| UB Code | Course Name | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCT201 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | A comprehensive study of basic financial accounting processes applicable to a service, merchandising, and manufacturing business. An analysis of transactions, journalizing, posting, preparation of working papers and ¬financial statements. | K. Demarest |
| AITC151 | Computer Programming I [3] | A fundamental programming course focused on developing computational skills in problem-solving, algorithm development and program design, and principles of good programming. Topics include program flowcharting, pseudo-coding, input / output techniques, control structures, data types, modularization, procedures and file handling. A high-level programming language will be introduced and used throughout the course to supplement the theoretical foundations. prerequisite: none [TF] | te |
| AITC251 | Computer Programming II | Introduces the syntax of an object-oriented language and teaches object-oriented programming concepts and design. To teach these concepts, the course presents an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, or C++, while developing problem-solving and algorithm design skills. Lab fee required. prerequisite: AITC 151 or equivalent | |
| AITC251 | Computer Programming II | Introduces the syntax of an object-oriented language and teaches object-oriented programming concepts and design. To teach these concepts, the course presents an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, or C++, while developing problem-solving and algorithm design skills. Lab fee required. prerequisite: AITC 151 or equivalent | |
| ARTS201 | The Arts in Society [3] | An overview of the role that individual artistic expression and group artistic movements have played throughout history, with a focus on the individual and the arts, economics and the arts, and politics and the arts. [ART] [AH] [IL] | |
| BIOL101 | Humankind and the Biological World | Deals in a broad sense with how humans interact with, affect and are affected by other organisms. Presents an overview of the history of scientific thought, including important ?persons, shifts in philosophy and technological innovations. Pathogenic organisms, genetic predisposition and natural immunity to disease, as well as disease treatments and cures are discussed. Addresses the ways that human activities such as hunting, commercial fishing and deforestation have had an impact on other life on Earth. | |
| BIOL121 | Fundamentals of Biology with Lab [4] | Introduction to the diversity of life on Earth. Cell structure, reproduction and chemistry are discussed. Provides an overview of the evolution, physiology and ecology of animals, plants and microbial life, including the impact of human behavior on ecosystems. The laboratory component of the course focuses on the design, practice and reporting of science. Laboratory exercises and experiments include an introduction to light microscopy; cell division; genetics; cellular respiration; photosynthesis; environmental science; and the examination of bacterial, botanical and zoological specimens. Laboratory fee required. [GSCI] [QQT] [BPSL] | |
| CMAT201 | Communicating Effectively [3] | Introduction to oral communication: interpersonal, small group and public speaking. Emphasis on accurately transmitting information, using effective strategies for informing and persuading, using effective communication techniques to work with others, and feeling at ease in front of an audience. Laboratory fee required. [CMAT] [COM] [ELECGE] [OC] | K. Wollman |
| CNCM102 | Global Conflict | Students explore the causes, costs, dynamics, and potential remedies to violent and structural conflict in the international system. The course addresses these issues from a broad range of social science vantage points, including the fields of international relations, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and conflict management. Experiential learning will include student simulations of international conflict negotiations. Prerequisite: None. | |
| CNCM297 | Special Topics in Negotiations and Conflict Managment [3] | Exploration of topics in negotiations and conflict management. Content varies depending upon the interests of faculty and students. Course may be repeated when topic changes. Prerequisite: Depends on course topic and level of difficulty. | |
| CNCM340 | COMMUNITY CONFLICT: CAUSES, SOURCES, SOLUTIONS | Understanding and addressing conflict is critical to community success. This course will study the nature of social conflict, from interpersonal to community-wide. Students will consider sources of conflict; ways in which conflicts develop, escalate, and deescalate: conflict styles, strategies, and tactics; and options for managing conflict. This course will also have an experiential component which will allow students to develop their own conflict management skills. Prerequiste: None | |
| CRJU270 | CRJU 270 How to Break out of Prison | Focuses on issues, barriers and challenges to the successful reintegration of individuals transitioning from prison to society. Provides an examination of historical and emerging developments in the field of re-entry with special emphasis on evidence-based practices. | |
