Case Western Reserve University: Summer Session

May Term

May 10 - 27, 2010

Experience the May Term!

This is a three-week intensive term that follows the end of Spring term finals and concludes before the regular summer session begins. Most of these courses are not offered in the academic year and are opportunities that take students out in the community. All of these courses are taught by regular Case faculty who have crafted these courses to take advantage of the longer meeting times that are only available in an intensive format. Read through the course descriptions and find a learning experience that fits your interests and curricular needs. Contact the faculty for more information.

Meeting times

Campus-based May Term courses meet daily, MTWRF, from 9:30 a.m.-noon. Occasionally, faculty might extend class to accommodate trips into the community.

Housing

May term housing is available for continuing CWRU students with a Spring 2010 housing assignment. For more information, contact housing@case.edu; 368-3780.

Tuition

Tuition for all May and Summer Session courses numbered 1-399 is discounted 50%. Students may apply for loans and work-study by March 30 through the Office of Financial Aid; 368-3780.

Visiting Students

Visiting students are welcome to enroll in all May and Summer Session courses. Please follow the left menu link for Visiting Students for information on how to enroll.

May Term courses

Follow the links below for more information.

* ANTH 215 Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
* BETH 315/415 Perspectives on the Art of Healing in Spanish Cinema
* BETH 315/415 Death, Dying & Euthanasia: Netherlands & the USA
* BETH 315/415 Global Health - India
* BIOL 114 Principles of Biology
* COSI 302/402 Instrumental Measurement in Speech Sciences
* EBME 370 Principles of Biomedical Engineering Design
* ENGL 202 Expository Writing
* FRCH/WLIT 308/408 - The Paris Experience
* GEOL 100 Introduction to Geology
* ITAL 308 The Italian Experience
* MATH 399 Special Topics: Introduction to Parallel Computations Using CUDA for GPUs
* PHIL 206 Contemporary Moral Problems: Experiential
* RLGN 190 Sacred Spaces in Western Religions
* SASS 375 International Travel and Study Seminar: Ecuador An International Study in Social, Health and Human Services
* SOCI 275 Lives in Medicine: Becoming and Being a Physician
* THTR 206 Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: James Bond and Popular Culture

ANTH 215 — 3 credits
Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Atwood Gaines
Contact: atwood.gaines@case.edu; 368-2257
This course is an introduction to the field of Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology is concerned with the cross-cultural study of culture, health, and illness. During the course of the semester, our survey will include (1) theoretical orientations and key concepts; (2) the cross-cultural diversity of health beliefs and practices (abroad and at home); and (3) contemporary issues and special populations (e.g., AIDS, homelessness, refugees, women’s health, and children at risk).

BETH 315/415 — 3 credits
Perspectives on the Art of Healing in Spanish Cinema
May 9 - 24
Linda Ehrlich and Stuart Youngner
This 2-week course will focus on cinematic representations of bioethical issues in films from several regional film industries in Spain. We will interpret the theme of “the art of healing” both pragmatically and metaphorically. Film viewings, and guest lectures will take place in the unique cosmopolitan setting of Barcelona at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the smaller city of San Sebastián (Donostia) along the Bay of Biscay. We will have ample opportunities to interact with Spanish undergraduates, bioethicists, film makers, film scholars, film festival producers, and critics in both cities. Students will learn about the meaning of healing in several contexts, and explore specific bioethics dilemmas presented in the films in some detail. In addition, they will get an overview of the social and cultural contexts of the Spanish film industry (with particular attention to the Catalan and Basque film industries). There will be required readings, film viewings, and some lectures. Classroom activities will follow a seminar-style format that emphasizes student participation in discussions. This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students, and is relevant for students of Ethics, Film Studies, Spanish, Medicine, History, and Psychology (among other fields). Interested students should visit the spring2010-spanishcinema and/or contact linda.ehrlich@case.edu; 368-2232 for more information.

BETH 315/415 — 3 credits
Global Health - India
Dates TBD
Nicole Deming, Gopal Yadavalli, Deepak Sarma
Summer 2010: Trip to Hyderabad, India, tentative dates are the last two weeks in July and first week in August. (Three credits, register for Summer 2010.) This program offers students an in-depth study of disease in India by examining the historical, cultural, ethical, medical, religious, and legal aspects that influence HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and TB; delves into the ethical dilemmas that arise at the intersection of medicine, law, technology, and culture; gives a cross-sectional perspective of health care in India; incorporates the expertise of doctors, administrators, and leaders, both here and abroad, enable a better understanding of how medicine, law and life intersect; and provides an opportunity to travel to Hyderabad, India to directly observe Indian culture and health care. Interested students should visit the summer2010-India website and/or contact nicole.deming@case.edu; 368-1263.

