health, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, and pre-engineering. Through a special arrangement with the School of Engineering of Tulane University, Loyola students may participate in a program which leads to a B.S. degree from Loyola and an engineering degree from Tulane upon successful completion of both segments of the program. Interested students must consult the associate dean.
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREE
The requirements for the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science are the following:
- Successful completion of an approved degree program within the college.
- At least a 2.0 Loyola cumulative average, major average, and minor average if minor is pursued. (Some departments may have more stringent requirements.)
- Completion of the Common Curriculum requirements.
- Completion of the foreign language requirement.
- Completion of at least one course that meets the college’s Cultural/Environmental/Gender/Ethnic studies requirement.
- Completion of all course requirements specified by major department.
- Completion of at least 30 hours in the major. (Some departments require more.)
- Certification for graduation by the student’s department.
- Completion of a comprehensive examination in the major for those departments requiring a comprehensive examination. Such departments will establish and publish in advance the nature of the comprehensive examination and the standard for acceptable performance.
- Completion of the last 30 hours of coursework at Loyola.
- Residency requirements: a minimum of 30 hours at Loyola University; a minimum of 15 hours in the major and 9 hours in the minor (if pursued); a minimum of 12 hours in the Common Curriculum.
GENERAL STUDIES
Director: Judith L. Hunt, Ph.D., Interim Associate Dean
Many students enter college undecided about the field of study they would like to pursue. For students unsure of their educational and/or career goals, Loyola University offers the General Studies Program. While in this program, students work toward the completion of the Common Curriculum requirements while exploring major courses offered in a variety of disciplines at Loyola.
During their first semester, General Studies freshmen are assigned a General Studies advisor who will continue as their advisor until a major is declared. General Studies advisors are knowledgeable about all the degree programs in the college, and help guide students in determining a major that best suits their interests. Courses taken in this exploration process generally fulfill requirements for the major, adjunct, or general electives once the student selects a particular degree program.
Students may remain in the General Studies Program for a maximum of 55 hours. Since the college does not grant a degree in General Studies, students must officially declare a major by the end of their sophomore year.
CURRICULUM DESIGN
The curriculum is meant to achieve two goals: to give the student a solid and well-rounded preparation in the major and to enable the student to grapple with current convictions, beliefs, and commitments in an atmosphere of study and reflection. The curriculum matches the goals of Catholic and of Jesuit liberalizing education, both of which function best in an open society, a pluralistic culture, and an ecumenical age. The curriculum is divided into five parts.
Part One–Major
Major: that series of courses which leads to a bachelor’s degree in a subject area. The major generally requires between 30 and 40 credit hours of study and is described under each departmental heading.
Part Two–Adjunct Courses
Adjunct Courses: that series of courses in areas allied to the major which leads to a well-rounded person. Thus, mathematics is necessary to a physicist and chemistry to the biologist. Some of these courses are specifically named under degree programs; others are selected in consultation with the student’s adviser or chairperson.
Part Three–Common Curriculum
Common Curriculum: The Common Curriculum complements the major and adjunct courses by providing a broad humanistic dimension to every undergraduate’s program. The program contains introductory and advanced courses.
Introductory Courses (T122 — T129)
Beginning students must take each of the following eight courses (24 cr. hrs.):
English Composition T122 | Critical Reading/Writing |
English T125 | The Emerging Self |
History T122 and T124 | World Civilization I and World Civilization II |
Mathematics T122* | Math Models |
Philosophy T122 | Introduction to Philosophy |
Religious Studies T122 | Introduction to World Religions |
Science T122 | (Biology, Chemistry, or Physics) |
* A different mathematics course may be designated by the student’s department.
Advanced Courses (U — Z 130 — 199)
Students elect eight courses (24 cr. hrs.) with two each in philosophy and religious studies, one in behavior/social sciences, one in humanities/arts, excluding philosophy and religious studies, one in natural science, and one more from any of the above areas. Two of the advanced courses must be labeled pre-modern. A student may not take a Common Curriculum course for Common Curriculum credit from his or her major department.A student wishing to check his or her progress against Common Curriculum requirements should check with the academic adviser of record or with the associate dean, College of Humanities and Natural Sciences. Only courses designated as Common Curriculum in registration materials fulfill requirements of the program. The advanced courses are under three major divisions: behavioral/social sciences, humanities/arts, and natural sciences. Courses are either modern or pre-modern within these divisions. The three divisions are as follows:
Behavioral/Social Sciences | |
Communications | Political Science |
Economics | Psychology |
Education | Sociology |
History | |
Humanities/Arts | |
Drama | Philosophy |
Classical Studies | Religious Studies |
English | Visual Arts |
Modern Foreign Languages | Music |
Natural Sciences | |
Biology | Mathematics/Computer Science |
Chemistry | Physics |
The advanced courses offered each semester are selected from the courses listed below and additional new courses as they are approved. Course descriptions are found in listings under subject categories.
