Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Major economic principles, institutions, and problems in contemporary life. The focus of the class is on Microeconomics—supply and demand, the price system and how it works, competitive and monopolistic markets.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
The evolution of organizations in terms of social context and the present-day systems environment. Emerging roles of leadership, communication, and employer-employee relationships. Organizational models are used to develop strategic thinking about career and life roles.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Ethical theories and basic concepts for analysis of moral issues arising in business and in professional practice.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Frequency distributions, descriptive measures, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation, with applications to business.
The course includes a Lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour).
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to data and information processing concepts and systems viewed from a contemporary management perspective. Emphasis on uses and applications as well as emerging managerial issues with the potential to reshape the form and function of information systems. Lab required.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to predominant theories, principles, and problems in the study of nonverbal behavior; application of research results to everyday life. Topics include facial expression, eye behavior, physical appearance, body movement and gestures, tactile messages, vocal characteristics, use of time, spatial dynamics, gender and life-stage differences.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Study and practice of the basic techniques of public speaking used to inform, to entertain, and to persuade audiences. Emphasis on the speech-building process: audience analysis, research, development, composition, organization, style, delivery, and criticism.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Handling the immediate context of daily experience in spoken and written French: identifying, describing, and characterizing people, objects, places, and events; giving information and instructions; issuing simple commands and requests. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Study and practice of verbal and nonverbal communication in ritual, information and perspective sharing, problem-solving, and relationship formation, maintenance, and dissolution. Designed to raise awareness of the complexity and power of the communication process in daily life and to help students develop interpersonal skills cognitively, affectively, and behaviorally.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Development of naturalness, correctness, and clarity in conversation through the study of phonetics, rate, volume, pitch, and quality in preparation for performance. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to the Deaf community as a linguistic and cultural minority group. The roles of deaf people in the larger society, including political activism. Generational differences concerning education, socioeconomic status, medical issues, and language.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
History and criticism of American films. The course enables the student to recognize and evaluate cinema techniques, to express the evaluation clearly in writing, and to understand the role of films in the context of American culture. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Comparison and analysis of how cultures use language to communicate. The relationship of language to issues of human nature, gender, race, class, artistic expression, and power. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An exploration of genres of creative writing (fiction, poetry, and/or playwriting). Basic problems and techniques; examples of modern approaches; weekly writing assignments; workshop and/or conference discussion of student writing.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of German literature from 1700 to 1830, including the Enlightenment through Sturm und Drang, classicism, and romanticism. This course is taught in English.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Grammatical essentials of Latin, appropriate reading selections, development of English derivatives, introduction to Roman life and literature
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A rotating set of classes; topics may include: American music, a composer, the opera, and musical life in Washington, DC. An introduction to the effects of music on society and the historical evolution within society.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A rotating set of classes; topics may include: American music, a composer, the opera, and musical life in Washington, DC. An introduction to music in the film industry.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Key aspects of the literature on public opinion, with emphasis on the role of media in opinion formation and change. Topics include the meaning of public opinion in a democratic society, a review of methods used to measure opinions, and media effects on opinion.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the fundamental principles of the biology of speech, hearing and language, language structure and use, and human communicative interaction. Practice in the identification of specific verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of the world’s cultures, illustrating the principles of cultural behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Handling the immediate context of daily experience in spoken and written French: identifying, describing, and characterizing people, objects, places, and events; giving information and instructions; issuing simple commands and requests. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to world history over the past half millennium, stressing themes of exchange and integration, tracing the ways various peoples of the world became bound together in a common system.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to the history of Europe, emphasizing primary sources and their interpretation. From 1715 to the present.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Major thinkers and themes in the field of peace studies and conflict resolution. Focus on philosophical and religious foundations of peace and justice movements in the twentieth century. Examination of peace and conflict through an interdisciplinary lens and on personal, local, and international levels.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Fundamental principles underlying human behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to the major religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Examination of the central aspects of these religions including the doctrinal, ethical, ritual, experiential, and social dimensions. Exploration of similarities and differences between these religious traditions.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Definition and application of the concept of the sociological imagination; the connection between personal troubles and public issues; race, gender, inequality, and education.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the study of criminal justice. The historical development of criminal justice and its evolution into modern legal systems. The impact of different forms of criminal justice on society and the individual.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
History and criticism of American films. The course enables the student to recognize and evaluate cinema techniques, to express the evaluation clearly in writing, and to understand the role of films in the context of American culture. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of the world’s cultures, illustrating the principles of cultural behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Comparison and analysis of how cultures use language to communicate. The relationship of language to issues of human nature, gender, race, class, artistic expression, and power. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An exploration of genres of creative writing (fiction, poetry, and/or playwriting). Basic problems and techniques; examples of modern approaches; weekly writing assignments; workshop and/or conference discussion of student writing.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A systematic survey of human geography; spatial perspectives on demographic, social, cultural, economic, and political changes around the world.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the dynamic relationship between society and the physical environment, with a focus on population, natural resources, environmental degradation, pollution, and conservation.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Fundamentals of cartography; geographic data structure and information systems. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Patterns of world population; factors contributing to population pressures, growth, and migrations.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of German literature from 1700 to 1830, including the Enlightenment through Sturm und Drang, classicism, and romanticism. This course is taught in English.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to world history over the past half millennium, stressing themes of exchange and integration, tracing the ways various peoples of the world became bound together in a common system.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The political, social, economic, and cultural history of the United States. From the earliest settlements to 1876.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The political, social, economic, and cultural history of the United States. From 1876 to present.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
American foreign relations in the twentieth century.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Grammatical essentials of Latin, appropriate reading selections, development of English derivatives, introduction to Roman life and literature
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A rotating set of classes; topics may include: American music, a composer, the opera, and musical life in Washington, DC. An introduction to the effects of music on society and the historical evolution within society.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A rotating set of classes; topics may include: American music, a composer, the opera, and musical life in Washington, DC. An introduction to music in the film industry.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Readings from major philosophers and study of their positions on the most basic questions of human life. Topics include such issues as: What is justice? What is knowledge? What is reality? Does God exist? What is the mind? Do humans have free will?
