2012 Course Listing: 324 Courses
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Intensive English Program (IEP)
- English for Business(CRN: 10355)
- TOEFL Preparation(CRN: 10043)
- English in Action: Honing Skills through Theater(CRN: 10170)
- Providence Arts and Learning: Using English to Explore the City and Its Culture(CRN: 10506)
- Reading and Writing English in the Globalized World(CRN: 10420)
- Listening and Speaking English in the Globalized World(CRN: 10426)
Leadership Institute
- Leadership and Conflict Resolution(CRN: 10300)
- Leadership and Global Engagement(CRN: 10301)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10008)
- Human Rights: Leadership & Action(CRN: 10297)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10014)
- Women and Leadership(CRN: 10147)
- Leadership and Global Health(CRN: 10303)
- Organize, Mobilize: Leadership for Social Change(CRN: 10026)
- Documentary Film for Social Change: Production & Theory(CRN: 10302)
- Changing Business: Becoming a Social Entrepreneur(CRN: 10027)
- Brown Environmental Leadership in Hawaii(CRN: 10411)
- Identity, Diversity, and Leadership(CRN: 10161)
- Leadership and Global Development(CRN: 10298)
- Leadership and Global Engagement(CRN: 10299)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10296)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Costa Rica(CRN: 10478)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10362)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10363)
- Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development(CRN: 10364)
- Arts for Social Change(CRN: 10457)
- Leadership in Science, Technology and Society(CRN: 10459)
- Leadership, Politics, and Religion(CRN: 10466)
Online
- DNA Science: Forensics, Food and Medicine(CEBI0935)
- Writing for College and Beyond(CEEL0962)
- So You Want to be a Doctor?(BI903)
- Exploring Engineering: Problem Solving in Biotech, Nanotech, & Renewable Energy(CEEN0906)
- Lessons in Leadership: What History's Great Leaders Can Teach Us Today(CEHI0920)
- DNA Science: Forensics, Food and Medicine(CEBI0935)
- Body at Work: Anatomy, Physiology and Disease(CEBI0934)
- Writing for College and Beyond(CEEL0962)
- Developing Young Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Pitch(CEEC0921)
- Exploring Engineering: Problem Solving in Biotech, Nanotech, & Renewable Energy(CEEN0906)
- Lessons in Leadership: What History's Great Leaders Can Teach Us Today(CEHI0920)
- Crafting a Video Essay: Writing in Multimedia(CEEL0964)
Pre-College
- Techniques in DNA-Based Biotechnology(CRN: 10065)
- So You Think You Want to Be a Doctor: An Introduction to Medicine(CRN: 10067)
- Culture and Human Behavior(CRN: 10064)
- Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction(CRN: 10120)
- A Comprehensive Study of Music: Performance and Theory(CRN: 10080)
- International Financial Markets and Investments(CRN: 10070)
- Introduction to the Global Business Environment(CRN: 10091)
- So What's up Doc?(CRN: 10034)
- Introduction to Psychology and Human Behavior(CRN: 10152)
- Robot Rover Derby(CRN: 10073)
- Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry(CRN: 10121)
- Introducing The Craft of Journalism(CRN: 10102)
- Themes from Existentialism(CRN: 10151)
- How a Nation's Economy Works: An Introduction to Macroeconomics(CRN: 10189)
- "Exploring Infectious Disease: The exotic misconception"(CRN: 10002)
- Democracy: Philosophy, Politics, & Power(CRN: 10340)
- The Political Theory of Human Rights(CRN: 10307)
- Scholar-Athlete: Sport Physiology(CRN: 10181)
- How the Legal System Works: Anatomy of a Case(CRN: 10190)
- Future Perfect I : The Politics of Sci-Fi, 1626-1938(CRN: 10453)
- Brain Basics: From Biology to Behavior(CRN: 10090)
- Global Justice and International Politics(CRN: 10492)
- The Meaning of Life(CRN: 10047)
- Scholar-Athlete: Sports Writing(CRN: 10184)
- Understanding the Molecular Pharmacological Basis of Cancer Therapy(CRN: 10452)
- Modern Abnormal Psychology in Research, Practice, and Media(CRN: 10442)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10141)
- To Be Human: Minds, Robots, Clones and Zombies(CRN: 10012)
- The U.S. In World Politics(CRN: 10013)
- Critical Thinking About Human Behavior(CRN: 10153)
- Genetics and Human Behavior(CRN: 10155)
- Drawing the Human Figure(CRN: 10086)
- Techniques in DNA-Based Biotechnology(CRN: 10066)
- Introduction to Clinical Psychology(CRN: 10156)
- Fundamentals for Calculus: Functions and Equations(CRN: 10149)
- Current Controversies in Mood Disorders(CRN: 10197)
- Creative Writing: Script and Stage(CRN: 10101)
- An Introduction to Game Theory(CRN: 10071)
- Economic Growth and Development(CRN: 10187)
- Research Techniques in Biomedical Fields(CRN: 10108)
- The Art of Reading/Writing: Contemporary Literature from the Inside Out(CRN: 10166)
- Exploring Medicine(CRN: 10053)
- Do You Want to Be an Engineer?(CRN: 10075)
- Biological Illustration(CRN: 10033)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10142)
- From I Love Lucy to Lost: Television and American Culture(CRN: 10063)
- The Body: An Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology(CRN: 10089)
- Giants of Philosophy(CRN: 10098)
- An Introduction to Philosophy(CRN: 10083)
- Theory of Relativity(CRN: 10059)
- Existentialist Questions of the Heart: What is Love and How Can I Find Myself?(CRN: 10060)
- Digital Video Production(CRN: 10085)
- Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic(CRN: 10114)
- Writing Speculative Fiction(CRN: 10167)
- Diplomacy(CRN: 10037)
- Freedom and Responsibility(CRN: 10030)
- Word Etymologies: The Greek and Latin Roots of English(CRN: 10004)
- Medicine and Society(CRN: 10113)
- Nazi Germany and the Holocaust(CRN: 10021)
- Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine(CRN: 10158)
- Number Theory: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics(CRN: 10148)
- Engineering Biomedical Systems(CRN: 10172)
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll?: Understanding the 1960s(CRN: 10022)
- Introduction to Music Production(CRN: 10096)
- The Art of Forgery in the Age of Photoshop(CRN: 10052)
- From Plantation to Wall Street(CRN: 10448)
- Personal Identity(CRN: 10446)
- Foundations of Creative Process(CRN: 10444)
- Debunking Psuedoscience in Psychology(CRN: 10474)
- Politics of Terrorism and Extremism(CRN: 10493)
- Special Topics in Developmental Psychology: Socio-emotional Development in Children and Adolescents(CRN: 10118)
- Classic Fairy Tales Reconsidered(CRN: 10006)
- Writing Flash Fiction(CRN: 10143)
- Alternative Energy Engineering - An Introduction(CRN: 10173)
- Building a Better Mouse Trap: An Introduction to Design(CRN: 10087)
- Exploring the Planets(CRN: 10145)
- Stem Cells, Cloning, Regenerative Medicine: Changing the Face of Biology(CRN: 10109)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10140)
- American Consumer Culture, 1870-present(CRN: 10111)
- Music & Politics: From Mozart to M.I.A.(CRN: 10169)
- The Human Body: A Cultural Creation(CRN: 10112)
- From Mad Cow Disease to Alzheimer's: The Biological Basis of Disease(CRN: 10019)
- Work in the Global Economy(CRN: 10016)
- Writing Transformation: Metamorphosis in Literature and Myth(CRN: 10055)
- The Tiniest Bits of Reality(CRN: 10028)
- Witches, Devils and Magic in German Literature(CRN: 10494)
- Understanding the Media: Becoming a Critical News Consumer(CRN: 10515)
- Understanding the Media: Becoming a Critical News Consumer(CRN: 10516)
- Electronic Music(CRN: 10081)
- Infectious and Epidemic Disease(CRN: 10313)
- Writing for Performance: Sketch Comedy(CRN: 10035)
- Literature of the Fantastic(CRN: 10175)
- Love, Horror, Monsters, Beauties: Writing about Literature by Reading Below the Surface(CRN: 10117)
- A-Bombs, Milkshakes and Love-Ins: Decades of Change in America, 1940-1970(CRN: 10078)
- Understanding the Nation's Health(CRN: 10150)
- Writing the Academic Essay(CRN: 10106)
- Psychoactive Drugs: Brain, Body, Society(CRN: 10054)
- Our Nearest Star: Exploring the Science of the Sun(CRN: 10511)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10045)
- Introduction to Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering(CRN: 10110)
- US vs. Them: America and the World in the 21st Century(CRN: 10100)
- Writing the College Admissions Essay(CRN: 10177)
- Writing the College Admissions Essay(CRN: 10137)
- Writing the Academic Essay(CRN: 10104)
- Do You Want to Be an Engineer?(CRN: 10074)
- Methods in Biochemistry(CRN: 10194)
- Invisible Cities and Ideal States(CRN: 10436)
- The Clocks Within Us(CRN: 10460)
- Returning from War: An Inside Look at Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(CRN: 10443)
- Berlin’s Golden Twenties(CRN: 10447)
- The Quantum Revolution in Technology(CRN: 10451)
- The American Counterculture: From Oz to Occupy Wall Street(CRN: 10449)
- Psychology and the Media(CRN: 10207)
- The Power of Temptation and the Weakness of Will(CRN: 10221)
- Introduction to Roman Culture & Literature(CRN: 10164)
- Introduction to Sociology: High School as a Social Laboratory(CRN: 10249)
- Nationalist Politics and Conflict(CRN: 10191)
- Neuroscience in Health and Disease(CRN: 10240)
- Positive Psychology: The Key to Happiness(CRN: 10247)
- So you want to be a Counselor?(CRN: 10198)
- So You Think You Can Write: The Mechanics of English Grammar(CRN: 10200)
- The Motivated Brain: Sex, Drugs and Chocolate(CRN: 10210)
- Personality: What Makes Us Who We Are?(CRN: 10211)
- Nervous System Function in Health and Disease(CRN: 10215)
- The Extraordinary Inventions of Nikola Tesla(CRN: 10219)
- Techniques in Biochemistry(CRN: 10262)
- Organic and Biochemistry: Key Pathways to Success for the Pre-Med Student(CRN: 10263)
- Making Informed Financial Decisions in Today's World Economy(CRN: 10265)
- Technology and its Effect on Business and World Economics(CRN: 10266)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10267)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10268)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10269)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10270)
- Do You Want to Be an Engineer?(CRN: 10271)
- Putting Ideas into Words(CRN: 10272)
- Writing the Academic Essay(CRN: 10281)
- Laboratory Research in Biomedicine(CRN: 10358)
- Intro to Microeconomics(CRN: 10498)
- Tea Parties(CRN: 10487)
- Child Clinical Psychology: From Research to Clinical Practice(CRN: 10480)
- Writing the Academic Essay(CRN: 10291)
- Great Experiments in Psychology(CRN: 10485)
- Organizational Behavior(CRN: 10471)
- Water Supply: Law, Policy, Planning, and Issues(CRN: 10496)
- How (Not) to Stop Human Trafficking(CRN: 10508)
- Life and Love in Global Africa(CRN: 10509)
- Scholar-Athlete: Introduction to Sport Psychology(CRN: 10481)
- Social Psychology(CRN: 10484)
- Expressing Yourself to Friends, Family, Faculty, and Firms: College-Level Writing for the University and Beyond(CRN: 10305)
- Engineering for the Space Enthusiast(CRN: 10320)
- Invisible Cities and Ideal States(CRN: 10342)