Pre-modern Courses |
HIST | W130 | Zen I |
HIST | W139 | Catholics: Their History |
HIST | W140 | Between Eve and Mary: Women in Medieval Europe |
HIST | W142 | Slavery/Race Relations |
HIST | W151 | Archaeology and Society |
HIST | W152 | Social History of Greece and Rome |
HIST | W166 | The Quest for Empire |
HIST | W186 | Discovering Africa |
POLS | W149 | Ancient and Medieval Political Thought |
SOCI | W140 | Development of Social Thought |
Modern Courses
CMMN | X133 | Art of the Film |
CMMN | X136 | Understanding Media |
CMMN | X137 | Media Play |
CMMN | X170 | The American Character |
ECON | X130 | Economics and Society |
EDUC | X130 | Culture and Learning |
HIST | X132 | Russian Culture and Civilization I |
HIST | X136 | Zen II |
HIST | X140 | Italian Culture and Civilization |
HIST | X141 | Drugs, Terrorism, and Democracy |
HIST | X143 | Social Revolutions in Latin America |
HIST | X144 | Discovering the Third World |
HIST | X145 | Crisis in Central America |
HIST | X146 | American Revolution |
HIST | X154 | Palestinians and Israelis |
HIST | X156 | Hero in American History |
HIST | X160 | WWI in History and Literature |
HIST | X161 | Autobiography as History |
HIST | X164 | American Left in the Twentieth Century |
HIST | X170 | The American Character |
HIST | X180 | African-American Culture and History |
HIST | X190 | Women in American History |
POLS | X134 | Politics and Corruption |
POLS | X146 | Politics and Society |
POLS | X152 | The Bill of Rights |
POLS | X154 | American Political Ideas |
POLS | X156 | The Urban Form |
POLS | X158 | Global Political Issues |
POLS | X159 | Politics and the Media |
PSYC | X130 | Models of Human Behavior |
SOCI | X132 | Social Problems |
SOCI | X134 | Social Policy and the Christian |
SOCI | X135 | Environment and Society |
SOCI | X136 | Global Environmental Crisis |
SOCI | X140 | Global Sociology |
SOCI | X145 | Peoples of Latin America |
SOCI | X150 | Encountering the Caribbean |
SOCI | X152 | Violence in Society |
SOCI | X154 | Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa |
SOCI | X155 | Race and Ethnic Conflict |
SOCI | X186 | Russian Culture and Society |
HUMANITIES/ARTS
Pre-modern Courses
CLHU | U132 | Socrates and Jesus |
CLHU | U138 | Justice in Greek Literature |
CLHU | U142 | The Development of Greek Tragedy |
CLHU | U144 | The Greek and Roman Epics |
CLHU | U146 | Greek Mythology |
CLHU | U148 | Greek Art and Archaeology |
CLHU | U150 | Roman Art and Archaeology |
CLHU | U156 | Greek Elegies and Lyrics |
CLHU | U157 | Greek Culture |
CLHU | U158 | Roman Culture |
CLHU | U160 | Pandora’s Daughters |
CLHU | U163 | Greek and Roman Comedy |
CLHU | U165 | Pagans and Christians |
CLHU | U168 | Roman Republic |
CLHU | U170 | The Later Roman Empire |
CLHU | U172 | The Early Roman Empire |
CLHU | U174 | The Byzantine Empire |
CLHU | U175 | The Ancient Novel |
CLHU | U180 | Ancient Mystery Cults |
DRAM | U130 | World Theatre I |
ENGL | U130 | Renaissance Masterworks |
ENGL | U132 | Visions of Utopia |
ENGL | U149 | The Idea of the Self |
ENGL | U188 | The World of the Vikings |
ENGL | U189 | Chaucer and His World |
ENGL | U195 | The Legend of Robin Hood |
ENGL | U199 | Arthurian Legend |
JPNS | U150 | Culture in Pre-modern Japan |
MUGN | U168 | Introduction to Western Art Music |
PHIL | U130 | Aesthetics |
PHIL | U137 | Indian Philosophy |
PHIL | U138 | Philosophy and Literature |
PHIL | U139 | Divine Madness |
PHIL | U154 | Postmodernism and Feminism |
PHIL | U158 | Philosophical Anthropology |
PHIL | U160 | Worldviews and Ethics |
PHIL | U162 | Classics in Moral Literature |
RELS | U133 | Zen I |
RELS | U134 | Christian Mysticism |
RELS | U136 | Parables of Jesus |
RELS | U139 | Experience of Grace |
RELS | U143 | Woman in Christian Tradition |
RELS | U145 | Bible and Modern Issues |
RELS | U146 | Judaism |
RELS | U147 | New Testament as Literature |
RELS | U148 | Christian Origins |
RELS | U149 | Old Testament as Literature |
RELS | U153 | Hindu Paths to God |
RELS | U155 | The Prophetic Traditions |
RELS | U159 | Jesus in New Testament |
RELS | U163 | The Ancient Mind |
