10 USM Core Thematic Clusters: Descriptions, courses, prerequisites (updated April 12 2016) Thematic clusters provide students with opportunities to explore an issue, theme or topic from a variety of perspectives. The clusters encourage students to integrate their learning by juxtaposing competing and complementary ways of framing complex issues and problems at a more advanced level. Satisfying the thematic cluster requirement involves successfully completing any three courses in the cluster, from any two prefixes, and only one course with the same prefix as the student’s major. Students may also complete any minor or a second major in lieu of a cluster. Aging Well The "Aging Well" cluster will provide students with educational experiences that will better prepare students in a variety of majors to meet the needs of an aging society. The nation's Baby Boom generation has just begun to turn 65 and our society is facing an approaching age wave of epic proportions. There will be an increasing need to prepare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to work with and care for this population. Currently the State of Maine and nation as a whole are not prepared to meet the social, physical, and behavioral care needs of people who are elderly. The "Aging Well" cluster will provide USM students with resources needed to assist in their own and other people's aging process. Cluster Course Prerequisites CON 311 Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults none CON 313 Health and Later Years none CON 390 Evaluation and Assessment of Older Adults College Writing or any SOC or PSY course HRD 310 Aging and the Search for Meaning none HRD 312 Spiritual Challenges of Aging none SOC 323 Sociology of Death and Dying Soc 100, Soc 210 PHI 291 Death and Dying Any 100 PHI or EYE PSY 325 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging PSY 101 and 220 or HRD 200 SWO 375 Gender and Aging none NUR 332 Adult/Older Adult Health Nursing NUR 100, 211, 209/210, 212/213, BIO 345, CON 302 STH 315 Introduction to Rehabilitation for Older Adults College writing and any PSY or SOC course. American Society and Culture Cluster course Prerequisites
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Sustainability Prereq: ESP 101/102, ESP 125/126 or
permission
SOC 370 - Sociology of the Environment SOC 100 , SOC 210
ANT 222I – Peoples of the North None
ANT 213 Human Ecology None
ANT/GEO 450 – Ethnoecology: Local
Knowledge for Global Survival Junior standing or permission of instructor
REC 233 Outdoor Recreation None
ECO 326 Environmental Economics ECO 102J or permission
ECO 327 Natural Resource Economics ECO 102J or permission
PHI 212 Environmental Ethics Any 100 PHI or EYE
ECO 335 Political Economy of Food Any 100 ECO and ENG 100 or permission
TAH 231 Sustainability in Tourism and
Hospitality none
Film and Society
This cluster provides an opportunity to study different social, cultural, and historical issues
through the medium of film in a variety of academic disciplines. Courses include film
appreciation, film theory, philosophy of film, different film genres, various national cinemas, and
topics such as women in film, and labor history through film.
Cluster Course Prerequisites
CMS 225 Screenwriting CMS 102 and CMS 103
CMS 284 Film Appreciation College writing
CMS 286 History of International Cinema to
1945
College writing
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CMS 380 Film Genres College writing
CMS 384 Film and Cultural Studies College writing
CMS 394 Theories of Film CMS 284
CMS 484 Topics in Film CMS 102, 103 and 284 and COM/MES major
CMS 486 Women in Film CMS 102, 103 and 284 and junior or senior
standing
CRM 320 Film and Social Order CRM 100 or permission
ENG 347 Topics in Cultural Studies: Stanley
Kubrick
ENG 120
ENG 348 Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies:
Shakespeare and Film
ENG 120
Eng 397 Studies in Irish Literature and
Culture: Irish Film
ENG 120
PHI 221 Philosophy of Film Any PHI 100-level or EYE
PHI 312 Gender in African Lit and Film Any PHI 100-level or EYE
HTY 399 Labor History through Film none
POS 299 American Politics at the Movies none
POS 299 Foreign Policy at the Movies none
RUS 293 Survey of Russian Cinema ENG 100
Geospatial Technologies This cluster of courses provides students with a background in the theory and/or applications of geospatial
technologies. What we now consider routine applications such as Google maps to find street addresses or
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to navigate street networks involve the application of geospatial
technologies; a set of interlinked theories and concepts related to geography, cartography, mapping,
aerial imaging, surveying, and database design. These technologies are used routinely in fields as diverse
as urban and environmental planning, business and marketing, epidemiology, natural resources
management, art, landscape architecture and engineering. Courses within this cluster provide students
with a flavor for this rapidly expanding field and its novel applications.
