January Term 2010
Term dates:
January 4 through January 22, 2010.
Registration dates: October 7 through December 23, 2009.
The College of Liberal Arts is offering a variety of online courses for the new January term. These virtual courses can be taken from any location, as long as you have access to a computer and the internet. All of the following courses are online courses, with the exception of the EDUC courses, which are hybrid courses:
CMN 455: Introduction to Media Studies
Instructor:
Michael Albrecht
4 credits, group 7 gen ed
This course explores the nature, development, and the effects of mass media, and provides an overview of mass communication history and theory. This is an online course.
EDUC 700/800A: Educational Structure & Change
Instructor:
Virginia Garland
4 credits
To assume leadership roles, beginning teachers need to develop an informed understanding of how they can operate effectively as decision-makers and agents of change within educational institutions. Such understanding entails knowledge of the politics, history, organization, and function of schools from a variety of viewpoints--historical, sociological, political and cross-cultural. Course options in this area focus on the structure of public education, on the nature of educational change, and the teacher's role in the change process. This is a hybrid course: some class sessions will be held online and others will require in-person meetings. Please see the registration website for details.
EDUC 797/897: “How Old Are you?” Studies in the Social Construction of Adolescence in Education (new course!)
Instructor:
Paula Salvio
4 credits
Who is this curious person we call the adolescent? What does it mean for a high school student to be ‘at risk’ or in need of remediation? Since the late 19th century, adolescents have been an intensely scrutinized group in the United States and abroad. The stereotypic image of youth and of adolescence as a loud, edgy, rebellious, confused embodiment of a temporary, yet unruly stage of life between childhood and adulthood has long dominated educational policy, curricula, and the Juvenile Court, each of which is steeped in interests of containment, punishment and interventions. This is a hybrid course: some class sessions will be held online and others will require in-person meetings. Please see the registration website for details.
GEOG 402: Regional Geography of the Non-Western World
Instructor:
Joel Hartter
4 credits, group 5 gen ed
In this course, students study the major culture areas of the non-Western world and the unique interaction of human and physical phenomena that produces the distinctive character of these areas. The course emphasizes the manner in which people of different cultures have made use of opportunities and solved problems existing in the major regions occupied by non-Western cultures: the Middle East and North Africa, Africa south of the Sahara, Oriental Asia and the Pacific Islands. This is an online course.
HIST 497: Medieval History in Film: Explorations in Historical Perspectives (new course!)
Instructor:
David Bachrach
4 credits, group 4 gen ed
This interdisciplinary course considers medieval European history through the comparative lenses of film, contemporary sources, and scholarly literature. Five film treatments of medieval history will be paired with contemporary sources. Students will explore authorial bias, narrative arcs, and scene-setting within a larger discussion of source criticism and the epistemology of historical knowledge. This course provides an entry point into the questions that historians ask about their sources, and the process of “producing” history, but also asks what differences there are between fictional depictions of the past, and efforts to “get it right.” This is an online course.
JUST 695: Beyond The Wire: Current Issues in Criminal Law & Procedure (new course!)
Instructor:
Charles Putnam
4 credits
This course provides an introduction and overview of criminal justice system for students in the humanities and social sciences. The course will use a distance education model, requiring students to invest significant amounts of time and effort outside of “class” activities to master the salient concepts presented in the course. The course focuses on the criminal justice system from the perspective of the law and legal procedure. It will provide students with a thorough introduction to the major legal categories of crime. The course will also provide students with an understanding of the importance and role of procedural law through an exploration of current issues and controversies. From time to time the course will touch upon comparative views of other legal traditions. Class discussions, readings and assignments will frequently use current New Hampshire law and criminal cases as points of reference. Although emphasizing course readings and lectures JUST 595 will also require students to address course concepts through Socratic style discussion, written assignments and class discussions. This is an online course.
LLC 642/842: Theory and Practice of Translation
Instructor: Marco Dorfsman
4 credits
This course is designed both as an introduction to various theories and philosophies of translation and as an intensive workshop on different types of translation (literary, technical, professional, business and health related, etc.). Translation is both a simple matter of transferring content and an intensely complex process of adapting linguistic, tonal, and cultural components of communication. The course will work extensively on the craft of translation while developing detailed analyses of the theoretical and philosophical implications of the choices made. Students complete various translation exercises and develop a significant final project. It is open to students at different levels of language ability but requires at least an intermediate competency. Students will work at their own level. Taught in English. This is an online course.
PHIL 424: Science, Technology, and Society
Instructor:
Val Dusek
4 credits, group 8 gen ed
This course considers the scientific endeavor and its social import from a philosophical perspective. This is an online course.
POLT 401: Politics and Society
Instructor:
Marla Brettschneider
4 credits, group 8 gen ed
This course introduces the nature of politics and political institutions. It emphasizes political behavior and continuing issues of modern politics, such as power, authority, legitimacy, freedom, and order. This is an online course.
POLT 568: Introduction to Intelligence
Instructor:
Andrew MacPherson
4 credits
The course explores the purpose and practice of intelligence in the national security process. Its concentration is on the role of intelligence in the United States involving the C.I.A., military intelligence agencies, and the practice of intelligence in other countries. Writing intensive. This is an online course.
POLT 907: Legal and Policy-Making Environment on Public and Non-Profit Sectors
Instructor:
Melvin Dubnick
3 credits
This course explores its subject through the use of case studies, analysis and assessment of legal, institutional, social, political and economic settings within public and non-profit sectors. This is a virtual course that can be taken from off-campus locations. This is an online course.
SOC 502: Statistics
Instructor:
Catherine Moran
4 credits, group 2 gen ed
This course covers elementary applied statistical techniques; tables, graphs, cross-classifications; central tendency and dispersion; correlation and linear regression; and confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. No credit for students who have completed ADM 430, BIOL 528, ADMN 420, EREC 525, HHS 540, MATH 439, MATH 539, MATH 644, PSYC 402, but petitions for acceptance of such courses to fulfill the sociology major requirement in statistics will be entertained. This is an online course.
THDA 450: History of Musical Theatre in America
Instructor:
Matt Nesmith
4 credits, group 6 gen ed
This is an introductory online course designed to enhance students' enjoyment and understanding of musical theatre. Course content and internet exploration as well as play attendance are designed to acquaint students with and nurture an appreciation for musical theatre. This course is intended for introductory students of all majors who are interested in studying musical theatre elements, styles, and significance. This is a 400-level course which is reflected in the assignments and pace of the course. This is an online course.
THDA 632: Bringing Shakespeare to Life: Interpretation of Shakespeare in the Theatre
Instructor:
David Richman
4 credits
Shakespeare, named the Man of the Millennium, has long led a double life. He has delighted and deeply moved millions of readers for hundreds of years, but like all working playwrights, he wrote principally to be performed. This course will introduce students to the rewarding and subtle art of lifting Shakespeare's plays off the page and giving them full and vibrant life on the stage. Questions we consider will include: How do performers most effectively speak his words? How do the bodies of performers move, hurtle through space, become still and rapt, as they speak those lines? The course will explore half a dozen plays for the myriad possibilities for performance implicit in each. In addition, students will watch clips of performances and read reviews. The course has no prerequisites; it may not be taken for major credit by theatre majors. This is an online course.
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