AR 350 E1
Special Topic: Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic Sculpture is a course designed to introduce students to the basics of
ceramics and the techniques of rendering in a three-dimensional space utilizing
clay. The students will learn various hand-building techniques with clay as well
as the technical and historical terminology, associated with 3-dimensional
design and ceramics. Through this course and its assignments students are able
to focus on technical, aesthetic, cultural, contemporary and historical concerns
of clay workers and sculptors as they develop their own personal and artistic
ways of working.
AR 350 EL
Special Topic: Math Art
This is an introductory course in which you will learn some basic elements of
design and composition building. Your objective will be to manipulate
pre-existing design elements in order to produce images according to the
parameters set for each design project. The basic elements either were produced,
or can easily be produced, using mathematically-based software. No knowledge of
mathematics is required.
BA 482 E1
Special Topic: Product & Brand Management
The purpose of this course is to give students a fundamental understanding of
how to build, measure, and manage a brand.
Some of a firm’s most valuable assets are the brands that it has invested in and
developed over time. This course addresses three important questions. How do you
build brand equity? How can brand equity be measured? How do you capitalize on
brand equity to expand your business? It will provide an understanding of the
important issues in marketing planning and evaluating brand strategies.
BA 482 E2
Special Topic: Marketing for Nonprofit
Nonprofit organizations have discovered that they must compete for clients,
employees, funding, volunteers time, and more. They have turned to contemporary
marketing techniques to achieve success. This course is designed to provide
students with methods of applying contemporary marketing theory and practice to
managing nonprofit organizations in health, educational and public services, the
arts, social action, and politics.
EN 450 E1
Special Topic: Antislavery Literature
This course traces the transatlantic literary history of the antislavery
movement in Great Britain and the United States.
Antislavery writers transformed abolitionism from an unpopular fringe issue to a
mainstream cause and moral imperative.
Writing in a wide range of genres (journalism, history, fiction, poetry, drama,
slave narratives, etc.), they made a significant contribution to the battle for
hearts and minds on the slavery issue.
EN 450 E2
Special Topic : Sports Writing
Students will learn the fundamentals of sports writing, including writing game
stories, previews, sidebars, notebooks, columns, blogs and breaking news.
We will cover Worcester State College sporting events as a class on occasion.
Students will also cover WSC sporting events in person on their own. Even if you
don’t plan to become a sports writer, this class will teach skills that can be
used in other careers: conducting interviews, research, meeting deadlines and
the ability to write in a concise, accurate manner.
GE 195 E1
Special Topic: Worcester Environmental Basics
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HI 450 E1
Special Topic: History of Ireland
This is a survey course in Irish history and culture from prehistory to modern
times, with particular emphasis on events since the 16th century.
Topics covered will include Irish political, social, economic and cultural
history. Attention will be given to
the four invasions of Ireland, namely the Celtic, Viking, Norman and English
invasions. Much of the focus will
be on the relationship between England and Ireland and Ireland’s role in the
British Empire. The Irish Diaspora
and the importance of Irish-Americans in the United States will be covered.
The attempts to bring a lasting peace to Northern Ireland and the prospect for
future developments will also be explored.
HI 450 E2
Special Topic: Terrorism in the World Today
A study of recent terrorists movements i.e. Jihadists, Al-Qaida, Hezbollah,
Taliban. Special attention will be
devoted to the motivations, strategies and tactics employed by these groups.
Counter-terrorism strategies will also be examined.
HI 450-E3
Special Topic: British Imperialism
A seminar study of Global British Imperialism from the conclusion of the
Napoleonic Wars (1815) through the Independence of India & Pakistan in 1947.
The course will focus on the development of global industry and trade and the
various low intensity conflicts fought for the empire .
We will also study important historiographical works that deal with the themes
of race, gender, and class.
HI 450-E4
Special Topic: Blackstone Valley: Work and Culture
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HI 450 E5
Special Topic: African History
This course concentrates on Modern African History, beginning with the Scramble
of Africa by European countries in 1884. However, there will be treatment of the
historical context by referring briefly to the politics and economics of the
precolonial independence era (before 1884). Subsequently, the course will
address the political and economic impacts of colonialism, nationalism and the
emergence of the contemporary independence era, social cultural environment,
continuity and change in governance, and foreign relations. The course will
conclude with discussion of the rival theoretical perspectives as regards their
approach to the study of Africa, with special reference to the liberal and
critical traditions.
HI 450 E6
Special Topic: Politics of World War I and World War II
This course will examine political events surrounding the two world wars, from
the late 19th century into the middle of the 20th century.
