The following 3 credit graduate courses will be offered Spring 2010 through MCLA:
Energy and the Environment ENVE-601-01
Wed. Jan.-May 4:30pm-730pm MCLA
Instructor Shawn Burdick
This intensive course is designed for Middle/high school science teachers. Berkshire County and beyond who are interested in learning how to apply their knowledge to lessen the environmental impact of their schools, their homes and their communities. Some of the topics to be explored will be: energy generation, both renewable and non-renewable; energy conservation; recycling and the trash/waste stream; and the environmental impact of our technological society, including the consequences of global climate change.
Math History for Educators MATE-601-01
Wed. Jan.-May 6pm to 9pm, Intermodal Pittsfield
Instructor Christopher Thomas
Provide a sweeping overview of human history from the point of view of the development of K-12 mathematics. An emphasis will be placed on telling historical anecdotes that can be easily incorporated into K-12 teaching when introducing and explaining mathematical subjects. The focus will be on those key moments when new discoveries, challenges, and situations expanded or changed the field of mathematics.
To register:
http://www.mcla.edu/Academics/academicresources/registrar/
For more information call: (413) 662-5216
You may also be interested in these following courses:
ENGE 601 American Romanticism
Wednesday 4:30-7:30 Pittsfield Intermodal Center
Instructor: David Langston
The surge in literary production in the middle of the nineteenth-century established some fundamental contours for American literature and even for cultural values, and the influence of writers like Emerson, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman are still felt today. This course will concentrate on a limited number of themes that demonstrate the impact of Romantic preoccupations on these definŽing moments of American cultural nationalism just prior to the Civil War.
HSTE 601 Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm Pittsfield Intermodal Center
Instructor: Frances Jones-Sneed
The civil rights movement is one of the most significant sources of social change in the United States during the 20th Century. This course analyzes the structure and dynamics of the civil rights movement from the viewpoints of history, sociology, and political science. We pay close attention to the roles of organizations, reŽsources, leadership, recruitment, commitment, values, ideology, political culture, gender, and counter-movements.
