SUMMER 2008 COURSE OFFERINGS


BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT/ECONOMICS
HUMANITIES
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
LANGUAGE / LITERATURE / THEATRE STUDIES
MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
SCIENCE
GENERAL STUDIES



BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT/ECONOMICS

ECON 3200 - Money & Banking (CLOSED)
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 1.30-5.00
Studies the forms and functions of money, the commercial banks, the Federal Reserve system, and monetary theory and policy used as a tool to achieve economics goals. Includes banking and other financial institutions.
Prerequisite: ECON 2010 (Principles of Macroeconomics)

MNGT 2400 - Supervisory Management
(3 Credit Hours) Tues/Thur 1.30-5.00
Introduces the student to the functions and responsibilities of the supervisor as a first-line manager directing the work of others. Includes supervisor-subordinate relationships, developing worker motivation and cooperation, employee training, development, performance appraisal, absenteeism, tardiness, and complaints and grievances.
Prerequisite: None

MNGT 3100 - Issues in Management: Movies - What they can teach us about Management
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 9.30-1.00
Students discuss and examine how key management issues can occur and be tackled by viewing selected movies which portray said issues in detail. The aim of the course is to see key management aspects 'in action' rather than as concepts and ideas contained in a textbook and/or case studies.
Prerequisite: MNGT 2100 (Management Theory & Practices)

MNGT 3100/71 - Issues in Management: Judgment and Decision Making
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 9.30-1.00
For some, management is decision-taking. And in that light, a significant controversy exists: are managers (ie, human beings) decision-making heroes with extraordinary abilities to arrive at correct conclusions with limited evidence? Or are they hopelessly tangled up in bias, prejudice and hidden agendas? We will review the field, make the case for both arguments and examine practical tools, both long-established and cutting-edge, for good personal and group decision-making.
Prerequisite: MNGT 2100 (Management Theory & Practices)

HUMANITIES

ARHS 2350 - Introductory Topics in Art History: Photography & New Media in Contemporary Art
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 1.30-5.00
This course analyses the varied uses of photography and other new media, including film, video, sound and language, in the visual arts of today. The media are examined through examples of works and by studying related texts. After an historical introduction, the course examines how the media have developed, and focuses mainly on contemporary practice. The course comprises a mixture of college-based lectures and seminars, together with visits to museums and galleries in London to experience the works at first hand.
Prerequisite: None

ARHS 2350/71 - Introductory Topics in Art History: Making a Masterpiece
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 9.30-1.00
In this course students will learn about drawing and printmaking practices from Medieval times to the present day. The course will include practical sessions in which students will learn how to cut their own quill, make their own ink and watercolours and experiment with printmaking. There will also be visits to Prints and Drawings Collections in and around London not normally open to the public including the Queen's Collection at Windsor. Artists studied will include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Durer, Turner, Gauguin and Picasso.
Prerequisite: None

HIST 1010 - Topics in History: Royal London
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 1.30-5.00
London and the English monarchy have been twinned since Edward the Confessor's builders completed Westminster Abbey in 1066 and William I was crowned there on Christmas Day of that year. The rich history of the capital and that of English sovereigns combine to give this course its content. Using class lectures, video footage and field trips, we trace Royal London through the Norman, mediaeval, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Victorian eras. The course ends with the funeral of Princess Diana and reflects on the role of modern monarchy and the capital.
Prerequisite: None

HIST 2000 - Social History: Behind the Veil: Women in the Classical World
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thurs 1.30-5.00
Pericles the Athenian identified the greatest glory of woman as to be least talked about by men. Men made and wrote the history of the classical world. This course will attempt to uncover the hidden lives of women in Greece and Rome, from classical Athens to Byzantium. It will examine how women and goddesses are represented in art and drama, with visits to galleries and performances (where available). The course will include discussion of the impact of Christianity on the experience and perception of women. Some prominent women (e.g. Cleopatra and Theodora) will be treated as "case-studies".
Prerequisite: None

HIST 2310 - Encounters with History: The Pen & the Sword - Literature & Politics in the Twentieth Century
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thurs 1.30-5.00
This course will explore the interaction between literature and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. We will look at the ways in which writers engaged with the political issues of their time and the ways in which their texts were interpreted. With regard to attitudes to the authoritarian regimes of the nineteen-thirties particularly, the views of certain writers are still a matter of some controversy. Topics will include: the engagement of many of the key figures of modernism with fascist and anti-Semitic ideas; western apologists for Stalinist Russia; anti-totalitarianism in Koestler and Orwell; and poets in the Spanish civil war. Students will be able to engage with some of the most exciting texts in world literature including 1984, The Wasteland, Nausea and The Tin Drum. We will read all texts in English.
Prerequisite: None

PHIL 2020 - Formal Logic
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 1.30-5.00
Studies techniques of deductive inference in a symbolic notation, including propositional calculus and some operations with quantifiers. Covers theory of logic, including such topics as axiomatization, rules of inference, the distinctions between use and mention and validity and truth, semantic interpretations, completeness, and consistency.
Prerequisite: None

PHIL 2320 - Contemporary Moral Problems
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 1.30-5.00
Explores the opposing positions typically taken in discussions of contemporary moral problems such as euthanasia, the death penalty, pornography, animal rights, and world hunger. The focus is on developing and critically analysing reasons used to support a moral position.
Prerequisite: None

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

INTL 3330 - International Economic Integration (CLOSED)
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 9.30-1.00
Examines customs unions, common markets and free trade, capital and labour movement, international economic aid, and development programmes. Explores conflict, cooperation, and unification of world economics policies.
Prerequisite: usually sophomore standing or permission of the instructor

POLT 1000 - Topics in Politics: Global Civil Society
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 1.30-5.00
The course will address the types of groups, organisations and movements that compose global civil society, and the issues and institutions they address. Topics will include social movements, NGOs, transnational civic networks, nationalist and religious militant groups, civil society in relation to human rights, the environment, gender, and specific issues like the International Criminal Court or Aids/HIV.
Prerequisite: none

LANGUAGE / LITERATURE / THEATRE STUDIES

SPAN 1070 - Intensive Introduction to Spanish: Level I
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 1.30-5.00
A beginning-level course offered in a variety of formats. Teaches listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The goal is to develop basic linguistic structures and vocabularies for specific needs: eg travel, business, medicine, law enforcement.
Prerequisite: None

THEA 3040/73 - Topics in Theatre: London Theatre: Entertainment, Politics & Scandal
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thurs 9.30-1.00
An exploration of current trends in a vibrant modern theatre scene that comments on London - and England - social and political landscape. Visits and workshops at the Globe and National Theatres, as well as four visits to plays supplement lectures and seminars on new writing and revivals of significant classics.
Prerequisite: None

MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

FLST 3160/70 - Topics in Film Studies: The Martial Arts Film and Spirituality
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 1.30-5.00
The course will look at a broad range of martial arts films in order to explore their relationship to religious and spiritual beliefs. A key theme will be the place of conflict and violence within religious and spiritual ideologies. The definition of a martial arts film will be broad enough to include some war films (eg 'The Seven Samurai') and some thrillers (eg 'Witness').
Prerequisite: FILM 1800 (Film Appreciation) or FILM 2060 (Modern World Cinema)

FLST 3160/71 - Topics in Film Studies: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance: the History of the Film Musical
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 9.30-1.00
It was not just because the birth of the Hollywood musical coincided with the advent of sound that productions of the 'All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing' variety have been an important part of movie history. Like every genre, the film musical has gone through its rough patches, and the course aims to chronicle its ups and downs from the glorious box-office hits of the early 1930s to the most recent big budget film adaptations (Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd). By analysing the conditions of production that determine how musical are made and by evaluating the contributions by the great talents of the dream factory both in front of the camera (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly) and behind (Arthur Freed, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen) who shaped their form and development, the potential possibilities and inherent dangers of the genre will be discussed. Attention will also be paid to Bollywood as its productions have become increasingly popular outside the Indian community, and to those filmmakers who bring a decidedly non-Hollywood sensibility to the genre such as Jacques Demy, Alain Resnais and Terence Davies.
Prerequisite: None

PHOT 2500 - Photojournalism
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thurs 9.30-1.00
Students combine practical assignments in newspaper and magazine photography with critical analysis of how photographs produce outstanding news and feature stories.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor

SCIENCE

ANSO 2000 - Issues in Contemporary Society: Power and Societies
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 9.30-1.00
The aim of the course is for students to develop a critical understanding of the concept of power by helping them understand the role of power in shaping social relations in distinct contexts by examining a range of theoretical conceptions in a disciplinary framework.
Prerequisite: None

COAP 2310 - Graphics: Nature, Architecture and Machinery
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thurs 9.30-1.00
Computer graphics techniques are studied and applied using a commercial software package to produce various forms of freelance and generated artwork.
Prerequisite: None

HLSC 1579 - Life Long Fitness & Sports: Fencing I - the Art & Science of Fencing
(1 credit hour) Mon/Wed 1.30-2.30
An opportunity for students to learn an exciting new sport, improve fitness and study the concepts of lifetime fitness. The aim of the course is to help the student understand the concepts of exercise and lifetime health, participate in an activity to develop improved fitness, become aware of nutritional needs and familiarise with stress theories and stress management techniques. These concepts will be studied through lecture, discussion, life style assessment, health risk management and fitness activities.
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor

PSYC 2200 - Child Psychology
(3 credit hours) Tues/Thur 9.30-1.00
Examines physical, emotional., cognitive, and social development of the child from conception to adolescence. The complex interaction between heredity and environment is considered. Emphasises language development, achievement, personality, and gender behaviour.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1100 (Introduction to Psychology) or permission of the instructor.

GENERAL STUDIES

GNST 1308 - Technology, Science & Society
(3 credit hours) Mon/Wed 9.30-1.00
It is often stated that we live in an increasingly complex technological and scientific environment. Whilst the primary aim of technology is to benefit society, problems, often unpredicted, have arisen to challenge society. For example is modern medicine creating the next race of "superbugs"? How is new technology affecting the home and at the same time aiding terrorism? How will your DNA be used by society? The subject will be timely and often controversial. The aim of this course is to use scientific understanding in a diverse range of disciplines to think critically about universal challenges that confront humanity.
Prerequisite: None