SMU-in-Taos

May Term 2012

NOW CLOSED

Students may take up to four hours during this term.
Arrival: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4-6 pm
Departure: Sunday, May 27, 2012
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Title Course Faculty
ANTH 3310/CFB 3310
Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective
This course compares the life experiences of men and women in societies throughout the world. Discussion will include the evidence regarding the universal subordination of women and examine explanations that propose to situate women’s and men’s personal attributes, roles and responsibilities in the biological or cultural domain. In general, through readings, films and lectures, the class will provide a cross-cultural perspective on ideas regarding gender and the ways societies are organized in relation to gender.

Course fulfills:
  • Cultural Formations course option
  • Cultural Anthropology minor or B.A. in Anthropology "cultural concepts" requirement
  • Human Rights minor class option International Studies "Global perspectives" course option
  • Markets and Culture elective option
  • Women’s and Gender Studies elective option

Jose Santos
ASDR 1300
Introduction to Drawing and Directed Study in Drawing
This course will introduce students to the tradition and fundamentals of representational drawing. Emphasis is placed on drawing practice as a mental and physical activity with a holistic approach to the landscape as a source and content for the course work. ASDR1300 fulfills GEC Art Perspective.

Course fulfills:
  • GEC Perspectives Arts requirement
  • B.A. in Art “Basic Studies” course requirement
  • Minor in Art “Foundations” course option
  • Pre-requisite course for upper level drawing courses

Robin Eldridge
ASDR 5302
Directed Study in Drawing
Drawing at the senior level exemplifying independent development in drawing. Prerequisite: ASDR 4300 or 4301, or permission of instructor

Robin Eldridge
BIOL 1305
Our Natural Environment
An introduction to major environments and their resident populations in Northern New Mexico. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Includes equivalent of one laboratory session each week.

Course fulfills:
  • GEC “Science Group A” requirement
  • Minor in Environmental Earth Sciences course option

John Ubelaker
BL 3335
Business Law I
A course in business survival, providing students an understanding of legal issues affecting business. Business Core Requirement. Students may not receive credit for this course if they received credit for LT 4335.

Course fulfills:
  • Business Core Requirement for Business Majors
  • Pre-requisite to Real Estate Law (RE 4338)

Barbara Kincaid
CF 3338
Defining the Southwest
An interdisciplinary seminar designed to introduce students to the idea of regionalism in American life, to identify the distinctive features that make the Southwest a region, and to suggest the variety of ways in which different disciplines understand the regional distinctiveness of the Southwest.

Course fulfills:
  • Cultural Formations course option

Anne Allbright
CFA 3372
Inventing Americas: Imagining Southwest Indians
This course will explore the representations of Southwestern Indians in 20th Century U.S. works of fiction and film that have been understood against a long history of "playing Indian," of romanticizing the "vanishing American" and of using imaginary Indians to think through the very real problems of race. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips.

Course fulfills:
  • Cultural Formations course option

Steven Weisenburger
CFB 3382
The History of Mexico and New Mexico, from their origins until 1848
The course summarizes the pre-colonial and colonial histories of Mexico, and also as a component of the Mexican past, New Mexico’s history to separation from Mexico in 1848. The history of art and architecture is integral to the general histories, and so forms a substantial part of the course.

Course fulfills:
  • GEC co-requirement in Human Diversity
  • Cultural Formations course option

Peter and Susan Bakewell
GEOL 1301
Earth Systems
Examines geologic change within the earth as governed by physical, chemical and biological processes, and interactions between the solid earth, oceans, atmosphere and biosphere. 3 hours of lecture and one 2-hour laboratory each week. Recommended for all geology tracks.

Course fulfills:
  • GEC “Science Group A” requirement
  • B.A. & B.S. or minor in Geology required course
  • B.S. in Geophysics required course
  • B.S. in Resource Geology required course
  • Minor in Environmental Earth Sciences course option
  • pre-requisite for GEOL 3353 and GEOL 5459
  • “Earth Science” requirement for B.S. in Engineering

Neil J. Tabor
MKTG 3340
Fundamentals of Marketing
This course examines three major areas: the nature of marketing decisions, the environment in which these decisions are made and the relationship of these decisions to the firm, business and society. Prerequisites: ECO 1311, 1312; ACCT 2311; and ITOM 2305 or STAT 2301.

Course fulfills:
  • Business Core requirement for Business majors
  • Pre-requisite for upper level marketing courses

Jim Kindley
MUHI 3339
Music for Contemporary Audiences (Taos Variant)
Music for Contemporary Audiences chronicles the history of rock and roll from the convergence of Country Blues and R&B in the mid-1950s and its evolution over the next 50 years. Documentaries, class discussions, individual research and drum circle performance will be utilized to understand the music inside and out. The drum jams will create an understanding of basic musical interaction and an exploration of Southwest native culture. Fulfills General Education requirement for Art.

Course fulfills
  • GEC Perspectives requirement for Art.

Kim Corbet
WELL 2131
Mountain Sports (sections A and B)
Prescription and implementation of an effective conditioning program. Must be taken with another May term course. Satisfies GEC Wellness Choices II requirement.

Course fulfills:
  • GEC Wellness Choices II requirement.

Anne Weil, Brian Fennig

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