Current Term Classes - BIS

Summer 2024

Class registration for the Summer 2024 term begins on March 28 for BIS students (may be subject to change).

The School of Continuing and Professional Studies may cancel, modify, or make substitutions for any published class or program, may change instructors, and may change the dates and times a class is offered. The information published here and in the catalog is subject to change.  For the most up-to-date and complete information, please use the SIS Class Search.  

BIS students should register in BIS classes. Classes outside of BIS are by permission of your advisor. See class details for restrictions. Others may register with program permission as Community Scholars. Community Scholar registration opens during the fall and spring terms.
 

BIS | Undergraduate

ISBU 3422: Managing your Emotions in the Workplace  
Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class Jun 19 (Juneteenth)  
Gives a fundamental overview of Emotional Intelligence and shows how understanding Emotional Intelligence leads to a beneficial working career and personal life. Presents an E.I. competence framework and reviews basic domains, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management through various methods to promote learning by doing. Applies theoretical concepts to real world situations.  
Stephen Oliver | 3 UG Credits 

ISBU 3710: Managerial Finance
Online Synchronous | Thursdays, 6-10pm | Jun 6 - Aug 8 | Saturday 9am-1pm | Jul 6 | No class Jul 4 (Independence Day)
Principles and practices of business finance focusing on managerial decision-making in financial policy. Topics include capital structure, types of securities and their use in raising funds, risk, valuation, and allocating resources for investment.  Prerequisite: ISBU concentration prerequisites or instructor permission.  
John Hulburt | 3 UG Credits 

ISHU 3185: Literature of the Body 
Online Asynchronous | Available Jun 3-Aug 9 
Explores the relationship between the physical body and human identity through such topics as body image, eating disorders, sexuality, aging, disease and its effects on the body by reading and discussion of short stories, poems, and novels. Engages students in frequent formal and informal writing, beginning with personal narratives and journal responses. 
Jada Ach | 3 UG Credits 

ISHU 3193: Writing About the Environment  
Online Synchronous | Monday-Friday, 6-10pm | May 20 - May 31 | No class May 27 (Memorial Day)  
Focuses on classic, contemporary, and non-traditional literature about the environment. The course is divided into three sections: nature writing, place-based writing, and environmental writing. Readings focus on issues beyond landscape as gender, race, politics, ethics, and culture all play a part in environmental writing.  
Charlotte Matthews | 3 UG Credits 

ISHU 3901: Dance: Anthropological Origins of Dance and Music in World Cultures 
Online Synchronous | Thursdays, 6-10pm | Jun 6 - Aug 8 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jul 6 | No class Jul 4 (Independence Day) 
Examines the anthropological origins of dance history in world cultures.  Discusses the importance of dance to define and preserve the historic traditions within a culture.  Explores the inherent relationship between dance and music within both the socio-cultural and folk aspects, as well as the ceremonial, religious, and ritual aspects of a culture. 
Christie Mendoza | 3 UG Credits 

ISHU 4180: The Nature of the Hero and How to Create One  
Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class Jun 19 (Juneteenth) 
Focuses on plot, point of view, discovery of theme, recognition and reversal, and writing in scene, for writers of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays and memoir. Creates an understanding of how stories are shaped and told. Explores Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, which distills the stories told in every culture into a framework for one's own story.  
Robert Henry | 3 UG Credits 

ISIN 4510: Special Topics in Conduct of Inquiry: Social Sciences - Exploring US History 
Online Synchronous | Mondays, 6-10pm | Jun 3 - Aug 5  
Investigates late nineteenth and twentieth century United States history. Develops core research skills using a variety of library resources, including how to interpret primary and secondary sources, and how to present findings.    
Stephen Levine | 3 UG Credits 

ISIN 4510:Special Topics in Conduct of Inquiry: Social Sciences – Apocalyptic Tradition
Online Asynchronous | Available Jun 3 – Aug 9  
Provides a contemporary lens on apocalypse, which means to "unveil" through the lens of political science. Focuses on its uniquely American register, in particular how anxieties around westward expansion, mass immigration, industrialization, and Cold War atomic brinksmanship fueled an American apocalyptic imaginary.
Robert Kirsch | 3 UG Credits     

ISIN 4520: Special Topics in Conduct of Inquiry: Humanities - Art in the Ring of Fire 
Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class  Jun 19 (Juneteenth) 
Examines the development and meaning of art and architecture in small-scale indigenous cultures that inhabit areas along the Pacific Coastline. Though diverse in many aspects, the course attempts to uncover commonalities of expression between certain groups such as the Ainu of northern Japan and cultures of the Northwest Coast region of Canada from the perspective of art history, anthropology and ethnology.  
Julia May | 3 UG Credits 