RELS | U165 | Spiritual Ways of China |
RELS | U169 | Death: Comparative Views |
RELS | U170 | Poets and Sages: Old Testament |
RELS | U175 | The Bible and Creation |
RELS | U177 | Buddhism |
RELS | U181 | Women in the World Religions |
RELS | U185 | Heresies and Heretics |
RELS | U186 | Medieval Synthesis |
RELS | U188 | Sin: History of an Idea |
RELS | U196 | Law: Ancient World |
RELS | U199 | Apocalyptic Literature |
VISA | U130 | Medieval Art |
VISA | U136 | Images of Women in Arts |
VISA | U143 | The Art and History of the Book |
Modern Courses
DRAM | V132 | World Theatre II |
DRAM | V142 | Black Theatre to 1940 |
DRAM | V143 | Black Theatre: 1940 — Present |
DRAM | V144 | American Myth and Drama |
DRAM | V150 | American Lyrical Theatre |
DRAM | V160 | Theatre in Contemporary Culture |
ENGL | V134 | Literature and Justice |
ENGL | V144 | Screen Power |
ENGL | V150 | Myth and Literature |
ENGL | V154 | Women in American Literature |
ENGL | V159 | Romantic Words/Pictures |
ENGL | V169 | Multicultural Literature |
ENGL | V170 | The American Character |
ENGL | V173 | The African Novel |
ENGL | V174 | Women’s Literature |
ENGL | V175 | Black Women Novelists |
ENGL | V176 | Literary Modernism |
ENGL | V177 | Harlem Renaissance |
ENGL | V178 | Black Thought and Art |
ENGL | V179 | Feminist Readings |
ENGL | V180 | Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature |
ENGL | V185 | Contemporary Catholic Writers |
ENGL | V192 | The Sixties Through Literature |
FREN | V140 | France and the Modern Experience |
JPNS | V151 | Culture in Early Modern Japan |
JPNS | V152 | Modern Japanese Culture |
JPNS | V153 | Japanese Animation and Culture |
LING | V134 | Role of Language |
PHIL | V134 | Medical Ethics |
PHIL | V135 | Philosophy of Right |
PHIL | V140 | European World Views |
PHIL | V141 | Philosophical Perspective on Woman |
PHIL | V143 | Environmental Philosophy |
PHIL | V144 | Philosophy of Law |
PHIL | V150 | Relativism |
PHIL | V152 | Making Moral Decisions |
PHIL | V164 | Scientific Revolutions |
PHIL | V170 | Philosophy of Knowledge |
PHIL | V173 | Auschwitz and After |
PHIL | V177 | Minds and Machines |
PHIL | V178 | Philosophy of God |
PHIL | V180 | Freedom and Oppression |
PHIL | V186 | Religious Experience and Philosophy |
PHIL | V198 | Ethics of Sex/Marriage |
RELS | V130 | Faith, Science, and Religion |
RELS | V142 | Christian Ethics |
RELS | V144 | Social Policy and the Christian |
RELS | V151 | Protestant Christianity |
RELS | V152 | Catholicism |
RELS | V158 | Ignatius Loyola |
RELS | V160 | Discovering Islam |
RELS | V164 | 20th-century Religious Thought |
RELS | V167 | Native American Religions |
RELS | V168 | Mystery of Suffering |
RELS | V187 | Feminism and Theology |
RELS | V191 | The Mass of the Roman Rite |
RELS | V198 | Psychology and Religion |
SPAN | V135 | Women Writers of Spanish America |
SPAN | V161 | Latin American Thought |
VISA | V138 | Romantic Vision |
VISA | V140 | Modernism in Art and Literature |
VISA | V141 | Art in Contemporary Culture |
VISA | V142 | Architecture and Society |
MUGN | V142 | History of Dance |
MUGN | V172 | Jazz in American Culture |
NATURAL SCIENCES
Modern Courses
BIOL | Z130 | Human Ecology |
BIOL | Z132 | Impact of Biology on Society |
BIOL | Z136 | Evolution |
BIOL | Z138 | Genetics and Society |
BIOL | Z142 | Microbes: Friend or Foe? |
BIOL | Z144 | Mississippi River Delta Ecology |
CHEM | Z130 | World Food and Nutrition |
COSC | Z132 | The Computer Impact |
MATH | Z132 | Problem Solving in Ecology |
PHYS | Z130 | Faith, Science, and Religion |
PHYS | Z134 | Astronomy |
Part Four–Foreign Language
All students who enter B.A. or B.S. degree programs (either as freshmen or as transfers) will be required to pass a second-semester course in a foreign language or demonstrate equivalent knowledge by placing into a higher level on a departmental examination. See full explanation under Foreign Language Requirements elsewhere in this bulletin.
Part Five–General Electives
