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In Spring 2008, there are paired courses available at Rockville, and Takoma Park/Silver Spring. To see the course descriptions and details, click the name of the Learning Community in the list, below:
First Experience with American College MWF 9:55-12:55 Learn about the American college experience through academic articles on the Internet, scientific research, and American values. Improve your reading, grammar, and writing skills. Contact robert.ciapetta@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-7436
Exploring Academic Worlds: Past, Present, and Future MWF 8:15-11:15 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 9:55-12:55 Learn how globalization, immigration, environmental problems, and advances in technology are affecting society and our lives through college-level reading / writing and critical thinking. Contact ray.gonzales@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-7439.
Culture, Migration, and Ethnic Identity MWF 9:30-11:50 What is ethnic identity? Explore how cultural aspects such as ethnic traditions, marriage and gender are transformed when groups and individuals immigrate to another culture. This fully integrated course emphasizes writing techniques in social science.
Fulfills graduation requirements Internationalized curriculum
M 2:00-4:40 and additional online course work Play video games! Work out! Explore cutting-edge video games for health and fitness, in this Blended Online + On-campus learning community, and develop your own creative ideas about entrepreneurial new games to address health needs. See www.studygaming.com or contact deborah.solomon@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-5136.
Fulfills graduation requirements
Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives TR 9:30-12:15
Fulfills graduation requirements
Race and Immigration in America: Past, Present, and Continuous TR 10:15-2:35 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 8:00-12:20 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 miriam.simon@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1663.
Offers service learning
Integrating Academics With Technology MW 11:25-2:35 and additional online course work Being computer savvy is no longer a privilege; it’s a necessity! This Blended Online and On-campus learning community offers both academic reading AND computer skills that will positively impact your education and future career. Contact qingmin.zhou@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1606.
Blended Online and On-campus format
T 12:30-3:35 and R 12:30-2:35 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 9:35-12:35 Did you hear what Kanye West just said? Studying TC, 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.
MWF 10:00-12:35 What motivates human behavior? Debunk the myths, explore the fact and fiction of human behavior through self-reflection, critical analysis, reading, and writing. Contact Stephanie.kizzia@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1687
Fulfills graduation requirements Minds on Fire: Strategies for Success in Psychology T/R 9:30-12:15 Explore links between psychological theories and learning strategies. Apply research-based methods to the study of psychology through topics like Motivation and Learning and Memory. Contact windy.jefferson-jackson@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1383.
Wired and Wireless: Research Writing and Argument in the Contemporary World T 8:00-10:20 and R 8:00-915 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 improve your writing at Montgomery College and transfer institutions. Contact mark.miller@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1538
Fulfills graduation requirements
Where the Wild Things Were: Environmental Science for a Shared World TR 9:30-12:15 Investigate the earth and its living history; discover the relationship between social justice and the ground that sustains us; consider your environmental impacts and the footprints you leave behind. Contact amanda.truett@montgomerycollege.edu, 240-567-1420
Fulfills graduation requirements
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