ISIN 4520: Special Topics in Conduct of Inquiry: Humanities - Britain & Its Empire: Art, Media, other Forms  
Online Synchronous | Tuesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 4 - Aug 6  
Introduces major events and themes in the history of Britain and the British Empire, and places these developments in wider context of world history. Prioritizes non-traditional approaches and sources (paintings, engravings, film and television) to explore the past. Challenges national and ethnic stereotypes, and pursues a definition of British "character".
Richard Floyd | 3 UG Credits 

ISLS 3190: Good Cop, Bad Cop  Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class Jun 19 (Juneteenth)  
This course examines the current use of the police power in a variety of situations, informed by the past and motivated by the future. Particular emphasis is on contemporary real-life examples to inform the discussion on the proper use of the police power. Those examples are subjected to a variety of perspectives, societal and individual, to gain a fuller understanding of the delicate balance of competing values.   
Alan Rasmussen | 3 UG Credits 

ISLS 3210: The Frost is Hard-Edged and Quick: Metaphor - Making a Final Unity  
Online Synchronous | Tuesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 4 - Aug 6  
What is a metaphor? What role does it play in the way we see the world, ourselves and others? What metaphors guide our own thinking - as a society and a culture about politics, crime, illness, ourselves, love and life?  If we take metaphor seriously, is it possible to draw a hard line between fact and fiction, between arts and sciences, between the objective and subjective?  Does metaphor refute reason?  In this course students investigate these and related questions using a variety of media. Texts will be drawn from a spectrum of disciplines including poetry, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature and literary criticism.  
Charlotte Matthews | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 3305: The Impact of Media on the Development of Popular Culture  
Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class Jun 19 (Juneteenth) 
Examines the media's role in conveying cultural meaning through popular culture.  Analyzes the histories and theories underlying media and popular culture; focusing on print, film, radio, television, the internet, and social media. Critiques contemporary popular culture through music, movies, tv programming, advertising, sports, fashion, celebrity culture, language, and collective public expression.  
Robert Guttman | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 3410: Topics in Abnormal Psychology  
Online Asynchronous | Available Jun 3 - Aug 9  
Examines biological and genetic predispositions for major mental illness diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar, and personality disorders. Explores current treatment models, including medication and therapy interventions. Engages students in analyzing recent scholarly articles and clinical case studies; and conducting independent research.  
Lillian Wallace | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 3411: Topics in Personality Psychology 
Online Asynchronous | Available Jun 3 – Aug 9 
Explores major theoretical approaches to understanding the development, structure, and dynamics of personality. Analyzes recent scholarship and various research methods, with projects for students to apply leading theories in real-world social and professional settings. 
Clair Berube | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 3422: Managing Your Emotions in the Workplace  
Online Synchronous | Wednesdays, 6-10pm | Jun 5 - Aug 7 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jun 22 | No class Jun 19 (Juneteenth) 
Gives a fundamental overview of Emotional Intelligence and shows how understanding Emotional Intelligence leads to a beneficial working career and personal life. Presents an E.I. competence framework and reviews basic domains, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management through various methods to promote learning by doing. Applies theoretical concepts to real world situations.  
Stephen Oliver | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 3720: Witchcraft  
Online Asynchronous | Available May 20 - May 31  
Surveys Western attitudes toward magic and witchcraft from ancient times to the present, with emphasis on the European age of witch hunting, 1450-1750.  
David Corlett | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 4301: History of Social Protest Movements Through Music
Online Synchronous | Mondays, 6-10pm | Jun 3 – Aug 5
Examines the history of American protest movements by looking at music from the 1900s to 2000. Analyzes readings and analyzes music from that period. Explores movements such as the populist movement, labor movements, anti-war protests, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, peace movements, and environmental movements.
TBD | 3 UG Credits 

ISSS 4458: The Cold War  
Online Synchronous | Thursdays, 6-10pm | Jun 6 - Aug 8 | Saturday, 9am-1pm | Jul 6 | No class Jul 4 (Independence Day)  This course examines both Russian and American foreign policy at several critical points during the conflict.  Through major scholarly works, primary documents, films, class discussions, papers, and lectures students will work together to better understand the Cold War and gain a fuller understanding of its political, military, cultural, economic, and ideological impact at home and abroad.  The following questions will be explored: 1) How did the Cold War start?; 2) What were some of the important decisions made during the conflict, and why?; 3) Why did the Cold War end the way it did?  
Paul Pitman | 3 UG Credits 

*Asynchronous online courses at SCPS can sometimes include synchronous sessions. Attendance is strongly encouraged but not mandatory. Synchronous sessions will be recorded

* The information contained on this website is for informational purposes only. The Undergraduate Record and Graduate Record represent the official repository for academic program requirements.