Category: Featured Courses

Featured Course: Critical Sexuality Studies

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  Last summer’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage had a tremendous impact on our nation. This ruling, however, merely scratched the surface in terms of sexuality and gender identity in our country. We must continue this important conversation and dig deeper, paying special attention to intersections of sexuality with gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and disability. GWST 210: Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies introduces students to […]

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Featured Course: Ancient Greeks

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  The rise and fall of ancient Greece has provided the bases of many things we take for granted in the modern word. For example, the first historians and mathematicians developed their crafts in reaction to the the shift to empirical thinking and reasoning. Additionally, the democratic political and judicial system was used to organize society, while poetry, theater, and […]

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Featured Course: Be a Socialpreneur

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ENTR 340

  We, as millennials, are a HUGE wave of future entrepreneurs who’ve made ‘doing good’ a priority. As a result, social entrepreneurship is on the rise. Thanks to the Alex Brown Center at UMBC, you can master your social conscious business skills this summer in ENTR 340: Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving and & the Socialpreneur. With the guiding help of professor Gib […]

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Featured Course: Scriptwriting

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  Have fun this summer, and knock out an Arts and Humanities (GEP) credit by enrolling in ENGL 272-Introduction to Creative Writing- Scriptwriting. The course will cover script writing for different mediums like TV, radio, and drama, with an emphasis on film. You must have completed ENGL 100 with a ‘C’ or better. This course is considered a general education requirement for the Arts and Humanities. […]

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Featured Course: Introduction to Scientific Reasoning

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Scientific Reasoning

  Register for PHIL 248: Introduction to Scientific Reasoning and discover what guides your judgement and how you reason. How do you decide on a course of action? What logical process do you take to form a conclusion? In PHIL 248, students discuss several fascinating issues, including deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the justification of inductive inferences, examples of inductive reasoning, the nature of science and its […]

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