| CRJU301 | The Contemporary Criminal Justice System | A critical analysis of the contemporary criminal justice system. Political, economic, and societal contexts provide the framework for an examination of system-wide issues, current problems, and challenges facing the criminal justice system. [SBS] | |
| ECON200 | ECON 200 THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING 3 | An economist sees the world in a unique way and is able to provide a different perspective on many issues. This course presents the economic way of thinking with an emphasis on being able to make effective decisions in a wide variety of economic and business situations. In addition, the economic way of thinking is used to understand the impact of business and government policies and actions on our daily lives. | |
| ENGL215 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Introduces students to the creative process and craft of writing poetry and fiction by exploring the elements and techniques of those genres. Students write and share poems and short fiction in a workshop setting. | |
| ENTR101 | ENTR 101 IMAGINATION,CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (3) | Students will experience what it means to discover the patterns that produce breakthrough ideas when attempting to solve business problems. Participants in this class will be exposed to a systematic approach to changing the way they create, identify and sell these ideas. They will also be introduced to a number of techniques, concepts and methods that can be added to their creative skills toolkit. The course is designed around real methods that have been proven to work in some of the leading corporations in the world. These methods are conveyed through both interactive and experiential learning approaches. Students will form teams for the purposes of developing creative solutions to problems and coming up with a concept around which a venture can be based. | |
| ENTR300 | The Entrpreneurial Experience [3] | The entrepreneurial process considered as a paradigm, tracing the process and highlighting its practical applications. Special emphasis on the creation and initial growth phases of new ventures, with discussion of related ethical, international and legal issues. Local entrepreneurs serve as guest speakers. Open to all students, this course functions as a survey course as well as the first in the specialization in entrepreneurship sequence. | |
| ENTR305 | Entrepreneurship and Innovation | An introductory course on entrepreneurship and innovation with emphasis on concepts of new market opportunity identification in both new ventures and existing organizations. Students will apply creative problem solving to identify entrepreneurial opportunities which are financially viable. Interdisciplinary analysis will be utilized and involves identifying, evaluating, and determining whether a scalable business opportunity exists. Students will develop the analytical and conceptual skills required to understand and explore the creative and innovative underpinnings of new products, services, and organizations. Similarities and differences in creativity and innovation across different levels, from the individual level to the organizational or industry level, will be highlighted, as are differences in financing options and early-stage sources of capital for new ideas. The course includes oral, visual, and written communication, including distilling an entrepreneurial idea into elevator pitches and summarizing complex market opportunities into a multi-stakeholder dialogue. | |
| ENTR320 | OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT | Developing the analytical and conceptual skills required to test the feasibility of a concept for a new venture. A venture feasibility study involves undertaking activities that may help determine whether one should go forward with an opportunity. The process of feasibility analysis involves identifying, evaluating and determining whether to exploit an opportunity. Students will learn a number of practical skills and techniques that are applied to opportunities that students will explore. The creation of a feasibility study is the primary activity of the class. The course involves a significant amount of outside work that is time consuming, ambiguous, complex and multi-functional in nature. Feasibility analysis forces students to: undertake a significant amount of field research; develop and think critically about business concepts; answer fundamental questions about strategic, marketing, financial, operational and human resource issues about business concepts; and then research a decision about going forward to start the venture that is proposed. prerequisite: ENTR 305 | |
| GVPP322 | Bureaucracy and Public Policy [3] | An understanding of the institutional political, legal, and ethical challenges of public policy management in the contemporary administrative state. | Test |
| HIST204 | African American History to 1865 | Examines African American history before 1865, including such topics as the North American slave trade, the lived experience of enslaved Blacks, the lives of free Blacks who were not enslaved and the rise of the abolition movement. | |
