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Summer 2008

What does it mean to be a tourist in a globalized world? This course will critically examine the growth of travel and tourism; relations between hosts and guests; social consequences of travel and tourism; and different types of travel experiences, such as eco-tourism. This is a great course for students returning from or planning for study away experiences. No prerequisites.

THEA 387: ST: Solo Performance
CRN: 10180
(Desmond)

This course is designed to help students choose, present, and refine audition monologues that will increase their chances of being cast. In addition to rigorous work on several different types of monologues, students will work intensively on both the preparation and performance aspects of the callback process.

J Term 2008 Special Topics

Explores various to operational process improvement through simulation of challenges in real organizations. Tests theoretical underpinnings of Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, and Theory of Constraints methods. Uses Process Model software. Students may choose to prepare for Process Model professional certification exams.

Focusing on the 2008 election, this course wil examine the nature of contemporary political campaign communication. The course will examine issues such as advertising, campaign debates, and legacy and new media coverage of candidates. Class members will be assigned a particular presidential candidate whom they will study in greater detail to apply concepts discussed in class. No prior communication courses are required for this course. The only requirement is that students come with an open mind, regardless of their political viewpoints.

This is an off-campus course offered during J-term. Students spend approximately three weeks in Scotland applying social psychology principles to ghosts and hauntings. Interrogating these paranormal occurences with our knowledge of social cognition, social perception, conformity, group dynamics and social control, we construct social psychological accounts for the seemingly "unexplainable".

This course will offer an understanding of the role played by gender and race within the context of schools and education. We shall examine such questions as how gender and race function within the organizational features of schools, within education as an institution and its relation to othe social institutions, and within the social relationships of the classroom.

Spring 2008 Special Topics

Peace Journalism doesn't call for an end to the reporting of war, but it does call for reporting war and other conflict-oriented new differenlty. Some say that it really calls for nothing more than fair, accurate journalism offering the widest possible range of perspectives...what journalism is supposed to be all about. So why isn't peace journalism practiced? And what would happen to our understanding of society's conlficts if it were? These are among the questions to be explored in this course.

Summer 2008 Special Topics (Pending)

Fall 2008 Special Topics (Pending)