Fall 2026: Explore a new subject—noncredit undergraduate courses are open for registration.
Communications
Noncredit
An interdisciplinary (social science and humanities) course that emphasizes critical thinking in understanding the social and historical effects of mass media in the U.S. and throughout the world. This course begins in 19th-century America, when print media shaped and defined the national culture, and concludes in the current century with the mass-media convergence of print, electronic, and digital multimedia that is shaping and defining our global culture.
Term Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Zechowski, Sharon
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq:
Cost: $625
History
Noncredit
An introductory survey of the history of Latin America from colonial times to the present. Topics include geography, indigenous peoples, colonization and nation formation, society, politics, economy and culture of contemporary Latin America, and its place in today’s world.
Term Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Benmergui, Leandro
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Noncredit
Introduces systems of health and medicine in the European Middle Ages, elite learned traditions taught in universities, and everyday approaches to wellness. Sources for medieval medicine include religious and academic texts, household accounts and even charms, and are used to explore how people managed their health, practiced medicine, and dealt with challenges ranging from treatments to bubonic plague.
Term Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Schultz, Jenna
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Noncredit
This course retraces the history of Europe’s multicultural present. Students excavate aspects of Europe’s colonial and postcolonial past and explore how migration from within and beyond Europe has transformed concepts of national citizenship and European identity in recent decades. In so doing, students are equipped to reexamine concepts of race and ethnicity and models of multiculturalism that have been developed in the US context.
Term Dates: Monday, June 1 - Friday, June 26
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Bailey, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Literature
Noncredit
Concise and focused, the short story has been a lens through which Americans have explored their identities. Stories written in the last 25 years examine the changing sense of what being an American means.
Term Dates: Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 31
Meeting Times:
Instructor: Espaillat, Shinelle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Philosophy
Noncredit
A critical introduction to major Asian philosophical systems, including Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Particular attention is given to core themes in traditional texts and later commentaries pertaining to metaphysical questions about the nature of reality, epistemological questions about the sources of knowledge, ethical questions about virtuous conduct and the good life, and aesthetic questions about art and beauty.
Term Dates: Monday, August 24 - Friday, December 11
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 04:30 PM-06:10 PM
Instructor: Tian, Chuyu
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Noncredit
Examines how philosophical ideas about beauty, ancient and modern, continue to inspire fresh debates about artistic, moral, and political life. Key questions include: Is there a single universal standard of beauty, or are all such standards “relative”? Must good art always be beautiful? Why do disagreements about standards of beauty so often become fiercely political? Examples are drawn from the arts and from students’ personal experiences.
Term Dates: Monday, August 24 - Friday, December 11
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 12:30 PM-02:10 PM
Instructor: Haskins, Casey
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Noncredit
An examination of the deep relationships—metaphysical, ethical, and spiritual—between human beings and all other nonhuman species and ecosystems in the natural world. Key questions include: What does it mean, metaphysically, to say that humans are (or are not) “part of nature”? Do humans have duties towards nonhuman species? Do any nonhuman species have rights? When do ecological philosophies become politically controversial? Readings from selected contemporary and traditional philosophers and environmental thinkers.
Term Dates: Monday, August 24 - Friday, December 11
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM
Instructor: Haskins, Casey
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq:
Cost: $625
Register Now to Secure your seat!
In addition to the tuition, there is a $25 nonrefundable registration fee paid once per semester. Refund Policy
Explore more Humanities courses with our online partners.
Master the full fiction craft stack—character, plot, POV, setting, dialogue, pacing, voice, theme, and revision—then learn the business of writing (formatting, queries, and targeting agents/publishers) to graduate with a polished, submission-ready short story or novel excerpt.
Fiction Writer Course - 100 Course Hours
Introduction to Guitar - 6 week access 24 Course Hours