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Courses We Offer
Distance education courses are available to meet a wide range of needs, whether you are taking courses for enrichment or you would like to apply the credits toward a degree.
Courses Available
Spring Term 2009
Liberal Arts and Sciences
- ANTH E-100 Anthropology and the Uses of History
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ANTH E-179 Historical Linguistics, Ancient Inscriptions, and Archaeology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - BIOS E-234 Principles of Human Disease: Cellular Metabolism
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CLAS E-116/W Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization and Beyond
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - COMM E-120 Development Communications
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - COMM E-180 Technical Writing
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ECON E-10a Principles of Economics
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - EDUC E-101 Improving Education Systems in Developing Countries
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - EDUC E-104 Theory and Practice of Web Pedagogies
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENGL E-126 A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas—An Imaginary Journey in the Early Seventeenth Century
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENGL E-175 Southern Literature and Culture in the United States
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-102 Environmental Management II
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-105 Strategies for Environmental Management
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-110 Ocean Environments
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-117 Organizational Change Management for Sustainability
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-130 Global Climate Change: The Science, Social Impact, and Diplomacy of a World Environmental Crisis
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-142/W Conservation Biology and Sustainable Use of Forested Landscapes
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-145 Introduction to Environmental Justice
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - FREN E-4 Intensive Intermediate French II Online
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - GOVT E-1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - GOVT E-1064 Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - GOVT E-2001 Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HARC E-178 Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1351 Western Economies, Societies, and Polities: From 1648 to the Present
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1632/W The History of Boston
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1851 Japan: Tradition and Transformation
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HSCI E-137, Section 1 History and Ethics of Biotechnology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - JOUR E-110/W The Constitution and the Media
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - LSTU E-120 Internet and Society: Technologies and Politics of Control
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MUSI E-139 A History of Blues in America
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PHIL E-118/W Introduction to Metaphysics
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PSYC E-1020 Cognition
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - RELI E-1010/W World Religions
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - SSCI E-102 World Poverty and Human Rights
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - STAT E-50 Introduction to Statistics
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Management
- ACCT E-100, Section 2 Financial Accounting Principles
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ACCT E-120 Managerial Accounting
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - FINC E-100 Principles of Finance
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ISMT E-110 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software for Managers
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ISMT E-135 Simulation for Management Decision Making
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MGMT E-148 Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - OBHR E-100, Section 1 Human Resource Management
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - OBHR E-110, Section 4 Organizational Behavior
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Computer Science
- CSCI E-2 Bits
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Website Development
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-50b Introduction to Computer Science Using Java II
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-64 Visualization
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-75 Building Dynamic, Scalable Websites
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-119 Data Structures
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-124 Algorithms and Data Structures
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-160 Java for Distributed Computing
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-162 Distributed and Enterprise Computing
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-170 Security, Privacy, and Usability
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-215 Unix/Linux Systems Programming
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-241 Web Development Using ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Ajax
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-256 Oracle Database Administration
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-275 Software Engineering
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENSC E-155 Fundamentals of Microfluidics with Applications in Biological Analysis and Discovery
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Fall Term 2008
Liberal Arts and Sciences
- ANTH E-175 Mesoamerican Civilizations
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ANTH E-177 Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - BIOS E-50 Neurobiology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - BIOS E-105 Medical Detectives
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - BIOS E-172 Biological Perspectives on HIV and AIDS
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - BIOS E-235 Principles of Human Disease: Physiology and Pharmacology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENGL E-130 Shakespeare and Modern Culture
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENGL E-196 American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-101 Environmental Management I
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-109 Environmental Politics
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-115 Introduction to Sustainable Development
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-119 Sustainable Buildings: Design, Construction, and Operations
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-120 Environmental Ethics and Land Management
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-140/W Fundamentals of Ecology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENVR E-150 Life Cycle and Risk Assessment
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - GOVT E-1062 Theories of Citizenship
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - GOVT E-1775 The Modern World Economy, 1873 to 2000
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1600 Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1601/W Colonial America
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1825 China: Traditions and Transformations
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1890 World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - HIST E-1915 Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - JOUR E-100 Graduate Journalism Proseminar: Writing and Reporting
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - JOUR E-120/W Ethics and Journalism
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - LING E-115 Introduction to Syntax
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MATH E-301 Math for Teaching Number Theory
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PHIL E-123/W Classics of American Thought
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PSYC E-1030/W Human Development
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PSYC E-1091 The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PSYC E-1240 Abnormal Psychology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - PSYC E-1504 Positive Psychology
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - RELI E-1015/W Comparative Religious Ethics
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - RELI E-1027 From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, from the Old Testament to Christianity
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - RELI E-1076 Religion and Politics in Current "Fundamentalist" Movements
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - STAT E-50 Introduction to Statistics
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Management
- ACCT E-110 Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ACCT E-120 Managerial Accounting
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - FINC E-100 Principles of Finance
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MGMT E-147 Managing Organizational Change
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MGMT E-190 Principles and Practices of Fundraising
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - MRKT E-120 Internet Marketing Strategies
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - OBHR E-100, Section 2 Human Resource Management
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Computer Science
- CSCI E-2a Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-14, Section 1 Understanding and Developing Multimedia
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-50a Introduction to Computer Science Using Java I
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-52 Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-132 Advanced Topics in Data Networking Protocols and Network Architectures
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-153 Web Development Using XML
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-160 Java for Distributed Computing
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-168 Building Web-Based Software with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-207 Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-237 Programming Microsoft .NET
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-247/W Software Design: Principles, Models, and Patterns
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - CSCI E-253 Developing Web-based Database Applications
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENSC E-130 Fundamentals of Microfabrication with Applications to BioMEMS
(Description) (Website) (Lecture 1) - ENSC E-150 Introduction to Nanobiotechnology: Concepts and Applications
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