2026 Summer Session

A studio course in drawing concentrates on developing an understanding of perceptual drawing technique that emphasize proportion and. spatial conventions. Compositional skills are developed, and different mediums are explored. Students develop creative problem-solving skills by investigating complex still life arrangements. 
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

Personal Finance equips students with the knowledge and skills to make financial decisions that contribute to overall well-being. Major topics include financial planning, the time value of money, tax planning, cash and credit card management, consumer loans, insurance, investments, and retirement and estate planning.

This course provides basic training in Microsoft Excel for Windows. Students will learn the essentials of spreadsheet creation, including data entry and editing, formatting, and printing. Emphasis will be placed on creating and using formulas and functions, moving and working with data.

The study of the economic foundations of any society: price theory - the market system and allocation of resources; and macroeconomic theory - national income, employment, inflation, business cycles, and international trade. 

Prerequisites/Co-requisites MAT 1100 or concurrent enrollment or placement into MAT 1106/1107 or higher
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

The study of national income and price determination, growth, and business cycles; the consumption/leisure trade-off; expectations and dynamic decision making; asset markets and investment; nominal frictions; and the role of fiscal and monetary policy.

ECO 1103 - Must be completed prior to taking this course. (Re-word with Mary's help!)

In Ad Design, students will attempt to create, replicate, or improve upon popular graphic or video ads by applying basic design principles. This course does not require prior knowledge of design. Students will need Office 365 (which every student gets freely from the College), and a cell phone that can take good quality photos and videos (which the student will need to supply). 

McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

Students will build worlds. Students will make their own Star Wars, My Little Pony, or Marvel Universe. They will create media franchises around a story they'll tell across media channels. The different media used contributes uniquely to the story's world. In other words, students will create stories that might be expressed through writing and video and action figures and games and websites and cerial boxes and social media. The main point of the course is the dispersal of content through multiple delivery channels to create a unified entertainment experience. 

McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

In this course, students will compare/contrast both mainstream media and underground/alternative media to deconstruct the style, argument, and effectiveness of zines as a tool for subverting political or cultural oppression. 

McDaniel Plan: Multicultural

In the early twenty-first century, historians must grapple with how to define the tumultuous and in many ways tragic period that preceded. Worldwide depression, two world wars, Cold War, communism, totalitarianism, Holocaust, collectivization, decolonization?these singular events have greatly altered the image of a prosperous and progressive Europe that took hold in the previous century. In this wide-ranging course, which will consider cultural, social, economic, and political trends in Europe from the First World War to the present, we will attempt to understand the various paths that Europe and individual European nations have taken, their global and human implications, and the place of Europe in the world today. 

McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

In Japan Online, students learn about different aspects of Japanese soft culture (including gaming, anime, relationships, customs, food, and everyday life) by looking at digital and streaming sources. This course is only offered in the summer. 

McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern

This course is designed for students who enjoy science and are interested in pursuing a career in medicine. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of medical careers through homework assignments, class presentations, guest speakers, and volunteer work. The careers explored will span Diagnosing and Treating Professions (e.g. Physician, Optometrist, etc.), Medical Research, Technicians, Rehabilitation Specialists, Geriatric Care, and more. Furthermore, through the analysis of medically-related case studies, students will gain scientific knowledge and skills that are necessary to be successful in medical careers. 

McDaniel Plan: My Career

HBSE (Human Behavior and the Social Environment) courses examine the richness and diversity of the human experience over the life span from a person-in-environment perspective. Theoretical frameworks ranging from Freud to Feminism are examined. Functional and dysfunctional patterns of coping and adaptation are identified. SWK-2214 focuses on the period between infancy and adolescence. Social issues such as learning differences, teen suicide, and eating disorders are explored within a sociohistorical context. NOTE: Students should not take PSY-2209 and SWK-2214 both for credit, due to content overlap. 

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

This course reviews several ways we may understand and resolve the potentially conflicting imperatives of human development and the maintenance of natural systems - in the present and future. To achieve global and local development that is sustainable, it is widely agreed that a variety of contemporary social and environmental challenges must be overcome concurrently. To this end, this course is focused on examining the critical sustainability challenges we face and their available solutions, drawing heavily on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and the Project Drawdown framework, arguably the world's leading resources for climate and society solutions. We will use international and domestic case studies to understand these sustainability ideas - including their promise and their limitations. To develop your skills in the application of sustainability solutions, we will also review sustainability efforts across campuses in North America, culminating in the semester-long Campus Sustainability Project. This final project will challenge you to assess the state of sustainability at McDaniel College and offer practical solutions to improve its environmental footprint. 

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; International

The goal of this course is to explore the cultural geography of non western developing world. It is based on a multidisciplinary approach, this means thematic topics from subject areas like anthropology, sociology, environmental studies etc are used to study peoples experiences. The course examines among other major questions: Where are these areas geographically located? What are the common and unique characteristics of the cultural environment that have been created? How have these peoples cultures impacted the western world and vice versa? Geographic areas and regions studied include Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. 

McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.

Explore the way mathematicians approach problem solving through the study of a variety of topics. These topics may include logic, number theory, counting techniques, discrete probability, graph theory, and the mathematics of personal finance. The course is intended for non-Mathematics majors. Students who plan to take Calculus should take MAT-1107. 

MAT-1100 or higher placement - Must be completed prior to taking this course. (Work with Mary to re-word!)

McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning

A study designed to improve the student's critical thinking and reasoning skills. This course will examine different styles of informal and formal reasoning found in a variety of contexts. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and avoiding common fallacies and forms of pseudo- reasoning, uncovering hidden assumptions and evaluating the relative merits of rational arguments and decision-making procedures. 

McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis

An introduction to the basic theories, principles, and methods of psychology, including a focus on neuroscience, personality, social influences, learning, thinking, memory, emotion, and abnormal processes. Universal principles as well as cultural variations in human behavior will be explored. The course will also examine applications of psychological concepts to challenges encountered in life. 

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

This course examines significant conversations and debates in feminist social and political theory since the mid-twentieth century. The class will read major foundational and cutting edge works by feminist thinkers, analyze the theoretical perspectives they represent, discuss the commonalities and differences between them, and situate them within a genealogy of feminist knowledge. These readings are not all in agreement, but they are drawn together by the joint search for answers to the causes and consequences of gender difference-making hierarchies, and inequalities. Readings are drawn from both local U.S. feminist sources and from feminists around the globe. Our examination of gender takes an intersectional approach, focusing particularly on formations of race, ethnicity/nationality/religion, class, and sexuality. Throughout the course, we will also consider the relationships between feminist theory, contemporary women’s movements, and other social and political movements.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis

An introduction to the basic theories, principles, and methods of psychology, including a focus on neuroscience, personality, social influences, learning, thinking, memory, emotion, and abnormal processes. Universal principles as well as cultural variations in human behavior will be explored. The course will also examine applications of psychological concepts to challenges encountered in life. 

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

This course offers an overview of the discipline of sociology from a global perspective, focusing particularly on cross-cultural comparison of social, economic and political relationships. It explores how social forces impact the structure of society, its social institutions as well as cultural patterns, crimes, groups, personality, and human interactions. NOTE: Students cannot receive credit for BOTH SOC 1103 and 1104 or FYS 1104. 

McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding