Winter Session

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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Davies, Annette
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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Audiences are an integral, but often overlooked community in the arts, heritage, and cultural sectors. Who are audiences? And what are their roles as participatory and receptive agents of arts and culture? Coursework includes theories and methods of audience research, including hands-on data collection and reporting. For the final, students design and conduct an evaluation for a cultural organization.

Dates: Tuesday, December 9 - Sunday, December 28
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Instructor: Forstrom, Melissa
Type of Instruction: Overseas Purchase
Credits: 3

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Marine, Samantha
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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The roles and theories of communication and leadership, together with the skills and traits of effective managers, are studied. Students examine how managers use behavioral modification and motivation techniques, develop coaching skills, manage change and conflict, and create a vision for their employees. The topics of strategy, organizational culture, and diversity are also included.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Maston, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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Television is much more than a passive, incessant means of diversion—it is a powerful environment of ideas, emotions, and values that influences people’s thoughts, actions, and relationships. Students become acquainted with current issues concerning television in society and explore the impact of television on society. Aspects examined include the 1950s and mass culture, viewer response, serial/episodic structure, and the rise of cable.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Resnick, Adam
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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An examination of the “middle genre,” encompassing the novella and the short novel. Readings provide ample opportunity to sample works embodying the intensity of short fiction and some of the expanded characterization and plot development of the novel. Readings include works by several significant 19th- and 20th-century authors from many countries.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Espaillat, Shinelle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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Examines how war changed gender relations in 20th-century Europe. For instance, how did mobilization reinforce or undermine masculine and feminine norms? How did total wars that blurred the line between fighting front and home front challenge notions of chivalry and turn noncombatants into warriors of sorts? Did new job opportunities outweigh the trauma and grief suffered by women during wartime?

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Bailey, John
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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Students learn how to employ Excel to create and modify spreadsheets, create macros and scripts, create charts and graphs, import data, create concept maps and sequentially rank information. By learning how to harness Excel’s data analysis and visualization tools, they can analyze information, spot trends, and access information easily and recognize its importance in making critical financial decisions.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Anderson, Alan
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 2

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: McMullen, Barbara
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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In modern times, ideological debates have revolved around capitalism, socialism, and democracy and were intensified during the Cold War by the U.S.-U.S.SR. rivalry. Focusing on the development of capitalism and socialism in the West and their relationship to democracy, students examine different conceptualizations of democracy, the global impact of Western developments, and arguments on the compatibility of capitalism with authoritarianism.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Galloway, Sam
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Arout, Caroline
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Clarke, Jason
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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Students hone critical thinking and evaluative skills in examining data, evidence, and assumptions underlying the judicial process and the application of psychological principles. The research and clinical practice of forensic psychology in both civil and criminal law-enforcement settings are studied. The training, roles, and responsibilities of forensic psychologists along with methods of interrogation, criminal profiling, and investigation are also examined.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Williams, Christopher
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Moore, Lisa Jean
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 3

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Considers the ways in which children and childhood differ across cultures, what those cultural differences mean, and what childhood means in a larger developmental and cultural sense. Among other topics, students examine children as active social agents, independent of families, and incorporate ideas around children as products, childhood innocence, and children in need of protection.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: George-Lucas, Danielle
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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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.

Dates: Thursday, December 18 - Friday, January 16
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Instructor: Gondra, Ager
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Credits: 4

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