Special Topics Course Descriptions - Winter Session 2025
For general winter session or registration questions, please visit registration page or email elo@cortland.edu. Course descriptions are also provided in the "requirements and notes" area of each course listed in the public course schedule.
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL
CIN/COM 329 – Cinematic Cyborgs
ONLINE Course in Session I: December 17, 2024 – January 21, 2025, CRN 10302 or 10303
Takes a closer look at the many ways film has predicted and prophesized the intersection of human culture and AI technologies by examining the various portrayals across The Matrix, Her, Bicentennial Man, Blade Runner, Ex Machina and Upgrade. During the course, students will critically analyze how "new" technology has been positioned in society - for good, for evil - and explore themes of identity, agency, embodiment, and the blurring boundaries between human and machine. For more information related to the course content for CIN/COM 329, contact Dr. Samuel Avery at samuel.avery@cortland.edu.
HLH 229 – Boy’s and Men’s Health
ONLINE Course in Session II: January 7 – 21, 2025, CRN 10304
This course examines the unique health challenges and wellness issues faced by boys and men at different stages of life. Explores the factors that shape health beliefs and practices and provides knowledge, skills, and strategies to promote the health and well-being of boys and men. For more information related to the course content for HLH 229, contact Dr. Jill Murphy at jill.murphy@cortland.edu.
PHI 429 – Philosophical Issues in Education
ONLINE Course in Session II: January 7 – 21, 2025, CRN 10278
Philosophical Issues in Education engages with pressing social justice issues in contemporary school settings, focusing on the US context and drawing on theoretical approaches from the Global South. In addition, the course showcases democratic models and puts them in conversation with American Pragmatism (e.g., Dewey) and liberatory social education (e.g., bell hooks and Paulo Freire). What does inclusive academic excellence look like in schools and academia? How might a critique of settler colonial educational policy inform praxis philosophy that engenders diversity, inclusion, equity? For more information related to the course content for PHI 429, contact Dr. John Jones at john.jones@cortland.edu.
GRADUATE LEVEL
ICC 529 – Teaching for Multilingual Learner Inclusion
ONLINE Course in Session I: December 17, 2024 – January 21, 2025, CRN 10301
Methods of co-teaching in the K12 setting for multilingual learner inclusion, with an emphasis on developing oral language, academic vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, and writing skills. For more information related to course content for ICC 529, contact Professor Chloe Walters at chloe.walters@cortland.edu.
ICC 529 – Multilingualism in the United States
ONLINE Course in Session I: December 17, 2024 – January 21, 2025, CRN 10319
This course will explore numerous sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism through the study of specific regions and populations in the United States. Topics include identity, communication in bilingual groups and families, code-switching, language choices, registers of language, bilingual and immersion education, dominant vs. minority languages, language politics, African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and the impact of legislation that attempts to govern language use. For more information related to course content for ICC 529, contact Dr. Colum Yip at colum.yip@corltand.edu.
HLH 529 – Mental Health (3 credits)
ONLINE Courses in Session I: December 17, 2024 – January 21, 2024, CRN 10305
Mental health is examined from a public health perspective with a focus on epidemiological, behavioral, sociological, social determinants, and cultural issues. The course will address the individual and population level factors. For more information related to the course content for HLH 529, contact Dr. Alexis Blavos at alexis.blavos@cortland.edu.
