Faculty: Shannon Cornelison-Brown Description: This course focuses on personal financial planning issues and recommended techniques to better manage these issues. This class will utilize traditional lecture/seminar format but will involve a noteworthy “Introspective” component. The “Introspective” component will consist of students reflecting upon their respective current financial position (i.e. current budget, credit score, etc.) and… [Read More]

Faculty: Lance Barton, Mark Hebert Description: Who can afford to learn about wine, when a single (decent) bottle costs, $20, $30, or more? A single two hour pairing event or tasting class start at $30 a seat and often exceed $50 a seat. We have the best value answer – take this course, and taste nearly… [Read More]

Faculty: Ed Richardson Description: In 2019, I taught Intro to Wargaming in JanTerm and got a great response from my students. This course will be a more focused version of the previous course. Students will learn generally about wargaming and its applications for both military and civilian purposes. They will focus specifically on wargaming WWII… [Read More]

Faculty: Teresa Hall Description: Lifestyle behaviors such as making sound nutrition choices, being physically active, and stress management are important determinants of health and overall quality of life. Through daily workouts and a variety of self-assessment tools, this course will give students the knowledge and skills to make meaningful and lasting behavior changes. Accurate, up… [Read More]

Faculty: Alex Garganigo Description: Democracy is under threat across the world today. Let’s try to do something about it by making ourselves better democratic citizens. One way to do that is to think long and hard about the origins of democracy in ancient Greece. How did democracy work in ancient Athens? How did the comedies… [Read More]

Faculty: Aaron Harrison Description: The objectives of the course are to introduce students to a range of modern scientific topics through the lens of popular culture and to think about how science is portrayed to the general public in media including articles, books, podcasts, TV, and movies. The course will be organized around major topics… [Read More]

Faculty: Jack Mealy Description: This course undertakes a study of classical systematic methods of drawing with the use of classical hand-held instruments. [So, NO electronic machines or computing devices for this study.] In particular, the general problem of depicting three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane will be tackled via various methodical schemes. Specifically, multi-view drawings,… [Read More]

Faculty: Patrick Duffey Description: Abya Yala, meaning “land in its full maturity” in the language of the Kuna peoples of Panama and Colombia, is one of the earliest terms used by native peoples to name the American continents in their entirety. The purpose of this course is to study the present-day indigenous cultures located in… [Read More]

Faculty: David Aiello Description: Are you curious as to what life is like in a genetics and molecular biology research lab? Do you want to build your basic lab skills in genetics and molecular biology? Do you want to build your skills in learning to read and evaluate the primary literature? If you answered yes,… [Read More]

Faculty: Josh Edge Description: In this course, students will learn about how puzzles are solved and designed through “escape rooms”, which are a popular trend where participants attempt to solve a series of puzzles to break out of a room. Students will learn techniques for solving these puzzles and participate in a number of rooms… [Read More]