Cluster course Prerequisites
GEO 208 Cartography I none
GEO 305 Remote Sensing GEO108 or permission of instructor
GEO 308 GIS Applications I one of the following: ESP/GEO 108, GEO 208, GEO 305, GEY
202, GEY 204, GEO/GEY 340, or permission of instructor.
GEY 340 Digital Mapping Prerequisites: introductory course in GEY, GEO, or ESP and
additional 200-level course in any of the above areas.
ART 312 Shaping the Terrain Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
GEO 408 GIS Applications II Prerequisite: GEO 308 or permission of instructor.
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GEO 458 Research Applications in GIS GEO 308.
Health and Wellness
The Health and Wellness cluster will provide USM students with resources needed to support
their own personal efforts to improve their health and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Additionally,
students interested in careers relating to health and wellness will gain knowledge and skills to
assist others in their adoption and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
Cluster course Prerequisites
BUS 201 Personal Finance none
CON 219 Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness None
CON 280 Holistic Health I None
CON 281 Holistic Health II
CON 283 Healing and Spirituality None
PSY 366 Drugs, Mind and Behavior PSY 101J & one semester
of biology
PSY 368 Health Psychology PSY 101
PSY 390 Health Psychology Institute none
SPM 400 Sports Nutrition Symposium None
CON 252 Human Nutrition BIO 211 or SCI 172
CON 270 Holistic Reproductive Health None
CON 314 Wellness Education and Counseling None
SOC 374 Mental Health Soc 100, Soc 210
CON 288 Reiki: Energy Medicine None
CON 490 Therapeutic Touch None
CON 497 Substance Use and Abuse None
Humans and Animals Courses in this cluster are devoted to the theory, history, ethics, practices, and/or policy dimensions of
human/animal relationships. They may include examination of such topics as the following: how the
“animal” has shaped human philosophy; non-human animals and our food system; animals in religion; the
representation of creatures in literature; the role of animals in experimental science; service animals and
disabilities; animal abuse and the law; human/animal studies as a discipline.
Cluster Course Prerequisites
CON 285 Animal Assisted Therapy None
PHI 212 Environmental Ethics Any 100 level PHI or EYE
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CRM 327 Animal Abuse CRM 100 or permission
ENG 347 Animal Studies ENG 145
ENG 319 Topics in Genre and Form: Species, Sex,
Gender and Science Fiction
ENG 145
PHI 290 Problems in Philosophy:
Humans/Animals/Machines
Any 100 level PHI or EYE
Law
This cluster asks students to examine law from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will
learn diverse approaches to reading texts related to the law. The courses are united by the
desire to better understand the meaning of law. What the law intends to do and what it actually
does may be very different.
