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Registration for Summer 2026 opened on Tuesday, March 3.
Registration for Fall 2026 opens on Tuesday, July 7.
CJ 340 SL AI & Cybersecurity (with Mark Beaudry)
This course provides an in-depth understanding of how artificial intelligence and machine learning are
reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. Students will review the foundational concepts, explaining AI and ML’s principles and their transformative potential within various cybersecurity practices.
CJ 340 AL Mass Shootings (with Francis Olive)
This course provides an interdisciplinary analysis of mass shootings, examining their causes, perpetrators, and impact through criminological, psychological, sociological, and policy perspectives. Students will explore historical trends, case studies, shooter profiles, and contributing factors such as radicalization, social media, and firearm access. The course will also discuss prevention strategies, policy responses, and ethical considerations in media coverage.
CJ 340 AL2 Technology in Criminal Justice (with Stephen Morreale)
This course examines how technology has transformed policing and criminal justice operations. Students will analyze the evolution from analog systems (call boxes, radio communication) to today’s digital infrastructure including computer-aided dispatch, mobile data terminals, and real-time crime centers. The course evaluates current investigative technologies—DNA analysis, biometric identification systems, automated license plate readers, body-worn cameras, digital forensics, and social media intelligence—alongside emerging tools such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition, drones, and predictive analytics. Students will critically assess both the operational benefits and ethical implications of these technologies for public safety and civil liberties.
CJ 340 AL3 Animal Cruelty (with Aimee Delaney)
This course will provide students with an examination of the relationship between animal cruelty and criminal justice. Topics will cover crimes against animals and circumstances of criminal/victimization acts involving animal cruelty (such as child abuse, interpersonal violence, and juvenile delinquency). The goal of this course is to offer students a more thorough comprehension of the impact animal cruelty has on the criminal justice system and within society.
CJ 340 AL4 The Psychological Profile and Dynamics of Sex Offenders (with Hyesun Kim)
This course examines theories of sexual offending and the psychological roots of such behavior, with a particular focus on how emotions and mood influence criminal behavior. The course also explores offenders’ motivations and childhood experiences through case studies. By analyzing psychological mechanisms, emotional dynamics, and social contexts, the course provides foundational insights to inform risk assessment, prevention, and effective treatment strategies.
EN 450 AL Contemporary Irish Poetry (with Heather Treseler)
This course will focus on the works of four major Irish poets—since W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922—whose influences have extended beyond Ireland to inspire other poets writing in the wake of colonialism.
After a brief overview of Yeats’s work, we will study poems and essays by Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, investigating the strategies and modes these poets employ to write about various aspects of Irish culture to include this island nation’s rich literary tradition as well as the legacy of British colonialism, religious and Celtic mythologies, agrarian and urban landscapes, and gender politics.
The course includes weekly written lectures and writing prompts; a discussion board (of more formal responses); and a final paper. The instructor offers weekly optional Zoom cafes for additional discussion of the readings and course assignments.
HI 150 AL Spies, Nukes, and Superpower Rivalry (with Michael Gesin)
Step into the thrilling world of the Cold War! Explore secret spy missions, nuclear crises, and the high-stakes power struggles that shaped the modern world. Analyze daring operations, risky diplomacy, and the personalities who pushed the world to the edge. Perfect for students interested in history, politics, and global intrigue.
HI 250 AL World War II (with Noa Shaindlinger)
Contact instructor for course description.
HI 250 AL2 Local History: Theory and Methods (with Joshua Koenig)
This course centers on conducting local and regional historical research. Students will learn how to design community-based research projects, and how to harness resources that are particularly relevant to them, such as: census records, fire insurance maps, municipal archives, online databases, public records, images, artifacts, and recorded interviews. Along the way, students will consider the perils and possibilities of doing local history, and the extent to which successful collaboration can pivot on competing notions of the past.
