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May 12 - 30, 2008
Experience the new May Term!
This is a new 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, neighboring states, and beyond to Italy and France. 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. Classes will not meet on Memorial Day, May 26.
Housing
May term housing is available for continuing CWRU students with a Spring 2008 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.
* FRCH/WLIT 308/408 The Paris Experience
* GEOL 100 Field Introduction to Geology
* ITAL 308 The Italian Experience
* MATH 324 Introduction to Complex Analysis
* PHIL 205-SL Contemporary Moral Problems-Service Learning
* RLGN 190 Sacred Spaces
* SOCI 255 Lives in Medicine: Becoming and Being a Physician
FRCH/WLIT 308/408 — 3 credits
The Paris Experience
May 10 - 31, 2008
Cheryl Toman
Paris is the classroom in this three-week intensive course on the literature, art, and social issues of France's African, Arab, and Asian immigrant communities. The students meet with authors, community leaders, and artists as part of the course. Polygamy, religious tolerance, feminism, racism, othering, and related aspects of a multicultural society are discussed and debated. Students interview authors as well as their peers at various French schools. There are numerous excursions to museums, markets, and cultural and artistic centers. Students will also conduct sociological studies of multicultural neighborhoods.
Students who take this course for credit in French must complete all work and readings (when available) in French. Those enrolled in World Literature have the option of using English for all coursework. Prereq for FRCH 308/408: FRCH 202 or its equivalent. Contact: cheryl.toman@case.edu; 368-2233 for more information.
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GEOL 100 — 3 credits
Field Introduction to Geology
May 12 - May 30
Days/Times: TBA
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 geologic 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. Course fee $300. Limited to 10 students. Contact peter.mccall@case.edu; 368-3676 for more information.
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ITAL 308— 3 credits
The Italian Experience
May 12 - June 2, 2008
Denise Caterinacci
A three-week summer study course in Italy which includes travel to important locations and an extended stay at L'Universita` di Urbino Carlo Bo in Urbino, Italy, a city well-known for its cultural and linguistic heritage. This course focuses on language immersion and the processing of cultural experience. It features intense collaboration with Italian student peers and seminars co-taught by Italian faculty. Students meet Mondays through Fridays in a formal setting for advanced language study designed to improve proficiency in speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. Visits to museums, galleries, and cultural events are included. Prerequisite: ITAL 202 or permission.
ITAL 308 IS OPEN TO VISITING STUDENTS
Contact denise.caterinacci@case.edu (216) 368-2374 for more information.
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MATH 324 — 3 credits
Introduction to Complex Analysis
May 12 - 30
MTWRF 9:30-12:00 noon
David Singer
Properties, sigularities, and representations of analytic functions, complex integration. Cauchy's theorems, series residues, conformal mappying and analytic continuation. Riemann sufaces. Relevance of theory of physical problems.
Prerequisite: MATH 224 or MATH 227.
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PHIL 205-SL — 3 credits
Contemporary Moral Problems — Service Learning
May 12 - May 30
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Sara Waller
What are virtue, goodness and rightness? When do you know you have done the right thing? How might we best run society? This course examines the role of values as motivations and as goals in our lives. Readings include a variety of ethical viewpoints, including: Relativism, Divine Command Theory, Egoism, Altruism, Aristotelian Virtue Theory, Utilitarianism, Deontology, Ethics of Care, and Naturalized Ethics. Students are asked to construct solutions to various lived problems of value, such as questions of justice, right action, and the good life, using real experiences taken from time spent volunteering (15 hours total) at a homeless or battered women’s shelter. The purpose of this course is to provide an applied introduction to ethical positions from a philosophical perspective, and to put students in the position to decide and act in solving real-world problems and addressing real community issues. Be a better person in 3 weeks! Solve a real problem by the end of the summer!
Contact: sara.waller@case.edu; 368-8547 for more information.
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RLGN 190 — 3 credits
Sacred Space in Western Religions
May 12 - 30
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Peter Haas
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 12 students. Contact peter.haas@case.edu; 368-2741 for more information.
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SOCI 255 — 3 credits
Lives in Medicine: Becoming and Being a Physician
May 12 - 30
MTWRF 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Sue Hinze
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 in part due to prominent studies of medical education such as The Student Physician by Robert K. Merton and Howard Becker’s Boys in White. 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. In short, you’ll become familiar with how scholars outside of medicine cast a sociological gaze on the profession.
In addition to classroom lectures and discussion, students will have the opportunity to visit various medical institutions and settings in Cleveland. Students will also help organize a panel discussion on a specific topic of interest to the class. Limited to 15 students. Contact: susan.hinze@case.edu; 368-2702 for more information.
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