CMS 498: Freedom of Expression Major + CMS 102 + CMS 103 + CMS 200
CMS 498: Discourse, Communication &
Critical Thinking
CMS 375 + junior
CRM 327 (SOC 380): Animal Abuse CRM 100
CRM 334: Law and State CRM 100
CRM 380 Restorative Justice CRM 100
ENG 305: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Style None
HTY 400: Crime and Punishment in
Latin America
HTY 200 + senior
PHI 245: Africa, Social Justice, and Exile PHI 100 level or EYE
PHI 260: Philosophy of Law PHI 100 level or EYE
POS 280: Issues Before the United
Nations
None
POS 315 Media Law POS 101 or CMS 103
POS 463: Supreme Court and Con Law POS 101
SOC 393: Women, Welfare and the
State
SOC 210 + junior
Leadership
The Leadership cluster is an interdisciplinary introduction geared toward anyone interested in
developing and expanding their leadership knowledge, skills, and practice, meeting head on the
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challenges of our dramatically changing world, and improving the quality and diversity of leadership in
organizations and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. Theories, research and
techniques of group and organizational leadership are examined with an emphasis in linking theory
and practice. As a socially constructed phenomenon, leadership will be explored as an activity and
process, not a position. Required Courses:
1. LOS 300 Organizational Theory
2. Choose any one of the following:
LOS 350 Leadership
LOS 270 Exploring Leadership on Campus, or
Three credit Exploring Leadership Series: LOS 351 Transformational leadership, LOS 352
Servant Leadership, LOS 353 Authentic Leadership
3. Choose one:
SBS 300 Deviance and Social Control
SBS 311 Theories of Personality
HUM 330 Labor, Literature and the Arts
SBS 303 Abnormal Psychology
Course list Prerequisites
HUM 330 Labor, Literature and the Arts Any EYE
LOS 270 Exploring Leadership on Campus none
LOS 300 Organizational Theory none
LOS 350 Leadership none
LOS 351 Exploring Transformational Leadership none
LOS 352 Exploring Servant Leadership none
LOS 353 Exploring Authentic Leadership none
LOS 354 Exploring Complexity Leadership none
LOS 355 Exploring Shared Leadership none
LOS 356 Exploring Followership none
SBS 300 Deviance and Social Control none
SBS 303 Abnormal Psychology none
SBS 311 Theories of Personality none
Media Arts, Technology and Design
A cluster of courses from Digital Art and Design, Media Studies, and Information and
Communication Technologies that offer innovative lectures, critique and analysis components,
and hands-on laboratory experiences.
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Cluster Course Prerequisite
ART 221/ART 222 (new number) Intro to Digital Art Art foundation
ART 321 Exploring Time-Based Art (course name
change)
ART 221
ART 322 Multimedia Applications (COURSE NO
LONGER OFFERED)
ART 221
ART 323 Web Art: Concepts and Construction
(COURSE NO LONGER OFFERED)
ART 221
BUS 377 Information Visualization Various; see Maine Street
CMS 203/204 (formerly 190/191) CMS 102 and 103
CMS 220 Audio I: Radio Production CMS 102 and 103
CMS 320 Topics in Media Production II (all) CMS 102 and 103
CMS 340/341 Field Video Production CMS 203/204
CMS 440/441 CMS 340/341
ITT 231 Technical Visualization none
ITT 241 Info and Communication Tech none
ITT 281 Internet Website Development None ($150.00 course fee)
ITT 343 –Graphic Com Tech none
ITT 342 Digital Publishing Technologies none
ITT 344 Digital Video and Animation Technologies none
MUS 370 Topics in Music Technology (course
replaced with MUS 271 below)
none
MUS 271 Principles of Digital Audio and Music
Production
none
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Modernism This cluster will integrate art, literature, philosophy, history, and science in relation to ) the Modernist
period (roughly late 19th and early 20th centuries), the modernist cultural movements and aesthetic
schools that flourished throughout this period (imagism, cubism, futurism, etc.), and, more generally,
the wide-scale and far-reaching economic, cultural, intellectual, and scientific changes in the West that
gave rise to them: industrialization and urbanization, the rise of mass production in commerce and the
media, the development of new modes of perception, and transformations in conceptions of the self
both as an individual and in relation to groups (racial, national, familial). *ENG courses have a
prerequisite of ENG 100 for non-majors and ENG 245 for majors.
Cluster Course Prerequisites
ENG 391 Modern American Poetry ENG 100, ENG 245*
ENG 394 Studies in American Lit since 1900: American
Modernism
ENG 100, ENG
245
ENG 396 James Joyce ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 383 Harlem Renaissance ENG 100, ENG 245
HTY 374: Photographing American History ENG 100
HTY 394: World's Fairs and Exhibitions HTY 200
ARH 327 Modern Art ARH 112G
ARH 328 Contemporary Art ARH 112
ARH 318 History of Photography ARH 112 or permission
ARH 311 Gender Identity and Modern Art none
PHI 350 Classic American Philosophy Any 100-level Phi
PHI 399 Topics: The Frankfurt School Any 100-level PHI
HON 202 Process, Progress or Permanence none
ENG 321 Modernisms ENG 100 or ENG 245
ENG 390 British Poetry Since 1900 ENG 100, ENG 245
ENG 491/ENG 398 Modernism and WWI/Eliott ENG 100, ENG 245
THE 353 Theater History and Literature III THE 101
HTY 358 Early 20th-Century U.S. History, 1898-1938 HTY 123 or Permission
MUS 220 Twentieth Century Music Music major or permission
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Professional Practices This cluster addresses issues that transcend the particular discipline and span multiple practices that
graduates from various degree programs will engage in while performing in a professional environment.
