BY18H #4454 Human Biology

Prof. Linda Sabatino
4 credits T/TH
8:30 a.m. – 10:45 p.m.
Room M20

BY18 is a one-semester biology course designed for non-science majors who have completed BY14 or the equivalent. BY18, a 4 credit course (3 hours of lecture and 2 Hours of seminar) can satisfy the science requirement for non-science majors. In addition, it may be of interest to health science majors. Selected topics will be presented and discussed with emphasis placed upon their impact on our daily lives. Topics this semester will include human genetics, human development, reproductive technology (in vitro fertilization, stem cells & cloning), human population, nutrition, human disorders (cancer, etc.), and infectious diseases.

For additional information contact Professor Linda Sabatino – Room G - Marshall Bldg., office phone: 451-4688 or sabatil@sunysuffolk.edu

This course satisfies a core requirement.

EG35H #4455 Advanced Expository Writing

Prof. Anthony DiFranco
3 credits M/W
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room I202

In this personal essay writing course, students produce a portfolio of finished pieces on subjects closely related to their own lives and interests. The class meetings operate workshop style. The range of subjects includes family, work, courtship and love, illness and death, spirituality, identity, sports and avocational interests, and other areas of the students’ choosing. This is a course well-suited to those who want to refine their writing skills and explore themselves in some depth at the same time.

Professor Tina Good
3 credits M/W
9:30 am – 10:45 am
Room I202

Most disciplines have begun to recognize that storytelling as a method of understanding and analyzing experience is central to academic writing. This class will draw on the power of stories and your own community inside and outside of the classroom to enable you to move successfully into the academic world as critical thinkers, readers and writers. Our classroom philosophy could be summarized as the following equation – culture>individual<community – an equation which I hope will have more and more significance for you as a student and as a writer as the semester progresses.

Prof. Ed Eriksson
3 credits T/TH
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room I202

The Presence of Myth and Nature. The course studies the presence of mythic figures and stories in literature and their connection with natural backgrounds as they appear in poetry, prose and dramas.

EG99H #4458 Utopian/Dystopian Visions in 20th Century Lit and Film

Professor Sandra Sprows
in 20th Century Lit and Film 4 credits T/TH
9:30 am – 10:45 am
Room I115

Human beings have been writing about ideal worlds for a long time. In works as varied as Plato’s Republic, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence or Marx’s Capital, writers have been compelled to imagine life differently, often in a potential future or in an isolated, unspecified locale. Thomas More’s sixteenth-century novel Utopia invented and introduced the word “utopia” into our vocabulary. “Utopia”, meaning “nowhere”, is More’s conception of a place that, by definition, does not exist, but that he hopes could exist in some idealized version of the world. Since the field of utopian writing is so vast, after reading brief selections from a few of those earlier works for some contextual background, this course will be concentrating on twentieth-century texts in English (including film) that examine utopian visions from a multitude of viewpoints. We will simultaneously go “nowhere” and everywhere.

It is almost impossible, of course, to create a utopia without also invoking the ever-present shadow of a more ominous dystopia. For, even the most intentioned utopian blueprint inevitably harbors its own nightmare version. Utopias and dystopias co-exist and feed each other in these twentieth-century texts. Part of the difficulty with utopian concepts, as we have seen too often in this past century, is that they often contain the seeds of the totalitarian impulse. How can one make manifest the ideal without exerting complete control and excluding that which is “undesirable”? The dialectic between utopias and anti-utopias in literature grapples with this question. This course is based on the premise that, more than ever, our world needs an ongoing conversation about our hopes and dreams and failures.
This course satisfies a core requirement.

GY16H #4459 Culture & Environment

Professor Albin Cofone
3 credits T/TH
9:30 am – 10:45 am
Room H114

Culture and the Environment is a journey through nature and the landscapes of the mind. The course is essentially human geography and how people approach the physical features of the earth. During the semester we will discuss a wide variety of topics including such eternal questions as why southerners speak slowly, New Yorkers fast and Vermonters not at all; why women ask for directions and men press on to get lost; and given the choice of a winter vacation, is it more logical to take salsa lessons on a Carnival cruise or glacier hop in Iceland? Students can expect to read at least 4 books, possibly to include Sobel’s Longitude, Norris’ Dakota, Iyer’s Falling of the Map, and Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country.

HM28H #4460 Psychos in American Literature

Prof. Doug Howard
4 credits M/W
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room I207

This course will examine the American preoccupation with mental instability by discussing a wide variety of cultural representations, ranging from the fiction of Poe to the music of The Talking Heads to the recent film adaptation of Red Dragon, that have specifically fixed the unstable within our public discourse. Are these representations horrific reminders of what we could become, given the right circumstances, or are they really attractive images of what we could be, if we could abandon the moral parameters that limit our behaviors? We will explore the subject from a number of different angles, analyzing the portrayal of the unstable in psychological as well as aesthetic terms and examining the modification of this portrayal over time as a statement of contemporary cultural significance.
This course satisfies a core requirement.