SO 199 AL Race, Power, and Resistance (with Eirinn-Jingifer Neel)
This course investigates the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of cultural sociology and anti-colonial theory. Students will engage in experiential learning and social action projects to deconstruct institutional racism, systemic privilege, and marginalization. Key topics include media representation, immigration, and the intersection of race with class, gender, and sexuality.
SO 299 AL Sociology of Mental Health (with Corrine Stocking)
BA 482 PL The Business of Sports (with Laurie Dahlin)
This course explores how sports organizations operate as businesses, showing how core concepts such as finance, marketing, operations, and strategy play out in a sports context. Students will examine revenue generation, branding, sponsorship, fan engagement, and resource management, while also considering ethical and economic implications. Case studies and real-world examples illustrate how sports organizations succeed, compete, and impact industries and communities.
BI 401 PL Advanced Statistics for Biologists (with Sebastian Velez)
CJ 340 PL Juvenile Delinquency (with Francis Olive)
This course will provide an introduction, overview, and examination of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system. The course will cover theories of delinquency, analysis of the juvenile justice system, and focus on problems of co-offending and patterns of youth crimes. We will learn several major theories of delinquency and apply these to delinquency today. We will explore juvenile delinquency from a broad perspective that
examines youth cultures, music/style, status offenses, and crime; and consider delinquency in its historical, structural, cultural, and political dimensions. We will study the creation, operation, and reform of the juvenile justice system in the United States, not only as systems of social control, but also as social constructions that reflect dominant images of youth and the place
of youth in society.
CJ 340 PL2 High Profile Crimes (with Penny Martin)
This course will explore a variety of high profile crimes such as domestic terrorism, hate crimes, crimes involving government officials as well as those crimes that impact large numbers of the general population. Both case studies and current events will be reviewed and analyzed as they pertain to public perception, media coverage, policy formation and social change.
EN 450 PL Massachusetts Memoirs (with Heather Treseler)
Massachusetts has been a hive of literary activity since its beginnings, and it remains one of the most educated, literate, and literary states in the nation. This course focuses on memoirs by writers who have written about their lives in Massachusetts and featured its settings in their accounts. Thus, we will consider how the particularities of place—as well as class, gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religious belief—shape representations of identity in the work of contemporary writers Danzy Senna (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?), Isaac Fitzgerald (Dirtbag, Massachusetts), Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors), Caroline Knapp (Pack of Two), and Michael Patrick Fitzgerald (All Souls: A Family Story from Southie). We will also consider excerpts from twentieth-century narratives by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Miriam Levine (Devotion), and Elizabeth Bishop (“The Country Mouse”) that focus on writers’ experiences of Boston and Worcester.
The course includes weekly written lectures and writing prompts; a discussion board (of more formal responses); and a final paper. We will consider theories of autobiographical writing in auxiliary readings in addition to the books listed above, and those will be provided as OER (no-cost open electronic resources). The instructor offers weekly optional Zoom cafes for additional discussion.
HI 450 PL Teaching Women and Gender in Modern Revolutions (with Aldo Garcia-Guevara)
BI 980 BL Bioprocessing (with Maura Collins)
CD 987 EA Pediatric Feeding Disorders (with Laura Melnick)
This course will provide basic information on pediatric feeding disorders including an overview of anatomy, physiology, as well as overview of typical development including breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and transition to solid foods. We will cover evaluation and treatment approaches for infant, toddler, and early childhood populations with a team approach emphasized. We will also include discussion of ethical and cultural issues, analysis of current literature, and clinical application.
ED 971 AL AI in the Classroom: Ethics and Pedagogies (with Amber Vaill)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a commonly used tool in everyday life, and PreK-12 students are actively engaged in using AI to assist them with schoolwork. In this course, we’ll explore ways that educators can thoughtfully integrate AI into teaching and learning. We will examine how generative AI systems work, their limitations and risks, and their potential to support learning when used intentionally. The course will
emphasize pedagogical design, the ethics of AI use, and strategies for helping students develop AI literacy skills that will benefit them in and beyond their educational pursuits.