Cluster course Prerequisites Offering
BUS 200 Introduction to Business Not BUS ACC FIN GMG MKT
majors with fewer than 9
credits and student has not
taken BUS101
annually
BUS 316 Sport Event Management Junior standing annually
BUS 340 Managing Organizational Behavior Junior standing annually
BUS 345 Information Technology/Management
Information Systems
Sophomore standing Every fall and spring
BUS 377 Information Visualization Any Core quantitative
reasoning course
Every spring
BUS 341 New Product Development BUS 260 (C minus or
better) and So standing
Annually
CMS 255 Business and Professional
Communication
none annually
EGN 304 Engineering Economics MAT 152 Calculus A Every other spring
ESP 375 Environmental Risk Assessment and
Management
ESP 101K or ESP 102K,
ESP
203W, or permission of
Every other fall
FIN 320 Financial Management ACC 110 and ( ECO 101 or ECO 102 or EGN 304) and (MAT 210, MAT120, ITP
240, LCC 150,LAC 328,
Every semester
ITP 210 Technical Writing ENG 100C or equivalent Every semester
ITP 230 Project Management None Every semester
ITP 280 Industrial Organization, Management,
and Supervision
None Every spring
ITP 350 Teambuilding and Facilitation None Every semester
ITP 490 Cost Analysis and Control ACC 110 – Financial Accounting and MAT 108
– College Algebra or
Every other spring
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RMI 320 Introduction to Risk Management &
Insurance
Quantitative Reasoning Every semester
TAH 241 Tourism and Community
Development
None Every year
TAH 211 Tourism Product Development none Every year
TAH 311 Event Planning and Management none Every year
ENT 299 Make, Model and Move:
Entrepreneurial Foundations for Creative
Ventures
none Every year
STH 440 Professional Internship Permission of instructor;
NOTE: Students applying
STH 440 toward the Professional Practices
Cluster must complete a
minimum of three credits
with a passing grade.
Credits beyond the
minimum of three do not
apply to the Cluster
requirement.
Every year
Public Health
The Public Health cluster provides students with an introduction to the multitude of public health concerns
facing Maine and the world, and increases their ability to apply pertinent theoretical and practical
knowledge to contribute to a safe and functioning society. Professions that utilize knowledge of public
health include medical and allied health and human services, mental health, gerontology, and child and
family support. Public health approaches address the full spectrum of services, planning and evaluation. The
cluster will also strengthen the pursuit of graduate study in Public Health and Policy.
Choice of three from following list, one of which must be SBS/SCI 336 or SBS/SCI 337 (which may
be registered for under either prefix):
• LOS or SBS 436 Risk, Public Policy, and Society
• SBS 304 Food, Culture and Eating
• SBS 308 Health, Illness, and Culture
• SBS 335 Legal Issues in Health and Human Services (offered every Fall)
SBS or SCI 336 Introduction to Public Health (offered every Fall) SBS or SCI 337 Introduction
to Epidemiology (offered every Spring)
SCI 315 Environmental Health
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Cluster Courses:
Course prefix, number, title
Prerequisites Previous 2 year
schedule
LOS or SBS 436 Risk, Public Policy, and Society none Online Spr 11
SBS 304: Food, Culture and Eating none M 4:00 Sp 11
M 1:00 Fall 12
SBS 308: Health, Illness, and Culture none M 4:00 Sp 12
SBS 335: Legal Issues in Health and Human
Services
none M 5:30 Fall 11
T 5:30 Fall 12
SBS or SCI 336: Intro to Public Health None (Statistics
recommended)
Th 9:00 Fall 11 W
9:00 Fall 12
SBS or SCI 337 Introduction to Epidemiology Recommended: Intro Bio &
Statistics
Th 9:00 Sp12
Th 5:30 Sp 13
SCI 315: Environmental Health LCC 230 Online Sp 12
Religion in Human Culture NOTE: This cluster is no longer being offered. Courses are listed here
for students who began the cluster prior to its elimination. The Religion in Human Culture cluster examines religion as a complex human phenomenon that can be
studied through different disciplinary perspectives. The cluster expands students’ knowledge of
continuity and change in religion across time and place. Courses emphasize the relationships among
religious thought, practice and cultural expression.