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Philosophical problems and theories of perception, meaning, personal identity, and moral agency and their illustration in the context of cinema. Cinema and its derivatives (TV, video) as prime routes to experience of the natural and social worlds in an age of communication. Readings in classical and contemporary philosophy and in film theory; screening of a series of films.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to informal logic, scientific argument, and formal logic. The informal logic component focuses on the fallacies of reasoning and practical applications of logic. The formal logic component focuses on translation from English into propositional logic, truth tables, and proofs in propositional logic.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Examination of leading ethical theories (e.g., utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics), and methodology in ethics. Engagement with contemporary problems.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Interrelationships among the human and physical environment and political systems; the organization of political territories.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Concepts and principles of comparative analysis, with an examination of politics and government in selected countries.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Analysis of world politics, focusing on the role of nation-states and international organizations and on selected foreign policy issues.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Nature of political inquiry, approaches to the study of politics and government, empirical methods of research.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
History of political thought from the sixteenth through the late nineteenth century, as set forth in the works of representative thinkers.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the study of criminal justice. The historical development of criminal justice and its evolution into modern legal systems. The impact of different forms of criminal justice on society and the individual.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The increasing role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as providers of service and care for vulnerable individuals and communities in need; development of NGOs, the place they hold in international interventions, and the types of services they provide.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Concepts and principles of comparative analysis, with an examination of politics and government in selected countries.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Structure, powers, and processes of the American political system and the impact on public policy.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Key aspects of the literature on public opinion, with emphasis on the role of media in opinion formation and change. Topics include the meaning of public opinion in a democratic society, a review of methods used to measure opinions, and media effects on opinion.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A broad overview of the "sociological imagination" as a way of understanding social issues and personal experience; sociology’s place among the social sciences; basic elements of sociological perspectives.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the study of criminal justice. The historical development of criminal justice and its evolution into modern legal systems. The impact of different forms of criminal justice on society and the individual.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Study and practice of verbal and nonverbal communication in ritual, information and perspective sharing, problem-solving, and relationship formation, maintenance, and dissolution. Designed to raise awareness of the complexity and power of the communication process in daily life and to help students develop interpersonal skills cognitively, affectively, and behaviorally.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Major thinkers and themes in the field of peace studies and conflict resolution. Focus on philosophical and religious foundations of peace and justice movements in the twentieth century. Examination of peace and conflict through an interdisciplinary lens and on personal, local, and international levels.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
The evolution of organizations in terms of social context and the present-day systems environment. Emerging roles of leadership, communication, and employer-employee relationships. Organizational models are used to develop strategic thinking about career and life roles.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Definition and application of the concept of the sociological imagination; the connection between personal troubles and public issues; race, gender, inequality, and education.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of the world’s cultures, illustrating the principles of cultural behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The political, social, economic, and cultural history of the United States. From the earliest settlements to 1876.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The political, social, economic, and cultural history of the United States. From 1876 to present.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
American foreign relations in the twentieth century.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The increasing role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as providers of service and care for vulnerable individuals and communities in need; development of NGOs, the place they hold in international interventions, and the types of services they provide.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to informal logic, scientific argument, and formal logic. The informal logic component focuses on the fallacies of reasoning and practical applications of logic. The formal logic component focuses on translation from English into propositional logic, truth tables, and proofs in propositional logic.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Examination of leading ethical theories (e.g., utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics), and methodology in ethics. Engagement with contemporary problems.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the study of criminal justice. The historical development of criminal justice and its evolution into modern legal systems. The impact of different forms of criminal justice on society and the individual.
Four credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of human evolution, genetics and physical variation, and primatology. Includes Regular laboratory exercises and Laboratory fee.
Four credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Primarily for non-science majors. An introduction to how our Universe is structured, including the basic principles underlying astronomical systems and observations. Topics include the known laws of nature, stars, and planetary systems and the conditions for extraterrestrial life and exploration. Laboratory fee.
Prerequisite: High School level Algebra.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
A study of the human body and food-related health issues through the examination of the nutritional needs of the human body, digestion, genetics, and life experiences/exposures. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Contemporary topics in physical, biological, and medical science. Laboratory fee.
Four credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Atomic structure and properties; stoichiometry; gas, liquid, and solid state; chemical bonding; solutions; chemical kinetics and equilibria; thermodynamics; acids and bases; electrochemistry; descriptive chemistry. Laboratory fee.
Prerequisite: Students with one year of High School Algebra.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introductory course in programming a computer, using the Java language. Object-oriented programming, classes, applets, methods, control structures, inheritance, overriding, GUI widgets, containers, and exceptions.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Lecture, laboratory. An introduction to the principal features of the composition and structure of the earth. Topics include the nature of minerals and rocks, surface and deep earth processes, mineral and energy resources, and plate tectonics. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the impact of geology on the environment, with emphasis on the relation of people and society to natural environments; population evolution, natural hazards, and mineral resources. Laboratory fee. Includes lecture and laboratory.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
A mathematical treatment of fair representation, voting systems, power, and conflict; impossibility theorems of Balinski and Young and of Arrow; the electoral college; the prisoner’s dilemma.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2018
Differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable; applications to business and economics.
Prerequisites: Qualifying results on the GW Mathematics placement examination or a score of 720 or above on the SAT II in mathematics. Applicants must submit proof of completion of prerequisites. Faculty review and approval is required. Please contact us for more information.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, linear programming, probability theory, and mathematics of finance.
Prerequisites: Qualifying results on the GW Mathematics placement examination or a score of 720 or above on the SAT II. Applicants must submit proof of completion of prerequisites. Faculty review and approval is required. Please contact us for more information.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to single-variable calculus (differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions with applications), with the concepts and techniques of precalculus developed as needed.
Prerequisites: Qualifying results on the GW Mathematics placement examination or a score of 720 or above on the SAT II. Applicants must submit proof of completion of prerequisites. Faculty review and approval is required. Please contact us for more information.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Limits and continuity; differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions with applications.
Prerequisites: Qualifying results on the GW Mathematics placement examination or a score of 720 or above on the SAT II. Applicants must submit proof of completion of prerequisites. Faculty review and approval is required. Please contact us for more information.
Four credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Atomic structure and properties; stoichiometry; gas, liquid, and solid state; chemical bonding; solutions; chemical kinetics and equilibria; thermodynamics; acids and bases; electrochemistry; descriptive chemistry. Laboratory fee.
Prerequisite: Students with one year of High School Trigonometry.
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Frequency distributions, descriptive measures, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation, with applications to business.
The course includes a Lecture (3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour).
Three credits
Six-week program
July 1—August 10, 2019
Frequency distributions, descriptive measures, probability, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation, with applications to social sciences. Includes a lecture(3 hours) and laboratory (1 hour).
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
A study of the human body and food-related health issues through the examination of the nutritional needs of the human body, digestion, genetics, and life experiences/exposures. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Introduction to the solution of problems on a digital computer using the Java language. Object-oriented programming concepts; documentation techniques; design of test data. Writing, debugging, and running programs in an interactive computing environment.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the ethical, legal, and technical aspects of telemedicine, including, but not limited to, emerging technologies, planning and operational considerations. Students complete a number of practical exercises requiring direct application and utilization of the Internet, video, audio, and other technologies.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Fundamentals of cartography; geographic data structure and information systems. Laboratory fee.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Analysis of the complex role that drugs play in contemporary society and the ethical, legal, socioeconomic, and health issues that surround their therapeutic and recreational use.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Biological and developmental aspects of human sexuality; psychological and emotional aspects of sexual behavior; sexual identity; social forces affecting sexual issues; and research trends in the area of human sexuality.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Survey of the various components involved in personal health and wellness, such as personal fitness, sexuality, mental health, and environmental health; application of knowledge through the use of decision making and behavior modification skills.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
The history of mathematics, with emphasis on its importance in the evolution of human thought. Students learn some useful mathematics from areas such as geometry, number theory, and probability and develop an appreciation of the mathematical endeavor.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to single-variable calculus (differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions with applications), with the concepts and techniques of precalculus developed as needed.
Prerequisites: Qualifying results on the GW Mathematics placement examination or a score of 720 or above on the SAT II. Applicants must submit proof of completion of prerequisites. Faculty review and approval is required. Please contact us for more information.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
An introduction to the fundamental principles of the biology of speech, hearing and language, language structure and use, and human communicative interaction. Practice in the identification of specific verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication behavior.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Lecture (3 hours), laboratory (1 hour). Frequency distributions, descriptive measures, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation, with applications to business.
Three credits
Six-week program
Online Course: July 1—August 10, 2019
Lecture (3 hours), laboratory (1 hour). Frequency distributions, descriptive measures, probability, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation, with applications to social sciences.
