Winter Session courses on the New Brunswick campus meet or exceed the high academic standards set for the regular academic year at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, a top-ranked research institution and public university. Courses are selected for their suitability and approved by the school dean and/or faculty curricular committee.
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Become immersed in the 1950s this winter. Students will read and view the way people have long lived in a media-saturated society, from radio and motion pictures to television and today the Internet. This course connects the central issues of the 1950s as played out through mass media and popular culture and continues to influence the U.S. and global political economy and culture today in a period of history whose myths and stereotypes still flow around us in politics, culture, and daily life.
Professor Markowitz has taught at Rutgers since 1971 and is no stranger to online courses. He developed this course himself and lived through the 1950s as it formed his first real memories. He has written for History News Service, the History News Network, the journal Political Affairs, and various Encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of American National Biography, and the Encyclopedia of Social Movements on a variety of topics, including biographical entries on Jimmy Hoffa Julius, and Ethel Rosenberg, the Civil Rights movement, 1930-1953, and Poor Peoples Movements in American History.
This course is a 300-level course and fills a requirement for history majors and minors.
Negotiation is a social process that can be analyzed, understood, and modeled; it is a learnable and teachable skill set. Effective negotiators are made, not born, and skills can be improved and relearned throughout life. Improvements in negotiating behavior require a combination of intellectual training and behavioral skill development.
Thus, each class meeting for this course will be divided into two parts. The first part will focus on analysis and discussion of assigned readings, and the second part will allow students to participate in guided negotiation simulations and case analyses. This course can help you to enhance your ability to resolve conflicts, build relationships, improve your bottom line, and advance your career.
In this online asynchronous course, students will learn an introductory survey examining key concepts and themes in women's and gender studies, including these twelve: body image and media; class; feminisms; gender/sex; globalization and neoliberalism; intersectionality; patriarchy and privilege; race; reproductive justice; sexuality and queer theory; social justice and human rights; and violence, conflict, and terrorism. Students report this class opens their mind and sometimes changes their lives. This course also prepares students to analyze the complex ways power takes shape as ideas of race, gender, and sexuality that shape institutions, culture, identities, and everyday life.
This course fulfills the SAS Core Curriculum CCD-1 and CCO-1 Requirement 1 for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Major and Minor.
In this online asynchronous course, students will examine dynamics and connections among classism, racism, and sexism in contemporary American society. They will also understand the ways they influence and are influenced by the structure of society at large; their effect on individuals; and strategies for personal and social change.
This course introduces students to the framework of intersectional feminism and how to analyze how economic power, racism, and sexism work through and against each other.