Prof. Laura Stoland
3 credits F
11:00 am – 2:50 pm
Room H110

This class will introduce the world of contemporary art through visits to galleries and museums as well as readings and discussions. We will learn about contemporary art, its history and its means of distribution. We will also learn to evaluate and critique current art works including discussions of materials, concepts and presentation.

PO25H #4463 American National Politics

Professor June Lang
3 credits T/TH
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room H226

This course is an introduction to the structures and processes of the American political system. While the course will cover all of the traditional information of an introductory course, it will also explore our current security situation. Students will review past policies and possible consequences of our previous actions and explore where current and future policies might take us.

Prof. Stephen O’Sullivan
3 credits T/TH
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Room R216

Investigates traditional and contemporary philosophical issues such as problem of knowledge, nature of reality, question of freewill versus determinism, and existence of mind, soul and God.

Professor Scott Mandia
4 credits Room T211
M/W 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
M 1: 50 pm - 3:40 pm

This honors course enhances the standard ES17 course by offering students the opportunity to use the Internet to complement their normal classroom activities. Each student will be researching an assigned weather-related topic during the semester. Instead of the typical “term paper” due at the semester’s end, each student will be designing a Website that details their research using text, images, and hyperlinks to relevant Web locations. In order for students to publish their information in hypertext (HTML) format, there will be six bi-weekly projects that step the students through activation of their server-based Web folders, transferring files to the College Web server, and of course, the hypertext markup language. At semester’s end, their Web sites will be available to future students and anyone surfing the Web. Please see previous students’ web sites at: www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/honors/index.html
This course satisfies a core requirement.

Prof. Beverly Broomell
3 credits T/TH
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Room T111/R200

This course is designed for students who want to see how real-world problems are solved by statistics with the use of USER FRIENDLY STATISTICAL SOFTWARE. Computer literacy is NOT a prerequisite – MA07 or equivalent and an interest in computer application are.

Professor Jane-Marie Wright
4 credits T/TH
11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Room T111/R237

This is a mathematics course for the math anxious honors student. This course explores the origins of mathematical ideas and how our understanding of them has changed throughout the centuries. Students will learn how to multiply using hieroglyphics and newfangled Hindu Arabic numbers. How did the ancient Babylonians solve quadratic equations without using negative numbers? What about solving linear equations before algebraic notation was accepted? Students will trace the development of mathematical ideas over the course of 4,000 years. No knowledge of mathematics beyond basic algebra is assumed.
This course satisfies a core requirement.

Prof. Judy Travers
3 credits M/W
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room H121

This course surveys the ideas, politics, and economics that influenced European civilization since 1715. The Honors section features more challenging reading of primary sources, greater emphasis on historical research and writing, extensive class discussion, and an introduction to historiographical debate.

Professor TBA
3 credits T/TH
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Room H113

This course is an exploration of the major concepts of psychology. PC11H will examine the historical development of psychology and the role of psychology in our western tradition. Emphasis will be placed not only upon the major concepts found within psychology, but also upon the development of these concepts from the historical through the theoretical framework. Some of the contemporary psychologists will be discussed as examine the origins if their work.

Prof. Mick Rooney
3 credits M/W
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Room H230

This course will examine human development across the human lifespan. Emphasis will be directed at the changes which occur during childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Topics will include cognitive development, language development as well as social and physical development as those changes occur over time. The prerequisite to this course is PC11.

Prof. Mick Rooney
3 credits M/W
8:00 am – 9:15 am
Room H229

Examines major theories of child and adolescent psychology. Emphasis on physical, cognitive, social, moral and emotional development as child progresses through various stages of development. Issues explored include the family, peer group influence, and role of the school. The prerequisite for this course is PC11.

Professor John Bockino
And the Environment 4 credits M/W
9:30 am – 10:45 am
Room H225

The course will begin with a review of the historic and cultural origins of the environmental movement. How did the first settlers perceive wilderness from the European tradition? What factors in the nineteenth century changed the perception of wilderness and led to the first national park? The split in the environmental movement starting with Muir and Pinchot will bring the course to the post World War II period when the environmental movement began to gain momentum. How did authors such as Rachel Carson enhance the awareness of the general public to environmental problems? The constant pull of development and preservation within the political and economic realm will be emphasized. Current topics in environmental policy will be analyzed in detail including case studies of the impact of the Endangered Species Act.
This course satisfies a core requirement.

SC49H #4499 American Dreams

Professor Albin Cofone
4 credits T/TH
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Room H114

American Dreams is a cruise or romp through the social and intellectual landscape of the United States. The course is organized along key themes that have shaped American identity: Reason, Wilderness, Frontiers, Social Darwinism, Aviation, Hollywood and Baseball. By the use of readings, essays and class discussion, students are given the chance to ponder both the hope and tragedy of the American Dream. This is not a course for sticks-in-the-mud; rather, it is for those who truly appreciate, or would like to learn to love, reading, writing, travel and adventure.
This course satisfies a core requirement.