The College of Charleston offers nearly 100 courses during the three-week Maymester session. Maymester began May 14 and ends with final exams on May 30, 2012. This year, the College is offering 30 online courses in dozens of different disciplines from French to communication and hospitality and tourism management. 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.
Tessa Garton will teach an anthropology class entitled “Medieval Imagery and its Legacy in the Modern World: the ‘Holy Grail’ and other Relics.” Henry Xie will teach “Sports Marketing,” Doug Walker will teach the “Economics of Gambling,” and computer science professor Aspen Olmstead will teach “Game Development with Java.
“Arts and the Media at Spoleto” is taught by Jeanette Guinn, host of Arts Daily on ETV Radio, the S.C. NPR affiliate, and offers real experienceworking on the preproduction for the daily hour-long radio coverage of Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto. Artist research, scheduling, question development, interviewing, app development, broadcast programming, social media, promotion, marketing, script writing, voice over, media relations, and remote and studio video and audio recording and editing will be included. Watch a video. Read the student’s blog posts on the project.
Students interested in music can take either Edward Hart’s “New Wave: Music of the 1980’s” or Blake Stevens’ “Music of the Beatles.” Both courses will look at the influential groups, cultural relevancy and development of the style.
There is also an online course dedicated to popular music entitled “Like A Rolling Stone: History and Development of Rock Music” taught by Yiorgos Vassilandonakis in the music department. Like A Rolling Stone will trace the origins, development and stylistic nuances of rock music from its folk and blues beginnings via Elvis, Bob Dylan and the British invasion through the Woodstock, Motown, California surf, Psychedelic, Hippie culture, Heavy Metal, and Grunge movements.
Or if technology is more your interest, take “Technology and The New Enterprise,” an online course that answers questions like: Is Facebook really worth $80 billion? Why was NetFlix able to repel Blockbuster and WalMart? Why is Google more profitable than Disney? Computer science faculty member Lancie Affonso will teach this introductory course.
