Greater Hartford Campus

Special Descriptions: Spring 2008

Anthroplogy 269-95     World Religions

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

BADM 198-71    Me, Myself and My Money

This course covers basic personal money management concepts that will help you establish and maintain your own financial independence. Some of the topics covered include:

 -Dealing with income taxes.

 -Setting up a budget you can live with.

 -How to buy a house.

 -The ins and outs of buying or leasing a car.

 -How does insurance work?

 -Managing credit cards.

 -Starting your own business.

This course is open to juniors and seniors with permission of instructor, or the BSBT office

COMM 226-95    Organizational Communication

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30.

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

Dram Arts 230-95   Women in Theatre

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

EDLR 250 -95 Experiential Learning and Education

Please note this class meets every Saturday starting on January 26 th, no class March 15 th, last class and final May 3

 EDLR 255- 95 Labor Leaders and Leadership Style

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30.

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

The course will give an overview of the characteristics of modern and past labor leaders in the United States. An analysis of the current and past leadership will be conducted as well as the state of the AFL-CIO under these leaders. The course will review outside factors that may have an impact on unions such as declining membership, outsourcing, politics, health care and pensions. The leadership style of these individuals and how they dealt with adversity will also be examined and compared to other world leaders.

EKIN 160-71 , 72    Fitness

This course will provide students with an introduction to strength and cardiovascular training. Proper techniques, use of equipment, and exercises will be demonstrated. Students will be required to plan and implement their own fitness program during class time.

EKIN 160-73     Yoga

Please note this class meets every Saturday, starting on January 26,2008.

No class Saturday, March 15, last class April 26 th.

ENGLISH 218-95 African Literature/Film

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

Open to Sophomores.    Fulfills General Education Requirement (Content Area 4-INT, Group IV of the old plan). Also fulfills English Major Requirement, and English Minor requirement.

Africa is a vast continent of 54 nations. Sub Saharan African countries began achieving independence from Europe in the late 1950’s. Ghana was the first in 1957 and many others followed in the 1960’s. This course will concentrate on literature and feature and documentary film including the new area of African film videos from sub-Saharan Africa. We’ll read books by African writers such as Chinua Achebe Ama Ata Aidoo and Okey Ndibe. We will also look closely at film/video directors like - Jean Marie Teno, Tsi-Tsi Dangarembga, Sembene Ousmane, Zack Orji. and Ako Abunaw. We would discuss some of the issues raised in these works which include questions of ideology and identity, encounters between urban and rural cultures, conflicts with Europe and the West, issues of race, gender and class and status of men and women. Students will write in-class responses, a short paper and a final exam. A significant part of the final grade will be from class participation.

ENGLISH 234-90 Contemporary Irish Literature

Open to Sophomores with consent (Get permission number from Professor Shea.)

Fulfills General Education requirement Content Area 4: “Diversity and Multiculturalism” (International Course).

Fulfills English Major and Minor requirements as well as “Concentration in Irish Literature” requirement.

The Irish literary critic George O’Brien has recently said “It seems only a slight exaggeration to say that without exile there would be no contemporary Irish fiction.” Within the spectrum of Contemporary Irish Literature, we will focus on writers who, for a multitude of reasons, write about Ireland from a position of exile.

Some of the authors we will appreciate may include James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Liam O’Flaherty, Edna O’Brien, Patrick McGinley, Eavan Boland, Colm McCann, and Paul Muldoon.

Course grades will be based on class participation (a major component), 3 or 4 thoroughly revised take-home essays, a few in-class essays, and a final exam.

ENGLISH 278W-90 Ethnic Autobiography

Open to sophomores (seek permission of instructor). Fulfills General Education Requirement. Also fulfills English Major Requirement, and English Minor Requirement.

Writing from a minority location is an established American literary practice, dating back to the slave narrative. In this course, we will read and analyze contemporary ethnic writing as a continuation of this tradition, but one that has been changing, along with our ideas about cultural identity and representation in texts. We will focus on works produced after the 1960s and 70s, asking questions about how the political struggles and social changes of the period may have reshaped ideas about what constitutes American-ness, and how ethnicity, race, gender, and socio-economic class influence autobiographical writing. The reading list includes representative works from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including African American, Native American, Asian American, Polish American, Latino, Chicano, Jewish American, and the Caribbean. We will examine the role of history and memory in ethnic experience, and how the need to address the dominant culture may be shaping ethnic writing.

The reading list will include the following authors: Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets; Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Childhood Among Ghosts; Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation; Richard Rodriquez, Days of obligation: an argument with my Mexican father; Vivian Gornick, Strong Attachments; Brent Staples, Parallel time: growing up in black and white; LaDonna Harris, A Comanche Life; Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother; selections from other works.

