Adult Noncredit Programs

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.

COM 3120 / noncredit / $520
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Brian Maston
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:30pm

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Offers hands-on tools to prepare students to market their work while staying true to their artistic and creative sensibilities. Topics include how to submit work to producers, competitions, and companies. Students learn how to write professional synopses, query letters, and one-sheets, plus the technique of pitching, with practice pitching sessions.

COM 3701 / noncredit / $320
Lecture, Online-Synchronous
Instructor: Susan Kouguell
March 13 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 8:30 – 10:10am

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Classical ballet course designed especially for students in all disciplines.

DPB 1060 / noncredit / $260
Studio, Traditional
Instructor: Joseph Malbrough
Location: Dance Building, room 1023
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:00pm

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Students delve into courting, accessing, and developing creativity, imagination, and innovation through whole-body fluidity. Several creative processes are explored, such as choreography, voice, and movement into text and movement; poetry in motion; writing; acting; and becoming aware of presence and how to embody it in a wide range of performance and life circumstances.

DPM 1552 / noncredit / $180
Studio, Hybrid
Instructor: Melanie Noblit-Gambino
Location: Dance Building, room 1045
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:00pm

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Discover New Way Vogue, a core conditioning warm-up and stretch series will prep the body to Vogue. Arms control will be a main element with a focus on precision work to create lines, shapes, and face-framing movements with the arms. Students will emulate the poses of models from the eponymous fashion magazine while incorporating duck walks and dips.

DPM 1170 / noncredit / $260
Studio, Traditional
Instructor: Jason Rodriguez
Location: Dance Building, room 1001
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:00pm

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Acquaints students and environmental professionals with basic domestic and international environmental regulations and policies used by enforcement/regulatory agencies and donor/lender institutions. Specific federal acts include NEPA, Clean Air, Clean Water, RCRA, Superfund/CERCLA, TSCA, and FIFRA.

ENV 3300 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Ryan Taylor
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:10pm

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Jewish individuals have had a major impact on modern music, including musical theatre, jazz, pop, rock, and more. The course covers a wide array of music from Drake to Bob Dylan to Sondheim and explores some of the most important musical innovations in North American music. By tracing historical trajectories that brought Jewish approaches to music from Europe to America in the twentieth century, we will examine the complexities of Jewish culture as a case study in the formation of modern American identity and how these identities are reflected in music. The ability to read music is welcome but not required for this course.

HIS 2150 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Jon Salamon
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:50pm

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Explore urban life in early modern Europe focusing on social history and how people of different backgrounds (e.g., gender, religion, and class) experienced urban life. Themes include community politics, women and work, family life, migration, culture and festivals, crime and punishment, and universities. Case studies include Venice, Rome, London, Amsterdam, Prague and Geneva.

HIS 3232 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Patrick Holt
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays, 6:30 – 10:10pm

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An exploration of literary translation for the contemporary moment. Students learn the basics of literary translation craft. Knowledge of languages other than English is not required for this course. Readings include Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Purgatorio, Cecilia Rossi’s translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, and Victor Montejo’s translations of Jakaltek Mayan folktales. Students develop their own literary translations.

LAC 3450 / noncredit / $625
Seminar, Hybrid
Instructor: Carlie Hoffman
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays, 12:30 – 2:10pm

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Housing is a basic necessity of life yet the most costly expenditure for most U.S. households. It configures the well-being of individuals and families in fundamental ways, affecting everything from daily quality of life to (in)equality of opportunity. Students examine the sociopolitical and cultural implications of housing for individuals, families and communities, with a view toward sustainable living.

LBS 3022 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Leandro Benmergui
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Wednesdays, 5:00 – 8:20pm

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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.

MPE 1050 / noncredit / $320
Studio, Traditional
Instructor: Albert Rivera
Location: Music Building, room 0086
January 22 – May 17
Mondays, 12:30 – 1:50pm

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A continuation of MTH 4120. Cool, mainstream, progressive/free jazz, rhythm and blues, country and western, Broadway, rock ’n’ roll, reggae, soul and Motown, fusion, disco, punk, metal, and hip-hop. Analysis and performance.

MTH 4130 / noncredit / $320
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Jonathan Jetter
Location: Music Building, room 1002
January 22 – May 17
Mondays, 6:30 – 8:20pm

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Close readings of four or five major philosophers from the modern period (e.g., Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant). Issues and supplementary readings may vary each semester.

PHI 2110 / noncredit / $625 
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Jennifer Uleman
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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What is gender? What is power? What tools do we have for understanding and addressing gender injustice? This course employs philosophical, feminist, and queer theory to address these and related questions.

PHI 2500 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Alex Stamson
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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Investigates today’s dramatically escalating codependence between humans and technology. How do “smart” technologies affect our moral, spiritual, and political experiences? What roles do such technologies play in the evolving ecology of a planet that is a hybrid of human and nonhuman things? Can machines become conscious? Might machines achieve personhood? Readings from earlier modern and more recent philosophical and science fiction writers.

