Global Education Network
Initial Review: October 30, 2002
Additional Review: Nov. 18 & 21, 2001
Allen Technology, d/b/a Global Education Network
(GEN) was founded in 1999 to create high quality
computer-based courses for students in the liberal arts.
GEN develops CD-ROM supplemented by web-based
courses in the arts and sciences and distributes them
worldwide. The company's vision is to provide a high
quality educational experience to the greatest number
of people through the use of emerging Internet
technologies. On October 30, 2002, assessment of
materials for five GEN courses was held at Charter
Oak State College's offices in New Britain, CT, and
credit awards approved as stated below.
For students who have successfully completed one or
more of the approved courses, GEN will submit a
transcript to Charter Oak State College. The College
will incorporate this student information into its Credit
Registry and will maintain a permanent file for the
student, who may then submit requests for official
transcripts to Charter Oak.
Source of official student records:
Registrar
Global Education Network
200 West 57th Street, Suite 1101
New York, NY 10019
COURSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Alexander the Great (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: 75 hours (approx. 5 hrs/wk for 15-wk term)
Dates: June 2002 – 2007
Objectives:
This course draws strongly from the
disciplines of classical studies, military studies, gender
studies, religious studies, literature, political science,
geography, history of the Mediterranean and Middle
East, archaeology, and anthropology.
Students
develop the following skills, among others: how to
read and analyze primary & secondary historical texts;
how to "read" historic artifacts and archaeological
sites; how to read maps and geographic terrain; and
how to analyze military strategy.
Instruction:
Pre-course
reading,
CD-ROM
supplemented by online lecture/discussion and
interaction; self-study.
Calculus I (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: 75 hours (approx. 5 hrs/wk for 15-wk term)
Dates: June 2002 – 2007
Objectives: This course is concerned with developing
a student's understanding of the concepts of calculus
and providing experience in its methods and
applications. A multi-representational approach is
emphasized, with concepts, results, and problems
being
expressed
geometrically,
numerically,
graphically, analytically and verbally. Broad concepts
& widely applicable methods, notations, and shortcuts
are taught. Although memorization of rules and
taxonomies for problems, functions, equations, etc. are
consistently addressed, they serve as shells surrounding the core of the course, which is understanding the
unifying themes of derivatives, integrals, limits,
approximation, applications and modeling, both
conceptually and how they impact daily life.
Instruction: CD-ROM supplemented by online
lecture/discussion, drilling and interaction; self-study.
Chemistry I (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: 100 hours (approx. 7 hrs/wk for 15-wk term)
Dates: June 2002 – 2007
Objectives: This course is designed to introduce the
student to the foundations of chemical science and its
applications. Students learn the composition, structure
and properties of substances; understand and solve
common chemical problems; build quantitative skills
applicable to all sciences; and develop an appreciation
of the importance of attaining reproducible data from
controlled experiments. They explore fundamental
physical models; visualize chemical systems and
relate them to everyday situations; and grasp connections between microscopic & macroscopic events.
Instruction:
Pre-course
reading,
CD-ROM
supplemented by online lecture/discussion and
interaction; self-study.
U.S. History II: From Reconstruction to Modern
Day (3cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: 75 hours (approx. 5 hrs/wk for 15-wk term)
Dates: Jan. 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This course immerses students in stories
and interpretations of important people, events, and
concepts central to understanding the history of the
United States. Students come to understand how and
why questions that historians ask about the past are
shaped by present concerns; learn to search for
historically valid explanations of how and why things
changed over time; and develop and demonstrate
deeper understanding of both past and present.
Instruction:
CD-ROM supplemented by online
lecture/ discussion; readings; interactive activities and
research assignments; self-study.
Understanding Mass Media (3cr. Upper)
Location: On line
Length: 75 hours (approx. 5 hrs/wk for 15-wk term)
Dates: June 2000 – 2007
Objectives: This course challenges students to think
about, discuss, and grapple with issues concerning
American Mass Media over the last 50 years. In a
series of analytical and interactive classes, students
examine the media's impact and perspective on race,
gender, and celebrity, as well as examining media's
influence on advertising, celebrity politics, campaign
reform and war coverage. With the use of thousands
of images and animations, original sound tracks and
video footage, students are guided through media
issues in America, exploiting the power of the Internet
to express their views and thought in an open and
engaging forum.
Instruction:
CD-ROM supplemented by online
lecture/ discussion and interaction; self-study.
