Adult Noncredit Programs

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The work of Courbet, Manet, and the circle of the Impressionists sets the stage for the revolutionary modern movements of the 20th century (e.g., Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism). The course concludes with those artists who came to prominence in America at the time of World War II.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Humanities 2047
Instructor: Warren, Sarah
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Introduces the basics of pronunciation and of the structural and writing systems of standard modern Chinese (Mandarin Chinese).

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Humanities 1040
Instructor: He, Xiang
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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Classical ballet course designed especially for students in all disciplines.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Dance 1030
Instructor: Malbrough, Joseph
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $260

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A study of the origins and training in the technique of hip-hop as a contemporary form of “street dance.”

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Dance 1057
Instructor: Garnier, Shawn
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $260

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The fall semester of a year-long technique course that provides intermediate-level training for students in Level I modern technique. Students improve and reinforce technical proficiency, artistic growth, and performance skills. They also build and retain a movement range and vocabulary that demonstrates an increase in strength, agility, flexibility, and endurance through classical and contemporary modern dance techniques. Placement audition required; placement by faculty.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon @ 12:45 PM-02:15 PM in Dance 1006
Fri @ 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Dance 1006
Instructor: Clark, Larry
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $197

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Learn the diverse dance & drum culture of West Africa, through dancing, drumming, singing, presentations and video clips. Cultural learning will focus on the meaning and purpose of the dances; call and response singing; the role of the drum; and social expressions of communal life.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 04:30 PM-06:10 PM in Dance 1057
Instructor: Thiam, Lamine
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $260

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Noncredit
Students delve into courting, accessing, and developing creativity, imagination, and innovation through whole-body fluidity. Several creative processes are explored, such as choreography, voice, and movement into text and movement; poetry in motion; writing; acting; and becoming aware of presence and how to embody it in a wide range of performance and life circumstances.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue @ 06:30 PM-08:00 PM in Dance 1045
Instructor: Noblit-Gambino, Melanie
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $180

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Noncredit
An introduction to the methodology of Joseph Pilates via his originally designed Pilates equipment, which is spring-based resistance. The focus is on the Reformer; the Cadillac/Wall Units, the Wunda Chair, Electric Chair, and Ladder Barrel, plus additional equipment such as the Small Barrel and Spine Corrector are secondary. Students participate in servicing the Pilates equipment.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon @ 09:00 AM-10:10 AM in Dance 0009
Instructor: Clark, Larry
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: DPM1555 Or DPC1300
Cost: $90

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Noncredit
Class in modern/contemporary dance technique for freshman dance majors.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Wed @ 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in Dance 1001
Instructor: Clark, Larry
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $197

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Noncredit
Students develop advanced language skills through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Working with advanced texts, they further develop critical reading and analytical skills. They gain experience with academic writing, including cause and effect, comparative, narrative, and opinion pieces, and learn basic research skills. Students practice analyzing information and expressing ideas verbally and in writing, and continue to strengthen grammar and vocabulary.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 08:30 AM-10:10 AM in Humanities 2031
Instructor: Cooper, Deborah
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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In this introduction to the basics of documentary filmmaking, students learn what it means to construct a visual argument, with attention to process, place, documentary ethics, and good interviewing techniques. Production is complemented by screenings, class discussions, and demonstrations.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Thu @ 04:30 PM-08:20 PM in Cntr for Media, Film, Theatre 2032
Instructor: Spione, James
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: FLM1050 Or COM1400
Cost: $520

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Noncredit
For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written French by involving the student in situations that concretely represent the concepts of the language.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Humanities 1043
Instructor: Amado, Carlos
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language, and for students who are majoring in language and culture. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written German by involving the student in interactive situations.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Wed @ 07:00 PM-08:40 PM in Humanities 1041
Instructor: Jantke-Chiappari, Camilla
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written Italian by involving the student in situations that concretely represent the concepts of the language.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 02:30 PM-04:10 PM in Online ONLINE
Instructor: Farina, Patrizia
Type of Instruction: Online - Synchronous
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
A continuation of ITA 1010. Increased time is devoted to reading and writing. The development of oral skills remains the primary objective of the course.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 04:30 PM-06:10 PM in Online ONLINE
Instructor: Farina, Patrizia
Type of Instruction: Online - Synchronous
Prereq: ITA1010
Cost: $625

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Noncredit
Students learn how the Bible is the essential foundation for Judaic and Christian cultures, and how it has impacted world history. The course starts with Genesis, the Old Testament, and ends with Revelations, New Testament. Students do close readings of the Bible’s remarkable collection of stories, poems, proverbs and more, all in an historical context.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 04:30 PM-06:10 PM in Humanities 1032
Instructor: Schlesinger, Lee
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
Examines the interplay between new art forms and technologies from early modernism through today. Focusing on how the two fields have developed in relation to each other, the course addresses two questions: what is the relationship between technology, technique, and art, and how has it changed over time? This is both an art survey course and a study of related philosophical questions.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Wed @ 09:10 AM-11:40 AM in Cntr for Media, Film, Theatre 0039
Instructor: Topal, Hakan
Type of Instruction: Traditional
Prereq: NME1050 Or MSA1050
Cost: $520

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A critical introduction to major Asian philosophical systems, including Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Particular attention is given to core themes in traditional texts and later commentaries pertaining to metaphysical questions about the nature of reality, epistemological questions about the sources of knowledge, ethical questions about virtuous conduct and the good life, and aesthetic questions about art and beauty.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Online ONLINE
Instructor: Landle, Bridger
Type of Instruction: Online - Synchronous
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Cost: $625

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An examination of the deep relationships—metaphysical, ethical, and spiritual—between human beings and all other nonhuman species and ecosystems in the natural world. Key questions include: What does it mean, metaphysically, to say that humans are (or are not) “part of nature”? Do humans have duties towards nonhuman species? Do any nonhuman species have rights? When do ecological philosophies become politically controversial? Readings from selected contemporary and traditional philosophers and environmental thinkers.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 02:30 PM-04:10 PM in Humanities 1039
Instructor: Haskins, Casey
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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Emphasizes both swimming and aquatic survival skills. The course includes personal safety in the aquatic environment, basic swimming strokes, use of safety and rescue equipment, survival swimming skills, rescue breathing and basic care for an airway obstruction, entries into the water, and aquatic fitness for life.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Physical Education 1021
Instructor: Anker, Judy
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $320

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American Red Cross fundamentals of instructor training and water safety instructor skills. Students must pay a $175 fee to the Red Cross for additional books and administrative fees and attend one six-week session of the Community Learn to Swim program.Note: Students are required to teach 18 hours per semester in the Community Learn to Swim program and complete written lesson plans for each lesson taught. The teaching must be done during Wednesday or Thursday, 3:30–5:15 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m., or Sunday, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Physical Education 1018
Instructor: Anker, Judy
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $320

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Offers students an opportunity to learn from the bronze level International Latin and Standard dances through the exploration of basic figures, actions, and techniques as established by the syllabi written by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (ISTD). Learning the etiquette teaches students to treat their bodies and the bodies of all others with the utmost care and respect; and learning the figures teaches a new language with which to communicate. Students will learn how to lead and follow the dances comprising DanceSport: Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, and Jive.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 12:30 PM-02:10 PM in Physical Education 2009
Instructor: Cruz, Natalie
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $320

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Students learn the fundamentals of belly dancing (e.g., hip circles, undulations, shimmies) and progress to layering of movements. Familiarity with Arabic rhythms, cultural knowledge as it pertains to this dance form, finger cymbals, veil work, and choreography are covered. The natural movements of belly dancing, which improve flexibility, endurance, and coordination, are appropriate for all fitness levels.

Term Dates: Tuesday, October 15 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 12:30 PM-02:10 PM in Physical Education 2002
Instructor: Bora, Bina
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $180

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Noncredit
For students who have had little or no previous exposure to the language. Presents the essential structures of spoken and written Spanish by involving the student in situations that concretely represent the concepts of the language.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Tue Fri @ 12:30 PM-02:10 PM in Humanities 2044
Instructor: Waller, Mary
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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A continuation of SPA 1010. Increased time is devoted to reading and writing. Development of oral skills remains the primary objective of the course.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 10:30 AM-12:10 PM in Online ONLINE
Instructor: Symons, Deborah
Type of Instruction: Online - Synchronous
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
For students already familiar with the fundamentals of spoken and written Spanish. Through various reading assignments, students are given a context for discussion to increase vocabulary and speaking ease. Weekly compositions serve as an aid for grammar review.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
Meeting Times: Mon Thu @ 06:30 PM-08:10 PM in Humanities 1040
Instructor: Menendez-Conde, Ernesto
Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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Noncredit
Students learn translation theory and methodology applied to Spanish. Students practice translation techniques applied to a variety of text types, such as poetry, fiction, comics and films.

Term Dates: Monday, August 26 - Friday, December 13
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Type of Instruction: Traditional
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Cost: $625

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