PHI 2640 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Casey Haskins
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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A study of thinkers who challenged accepted notions of reason and selfhood and, in doing so, helped shape the intellectual life of our present century. Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are some of the thinkers studied.

PHI 3212 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Casey Haskins
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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Students learn a vast array of dance fundamentals as well as communication and cooperation skills used to lead and follow in a dance. Styles include salsa, merengue, bachata, tango, and swing. World dance styles are compared and contrasted while increasing stamina and fitness levels. Students also explore the history of the international music and dance styles that are used during class.

PED 1435 / noncredit / $320
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Suzannah Kincannon
Location: Physical Education Building, room 2008
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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Tone up, slim down, and improve your cardiorespiratory (aerobic) fitness with aerobic routines and healthy eating habits. Students work toward individualized fitness and weight goals under the guidance of the instructor and learn to identify and change unhealthy eating habits. Techniques for managing weight and stress associated with eating problems are also covered. A textbook and lectures supplement the aerobic exercise program.

PED 1525 / noncredit / $320
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Francesca Levine
Location: Physical Education Building, room 2001C
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am – 12:10pm

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Covers the various aspects of both skin and scuba diving and prepares students for PADI certification, including getting ready for the deep dive requirement. Upon completion of the course, students can make arrangements for the deep dive and PADI certification with the instructor.

PED 1120 / noncredit / $355 
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Ben Recher
Location: Physical Education Building, room 1018
January 22 – May 17
Saturdays, 1:00 – 5:00pm

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This course will offer students an opportunity to learn and enjoy salsa dance. Salsa dance originated in Cuba with Spanish, Caribbean and African influences. It is an energetic social dance and one of the most popular and beautiful of the Latin partner dances. It is easy to learn and is danced worldwide. Through two weekly sessions, students will learn to salsa dance with a partner.

PED 1355 / noncredit / $320
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Suzannah Kincannon
Location: Physical Education Building, room 2008
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 12:30 – 2:10pm

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Develops aquatic skills and basic knowledge of safety and accident prevention in the aquatic environment. Skills include preventive lifeguarding, emergency action planning, aquatic facility management, and preparation of records and reports. Qualified students receive Red Cross Lifeguard Training Certification.

PED 1000 / noncredit / $365
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: TBA
Location: Physical Education Building, room 1018
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am –1 2:10pm

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Students bring their screenwriting to a professional level by learning the deep anatomy of the scene. Students look at their writing from the perspective of the director and learn to craft scenes that have what these collaborators look for in a text. Whether writing for film or television (or theater), well-crafted scenes are essential for a script directors will want to direct, and actors will want to act. Students practice the director’s craft by realizing their own original scene on digital video, giving them new insight into the writing process. The aspects of directing, producing, casting, editing and other areas are also essential for writers interested in one day becoming showrunners or making their own work.

PSW 3230 / noncredit / $625
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Dean Bell
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 10:30am –1 2:10pm

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In this course, the intra- and extra-personal causes of stress are identified, and a variety of assessment instruments are demonstrated and used. The consequences of stress are examined from several physiological and cognitive perspectives. A catalog of effective, direct, and palliative coping strategies is offered so that students can develop personalized stress-management programs.

PSY 2755 / noncredit / $520
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Christopher Williams
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays, 6:30 – 9:00pm

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Explore improvisation and performance techniques through the practical study of theatre games as developed by Viola Spolin in her seminal book, “Improvisation for the Theater.” Students study this text and practice Spolin’s games and those in her lineage as an introduction to improvisation, leading to longer-form exercises which culminate in an improvised performance at the end of the semester.

THP 1100 / noncredit / $520
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Steve Gomer
Location: Humanities Building, room 1030A
January 22 – May 17
Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:30 – 11:50am

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Students create original stories from various sources of inspiration and gain the theatrical tools to tell them. The course focuses on ensemble creation and covers such areas as mime, heightened character, tréteaux, soundscapes, and object manipulation. Requirements include performing, directing, writing, and making props. Designed to help students get in touch with their creative side in a supportive group atmosphere. A background in performance/high school theatre is beneficial but not required.

THP 3004 / noncredit / $520
Lecture, Traditional
Instructor: Linda Gelman
Location: CMFT Building, room 1031
January 22 – May 17
Wednesdays, 3:00 – 6:20pm

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How do we create meaningful writing for an online readership that scrolls quickly and relies less on the printed page than any other generation? Students will write essays, features, and criticism and identify online publications that suit each project, while guest lecturers offer insight on engaging social media to share reported stories. Students co-edit Expose, Purchase’s online expository writing magazine.

WRI 1200 / noncredit / $625
Discussion, Traditional
Instructor: Amy Beth Wright
Location: TBA
January 22 – May 17
Mondays and Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:10pm

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