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SF-REQU Seminar for Freshmen Requirement

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Two of the most daunting challenges the world faces (or will face) is how to provide for both its growing energy needs and potable drinking water. Regular news events include climate change, droughts, flooding, and petroleum struggles. Human nature often requires a severe crisis before it responds. This course

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The course will explore the physical geography, history, and image in literature, film, and pop culture of Suffolk University's Beacon Hill neighborhood. The purpose and objective of the course is to provide students with a deep knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Beaco

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

What do we live for? Which beliefs, values, and experiences sustain meaningful, fulfilling existence? Are we authors of our destinies or powerless pawns in an unfathomable cosmic game? Does death render all our efforts superfluous? This award-winning course offers a cross-cultura

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Investigates the intersection of art and environment through the eyes of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists. Examines the rise of consumer culture post World War II, the growth of environmental concern in the 1970s, the environmental impacts of consumer culture, and th

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

How is it that the knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and values of the Greeks and Romans still educate and edify the world by providing venues towards leading fulfilling and dignified lives? The guiding principles of their respective civilizations rested upon eight pillars: -Humanism: It was recognized that humans have the potential to master their

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This section of the Seminar for Freshmen will consider the forms, venues, and impacts of narrative nonfiction in contemporary culture. From the exploding popularity of personal essays in the digital age to the living, evolving essays we create on social media, we are constantly na

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course explores the evolution of dogs from wolves and the ways in which dogs have adapted to their niche in human society. The ecology, behavior, genetics, and adaptations of dogs will be explored in relation to both their wolf ancestry and artificial selection by humans. Th

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Explores themes of adventure, self-discovery, exile, and culture shock in classic and contemporary travel writing (including fiction, poetry, and non-fiction) as well as film. Students will experiment with creative writing of their own, develop theories of cosmopolitan world citi

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Rain or shine, the great 18th century Enlightenment philosophers would meet at the famous cafes of Paris to discuss their ideas, and to observe and criticize society. From these informal debates emerged ideas that are at the core of our modern understanding of the nature of socie

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This writing and script analysis intensive course will explore plays across a range of styles. We will study the scripts of several new or recent plays and will experience performances of those works or readings by playwrights and actors via Zoom, in the classroom, or at professi

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

It is hard to believe that only 60 years ago, our only close-up view of a planetary body was that of Earth. We are truly living in the Golden Age of Space Exploration, when a new mission every few years brings us spectacular images from either a neighbor in the solar system or ga

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SF

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This semester we will explore Boston's history. We will read books, visit historical sites, and you will learn how to do historical research on your own. This course meets the requirement of Humanities and History.

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SF

Credits (min)

4

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4

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course focuses on French-language films - with subtitles! - that address pressing social issues of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as hunger, female genital mutilation, immigration, racism, economic inequality, genocide, gender, sexuality, colonialism and post-colonialism.

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SF

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

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course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Readers lining up at midnight for the newest Harry Potter book, hundreds of thousands of viewers crashing HBO's website in their eagerness to watch Game of Thrones: examples of fantasy's recent popularity are everywhere. This course explores the genre of contemporary fantasy through a historical and cr

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course will focus on the concept of authenticity in American culture, from its origins in the early 19th century to the present. When the advertising gurus of Coca-Cola branded it as The Real Thing, they were exploiting something powerful: the idea of something real, stripped of any falsity or illusion. Humans have always desired to know the world and others as they really are, but this desire is particularly strong in the modern world: witness the eagerness to discover one's true self, cut through the B.S., obtain the genuine article, and live authentically. In this course we w

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Most of the world's religious traditions have as a part of their doctrines some notion of immortality, rendered both in scriptures as well as iconographically. What precisely is entailed by immortality and why does it constitute such a significant element of so many religious tra

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

One hundred and sixty nine years have passed since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. It is only fitting to analyze the profound changes that the gain/loss of these territories caused for the citizens of both sides of the border. This course will explore the literature,

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course is an introduction to both ancient and modern Chinese civilization with a focus on its literature, arts, and 4000 year cultural history. We will see China at its earliest stages through its archaeology and progress to the heights of literary splendor in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Stud

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

What makes a fact a fact? What makes a fact true? At one time, these questions were only asked by epistemologists and postmodernists, but with the rise of fake news and the discourses surrounding it, these questions are relevant to everyone. Understanding facts is also essential

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Jazz and blues music of the early twentieth century has been hailed as a potent expression of African American life and as a major contribution to American culture. Albert Murray writes, 'the blues idiom' is a synthesis of African and European elements, the product of an Afro-American sensibility in an American mai

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Every story of an individual is also the story of the place, the group, the larger intersection of identities somehow connected to that person. In this class, we'll examine ways in which nonfictional stories use individuals to represent the larger social categories to which they

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course introduces students to the voices of "nasty women," as they present themselves in American Literature from the 19th century to the present day. We read and study feminist writers and thinkers, as both authors and characters, who are outspoken, unconventional, independ

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The figure of the criminal, particularly one driven by madness, has captivated our collective imaginations since Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, carrying over into film noir and horror, and leading up to our contemporary fascination with serial killers, true crime stories, and extending eve

