Maymester: May 11-27,2010

New Course Descriptions and Dates Coming Soon!!!

• Earn 3 credit hours in three weeks
•  Select from 18 courses offered
• Satisfy Foundations, Approaches, or Connections requirements
  
• If you enroll in a Maymester course, it is recommended that you do not enroll in an other First Summer Session course.
  
• Classes meet every day:  9:00 - 12:15 or 1:15 - 4:30
• Final Exam:  May 27 at the regular class time

Changing Course Load

    Last day to ADD Maymester course is May 12. You must attend class on the first day.

    Last day to DROP a Maymester course is May 19 with at least one credit hour remaining (no refund).

    WITHDRAWAL from a Maymester course is allowed.  No credit is earned.
       Submit a Withdrawal form.  The deadline dates are:

          May 11-12     90% refund
          May 13-14     50% refund
          May 15-19     15% refund
          May 20-27     No refund
          May 27           Last day allowed to withdraw

    If you register for a Maymester and a First Summer Session course, contact your Dean for instructions on changing your schedule.

2009 Course List

 ART 551 Introduction to Museum Studies (3), Lyneise Williams. Designed to offer the essentials of museum work to students considering careers as curators and registrars. Instruction will also be given in museum management, the duties of the registrar, and the packing and shipping or art works.  Students will then consider a variety of museums in the greater Triangle area. Interspersed with these site visits and discussions, we will explore the basic operational organization of the museum, as well as examine potential links among various museums -- education, nationalism, political identity, connoisseurship, history, the making of high and popular culture, entertainment, commercial enterprise. Fulfills requirements for Visual and Performing Arts (VP) and North Atlantic World (NA).

CLAS 362 Tragic Dimension in Classical Literature (3), Peter Smith. Students in this course will read and discuss thirteen of the most famous, influential, and disturbing Greek plays written in the Golden Age of Athens, the 5th century B.C. These include four plays by each of the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (among them Agamemnon, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Bacchae, and Medea). At the end of the semester we will read Aristophanes' Frogs, a no-holds-barred comedy in which a battle of wits & words is waged in the underworld between the ghosts of Aeshylus and Euripides. Class meetings will contain a lecture component but depend much more on discussion led by both the instructor and students. Some mini-lectures will concern the mysterious origins of tragedy in 6th-century Athens, the archaelogical evidence for the thatre of Dionysos, and the techniques of play production in Classical Greece. Our greatest focus, though, will be on how these plays served the people of Athens as vehicles for the exploration of social, moral, and religious issues: for example, the nature of heroism, the problem of personal choice and responsibility, the relations between individuals and their families and communities, and-last but certainlyn ot least- the problematic, mysterious nature of human fate. We will be using the best availible English translations of the plays, and we will also use a new, and excellent, companion volume Greek Theatre in Context (Cambridge 2008) by our own Eric Dugdale (UNC Ph. D '01). Each Spring at the festival of Dionysus the citizens of Athens watched nine new tragedies over three days; we will go more slowly than that! Previous study of ancient history or archaeology or Greek literature is of course welcome but is not required for the course. Classics 362 fulfills requirements for Beyond North Atlantic World (BN), Literary Arts (LA), and World Before 1750 (WB).

CMPL 492 Fourth Dimension:  Art and the Fictions of Hyperspace (3), Diane Leonard. The "fourth dimension" is a concept that originated in the 19th-century non-Euclidean geometry and was popularized in science fiction and writings on the occult. In the early 20th century it inspired various innovations in literature and the visual arts that transformed artistic representations of space and time. We'll explore the development of the concept from its beginnings in mathematics through its popularization in science fiction and the occult (E.A. Abbott, H.G. Wells, Ouspensky, Hinton), its expansion in the visual arts of early modernism (Picasso, Duchamp, Malevich, Lissitsky, Escher), and finally in texts and films of modernism and post-modernism, examining what resources writers (Lewis Carroll, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Borges, Marcel Proust) and film-makers (Robbe-Grillet, Chris Maker, and 4D computer simulations) brought to bear on representations of this dimension. Because of the compressed time frame of Maymester, readings will be kept brief, with much of the summer session devoted to film and the visual arts. Fulfills requirements for Literary Arts (LA) North Atlantic World (NA).

COMM 639 Documentary Production Project (3), Gorham Kindem. Students are expected to complete all aspects of a documentary video on a social/cultural issue/event under the supervision of an award-winning documentary producer and director.  Different groups assume responsibility for different facets of the documentary production such as writing the proposal, story/character development, narration, video and audio recording, lighting, post production edition, special effects, and DVD distribution.  This method allows all students to experience all aspects of the documentary production while specializing in one essential area.

DRAM 290 Special Studies: Because We're Still Here (And Moving): Documentary Theater Practicum (3), Kathryn Williams. Because We're Still Here and Moving is a theater piece based on a collection of oral histories about the Northside Community in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Northside community has primarily been African American, and for many years the majority of workers for the University of North Carolina resided there. With recent economic development and changing demographics, the African American community is disappearing. In order to preserve the history and honor the past Hidden Voices, a local non profit, created Because We're Still Here (And Moving). In this Maymester, course we will rehearse the theater piece and perform it for all of the middle and high schools in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro school system.

ECON 468 Russian Economy From Lenin to Medvedev (3), Steven Rosefielde. Prerequisite, ECON 410 or permission of instructor. Study of the principles, design, organization, and performance of state-controlled economics relying on planning or regulated markets, with an emphasis on continuity and post-communist transition. This course will help students understand Russia's resurgent global superpower during and after the current world economic crisis.