| HIST205 | African American History Since 1865 | Examines African American history since 1865, including such topics as Reconstruction, the rise of racial segregation and legal White supremacy, Black popular culture, African Americans in all regions of the country and the Long Civil Rights and Black Power movements. | |
| HIST306 | POPULAR MUSIC IN U.S. HISTORY | Explores popular music's relationship to social, economic and cultural transformations in the United States' history, with a focus on race, gender, class and sexuality. Topics include hip-hop, jazz, Motown, disco, punk, blues, house and club music. | |
| HIST382 | History of Baltimore | Social and economic changes that took place in American cities. Emphasis is placed on a detailed study of Baltimore as it exemplified changes taking place during the period. Major themes are industrialization and racial and ethnic diversity. [GD] | |
| HSER100 | Introduction to Human Services | The social basis for human service needs is examined with special consideration given to how societies respond to these needs through the formation of service delivery systems. Case studies of contemporary human service delivery systems are emphasized. | |
| HSER200 | Models of Effective Helping [3] | This course provides the student with an overview of contemporary theories and techniques of the helping relationship. Basic communication skills (such as active listening, responding and interviewing skills) for building helping relationships are developed. Professional and ethical issues in the helping profession as it relates to Human Services will all be investigated. Prerequisite: None | |
| HSER310 | Family System Dynamics | Examines the components of family structure, interactions and reinforcing aspects of family dynamics on the maintenance of roles, types of families, life-span changes, function and dysfunction in the context of the greater society. Prerequisite: None | |
| HSER330 | Human services delivery systems and diversity (3) | Examines various issues in the context of human services delivery systems within organizational environments possessing many levels of diversity including gender, race, religion/spirituality, types of professions/ credentials, levels of education, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and physical ability. Explores how one | T. Garland |
| HSER340 | HSER 340 CASE MANAGEMENT AND DOCUMENTATION (3) | This course serves as an introduction to the concept of case management toward the delivery of human services. The course will be presented in the logical sequence, from the intake interview to the termination of service. A focus will be given to assessment, planning, and implementation of case management services. The case management process will be explored as it relates to organizational, legal and ethical issues. Emphasis will be given to the skills and knowledge-base required to be an effective case manager. Pre-requisite : None | |
| HSER400 | Senior Internship | Senior Internship | |
| HSER420 | Program Design and Proposal Writing (3) | This course builds on the ecological systems perspective that views program development as an arena for social change. The course illuminates how values needs and resources influence program design and decision-making. As a major practice strategy used in community development, Program design and Proposal writing offers a contingency framework that teaches students about the choices,decisions and situations for planning new or adapting programs within the context of diverse communities. It sharpens the skill set necessary for program development within the context of quality improvement and quality management. Prerequsite: HSER 100 and HSER 200 | S. Akinyele |
| HSER430 | Fundraising and Grant Writing | The course will provide students with a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of fundraising and grant proposal development. The course is structured to mirror the process of fundraising management and by the end of the program participants will have developed a fundraising plan or a grant proposal for their own nonprofit, or a case study of the organization . We consider planning frameworks and a variety of conceptual tools before moving on to consider donor behavior ( the underlying psychology and sociology ) and each major form of fundraising in turn. The course will then conclude with an examination of the critical managerial and sectoral issues impacting on the fundraising function, such as campaign integration, benchmarking of performance and public trust and confidence Pre-requsite : HSER 100 and HSER 200 | |
| HSER440 | Evaluation of Human Services Programs | The purpose of this course is to provide you with a conceptual framework, sets of practical skills and related understandings about the planning and evaluation of human services programs not only in educational but in a range of human services settings. Within this context, a program is considered in a broad sense as a set of resources organized for a purpose, while a human service is considered as work or activity intended to benefit others. Pre-requisite: HSER 100 and HSER 200. | |
