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. ===**=== 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... ===**===