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Course Catalog
Arrupe College students are required to earn at least 62 credit hours in order to be awarded an Associate’s degree. Our courses help build strong communicators, critical thinkers, and ethical leaders. Most of our courses meet general education requirements and are approved by the Illinois Articulation Initiative, which means that they transfer easily to most four-year colleges and universities in Illinois.
Before registering for classes, please review your degree requirements and consult with your academic advisor.
See below for the complete course catalog.
Accounting
ACACT 201 Introductory Accounting I
(3 credit hours)
Corequisite: ACMAT 117 PreCalculus (Take ACMAT 117 either before ACACT 201 or during the same semester.)
Typically Offered: Fall
The major emphasis is on the development and reporting of accounting information for use by investors, creditors, and others. The student is required to develop skills in the preparation and use of accounting information and must demonstrate an understanding of the accounting process, and be able to evaluate the impact of estimates, alternative accounting principles, and the limitations of the accounting model on accounting information. Topics include preparation and use of financial statements, the accounting process, and the measurement and reporting of income, assets, liabilities, and owners’ equity.
Outcomes: The student will be able to understand the underlying principles, design, concepts, limitations, and the necessity of accounting systems. The student will gain an appreciation of the uses of financial data and financial statements and their impact on business decisions.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCT201/201H/CPST310/ACACT201
IAI Code: BUS 903
ACACT 202 Introductory Accounting II
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACACT 201 Introductory Accounting I with a C- or above
Typically Offered: Spring
This course highlights the differences between financial accounting and managerial accounting. The course begins by completing the study of transactions and events affecting financial statements. The cash flow statement is then explored in some detail. Finally, financial statement analysis as traditionally practiced, is considered a capstone for financial accounting. The course then focuses on the use of accounting data by management. Product costing in a manufacturing setting, assigning of costs to objects, learning how costs behave, and the use of accounting data by management in planning operations, controlling operations, and in short term decision making are all investigated.
Outcomes: The student will be able to understand the differences between cash and accrual accounting, the use of ratio analysis in investing and managing decisions, the value and importance of identifying and allocating costs, and the methods involved in the budgeting process.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCT202/ACCT202H/ACACT201
IAI Code: BUS 904
Biology
ACBIO 100 Introductory Biology
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
This course will expose students to the breadth of biological concepts by including cell and molecular biology, organismal structure and function, genetics and heredity, evolution, and ecology. The course will engage students in science as a structured process that generates and refines knowledge through evidence-based decisions. It will emphasize the value and contributions of life science to society. Inclusion of scientific process skills development and the importance of science to society will account for 25% of the course.
Equivalent Course Group: None. This course does not count toward the biology major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
IAI Code: L1 900
Chemistry
ACCHM 100 Introductory Chemistry
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall
A course emphasizing the general principles and theories of chemistry, including fundamentals of inorganic chemistry, atomic structure and states of matter, bonding, stoichiometry, acid-base concepts, periodicity and solution chemistry.
Equivalent Course Group: None. This course does not count toward the chemistry major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
IAI Code: P1 902
Communication
ACCOM 101 Public Speaking & Critical Thinking
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course is designed to supply students with an understanding of critical thinking practices, foundational tenets of communication theory, the skills of public address and persuasion, the role of visual aids in effective presentation, and a sense of the social responsibility that comes with the capacity for communication.
Outcomes: Students gain skills in public speaking, preparing a presentation, including visual aids, and critical listening, thinking, and speaking.
Notes: ACCOM 101 is equivalent to ACCOM 103. You can take ACCOM 101 or ACCOM 103, but not both. This course was previously titled Oral Communication and Presentation.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCOM101/103 COMM101/103
IAI Code: C2 900
ACCOM 103 Business and Professional Speaking
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Through theory and practice, the course will explore oral presentation in business and professional situations, including message design and audience analysis of organizations. Students will examine expectations for communication in business; after studying and analyzing professional context, students will complete three substantive presentations. Finally, students will gain a sense of social responsibility that comes with the capacity for communication.
Outcomes: Students gain skills in public speaking, preparing a presentation, including visual aids, and critical listening, thinking, and speaking.
