2025 Summer Session

A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from 15,000 B.C. to 1400 A.D. Included are Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Medieval Art.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

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

Instruction in how to write clear, correct, and effective expository prose; practice in careful, analytical reading of significant literature; training in research techniques.

An introduction to the diverse peoples and societies of Europe and the Mediterranean. The course focuses on the formative period and provides a firm chronological basis for understanding the interaction, evolution, and achievement of these peoples and societies in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

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. 

McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning

A study of selected thinkers dealing with basic epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical questions. The course may include issues such as theories of knowledge and reality, the relationship of philosophy to daily life situations, science, and religion. 

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis

This course will introduce students to many fundamental ideas that have shaped our understanding of how the universe works. It begins by addressing what science is and is not, and establishes how we gather and advance knowledge in science. The topics covered in the course play a vital role not only in our everyday lives but also in governing our universe such as the laws of motion, conservation of momentum and energy, electromagnetic theory, quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology. 

This course offers an overview of the discipline of sociology from a global perspective, focusing particularly on cross-cultural examples of social, economic and political relationships. It explores how social forces impact the structure of society and its social institutions as well as cultural patterns, crime, groups, personality, and human interactions.
Note: Students cannot earn credit for BOTH SOC-1103 and SOC-1104.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding

The acquisition of oral/aural skills through intensive exposure to Spanish used both as the medium of communication and the object of study. It enables students to express their daily experiences accurately in spoken and written Spanish, and to understand communications of a moderate level of difficulty.
Prerequisite(s) SPA-1101 or by placement
McDaniel Plan: Second Language

**synchronous online class meetings required on Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm**

Basic statistical principles and techniques; summarizing and presenting data, measuring central tendency and dispersion in data, basic concepts of probability and probability distributions, estimation of parameters and testing of hypotheses through statistical inference, linear regression and simple correlation.
Not open to students who have completed MAT 3324.
Prerequisite(s) MAT-1100 or placement into MAT-1106, MAT-1107, or higher
McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning

An introduction to the analysis and appreciation of theatre, the student receives an overview of dramatic theory and practice by reading and attending plays, studying critical evaluations of professionals, and participating in classroom discusssions. Course work consists of creative theatrical projects tied into each module. Examples include: Greek mask design, publicity poster creation, a costume/set design focused research project and collaborating, writing, and acting in your own 5-min play! Same as FYS-1135 

McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression

This course presents an introduction to public economics. It is designed to be a link between core economic theory and several policy applications. This course focuses on the role of the government in the economy, by surveying the impact of public policies on economic behavior and the distribution of resources in the economy. Students will use the tools of microeconomics and empirical analysis to identify and analyze major issues in economic policy. The course aims to address the following questions: What are the reasons for government intervention in the economy? How might the government intervene? What is the extent of that intervention? And, what are the effects of the government's actions on economic agents? Topics include: review of market failures; correction of externalities and provision of public goods; role of government in a wide variety of areas such as health care, education, social security, environmental protection and taxation; personal income, optimal taxation and tax inefficiencies; income inequality, poverty and provision of welfare programs.

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

This course is the introductory course for environmental science. An interdisciplinary study of environmental problems that considers world populations, energy, air and water pollution, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and environmental health. Class discussion will center on solutions including technical and human behavioral modifications that can lead to the sustainable use of our environment
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Embedded Laboratory

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.

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

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

Basic statistical principles and techniques; summarizing and presenting data, measuring central tendency and dispersion in data, basic concepts of probability and probability distributions, estimation of parameters and testing of hypotheses through statistical inference, linear regression and simple correlation. Not open to students who have completed Mathematics 3324. 

McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning