Showing posts with label Summer Courses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Courses. Show all posts
Friday, April 23, 2021
Commercial Space Startups, Urban Planning for the Future, and more this Summer!
Hello GeoTerps!
We wanted to share with you all today four new and exciting summer-only courses! These courses are NOT offered during the Fall/Spring semesters. Email geog-advise@umd.edu to see how they might fit into your degree plan!
GEOG398X: Commercial Space Startups and Entrepreneurship
Dr. Hannah Kerner
Students will be introduced to the commercial "newspace" industry as it relates to startup companies working on products and services related to geospatial technologies. Lectures will include guest speakers from newspace companies and investors. In addition, students will learn about how to develop a startup idea, stages of investment, etc. culminating in their own space-related startup pitch.
GEOG298C: Urban Futures: Planning for a Changing Climate
Dr. Keith Yearwood
How are the cities of the world adapting to or planning to adapt to climate change? This course focuses on urban areas and the environment, specifically how anthropogenic factors have impacted the environment and how the environment has responded. The aim is to discover how associated and concomitant problems owing to the development and use of the planets resources are created and the various approaches to reduce the negative impacts of these problems through a variety of approaches.
GEOG130: Development Geography: Environmental & Social Justice (Scholarship in Practice Gen Ed!)
Prof. Ipsita Kumar
The geography of economic, social, and environmental well-being and inequality. The course will provide an integrated perspective on the causes, interconnections, and consequences across time and space of, among others, globalization, climate change, poverty, employment, migration and urban growth, agricultural productivity, rural development, policies and international trade. Portraits of selected countries and regions will be developed.
GEOG340: Geomorphology
Dr. Keith Yearwood
Survey of landform types and role of processes in their generation. Frequency of occurrence and implications for land utilization. Emphasis on coastal, fluvial, and glacial landforms in different environmental settings. Landform regions of Maryland.
Monday, June 8, 2020
Thursday, May 21, 2020
WMST/LGBT Summer Courses
Summer Courses In WMST & LGBT
Please register for any Summer 1 courses you are interested in ASAP. If you have questions about any of our classes please contact womensstudies@umd.edu.
Session 1: June 1 – July 10, 2020
LGBT200 Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Section WB11 CORE: SB, D GenEd: DSHS, DVUP Instructor: Dr. Iván Ramos
An interdisciplinary study of the historical and social contexts of personal, cultural and political aspects of LGBT life. Sources from a variety of fields, such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and women’s studies, focusing on writings by and about LGBT people.
An interdisciplinary study of the historical and social contexts of personal, cultural and political aspects of LGBT life. Sources from a variety of fields, such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and women’s studies, focusing on writings by and about LGBT people.
WMST250 Introduction to Women’s Studies: Women, Art and Culture
Section WB11 Core: HA, D GenEd: DSHU, DVUP Instructor: Clara Montague
An examination of women’s creative powers as expressed in selected examples of music, film, art, drama, poetry, fiction, and other literature. We will examine women’s creativity in relation to families, religion, education, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and within a cultural tradition shaped by women. This class explores women’s roles as producers, subjects, consumers, and critics of art in the past, present, and future. Drawing on music, literature, performance, crafts, visual, and multimedia genres, we will situate art in conversation with sociopolitical movements on behalf of social justice. We will focus on how women’s creativity intersects with other dimensions of identity, including race, class, sexuality, and ability, in our increasingly digital world.
An examination of women’s creative powers as expressed in selected examples of music, film, art, drama, poetry, fiction, and other literature. We will examine women’s creativity in relation to families, religion, education, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and within a cultural tradition shaped by women. This class explores women’s roles as producers, subjects, consumers, and critics of art in the past, present, and future. Drawing on music, literature, performance, crafts, visual, and multimedia genres, we will situate art in conversation with sociopolitical movements on behalf of social justice. We will focus on how women’s creativity intersects with other dimensions of identity, including race, class, sexuality, and ability, in our increasingly digital world.