Note: ACCOM 103 is equivalent to ACCOM 101. You can take ACCOM 101 or ACCOM 103, but not both.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCOM101/103 COMM 101/103
IAI Code: C2 900
ACCOM 200 Digital Communication & Society
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Summer
This course explores the way technology affects personal, cultural, and mass communication through examining the historical, societal, and ethical implications of new and interactive forms of media.
Outcomes: Students use audio, video and digital tools to research and produce essays, projects and presentations that analyze the impact of technology on communication.
Notes: This course was previously titled ACCOM 205 Communication & New Media.
Equivalent Course Group: COMM200/IFMS200/ACCOM205
ACCOM 201 Introduction to Communication
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
This course gives a general and theoretical overview of communication. By approaching communication through a critical and historical lens, students will acquire a foundation for further study and practice in communication.
Outcomes: Students will have an understanding of the nature and structure of communication and be able to critically evaluate oral and written communications.
Equivalent Course Group: COMM175/COMM160/ACCOM201
IAI Code: MC 911
Criminal Justice
ACCRJ 201 The Criminal Justice System
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring and Summer
This course provides an overview of the development and operations of the US criminal justice system. Attention will be focused on law enforcement, judicial organization, and correctional processes. The course will also consider the nature and extent of crime and will survey main theories of criminal behavior.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the structure and challenges facing the criminal justice system from historical, interdisciplinary, and inter-agency relationship perspectives.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCRJ201/CJC101
IAI Code: CRJ 901
ACCRJ 204 Corrections
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
This course examines the history, functions, and processes of corrections. The primary focus is institutional corrections and its evolution based on philosophies of retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. The role and influence of community correctional practices and policy on institutional corrections are also covered.
Outcomes: Students will be able to identify and describe the role of institutional corrections in society and the criminal justice system and articulate the connection between theories regarding criminality and the purposes of incarceration that have historically guided and continue to guide American correctional practice historically and currently.
Equivalent Course Group: ACCRJ204/CJC204
IAI Code: CRJ 911
Economics
ACECO 201 Microeconomics
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
This course is an introduction to demand and supply, consumer choice, price analysis in alternative industrial organizations, and the distribution of income.
Outcomes: Students will be able to think critically about price formation in different market structures, and how prices, household incomes and income distribution in a diverse society are determined with interpretations based on the concepts of opportunity costs and decision making under uncertainty.
Equivalent Course Group: ECON201/201H/ACECO201/CPST243
IAI Code: S3 902
ACECO 202 Macroeconomics
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall
This course is an introduction to national product, its components, money and the real sectors and business fluctuations.
Outcomes: The students will be able to think critically about the economic environment of the nation and to measure growth, unemployment, inflation, fiscal and monetary policies of the government, to ultimately understand economic stability and the welfare of the individual citizen.
Equivalent Course Group: ECON202/ECON202H/ACECO202/245
IAI Code: S3 901
English (Literature)
ACENG 110 Interpreting Literature
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This is a foundational course in literary studies requiring students to read closely and analyze carefully a representative variety of prose, poetry, and drama; master key literary and critical terms; and explore a variety of core critical approaches to the analysis and interpretation of literature.
Outcomes: Students will understand the structure and techniques of different literary forms and will be able to analyze the content of literary works with respect to the authors’ purposes and meaning.
Equivalent Course Group: ACENG110/UCLR100
IAI Code: H3 900
ACENG 220 Introduction to Rhetoric
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course emphasizes the relevance of classical disputes for understanding current controversies over the nature and function of discourse. We will study several definitions of rhetoric, including rhetoric as "the art of persuasion," as the available means of persuasion, as identification, and others.
Equivalent Course Group: ACENG220/COMM220
ACENG 271 Exploring Poetry
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
This class offers you the opportunity to become proficient in close reading and critical analysis of poetry from several different periods of wildly varying style and content.
Outcomes: Practicing the skill of close reading & developing annotation strategies for literary texts. Mastering key literary terms and integrating them into your own analyses of literature. Placing the poems we read in conversation with their historico-political contexts. Using different literary theoretical lenses to ask new questions of our texts. Articulating [explaining/stating] your interpretations: in class, on tests, and for written assignments.
