8 Week Session Courses
ACCT 100: Foundations of Accounting
Accounting is the language of business and this course exposes students to that language. This course introduces students to the basic principles, objectives, terminology and role of financial, managerial, and tax accounting in business. This course is intended for both business and non-business majors. This is the first required accounting course for all business majors. Counts as a Quantitative Reasoning course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MW 2:30-5:30pm
Instructor: Mark Barrus
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Accounting,
ARTS 214: Ceramics I
The techniques of hand building in pinch, coil and slab methods. Development of sensitivity to design and form. Basic work in stoneware, earthenware, and glazing.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: TR 6-8:10pm
Instructor: Martha Lois
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Art History and Art, Art Studio
ASTR 103: Introduction to the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
This introductory astronomy course describes the universe we live in and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about it. Topics covered include: the properties of stars; the formation, evolution, and death of stars; white dwarfs, pulsars, and black holes; spiral and elliptical galaxies; the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe. This course has no pre-requisites.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: Asynchronous
Instructor: William Janesh
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Astronomy
ENGL 200: Literature in English
This course introduces students to the reading of literature in the English language. Through close attention to the practice of reading, students are invited to consider some of the characteristic forms and functions imaginative literature has taken, together with some of the changes that have taken place in what and how readers read. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWR 11 AM-12:30 PM
Instructor: Steve Pinkerton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Reading Fiction: Children’s Literature
This course introduces students to prose narrative forms in English by exploring their intersecting histories and their contemporary developments. As we read these texts in their historical and social contexts, we will pay particular attention to the ways in which prose fiction represents gender, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, race, and indigeneity. Our work will require careful reading, critical thinking, and scholarly, argument-based writing (including revision), as we appreciate the diversity of fiction’s forms and features. We will introduce and develop the key terms, concepts and practice of literary studies. The specific focus of the course may vary. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 8-9:30am
Instructor: Cara Byrne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Reading Fiction: Science and Literature
This course introduces students to prose narrative forms in English by exploring their intersecting histories and their contemporary developments. As we read these texts in their historical and social contexts, we will pay particular attention to the ways in which prose fiction represents gender, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, race, and indigeneity. Our work will require careful reading, critical thinking, and scholarly, argument-based writing (including revision), as we appreciate the diversity of fiction’s forms and features. We will introduce and develop the key terms, concepts and practice of literary studies. The specific focus of the course may vary. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 10:30am-12pm
Instructor: Maggie Vinter
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGR 145: Chemistry of Materials
Application of fundamental chemistry principles to materials. Emphasis is on bonding and how this relates to the structure and properties in metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. Application of chemistry principles to develop an understanding of how to synthesize materials.
Prereq: CHEM 111 or equivalent.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous lab and recitation
Instructor: Dan Lacks
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 210: Introduction to Circuits and Instruments
Modeling and circuit analysis of analog and digital circuits. Fundamental concepts in circuit analysis: voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff’s Laws, Thevenin, and Norton equivalent circuits, inductors capacitors, and transformers. Modeling sensors and amplifiers and measuring DC device characteristics. Characterization and measurement of time dependent waveforms. Transient behavior of circuits. Frequency dependent behavior of devices and amplifiers, frequency measurements. AC power and power measurements. Electronic devices as switches.
Prereq: MATH 122. Prereq or Coreq: PHYS 122.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTW 2:30-4:30pm
Instructor: Chris Zorman
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
HSTY 241: The History of Public Health
The core principle of this course is that public health is a concept that was formed in different ways at different times in different places. It had no existence as we know it before the nineteenth century, but course participants will learn how it grew out of an ancient tradition of the political elite’s concern that its subjects were a threat to them and the stability of the realm. Course participants will discover how, in the nineteenth century, it became a professional practice as we know it and realized advances in human health, longevity, and security perhaps greater than any made since. At the same time, the course will also cover how many of the assumptions of those that inaugurated public health were completely alien to present-day practitioners–even though in many ways it is a practice that helped inaugurate the modern world so familiar to us. Course participants will learn about the close relationship between public health agencies and agendas and various kinds of social authority: political power, moral influence, colonial power, and others. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to show participants that even though public health seems a supremely common sense practice, it had a highly contested birth and early life that was anything but natural or pre-ordained. That complicated birth continues to shape public health to this day. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous
Instructor: John Broich
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
MATH 121: Calculus for Science and Engineering I
Functions, analytic geometry of lines and polynomials, limits, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions. Definite integral, antiderivatives, fundamental theorem of calculus, change of variables. Recommended preparation: Three and one half years of high school mathematics. Credit for at most one of MATH 121, MATH 123 and MATH 125 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Counts as a CAS Quantitative Reasoning course. Counts as a Quantitative Reasoning course. Prereq: MATH 120 or a score of 30 on the mathematics diagnostic test or exempt from the mathematics diagnostic test.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Johnathon Taylor
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 122: Calculus for Science and Engineering II
Continuation of MATH 121. Exponentials and logarithms, growth and decay, inverse trigonometric functions, related rates, basic techniques of integration, area and volume, polar coordinates, parametric equations. Taylor polynomials and Taylor’s theorem. Credit for at most one of MATH 122, MATH 124, and MATH 126 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Brandon Oliva
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 126: Math and Calculus Applications for Life, Managerial, and Social Sci II
Continuation of MATH 125 covering differential equations, multivariable calculus, discrete methods. Partial derivatives, maxima and minima for functions of two variables, linear regression. Differential equations; first and second order equations, systems, Taylor series methods; Newton’s method; difference equations. Credit for at most one of MATH 122, MATH 124, and MATH 126 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 125.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Reeve Johnson
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 201: Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applications
Matrix operations, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, subspaces, bases and linear independence, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of matrices, linear transformations, determinants. Less theoretical than MATH 307. Appropriate for majors in science, engineering, economics. Prereq: MATH 122, MATH 124 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:45am
Instructor: Clayton Coonrod
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 223: Calculus for Science and Engineering III
Introduction to vector algebra; lines and planes. Functions of several variables: partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule, directional derivative, maxima/minima. Multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Derivatives of vector valued functions, velocity and acceleration. Vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem. Credit for at most one of MATH 223 and MATH 227 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 122 or MATH 124.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 9-10:15am
Instructor: Christopher Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 224: Elementary Differential Equations
A first course in ordinary differential equations. First order equations and applications, linear equations with constant coefficients, linear systems, Laplace transforms, numerical methods of solution. Credit for at most one of MATH 224 and MATH 228 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 223 or MATH 227.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 9-10:15am
Instructor: Hayden Julius
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
THTR 206: Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: James Bond and Popular Culture
The twenty-one films of James Bond have become part of popular culture, and the figure of the superspy has become mythic in proportion. This series, from its first installment in 1963 to the latest reinvention of James Bond in 2006, not only depicts one dashing man’s efforts to save the world from disaster again and again, but also traces the development of our popular culture. Issues of violence, sex, the presentation and treatment of women, racial stereotypes, and spectacle among other topics can be discussed after viewing each film, providing an opportunity to explore the changing expectations of American audiences and the developing form of contemporary cinema. Students who have taken USSO 286D may not receive credit for this class.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 10-11:30am
Instructor: Robert Ullom
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Theater
WRIT 210/ENGL 217A: Business and Professional Writing
The ability to communicate effectively is a powerful skill, one with real and significant consequences. This is particularly true in the 21st-century workplace, where we use words and images to address needs, solve problems, persuade audiences, and even arrange the details of our professional and personal lives. Communication requirements and expectations are constantly changing, whether we work in small business, large companies, non-profit organizations, research labs, or hospitals. As such, we need to be adaptable writers and readers of all kinds of documents — from print to digital. This course offers students an introduction to professional communication in theory and practice. We will pay special attention to audience analysis, persuasive techniques in written and oral communication, document design strategies, and ethical communication practices. Recommended preparation: Passing grade in an Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 9AM-10:30AM
Instructor: Xia Wu
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 211/ ENGL 217B: Writing for the Health Professions
This course offers practice and training in the professional and technical writing skills common to health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Attention will be paid to the writing processes of drafting, revising, and editing. Typical assignments include: letters, resumes, personal essays, professional communication genres (e.g., email, reports, patient charts, and histories), and scholarly genres (e.g., abstracts, articles, and reviews). Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 9AM-10:30AM
Instructor: Ana Codita
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 211/ ENGL 217B: Writing for the Health Professions
This course offers practice and training in the professional and technical writing skills common to health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Attention will be paid to the writing processes of drafting, revising, and editing. Typical assignments include: letters, resumes, personal essays, professional communication genres (e.g., email, reports, patient charts, and histories), and scholarly genres (e.g., abstracts, articles, and reviews). Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWR 4:30-6pm
Instructor: Amy Sattler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 230: Humans vs. Computers: Will Artificial Intelligence Write Us Out of Existence?