We will investigate cultural values and how they affected the personalities of
the people who shaped the era. We
will examine the legacies of imperialism and nationalism using primary and
secondary sources in order to understand not only the political dimensions of
the wars, but their effects on our cultural and social history.
The course will extend its focus beyond the European theater and encompass the
politics of Asia and Africa as well.
HI 450 EL
Special Topic: History of the Holocaust
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
MU 200 E1
Issues in Music: New England Jazz Artists
To enhance the student's knowledge of jazz by studying and analyzing the music
of the great jazz artists and venues of the New England area.
TH 399 E1
Special Topic: Transmission of Memory through the Arts
The drama behind the drama is the essence of this course as based on the
instructor’s “adventures” in recovering a history hidden for years, and for
their own reasons, by the governments of Germany and Poland. Here are the
incredible stories of the anti –Nazi underground in World War II: the German
underground as related in the play “A
Journey to Kreisau”
and the Polish underground as related in
“Karski”.
Both plays, which will be used as text, were written with the active
encouragement of survivors of the resistance and of the governments of Germany
and Poland. The instructor will also utilize various films dealing with this
same era in world history.
Instructor: Marc P. Smith, playwright, co-founder of Worcester Foothills
Theatre and Executive Producer/Artistic Director of Foothills (1974-1999)
UR 191 E1
Special Topic: Community Organizations
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
UR 191 E2
Special Topic: The Urban Family
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
GRADUATE COURSES
BI 980 E1
Special Topic: Experimental Design
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
EN 998 E1
Special Topic: Modern British Novel
This course will focus on the critical study of selected works by major British
novelists from 1900 through World War II, including Joyce, Conrad, Woolf,
Forster, Lawrence, Huxley, Orwell, and Bowen. Topics will include literary
modernism, Empire, gender and class issues, and the two world wars.
EN 998 E2
Special Topic: Antislavery Literature
This course traces the transatlantic literary history of the antislavery
movement in Great Britain and the United States.
Antislavery writers transformed abolitionism from an unpopular fringe issue to a
mainstream cause and moral imperative.
Writing in a wide range of genres (journalism, history, fiction, poetry, drama,
slave narratives, etc.), they made a significant contribution to the battle for
hearts and minds on the slavery issue.
HE 944 E1
Special Topic: Health Psychology
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HI 990 E1
Special Topic: Terrorism in the World Today
A study of recent terrorists movements i.e. Jihadists, Al-Qaida, Hezbollah,
Taliban. Special attention will be
devoted to the motivations, strategies and tactics employed by these groups.
Counter-terrorism strategies will also be examined.
HI 990 E2
Special Topic: US/Latin American Relations
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HI 990 E3
Special Topic: British Imperialism
A seminar study of Global British Imperialism from the conclusion of the
Napoleonic Wars (1815) through the Independence of India & Pakistan in 1947.
The course will focus on the development of global industry and trade and the
various low intensity conflicts fought for the empire .
We will also study important historiographical works that deal with the themes
of race, gender, and class.
HI 990 E4
Special Topic: Blackstone Valley: Work and Culture
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.
HI 990 E5
Special Topic: American Social History
Our course will explore American social history during the twentieth century.
Social history is the history of the American people and social movements.
This type of history came of age in the 1960s and was more and more embraced by
the academy as the century progressed.
Authors like Howard Zinn and Ronald Takaki popularized this way of seeing
history. Rather than consider the nation from the viewpoint of the presidency
and elite national leaders (sometimes characterized as “top down” history), the
nation’s history was considered from the viewpoint of everyday Americans and
from “the bottom up.” As the
renowned scholars Frederick Binder and David Reimers have written, “Modern
scholars’ growing attention to social history is in part a recognition that
knowledge of the experiences, values, and attitudes of these people [from all
walks of life] is crucial to gaining an understanding of our past.” (The
Way We Lived: Essays and Documents
in American Social History (2008), ix)
The historiographical works chosen in this class cover a lot of ground.
We will move from to the momentous uprisings in Chicago (the Great Chicago Fire,
the Haymarket Riot, and the Pullman
Strike), through the history of immigration, and on to Civil Rights, gay
migration to cities, student movements of the 1960s, women’s rights, and the
history of Hurricane Katrina. All
of major events and changes we will explore throughout the tumultuous decades of
the twentieth century will reveal more and more layers of the debate over who
and what was and is “American” and the direction our country would take as it
moved into the future.
HI 990 EL
Special Topic: History of the Holocaust
No course description available.
Please contact the instructor for more information.