EN 998 AL Dystopian Literature (with Donald Vescio)
HI 990 AL Local History: Theory and Methods (with Joshua Koenig)
SP 901 AL Love, Nature, and Mythology: Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance (with Antonio Guijarro-Donadios)
This seminar will be devoted to closely reading literary works of Spanish poetry of the 16th century, emphasizing the presence (or lack) of love elements within the Spanish Canon. Texts from poetry will be carefully analyzed, and in studying them serious considerations will be given to matters of both content and structure as well as the relationship between poetry and its historic and cultural determinations. The paintings from the [remastered] exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum are integrated in this course. This class will be conducted in Spanish.
BI 980 PL Programming in R (with Sebastian Velez)
EN 998 PL Creative Nonfiction: Writing to Activate Wellness (with Christina Santana)
This intensive graduate seminar explores creative nonfiction as a bridge between lived experience and public action.
Students begin by writing reflective and research-informed essays that examine questions of wellbeing — burnout, resilience, care, purpose, belonging, energy, compassion, growth, fulfillment, connection, agency, and curiosity — while studying how narrative shapes what we notice, value, and understand about human experience. Using narrative, reflection, and research, writers investigate lived experience without rushing toward conclusions, allowing complexity and perspective to remain visible before experiences are translated into claims or solutions. The first major project is a polished creative nonfiction essay centered on a wellbeing-related question.
Midway through the course, we shift our attention to a broader category of writing used to make collective decision-making possible: grant writing. Such writing emerges when ideas move beyond reflection and must justify action, establish shared criteria, anticipate evaluation, and enable the allocation of time, money, labor, and permission among people who are not already aligned. To make this shift, we’ll translate our narrative insight into applied writing and approach grant writing as strategic storytelling: articulating a vision for wellbeing, identifying need without deficit framing, and proposing sustainable responses grounded in lived experience. The second major project is a well-conceived grant narrative or proposal section developed directly
from the essay’s insight.
By the end of the course, students will understand how writing moves from exploration to coordination, and how grant writing functions as a wellness genre — translating insight about wellbeing into collective action and shared conditions for thriving.
HI 990 PL American Legal History (with Charlotte Haller)
HI 990 PL2 Teaching Women and Gender in Modern Revolutions (with Aldo Garcia-Guevara)
SP 901 PL Latin American Women’s Film and Literature (with Elizabeth Osborne)
This course examines women’s cinema and literature in Latin America and focuses on clusters of texts that reflect and intervene in a number of debates related to gender and feminism, including but not limited to family, maternity, body, sexuality, and violence. The course is organized thematically in order to trace how women’s production within the region reflects local and global political histories and struggles for power. Students will develop their skills in textual analysis grounded in a feminist perspective that takes into account the intersection of a number of identities, such as race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, etc. This class will be conducted in Spanish
CJ 340 EL Crisis Intervention (with Aimee Delaney)
This course focuses on crisis theory and methods of crisis intervention. The course will address specific crises that occur with individuals, families, and community. Topics may include crime and violence, victimization, interventions with children and adolescents, suicide, issues with mental health and drug/alcohol misuse, and death.
CJ 340 EL2 Cyber Intelligence (with Mark Beaudry)
Students identify and apply cyber intelligence methodologies of the global cyberthreat environment. Students focus on criminal behavior, hacker culture, and nation state geopolitical aspects of cyberthreats. Students will conduct analysis of a contemporary topic, exploring cyberthreats in a specific domain to create a cyber intelligence report that integrates the concepts covered in this course.