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

We visit museums to be inspired. Museums have exhibits that face outward for the public, but inside curators and exhibit designers work to preserve collections and bring them to different communities. We will go behind the scenes at art, history, and science/natural history museu

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

It has been said that revenge is a type of wild justice whether it is violent, quick, or subtle, stories of revenge provide us with a fascinating glimpse into the recesses of the human soul. At their core, they seek to uncover the carnal side of human nature and shine light on the dark impulses that can lie buried deep. In this course, we will explore whether revenge

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This section of the Seminar for Freshmen will consider the role that writing plays in examining social justice issues through the storytelling venue of fiction. How does the writing and reading of fiction make us more socially-conscious people? Through an examination of selected readings from historical novels such as Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick (both the short story and novella companion), alon

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course is a brief study of one critical area with which young students interested in psychology must deeply engage. Nutrition and the psychological aspects of what we ingest for our nourishment, physically and mentally, is the key to our future and our humanity. We will cove

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Attention is a finite resource. The relative scarcity of your attention means, among other things, that it is incredibly valuable to others. The competition is startling in its intensity: there are as many claims to your attention as there are people in your life. Family and friends who love you want to maintain a relationship with you, while professors and spiritual leaders want to help shape

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Unravel the mystery of contemporary art, the power of images and the messages they convey. Learn about the context in which art is created. As the French Urban Artist, JR asks, Can Art Change the World? In this course we will look at the purpose of art, who is it made for and why

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course will analyze the history of white supremacy and racial violence in the United States from the end of the Civil War that continues to this day. It will also examine the history of resistance to this racial violence, how American public schools teach the history of race

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SF

Type

course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

An introduction to the field of personalized genetics and gene editing and how these technologies impact the modern world. We will discuss how sequencing your genome could affect decisions about your health and other areas of your life. Now that editing your genome is possible, w

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Ecological awareness forces us to think and feel at multiple scales, scales that disorient normative concepts such as present, life, human, nature, thing, thought, and logic. In this course, we will use the ecocritical framework of Dark Ecology to interpret literary texts, our ev

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

In this course we will examine a specific type of power: personal political power. We will explore political power focusing on the role each of us plays in the political system and how ordinary citizens build political organizations, implement long-term visions, and solve problem

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SF

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course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The primary goal of this class is to review and analyze systematically the design, implementation, and evaluation of global public policies based on global indicators. After exploring and discussing global policy debates and examine what kind of values and ideas shape them, the s

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Are universal human rights still relevant in the 21st Century? In the aftermath of World War II, human rights advocacy and human rights law has been central to international politics. However, the pressures of economic globalization, war on terror, and climate change along with the resur-gence of authoritarianism and anti-liberal regimes have raised new questions on whether the in-ternation

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to rap music and hip hop culture and examine it as a cultural critical and historic phenomena. This course explores the connection of rap music to social movements/social justice as well as to understand it in the context of its

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SF

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

True crime is wildly popular genre with an extraordinary reach across forms and audiences, as evidenced by blockbusters like Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark and the podcast Serial. But while true crime texts may pull us in with the deviant, lurid, or outlandish, the

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Death grabs our attention because it is inescapable, yet we rarely discuss it with others. What explains our cultural silence's reticence that our ancestors would not have approved? From the colonial period through the 1800s, diverse Americans were intimately involved with death

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Quantum theory and quantum computation are at the forefront of physics in the twenty-first century. These topics traditionally require substantial background in physics and mathematics. In this course, a new pedagogical approach is used to teaching quantum physics to an audience

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Before Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Beyonce and Michael Jackson came Frank Sinatra: America's first pop superstar. When he died in 1998 at age 82, his obituary in The New York Times noted that Sinatra stood as a singular mirror of the American psyche. S

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Can you imagine a world without plastic? In less than a century, this versatile material has transformed our lives, society, and planet -- and not always for the better. This course explores the science behind plastics, the history of their use, and their impact on our health and

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course is designed to help entering college students examine and discover their leadership strengths and develop practical leadership responses within the context of crisis. It will examine historical events, disasters, crises, times of significant social change, war, and tu

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Covers the period 1300-1600, and explores the intellectual and cultural developments of the Renaissance, and of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in their social, political and cultural contexts. Topics include: the Black Death; Humanism; the rise of the city-state; art an

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Diversity and inclusion are at the forefront of contemporary social concerns. Movements like Black Lives Matter, the Refugee and Immigrants crisis in Europe and the USA, the Me Too and LGTBQ movements, and the indigenous protests in Latin America prove how our global world is far

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course takes a transdisciplinary approach to show that the sustainable development of economies is a multidimensional goal that requires a lot more than environmental stewardship. In doing so, it examines how development, globalization, and equity relate to sustainable devel

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

In this course we will be spending a lot of time reading / viewing, analyzing, and discussing different forms of popular culture in the United States from a variety of different time periods. We will also consider a variety of media and genres, from documentary film, feature film, television and podcas

