zippy@BKLYN.BITNET (Tzipporah Ben Avraham) (05/14/91)
Index Number: 15548
This is a listing of the courses for the New School for
Social Research's online education program called
Connected Ed. This is for the summer semester. PLease
share it with your other online friends. This kind
of education acrues 3 viable college credits. It is
the wave of tommorrow here today. I am proud to say
my class in Disability and Technology is being offered
again. I encourage all to apply. Contact your
local college chairperson for permission to cross-register.
Dr Levinson is willing and able to work with any college
program to assist any student acrue these online credits
towards their degrees in other colleges. I now proudly
present the online classes for summer 1991:
CONNECT ED - NEW SCHOOL SUMMER SESSION ON-LINE COURSES
June 1 - July 31, 1991
Director: Paul Levinson
Associate Director: Tina Vozick
Each course carries three graduate or undergraduate credits.
Graduate credits applicable to New School MA in Media Studies Degree
upon matriculation; awarding of graduate credit assumes possession of
earned bachelor's degree and completion of New School registration.
Undergraduate credit is general New School Adult Division credit.
Tuition: $389 per credit ($1167 per course) graduate, $365 per credit
($1095 per course) undergrad and non-credit. Registration fees: $60
graduate, $20 undergrad and non-credit. These fees include all
necessary connect time for courses with exception of local call to
data packet network. (Special half-tuition audit rates are also
available for some courses. Contact 1204.)
ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
(Paul Levinson and Harlan Cleveland)
This course examines the growing use of telecommunications
across national boundaries in business, entertainment, and
education. Attention is given to the necessary technologies and
the the legal, political, and social implications of such
cross-pollination. Issues include: Are existing national laws
and customs sufficient to properly regulate transnational
telecommunications? How is the balance of centralization and
decentralization changing with the the increasing availability
of satellite dishes and personal computers in many parts of the
world? Special attention is given to the role of international
telecommunications in the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.
SCIENCE FICTION AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL CENTURY
(David D. Oberhart)
This course looks at the growth of science fiction over the
last one hundred years, a decade at a time, and focuses on the
reciprocal relationship between science fiction and society as
expressed in the unique events, attitudes, and dreams of each
decade. Themes include the changing interaction of human and
machine, what it means to be human, progress and disappointment
with technology, the Roaring Twenties, the Atomic Age, the Red
Scare, feminism, and the "me" decade. Readings come from the
classics that most typify each decade, such as H.G. Wells, Edgar
Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray
Bradbury, and include current examples such as Joe Haldeman and
Orson Scott Card.
THE NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY OF MUSIC
(Karl L. Signell)
This course explores the relationships among music, human
beings, and technology, and draws upon a synthesis of old truths
and recent discoveries about music from such fields as
psychoacoustics, biomechanics, poetry, and philosophy. Issues
include: How do children learn music? How does our brain make
sense of scales? In what ways are words and music different?
Has radio made music a technical effect? Does the music video
freeze interpretation? How has technology changed musical
performance? Required "listenings" come from a taped series of
interviews with such people as violinist Yehudi Menuhin,
psychologist Howard Gardner, and record producer Mitch Miller.
INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
(Gail S. Thomas)
This course explores the characteristics and use of
commercial and scholarly online, interactive databases, such as
DIALOG, VuText, and Predicasts. Students discuss and implement
strageties for effective online searching, methods of keeping
search costs low, and choosing the best database for a search.
Direct "hands on" experience in online searching is provided via
connection to Dialog's "Ontap" training base at no extra charge.
Practical work is complemented with reading and discussion of
texts in information theory and computer networks.
TECHNOLOGY AND THE DISABLED
(Tzipporah Ben-Avraham and Norman Coombs)
This courses considers the legal, moral, and practical
issues involved in the use of new technology to enable fuller
participation in society by the handicapped. Issues include: to
what extent should availability of new technology to the
handicapped be legislated; how can computers and personal
information technologies provide better working conditions for
the disabled; how can popular opinion be mobilized to bring
greater attention to the needs of the handicapped. Actual case
studies of current uses of technology by the disabled are
considered, and current pieces of legislation in this area are
examined. This course is taught by two national leaders in
education for the handicapped, who approach the subject from
their own experience.
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
(Ari Davidow)
This course covers the new potential that low cost desktop
publishing systems have, both for existing large organizations
and for smaller enterprises. The emphasis here is on the use of
personal computing and printing equipment for the production of
finished hard-copy -- interchangable with the products of
traditional printing houses. Major hardware and software options
and costs are explored for IBM, Macintosh and Atari ST-based
systems along with relative ease of use and which kinds of
applications are best suited to each. Focus on the use of
desktop technologies for the preparation and publication of
reports, pamphlets, in-house newsletters and catalogs, and
government materials.
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Ask about our ONLINE WRITERS' WORKSHOP ... noncredit, lowcost ($750
per two-months, no registration fee) ... continuously in session...
our INTRO TO ONLINE DATA BASES ($500 per month) ...
ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE WORKSHOPS ($500) ...
all special Connect Ed non-credit computer conferences...
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