Special Topics

Stamford Campus – May Term

Women’s Studies 3263 – Women and Violence
Cramer, Patricia
Class meets daily 5:30-8:30 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1277

This course offers a theoretical and practical approach to the problem of male violence against women. We examine violence against women as part of a system of controls against women, analyzing the connections between economic and ideological discrimination and violence. This course looks at violence against women as occurring on a continuum ranging from, for example, sexist jokes and telephone harassment to rape, childhood sexual abuse, and sex murder. We examine the intersections of race and class and how these impact on women’s experiences of and resistances to male violence. Throughout the course, we will consider not only how women have been victims but how they have resisted the violence done to them.

Readings will include first-person narratives by women recounting their experiences as well as feminist theoretical work on these issues. Activists and experts in the community who work on rape, battering and childhood sexual abuse will also be invited to speak to us in class. Practical advice on verbal and physical self-defense will be provided by experts in the field.

Storrs Campus – May Term

History 3360 – Early Middle Ages
Olson, Sherri
Class meets daily 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1085

Early Middle Ages: Survey of European history from the late Roman Empire to the end of the eleventh century and the era of the First Crusade. Topics include transformation and decline of paganism, creation of the medieval Church, invasions and development of Germanic kingship. Special focus on daily life, and early medieval autobiography and the “sense of self” in the first millennium A.D.

Journalism 3098 – Variable Topic: Environmental Journalism: Discovering the Last Green Valley
Wyss, Robert
Class meets daily 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1552

Open by consent to students who have completed ENGL 105 or 110 or 111 or 250. Open to juniors and seniors only. Examines how journalists report and write about the environment through field trips, readings and lectures. The course will concentrate on the Quinebaug and Shetucket River Valley of Eastern Connecticut, which has been called the Last Green Valley because it has been spared much of the Eastern Seaboard's development.

NOTE: Students must provide their own transportation for numerious field trips within a 25 mile radius of the Storrs campus.

Waterbury Campus - May Term

Urban and Community Studies 3998 Variable Topic: The City in Film
Glassman, Ruth
Class meets daily 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1387

Exploration of the aesthetics, history, and contemporary relevance of Armerican urban films. Examines the context in which individual films were produced and how they reflect or reinvent actual urban communities. The course may focus on particular cities or communities and may include various genres of feature films, documentaries, experimental films, etc.

Stamford Campus – Summer Session I

English 3003W – Advanced Composition (Business Writing)
Shaw, Francine
Class meets Tuesday/Thursday 6:00-9:15 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1282

Writing effective, error-free letters, memos, proposals, reports, press releases and job descriptions.

Storrs Campus – Summer Session I

Anthropology 3990 Section 10 – Field Work in Archaeology
McBride, Kevin
Class meets daily 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
May 26- July 3, 2008
PeopleSoft class number 1419
6 credits

June 1 - July 10

The Mashantucket Pequot Reservation is one of the oldest, continuously occupied landscapes in the eastern United States. Since field studies began at Mashantucket in 1983, tribal archaeologists have identified more than 250 archaeological sites, including Paleo-Indian camps, 9,000 year-old pit houses, a 17th century fortified village, and 18th and 19th century farmsteads.
The 2009 UCONN field school will take place on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation and be based at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Field and laboratory studies are designed to contribute to a long-term collaborative research project to reconstruct the land use and landscape history at Mashantucket from 15,000 B.P. to the present. Excavations will focus on a series of mid- to late-Holocene sites (ca. 9,000-4,000 B.P) and a small 17th century Pequot community. The 6-week, 6-credit field school will include training in New England Native and Colonial history, archaeological survey and excavation techniques, laboratory methods, conservation procedures, artifact cataloguing and analysis, and methods and techniques in archaeo-botany and the reconstruction of historical landscapes. Students will have a unique opportunity to work on a collaborative research project alongside tribal members, archaeologists, historians, archaeo-botanists and ecologists.
Fees and Registration: Summer Session courses are paid on a per-credit basis @ $300/credit hour. The cost of the 6-week, 6-credit field school is $1,800. An enrollment fee will also apply. Registration is through the Office of the Registrar: www.summersession.uconn.edu. A Lab fee of $50 is also required and a check made out to the UCONN Department of Anthropology.
Housing: University housing and meal plans are available. After registering for a class, contact Residential Life at (860) 486-2926 (204 Wilbur Cross Building) for a summer housing application. Housing applications must be submitted to Residential Life at least eight days prior to the start of class. For more housing information, please visit the Residential Life website
Application and additional information: Contact Dr. Kevin McBride: kevin.mcbride@uconn.edu

Biology 1102 – Foundations of Biology
Taigen, Theodore
Lecture meets Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Labs meet either Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday for two hours and fifteen minutes.
PeopleSoft class number is 1213 for 10L, 1214 for 11L and 1215 for 12L

This course will include a required field trip to the Avery Point campus on Project Oceanology. Date to be determined.

Drama 1110 – Introduction to Film
Smith, Robert
Class meets Monday/Wednesday 9:00 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1796

Besides the fundamentals of history and theory, Summer Session Introduction to Film classes include a section on the principles of film/video production. This section begins with the basics of writing a treatment and structuring a story. During this phase, the students will utilize what they have learned during the previous theory section relative to how story and character can be visualized through mise en scene and montage techniques. Hands-on work with video cameras will translate the student’s ideas from theory to practice.

Storrs Campus – Summer Session II

Drama 1110 – Introduction to Film
Smith, Robert
Class meets Monday/Wednesday 9:00 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
PeopleSoft class number 1797