COURSES REVIEWED ON NOVEMBER 18 & 21, 2003
American Cinema (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This basic level course is a study of
American films. Students will study the history of the
silent era, learn to recognize and use the basic
technical and critical vocabulary of motion pictures,
and understand how the technology of the cinema
relates to film art.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
American Passages: A Literary Survey, Part I (3
cr. Intermediate)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This is the first part of a two-semester
literature course that approaches its subject with an
emphasis on imparting the student with a contextual
understanding of American literature. Created to
illuminate American literature by connecting
canonical writers, and those less often taught, the 8
half-hour documentary programs explore works of
fiction, prose and poetry within their historical, social,
and cultural contexts. These video programs, along
with print guides and a rich Web site, take an
expanded view of American literary movements,
bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the
continuities among them. This course encompasses
the first part of the American Passages curriculum and
covers Native Voices, Exploring Borderlands, Utopian
Promise, Spirit of Nationalism, Masculine Heroes,
Gothic Undercurrents, Slavery and Freedom, and
Regional Realism.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
American Passages: A Literary Survey, Part II (3
cr. Intermediate)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This is the second part of a two-semester
literature course that approaches its subject with an
emphasis on a contextual understanding of American
literature. Created to illuminate American literature
by connecting canonical writers and those less often
taught, the course explores works of fiction, prose and
poetry within their historical, social, & cultural contexts. Video programs, along with print guides & Web
resources, take an expanded view of American literary
movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and
tracing the continuities among them. This course encompasses the second part of the American Passages
curriculum and covers Social Realism, Rhythms in
Poetry, Modernist Portraits, Migrant Struggle,
Southern Renaissance, Becoming Visible, Poetry of
Liberation & Search for Identity. Students should
expect a heavy course load of reading assignments.
Prerequisite: American Passages Part I.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Art of the Western World (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This basic level course examines works of
art that have defined the Western visual tradition from
ancient Greece to the present day. The course helps
students appreciate the formal qualities, iconography
and historical importance of these extraordinary
monuments. By studying these works in their original
contexts, the course will show how they closely reflect
the prevailing attitudes of the society in which they
were created, as well as the goals of the artists and
patrons responsible for their creation.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
A Biography of America I (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This basic level course presents history
not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be
memorized, but as a living narrative. Students will see
the human side of American history – how historical
figures affected events and the impact of these events
on citizens’ lives.
Instruction: Reading; self-study, CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
A Biography of America II (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives:
This basic level course follows the
nation’s progress from the celebration of its centennial
through the last quarter of the 20th century, examining
significant events & major players and challenging the
learner to think critically about the meaning of
American history.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
College Algebra: In Simplest Terms (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This course was developed with the
purpose of making mathematical concepts easy to
understand and interesting to work with. Enlivened
with computer graphics & documentary segments, the
26 half-hour video lessons lead students step-by-step
to a thorough understanding of concepts and practical,
real-life applications of algebra. This course will
focus on radicals, exponents, complex numbers, linear
& quadratic equations, inequalities & absolute value.
Additional topics include exponential and logarithmic
properties, graphs of linear, quadratic, exponential &
logarithmic functions, systems of equations &
inequalities and both arithmetic & geometric series.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Dealing With Diversity (3 cr. Intermediate)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: In the last two decades, those who live in
the industrialized West have witnessed dramatic
changes in life conditions and life styles.
Technological developments have quickened the
tempo of everyday living, bringing people in closer
contact than ever before. This intermediate level
course looks at people from many diverse cultures and
helps students understand the different constraints and
motivations of people from diverse backgrounds.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Death: A Personal Understanding (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: Course is designed to provide students
with an introduction to the who, what, where, when,
why and how of death in society. The primary course
goals are to help students deepen their personal understanding of the many dimensions of this topic, to
enable them to become more empathetic and effective
caregivers and providers of support, and to provide
them with tools to critique the “death care” system.
The course provides a framework for understanding
themes presented by experts drawn from fields as
diverse as gerontology, psychology, religion,
anthropology, nursing, social work, and history, and
through actual case studies. Additional topics covered
include research into death anxiety and “the death
system.”
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
English Composition: Writing for an Audience
(3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: An introductory writing course featuring
interviews with professional writers and "regular"
people who must use writing every day in their jobs.