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Money, not sex, is the last taboo topic in the U.S. It is vulgar to talk about it, wrong to ask others how much they make, immoral to boast the money you have, and shameful to admit you don't have any. Yet, money is simply a form of exchange, an objective way to measure value. So

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The size and reach of the contemporary video game market is staggering: it is larger than the global film industry, twice the size of the American sports industry, and orders of magnitude larger than the streaming and physical music industry. Games are a medium of entertainment a

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of data visualization and data analysis, how to gain insight from data that drive change in real-world problems. Further, you will learn how to use such insight to tell compelling stories and convey your insights to others. Topics i

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

An overview of literature and films set in Boston from the Colonial Era to the present, i.e. from Phillis Wheatley to Ben Affleck. Our emphasis will be on Boston as a psychic space rather than just a geographic location. What legends or myths about Boston are created, perpetuated

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

According to a 2022 Pew Research Poll, more young Americans have positive views towards Socialism than towards Capitalism. This fits a clear trend as Socialism has become more and more popular as the world gets further from the Cold War. Yet, what exactly is "Socialism," and what

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Aristotle’s Politics argues that debate is the most highly valued political skill because it is through debate that we are able to carry reason into action. Debate is the public vehicle by which we make decisions that impact all members of society. Debates echo in the halls of Co

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Even in the digital age, books continue to be a central part of the college experience, and Boston, a city of universities, libraries, and museums, houses an untold number of them. But while we usually tend to think of books in terms of their contents-Are they science textbooks? Trashy novels? Picture bo

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Cities -says urbanist Jane Jacobs - are by definition full of strangers.Yet we come to them to find and build new social relations - to become neighbors and fellow citizens. Philosophy, too, starts in the city - in the agora (the market or town square). In this course we will exp

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Taylor Swift was just a teenager when she wrote her first hits "Tim McGraw," "Love Story," and "You Belong with Me." Her first label, Big Machine, exerted full control. Back then, the rising star was known for her country sound and signature look: cowboy boots, sundress, red lipstick and, always, a big smile. Almost two decades later the multi-eras artist has traversed m

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Students explore the history of computing and computational devices from ancient to modern times: from the abacus and seashells to supercomputers and cell phones. The course highlights both the t

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Using the current Boston theatre season as its syllabus, this writing- and analysis-intensive course will explore several plays in production at some of Boston's many professional theatres. We will study the script of four to five plays before attending performances of those work

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This seminar will investigate the impact and legacy of the Beatles. The Fab Four deserve our scholarly attention as musical innovators and as cultural avatars of the 1960s, an era that still exerts influence today. We will examine the many ways in which the Beatles rocked the est

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Using excerpted readings from travel texts, histories, and essays from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course will explore the varying descriptions and interpretations of Spain as seen by those traveling through and/or living within its boundaries. From Richard Wrigh

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Once violent conflict between two groups has ended, what is the best way to transition back to normality coming to terms with the past or simply moving on? To answer these questions we will examine the debates surrounding war crime tribunals, truth commissions, lustration policie

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The theatre has always been a metaphor for life. In modern times life has become theatre. This seminar will confront the idea of real life and the eroding boundary between performers and audience. Students will study the roots of the contemporary obsession with stars and stardom,

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course will focus on classic works of ancient and modern literature that examine the human condition from a tragic perspective. We will concentrate on close readings from the following texts: Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Antigone, The Bhagavad-Gita, Shakespeare's Othello, Chekh

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

From some of the earliest examples of what we call science fiction to today's cutting edge writers, artists, and videographers, the devastation of war and other disasters and their aftermath have loomed large in how the future (and alternative versions of the present) plays out.

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This course is about the basketball hoop dream played out at the high school and college levels. We will study a wide variety of materials - novels, films, websites, reference works - to understand both the construction, and destruction, of the hoop dream in such diverse places a

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

How is it that comics, a genre often viewed as entertainment for children and adolescents, has become one of the most exciting forms of narrative and visual art? To answer this question, this seminar will examine a range of graphic novels, from those that celebrate their origins

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Is there a relationship between accumulated political power and mass media representations? Is news content impacted by existing political power relations? It is the object of this course to critically analyze the role of the mass media within the framework of existing political

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

This literature seminar will study and compare the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and Annie Proulx. Beginning with Poe as the father of the short story genre in America and exploring his critical theory of the grotesque and arabesque, the class will examine

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

With a focus on some selected ethnic groups from Asia, Asia in America studies the history and current status of Asian Americans in Boston and other parts of the country. We will examine the major reasons why these immigrants chose to leave their home country as well as their exp

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SF

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

Why did they change the ending of the book? The novel is so much better! We will explore the concept and industry of film adaptation. Students will read novels and watch respective film adaptations to explore how the written word is adapted to the screen; both fiction and non-fic

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com

The EU is a powerful political, economic and cultural block that is meant to play a major role, together with the USA and China, in the creation of a new post-crisis world order. The seminar is intended to cover, at a basic but reachable level, the history, the politics, the culture and the functions of the EU in the beginning of t

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SF

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course

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2025-2026

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suffolk.smartcatalogiq.com