Controversy about artificial intelligence (AI) is brewing, raising important questions about how technology is changing our worlds and what it means to be “intelligent.” Is there something special about “natural” human intelligence that cannot be replicated artificially? Some say this newest technological advancement is different from those in the past that have worried and frightened us. Others say the capacities of current AI are leading us down a path that will irrevocably change what it means to be human. In this course, we will take up these questions, with particular attention to AI text generation, which seems to strike at our very identities as language users. These particular technologies have implications for education, medicine, law, journalism, among other industries. What are the risks and benefits of AI to us as humans, students, and then as professionals? How can we understand our relationship with AI? How can we come to understand, use, and develop literacy with AI language modules? We will explore these and other questions that we raise through a series of readings and writing projects. We will experiment with AI text generators like ChatGPT and Bard, we will research the various contemporary perspectives on AI, and we will debate to come to our own positions on this inevitable feature of our current and future lives.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: TWR 9-10:30am
Instructor: Martha Schaffer
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ACCT 100: Foundations of Accounting
Accounting is the language of business and this course exposes students to that language. This course introduces students to the basic principles, objectives, terminology and role of financial, managerial, and tax accounting in business. This course is intended for both business and non-business majors. This is the first required accounting course for all business majors. Counts as a Quantitative Reasoning course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MW 2:30-5:30pm
Instructor: Mark Barrus
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Accounting,
ARTS 214: Ceramics I
The techniques of hand building in pinch, coil and slab methods. Development of sensitivity to design and form. Basic work in stoneware, earthenware, and glazing.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: TR 6-8:10pm
Instructor: Martha Lois
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Art History and Art, Art Studio
ASTR 103: Introduction to the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
This introductory astronomy course describes the universe we live in and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about it. Topics covered include: the properties of stars; the formation, evolution, and death of stars; white dwarfs, pulsars, and black holes; spiral and elliptical galaxies; the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe. This course has no pre-requisites.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: Asynchronous
Instructor: William Janesh
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Astronomy
ENGL 200: Literature in English
This course introduces students to the reading of literature in the English language. Through close attention to the practice of reading, students are invited to consider some of the characteristic forms and functions imaginative literature has taken, together with some of the changes that have taken place in what and how readers read. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWR 11 AM-12:30 PM
Instructor: Steve Pinkerton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Reading Fiction: Children’s Literature
This course introduces students to prose narrative forms in English by exploring their intersecting histories and their contemporary developments. As we read these texts in their historical and social contexts, we will pay particular attention to the ways in which prose fiction represents gender, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, race, and indigeneity. Our work will require careful reading, critical thinking, and scholarly, argument-based writing (including revision), as we appreciate the diversity of fiction’s forms and features. We will introduce and develop the key terms, concepts and practice of literary studies. The specific focus of the course may vary. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 8-9:30am
Instructor: Cara Byrne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Reading Fiction: Science and Literature
This course introduces students to prose narrative forms in English by exploring their intersecting histories and their contemporary developments. As we read these texts in their historical and social contexts, we will pay particular attention to the ways in which prose fiction represents gender, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, race, and indigeneity. Our work will require careful reading, critical thinking, and scholarly, argument-based writing (including revision), as we appreciate the diversity of fiction’s forms and features. We will introduce and develop the key terms, concepts and practice of literary studies. The specific focus of the course may vary. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 10:30am-12pm
Instructor: Maggie Vinter
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGR 145: Chemistry of Materials
Application of fundamental chemistry principles to materials. Emphasis is on bonding and how this relates to the structure and properties in metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. Application of chemistry principles to develop an understanding of how to synthesize materials.
