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ART
Era and Artists of 19th Century America
ART 200-U800 Class # 71516
3 credits
Instructor: Bradley Hudson
Required Texts:
1) Rebecca Bedell, The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 (Princeton University Press, 2001) ISBN 9780691102917.
2) John Davis, Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Princeton University Press, 1998) ISBN 0691058458 (reprinted reader is acceptable and available through the SU Bookstore).
3) Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth Century America. (Princeton University Press, 1999) ISBN 9780691009476.
Recommended Texts:
1) Barbara S. Groseclose, Nineteenth-Century American Art (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 9780192842251.
2) Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Farrar Straus& Giroux, 2002) ISBN 9780374528492.
CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
Sociology of Disability
CFE 600-U800 Class # 71929 Meets only Session
I (May 19-June 27)
3 credits
Instructor: Steven Taylor
Required Texts:
1
3) Lennard J Davis and Michael BeRube, Bending Over Backward: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions (New York University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780814719503.
2) Erving Goffman, Stigma (Touchstone Books, 1986) ISBN 9780671622442.
3) Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (New York University Press, 1998) ISBN 9780814751343.
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
Introduction to Computing
CPS 181-U800 Class # 70651
3 credits
Instructor: Patrick McSweeney
Required Text:
George Beekman and Micheal J Quinn, Tomorrow's Technology and You: Complete, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2008) ISBN 9780132297202.
DISABILITY STUDIES
The Geography of Disability
DSP 300-U800 Class # 71924
3 credits
Instructor: Todd Reynolds
Please contact the instructor for more information.
Sociology of Disability
DSP 600-U800 Class # 71930 Meets only Session
I (May 19-June 27)
3 credits
Instructor: Steven Taylor
Required Texts:
1) Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity. (Simon & Schuster, 1986) ISBN 9780671622442.
2) CHOICE of one of the following two books:
Lennard J Davis and Michael Berube, Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions. (NYU Press, 2002) ISBN 9780814719503.
- OR -
Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. (NYU Press, 1998) ISBN 9780814751343.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMERGING ENTERPRISES
Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
EEE 370-M800 Class # 71842
3 credits
Instructor: Neil Tarallo
Please contact the instructor for more information.
ENGLISH AND TEXTUAL STUDIES
Sophomore Poetry Workshop
ETS 215-U800 Class # 70153
3 credits
Instructor: Sarah Harwell
Required Text:
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, eds., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, longer 5th ed. (Norton, 2004) ISBN 9780393979206.
Sophomore Fiction Workshop
ETS 217-U800 Class # 70154
3 credits
Instructor: Sarah Harwell
Required Text:
R. V. Cassill (author) and Richard Bausch (ed.), Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, "longer" 7th ed. (WW Norton & Co., 2005) ISBN 9780393926118.
Advanced Writing Workshop:
Poetry
ETS 401-U800 Class # 70155
3 credits
Instructor: Sarah Harwell
Required Texts:
1) Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, eds., The Norton Anthology of Poetry, longer 5th ed. (Norton, 2004) ISBN 9780393979206.
2) Mary Oliver, Poetry Handbook (Harcourt, 1995)
ISBN 9780156724005.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction
ETS 404-U800 Class # 70156
3 credits
Instructor: Sarah Harwell
Required Text:
R. V. Cassill (author) and Richard Bausch (ed.), Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, "longer" 7th ed. (WW Norton & Co., 2005) ISBN 9780393926118.
GEOGRAPHY
The Geography of Disability
GEO 300-U800 Class # 71825
3 credits
Instructor: Todd Reynolds
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HISTORY
Science & Technology in the Modern World
HST 410-U800 Class # 71780
3 credits
Instructor: Harold Burstyn
Required Texts:
1) Donald Cardwell, Wheels, Clocks and Rockets: A History of Technology.
(W W Norton & Co., 2001) ISBN 9780393321753.
2) Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. (Simon &
Schuster, 1995) ISBN 9780684813783 .
3) Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen
Bomb. (Simon & Schuster, 1996) ISBN 9780684824147.
4) Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved
the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. (Penguin Putnam Publishing, 1996)
ISBN 9780140258790.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION
Capstone Practicum
IDE 716-M800 Class # 70711
3 credits
Instructor: Jerry Klein
Please contact the instructor for more information.
Design and Management of Distance Education
IDE 756-M800 Class # 70788 Meets only Session
I (May 19-June 27)
3 credits
Instructor: Tiffany Koszalka
Please contact the instructor for more information.
Performance Improvement: Promise and Practice
IDE 762-M800 Class # 71720 Meets only Session
II (June 30-August 8)
3 credits
Instructor: Alexander Romiszowski
Please contact the instructor for more information.
INFORMATION STUDIES
Information Architecture for Internet Services
IST 553-M001 Class #70830
3 credits
Instructor: Vadim Parkansky
Please contact the instructor for more information.
NUTRITION & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
Nutrition in Health
NHM 225-M800 Class #71726
3 credits
Instructor: Joan Nicholson
Required Texts:
1) Sharon Rady Rolfes and Eleanor Noss Whitney, Understanding Nutrition, 11th ed. (Cengage Learning, 2008) Package includes Diet Analysis Plus v 8.0 (on CD) Package ISBN: 9780495116868.
Note: Used books are acceptable. If the CD is not included with your used textbook, you may purchase it separately under ISBN 9780495557159.
2) Resources Access Code: http://west.ilrn.com/ilrn/authentication/welcome.do
PHILOSOPHY
Critical Thinking
PHI 171-U800 Class #70137
3 credits
Instructor: Eric Parkinson
Required Text:
Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker, Critical Thinking, 8th
edition (McGraw Hill Text Publishing, 2007) ISBN 9780073126258.
This textbook has a website with additional study guides and student
resources:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007312625x/information_center_view0/
A few readings centering on contemporary debates may be assigned.
These will be located on the World Wide Web and will not require purchasing
an additional book. Note: The accompanying CD is useful though not
required.
RELIGION
Religions of the World
REL 101-U800 Class # 70181
REL 101-U801 Class # 72194 Contingent upon sufficient enrollment.
3 credits
Instructor: Philip Arnold
Required texts:
1) Jacob Neusner,
editor, World Religions in America: An Introduction, 3rd edition
(Westminster, 1998) ISBN 9780664224752.
2) Huston Smith, The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions (Harper Collins, 1992) ISBN 9780062508119.
Gender, Politics and Islam
REL 200-U800 Class # 71722
3 credits
Instructor: Svetlana Peshkova
Required Texts:
1) Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. (Trilateral, 1993) ISBN 9780300055832.
2) Lahoucine Ouzgane, Islamic Masculinities. (Macmillan, 2006) ISBN 9781842772751.
3) Malise Ruthven, Islam: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford, 2000) ISBN 9780192853899.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
Science & Technology in the Modern World
STS 410-U800 Class # 71910
3 credits
Instructor: Harold Burstyn
Meets together online with HST 410-U800. See description under HISTORY.
SOCIOLOGY
Sociology of American Business
SOC 357-U800 Class # 71695
3 credits
Instructor: Richard Ratcliff
Required Texts:
1) David Dorsey, The Force (Random, 1995) ISBN 9780345376251.
2) Arlie Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Ingram, 2000) ISBN 9780805066432.
3) Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (Oxford University, 1988) ISBN
9780195060805.
4) Gideon Kunda, Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-tech Corporation, Revised ed. (Temple University Press,
2006) ISBN 9781592135462.
5) Robin Leidner, Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinazation of Everyday Life (California-Princeton,
1993) ISBN 9780520085008.
6) George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society, 5th ed. (Sage, 2007)
ISBN 9781412954303.
Social Impact of the Internet
SOC 446-U800 Class # 71697
3 credits
Instructor: Gary Spencer
This course does not require any textbooks.
Social Change and Conflict in Modern China
SOC 447-U800 Class # 71696
3 credits
Instructor: Richard Ratcliff
Required Texts:
1) Ted C. Fishman, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World (Scribner, 2006) ISBN 9780743257350.
2)
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (Vintage Books, 1995) ISBN 9780679763932.
3) Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2003) ISBN 9780415301695.
4) Xinran Xue, Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Vintage Books, 2003) ISBN 9781400030804.
The Dynamics of Prejudice and Discrimination
SOC 448-U800 Class # 71699
3 credits
Instructor: Gary Spencer
This course does not require any text books.
Social Impact of the Internet
SOC 646-U800 Class # 71698
3 credits
Instructor: Gary Spencer
This course does not require any textbooks.
The Dynamics of Prejudice and Discrimination
SOC 648-U800 Class # 71700
3 credits
Instructor: Gary Spencer
This course does not require any textbooks.
WRITING PROGRAM
Writing Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
WRT 205-U800 Class # 70319
3 credits
Instructor: Laurie Gries
Required Text:
Christine L. Alfano and Alyssa J. O'Brien, Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments, 2nd ed. (Longman Publishing Group, 2007) ISBN 9780321462510.
WRT 205-U801 Class # 70320
3 credits
Instructor: Emily Dressing
Please contact the instructor for more information.
WRT 205-U802 Class # 70321
3 credits
Instructor: Nicole Moss Underwood
Required Texts:
1) Bruce Ballenger, Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers, 4th ed. (Longman Publishing Group, 2003) ISBN 9780321175212. NOTE: This is NOT the current edition. Please be sure to get THIS edition. The old ISBN was 0321175212.
2) Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray,
Writer's Harbrace Handbook, 3rd Ed. (Brief) (Heinle, 2007) ISBN 9781413030600.
3) Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin Group USA, 2007) ISBN 9780143038580.
4) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, P.S. ed. (Perennial, 2005) ISBN 9780060838584.
5) Morgan Spurlock, director, Super Size Me (DVD, 2004)
WRT 205-U803 Class # 70322
3 credits
Instructor: Amy Barone Phillips
Please contact the instructor for more information.
WRT 205-U804 Class # 70516
3 credits
Instructor: Denise Valdes
Please contact the instructor for more information.
WRT 205-U805 Class # 72329
3 credits
Instructor: Staff
Please contact the instructor for more information.
Writing in the Workplace
WRT 207-U800 Class # 70434
3 credits
Instructor: Imogene D. Wallenfels
Required Text:
Kevin J. Harty, Strategies for Business and Technical Writing, 6th ed. (Pearson Publishing/Longman Publishing Group, 2008) ISBN 9780205562060.
Advanced Writing Studio:
Professional Writing
WRT 307-U800 Class # 70201
3 credits
Instructor: Jeanette Jeneault
Required Text:
Robin Williams, Non-Designer's Design Book, 3rd ed. (Peachpit Press, 2008) ISBN 9780321534040.
Recommended Text:
John McWade, Before and After: Page Design, (Pearson/Peachpit Press, 2004) ISBN 9780201795370.
WRT 307-U801 Class # 70235
3 credits
Instructor: Molly Voorheis
Required Text:
Michael Markel, Technical Communication, 8th ed. (Bedford, St Martins, 2007) ISBN 9780312441975. Instructor notes used books are fine as long as they are the 8th edition.
WRT 307-U802 Class # 70517
3 credits
Instructor: Nancy Wright
Required Text:
Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Technical Communication Today, 2nd ed. (Pearson, 2007) ISBN 9780321457585.
WRT 307-U803 Class # 72449
3 credits
Instructor: Molly Voorheis
Required Text:
Michael Markel, Technical Communication, 8th ed. (Bedford, St Martins, 2007) ISBN 9780312441975. Instructor notes used books are fine as long as they are the 8th edition.
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