Electives: It is important that the student have considerable freedom to choose those courses or series of courses which interest him or her, for whatever reason, so that the student’s education may be rich and full. The number of hours a student may elect depends to a large extent on the major. See statements below for limitations on elective credit.
CURRICULUM DESIGN for Professional Studies' Students
The curriculum is divided into four basic components, and although all students have the same basic core requirements, each degree program has specific requirements in the major and adjunct areas.
Major courses–are those courses in particular disciplines, which lead to a bachelor’s degree.
Adjunct courses–are those required courses in areas supportive of the major.
Core Curriculum (Professional Studies' Students)
Core courses–are those courses, which, in the liberal arts tradition, ensure the degree-seeking student a well-rounded education. All degree-seeking students have the following core course requirements (42 hours total):
Foundations: | ||
Writing | COMP C119 | 3 |
Philosophy | PHIL C122 | 3 |
Religious Studies | RELS C119 | 3 |
Literature | LIT C260 | 3 |
Liberal Arts and Sciences: | ||
Social Sciences | HIST C119 | 3 |
Two social science electives from two different disciplines | 6 | |
Mathematics | MATH C112 | 3 |
Natural Science | science elective | 3 |
Arts/Humanities | fine arts elective | 3 |
literature elective | 3 | |
philosophy elective | 3 | |
religious studies elective | 3 | |
Liberal Arts elective | 3 |
Free electives are those courses chosen from among all offerings, which the student may schedule for enrichment or professional development.
HUMANITIES AND NATURAL SCIENCES LIMITATIONS ON CREDIT TOWARD DEGREES:
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Remedial work taken at Loyola or at other institutions will not apply to Humanities and Natural Sciences degree programs.
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The dean’s office will determine the applicability of the student’s transfer credit as accepted by the Office of Admissions to the Humanities and Natural Sciences degree programs.
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Students may not go back and do freshman-level work in a subject in which they have already successfully completed a more advanced course.
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No more than 20 hours may be taken in any one semester without the authorization of the dean. No more than six hours may be taken in any one summer term without authorization of the dean.
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Humanities and Natural Sciences students must obtain prior written permission of their adviser and/or department chair and the dean in order to take courses at another university (summer school, study abroad, etc.). Permission will not be given to students on academic probation.
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Intensive Weekend courses are not open to Humanities and Natural Sciences degree-seeking students.
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Courses in physical education will not apply to the degree programs in Humanities and Natural Sciences.
DOUBLE MAJORS
Qualified students who have completed two full semesters of their freshman year and have earned a minimum GPA of 3.0 may pursue two majors within the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences. Such students must successfully complete the Common Curriculum requirements of the first major as well as the major and named adjunct requirements for both declared degree programs of study as set forth in the Undergraduate Bulletin.Students must successfully complete the comprehensive examination requirements for both majors if the departments require a comprehensive examination.Students who complete the requirements for two majors will receive only one degree from Loyola. However, the transcript will indicate which bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) was awarded as well as the two majors which were completed.Students interested in pursuing a double major should consult with the associate dean.