There will be secondary readings in literary criticism and cultural studies (autobiography, anthropology, autoethnography, feminist theory, etc.), which will provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of the texts, for weekly discussions, and formal writing assignments. The course grade will be based on class participation, weekly reading responses, and several revised essays.

GEOLOGY 105-95      Earth and Life Through Time with Lab

Please note this class meets every Saturday starting on January 26 th, no class March 15 th, last class and final May 3

HDFS 232-95 Early and Middle Childhood Development

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

HDFS 272-95 Family and Work

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

History 229W-95 Europe in the 20th Century

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

HRM 222-95 Federal Law and Collective Bargaining

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

INTD 182-71   Peer Involvement

This seminar will focus on collaborative learning and prepare students to become peer educators. We will consider the problems confronting students ( especially commuter students) and discuss strategies for becoming productive members of the University community. We will explore the following: effective communication, active listening, conflict resolution, decision making, problem solving and leadership skills. Students will be given the opportunity to get involved with leadership and student activities.

INTD 182-73     FYE Seminar

Instructor Ron Glaz

Seinfeld and Philosophy

How is Jerry like Socrates? Is Elaine a feminist? What would Aristotle have thought of George? Is Kramer stuck in Kierkegaard’s aesthetic stage of life? Not only was “Seinfeld” the most popular and widely acclaimed sitcom of the 90’s- it was the most philosophical sitcom of all times as well. Though it was indeed “a show about nothing” it has much to tell us about the metaphysics of…nothingness. It also sheds light on morality and what it takes to live “the moral life” in today’s day and age.

Nursing 110-71     Introduction to Health

Originating from the Storrs campus, this course will be conducted via interactive compressed video and audio interaction between the instructor and students

OPIM 203C   -71   Business Information Systems

This course is Web and CD based. In addition ,class will meet each Monday from 11-1p.

 Pharmacy 203 -71    Human Physiology and Anatomy II

Originating from the Storrs campus, this course will be conducted via interactive compressed video and audio interaction between the instructor and students

Physics 127-71 Physics for the Health Sciences

This course will be conducted via interactive compressed video and audio interaction between the instructor and students

POLS 251-95   Law and Society

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

Political Science 296-71:   US and Vietnam War

A course on the United States and the Vietnam War means confronting a huge swath of modern American history, the enormous institutional changes initiated by World War II, and the attitudes and outlooks of an entire generation of political leaders. It also means confronting the experiences and memories of those who experienced the war firsthand.This course will intermix scholarly analysis with personal memoirs to gain the analytical tools for comprehending why and how the War proceeded the way it did, but also to listen closely to the voices of those who experienced it. Key questions include: Why did we get involved in Vietnam? How did we go about fighting the war? Why did we lose? What did the war do to those who fought it, and to our nation as a whole? What did we as a nation take away from our involvement in this war? This is a reading and discussion course, with films and guest speakers. There will be three take-home essays: one take-home midterm and then two take-home essays in the second half of the course.

Political Science 296W-90 Identity, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict

This course distinguishes between ethnic groups, national groups and states. We will understand the differing nature of ethnic conflict and civil wars. This class uses theoretical devices to examine the root causes of nationalism and conflict. We study myriad cases, from the Balkans, Africa, The Americas and Eurasia, with a focus on Chechnya.

POLS 296W-95    Globalization and Social Movements

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Feb 2,16, March 1, 15,29, April 12,26, last class and final May 10

In a world where power relationships are often only understood on the state or international level this course will explore the power of the everyday citizen. How much impact can people have on the course of politics? Answering this requires a focus on the role of globalization and with it the rise of transnational advocacy networks and social movements. This course will provide both a theoretical introduction to the social movement and globalization literature as well as case study analysis of 'real world' events.

PP 296-90 Resource Development for Nonprofit Organizations

This course covers important concepts in the fundraising process unique to local, national and international nonprofit organizations. It provides students with the skills and competencies to effectively raise funds for nonprofit organizations.  It will cover fundraising techniques and strategies; donor relations; annual giving campaigns; volunteer motivation; special event coordination; grant writing; publications; and influence of technology.

PNB 265-90 ( 91,92,93)   Human Physiology and Anatomy

Lectures will be held at the Hartford Campus. Labs will be held at the STORRS campus

SOCIOLOGY 250W-95 Sociology of the Family

Please note this class meets on alternating Saturdays from 8:30-1:30

Jan.26,Feb 9,23,March 8,22,April 5,19, last class and final May 3

SOCIOLOGY 266-90   The Social Construction of Happiness

STATISTICS 100 QC-95 Introduction to Statistics 1

Please note this class meets every Saturday starting on January 26 th, no class March 15 th, last class and final May 3