WMST298N Racialized Gender and Rebel Media
Section WB11 Meets June 1, 2020 – July 10, 2020 GenEd: DSSP Instructor: Tangere Hoagland
Rebel Media: media for and by women of color that work to resist discrimination, oppression, and controlling images about women of color.
How do different forms of media shape the stories which circulate about race, femininities, masculinities, ethnicities, sexualities, religiosity, power and difference? How have various media formats been used to disrupt dominant stories, to tell new stories, and to create differing understandings of citizenships?
As a Scholarship in Practice course, students will analyze existing media campaigns, have a chance to develop their own ideas and media campaign to address a current social justice issue. Over the course of the semester students will explore the work of activists, scholars, and artists who have produced media that is used as a platform for racial justice, feminist activism, and cultural transformation, with a focus on the expressions of women of color. Students will explore activist media such as blogs, posters, zines, pamphlets, wearable media, sound, film, and more.
Rebel Media: media for and by women of color that work to resist discrimination, oppression, and controlling images about women of color.
How do different forms of media shape the stories which circulate about race, femininities, masculinities, ethnicities, sexualities, religiosity, power and difference? How have various media formats been used to disrupt dominant stories, to tell new stories, and to create differing understandings of citizenships?
As a Scholarship in Practice course, students will analyze existing media campaigns, have a chance to develop their own ideas and media campaign to address a current social justice issue. Over the course of the semester students will explore the work of activists, scholars, and artists who have produced media that is used as a platform for racial justice, feminist activism, and cultural transformation, with a focus on the expressions of women of color. Students will explore activist media such as blogs, posters, zines, pamphlets, wearable media, sound, film, and more.
WMST379L/ LASC 348A /HIST 328I Topics in Women’s Studies; Online & In the Streets: Women’s Struggles for Justice in Latin America
Section WB31 (accelerated June 1, 2020 – June 19, 2020) Instructors: Dr. Cara Snyder and Sabrina González
Women’s struggles for justice in Latin America are at a critical historical juncture. Feminists throughout the hemisphere are organizing en mass to demand change and justice, to denounce pervasive misogyny and gender violence, and to envision and realize another world. They are mobilizing in digital and physical spaces under the hashtags #NiUnaMenos and #AbortoLegalYa, to condemn femicide, to advocate access to legal abortions in public hospitals, and to introduce comprehensive sex education in public schools. Women are fighting together for the right to live without fear, the right to make decisions about their own bodies, and the right to exist in a more feminist and just world.
Women’s struggles for justice in Latin America are at a critical historical juncture. Feminists throughout the hemisphere are organizing en mass to demand change and justice, to denounce pervasive misogyny and gender violence, and to envision and realize another world. They are mobilizing in digital and physical spaces under the hashtags #NiUnaMenos and #AbortoLegalYa, to condemn femicide, to advocate access to legal abortions in public hospitals, and to introduce comprehensive sex education in public schools. Women are fighting together for the right to live without fear, the right to make decisions about their own bodies, and the right to exist in a more feminist and just world.
WMST400 Theories of Feminism
Section WB11 Prerequisite: one course in WMST or cross-listed with WMSTInstructor: Dr. Sydney Lewis
A study of the multiplicity of feminist theories which have been developed to explain women’s position in the family, the workplace, and society. Major feminist writings are considered in the context of their historical moment and in the context of the intellectual traditions to which they relate.
A study of the multiplicity of feminist theories which have been developed to explain women’s position in the family, the workplace, and society. Major feminist writings are considered in the context of their historical moment and in the context of the intellectual traditions to which they relate.
WMST498M/ HIST360 Advanced Special Topics in Women’s Studies; Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Section WB31 (accelerated June 1, 2020 – June 19, 2020) Instructor: Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown
Twentieth-century U.S. civil rights movement from the vantage point of women, considering both women’s involvement in the legal campaigns and political protests and the impact of civil rights struggles on women’s condition, status, and identity.
Twentieth-century U.S. civil rights movement from the vantage point of women, considering both women’s involvement in the legal campaigns and political protests and the impact of civil rights struggles on women’s condition, status, and identity.
Session 2: July 13 – August 21, 2020
LGBT 327/ ENGL 359F: LGBTQ+ Film and Video
Section WB41 (accelerated July 13, 2020 – July 31, 2020) Core: D GenEd: DSHU and DVUP Instructor: Dr. James Goodwin
Comparative analysis of forms, themes, and the politics of representation in film and video by and/or about LGBT people. This course begins from the premise that movies are designed to give us a variety of meaningful viewing experiences, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes not. The class teaches a range of analytical approaches for understanding how films create meanings and what those meanings may be. In this course, we will trace both the diversity and similarities between global and Western representations of what we call homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender identities as represented in film and video.
Comparative analysis of forms, themes, and the politics of representation in film and video by and/or about LGBT people. This course begins from the premise that movies are designed to give us a variety of meaningful viewing experiences, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes not. The class teaches a range of analytical approaches for understanding how films create meanings and what those meanings may be. In this course, we will trace both the diversity and similarities between global and Western representations of what we call homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender identities as represented in film and video.
WMST250 Introduction to Women’s Studies: Women, Art and Culture
Section WB21 Core: HA, D GenEd: DSHU, DVUP Instructor: Cheyenne Stevens
An examination of women’s creative powers as expressed in selected examples of music, film, art, drama, poetry, fiction, and other literature. We will examine women’s creativity in relation to families, religion, education, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and within a cultural tradition shaped by women. This class explores women’s roles as producers, subjects, consumers, and critics of art in the past, present, and future. Drawing on music, literature, performance, crafts, visual, and multimedia genres, we will situate art in conversation with sociopolitical movements on behalf of social justice. We will focus on how women’s creativity intersects with other dimensions of identity, including race, class, sexuality, and ability, in our increasingly digital world.
An examination of women’s creative powers as expressed in selected examples of music, film, art, drama, poetry, fiction, and other literature. We will examine women’s creativity in relation to families, religion, education, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and within a cultural tradition shaped by women. This class explores women’s roles as producers, subjects, consumers, and critics of art in the past, present, and future. Drawing on music, literature, performance, crafts, visual, and multimedia genres, we will situate art in conversation with sociopolitical movements on behalf of social justice. We will focus on how women’s creativity intersects with other dimensions of identity, including race, class, sexuality, and ability, in our increasingly digital world.
WMST 265/AASP 298B Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community
Section WB21 CORE: HO, D GenEd: DSHS, DVUP Instructor: Dr. Michelle V. Rowley
This course investigates the ways that African Americans are represented and constructed in public and private spheres and explores the social constructions and representations of Black manhood and womanhood from various disciplinary perspectives. We will use art, poetry, statistical data, film, theory, concepts, and documentaries to examine the varied and multiple understandings and experiences of wearing a black identity within the U.S. and to a lesser extent the African Diaspora.
In our time together, we will center the experiences of cis and transgender black people. We will leave the course knowing more about the Black Arts Movement, right alongside the Blaxploitation Genre. We will read Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun and best-selling author, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s THICK. Reproductive Justice, Rethinking Prisons, Labor/Class, these are just some of the issues we will discuss.
This course investigates the ways that African Americans are represented and constructed in public and private spheres and explores the social constructions and representations of Black manhood and womanhood from various disciplinary perspectives. We will use art, poetry, statistical data, film, theory, concepts, and documentaries to examine the varied and multiple understandings and experiences of wearing a black identity within the U.S. and to a lesser extent the African Diaspora.
In our time together, we will center the experiences of cis and transgender black people. We will leave the course knowing more about the Black Arts Movement, right alongside the Blaxploitation Genre. We will read Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun and best-selling author, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s THICK. Reproductive Justice, Rethinking Prisons, Labor/Class, these are just some of the issues we will discuss.