- The Psychology of Gender(CRN: 10336)
- Experimental Writing(CRN: 10314)
- The Power of Political Ideas(CRN: 10350)
- Who are you Calling Sick? The Sociology of Diagnosis(CRN: 10348)
- Parlons Français! French Conversation and Oral Expression(CRN: 10304)
- Community Psychology: Making a Difference in the Real World(CRN: 10347)
- Freud: Psychoanalysis and its Legacies(CRN: 10328)
- Disparities in Global Health: Can Technology Triumph?(CRN: 10344)
- RobotC, Robot Do: Programming Lego Robots With A Text Based Language(CRN: 10322)
- Economania(CRN: 10341)
- Successful Nontraditional Careers in Life Sciences(CRN: 10334)
- The First Cities(CRN: 10464)
- Public Health Issues in Adolescence(CRN: 10455)
- Wolf Like Me: Contagion in American Literature(CRN: 10450)
- Global Trends in Contemporary Art(CRN: 10454)
- Inward Bound: The Art of Travel Writing(CRN: 10456)
- Psychology of Stress and Trauma(CRN: 10360)
- How to Choose a Stock: An Integrated Course of Principles of Economics, Financial Accounting and Investments(CRN: 10359)
- Introduction to Psychopathology(CRN: 10367)
- Writing the Academic Essay(CRN: 10366)
- The Entrepreneurial Process: Turning Ideas into Commercial Realities(CRN: 10512)
- US Women's History through Popular Culture, 1945 to present(CRN: 10461)
- Uncover to Discover: The Social Myths of Disease(CRN: 10468)
- Using Pharmacology To Help Us Study The Nervous System(CRN: 10445)
- Psychoactive Drugs: Brain, Body, Society(CRN: 10437)
- Do You Want to Be an Engineer?(CRN: 10393)
- Do You Want to Be an Engineer?(CRN: 10397)
- My Mouse v. Your Monkey: Exploring Animal Models in Science(CRN: 10518)
- Electrochemical Engineering: Making the world more beautiful, sustainable and energy efficient(CRN: 10520)
- ¡Olé! An Introduction to Spanish(CRN: 10439)
- A Brief Introduction to Biomedical Science: Cells, Tissues and Organs(CRN: 10517)
- Neuroscience in Health and Disease(CRN: 10419)
- From Newton to String Theory: A History of Physics(CRN: 10463)
- Future Perfect II: Science Fiction from the Cold War to Postmodernism(CRN: 10467)
- Learning Linux & Programming for Beginners(CRN: 10441)
- When the Brain Has a Mind of its Own(CRN: 10003)
- Vision: A Glimpse of the Brain(CRN: 10058)
- On the Wrong Side U.S. History: Recalling America's Losers(CRN: 10462)
- Buddhism and Philosophy(CRN: 10491)
- The Stuff of Globalization(CRN: 10465)
- Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction(CRN: 10501)
- Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in America: From the New Deal to the (New) Tea Party(CRN: 10486)
- Cities of Dreadful Delights(CRN: 10497)
- Uses and Abuses of Evolutionary Theory(CRN: 10507)
- Inside the Teen Brain(CRN: 10473)
- The Secret Life of the Brain: From Shrimps to Humans(CRN: 10475)
- Urban Economics: The City in the Economy and the Economy of the City(CRN: 10504)
- Economic Policy Analysis(CRN: 10503)
- Causes and Consequences of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis(CRN: 10505)
- Statistics for Economists(CRN: 10499)
- Historical Foundations of Economic Thought(CRN: 10500)
- The Dreamer vs. Daedalus: The war between the poets(CRN: 10469)
- Writing Through Sports(CRN: 10479)
- It's the End of the World as We Know It: American Visions of Apocalypse(CRN: 10476)
- Children's Literature(CRN: 10495)
- Politics and the Tradition of American Humor: Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert(CRN: 10477)
- Introduction to Material Science - The World of Smart and the Not-So Smart Materials(CRN: 10519)
- Masterworks of World Art: From Caves to Contemporary(CRN: 10470)
- History at the Movies(CRN: 10488)