Equivalent Course Group: ENGL271/ACENG271
IAI Code: H3 903
ACENG 273 Exploring Fiction
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
Exploring Fiction focuses on reading and analysis of fiction, especially short stories and novels, from a variety of periods, while examining and applying key approaches to determining literary meaning, form, and value.
Outcomes: Critically analyze fiction, especially short stories and novels, from a variety of periods, and apply a narrative theory approach to literary interpretation. Interpret literary texts within various contexts - biographical, social, political, aesthetic, etc.
Equivalent Course Group: ENGL273/ACENG273
IAI Code: H3 901
ACENG 274 Exploring Shakespeare
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course focuses on the dramatic works of Shakespeare as literature and as theater, covering at least three of the four genres (comedy, history, tragedy, romance). The class experience includes attendance at and discussion of live performances.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the theatrical works of Shakespeare; such elements of drama as plot, character, theme, imagery, and verse forms; and the personal, political and theatrical world in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
Equivalent Course Group: ACENG274/ENGL274
IAI Code: H3 905
ACENG 276 Writing the Self
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
In this course, we will study nonfiction prose from a range of times and places. To focus our studies, we will investigate how a wide variety of authors have used writing to express, explore, and create a sense of self. When sharing their lives with an audience of readers, how do these authors navigate the territory between the private and public spheres, between internal experience and external reality, between self and environment? To answer this question, we will read a variety of nonfiction forms including diaries, essays, autobiographies, and graphic memoirs. Throughout the course, we will discuss issues of literary meaning, form, and value.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate inquiry and pursue self-directed learning, master key literary terms, read for comprehension, read for analysis, and argue for a literary interpretation.
Equivalent Course Group: ACENG276/ENGL290
IAI Code: H3 904
ACENG 282 African American Literature
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Rotating. One 200-level ACENG class will be offered Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course focuses on the development of the African American literary tradition, including analysis of historic and contemporary themes. Readings may cover any time period in African American literature through the present.
In a given semester, themes may include resistance, resilience, and counternarrative along with theoretical concepts such as intertextuality, double-consciousness, and signification.
Outcomes: Students will be able to discuss the significance of major African American literary movements and the contributions of representative writers from these periods.
Equivalent Course Group: ENGL282/ACENG282
IAI Code: H3 910D
Environmental Science
ACISC 101 Interdisciplinary Science: Scientific Basis of Environmental Issues
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
The foundational course in science is predicated on the view that understanding environmental issues and their underlying scientific principles will occupy a central role in our students' lives and will be critical in their development as informed and participating members of society. The overarching strategy of the course will be to frame environmental science in terms of a series of interacting systems to allow students to analyze a variety of environmental issues.
Outcomes: 1) Exhibit knowledge of the nature of the four Earth systems 2) Draw inferences from evidence, constructing testable and falsifiable hypotheses and analyzing data.3) Understand the role of energy and thermodynamics in ecosystems; 4) Understand and describe important cycles in nature.
Equivalent Course Group: ENVS137/UCSF137/ACISC101
IAI Code: LP 900
ACISC 102 Interdisciplinary Science: Environmental Processes, Challenges, and Methods
(4 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course combines lectures and laboratory-based inquiry. The lecture portion of this course will examine the scientific issues underlying a series of significant threats to the planet. These include the loss of biodiversity, ensuring access to a stable supply of food and water for all of the Earth's inhabitants, climate change, and the demands for energy and other resources. In addition to learning the relevant science for these issues, students will investigate possible responses to these planetary threats.
The laboratory portion of the course will provide students with the opportunity to learn basic and intermediate lab skills commonly used in environmental science, including measuring properties of matter, analyzing soil, water and atmospheric samples, as well as the mathematics needed to analyze data and draw inferences from evidence.
Outcomes: Students will understand the nature of contemporary environmental challenges, both as scientific and social problems. Students will master basic scientific techniques related to the study of the environment.
Equivalent Course Group: None. This course does not count toward the majors offered at the School of Environmental Sustainability.