| HSER450 | Human Services Management [3] | This course is designed to assist students with exploring management and administrative roles in human services organizations. Students will be introduced to relevant theories, concepts, and practices that are the foundation to understanding management. Students will examine common concerns, problems, and effective strategies of present-day management of human services organizations at the non-profit, local, state, and federal levels. Prerequisite: HSER 101 AND HSER 200 | First time Fall 22 |
| HSER453 | Social Research Methods | An analysis of principal research methods employed in the applied social sciences with particular emphasis on applications for human services. Topics include research design, data collection and data analysis. Practical applications are required through student projects. | |
| HSER470 | Senior Seminar in Human Services [3] | A senior-level seminar consisting of an extensive exploration of current topics in human services of mutual interest to faculty and students. Examples of the content may include welfare reform, political and social legislation as well as policy and program issues. prerequisite: senior-level standing [CAP] | |
| IDIS101 | First Year Seminar: Introduction to University Learning [3] | Helps students to develop key skills, knowledge and habits of mind necessary for academic and professional success. In an active-learning environment, first-semester students and their instructors explore the nature and practice of intellectual inquiry in a university environment. Applied exercises reinforce core study/learning skills in the context of real-time demands, while structured self- and group reflection develops concurrent skills in personal, academic and professional goal setting. Students become more intentional, lifelong learners, with skills in teamwork and critical thinking that can become fundamental elements of personal effectiveness in increasingly complex and globalized communities and work environments. [PPS] [ELECGE] | |
| IDIS302 | IDIS 302 ETHICAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY (3) | Explores and critically examines ethical issues in business and society. Students will deliberate about ethics as it arises in their personal, professional, and public lives. Emphasis is placed on a practical understanding of major ethical frameworks and their applications for ethical decision-making, ethically assessing institutions, and creating and critically evaluating personal and professional ethical frameworks. Students will join a larger IDIS 302 course community linked together through co-curricular programming. [CTE] [AHE] [ETH] | |
| IDIS305 | INTRO TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES | What does it mean to learn across the curriculum and to address problems from an interdisciplinary perspective: This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary studies major. Topics and activities include development of your own intentional plan of study for the major, introduction to interdisciplinary thinking, survey of and introduction to learning methods and University resources for taking full advantage of the Interdisciplinary Studies major. Prerequisite: None | |
| INFO110 | Introduction to Information Literacy [3] | Being able to find, assess and use information effectively is a fundamental skill needed in any career as well as in day-to-day life. This course teaches students how to define their information needs, search for information effectively, make logical arguments, understand the different forms information can take, critically assess information they find and present data in an appropriate way. In addition, it provides students with the skills necessary to evaluate the kinds of opinion and argumentation they encounter outside the University. [IL] | |
| INSS100 | Computer Information Systems (3) | This course provides an introduction to the fundamental technologies that underpin modern organizations, as well as those that affect people | D. Fowler |
| MATH083 | Foundational Mathematics Algebra [NC] | Presents a variety of topics including real numbers, linear equations, polynomials, systems of equations, rational expressions, properties of exponents, radical functions and quadratic equations. This course develops essential background skills for a college level introductory mathematics course such as College Algebra or Basic Statistics | |
| MATH111 | College Algebra [3] | Provides students with more advanced skills required for high-level applications of mathematics. Negative and rational exponents and functions, their properties and operations, including inverse functions; linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, absolute value, exponential and logarithmic functions are explored. Students develop graphical and algebraic skills and study applications of concepts. prerequisites: meet or exceed required math placement score and/or successful completion of a developmental math (MATH 82/83/84/86/100), or a course that satisfies the University of Baltimore General Education Math requirement. [MATH] [QQT] [MA] Note, students who have taken a college-level math course should talk to their advisor or math placement coordinator before enrolling in this course. | |
