Academic Writing I

Introduction to the rhetorical and mechanical skills necessary to develop confident, informed academic voices. Study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading, collaboration, revision, and editing. Focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and argumentation. May confer college writing proficiency based on student portfolio.  Placement determined by the Writing Program.

Elizabeth Leik  

ENG 104.006

ENG 104.007

Adolescent Development

Adolescent development in historical and theoretical perspective. Physical maturation and its psychosocial implications. Gender, racial, ethnic, cross-cultural, social class, and sexual orientation differences and commonalties in the transition from childhood to adulthood. Diverse family living patterns and increasing stress in today’s society and their influences on the developmental process. The adolescent as risk-taker and problems encountered growing up in today’s world.  Thirty hours internship in an alternative school or community service-type setting required of all students preparing for certification at the secondary level. Students thus electing the course for four credit hours must reserve Tuesday or Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

LaJerne Cornish  

ED 103

Community Performance for Peace

This course surveys the history, the theory, and the exemplar practitioners of community performance — synonymously called “theatre for social change” or “applied theatre.” Particular focus will be given to traditions that serve the goals of conflict resolution, popular education, activism, and community building. Through practical techniques, the course will demonstrate how performance structures can address community issues. This course is open to any students, actors and non-actors, interested in community arts and peace performance.

Brian Francoise  

Community Service Agencies: Building a Just and Peaceful World

This course will provide an intellectually stimulating perspective on the challenges of community service and the different types of service. Students will examine issues including justice, direct action, motivation, the role of service in higher education, and citizenship. Students will also enjoy weekly hands-on experiences in service while working with middle-school students.

Jennifer Bess  

PCE 120

Frontiers (First-Year Seminar): Building Communities

A selection of seminars taught by faculty from across the disciplines and organized around the common theme of frontiers. As with a senior seminar, each class is small and is composed of students with similar interests. Frontiers emphasizes student responsibility and participation and hones the skills involved in investigating a subject slowly, closely, and in depth. The first-year seminar launches students, as a class, into the pleasures and demands of higher education. The common theme and joint activities help foster this sense of group initiation into the academic life of a liberal arts college. Course listings are available in the First-Year Course Selection Guide.

Robert Koulish  

FRO 100.015 

Intensive Course Abroad: Costa Rica

This is an interdisciplinary course (see cross-listing with SP 272Y). Awareness of multiculturalism in the context of the educational system in the U.S. and Costa Rica. Develop skills to facilitate a classroom climate that meets the needs of a diverse population. Emphasis on critical writing, analytical reading, and advanced conversation required for upper-level Spanish courses. The first seven weeks is conducted in English (2 credits) and the final seven weeks is conducted in Spanish (2 credits). Practice of complex linguistic structures, writing of summaries, developing arguments, and interpretation of quotes. Intensive study abroad in Costa Rica for the January term (4 credits). Prerequisites: completion or concurrent enrollment in SP 230 and ED 207 or permission of the education instructor.

Isabel Moreno-Lopez  

Tami Smith  

ED 272Y

SP 272Y

International Trade

The balance of payments and monetary problems of the international economy. The role of exchange rates, capital movements, the international adjustment mechanism, gold, and paper currency. International monetary reform. Import quotas, tariffs, common markets and their restraints on trade in the domestic and world economy. Prerequisites: EC 101 and 102.

Edward Slattery  

EC 271.001

Nonviolence in America

Survey of the history of nonviolent actions and principles in what is now the United States, including groups such as Indians, Quakers, abolitionists, pacifists, and those in the women’s suffrage, labor, and civil rights movements. Study of the philosophical principles of nonviolence in relation to historical events and policies; assessment of justification of the principles and success or failure of the policies. Service component in Baltimore City Schools after-school programs. 

Frances Donelan  

PCE 148

Principles of Economics: Micro

An introduction to methods of analysis used by modern economists to study social phenomena and to develop policy proposals. Emphasis on the motivations of individuals and groups in social and economic interaction with particular attention to the study of product, labor, and international markets. Prerequisite or corequisite: MA 114, or math placement test resultsabove MA 114.

Edward Slattery  

Qualitative Methods

An introduction to qualitative empirical methods and their application to selected problems of psychology, providing an introduction to issues of qualitative research design, analysis, and report writing. Central topics include narrative approaches, biography, phenomenology, ethnography, grounded theory, and case study. These topics are introduced and developed in the context of student-generated, collaborative research projects of significance to researchers and participants and will involve field observations, open interviews, emergent design, and a variety of approaches to data analysis and interpretation. Ethical considerations are emphasized throughout. Three hours lecture/discussion; 3 hours laboratory. Prerequisites: PSY 111 or 114, and 200.

L. Richard Pringle  

PSY 255

Relational Psychology

Moving away from a framework of psychological research, theory, and evaluation that unduly values objectivity, independence, and personal achievement, students explore collaboratively the ramifications of a psychology that places human relationship, connection, community, and care at the center of psychological health and development, where mutual empowerment and empathy, rather than separation from others, are the goals. This feminist, antiracist, and critical psychology recognizes the powerful impact of the sociocultural context in impeding mutuality, and provides an interpretive framework for understanding and reshaping culture, lives, and theory.  Specific topics vary from year to year, but include the following: the works of Carol Gilligan, the relational psychology of Jean Baker Miller and the Stone Center, the psychology of gender (e.g., girls’ development, the construction of masculinity), the psychology of oppression, and relational classrooms and environments. Prerequisite: PSY 111 or 114 or sophomore standing.

L. Richard Pringle  

Theatre in the Community

The course prepares a student theatre company to implement performance-based outreach projects in educational and community settings in greater Baltimore. The company examines performance structures and techniques that facilitate community and cultural purposes such as education, political activism, community service and community building. Possible sources for and influences on selected “applied” theatre techniques and structures could include Augusto Boal-based theatre, theater-in-education, and interactive improvisation based on commedia dell’arte performance style.

Brian Francoise  

THE 135