Students examine several different writing genres, and
will understand how writers use description, narration,
comparison, definition, process analysis, persuasion,
and argument. The course shows how awareness of
developing a voice, reading as a writer, reading as a
thinker, and using quotations and citations affect the
composition process. Also covered are what are often
called "rhetorical modes" or "genres," showing how
arguments, narratives, and definitions can be
combined with critical thinking to improve
communication skills. Students view composition as
a continuous process of invention, drafting, rewriting,
and proofreading, examining topics such as freewriting, organizing devices, revision, collaboration,
peer feedback, editing, and techniques to help them
write under pressure or across disciplines.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Ethics in America (3 cr. Intermediate)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This intermediate level course examines
contemporary ethical conflicts and provides grounding
in the language, concepts, and traditions of ethics.
Students are provided the intellectual tools with which
to analyze moral dilemmas in the fields they choose to
pursue and in society.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Exploring Society: Introduction to Sociology (3 cr.
Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: An introductory course that challenges
students to expand their knowledge of sociology by
increasing their awareness of social forces,
communities and human relationships. Students will
recognize that they are at the crossroads of their
personal experiences & social history. Stories and
situations are used to dramatize the human conflicts at
the core of all sociological issues. As they conclude
this study they will be equipped to under-stand that to
be social is to make decisions about how they
participate in the human story.
Course materials
feature interviews with sociologists and other experts
who have been chosen for their individual expertise,
as well as for the diverse backgrounds, approaches
and viewpoints they bring to this production. Students
explore unique sociological ideas through the use of
short, intense visual vignettes, referred to as "Visual
Sociology" or "Then and Now."
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Exploring the World of Music (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: An introductory undergraduate course
designed to create an understanding of the essential
nature of music and its broad international cultural
applications. Students explore the commonalities and
the diverse uses of the basic musical elements—
melody, form, rhythm, texture, timbre, harmony—that
bind all music together, and reveal how these tools are
used to provide sounds of infinite variety. The course
examines theories about the origins of music-making
and the role played by music in all cultures to stir
human emotion and influence human activity.
Students will discover how music is used to inspire
religious feeling, prepare individuals for war, help
people work, enhance games and play, and even
stimulate the passion and love needed to propagate
and nurture the human species. Students will also
experience music made simply for its own sake, as art
or entertainment, performed for others or for
individual fulfillment.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Family Communication (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: In this course, students explore family
communication in everyday life across a wide range of
family types and family interaction patterns. The
course examines the ways in which family members
communicate, make decisions, settle conflict, and
learn to relate to one another. Students develop an
understanding of topics including: multigenerational
communication; the impact of ethnicity on
communication pattern; the role of everyday rituals;
communication rules & stories in sustaining families;
the development of intimacy among family members;
family conflict models and conflict strategies;
decision-making; characteristics of marital and family
types; and changes in family interaction at different
developmental stages. Insights & observations are
shared by an interactive student audience representing
a diverse background of life experience.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online discussion, exercises, video
guests and in-studio guests.
For the Love of Wisdom: (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This introductory course in philosophy
that begins with the familiar Western discourse and
integrates women philosophers and both Asian and
African philosophies throughout. The course offers an
accessible entry point to the “big questions” of reality,
knowledge, and value that form the core of
philosophy. Rooted in the arts and popular culture as
well as in traditional texts, the course draws students
into the philosophical discourse and helps them
explore its possibilities for their own lives. From the
Axial Age during which major thought systems were
created throughout the world, to the neurophysiology
of the human brain, this course situates the Western
philosophical tradition in a worldwide context and
correlates it with insights from the arts, humanities,
sciences, and social sciences.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Human Geography (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This course functions as a map to the
cultural landscape of our time, providing a world perspective and helping students understand the lay of the
land in terms of broad social patterns. Combining
economic and cultural geography, the course examines interrelationships between humans and the natural
environment; the mode of production and wealth
creation; and differences between one place and
another in terms of the customs, mores, & institutions
that create and maintain human societies. In Human
Geography, these two types of geography are combined in holistic ways by focusing on multifaceted
contemporary problems. One of the goals of the
course is to integrate the disparate events of the present day into clearly recognizable trends, to provide
students with an understanding of the causes behind
dateline news events. The course helps students
appreciate the interconnectedness of our world and
recognize the impact that government, corporate,
group, and individual decisions have on their lives.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Inside the Global Economy (3 cr. Upper)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This upper level course is designed to
examine the prominent forces and core concepts of
international economics and the relationships of
nations and economic policy. The student will be
given an international perspective on major economic
issues and objectives and become acquainted with the
institutions of global trade, business and finance. The
course examines some of the central questions that are
key to understanding the rapidly changing economic
environment, such as: Global corporations: should
they be feared or welcomed? Can countries stabilize
exchange rates? How can industrial nations best assist
the less developed countries?