AASP498Z Special Topics in Black Culture; Black Women in Popular Culture: From the Blues to Beyoncé
Section WB 21 Instructor: Renina Jarmon
Students will develop a broad understand of African American women in popular culture through the study of a variety of cultural forms such as literary texts, films, documentaries, visual art and novels. Students will develop an understanding of the connections between African American women’s cultural forms and the historical contexts our of which these cultural traditions arose.
Students will develop a broad understand of African American women in popular culture through the study of a variety of cultural forms such as literary texts, films, documentaries, visual art and novels. Students will develop an understanding of the connections between African American women’s cultural forms and the historical contexts our of which these cultural traditions arose.
Friday, May 8, 2020
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
INST408N
Course Announcement for Summer 2020 - INST408N Becoming A Social Media Influencer
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Understand and interpret social media analytics
- Generate high quality photos and text content for social media
- Implement strategies for building engagement with social media content
- Build influential social media profiles
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
START Summer Courses
Interested in taking an online terrorism studies course? Consider taking one of these 3-credit classes this summer through the University of Maryland's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)! These courses are completely online and open to students from all majors and universities.
The following courses are offered online this summer:
Summer I: June 1-July 10, 2020
BSST338E/638A: Political Assassinations**Summer I: June 1-July 10, 2020
BSST370/638F: Financing Terror and Hate**
Summer II: July 13-August 21, 2020BSST338O: School Shooters and Spree Killers
BSST372/638B: Terrorist Hostage Taking**
Non-Standard Summer: June 1-August 21, 2020
BSST386: Experiential Learning in Terrorism Studies
**Also available at the graduate level
For more information visit this link or contact the Education Team at START: education-start@umd.edu.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
UAF Summer Course
Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems
Summer Field Course, 8–24 June 2020University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) announces a 3-credit, 17-day summer field course: "BIOL 495/ 695, Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems." The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the Arctic.
The course includes two days of classroom instruction and local field trips in the Fairbanks area followed by a 13-day field excursion to Alaska's North Slope of the Brooks Range. Instructors include arctic research scientists and local experts in permafrost, vegetation, birds, mammals, ecosystem science, Arctic parks, life in an arctic village, and oilfield environmental research. Students will undertake an independent research project of their choosing. The course concludes with two days for student presentations at UAF.
The class will travel along the Dalton Highway, which traverses boreal forest, alpine, and arctic tundra biomes from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. Eleven days will be spent camping at different locations along the route. We will also spend a night at Toolik Field Station, a world-renowned arctic research station.
The cost of transportation and meals during the field excursion is included in the course fee, as well as lodging at Toolik Field Station and on UAF’s campus. (Students are responsible for meals during the 4-day campus portion of the course.) Students will need to bring all-weather clothing including winter jackets and rubber boots, and a good sleeping bag and three-season tent (if available—a limited selection of sleeping bags and expedition tents are available to those who do not have them).
The course is limited to 10 undergraduate and/or graduate students. Pre-requisites include two semesters of college-level science with one upper-level course or permission of instructor. A $250 non-refundable deposit is required by 15 April 2020. The balance of the course payment is due 15 May. International students must submit an International Student Summer Application and supporting documents by 15 March.