IAI Code: LP 901L
Fine Arts
ACFNA 100 Art and Visual Culture
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
A survey of the visual arts (painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and architecture) as they transmit cultural traditions and humanistic and aesthetic values. Examines historical, social and technological factors that contribute to understanding the function and meaning of works of art.
Outcomes: Introduce students to an appreciation of the visual arts through an inter cultural, social/historical approach. Emphasize the nature of the creative process, integrating a study of the conceptual principles, with methods and materials which influence artistic critical thinking, problem solving, exploration, and discovery.
Equivalent Course Group: X-FNAR199/ICVM199/IFMS199
IAI Code: F2 900
ACFNA 105 Western Art: Renaissance to Modern
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Infrequently
A general survey which explores the development of art in Western culture from the Renaissance to modern art in the twentieth century.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the ideas, formal expressions, themes, techniques, and functions of art in relation to their cultural, social, and historical contexts. Students acquire the skills to critically analyze the relationships between various art forms and their relation to historical cultures.
Equivalent Course Group: ACFNA105/FNAR201
IAI Code: F2 901
ACFNA 112 Foundation Studio: Two Dimensional Design
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Summer
This course explores the fundamental organizational systems of intentional visual expression through purposeful making of, and critical response to, traditional design concepts. The elements of art and the principles of design will be experienced through a range of media both tactile and digital, with emphasis on spatial perception, color theory, and visual communication.
Outcomes: Students will recognize and experience the core concepts and practices of visual communication through hands-on exercises and projects addressing observation and perception, composition, transformation and manipulation of the picture plane, sequence and narrative, and the physical and communicative properties of pigment and color. Students will further engage these concepts through critical examination of images, texts, and objects representing a wide array of contemporary and historical visual culture.
Equivalent Course Group: FNAR112/ACFNA112
IAI Code: ART 907
History
ACHIS 101 Western Civilization to the 17th Century
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course traces the early development of Western civilization from the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, the medieval civilization(s), and the European Renaissance and Reformation.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of history as a discipline, be able to place Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in historical context, explain the expansion of the West, and develop critical thinking and communications skills.
Equivalent Course Group: X-HIST101/CATH101/ACHIS101
IAI Code: S2 902
ACHIS 102 Western Civilization from the 17th Century
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
This course traces the development and of western civilization and its global impact from the seventeenth century to the present.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of history as a discipline and develop critical thinking skills based on historical knowledge about the key people, places, and events that shaped the modern world.
Equivalent Course Group: ACHIS102/HIST102
IAI Code: S2 903
ACHIS 201 US History to 1865
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Odd Summers (e.g., 2019, 2021, etc.)
This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an understanding of Native American societies, the impact of European colonization, the creation and evolution of democratic institutions in a multicultural society, the geographic expansion of the United States, and the impact of slavery.
Equivalent Course Group: HIST201/HIST111/ACHIS201
IAI Code: S2 900
ACHIS 202 US History since 1865
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Even Summers (e.g., 2020, 2022, etc.)
This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the United States became a modern industrial society, the emergence and evolution of the modern welfare state, the rise of the United States as a global power, and the impact of controversies over civil rights and liberties on American society.
Equivalent Course Group: HIST202/HIST112/ACHIS202
IAI Code: H2 905
ACHIS 220 Introduction to Mexican American History
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Odd Summers (e.g., 2021, 2023, etc.)
This course surveys of the history of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States, examining their social, political, and economic contributions to the history of the U.S. from the 15th century to the present.
Outcomes: Students will analyze pre-Columbian societies, European colonization, and Mexican migration; synthesize various interpretations and sources; situate Mexican American history past, present, and future.
Equivalent Course Group: None. This course does not count toward the history major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
IAI Code: S2 923D
Information Systems
ACINF 247 Introduction to Information Systems
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Infrequently
This course is an introduction to using information technology to support business processes.
Outcomes: Students will understand the purpose and composition of information systems and develop expertise in the use information technology to develop business spreadsheets and database applications.