- The History of Zionism and the Middle East Conflict(CRN: 10489)
- Seeing Through Statistics(CRN: 10513)
- History of American Film(CRN: 10472)
- Biological Physics(CRN: 10510)
- Ethics: Theory and Practice(CRN: 10490)
SPARK - Science for Middle School
- Forces of Nature: Hurricanes, Global Warming, and the Science of Weather(CRN: 10128)
- The Laboratory Detective(CRN: 10129)
- From Brain to Sensation(CRN: 10127)
- So You Want to be a Scientist?(CRN: 10134)
- Exploring the World of Marine Science(CRN: 10138)
- Conservation of Endangered Species(CRN: 10125)
- Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe(CRN: 10458)
- Understanding the Human Body: An Exploration of Anatomy(CRN: 10126)
- Nanotechnology: The Small Wonder from Atom to Space(CRN: 10132)
- Can You Dig It?! Exploring Archaeology(CRN: 10199)
- Liftoff: Designing and Building for Air and Space(CRN: 10354)
- Mercury, Mars and Beyond: Exploring the Planets in our Solar System(CRN: 10502)
- Everyday Mechanics and Special Relativity: How did we get from Newton to Einstein?(CRN: 10440)
Summer Session Credit
- Basic Physics (3)(CRN: 60407)
- Introductory Calculus, Part I(CRN: 60375)
- Essentials of the Latin Language(CRN: 60362)
- Introductory Calculus, Part II(CRN: 60354)
- Introduction to Human Physiology(CRN: 60357)
- Principles of Physiology(CRN: 60343)
- Writing and Speaking French I(CRN: 60417)
- Basic Physics (4)(CRN: 60376)
- The Brain: An Introduction to Neuroscience(CRN: 60346)
- Principles of Economics(CRN: 60368)
- Studio Foundation(CRN: 60359)
- Methods of Applied Mathematics II(CRN: 60405)
- A Checkered Past: The United States and the(CRN: 60366)
- Methods of Applied Mathematics I(CRN: 60406)
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology(CRN: 60356)
- Essentials of the Greek Language(CRN: 60409)
- Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay(CRN: 60355)
- Persuasive Communication(CRN: 60419)
- Studio Foundation(CRN: 60378)
- Reading French in the Arts and Sciences(CRN: 60365)
- Fiction I(CRN: 60374)
- Introduction to Music Theory(CRN: 60411)
- Principles of Immunology(CRN: 60352)
- Literature and the American Presidency(CRN: 60351)
- An Introduction to Contemplative Studies(CRN: 60361)
- Persuasive Communication(CRN: 60418)
- Intro to Screenwriting(CRN: 60372)
- Quantitative Methods for Psychological Sciences(CRN: 60371)
- Meditation and the Brain: Applications in Basic and Clinical Science(CRN: 60385)
- The Place of Persons(CRN: 60370)
- Human Evolution(CRN: 60353)
- Queering Modernism(CRN: 60348)
- Shakespeare's Secret Agents(CRN: 60349)
- Songs of the Self: Poetry as a Way of Life(CRN: 60379)
- World War II in Europe: History, Experience, Memory(CRN: 60347)
- Graphic Novel(CRN: 60367)
- Transformation in Christian Mysticsm(CRN: 60360)
Summer Study Abroad for High School Students
- Beginning Spanish in Segovia(CRN: 10385)
- Irish History, Literature and Society(CRN: 10430)
- Irish Life and Culture(CRN: 10431)
- Beginning Italian in Rome(CRN: 10379)
- The World in Turmoil: Inside the Engine of the Crisis(CRN: 10435)
- Intermediate Spanish in Segovia(CRN: 10386)
- Ancient Greek in Naxos(CRN: 10388)
- Modern Greek in Naxos(CRN: 10389)
- Ancient Rome: Archaeology and Civic Life(CRN: 10412)
- Secrets & Symbols of Roman Art & Architecture: Renaissance & Baroque(CRN: 10413)
- Italian Film: Art and History(CRN: 10414)
- Digital Photography(CRN: 10415)
- Creative Writing(CRN: 10417)
- Global Business(CRN: 10432)
- Greece and the World(CRN: 10418)
- Why Is This Art?(CRN: 10428)
- Politics, Culture and Identity in 20th Century Spain(CRN: 10434)
- Beginning Italian in Rome(CRN: 10433)
TheatreBridge
- TheatreBridge(CRN: 10136)