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Fall 2020

POP 101 Pop-up Courses: Ideas in Action

Credits: 1
Description: Pop-Up courses are dynamic, short-term classes designed to bring students together with faculty to discuss questions of local, regional, national, or international cultural, political, or social significance. Generally, they are more informal than conventional classes, pass-fail, interdisciplinary and are also structured to build campus community. Many include field trips, campus events and community activities.

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The 2020 Election

Class Number: 51961
Instructor(s): Adam M Tuchinsky, Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Dates: 10/26/2020 - 11/9/2020
Course Materials for POP 101 Pop-up Courses: Ideas in Action, section 0001, with Adam M Tuchinsky, Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 9 of 50 seats
Course Notes: Tired of political advertising, social media, and sound bites? This class offers the opportunity to dig a little deeper into the defining questions of our times. Every national election in recent memory has been framed as "the most important of our lifetime." 2020 is no exception. This short course will take a broader view of 2020's meaning. It will present short lectures and brief readings on climate change, criminal justice reform, economic challenges, global health, American foreign policy and the future of democracy. Taught primarily by USM faculty from a variety of disciplines, this course will also provide students an opportunity to explore different majors. The course will meet on Zoom from 4:00-5:15 on the following dates: October 26 & 29 and November 2, 5, & 9. Lectures will be recorded.

SKY Happiness & Well-being

Class Number: 51969
Instructor(s): Katie Michelle Tomer
Dates: 11/13/2020 - 11/24/2020
Course Materials for POP 101 Pop-up Courses: Ideas in Action, section 0002, with Katie Michelle Tomer
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 24 of 40 seats
Course Notes: SKY Campus Happiness: Practice of Happiness, Well-being, and Leadership In this course, students will learn foundational stress management and leadership skills, develop a personal daily breathing and meditation practice, develop strategies for social connection and community building, and engage in peer driven service initiatives. Online synchronous dates/times are: Friday November 13th 6pm-9pm Saturday November 14th 10am-1pm Sunday November 15th 10am-1pm With two follow-up sessions in the evening on subsequent Tuesdays, November 17 and November 24.

BPH 315 Population Health Improvement

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: BPH 201
Description: Public health is fundamentally tasked with improving the health of groups, communities and populations. Students learn participatory approaches for planning and implementing health programs to improve population health in a variety of community-based settings. This course emphasizes professional ethics, needs assessment, the use of evidence in program design, capacity- and coalition-building, proposal writing, and implementation of initiatives to prevent disease and promote healthy living and behavior. Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Public Health (BPH 201). Cr 3.

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Class Number: 49368
Instructor(s): Randy H Schwartz
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for BPH 315 Population Health Improvement, section 0001, with Randy H Schwartz
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
MW 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 16 of 30 seats
Course Notes: This course will have synchronous meetings during the originally scheduled class time where all students will be required to be present by Zoom.

SPM 450 Exercise for Special Populations

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Corequisites: SPM 430 and ALT or EXS Majors
Description: The focus of this course is on exercise programming guidelines and recommendations for a variety of special populations that includes but is not limited to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, the elderly, and pediatric conditions. Prerequisites: ALT or EXS major; SPM 430 or concurrent. Cr 3.

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Class Number: 47559
Instructor(s): Deborah Van Langen
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for SPM 450 Exercise for Special Populations, section 0001, with Deborah Van Langen
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
TTh 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line
N/A Online Class Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 10 of 25 seats
Course Notes: This course will have some synchronous meetings during the originally scheduled class time where all students will be required to be present by Zoom.

EYE 199 Topics

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: College Writing or Concurrently and First Year Students only
Description: Students explore significant and challenging questions from multiple perspectives, developing capacities for analytic writing, contextual and reflective thinking, and respectful engagement with others that they will apply throughout their college careers.