Equivalent Course Group: INFS247/ISOM/MGSC247/ACINF247
Mathematics
ACMAT 100 Fundamentals of Math
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
This course focuses on the foundations of algebra. Topics include the real number system operations, variable expressions, linear equations and inequalities, graphing linear equations in two variables, slope and equations of a line, exponents and polynomials, applications of proportion, percent and the use of formulas to develop problem solving skills.
Outcomes: Students will evaluate variable expressions. Students will solve and graph linear equations in two variables. Students will apply ratios and proportions
Equivalent Course Group: ACMAT100/MATH100
ACMAT 117 PreCalculus I
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACMAT 100 with a "C-" or better or a Math Placement Exam score of 45 or higher
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course covers algebraic topics ranging from functions and their applications to complex numbers to inverse functions to the fundamental theorem of algebra.
Outcomes: Students who plan to study calculus will obtain the algebraic background needed.
Equivalent Course Group: ACMAT117/MATH117
ACMAT 118 PreCalculus II
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACMAT 117 with a "C-" or higher or a Math Placement Exam score of 60 or higher
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
This course is a continuation of MATH 117 focusing on exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and inverse trigonometric functions, their graphs, and their properties. Techniques for solving equalities involving these functions are examined. Trigonometric identities, sum and difference formulas, double and half-angle formulas, the Laws of Sines and Cosines, and polar coordinates are also considered.
Outcomes: Students will build and improve their skills in algebra and precalculus topics in order to be able solve a variety of problems. The content and the strategies students will learn will prepare them to be successful in Calculus and courses beyond. Students will frequently be asked to express their mathematical thinking orally and in writing by working in groups and explaining their work.
Equivalent Course Group: MATH118/ACMAT118
ACMAT 161 Calculus I
(4 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACMAT 118 with a "C" or higher
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
A traditional introduction to differential and integral calculus. Functions, limits, differentiation, the Intermediate Value Theorem, curve sketching, optimization problem, related rates, definite and indefinite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, logarithm and exponential functions, applications to the natural and social sciences.
Equivalent Course Group: ACMAT161/MATH161
IAI Code: M1 900-1
ACMAT 162 Calculus II
(4 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACMAT 161 with a "C" or higher
Typically Offered: Spring
This course is a continuation of ACMAT 161, Calculus I.
Equivalent Course Group: ACMAT162/MATH162
IAI Code: M1 900-2
Philosophy
ACPHI 130 Philosophy and Persons
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course examines the way philosophy looks for fundamental characteristics that identify life as a properly human life, asks about its ultimate meaning or purpose, and raises questions about what counts as a good life.
Outcomes: Students will be able to explain a claim to truth, to explain theories of value in human life, and to describe theories of the metaphysical nature of human persons.
Equivalent Course Group: PHIL130/PHIL180/PHIL120/ACPHI
IAI Code: H4 900
ACPHI 205 The Person and Society
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
A contemporary look at the origins of social problems, democracy movements (both domestic and international), and the role of government in society.
Outcomes: Students will understand the moral bases of social activity and have the ability to relate individual responsibilities with life in a society.
Equivalent Course Group: PHIL182/PHIL282/PHIL162/ACPHI2
IAI Code: H4 901
ACPHI 274 Logic
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Summer
Study of the rules of judging and reasoning, both inductive and deductive, in a traditional, language-centered context rather than a symbolic context. Logical analysis of both formal and informal fallacies and of the consequences of a given set of statements is included. Logical analysis is applied to problems dealing with knowledge of reality.
Outcomes: Students will be able to formally analyze, evaluate and demonstrate the various aspects of argumentation.
Equivalent Course Group: PHIL174/PHIL274/ACPHI274
IAI Code: H4 906
ACPHI 281 Ethics
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course is a general introduction to ethics and moral philosophy.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of criteria for choosing between conflicting ethical theories, moral disagreement, the justification of moral judgments, and the application of ethical standards to practical decision-making and ethical questions that arise in everyday life.
Equivalent Course Group: PHIL181/PHIL281/ACPHI281
IAI Code: H4 904
ACPHI 284 Health Care Ethics and Society
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
A study of the role of ethics and moral reasoning in healthcare contexts. Emphasis is placed on identifying ethical issues that arise in a variety of contemporary healthcare settings, and in critically applying ethical theories and concepts to respond to health care and medical issues.
