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If you are interested in enrolling in a Community Seats class, please download and complete the registration form. Anthropology 104: Culture, Society and People, The nature of culture and its role in creating forms of social, economic, and political life in diverse historical and geographical contexts. Readings drawn from contemporary ethnographies of various peoples, analyzing the persistence of cultural diversity in the midst of global social and socioeconomic forces. #60526, Online, $480 + $45 reg. fee Anthropology 208: Human Ecology, The study of human/environmental interactions. Emphasis on biological and cultural responses by contemporary human groups to pervasive environmental problems. Examples from mountains, grasslands, deserts and tropical forests. #60529, TuWTh 9:30-Noon, $435 + $45 reg. fee Art 104: Basic Studio/Drawing, A comprehensive introduction to drawing as a basic foundation for expression intrinsic to all visual arts disciplines. Variety of media applied to study of line, value and mark-making in pictorial, compositional and content problems in extensive image development including landscape, still-life and figure. #60531, MTuWTh 1:30-5 p.m. $435 + $45 reg. fee Education 591N: Substance Abuse Services and Intervention, This course will examine the causes, symptoms and stages of drug and alcohol abuse. Topics will include factors that lead to substance abuse and addiction, and the stages of chemical dependency. The course will also review recent innovations in the field. The course will discuss career opportunities for those interested in the field of substance abuse counseling and treatment. #60766, Online, $502.50 + $45 reg. fee Education 591W: Recognizing Family Values and Initiating Interventions, This course will allow school counselors, teachers, and criminal justice professionals to look at the impact of family violence as it relates to their work. This course will focus on the treatment issues, as well as the impact of adults and children living in that home. The course will examine some of the signs of this and will allow for those working in a school setting to gain a greater understanding of the issues. #60768, Online, $502.50 + $45 reg. fee English 354: Creative Writing, Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills. #60580, TuWTh 6:30-8:30 p.m., $435 + $45 reg. fee English 361: Modern Novel 1900-1945, The novel as reflecting the passing of the old and the start of the new age. Social, political, ideological themes; critical appreciation of the novel form and the trying out of new ways of writing. How new formal techniques emerge for probing the meanings of "self" and "consciousness," hence of individual, interpersonal and "social" experience. The following books will be read and can be purchased at your choice of bookstores: 1) Ernest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, ISBN: 0-684-80071-3, 2) F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, ISBN: 0-684-80152-3, 3) James Joyce's, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ISBN: 0-312-40811-0, 4) Virginia Woolf's, To the Lighthouse, ISBN: 0-15-690739-9, 5) Saul Bellow's, Dangling Man, ISBN: 0-14-018935-1, 6) James Weldon Johnson's, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, ISBN: 0-14-018402-3. #60581, TuWTh 9:30 a.m.-noon, $435 + $45 reg. fee English 362: Modern Novel 1945-Present, Close reading and analysis of novels to achieve an awareness of the aesthetic and social characteristics of the modern novel and a critical appreciation of the possibilities and varieties of point of view, time and psychology in literary modernism. #60582, TuWTh 9:30 a.m.-noon, $435 + $45 reg. fee Journalism 293V: Citizen Media and the Web, This course is for students who want to be ahead of the curve and anticipate the discussions of tomorrow as Journalism evolves. Focus is on the theory and history that got us to this place, the emergence and evolving definition of citizen media, and the events and people who WILL impact what comes next. In this class, students will read and write -- a lot -- as they follow the evolution of Journalism, looking at some successful models that have brought Citizen Journalism into the mainstream of community journalism in recent years as well as examining how mainstream media are reacting to this new idea. The course can be useful to traditional journalists and managers as well as to those outside the mainstream who want to contribute to the journalism of our age. Part of the Certificate of Online Journalism but open to all. #60631, Online, $480 + $45 reg. fee Journalism 295G: Readings in Global Energy Issues, This 6-week class will include reading three timely books by journalists and numerous articles from publications such as the Atlantic; the New Yorker; the New York Times; Nature; and Science. Students will participate in online "threaded" discussions and write short reviews of these books: John McPhee's Curve of Binding Energy; Michael Klare's Blood and Oil; and Al Gore's, An Inconvenient Truth. Part of the Certificate of Online Journalism but open to all. #60633 , Online, $320 + $45 reg. Fee