Dual Enrollment (Fall 2020)

COMM 20N – Critical Media Literacy. We live in a world in which we are surrounded with media messages that influence how we think and act. Since we are so immersed in media culture, it is important that we know how to analyze media content, production and reception, so that media can become tools for liberation and creativity, not control. In this course, we will learn to critically analyze work produced in different forms of mass communication. (3 credits)
Instructor: Ann Brennan
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m.

ENGL 15 – Rhetoric and Composition. This course is an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. (3 credits)

Instructor: Ann Brennan
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Instructor: Lynda Goldstein
Section: 004Days: T/TH Time: 1:35 p.m.–2:50 p.m.

SOC 20N – Critical Media Literacy. We live in a world in which we are surrounded with media messages that influence how we think and act. Since we are so immersed in media culture, it is important that we know how to analyze media content, production and reception, so that media can become tools for liberation and creativity, not control. In this course, we will learn to critically analyze work produced in different forms of mass communication. (3 credits)
Instructor: Ann Brennan
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m.

BIOL 110 – Biology: Basic Concepts and Biodiversity. A study of the fundamental concepts of biology including the evolution of the major groups of organisms. (4 credits)
Instructor: Luciana Caporaletti
Section: 001Days:  MTime: 1:25 p.m.–3:20 p.m.
 WTime: 1:25 p.m.–3:20 p.m. (lab)
 F Time: 1:25 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

BIOL 220W – Biology: Populations and Communities. A study of the structures and functions of organismic interactions from simple populations to complex ecosystems. (4 credits)
Instructor: Luciana Caporaletti
Section: 001Days: M/WF Time: 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

SC 120N – Plants, People, and Places. Students learn about plants from the perspective of sustainability, agriculture, food, genetics, textiles, and medicine, across history and around the globe, after spending a few weeks learning about basic plant biology. Students engage with a group project in collaboration with other students to deepen their understanding and appreciation of plant biological and historical connections with human civilization.  (3 credits)
Instructor: Luciana Caporaletti
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 9:05 a.m.–9:55 a.m.

CMPSC 101 – Intro to Programming. This course introduces the fundamental concepts and processes of solving computational problems through the design, implementation, testing, and evaluation of basic computer programs. The concepts include basic computational constructs such as calculation, iteration, conditions, functions, and data types. These provide the basic building blocks found in virtually all programming languages. (3 credits)
Instructor: Jeffrey Chiampi
Section: 001Days: T/TH Time: 3:05 p.m.–4:20 p.m.

CMLIT 143 – Human Rights and World Literature. Human rights violations discussed in tandem with their literary representation, presented in a global and comparative context.  (3 credits)
Instructor: Lynda Goldstein
Section: 001Days: T/TH Time: 10:35 a.m.–11:50 a.m.

ECON 102 – Microeconomic Analysis and Policy. There are two main branches of economics: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics deals with the behavior of individual households and firms and how that behavior is influenced by government. The principal objective of the course is to enable students to analyze major microeconomic issues clearly and critically. (3 credits)
Instructor – Jacqueline Landre
Section: 001Days: M/W Time: 1:25 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

ECON 104 – Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy. There are two main branches of economics: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is concerned with economy-wide factors such as inflation, unemployment, and overall economic growth. The principal objective of the course is to enable students to analyze major macroeconomic issues clearly and critically. (3 credits)
Instructor: Jacqueline Landre
Section: 001Days: M/W Time: 2:30 p.m.–3:20 p.m.

RHS 100 – Disability Culture. This course is designed to increase student awareness of personal, interpersonal, and societal aspects of disability, including how disability can be defined and understood differently in varied individual, institutional, and cultural contexts. (3 credits)
Instructor: Melisa Littleton
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

MATH 22 – College Algebra II. Relations, functions, graphs; polynomial, rational functions, graphs; word problems; nonlinear inequalities; inverse functions; exponential, logarithmic functions; conic sections; simultaneous equations. (3 credits)
Instructor: Irina Navrotskaya
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 9:05 a.m.–9:55 a.m.

MATH 34 – Math of Money. This course will provide students with the mathematical background and quantitative skills needed to make sound financial decisions. This course introduces personal finance topics including simple interest, simple discount, compound interest, annuities, investments, retirement plans, inflation, depreciation, taxes, credit cards, mortgages, and car leasing. (3 credits)
Instructor: Irina Navrotskaya
Section: 001Days: T/TH Time: 9:05 a.m.–10:20 a.m.

CRIMJ 230 – Corrections in America. Punishment and treatment of sentenced offenders, correctional institution organization, staffing, inmates, and subcultures. (3 credits)
Instructor: Jeremy Olson
Section: 001Days: T/TH Time: 10:35 a.m.–11:50 a.m.

INART 226N – Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop. This course will examine the politics of hip-hop art and culture. To do so, we will place hip-hop in broad historical context and trace its aesthetic and cultural roots from Africa to Jamaica to 1970s New York City and then forward to 1980s gangsta rap and former President Barack Obama’s iPod. We will think through the implications of hip-hop’s addiction to Italian-American mobsters, bling, and all things “keepin’ it real.” We will also search for hip-hop’s political foundations in funk records, 1960s community organizing, and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. (3 credits)
Instructor: Jonathan Pineno
Section: 001Days: T/THTime: 9:05 a.m.–10:20 a.m.

CAS 100A – Effective Speech. Principles of communication, implemented through group problem solving, with some attention to formal speaking and message evaluation. CAS 100BCAS 100B Effective Speech (3) (GWS) This is a general education course designed to introduce students to principles of effective communication with a specific focus on group problem solving.  (3 credits)
Instructor: Natalya Vodopyanova
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 10:10 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Section: 002Days: M/W/F Time: 11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m.
Section: 003Days: M/W/F Time: 2:30 p.m.–3:20 p.m.

COMM 100N – Mass Media and Society. Mass communications in the United States: organization, role, content, and effects of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, books, and films. The Mass Media and Society is an overview of the interaction between mass media and society. (3 credits)
Instructor: Natalya Vodopyanova
Section: 001Days: M/W/F Time: 1:25 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

IST 110 – Information, People, Technology. The use, analysis and design of information systems and technologies to organize, coordinate, and inform human enterprises. (3 credits)
Instructor: Staff
Section: 001Days: T/TH Time: 1:35 p.m.–2:50 p.m.