EN 190 E1 The Horror Story (with Jacqueline Morrill)
EN 190 E2 Creative Nonfiction: Writing to Activate Wellness (with Christina Santana)
This course introduces creative nonfiction as a bridge between lived experience and public action. Students begin by writing reflective and research-informed essays that explore questions of wellbeing—reading and writing about themes such as burnout, resilience, care, purpose, belonging, energy, compassion, growth, fulfillment, connection, agency, and curiosity, among others—while studying how narrative shapes what we notice, value, and understand about human experience. Using narrative, reflection, and research, writers investigate lived experience without rushing toward conclusions, allowing complexity and perspective to remain visible before experiences are translated into claims or solutions.
The first major project is a polished creative nonfiction essay centered on a wellbeing-related question.
Midway through the course, we shift our attention to a broader category of writing used to make collective decision-making possible: grant writing. Such writing emerges when ideas move beyond reflection and must justify action, establish shared criteria, anticipate evaluation, and enable the allocation of time, money, labor, and permission among people who are not already aligned. To make this shift, students will translate narrative insight into applied writing and approach grant writing as strategic storytelling: articulating a vision, identifying need without deficit framing, and proposing responses grounded in lived experience.
The final project is a well-conceived grant narrative or proposal section developed from the essay’s insight.
For the practically minded writer, this course offers an organic introduction to grant writing: writing to secure funding for ideas, projects, and experiences that should exist.
HE 400 EL LGBTQ+ Health & Existence (with Shaylynne Shuler)
HE 400 EL2 Infectious Disease Epidemics (with Elinor Fondell)
SO 299 EL Sex, Identity and Urban Space (with Lihua Wang)
Are you interested in exploring sociological studies on human sexualities? Sex, Identity and Urban Space uncovers how social forces shape our sexual lives and identities. Using American and European case studies, we will also explore contemporary issues, including the experiences of sex workers, LGBTQ communities during COVID-19, and the emerging impacts of artificial intelligence on sexual and gender diversity.
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December 2, 2025 Spring registration opens
January 15, 2026 Older Student Registration for Spring 2026
January 20, 2026 Spring 2026 classes begin
February 2, 2026 Last day to add/drop Continuing Education and Graduate Classes (100% online accelerated graduate programs do not have an “add” option)
March 3, 2026 Summer 2026 registration begins
April 1, 2026 Last day to withdraw from Continuing Education/Graduate classes
April 8, 2026 Last day to elect pass/fail grading option for Continuing Education/Graduate classes
May 4, 2026 Last day of classes for Spring 2026
May 22, 2026 Final grades for Spring 2026 due in the Registrar’s Office
February 16, 2026 Presidents’ Day: No classes/ University closed
March 16 – 20, 2026 Spring Break: No classes
April 20, 2026 Patriots’ Day: No classes/ University closed
March 3, 2026 Summer registration opens
May 14, 2026 Older Student Registration for Full Summer and Summer I 2026
May 18, 2026 Full Summer and Summer I 2026 classes begin
May 26, 2026 Last day to add/drop Summer I classes
June 1, 2026 Last day to add/drop Full Summer classes
June 5, 2026 Last day to withdraw or elect pass/fail grading option for Summer I
July 5, 2026 Summer I classes end
July 7, 2026 Fall 2026 registration begins
July 9, 2026 Older Student registration for Summer II
July 13, 2026 Final grades for Summer I due in the Registrar’s Office Summer II classes begin
July 17, 2026 Last day to withdraw from Full Summer classes
July 21, 2026 Last day to add/drop Summer II courses
July 24, 2026 Last day to elect pass/fail grading option for Full Summer classes
July 31, 2026 Last day to withdraw or elect pass/fail grading option for Summer II classes
August 30, 2026 Last day of classes for Full Summer and Summer II classes
September 7, 2026 Final grades for Full Summer and Summer II due in the Registrar’s Office
May 25, 2026 Memorial Day: No classes/ University closed
June 19, 2026 Juneteenth: No classes/ University closed
July 4, 2026 Independence Day: No classes/ University closed
July 6 – 12, 2026 Full Summer Break: No classes