BETH 315/415 — 3 credits
Death, Dying & Euthanasia: Netherlands & the USA
August 2 - 13
William Winslade, Stuart Youngner, Gerrit Kimsma
This course will compare how two liberal democracies, the United States and the Netherlands, have handled difficult end-of-life issues, including: The Dutch regulation of euthanasia; regulation of physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon; terminal sedation; end-of-life decisions in newborns; withholding and withdrawing of artificially-provided fluids and nutrition; the legal basis for end-of-life decision making in the USA; palliative care and hospice; public trust in medicine and physicians. Interested students should visit the summer2010-Amsterdam website.

BIOL 114 — 3 credits
Principles of Biology
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Rebecca Benard
Contact: rebecca.benard@case.edu
A basic biology course designed for the non-major. Topics include: molecules of life, cell structure, respiration and photosynthesis, molecular genetics and gene technology, heredity and human genetics, population genetics and evolution, diversity of life, and function of ecosystems. Course includes some applications of biological principles to agricultural, medical, and environmental concerns. BIOL 114 is not open to students with credit for BIOL 214. This course does not count toward the biology major.

COSI 302/402 — 3 credits
Instrumental Measurement in Speech Sciences
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Patrizia Bonaventura
Contact: patrizia.bonaventura@case.edu; 368-0056
This course will provide hands on experience on techniques for instrumental measurements of speech and voice parameters, for applications to assessment and diagnosis of speech and voice disorders, to linguistic analysis of speech parameters (prosodic and segmental), and to speech production modeling. In particular, instrumental measures of voice parameters will be carried out emphasizing use rather than theory. All instrumentation is available at the Case Speech Production Lab. This course is of interest to all communication sciences, cognitive sciences, cognitive linguistics, physics, and biomedical engineering students. For more information, see: http://www.case.edu/artsci/cosi/cspl/index.html.

EBME 370 — 2 credits
Principles of Biomedical Engineering Design
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Dustin Tyler
Contact dustin.tyler@case.edu; 368-0319
The design process required to produce biomedical devices, research equipment, and clinical tools is developed. Topics include identification of need; requirements specification; project management; working in teams; solutions conceptualization, refinement, and selection; hazard and risk analysis and mitigation; verification; validation; regulatory requirements; and medical device pathways to the market. Through critical examination of contemporary medical research and clinical problems, students, working in teams, will identify a need to develop a specific problem statement, project plan, input requirements, solution concept and risk analysis. Recommended preparation: EBME 310.

ENGL 202 — 3 credits
Expository Writing
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Jessica Gerard
Contact: jessica.gerard@case.edu
A workshop-style course for students who wish to refine the skills acquired in ENGL 150. Special attention to style and presentation.

FRCH/WLIT 308/408
The Paris Experience
May 9 - 30
Cheryl Toman
Three-week immersion learning experience living and studying in Paris, France. The focus of the course is the literature and culture of the African, Arab, and Asian communities of Paris. Students spend a minimum of fifteen hours per week visiting cultural centers and museums and interviewing authors and students about the immigrant experience. Assigned readings complement course activities. Students enrolled in FRCH 308/408 do course work in French. WLIT 308/408 students have the option of completing course work in English. Graduate students have additional course requirements than those of undergraduatues. Prereq: FRCH 202 for those enrolled in FRCH 308. Contact cheryl.toman@case.edu for more information.

GEOL 100 — 3 credits
Field Introduction to Geology
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Peter McCall
This course is designed for those that want to get out of the classroom and DO geology. In a series of multi-day field trips we will see firsthand how geologists interpret the landscape, read stories in rock, and reconstruct 400 million years of climatic and tectonic history exposed in our region. We will visit world class fossil collecting sites in Indiana and Ohio, see the effects of glaciers in the Niagara and Finger Lakes regions of New York, and examine the geology and hydrology of hazardous waste sites, salt mines, landslide areas near Syracuse. We will see the legacy of coal mining, explore a cave, and do a day of whitewater rafting in Pennsylvania. And we will visit the Appalachian Mountain region of West Virginia and Maryland to make and interpret geological maps and see how mountains are made. No prior experience is assumed. The only course pre-requisites are an open mind, tolerance for travel, and a pair of worn-in boots. Contact peter.mccall@case.edu; 368-3676 for more information.

ITAL 308 — 3 credits
The Italian Experience
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Denise Caterinacci
Contact: denise.caterinacci@case.edu; 368-2374
A three-week summer study abroad course spent at a university in an Italian city well-known for its cultural and linguistic heritage and at other important sites during travel. Focus: Language immersion and processing of cultural experience. Main features: 1. Intense collaboration with an Italian university. Students interact with Italian peers; seminars are co-taught by Italian faculty. 2. Creation of an individual journal that synthesizes students’ perception of and reflections on their experience, records the progress of their final project, and documents their improvement in language proficiency. 3. Final project. Students meet M-F in a formal setting for advanced language study designed to improve proficiency in speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. They attend seminars on varied topics in literature, history, and civilization. Visits to museums, galleries, and attendance at cultural events are included.
Prereq: ITAL 202 or equivalent.

