Sunday, October 24, 2010

Cool Classes

While many of us bloggers talk about the classes we are taking for our majors, they become quite boring since they are required. But taking a step back, some of the required and elective classes that GW offers are pretty cool! As I am gearing up to register for classes for 2nd semester, I am trying to introduce some exciting topics into my daily routine of international affairs. The first class listed, PubH 185, is one I am trying to get into, and the rest are just a sample of the cool things that can be found while browsing the course catalog!

Public Health 185 Impact of Culture Upon Health: Relationships between cultural values and the development of modern health systems based on Western models of health care practice. Reliance upon traditional forms of health care. Examples of successful incorporation of traditional practices into evolving health care systems.

Exercise Science 58 Outdoor Education Facilitation: An outdoor challenge course designed to help groups have fun while coming together to build unity and address challenges such as developing trust, problem solving, goal setting, and communication.

Yiddish for Reading and Conversation: Grammatical essentials of the language, appropriate reading selections, conversational exercises for beginners.

Fine Art New Media: Digital Art: A survey of the computer as a creative art tool. Topics covered include bit-mapped and vector graphics, digital sound and imaging, basic time-based media, and digital text, integrated with fundamental design principles of concept development, composition, color theory and presentation.

English 175 Gender and Literature: Symbolic representations of culturally defined roles and assumptions in literature. Male and female gender roles as fundamental to culture; the representation of culture, in literature especially and in the arts and humanities generally. May be repeated for credit provided the topic differs.

Exercise Science 65 Introduction to Therapeutic Massage: Basic Swedish massage and deep-tissue techniques.

That last one would be a great investment for my roommates :) See the schedule of classes here!
Questions? Always feel free to email me at marisaw@gwmail.gwu.edu!
- Marisa

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