May Term On-Campus Course Section Themes and Descriptions

• A “New Deal” for Roanoke: The Impact of the New Deal on Roanoke, VA

• A Global Manager Goes to China

• African Cultural History Through Film

• African Politics & Film

• American Education: Personalities and Contributors

• Animals and Society

• Art Foundry

• Arthur through the Ages: The Camelot Legend Past and Present

• Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Cognition

• Better Living through Chemistry

• Business Lessons Learned from Celebrities

• Chemistry of Foods and Cooking

• Cinematic Sound

• Coloring Outside the Lines: Children's Literature as Resistance

• Computer Graphics

• Computing Aspects of E-commerce

• Connections: Art and Math

• Counseling and Psychotherapy Approaches: A Comparative Analysis and Personal Synthesis

• Creating Late Medieval and Early Modern Book Media

• Demystifying Food: Why We Eat What We Eat

• Differ-abilities: Considering the Experiences of the "Disabled"

• Digitally Rebuilding the Ancient World

• Drawing On and Off the Page

• Dylan Thomas and Under Milk Wood.

• Experimental Archaeology

• Experimental Economics

• Experiments and Games in Economics

• Exploring Social Wellness: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But were Afraid to Ask

• Exploring the World on a Motorcycle

• Exploring Vision through the Eye of the Lens

• Fantasy in Children’s Literature and Film

• Fiber Arts and Culture

• Film as Social Icon

• Folk Tales: A Study of Multicultural Ties

• Food: Mapping Needs & Grassroot Action in our Community

• Foodways in History: Meals, Memory, and Migration

• Forensic Chemistry

• Forensic Economics

• GarageBand

• Guns and Gun Control

• Hands on Chemistry

• Hands-On Science—Developing Science Kits for Elementary Students

• History Detectives

• Hollywood Screen Violence: The late 1960s through the 2980 and beyond

• How Media Work

• How We Know What We Know

• Human Impact of Technology: The Bicycle as a Case Study

• If You Never Take Another Science Class

• In the Footsteps of Martin Luther: The Early Reformation in Germany

• Intellectual Property

• Introduction to Sound Sampling, Synthesis and Sequencing using Max/MSP

• Irish and British Theater

• It Could Happen To Us: A Realistic Look at Human Disease and the Rise of Drug Resistant Organisms

• Japanese History through Films

• Keeping a Journal

• Law and Film

• Learning From Our Elders

• Machine Learning

• Making Fear Your Friend

• Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn: The Development of a Masterpiece

• Math in Popular Media

• Medieval Drama: Text and Performance

• Middle School Immersion

• Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in France: Beur Cinema

• Mines of Southwest Virginia

• Motorcycle Musings

• Mountain Roots

• Mutual Fund Investing For Life

• Nonverbal Behavior

• Not in My Backyard

• Novels and Works of Art

• Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Public Health

• Pharmaceuticals in the U.S.

• Philosophy and Food

• Poems on Paintings

• Politics in the City

• Porcelain

• Potions

• Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance

• Problematic Behavior of Adolescents

• Psychological Disorders of Childhood

• Psychology in Film

• Psychology of Consciousness

• Psychology of Teams

• Psychology of Thinking and Decision Making

• Reading the Maya

• Reimagining the U.S. Constitution

• Religion at the Movies

• Reliving the Past, 1066

• Restoration Drama: Sex, Text, and Performance

• Robots and Society

• Russian Culture in the 21st Century

• Science on the Edge: Far-Out Ideas in Science and Science Fiction

• Science Storytelling

• Sciences & The Islamic Civilization: Studies in The Continuity of Knowledge

• Serious Games

• Should You Ratify the Constitution?

• Skilled Helping: A Problem-Management Approach

• Sociological Analysis of Prisons

• Sociology Goes to Bollywood: Gender in Indian Cinema

• Space Exploration: Past, Present, and Future

• Spanish Language Immersion Camp

• Spanish Language Immersion Camp

• Speculative Fiction Workshop

• Sport Consumer Behavior: Exploring Fandom

• Strategic Classroom Management.

• Sustainable Business: The Next Industrial Revolution

• Symbolic Narrative: The National D-Day Memorial

• Techniques in Biotechnology

• The Celluloid Boot: Visions and Versions of Italy through her Films

• The Cold War in Film

• The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

• The History of the Telescope

• The Mathematics of Gambling and Games

• The Narrative Life

• The Practice of Philosophy: Understanding and Crafting Arguments

• The Psychology of Eating

• The Science of Cooking

• The Science of Flavor

• The Science of Sports

• The Tainted Truth

• The Trial of Socrates

• The Visual Analysis of Data

• Through the Lens of Television: Examining the 1960s and Beyond

• Ticked Off

• Towards the Green Society: Community Sustainability Initiatives

• Truth and Beauty: Images of the Real

• Twentieth-Century American Films and the Novels that Inspired Them

• Understanding Poverty through Community Service

• Visions of Jesus

• Visions of Jesus in Literature, Art and Film

• We’re Moving to Mars!

• Weight Loss, Weight Gain and Body Image

• What's in Your Head? Exploring the Psyche through Film

• Women, Work, & Life

• Writing Film Reviews and Film Criticism

• Yoga History, Philosophy, and Foundations

• Interactive Storytelling

• Strategic Visual Communication