MATH 399 — 3 credits
Special Topics: Introduction to Parallel Computations Using CUDA for GPUs
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Catalin Turc
Contact: catalin.turc@case.edu

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have recently provided the means to have access to inexpensive massively parallel hardware, basically to have a supercomputer on a regular desktop. Furthermore, the use of GPUs for parallel computations can produce orders of magnitude speedup over similar CPUs algorithms. These impressive gains were demonstrated on a variety of applications related to molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, image processing to name but a few.

This course will cover programming techniques for the GPU with an emphasis on NVidia's new parallel computing architecture, CUDA. We will cover the parallel programming concepts (threading, communication, and memory) needed to program massively parallel graphics processors using CUDA. Several GPUs computations for molecular dynamics (N-body simulations), Monte Carlo algorithms will be discussed in detail. Labwork will require extensive programming. Some experience with computer graphics algorithms is preferred, but not required. A working knowledge of the C programming language will be necessary.

PHIL 206 — 3 credits
Contemporary Moral Problems — Experiential
May 10 - May 27
MTWRF 9:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Sara Waller
*Note: Class will not be held on Friday, May 22 (This course has been reinstated to the roster)
What is good and how is it different from evil? How do you know when you have done the right thing? Is there an absolute grounding to morality? What is the role of reason in our lives? What is human nature? Are human beings essentially creatures of emotion? What bearing do these questions have on our basic moral determinations of good and evil? How are all these questions related to concerns about personal identity? These are just a few examples of the kinds of questions we will be discussing during the semester. Using sources from different eras and schools of philosophic thought, we will become better at some of the intricacies involved in thinking clearly about these issues.

RLGN 190 — 3 credits
Sacred Space in Western Religions
May 10 - 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Peter Haas
Contact peter.haas@case.edu; 368-2741
This course examines how human beings attempt to capture the infinite and sacred in limited physical buildings. Class sessions will be structured around visits to worship sites representing a number of different religious traditions in the Cleveland area. Each visit will be preceded by an orientation to that religion and the theological and spatial challenges the religion presents to its followers. During the visits, the class will have a chance to hear about the religion from a practitioner, to examine the art and architecture of the physical location of worship, and to apply theories of sacred space to actual examples. The class will see both the common issues, and the idiosyncratic solutions, that characterize western monotheistic religious communities. Limited to 8 students.

SASS 375 — 3 credits
International Travel and Study Seminar: Ecuador An International Study in Social, Health and Human Services
May 17 - 29
Deborah Jacobson
The 3 hour course (SASS 375) takes an integrated approach to the study the social and health services in urban Quito, Ecuador and the surrounding rural areas. The students will travel to Ecuador May 17-29. Included in the course are pre- and post- trip meetings and assignments. Site visits and study include: HIV-Aids, gerontology, child welfare, prisons, disaster interventions related to the volcanic eruption of Tunguragua, Trafficking in Human Person and USAID policy, substance abuse services, disability services, analysis of native Quichua families, an examination of traditional and modern medicine and the local religious influences, time with an Afro Ecuadorian Community of Chota, education policy, and a firsthand view of a progressive labor policy at a flower farm in the Andes Mountains. Participants will be given opportunities for hiking, biking, and exploring rural villages, and other outdoor activities such as white water rafting. Contact deborah.jacobson@case.edu; 368-6014 for more information.

SOCI 275 — 3 credits
Lives in Medicine: Becoming and Being a Physician
May 10 - 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Susan Hinze
Contact: susan.hinze@case.edu; 368-2702
Are you thinking about medical school? Believe it or not, a sociological approach to medical culture can inform a range of decisions you will make, from specialty choice to practice setting. Medical sociology emerged as a distinct field of study in the 1950s. Since then, we have learned a great deal about how issues of race, gender, aging and ethnicity are tied to issues of medical education, medical training, medial socialization and physician decision-making. Using a life course perspective, this course will examine how lives in medicine change over time; in particular, we’ll study changing workforce patterns, physician satisfaction, and burnout. Other topics to be covered include contemporary ethical issues and alternative professional health careers. The course provides an overview of how medicine and medical practice have a profound influence on—and are influenced by—social, cultural, political and economic forces.

THTR 206 — 3 credits
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: James Bond and Popular Culture
May 10- 27
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Ullom
Contact: JeffUllom@aol.com; 368-6097 for more information
The twenty-one films of James Bond have become part of popular culture, and the figure of the superspy has become mythic in proportion. This series, from its first installment in 1963 to the latest reinvention of James Bond in 2006, not only depicts one dashing man's efforts to save the world again and again from disaster, but also traces the development of our popular culture. Issues such as violence, sex, the presentation and treatment of women, racial stereotypes, and spectacle will be discussed, providing an opportunity to explore the changing expectations of American audiences and the developing form of contemporary cinema

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