ENGL 225 Shakespeare (3), Ritchie Kendall. This class aims to focus on 4-5 plays with a focus on questions of performance. The first part of each class will be a traditional, critical approach to the written text, while the second half of each class will explore the problems in the history of the performance of the plays' scripts from their original appearance on the stage to modern times. During the performance part of the class, we will use film, explore original staging techniques, and direct and act key scenes from each of the plays. The goal is to get students to think about the competing and complementary ways that the text and script work. Fulfills requirements for Literary Arts (LA), World Before 1750 (WB), and North Atlantic World (NA).

FREN 398 Undergraduate Seminar in French (3), Martine Antle. This course examines the construction of European identities in a range of European films from the 1960s to today. It will analyze and compare modes of narrating national, class, racial, sexual and social differences in England, France, Germany, Spain and other European nations. Focusing on key moments in Europe’s cultural, social and political history, we will consider how discourses on otherness have evolved. We will also investigate the ways in which film culture has reflected, reinforced, reshaped and, in some instances, vigorously contested Europe’s dominant ideologies. Course is taught in English with written assignments in either French or English.

HIST 140 The World Since 1945 (3), Donald Reid. This introduction to the contemporary world examines the Cold War and its international aftermath, decolonization, national development across a variety of cases, and trends in the global economy. Fulfills requirements for Global Issues (GL), Beyond the North Atlantic World (BN), and Historical (HS).

HIST 277 The Conflict Over Israel/Palestine (3), Sarah Shields. In addition to learning about the history of Israel/Palestine conflict, the students will actively engage in the work of historians. We will spend much of our first days in the League of Nations and United Nations collections at Davis Library, analyzing the questions we can ask about the Israel/Palestine Conflict based on the sources there and identifying the information we would need to answer those questions. Fulfills requirements for Beyond the North Atlantic World (BN) and Historical (HS).

JOMC 376 Sports Marketing and Advertising (3), John Sweeney. Examines the range of promotional techniques used in the modern sports industry.  Topics include sponsorships, advertising, merchandising and the effects of commercialization.  Controversies include the salaries of top college coaches, the economic problems of the WNBA, the commercial development of youth sports and the increasing backlash against privileged athletic celebrity behavior. 

 MASC/ENST 270 North Carolina Estuaries:  Environmental Processes and Problems (3), Marc Alperin. This course is heavily "hands-on" and blends environmental modeling, field research, laboratory analysis, and data synthesis and interpretation.  Suitable for both science and non-science majors, students spend one full week at the Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) in Morehead City.  They participate in two cruises on the R/V Capricorn to the Neuse River estuary in which they actively engage in research using state-of-the-art techniques.  On non-cruise days, students work on laboratory analysis, data synthesis, and group reports and have afternoon seminars conducted by IMS faculty and graduate students.  In addition, a third field trip to the White Oak River estuary provides an opportunity to observe a contrasting estuarine ecosystem. Course has an extra fee for the off-campus component. Separate application is required. Application is available from Summer School, 134 E. Franklin Street.

POLI 209 Analyzing Public Opinion (3), Stuart Macdonald. Public opinion polls are pervasive during election campaigns.  Would you like to understand how they are done and how to interpret the results?  Would you like to investigate how different groups feel about the political parties and candidates?  This course deals extensively with analyzing public opinion data.  It is a hands-on course using laptop computers. Fulfills requirements for Quantitative Intesnsive (QI) and Social Science (SS).

POLI 432 Tolerance in Liberal States (3), Donald Searing. Prerequisites, POLI 100, 239. The goal of this course is to build a foundation of principles and concepts for identifying, evaluating, and responding to concrete examples of intolerance in the United States, Britain, and France. Fulfills requirements for Philosophical (PH), Communication Intensive (CI), and North Atlantic World (NA).

PSYC 245 Abnormal Psychology (3), Charles Wiss. Prerequisite, PSYC 101. This course will focus on providing an overview of many of the major psychological disorders, with a focus on disorders occurring in adulthood. The major objectives of this course will be for students to gain mastery of the diagnostic criteria and identifying features that are associated with each disorder, identify and distinguish the disorders; and have a thorough understanding of the etiologic theories associated with each disorder. Fulfills requirements for Physical and Life Science (PL).

PSYC 500 Childhood Disorders (3), Jen Youngstrom. Prerequisites, PSYC 101, 245, and 250. This class will provide a broad overview of a wide range of childhood issues. These include different disorders and also how these issues affect relationships, education, and long term outcomes. Almost all people either have dealt with one of these issues or have a friend of family member who has experienced similar issues, creating a personal interest in the material. In this course, students will have the opportunity to read about, research, and hear presentations on a wide range of clinical topics, introducing them to areas they may discover they would like to explore further. Fulfills requirement for Social Science (SS).

SPAN 293 [093] Spanish Service Learning (1), Malgorzata Lee. Permission of the instructor. Service learning component for students enrolled in Spanish language courses. May not count toward the major or minor in Spanish. Note: Available to students enrolled in SPAN 310.

SPAN 310 [051] Conversation II (3), Malgorzata Lee. Prerequisite, SPAN 250, 255, 260, or equivalent. Expands speaking skills through vocabulary building, discussion of texts, and conversation. Ongoing development of writing skills. Not open to native speakers. Note: Spanish Service Learning component available (SPAN 293).