Outcomes: Students will gain skills in ethical questioning, reasoning, and application, with an emphasis on the intersection of healthcare practice and broader social, political, and legal issues.
Equivalent Course Group: PHL184/284BIET184PHL164BIET164
IAI Code: H4 904 (pending)
Political Science
ACPOL 101 American Government and Citizenship
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course examine American national government and politics, including institutions, group and electoral processes, and public policy. An underlying theme throughout the course identifies the rights and responsibilities of citizens within the American political system.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the American political system, the patterns of political participation and behavior of diverse individuals and groups in American society, and evaluate the roles and processes of U.S. political institutions.
Equivalent Course Group: ACPOL101/PLSC101
IAI Code: S5 900
ACPOL 200 Introduction to Political Thought
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Odd Summers (e.g., 2021, 2023, etc.)
An introduction to political thought, covering the principal ideas, controversies and institutions of political society. Authors covered include Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes, and Marx.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of major approaches to the normative study of politics, to identify the assumptions underlying philosophical arguments, and to critically assess different theories of political justice.
Equivalent Course Group: ACPOL200/PLSC100
IAI Code: PLS 913
ACPOL 202 International Relations
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Spring
Competing perspectives on international politics and global issues such as North-South relations, human rights, war and peace, population growth, and environmentalism.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the main approaches to the study of international politics and to analyze and assess such major substantive issues as interstate war, terrorism, arms control, international political economy and sustainable development.
Equivalent Course Group: PLSC102/BWS110/INTS257/PAX/ACP
IAI Code: S5 904
ACPOL 205 Power, Rap Music, and Urban America
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Even Summers (e.g., 2020, 2022, etc.)
By focusing on rap music and urban American society since the 1960s, this course delves into the social scientific analysis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other identities.
Equivalent Course Group: None. This course does not count toward the political science major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
IAI Code: S9 902D
Psychology
ACPSY 201 General Psychology
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Introduction to concepts, theories, and methods in psychology. Emphasis is given to the scientific study of consciousness and human behavior. Topics include: human development, learning, thinking, perception, personality, testing, mental illness and mental health, biological and social aspects of behavior.
Outcomes: Students will master basic concepts and key theories and learn to apply them to real-world situations.
Equivalent Course Group: ACPSY201/PSYC101
IAI Code: S6 900
ACPSY 273 Developmental Psychology
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: None
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Survey of theory and research relevant to human growth and development with emphasis on physical, cognitive, and social development from infancy through adolescence.
Equivalent Course Group: ACPSY273/PSYC273
IAI Code: S6 902
ACPSY 275 Social Psychology
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACPSY 201 General Psychology
Typically Offered: Spring and Summer
This course is an introduction to the field of social psychology, which seeks to understand human behavior by viewing it within its social and cultural context.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of cultural and social group differences, which is critical to the development of inter-cultural understanding and the reduction of inter-group (or inter-cultural) conflict.
Equivalent Course Group: ACPSY275/PSYC275
IAI Code: PSY 908
ACPSY 280 Abnormal Psychology
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACPSY 201 General Psychology
Typically Offered: Spring and Summer
Nature and causes of maladjustment and mental disorders. History of mental illness, diagnosis, research, and treatment of mental disorders.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate understanding of current approaches to researching maladaptive behavior, current views of maladaptive behavior, major categories of mental disorders, factors contributing to development of problems, different types of intervention strategies, and appreciation of social, ethical, and legal issues.
Equivalent Course Group: X-CPSY333/PSYC331/ACPSY280
IAI Code: PSY 905
Statistics
ACSTA 101 Statistics
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACMAT 100 or Math Placement score of 30 or higher
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
This course provides an introduction to statistical reasoning and techniques in descriptive and inferential statistics and their applications in economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, and psychology.
Outcomes: Students will obtain a background in the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics along with an understanding of their uses and misuses.
