The Division of Continuing and International Education (DCIE) offers a variety of credit courses / credit certificate programs and non-credit courses / professional certificates for students who would like to explore engaging topics through an online learning environment.
These online credit courses may be used as part of a degree program, to pursue an interest, or to earn college credits while still in high school. It is the responsibility of the study to confirm with their advisor that credit earned will count toward their degree requirements.
Course Number:
AAS 250/AFS 100
Credits:
3
Professor:
Edmund Abaka, Ph.D.
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
Interdisciplinary introduction to the Africana Studies (Africa and Africa Diaspora). The first section of the course analyzes the cultural, political, historical, psychological and economic dimension of the experience of Africans and people of African descendants. The second section considers the construction and expression of Black identity in literature, politics, history and arts. The last section deals with African-American music and Black visual culture.
At the end of this course, students should be familiar with the nature of the communities from where people of African descent came. They should be able to differentiate among the philosophies of some of the major African-American intellectuals, and understand black identity and black popular culture through literature and arts.
Course Number:
POL 201
Credits:
3
Professor:
Arthur M. Simon, J.D., Ph.D.
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
The course is designed to provide initial instruction to undergraduate students in various facets of the governmental process and our Constitution. The course examines not only who governs the American national government but also limitation imposed upon the three branches of government and the federal bureaucracy. Issues concerning federalism, individual liberties and civil rights are also covered. Special attention is given to the electoral process, political parties and voter behavior.
Students will also lean about the importance, activities, and influence of interest groups, social movements, and political parties in the American system of government.
Course Number:
English 105
Credits:
3
Professor:
Joanna Johnson
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
This introductory composition course will introduce students to the kinds of reading, writing, and thinking that take place in the university environment. Through readings, discussions, activities, and explorations in the nature of composing and editing, the course will be student-centered. The instructor will facilitate online discussions and provide editorial feedback on writing assignments, but students will provide the primary “voice” for the class, via peer review, discussion threads, and online group meetings.
The theme for each course will vary, however, in each course, faculty will teach analysis, classification, interpretation, reportage, reflection, evaluation, and argumentation. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice several methods of investigative inquiry, become a more concise writer, learn strategies for engaging the reader and study contemporary research methodology as well as other writing techniques that will be beneficial to the student throughout their college career and beyond.
Course Number:
ENG 106
Credits:
3
Professor:
Joanna Johnson
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
The second part of the required composition courses, English 106 is a writing and research course that endeavors to strengthen both critical thinking and writing skills. While each section will focus on different topics, English 106 will prioritize the development of writing and critical thinking skills, the development of close readings of texts, increased ability to use textual evidence to support an argument or interpretation, the appropriate incorporation of secondary sources, and an increased sophistical and complexity at all levels of discourse.
Prerequisite:
* ENG 105, English Composition I - Visual Rhetoric
Course Number:
GEO 110
Credits:
3
Professor:
Jacquelyn Sartan
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
Human geography, a core course in the social sciences, covers all of the main sub-fields of human geography, e.g., urban, political, economic, development. Selected topics, focusing on current global issues, are introduced to give students a sense of the depth as well as the breadth of the sub-fields of human geography.
Global topics, such as mapping the changing global context, the diffusion and spread of diseases and population geographies, are covered in an exciting way using academic knowledge and texts, real-world case studies, and examples. A variety of assessments – map making, reports, writing, reflections, discussions, and exams – are utilized to allow students to explore the materials.
The course combines and integrates academic readings and carefully selected website materials which provide students with the most current and important knowledge on hot topics such as genocide, regional trade blocs, slums, and urban rehabilitation.
Course Number:
CMP 594
Credits:
3
Professor:
Dr. Paul Lazarus
Price:
Price based on current semester University of Miami tuition charges.
Course Overview:
Have you thought there’s a terrific screenplay in your head? Do you know you have the ideas but lack only the experience to get them down in screenplay form? Have you always wanted to get expert feedback that helped shape your idea into a marketable finished product?
Now all of this can be achieved online, on your time schedule. Dr. Paul Lazarus, Director of the University of Miami’s prestigious Motion Picture Program will work one-on-one to assist you in planning, outlining, and commencing your feature-length screenplay.
Winner of two national screenwriting competitions and producer of six acclaimed Hollywood films, Dr. Lazarus has guided hundreds of aspiring screenwriters during his years in Hollywood and with UM’s School of Communication. Now, he will bring his years of experience to assist you, online and in the privacy of your home. With this unprecedented opportunity: refine your idea, develop the principal characters, prepare a step outline of your plot, perfect your screenplay format, and receive extensive comments on your actual screenplay pages.
Course Number:
MTH 111
Credits:
4
Professor:
Dr. Leticia Oropesa
Price:
$4,150
Course Overview:
This course is the first in a two semester sequence covering the foundations of Calculus of a Single Variable. We will cover limits, continuity, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions and applications, implicit differentiation and related rates, optimization problems, Reimann sums, the definite integral, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, applications of the definite integral, including area between curves and volumes of solids.
This course is intended for students in a BS program.
Prerequisite: At least a C- in MTH 108 (Precalculus Mathematics II) or adequate achievement on mathematics placement test together with completion of high school trigonometry and analytic geometry. Not open to students with credit in MTH 110 or 131.
Course Number:
BIO 104
Course Credit:
3
Professor:
Yunqiu (Daniel) Wang, Ph.D.
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
With special emphasis on connecting the founding principles of scientific inquiry to timely popular issues such as stem cells, genetic cloning, forensic studies, and research progress on disease, the course encompasses four main topics: transmission genetics; DNA and chromosomes; population genetics; and genetic technologies and cancer genetics. By connecting the founding principles of scientific inquiry to timely popular issues (stem cells, genetic cloning, forensic studies, research progress on cancer and AIDS, etc), this online genetic course is also designed to emphasize more on the relevance of these principles to our modern society. Today more than ever, the amount of information available to the man-on-the-street is vast. By discussing the impact of such scientific evidence to our society, students will be able to broaden their science knowledge base, and become more confident to critically evaluate claims made about science, technology and policy issues presented in the media.
Biology 104 is an introductory biology course for non-majors.
Course Number:
BIL 101
Credits:
3
Professor:
Yunqiu (Daniel) Wang, Ph.D.
Price:
$3,100
Course Overview:
An introductory biology course for non-majors, this interactive class is constructed of three main topics: the scale of life; genes and the mechanism of evolution; and organisms and their environment. Molecules and life is the launching point with an examination of the physical and chemical constraints with which organisms must contend. Starting with a ‘simple’ chemical system, each subsequent topic takes the student through increasing levels of complexity ending the semester with an overview of major global environmental issues.