SMU-IN-TAOS 2008
MAY TERM (APPLICATION DEADLINE TUESDAY, 4 MARCH 2008)

Students may take up to four hours during this month-long term.
Arrival: Sunday, 11 May, 2008 Departure: Wednesday, 28 May 2008 (unless otherwise noted)

ASAG 3310/5310 Nature and Technology

The course structure is known as an "intensive field study format". Students will complete a group video project designed to enable all to become familiar with the conceptualization, taping and editing of video and audio during the first week; the second week will be devoted to an individual project. Instructor Michael Cook Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

ARHS 3375 Arts of the Southwest

An overview of the visual arts of the region focusing on the cultural landscape, its identities past and present. The course will be taught via slide lectures, discussions and field trips utilizing Northern New Mexico’s artistic riches and resources. Instructor Susan Bakewell Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

BIOL 1308 Plant Biology

Introduction to the unusual flora of Northern New Mexico stressing plant collection, identification and medicinal uses by Native Americans. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Instructor John Ubelaker Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

CFA 3326/PLSC 4320 Latino Politics in the Southwest

Focuses on the voting tendencies of Latinos in the Southwestern states. Course relies on films, documentaries and news clips as well as field trips and guest lecturers. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity.

Instructor Harold Stanley Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

CF 3309/HIST 3306 North American Environmental History

Survey of the environmental history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present, with a heavy emphasis on the area that is now the American Southwest. Readings, field trips and lectures will expose students to a variety of ways to approach environmental history. Instructor Ben Johnson Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

GEOL 1301 Earth Systems

The origin of the earth, its composition, structure, antiquity and the processes that shaped it will be of primary concern. Using the available natural setting, a first-hand examination of minerals and mining, volcanism, rivers, deserts, ancient marine environments, glaciers, earthquakes, mountain-building, rifting and other topics will be addressed. Fulfills General education requirement for Science/Technology. Field trips. Instructor Neil Tabor Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

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. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Instructor James Kindley Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee 125 $ Total $3,391

PHIL 1318 Contemporary Moral Problems

This course has three major objectives: to introduce students to the contemporary issues of the Southwest; to introduce students to different ethical theories and approaches to resolving these issues; and, to sharpen analytic skills by analyzing and evaluating moral arguments. Satisfies GEC Group III Perspective. Instructor Nenad Popovic Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $ Fee $ Total $3,391

WELL 2131A and B Choices II: Mountain Sports

Prescription and implementation of an effective conditioning program. Must be taken with another May term course. Satisfies GEC Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor Anne Weil or Christi Carter Tuition $675 Fee $$675 Total $1,350 +$3391 = $4,741

 

 

 

SMU-IN-TAOS 2008
JUNE TERM (APPLICATION DEADLINE FRIDAY 2 MAY, 2008)

Students may take seven or nine hours during this month-long term.
Arrival: Friday,30 May 2008 Departure: Saturday, 28 June 2008 (unless otherwise noted)

ANTH 5681/5981 Archeology Field School (Arrival Friday, 1 June – Departure 8 July, 2008)

Archaeology field school participants will learn excavation techniques, laboratory analysis of recovered materials, research design, interpretation techniques and summary methods. Field trips. 6 or 9 credit hours. Instructor Sunday Eiselt Tuition $3,570 Board $1,387 Fee $125 Total (six hours) $5,082 (9 hours) $6,867

ASAG 3310/4310/5310 Studio Workshop: Building and Imagining the Landscape

An intense experience in sculpture, drawing and printmaking, emphasizing the physical forms and resources of Northern New mexico. Additional hours by arrangement. Instructors Jay Sullivan/Philip Van Keuren Tuition $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

ASDR 5302/5303, ASPT 3306/4306/5306, ASPR 5302/5303, ASSC 5302/5303 Directed Studies

Drawing, painting, printmaking or sculpture emphasis. Additional hours by arrangement. Instructors Jay Sullivan/Philip Van Keuren $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