Registration is now open for all students at www.uaf.edu/summer/courses/fieldcourses.php
Questions? Contact Skip Walker (dawalker@alaska.edu)
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems Summer Field Course
Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems Summer Field Course, 8–24 June 2020
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) announces a 3-credit, 17-day summer field course: "BIOL 495/695, Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems." The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the Arctic. The course includes two days of classroom instruction and local field trips in the Fairbanks area followed by a 13-day field excursion to Alaska's North Slope of the Brooks Range. Instructors include arctic research scientists and local experts in permafrost, vegetation, birds, mammals, ecosystem science, Arctic parks, life in an arctic village, and oilfield environmental research. Students will undertake an independent research project of their choosing. The course concludes with two days for student presentations at UAF. The class will travel along the Dalton Highway, which traverses boreal forest, alpine, and arctic tundra biomes from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. Eleven days will be spent camping at different locations along the route. We will also spend a night at Toolik Field Station, a world-renowned arctic research station. The cost of transportation and meals during the field excursion is included in the course fee, as well as lodging at Toolik Field Station and on UAF’s campus. (Students are responsible for meals during the 4-day campus portion of the course.) Students will need to bring all-weather clothing including winter jackets and rubber boots, and a good sleeping bag and three-season tent (if available—a limited selection of sleeping bags and expedition tents are available to those who do not have them). The course is limited to 10 undergraduate and/or graduate students. Pre-requisites include two semesters of college-level science with one upper-level course or permission of instructor. A $250 non-refundable deposit is required by 15 April 2020. The balance of the course payment is due 15 May. International students must submit an International Student Summer Application and supporting documents by 15 March. Registration begins February 10 (degree-seeking students), February 24 (all students). For more information and to register go to www.uaf.edu/summer/courses/fieldcourses.php
Questions? Contact Skip Walker (dawalker@alaska.edu) or Amy Breen (albreen@alaska.edu)
www.facebook.com/arcticalaskaecosystems
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) announces a 3-credit, 17-day summer field course: "BIOL 495/695, Arctic Alaska Vegetation, Permafrost & Ecosystems." The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the Arctic. The course includes two days of classroom instruction and local field trips in the Fairbanks area followed by a 13-day field excursion to Alaska's North Slope of the Brooks Range. Instructors include arctic research scientists and local experts in permafrost, vegetation, birds, mammals, ecosystem science, Arctic parks, life in an arctic village, and oilfield environmental research. Students will undertake an independent research project of their choosing. The course concludes with two days for student presentations at UAF. The class will travel along the Dalton Highway, which traverses boreal forest, alpine, and arctic tundra biomes from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, AK. Eleven days will be spent camping at different locations along the route. We will also spend a night at Toolik Field Station, a world-renowned arctic research station. The cost of transportation and meals during the field excursion is included in the course fee, as well as lodging at Toolik Field Station and on UAF’s campus. (Students are responsible for meals during the 4-day campus portion of the course.) Students will need to bring all-weather clothing including winter jackets and rubber boots, and a good sleeping bag and three-season tent (if available—a limited selection of sleeping bags and expedition tents are available to those who do not have them). The course is limited to 10 undergraduate and/or graduate students. Pre-requisites include two semesters of college-level science with one upper-level course or permission of instructor. A $250 non-refundable deposit is required by 15 April 2020. The balance of the course payment is due 15 May. International students must submit an International Student Summer Application and supporting documents by 15 March. Registration begins February 10 (degree-seeking students), February 24 (all students). For more information and to register go to www.uaf.edu/summer/courses/fieldcourses.php
Questions? Contact Skip Walker (dawalker@alaska.edu) or Amy Breen (albreen@alaska.edu)
www.facebook.com/arcticalaskaecosystems
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
SOCY477- Intersectionality and Illness- Summer Session I-B starting June 17
Students who would like to explore a sociological approach to understanding health disparity can now register for SOCY479: Intersectionality and Illness, offered online this summer (June 17th - July 5th).
Students will examine the social determinants of disease: the relationship between socioeconomic status and health care access, as well as investigate the links between social status and disease chronicity. Students will also explore how health disparities, health resource distribution, and susceptibility disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities with chronic diseases.
Departmental permission to register for the course can be granted by calling 301-405-6389, for students who lack the prerequisite of (6) credits of SOCY coursework.
Monday, April 22, 2019
Summer Courses
***NEW COURSE ADDED
GEOG474
Foundations for GIS: Geospatial Databases Syllabus Repository
Introduction to key aspects of database design for GIS applications; major database models that support spatial data; formal models for key spatial relationships that underlie many different GIS applications; basics of SQL for making queries on datasets; design and construction of ArcGIS geodatabases; ArcGIS tools for geoprocessing.
Meets July 8, 2019 - August 16, 2019
MW 6:30pm - 10:00pm
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