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In Spring 2009, there are paired courses available at Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park/Silver Spring. To see the course descriptions and details, click the name of the Learning Community in the list, below:
M 1:00 - 2:55, 3:00 - 4:00 Play video games! Work out! Explore cutting-edge video games for health and fitmess in this Blended Online + On-Campus learning community, and develop your own creative ideas about entrepreneurial new games to address health needs. See http://www.studygaming.com or contact deborah.solomon@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-5136.
Fulfills graduation requirements Blended Online and On-campus format TR 6:30pm - 9:10pm Take your required EN102, as you learn to research and write while focusing on music of the African Diaspora, from Blues, Jazz, Calypso, Hip-Hop, Samba, Reggae, Chant and Classical. Contact swift.dickison@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-4044.
Fulfills graduation requirements Exploring Academic Worlds: The Past, Present, and Future MWF 8:15-9:40, 9:50-11:20 Travel and experience new adventures through powerful listening, speaking, and reading activities. Contact henry.caballero@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-4038.
Changing Times, Changing Lives MWF 9:55 - 11:20, 11:30 - 12:55 Learn how globalization, immigration, environmental problems, and advances in technology are affecting society and out lives through college-level reading/ writing and critical thinking.
Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives TR 9:30 - 10:45, 11:00-12:15 What is a woman? What is a man? Does it matter? Think you’d like to try to find out? Learn to research and write strong college essays while exploring important gender issues that affect our lives. Contact: genevieve.carminati@montgomerycollege.edu 240-567-7446.
Fulfills graduation requirements
TR 9:30-11:35, T 11:45-12:35 Explore the qualities that lead to success of people such as Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, the Williams sisters, and Will Smith and apply this knowledge to your personal success plan through discussion and writing. Contact cathy.wilson@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1475.
Grants transferable First Year Experience credit “Don’t Believe the Hype”: Discovering Popular Culture through MWF 9:35-11:00, 11:10-12:35 Did you hear what Kanye West just said? Studying TV, movies, music, and urban legends makes it fun to acquire college writing and reading skills and protect yourself from misinformation. Contact gregory.wahl@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1554.
Race and Immigration in America: Past, Present, and Continuous TR 10:15-12:20, 12:30-2:35 Adventurer – pioneer – slave – witch! Read and write about the lives, loves, and stories of race and immigration that shaped American freedoms. Contact maria.donahue@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1384.
Cultural Identity in a Changing World Investigate the impact of culture on the personal choices you make through museums, films, the Internet, readings, and oral histories. Strengthen your reading, grammar, and writing skills. Contact sharyn.neuwirth@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1686.
Internationalized curriculum
Making a Difference: Exploring Ways to Change Our World Through Reading and Writing TR 8:00-10:05, 10:15-12:20 What's wrong with your world? How can you make a difference? Build the skills for academic success and understand community action through critical reading, writing, discussion, and volunteer work. Contact angela.nissing@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1661.
Offers service learning
MW 9:40-11:45, 12:00-2:40 Pick up your pencils and sketchbooks and step away from boring textbooks into a world of culturallly diverse art and intriguing novels. Explore your own creative vision as you develop basic drawing and writing skills. Contact carrie.shaw@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1358.
Fulfills graduation requirements
R 9-9:50, TR 10:15-12:20 Improve your writing skills and your health as you examine lifestyle choices about fitness, diet, sexuality, and drugs through interactive discussion, projects and writing. Contact Sadi.sahbazian@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1694.
Fulfills graduation requirements
Words and Numbers: Numbers and Words TR 11:00-12:15, 12:30-2:35 Don't let your future be controlled by numbers or words. Profit from effective control of math and writing to achieve academic and life goals. Contact Marykay.abbey@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1434.
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Crack the Code: Think Like a Biologist TR 9:30-10:45, 11:00-12:15, and R 1:00-3:40 Use scientific methods and techniques to decode the text of Biology and improve your test scores, reading rate and information retention along the way. Designed for natural and health science majors. Contact nidhi.verma@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1679.
Fulfills graduation requirements Wired and Wireless: Research Writing and Argument in the Contemporary World TR 8:00-9:15, T 9:30-10:20 Learn the fundamentals of argument and receive instruction in college-level research, including how to use electronic resources. This learning community teaches you how to integrate research into college papers, a skill that will inprove your writing at Montgomery College and transfer institutions. Contact mark.miller@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1538.
Fulfills graduation requirements
African American Voices: From Queen Hatshepsut to Frederick Douglass TR 8:00-9:15, T 9:30-10:45 Uncover the real America through the eyes of African Americans. Perfect research, writing, and debating skill online. Think and work like historians at sites of African American history. Contact leigh.fought@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1330.
Fulfills graduation requirements: Multicultural, Humanities, English Offers service learning
Are You Living the Matrix? Attempts and Failures at Constructing the Perfect Society TR 11:00 - 12:15, 12:30 - 1:45 When and why does the dream turn into a nightmare? What is a utopia versus a dystopia? Through a study of literature, art and film, explore the human search for the perfect society and why such societes fail. Contact sharon.anthony@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-7769.
Fulfills graduation requirements
Teaching Well: Math and Science in Effective Education MW 12:00-1:50, 2:00-2:50, 3:00-3:50 & M 4:00-5:00 Math and science can strike fear into the bravest of elementary education majors. Pairing them makes good sense, because math is a crucial part of doing good science, and each subject helps in the understanding of the other. Contact diane.mcdaniel@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-7804.
Fulfills graduation requirements Offers Service Learning
Politics, Economics, and Public Policy in America TR 6:30-7:45, 7:55-9:10 How can our government make America a better place to live? This learning cvommunity will combine knowledge and perspectives from political science, economics, and applied ethics to study America's most important public policy problems including poverty, crime, pollution, education, and international problems. Contact prof.madariaga@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-7868.
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