Adult Noncredit Programs

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This introductory survey provides an overview of creative industries and management theory and principles common in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors, preparing students for upper-level courses in the arts management program. Topics include history of arts management, arts and creativity, leadership and management, business structures, programming, marketing, funding, finance and budgeting, arts advocacy, activism and social justice.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Astor, Janis
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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To do more than survive in a competitive economy, artists and their managers must learn business strategies for the financial side of their profession. Students are introduced to the basics of budgets, financial management, and accounting concepts that translate into usable information with practical significance for financial decision-making.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Perlove, Eh-Den
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $725

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An introduction to fundamental legal and business concepts that affect artists and arts managers, with an emphasis on copyright protection and infringement. Students learn the basics of copyright and contract law, analyzing both contracts and case law relevant to the creative industries. Additional course topics include privacy, defamation, moral rights, and free speech protection.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Berglas, Lawrence
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq: AMG1100 Or LEG1520
Cost: $625

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Social media is integral to effective business communication and marketing. Students develop and analyze social media strategies, content and campaigns while gaining a better understanding of how to build individual and organizational brands utilizing social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. Other topics include influencer campaigns, budgeting, analytics, and split testing.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Davies, Annette
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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The major fields of interest and contributions of social and cultural anthropologists. Accounts of life in different societies are read to illustrate how institutions vary in different cultural settings and to explore what it means to be a member of a culture different from one’s own.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Muller, Sean
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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Introduction to the organ systems of the human body, including the neuromuscular, skeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and digestive systems. The physiological mechanisms of adaptation to exercise are also considered.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Carmona, Naydu
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
The principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include the development of an atomic/molecular model, stoichiometry, interaction of light with matter, and the physical behavior of solids, liquids, and gases.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM in Social Sciences 1038
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: MAT1150 Or MAT1500
Cost: $625

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Noncredit
A continuation of CHE 1550. Topics include chemical kinetics and equilibrium, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, acids and bases, and the chemistry of representative elements..

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM in Social Sciences 1038
Instructor: Sabatini, Joshua
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: CHE1550 And (MAT1150 Or MAT1500 )
Cost: $625

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Noncredit
An understanding of scientific principles is essential for an educated and engaged citizenry. This course investigates the substance and process of modern science and its role in society, including the scientific method and nature of scientific inquiry; scientific principles, analysis, and critical thinking; sources of scientific information, critical reading, and evaluation of authenticity; and distinguishing science from pseudoscience. Each course section focuses on a different topic or theme and considers some of the important scientific issues of our times. The discussion is required.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Bellevue, Frank
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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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 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Zechowski, Sharon
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
Negotiation is approached from a communication perspective in this course. Students explore the cooperative decision-making process in which individuals and groups work together to attempt to achieve goals that may initially seem divergent. By examining the way language is used to frame arguments and barriers, students practice planning, reframing, and bargaining to maintain roles and relationships.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Maston, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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Investigates celebrity culture through the lens of advertising and public relations. Particular attention is paid to how celebrity culture is created and shaped by various forms of media, ranging from print to social media platforms. Students consider the ways celebrities create change and consider their impact on public and private lives.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Davies, Annette
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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Noncredit
Throughout the history of cinema, the comedy film has been one of the most financially profitable genres, producing some of the biggest movie stars. Topics include various comedy film styles and performers, and the role of the comedy film genre within the context of world history, especially during darker periods like the Depression and World War II.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Marine, Samantha
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Examines the elements and messages in sports films that make people cheer for the underdog and care about teams, players, and sports. Using both big-budget Hollywood films and documentaries with a small scope, this course explores the ideas of team, sport, and athletics and investigates the grip that sports have on American culture.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Paccione, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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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 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Espaillat, Shinelle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Students explore the source, fate and effect of contaminants on wildlife, along with what we can do to help through education, science and policy. Through the pairing of introductory ecotoxicological concepts with key case studies, this course spans political, scientific, and public relations realms and teaches the importance of being good global stewards of the environment.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Jackson, Allyson
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $325

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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, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Schultz, Jenna
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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European cultural and intellectual history are examined by focusing on three “storm centers of modern culture”: Paris in the 1860s and 1870s, fin de siècle Vienna, and Berlin in the 1920s. Topics include representations of bourgeois society in art and literature; psychoanalysis; and the auditory and visual revolution in mass culture produced by film, radio, photography, and recorded sound.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Bailey, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Students learn basic concepts in quantitative reasoning (number systems, data manipulation, basic statistics), with emphasis on problem solving using computational methods. This course uses a textbook and focuses on applications related to consumer issues to develop computational and problem-solving skills. Students learn to transform data into information and apply quantitative methods to evaluate information and solve real-world problems.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: McMullen, Barbara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Prepares students with limited backgrounds in high school mathematics for calculus. Topics include absolute values and inequalities, the properties of functions, graphs, logarithms, fractional exponents, and trigonometry.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Roberts, Nicholas
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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A continuation of MAT 1500. Topics include differentiation and integration of logarithmic, exponential, and inverse trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; arc length; infinite series; and improper integrals. Applications include work, growth, and decay problems and volumes of solids of revolution.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Monday, July 28
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Instructor: Anderson, Alan
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq: MAT1500
Cost: $625

