The College of Charleston offers nearly 100 courses during the three-week Maymester session. Maymester began May 10 and end with final exams on May 26, 2011. Maymester courses offer students an opportunity to experience topics and field schools that are not offered during the fall and spring semesters and include non-traditional topics.
This year, the African American Studies program is offering Pre-Cursors to Brown v. Board of Education and the chemistry department is offering Pharmaceutical Analysis. Robert Russell of the art history department will delve into Design and Preservation in Charleston. The hospitality and tourism management’s popular Destination Wedding Management class is back and students will be creating full wedding plans for three Charleston-area couples.
Interested in seeing what you can expect in some of these classes?
Watch the final projects of the Stop Motion Animation class.
Check out students in the Outdoor Education class as they learn to surf kayak at Folly Beach.
Get inside Spoleto Festival USA with one of School of the Arts’ most popular courses.
History Professor Scott Poole will also be teaching Monsters in America – a course by the same name as his new book set to publish in October. Following Maymester, Poole will be in New York City doing a reading and signing review copies of the book at the Book Expo America.
More information about Maymester or summer sessions.