Summer 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.
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Instructor: Zechowski, Sharon
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
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.
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Instructor: Benmergui, Leandro
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
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.
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Instructor: Bailey, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
History
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.
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Instructor: Schultz, Jenna
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
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.
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Instructor: Espaillat, Shinelle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
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Use the online registration form below to choose your course, and the credit card authorization form to submit payment. Credit card authorization form can be submitted with online registration form or may be submitted by mail, in-person or using the secure document upload below.
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