| MGMT301 | Management and Organizational Behavior | Management and Organizational Behavior is an exploration into the functions of management, management history, individual behavior, interpersonal relationships in organizations, the nature of work, values, and ethics, motivation and morale, teamwork, communication and group dynamics, leadership, power, and organizational culture. Course coverage includes concepts and research from the behavioral sciences. | |
| MKTG301 | Marketing Management | A basic course in the contribution of marketing to the firm or organization that includes decision-making tools for integrating product, price, distribution, and communication decisions and processes into an -organization competing in a global environment. Students also build skills in oral and written communication. [IL] | |
| MPLAN | Masterplan [NC] | Masterplan Chris Wilson Course | |
| PHIL101 | Introduction to Philosophy | Introduces the fundamental questions and problems of philosophy and critically examines how some of the greatest philosophers in the history of Western cultures have attempted to answer these questions. Emphasis is placed on students’ demonstration of their own abilities to seek answers to these “eternal questions.” A capstone feature of the course challenges students to communicate, orally and in writing, the value of philosophical thinking in their personal lives and their chosen professions. [HIPL] [CTE] [HAT] [AH] | J. Lichtenberg |
| PHIL301 | Ethics | A critical examination of fundamental questions in ethics: What is good and evil? Why be moral? What is right and wrong moral conduct? What does it take to be a good person, and what does it mean to live a good life? Students read a balanced selection of classical and contemporary works and explore a variety of moral issues in personal and professional life. | |
| PHIL480 | Philosophy, Law, and Current Events | Studies the intersection of philosophical ideas with current events, with a special focus on law-related events, as well as politics, government and economics. The main text is typically the print edition of a nationally or internationally respected newspaper or periodical, such as The New York Times or The Economist. Students read the paper / periodical alongside a selection of philosophical writings relevant to understanding domestic and international news. The course offers the unique format of studying a newspaper or periodical closely as a main text. The approach is to show how a philosophical analysis of this range of information provides value and insight, and develops a life skill, for whatever educational objectives students wish to pursue. The aim is both to understand the relevance and application of important philosophical ideas to current events, and to deepen the ability to address enduring philosophical questions through a study of current events. | |
| PPIA322 | PPIA322 | Virtual Govt Class | |
| PPIA345 | The Legislative Process | An examination of legislatures in the American system of government. Emphasis is placed on the study of the representative function of legislatures, of the ways in which they operate, and their impact on public policy. | |
| PSYC100 | PSYC 100 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY | PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology (3) This survey course is an introduction to the science of psychology, with an explicit focus on the understanding of human behavior and experience. Methods used by psychologists to investigate behavior and experience are introduced, and an overview of the major fields of psychology is provided, including discussion of each areas primary theories and models. [SOSC] [GIK] [QQT] [SBS] | |
| PSYC205 | Human Development | The psychological aspects of the human growth and development process from conception and birth through childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Included are the physical, social and emotional influences on the course of development in role, identity and goal orientation. prerequisite: PSYC 100 | |
| PSYC210 | Interpersonal Psychology [3] | Provides an overview of the processes involved in the development, maintenance and dissolution of friendships and romantic relationships. Offers an examination of topics such as interpersonal attraction, love, sexuality, conflict and communication prerequisite: none | |
| WRIT101 | College Composition [3] | Helps students develop fluency in writing clear, forceful, effective prose and acquire the college-level reasoning, reading and writing skills that they will find necessary for success in other college courses. prerequisite: adequate score on placement test or completion of designated developmental writing courses with a grade of C- or higher [WRIT] [COM] [COMP] | |
| WRIT200 | Practicum in Writing [3] | Designed to review skills developed in WRIT 101 or equivalent and prepare students for successful completion of WRIT 300. Students build skills in critical reading, rhetorical analysis and writing from sources while maintaining a focus on textual conventions. Students write in a variety of genres for inclusion in a final course portfolio. Passing grade is C-or higher. prerequisite: adequate score on placement or placement waiver | |
| WRIT300 | WRIT300 | Final writing requirement for degree |