Cluster course Prerequisites
ARH 322 Medieval Art History ARH 111
ARH 323 Renaissance Art History ARH 112
ARH 329 Asian Art ARH 112 or permission
HTY 307 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam None
HTY/REL 312 Renaissance and Reformation HTY 101 or permission
HTY 377/ REL 394 Chinese Thought and Buddhism HTY 171 recommended
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PSY 399 Psychology of Religion PSY 101J, PSY 102, PSY 205, and PSY206
REL 200 Humanity’s Spiritual Heritage none
Resilience and Vulnerability
The Resilience and Vulnerability cluster provides students with an introduction to the concept of human
resilience, i.e., the ability to survive and thrive in adverse circumstances, and its contrasting concept,
vulnerability. This cluster will be of interest anyone whose career goals involve working with people but
especially for human services and policy-oriented fields such as psychology, nursing or medicine,
emergency medical response/first responders, public health and policy, and education. Courses in this
cluster are primarily offered through Lewiston Auburn College and on that college’s campus.
Course prefix, number,
title
Prerequisites Previous 2 year schedule
SBS 309 Psychology of
Attachment in Early
Childhood
Recommended: PSY 102, HRD/SBS
200, a course in Child
Development, or SBS 311
Offered annually (however missed in
2012 prior to hiring Reed)
SBS 303 Abnormal
Psychology
None Fall, Spring, and long summer
session
HUM 349 Trauma and
Narrative
Completion of a 100-level College
Writing course (with grade of at
least a C), SOC 100, PSY 101 &
102, and ANT 101)
Adaptation of a course previously
offered biennially. Last offered
Spring 2013; now to be offered
every third semester.
SBS 343 Substance
Abuse
None Spring semesters
SBS 344 Violence:
Causes and Control
None Offered less than annually; to be
offered Fall 2013
SBS 308 Health,
Illness, and Culture
None Offered annually. Last offered
Spring 12; offered Fall 13.
HUM 339 Ethnicity,
Immigration, and
Identity
Completion of College Writing and
Critical Thinking courses with a
grade of C or better.
To be offered once every three
semesters. Last offered Spring 13.
SBS 348 Responding to
Mental Health Crisis in
the Community
None Fall semesters
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HUM 290 Thinking and
Writing, Writing and
Healing
Completion of College Writing and
Critical Thinking courses with a
grade of C or better.
New
SBS 311 Theories of
Personality
None Fall semesters
SBS 367 Healthy Prerequisite: permission of Less than annually. Last offered Fall
Learners instructor. 2011.
SBS 430 Applied
Social Policy
Prerequisites: either LCC 200 or
LCC 370 as well as junior standing
or permission of the instructor.
Every semester and once per
summer
SBS 364 Introduction
to Expressive
Therapies
None Offered annually. Last run Summer
2012.
Resource Use and Global Change The focus of this cluster is human use of essential resources including energy, water, ecosystem, and
mineral resources. Cluster courses examine this theme from science perpectives (quantifying resources,
technologies employed, impacts on ecosystems and climate) and from social science perspectives
(regulating use, equitable distribution, environmental and economic sustainability, impacts of use on
societies). Most students correctly perceive that issues related to this theme are among the most
important of this century.
Cluster course Prerequisites
ESP 275 Energy Use & Societal Adaptation ESP 101/102
ESP 313 Renewable Energy Technologies CHY 113/114, ESP 101/102