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Intermediate English Composition: Research for
Writers (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: An introductory college level writing
course featuring interviews with writing experts who
present the principles of good writing, and interviews
with working writers – both professional writers and
"regular" people – who must use writing everyday in
their "regular" jobs. Students will be exposed to
several different writing genres throughout the
duration of the course, and will understand how
writers use description, narration, comparison,
definition, process analysis, persuasion, and argument.
Students learn how arguments, narratives, &
definitions can be combined with critical thinking to
improve their communication skills: students also
examine techniques to help them write under pressure
or across disciplines. Topics include free-writing,
organizing devices, revision, collaboration, peer
feedback, and editing. Students learn how awareness
of developing a voice, reading as a writer, reading as a
thinker, and using quotations and citations affect the
composition process.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Introduction to Computer Literacy (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives:
This introductory course challenges
students to expand their knowledge of sociology by
increasing their awareness of social forces,
communities and human relationships. The course
helps students understand how sociology can provide
them with a new way of looking at the world. Students
come to recognize that they are at the crossroads of
their personal experiences and social history. As they
conclude this study they will understand that to be
social is to make decisions about how they participate
in the human story. Stories and situations are used to
dramatize the human conflicts at the core of all
sociological issues. Throughout the course, students
explore unique sociological ideas through the use of
short, intense visual vignettes, referred to as "Visual
Sociology" or "Then and Now," that act as transitions
between segments for many of the lessons.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Introduction to Macroeconomics (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: Macroeconomics teaches the essentials of
macroeconomic theory and practice. The lessons
develop the concepts, strategies, and models required
for analyzing key issues, including: Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) and its components; the importance of
interest rates; saving and investment to economic
growth; unemployment; the money supply, price
levels, and inflation; international trade and capital
flows; the aggregate supply and demand model; and
monetary and fiscal policy issues.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Introduction to Microeconomics (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: Microeconomics is the heart of a wide
range of real-world problems in the areas of business,
finance, law and public policy. The purpose of this
course is to allow a businessperson to make informed
decisions based upon solid theory.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Mechanical Universe (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: The Mechanical Universe is the first term
of an introductory course in physics, which uses
advanced computer animation, scientific experiments,
and a full array of visual techniques to teach classical
mechanics. The course uses creative teaching techniques designed to enhance learning, bringing together
original location footage, physics experiments and
demonstrations, historical reenactments, and computer
animation. In between the professor's lectures lie
unusual teaching aids such as hot air balloon events,
symphony concerts, bicycle shops, and Coast Guard
rescues used to illustrate points made and give the
program a modern focus and relevance.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: This is the second semester of the course
in introductory physics for non-science majors, The
Mechanical Universe. Instruction builds on the
lessons of the first semester and focuses on electricity
and magnetism, relativity, waves and optics, heat and
thermodynamics, and modern physics. The course
employs an array of visual techniques including
precision close-up
photography of
physics
experiments, computer animation sequences, and
historical reenactments. The Mechanical Universe and
Beyond has a text for non-science majors. In between
the professor's lectures lie unusual teaching aids such
as hot air balloon experiments, symphony concerts,
trips to the bicycle shop and Coast Guard rescues used
to illustrate points made and give the program a
modern focus and relevance.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Multimedia Literacy (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 – 2007
Objectives: Multimedia Literacy defines multimedia,
explores its use, and discusses the impact of
multimedia's growth has on society. The course
provides a multimedia toolbox and demonstrates how
to create and publish multimedia applications. Topics
include multimedia frontiers, emerging technology,
and societal issues including human impact,
regulation, copyright, fair use, equity, cost, and
universal access.
Multimedia Literacy combines
conceptual and practical components to explore the
world of multimedia. The course has two parts: the
first part is a conceptual course about multimedia, the
second part is a hands-on tutorial. In the conceptual
part, students learn how multimedia is changing the
world we live in, how to use it effectively, why it
became a multibillion-dollar industry so quickly, and
the impact it will have on our way of life. In the
hands-on component, students learn how to create
their own multimedia applications & publish them on
the Web.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Power of Place: Geography for the 21 st
Century (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: An unusual collaboration by an international team of educational broadcasters and geographers from the United States, Australia, France,
Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden, which provides a
truly global perspective on the subject of world
regional geography.