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Anthro, Archaeology & Pop Cult

Class Number: 49079
Instructor(s): Marcia-Anne Dobres
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for EYE 199 Topics, section 0025, with Marcia-Anne Dobres
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online Class Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Closed
Enrollment: 25 of 25 seats
Core Curriculum: A-Entry Year Experience
Course Notes: This course explores anthropological and archeological perspectives on pop culture, and pop culture conceptions of anthropology and archeology. Students analyze films, television shows, museums, cartoons and other cultural artifacts to learn about pop culture, anthropology, and archeology.

ANT 255 Cultures of Africa

Credits: 3
Description: Africa is a vast continent rich in cultural diversity. This course will explore a variety of African people and cultures south of the Sahara. Students will read ethnographic case studies about small-scale communities that focus on interrelated issues such as music, religion, politics, economics, geography, ethnicity, and gender. The course will consider the effects of colonial periods on indigenous populations but will emphasize post-independence Africans. Students will learn to challenge negative Western representations of Africa by focusing on the power and perseverance of African people and their cultures. Cr. 3.

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Class Number: 49088
Instructor(s): Sarah Charlotte Lockridge
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for ANT 255 Cultures of Africa, section 0001, with Sarah Charlotte Lockridge
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online Class Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 16 of 25 seats
Core Curriculum: A-International

ANT 302 Medical Anthropology

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: ANT 101 or ANT 102
Description: This course considers the interface between medicine and anthropology in terms of both human biology and society. The course develops concepts of health as effective adaptation to environmental stresses, including infectious disease, nutritional stress, and psychosomatic illness, among others. It traces the history of health and disease in human society from hunter-gatherers to modern urban, industrial communities, and examines the way in which human populations have attempted to deal with various agents of disease. The course examines the diversity of human theories of disease causation and explores the role of modern medicine in effective health care delivery to persons of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Prerequisite: ANT 101, 102 or permission of instructor. Cr 3.

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Class Number: 47659
Instructor(s): Mark Silber
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for ANT 302 Medical Anthropology, section 0001, with Mark Silber
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online Class Web/On-line
T 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 2 of 25 seats
Course Notes: This course will have some synchronous meetings during the originally scheduled class time where all students will be required to be present by Zoom. Online meeting dates: 9/1, 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/27, 11/10, 12/1 and possibly 12/8
Class Number: 47660
Instructor(s): Mark Silber
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for ANT 302 Medical Anthropology, section 0002, with Mark Silber
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online Class Web/On-line
T 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 4 of 25 seats
Course Notes: This course will have some synchronous meetings during the originally scheduled class time where all students will be required to be present by Zoom. Online meeting dates: 9/1, 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, 10/27, 11/10, 12/1 and possibly 12/8

BAN 340 Data Mining for Business Analysts

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite:BAN 300; School of Business majors
Description: Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in data to obtain actionable insights. This course will use real-world data and popular analytic techniques, including clustering and decision trees, to solve business problems and support managerial decisions. Prerequisite: BAN 300. Non School of Business by permission. Cr.3.

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Class Number: 49292
Instructor(s): Hirotoshi Takeda
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for BAN 340 Data Mining for Business Analysts, section 0001, with Hirotoshi Takeda
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
N/A Online Class Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 5 of 40 seats

BPH 201 Fundamentals of Public Health

Credits: 3
Description: The course provides an overview of the public health system and examines the purpose, history, organization, approach, functions and determinants of health. The course places special emphasis on current health issues from our daily lives to highlight the relevance of public health. Trends, successes and challenges from a population perspective will be discussed as well as various tools and techniques used to address public health issues. Cr 3.

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Class Number: 49366
Instructor(s): Brenda M Joly
Dates: 8/31/2020 - 12/11/2020
Course Materials for BPH 201 Fundamentals of Public Health, section 0001, with Brenda M Joly
Meeting Information:
Days & Times Room Location
T 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Online-Live (See Notes) Web/On-line

Section Detail

Status: Open
Enrollment: 26 of 50 seats
Course Notes: This course will have synchronous meetings during the originally scheduled class time where all students will be required to be present by Zoom.

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