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 400L 741
Gender, Culture and Communication
Three Credits LA
Gender, Culture and Communication explores the dynamics between gender, communication, and culture in today's society. Areas studied will include: how communication creates and perpetuates gender roles; how human behavior reflects socially created gender roles; how people can act and communicate to improve their individual and collective lives in terms of gender roles. This is an experiential course in which students will connect theory and research with their own lives. Prerequisite: Junior standing
ENG 220L 741
Literature and Gender
Three Credits LA
This course will examine literary texts with special emphasis on gender issues. Questions may be raised, for instance, about gender definitions and roles, gender and language, gender as a locus of economic, political, social, or literary power. Topics will vary from semester to semester. The course may be organized around a group of writers, a historical period or movement, a genre, a theme, or a combination of these.
ENSC 101L 741
Issues in Environmental Science
Three Credits LA
Examines natural systems, adverse impacts of human activities upon these systems, and how society deals with these impacts. Topics may include ecology; biodiversity; forests and deforestation; human population growth and control; food production and world hunger; energy resources; and water and air pollution. In addition to the science of these topics, related politics, economics, and ethics are discussed.
HIST 101L 741
Themes in Modern History
Three Credits LA
This course is designed to help students acquire knowledge of the past and an understanding of how the past has been represented and interpreted by historians. A variety of historical narratives and perspectives may be examined that offer insight into the development of the complex modern world. Themes to be covered will include, but are not limited to: the development of capitalism, industrialization, political revolutions, colonization, war, social movements, migration and immigration, decolonization, and globalization.
INTD 105L 741
Perspectives in Education
Three Credits LA
This course has been designed to enable adult students to reflect upon their life experiences within the context of new educational perspectives and goals. Selected readings in the philosophy of education are geared to issues of personal development in the educational experience, past and present. Through shared reflection and class discussion the students learn how to establish continuity between their past educational histories, formal and informal, and the program of studies they have selected. Class procedures are designed toward the development of collaborative modes of learning. This course is the first Core requirement for Integrative Studies Majors. Students work closely with faculty to develop their programs of study and a written rationale for the development of their individualized degree plans. Open to Integrative Studies Majors only.
PHIL 300L 741
Ethics
Three Credits LA
This course, as an ethical reflection, examines the validity of our normative world. It involves the clarification of the presuppositions and assumptions that constitute such a world. This clarification will have two dimensions: a retrospective analysis of the ethical self-understanding present in our Judeo-Christian and secular humanistic (e.g., Platonic, Kantian, Utilitarian) traditions and a prospective assessment of the new ethical demands prompted by our scientific/technological culture (e.g., ecology, biotechnology, ethnicity, global awareness, etc.). Required of all non-transfer students having either Junior or Senior status.
PSYC 317L 741
Child Development
Three Credits LA
This course examines the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social aspects
in the development of the child from conception through the early adolescent
period. Prerequisite: PSYC 101
REST 209L 741
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.
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.