Equivalent Course Group: ISOM/H/MGSC241/STAT103/ACST101
IAI Code: M1 902
Theology
ACTHE 101 Introduction to Christian Theology
(3 credit hours)
Typically Offered: Infrequently
This course is an introduction to reflection on and analysis of the Christian theological tradition.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the tasks of Christian theology in its efforts to understand the human situation from the perspective of faith, various challenges to theology in the contemporary world, and will focus on one or more current theological issues.
Equivalent Course Group: ACTHE101/THEO100
ACTHE 107 Introduction to Religious Studies
(3 credit hours)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
This course is an introduction to the contemporary field of religious studies.
Outcomes: Students will be able to analyze and interpret various ways in which religious traditions intersect with contemporary issues.
Equivalent Course Group: THEO170/THEO270/ACTHE107
IAI Code: H5 900
University Courses
ACUNI 101 First Year Seminar
(1 credit hour)
Typically Offered: Fall
This course introduces students to college life, especially that of an Arrupe student. The course focuses on Ignatian spirituality, community building, goal setting and attainment, academic success strategies, and task initiation.
Required for all Arrupe College First Year Students.
Equivalent Course Group: UNIV101/ACUNI101
ACUNI 102 Academic Success Strategies
(1 credit hour)
Typically Offered: Spring
Designed to strengthen students' academic skills so that they can become more effective learners. By completing class readings and participating in class discussions and activities, students will learn and practice relevant and productive study strategies. Additionally, students will reflect on the motivations, achievements, and obstacles they encounter while working to become more successful students.
Outcomes: Time management, motivation maintenance, study skills, and college resources
Equivalent Course Group: None.
ACUNI 103 Career Exploration and Attainment
(0 credit hours)
Typically Offered: Spring (first 8 weeks)
This course focuses on career exploration, development, and attainment. Students will identify their professional aptitudes and interests, develop their professional network, and hone their interviewing skills.
Outcomes: Evaluate career options; prioritize short-term and long-term goals; develop a resume and elevator pitch; strengthen interview skills.
Equivalent Course Group: None.
ACUNI 201 A Journey in the Spirit of Ignatius
(1 credit hour)
Typically Offered: Spring (WTC) and Summer (Abroad)
The purpose of the sophomore seminar is to provide students with the opportunity to utilize Ignatian values and reflective practices to identify their values, accomplishments and future personal, academic and or professional goals.
Restricted to Arrupe Sophomores.
Outcomes: Students will reflect upon how Ignatian values connect to their personal experiences and how they see themselves becoming persons for others.
Equivalent Course Group: None.
Writing
ACWRI 105 College Writing I
(3 credit hours)
Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
College Writing I is designed to help first-year Arrupe students understand and meet college expectations for writing.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an effective process for invention, drafting, and revision to produce polished academic work; communicate using written modes appropriate to audience and purpose; and analyze, synthesize, and evaluate texts.
Per the requirements of the Illinois Articulation Initiative, students will complete at least four polished papers during this course. Activities will also include informal writing, invention exercises, and responding to peer and instructor feedback. At least 60% of the final grade will be based on formal, graded writing assignments.
Arrupe Program Outcomes: Written & Oral Communication; Critical Thinking
Equivalent Course Group: None.
IAI Code: C1 900
A grade of C or higher is required to receive IAI credit.
ACWRI 110 College Writing II
(3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: ACWRI 105 College Writing I
Typically Offered: Spring and Summer
College Writing II is designed to help first-year Arrupe students understand and meet college expectations for writing.
Outcomes: In College Writing II, students will continue to practice and strengthen their writing process, including invention, drafting, and revision. Additionally, students will demonstrate skills needed in the research process, including finding, evaluating, and integrating material from reliable sources.
Per the requirements of the Illinois Articulation Initiative, students will complete at least three polished papers, including a long final paper that requires documented, multi-source writing. Activities will also include informal writing, invention exercises, information literacy instruction, and responding to peer and instructor feedback. At least 60% of the final grade will be based on formal, graded writing assignments.
Arrupe Program Outcomes: Written & Oral Communication; Critical Thinking
Equivalent Course Group: SCPS200/ENGL106/UCWR/ACWR110
IAI Code: C1 901R
A grade of C or higher is required to receive IAI credit.