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Noncredit
Statistics are used everywhere in the modern world. This course covers descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, methods of dispersion, and graphs; and inferential statistics, including normal distributions and hypothesis testing, Pearson correlation, and linear regression.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Monday, July 28
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Instructor: McMullen, Barbara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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An introduction to the techniques, current practices, and history surrounding digital photography. Editing techniques are covered, with attention to image manipulation using Adobe Photoshop and RAW files. Composition, lighting, point of view, and use of narrative are explored. A digital camera is required; cameras may be borrowed, as available, from Campus Technology Services. Students may not earn credit for both PHO 1100 (offered by the School of Art+Design) and PHO 1101.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Mesa-Pelly, Deborah
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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Lecture course for students of both biological and physical science, as well as students of the humanities or social sciences with a background in high school physics or chemistry. Topics include kinematics, Newtonian dynamics, work and conservation of energy, mass-energy relationships, the laws of thermodynamics, and the kinetic properties of matter.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri @ 04:00 PM-06:30 PM in Social Sciences 2004A
Instructor: Dwyer, Helen
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: MAT1150 Or MAT1500
Cost: $625

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A continuation of PHY 1510. Topics include electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, optics, and some ideas from modern physics.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
Meeting Times: Mon Tue Wed Thu @ 09:00 AM-12:10 PM in Social Sciences 2004A
Instructor: Glazenburg, Zhanna
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: PHY1510
Cost: $625

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A survey of major political upheavals and belief systems that have shaped and shaken the modern world. In addition to the origins, social foundations, and variants of liberalism, socialism, communism, anarchism, fascism, and feminism, discussions include examples of anti-imperialist, antiracist, and nationalist movements and ideologies from Third World countries and ethnic minorities in the West.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Galloway, Samuel
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Empirical and theoretical approaches to the basic physiological, cognitive, and social mechanisms underlying behavior. Topics include learning and conditioning; sensation and perception; memory, thinking, and language; psychological development; social processes; and personality and psychopathology.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Williams, Christopher
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Students study classic experiments and contemporary research in the areas of conformity, obedience, helping behavior, attributions, aggression, persuasion, close relationships and attraction, attitudes and social influence, ethics, and prejudice. This material is applied to both current and historical examples in social research.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Carnevale, Jessica
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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An examination of the biological processes by which the sensory systems pick up information from the environment and the psychological processes by which that information is coded, transformed, and integrated to form perceptions. Emphasis is on the visual systems and visual perception. Aspects of perception in the visual arts and music are also discussed.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Clarke, Jason
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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The interventions suggested by the biopsychosocial model and mind-body paradigm are examined. Topics include health behavior, social learning theory, attribution theory, and attitude formation as they apply to problems like health promotion, disease prevention, reactions to illness, management of chronic and terminal illnesses, and adherence to treatment regimens. Methods of evaluation of clinical services are addressed.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Carnevale, Jessica
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq: PSY1530
Cost: $625

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Starts with an examination of various criteria for and precursors of language. Students read and analyze studies of children’s first words, early syntactical development, speech play, metaphor, storytelling, and bilingualism.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Toskos, Alexia
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq: PSY1530
Cost: $625

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An introduction to sociological thinking and to key concepts in sociology. Attention is given to social life, inequality, movements, action, change, institutions, and contemporary social issues.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Moore, Lisa Jean
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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An examination of the state of race relations in the United States and other industrialized nations. Topics include racial and ethnic stratification, systems of oppression, mechanisms for integration, pluralism, assimilation, and racial politics.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Ward, Sophia
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520

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For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written Spanish by involving the student in situations that concretely represent the concepts of the language.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Gondra, Ager
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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A continuation of SPA 1010. Increased time is devoted to reading and writing. Development of oral skills remains the primary objective of the course.

Term Dates: Monday, July 7 - Friday, August 1
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Instructor: Gondra, Ager
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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Discover how to bring your stories to life using the latest artificial intelligence tools and interactive media. The course focuses on narrative design and methods to enhance live performances through various forms of interactive media. It offers an introduction to production with a 21st-Century toolset or audience immersion and interactivity, taking a design-based approach to content creation.

Term Dates: Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 27
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Instructor: Bassuk, David
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625

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