ASPH 1300 Basics of Photography

Lectures, field trips, assignments and critiques designed to take advantage of the Taos landscape, light and culture. Emphasis on creative use of aperture, shutter speed, framing and exposure selection on a 35mm camera. No darkroom; color slide film will be developed commercially. Students provide camera with adjustable aperture and shutter speed; other supplies as necessary. Field trips. 3 credit hours; additional hours by arrangement. Instructor Debora Hunter $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

ASPH3306/4306/5306 Photography in Taos

Intermediate and advanced photography course designed to allow students to develop a photographic portfolio; work in either black and white darkroom or digital lab. Field trips. 3 credit hours; additional hours by arrangement. Instructor Debora Hunter $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

BIOL 1308 Plant Biology; BIOL 3343, 3347, 5358, 5359 Upper division biology courses offered by instructor approval only.

Introduction to the unusual flora of Northern New Mexico stressing plant collection, identification and medicinal uses by Native Americans. Fulfills General Educatino requirement for Science/Technology. Field trips.

Instructor John Ubelaker $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

BA4111, 4112, 4113 Cox School of Business Internship Experience

The Cox School of Business is offering a BBA internship which will include enrollment in a required one-hour business internship with a local for-profit partner in Taos. Course requires a minimum of 100 hours of work, routine journaling, a final paper summarizing the experience as well as other requirements. Internships may be paid or unpaid, depending on employer resources. Students will also be required to take a three-hour Cox Core (LT 3335) course in conjunction with the internship.  Instructor Barbara Kincaid Total tuition for 4 hours: $2,380 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $4,549

CCPA 3385/4325 Nonprofit Internships in Taos - Arrival 30 May - Departure 2 July

This course will offer students opportunities to develop and apply business and professional communication skills in a not-for-profit environment. In addition to class lectures, each student will work with an organization to develop a comprehensive communication plan with additional materials that will be combined into a portfolio; work will be summarized in an oral presentation at the end of the term. 6 hours must be taken concurrently. Instructor Mark McPhail Tuition $3,570 Room/Board $2,482 Fee $125 Total $6,177

CF3312/HIST3368 Warfare in the Modern World

Students will explore the nature, origins and evolution of modern total war with special attention devoted to the ramifications of modern warfare in New Mexico since the Civil War, including struggles with the Native Americans and the role played by the state in World War II. Instructor John Mears Tuition $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

CF3338 Defining the Southwest: From Taos Pueblo to Trinity

Designed to provide students with a grasp of the development of what is now the United States Southwest from Spanish settlement to the successful testing of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, this course examines how native and euro-American cultures collided and influenced one another to make the Southwest a place where the past and present intermingle. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Instructor George Diaz Tuition $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

CF 3350/ANTH 3350 Good Eats and Forbidden Flesh: Culture, Food and Global Grocery Market

This course adopts a focus on the foods of the American Southwest. Case studies will be about Hispanic, Puebloan and Anglo-American recipes, blending a cultural perspective on foods and foodways with biological and medicinal information about human nutritional needs. Instructor Carolyn Smith-Morris Tuition $1,785 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $3,954

LT 3335 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

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. Students must enroll in the one-hour BBA internship concurrently (BA 4111, 4112 or 4113) which requires a minimum of 100 hours of work, routine journaling, and a final paper. Instructor Barbara Kincaid Total tuition for 4 hours: $2,380 Room/Board $2,044 Fee $125 Total $4,549

THEA 3307 Playwriting in Taos – to be announced and students will be attending by instructor permission only

WELL 2131 Mountain Sports/Group Fitness

This is a special Mountain Sports/Group Fitness class in which students will choose from a variety of mountain sports and other fitness activities. The course is specially designed to meets the needs of students attending June term in Taos. Activities include strength training, pilates, hiking, jogging, horse-back riding, mountain biking, whitewater rafting and rock climbing. Satisfied Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor Anne Weil Tuition $595 Fee $595 Total $5,144 (4 hrs) Total $7,054 (7 hours)

Total costs for students taking one regular academic course + wellness (4 hours) is $5,144; students taking two regular academic courses + wellness (7 hours) is $5,144.