Prereq: CHEM 111 or equivalent.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous lab and recitation
Instructor: Dan Lacks
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 210: Introduction to Circuits and Instruments
Modeling and circuit analysis of analog and digital circuits. Fundamental concepts in circuit analysis: voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff’s Laws, Thevenin, and Norton equivalent circuits, inductors capacitors, and transformers. Modeling sensors and amplifiers and measuring DC device characteristics. Characterization and measurement of time dependent waveforms. Transient behavior of circuits. Frequency dependent behavior of devices and amplifiers, frequency measurements. AC power and power measurements. Electronic devices as switches.
Prereq: MATH 122. Prereq or Coreq: PHYS 122.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTW 2:30-4:30pm
Instructor: Chris Zorman
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
HSTY 241: The History of Public Health
The core principle of this course is that public health is a concept that was formed in different ways at different times in different places. It had no existence as we know it before the nineteenth century, but course participants will learn how it grew out of an ancient tradition of the political elite’s concern that its subjects were a threat to them and the stability of the realm. Course participants will discover how, in the nineteenth century, it became a professional practice as we know it and realized advances in human health, longevity, and security perhaps greater than any made since. At the same time, the course will also cover how many of the assumptions of those that inaugurated public health were completely alien to present-day practitioners–even though in many ways it is a practice that helped inaugurate the modern world so familiar to us. Course participants will learn about the close relationship between public health agencies and agendas and various kinds of social authority: political power, moral influence, colonial power, and others. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to show participants that even though public health seems a supremely common sense practice, it had a highly contested birth and early life that was anything but natural or pre-ordained. That complicated birth continues to shape public health to this day. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous
Instructor: John Broich
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
MATH 121: Calculus for Science and Engineering I
Functions, analytic geometry of lines and polynomials, limits, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions. Definite integral, antiderivatives, fundamental theorem of calculus, change of variables. Recommended preparation: Three and one half years of high school mathematics. Credit for at most one of MATH 121, MATH 123 and MATH 125 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Counts as a CAS Quantitative Reasoning course. Counts as a Quantitative Reasoning course. Prereq: MATH 120 or a score of 30 on the mathematics diagnostic test or exempt from the mathematics diagnostic test.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Johnathon Taylor
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 122: Calculus for Science and Engineering II
Continuation of MATH 121. Exponentials and logarithms, growth and decay, inverse trigonometric functions, related rates, basic techniques of integration, area and volume, polar coordinates, parametric equations. Taylor polynomials and Taylor’s theorem. Credit for at most one of MATH 122, MATH 124, and MATH 126 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Brandon Oliva
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 126: Math and Calculus Applications for Life, Managerial, and Social Sci II
Continuation of MATH 125 covering differential equations, multivariable calculus, discrete methods. Partial derivatives, maxima and minima for functions of two variables, linear regression. Differential equations; first and second order equations, systems, Taylor series methods; Newton’s method; difference equations. Credit for at most one of MATH 122, MATH 124, and MATH 126 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 125.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15am
Instructor: Reeve Johnson
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 201: Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applications
Matrix operations, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, subspaces, bases and linear independence, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of matrices, linear transformations, determinants. Less theoretical than MATH 307. Appropriate for majors in science, engineering, economics. Prereq: MATH 122, MATH 124 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:45am
Instructor: Clayton Coonrod
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 223: Calculus for Science and Engineering III
Introduction to vector algebra; lines and planes. Functions of several variables: partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule, directional derivative, maxima/minima. Multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Derivatives of vector valued functions, velocity and acceleration. Vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem. Credit for at most one of MATH 223 and MATH 227 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 122 or MATH 124.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 9-10:15am
Instructor: Christopher Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 224: Elementary Differential Equations
A first course in ordinary differential equations. First order equations and applications, linear equations with constant coefficients, linear systems, Laplace transforms, numerical methods of solution. Credit for at most one of MATH 224 and MATH 228 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 223 or MATH 227.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: In-person course
Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 9-10:15am
Instructor: Hayden Julius
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
THTR 206: Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: James Bond and Popular Culture
The twenty-one films of James Bond have become part of popular culture, and the figure of the superspy has become mythic in proportion. This series, from its first installment in 1963 to the latest reinvention of James Bond in 2006, not only depicts one dashing man’s efforts to save the world from disaster again and again, but also traces the development of our popular culture. Issues of violence, sex, the presentation and treatment of women, racial stereotypes, and spectacle among other topics can be discussed after viewing each film, providing an opportunity to explore the changing expectations of American audiences and the developing form of contemporary cinema. Students who have taken USSO 286D may not receive credit for this class.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 10-11:30am
Instructor: Robert Ullom
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Theater
WRIT 210/ENGL 217A: Business and Professional Writing
The ability to communicate effectively is a powerful skill, one with real and significant consequences. This is particularly true in the 21st-century workplace, where we use words and images to address needs, solve problems, persuade audiences, and even arrange the details of our professional and personal lives. Communication requirements and expectations are constantly changing, whether we work in small business, large companies, non-profit organizations, research labs, or hospitals. As such, we need to be adaptable writers and readers of all kinds of documents — from print to digital. This course offers students an introduction to professional communication in theory and practice. We will pay special attention to audience analysis, persuasive techniques in written and oral communication, document design strategies, and ethical communication practices. Recommended preparation: Passing grade in an Academic Inquiry Seminar or SAGES First Seminar. Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 9AM-10:30AM
Instructor: Xia Wu
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 211/ ENGL 217B: Writing for the Health Professions
This course offers practice and training in the professional and technical writing skills common to health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Attention will be paid to the writing processes of drafting, revising, and editing. Typical assignments include: letters, resumes, personal essays, professional communication genres (e.g., email, reports, patient charts, and histories), and scholarly genres (e.g., abstracts, articles, and reviews). Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWF 9AM-10:30AM
Instructor: Ana Codita
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 211/ ENGL 217B: Writing for the Health Professions
This course offers practice and training in the professional and technical writing skills common to health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Attention will be paid to the writing processes of drafting, revising, and editing. Typical assignments include: letters, resumes, personal essays, professional communication genres (e.g., email, reports, patient charts, and histories), and scholarly genres (e.g., abstracts, articles, and reviews). Counts as a Communication Intensive course.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MWR 4:30-6pm
Instructor: Amy Sattler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
WRIT 230: Humans vs. Computers: Will Artificial Intelligence Write Us Out of Existence?
Controversy about artificial intelligence (AI) is brewing, raising important questions about how technology is changing our worlds and what it means to be “intelligent.” Is there something special about “natural” human intelligence that cannot be replicated artificially? Some say this newest technological advancement is different from those in the past that have worried and frightened us. Others say the capacities of current AI are leading us down a path that will irrevocably change what it means to be human. In this course, we will take up these questions, with particular attention to AI text generation, which seems to strike at our very identities as language users. These particular technologies have implications for education, medicine, law, journalism, among other industries. What are the risks and benefits of AI to us as humans, students, and then as professionals? How can we understand our relationship with AI? How can we come to understand, use, and develop literacy with AI language modules? We will explore these and other questions that we raise through a series of readings and writing projects. We will experiment with AI text generators like ChatGPT and Bard, we will research the various contemporary perspectives on AI, and we will debate to come to our own positions on this inevitable feature of our current and future lives.
Dates: June 2 - July 30, 2025
Session: 8 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: TWR 9-10:30am
Instructor: Martha Schaffer
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English