Spring 2012

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: 

WGST 150 (01) - Women's Voices Through Time: This course introduces important issues in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies through theory, historical texts, fiction, poetry, visual art, and videos. The course aims to open up new ideas and interests, develop students analytical skills in understanding theory, and encourage students to explore and express their personal responses to a range of issues related to women's identities, ideas, and creative activities through discussions of historical and contemporary literature and visual texts. 

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY:

CULT 320 (03) - Globalization and Culture: It is has become a cliché to claim that today we live in a global age. Compelling evidence of the interpenetration of the global and the local can be found everywhere, including the “made in” labels at the mall, the food at the grocery store, and the proliferation of global television franchises like Big Brother and American Idol. But what is globalization, anyway? In short, what historical, economic, and technological changes brought about this accelerating interconnection between once-distant peoples and places? And how is globalization lived or experienced differently by individuals in different social and spatial locations? Beginning with readings that will help us unravel the complex cultural and economic processes that created the complex interconnections that we call “globalization,” the class then moves to an examination of three global flows: (1) global flows of capital, (2) global flows of people/labor, and (3) global flows of media.

NCLC 249 (01) Digital Literacy: This learning community investigates information literacy, the mobile web, and interactive and immersive media, including gaming, social networking, blogging and micro-blogging, intellectual, political and civic collaborations, digital aesthetics and emerging digital cultures and art forms. The course also explores major theories of digital literacy and culture and introduces diverse social, artistic, theoretical and cultural practices that characterize today's digital domains and virtual environments.

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY:

COMM 1040 (Section 12 - Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9:35 – 10:50 a.m.) - Public Communication: Public Communication provides practice in researching, organizing, delivering and evaluating public presentations.  The course helps students to understand speech related apprehension and presents strategies for stress reduction.  The course develops skills in active listening and critical thinking, participating in oral and written speech analysis and formulating an ethical framework for public presentation.

COMM 1040 (Section 15 - Tuesdays: 7:10 – 9:40 p.m.) - Public Communication: Public Communication provides practice in researching, organizing, delivering and evaluating public presentations.  The course helps students to understand speech related apprehension and presents strategies for stress reduction.  The course develops skills in active listening and critical thinking, participating in oral and written speech analysis and formulating an ethical framework for public presentation.