The School of Continuing Education (SCE) is offering accelerated courses for students to complete core requirements and earn electives credits/For more information on taking or registering for an accelerated online class at Marist, please contact the eLearning team email or call them at 845-575-3202.
SCE students can register for online courses year round. All traditional Marist undergraduate students can register for accelerated ten-week online courses only during the Summer Session or while traveling abroad as a Marist student. However, all students are permitted to take the non-accelerated 15-week online courses during the regular school year.
Why eLearning at MARIST?
COM 389L 741
Communication Revolution
Three Credits LA
This course is an upper-level seminar in emerging communication technologies. Students will engage in self-driven investigations of emergent technologies and their attendant social consequences. The resulting presentations, debates and discussions will center on the increasing significance of communication technologies in modern life and concerns about dependence on and access to these technologies. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
INTD 392L 741
ST: Project Management
Three Credits LA
Teaches students proven strategies and practical approaches for planning, executing and controlling projects. The course covers project management life cycle, offering detailed and sophisticated instruction in the critical areas of team building, planning and organizing the work, scheduling key events, managing project estimates, and identifying and managing risks. Participants improve their ability to define the scope of a project and manage within that definition. They learn the best practices to identify and sequence tasks, estimate durations of tasks, schedule events and activities, plan for delays, control variances and manage costs. They also learn qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing and controlling risks.
PHIL 103L 741
World Views and Values
Three Credits LA
This course aims to help students ask basic questions about the ultimate meaning of life, to take a comprehensive and holistic world view, and to articulate a coherent value system. The basic methodology for teaching the course is comparative and socioanalytic.
PSYC 321L 741
Adult Development
Three Credits LA
This course is focused on those stages of the development cycle commonly referred to as adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and senescence. Erikson's theoretical orientation of these stages will be considered in the light of current empirical data. Prerequisite: PSYC 101
REST 335L 741
Marriage and Family from Religious Perspectives
Three Credits LA
This course focuses on marriage as a spiritual relationship with special concerns for the role of religion. It explores the mutual duties of marital partners involved in fulfilling their religious vows, including maintaining their relationship, communicating with each other, relating to each other sexually, and addressing concerns about parenting.
BIOL 225
Topics in Nutrition
Three Credits LA
This course is designed for non-science majors to learn scientifically supported as well as traditional approaches to nourishing and healing the body which can be incorporated into personal, daily, good health practices. An emphasis is placed on multicultural, political, and ecological dimensions of dietary choices. The concept of food as medicine and the concept of diet as a critical component in healing are fundamental to this course. Included are the exploration of herbal medicine, environmental health, and healing choices. Students also will develop the skills and understanding to analyze, compare, and contrast dietary choices for personal health. Three-hour lecture per week.
(Fulfills Core/LS Natural Science requirement.)
COM 350
Sex and the Media
Three Credits LA
This course explores the prevalence and roles of sexual content in modern media. Students will gain an understanding of the roles, functions, and effects of sex in the media as well as the historical context and societal debates surrounding sexual content. The media will be analyzed both empirically and critically. Offered as and when necessary.
Prerequisite: Junior standing
ENG 117
College Writing II
Three Credits LA
This is the second course in a two-part sequence instructing students in the conventions of academic writing at the college level. Greater emphasis is placed at this level on synthesizing ideas from diverse readings into more complex essays. Students are instructed in the conventions of scholarly documentation and complete one or more essays based on research beyond the course text. Students may, on the basis of entering test scores, be placed immediately into this course. All students must take a college-wide proficiency exam upon completion of College Writing II (see page 34 for Writing Proficiency Requirements).
ENG 211
American Literature II
Three Credits LA
Introduces students to a number of significant American writers from the Civil War to the mid-20th century. The course begins with Whitman and includes late 19th-century writers such as Dickinson, Twain, James, Freeman, Jewett, and Adams. Readings from a variety of early 20th-century novelists, essayists, poets, and playwrights will be selected, e.g., from Chopin, Lewis, Faulkner, Gilman, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Anderson, Eliot, Williams, O'Neill, Baldwin. Offered every year.
HIST 220
New York: The Empire State
Three Credits LA
This course examines the development and rise of New York from its pre-colonial beginnings through the present day. Emphasis will be placed on Native-American and European contact, the significance of the region to the American Revolution, the emergence of the state as the nation's leading economic power, and the economic, political, and cultural importance of New York City in the 20th century.
INTD 213
Perspectives on Science and History
Three Credits LA
The adult quest for meaning and values assumes mature form in a grasp of the possibilities of the historical moment. This course will select and organize readings and other relevant materials in history, philosophy, and the sciences to bring into focus the responsibilities and possibilities bestowed upon us by a particular configuration of historical circumstance and by the new knowledge
PHIL 300
Ethics
Three Credits LA
The question of ethics or moral philosophy is: What is the good? The field deals with such important sub-questions as: What is the source of moral law-that is, of right and wrong? Who should be the primary beneficiary of the fruits gained through the pursuit of moral values: oneself or others? What are the character traits-the virtues-by means of which human beings achieve values? This course will study answers to these questions provided by great moral philosophers of history such as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant, and it will examine how these answers can be applied to moral issues relevant today-such as stem cell research, gay marriage and adoption, capital punishment, and torture of terrorists. Required of all non-transfer students having either junior or senior status. Offered every semester.
PSYC 385
Industrial Psychology
Three Credits LA
This course is an introduction to the many areas of interest to the industrial psychologist. Students will learn how various theories in psychology have been applied to solving problems such as worker motivation, leadership, group interaction, and testing and research in the workplace. Students will analyze these problems from many different perspectives in order to understand how psychological theory can be used to improve individual and organizational functions.
REST 209
World Religions
Three Credits LA
An introduction to the major religious traditions and movements of the world and their relation to the cultures in which they developed. This survey course emphasizes the universality of religious experience and considers the impact of religion on the world. Offered biennially.
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ART 125L 741 Arts and Values 3 Credits LA
ART 220L 741 History of Photography 3 Credits LA
BIOL 101L 741 Topics in Biology 3 Credits LA
BIOL 225L 742 Topics in Nutrition 3 Credits LA
COM 390L 741 Film and Literature 3 Credits LA
CSIS 103L 741 Information and Computer Literacy 3 Credits LA
ECON 150L 741 Economics of Social Issues 3 Credits LA
ENSC 101L 741 Intro to Environmental Issues 3 Credits LA
ENG 220L 741 Literature and Gender 3 Credits LA
ENG 339L 741 Film and Literature 3 Credits LA
MATH 130L 741 Introductory Statistics 3 Credits LA
MUS 242L 741 Popular music in America 3 Credits LA
PHIL 103L 741 World Views and Values 3 Credits LA
PHIL 300L 742 Ethics 3 Credits LA
PSYC 201L 741 Personality Development 3 Credits LA
PSYC 317L 741 Child Development 3 Credits LA
REST 335L 741 Marriage and the Family From a Relgious Perspectives 3 Credits LA