 

SMU-IN-TAOS 2008
AUGUST TERM (APPLICATION DEADLINE FRIDAY 2 MAY, 2008)

Students may take up to four hours during this month-long term.
Arrival: Friday, 1 August 2008 Departure: Sunday, 17 August 2008

ASCE 1300 The Primitive Vessel

The Taos area showcases Native American pottery at its best. This course will explore the techniques and aesthetics of Pueblo Pottery. Students will mine local clay, handbuild pots, finish them with natural slips and fire them in a traditional pit and "primitive" firings. The course will include field trips to Taos, Santa Fe and historic Anasazi sites at Chaco Canyon.

Fulfills GEC Group I Perspective. Instructor Lee Akins Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

BIOL 1305 Our Natural Environment

An introduction to various environments of north central New Mexico. Alpine, Canadian, Transition and Upper Sonoran zones sill be examined through lectures, laboratory in the natural environment and outings to the various zones. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Field trips. Instructor John Ubelaker Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CF 3375/ARHS 3377 Art and Architecture of Hispanic New Mexico

Examines the artistic and cultural legacies of colonial New Mexico: Spanish city-planning and church design; retablos, santos and their place in religious experience; art in the secular life of towns and haciendas of colonial and post-colonial New Mexico. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Adam Herring Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CFA 3325/HIST 3379 Culture in New Mexico

Course will introduce students to the rich tri-cultural history of New Mexico, expose them to a variety of cultural practices and spaces that characterize contemporary New Mexico and allow them to explore multi and interdisciplinary approaches ot the study of culture.  Instructor Alexis McCrossen Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CFA 3358/ANTH 3358 From Gold to Gambling: Native Americans of the Southwest

Explores the changing lifeways of the indigenous peoples of the American Southwest. Ethnographic accounts as well as materials written and/or interpreted by Native Americans will be presented as reading assignments with lectures, videos and movies to supplement written works. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Carolyn Smith-Morris Tuition Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CFA 3372/ENGL 3372 Inventing Americas

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. Instructor Steven Weisenburger Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CFA 3384/ANTH 3384 Paradise Lost? The Archaeology and Ethics of Human Environmental Impacts

Although many people view our current environmental crises as relatively recent phenomena, archaeological and historical records are filled with instances of ancient environmental degradation. Using interdisciplinary archaeological, anthropological and historical case studies from western North America and the American Southwest, this course provides a detailed examination of human impacts on the environment over the last 15,000 years. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Torrey Rick Tuition Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

CSE 1331 Introduction to Web Programming

A hands-on, project-based course designed to introduce students to the tools and technologies needed to build Web 2.0 applications. Instructor Frank Coyle Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

LT 3335 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

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. Instructor Barbara Kincaid Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

PERB 3016 Contemporary Music Workshop, Taos Variant

An interdisciplinary arts adventure inviting students to soak up the rich inspiration of the Taos environment and to apply their disciplines (art, music, dance, etc) toward collaborative pieces that speak of and to that environment. Instructor Kim Corbet Tuition $2,025 Room/Board $1,241 Fee $125 Total $3,391

WELL 2118 Choices II: Group Fitness

This course will encourage you to maintain optimal fitness for life, helping you improve your cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition. There will be a different class each day including step aerobics-boot camp style, power yoga, body sculpting and mountain biking. Must be taken with another August term course. Satisfies GED Wellness Choices II requirement.

Instructor Lynn Romejko Jacobs Tuition $675 Fee $675 Total $3,391 + $1,350 = $4,741

WELL 2131 Choices II: Mountain Sports

Prescription and implementation of an effective conditioning program. Must be taking with another August term course. Satisfies GED Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor Mandy Golman Tuition $675 Fee $675 Total $3,391 + $1350 = $4,741