by Susan Griffith

Registration is now open for summer classes at CWRU. Complete information is available at http://www.cwru.edu/academics/summer.

Summer classes are offered in a six-week session from June 16 to July 28 or an eight-week session from June 2 to July 28. Undergraduate tuition costs for summer courses are half regular tuition, and most classes transfer without difficulty to other schools. This summer

CWRU also will bring back lunchtime barbecues and entertainment on the Quad and the Thursdays in the Park concert series.

Several first-time offerings are on the summer course schedule this year. They include Biology 352: "Introduction to Ecology and Field Biology;" Anthropology 376/476: "Religion and Local Moral Worlds;" and Political Science 388/488: "Politics, Policy & Tobacco."

The new biology field course will utilize the resources of CWRU's 389-acre farm on Fairmount Boulevard in Hunting Valley. Meeting on Tuesdays and Thursday, the three-hour credit course will explore the aquatic, woodland and open field environments and examine individual, populations and communities of species living in these environments.

According to James Bader, CWRU biology instructor, "the course is the first push to use the farm in the CWRU undergraduate education program in biology." The offerings will be expanded in fall classes.

Exploring the politics of tobacco, students will take an in-depth look at "one of the most interesting controversies in recent American politics," according to Joseph White the Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy.

Tobacco politics also is a "tale of high drama, with lots of good guys and villains," he added, which makes the topic an interesting study for political science.

Regularly taught during the school year but for the first time on the summer schedule are "The Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology," "Art History II: Michelangelo to Mapplethorpe," "Hinduism," "Advanced Spanish Conversation" and "Statistics for Business and Management Science I."

CWRU's summer program also offers a full year of chemistry and physics. The classes are taught by CWRU world-class faculty.

Molly Berger, assistant dean for summer programs, reports that in addition to the summer curriculum, the popular lunch-time barbecues and entertainment will return during June and July. A forthcoming announcement will describe the various themes.

Thursdays in the Park also will make an encore with entertainment and food starting at 5:30 p.m. June 5 in the Turning Point Garden near Bellflower Road. The Thursday night entertainment will continue through July, except for the evening of July 3.

For information about classes, contact Berger at 216-368-4413. Students from other colleges and universities can request a transient application by calling the CWRU Office of Undergraduate Studies at 216-368-2928. Transient applications also are available at the summer school Web site.

 

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