The course provides an
examination of many geographic forces currently
shaping the complex features of the world’s
civilizations and environments. The course consists of
26 half-hour video units – organized into 5 Units –
which visit 34 countries and over 50 sites around the
world.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Renaissance (3 cr. Upper)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives:This upper level course brings to life one
of the most brilliant and creative periods in history, a
time when the modern western world was born. By
using historical re-creations, artwork, and readings by
actors, the student will explore the fundamental
changes that took place in Europe between the late
14th and late 17th centuries and how the issues raised
in this period continue to influence the modern world.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Voices and Visions (3 cr. Intermediate)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: A course about poetry and the American
poetic tradition. Through this course students will
learn to “feel” a poem in a way that deepens the
pleasure and understanding drawn from both reading
and listening to works. The course explores the lives
and works of thirteen renowned American poets
through interpreted dramatic readings, archival
photographs, dance, performances, and interviews.
Poets are not presented in chronological order, but in
an order that is intended to help students make
connections between the authors and their works. The
course introduces the poets within their historical and
cultural contexts so that students may see the
distinctiveness of each as well as the similarities
among members of the group. Students are provided
with the critical terminology necessary to successfully
explore the poet’s craft, and will learn to read poetry
that speaks with many distinct styles and voices.
Students are encouraged to read more poems by these
authors and to explore their own feelings and
responses to also works by other poets.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Western Tradition, I (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: The first of a two-part survey of western
cultures that travels from the ancient world through to
the age of technology.
Part I begins with the prehistoric world and ends with the Renaissance, offering
a broad overview of events that played an important
role in shaping the development of western thought,
culture, and tradition, as we know them today. The
course synthesizes various approaches to the telling of
history by focusing on political as well as social
events. Integrating such diverse disciplines as religion,
demography, government, and economics, it aims to
provide a foundation of knowledge, which allows
students to better understand the origins of the social,
political, and religious institutions of our present day.
Instruction:
Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Western Tradition, II (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: The Western Tradition Part II is the
second half of a two-part survey of western cultures
that travels from the ancient world through to the age
of technology. Part II begins with the Reformation in
Europe and ends in the 20th century. The course offers
a broad overview of events that played an important
role in shaping the development of western thought,
culture, and tradition, as we know them today. It
synthesizes various approaches to the telling of history
by focusing on political as well as social events.
Integrating such diverse disciplines as religion,
demography, government, and economics, it aims to
provide a foundation of knowledge, which allows
students to better understand the origins of the social,
political, and religious institutions of our present day.
Instruction:
Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First
Five Years (3 cr. Basic)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives: The Whole Child focuses on the individual
child and how the teacher or caregiver can foster
physical, emotional social, creative, and cognitive
development. The course provides students nurturing
instruction on the proper care techniques for children
from infancy to five years of age; highlights teaching
approaches & interactions for children from multicultural backgrounds and at all developmental levels,
including those with disabilities and special needs.
Instruction:
Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Women and Social Action (3 cr. Upper)
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 -2007
Objectives: For most women, the struggle for change
does not begin in the boardroom or courtroom, but in
their home, community, place of worship, school, and
workplace. This course helps identify gender stereotypes and barriers and how they impact on women’s
lives. In this course students will explore how gender
intersects with other social systems such as age, class,
disability, ethnicity, race, religion and sexual
orientation. The course also celebrates women who
have made a difference in the battle for social justice.
Instruction:
Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.
Unseen Life on Earth: A Introduction to
Microbiology (3 cr. Intermediate) For nonmajors.
Location: On line
Length: Five-week accelerated course
Dates: December 2003 - 2007
Objectives:
This course explores basic microbial
principles and how microorganisms affect everything
from medicine to environmental issues to global
politics. The course consists of 12 half hour video
segments, accompanied by a textbook and a study
guide. Visual animations and scanning electron
micrographs make complex topics easier to grasp, and
case studies from today's headlines, including DNA
testing and battles against dangerous viruses-show
real-world applications of these concepts. The course
provides students a thorough understanding of the five
core themes of microbiology, which are: Microbial
Cell Biology; Microbial Genetics; Interactions and
Impact of Microorganisms and Humans; Interactions
and Impact of Microorganisms in the Environment;
and Integrating Themes.
Instruction: Reading; self-study; CD-ROM video,
supplemented by online materials, interaction with
instructor.