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Myth and Ritual in Film, Part 1

Adam Gorelick

Tues.,Thurs., 12:30P - 1:45P

This course applies theoretical discussions of myth and ritual to the contemporary medium of film.

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Song of Life

Adam Gorelick

Tues.,Thurs., 2:00P - 3:15P

This is a course about poetic forms, but mostly it’s about writing poetry. Students will read, research, and attempt several poetic forms including epic, sonnet, free verse, haiku, elegy, limerick, sestina, and others. The key feature of the course will involve workshopping together original poetry and providing constructive feedback.

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Power Skills: Emotional Intelligence for the 21st Century

Amber Webber

Online

Your mission in this course will be to navigate a series of quests, challenges, and discussions to explore the world of emotional intelligence. As with other video games, the quests in this gamified course will help you build skills, gain experience, learn background context, and collect new EQ insights to enrich your own personal storyline.

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Art Medical History to the Renaissance

Amilcar Castellano Sanchez

Mon., 1:00P– 3:30P

This course encompasses the study of medical world history as it has occurred through time portrayed in different forms of art, i.e. visual, written, performed in a global perspective thus emphasizing certain areas in this review such as: anatomy, physical diagnosis, different types of illness -with a focus on infectious diseases-; a few specialties such as: obstetrics / gynecology, surgery, and psychiatry amongst others also including selected examples of preventive medicine and therapeutic approaches; all from the perspective of the vast historical registry available to us.

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Adult Topics on Narrative Medicine

Amilcar Castellano-Sanchez

Wed., 1:00P– 3:30P

This course aims to bring forth the unbreakable -- yet not well-valued and sparsely characterized -- connection between the worlds of text (narrative, poetry, short stories, memoirs, interviews, and film adaptations) to the worlds of medical ailments and medical practice.

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Keep Your Money

Amy Desouvre

Wednesday, 10:00A-12:30P

This course will take an academic multidisciplinary approach to learning how to shop in an economic way. We will examine the basic elements of shopping history, the role that advertising and marketing play in social media as well as print, how to keep a minimalistic mind rather than becoming an over consumer, and finally the impact of internet, technology, and mobile apps and how to use them to your advantage.

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Innovation Nation: The Global Influence of Israeli Technology and Entrepreneurship

Andi Wolfer, Aaron Kaplowitz

Mon., 10:00A - 12:30P

Israel has built a reputation as an entrepreneurial powerhouse that exports industry-disrupting technologies all over the world. Visitors to the “Start-Up Nation” marvel at the innovations that have emerged from a country that once made the desert bloom.

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Public Speaking for Lawyers

Andrej Milic

Wednesday, 11:00AM-1:30PM

This course will help students develop the skills relied on by lawyers when engaged in public speaking situations other than in litigation settings such as speaking to lay groups, appearing before legislatures and municipal boards, presenting to colleagues, clients, potential employers and clients, and media. Students will examine communication theories, strategies and techniques needed for effective public speaking.

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Law School in a Nutshell

Angie Puentes-Leon

Wed., 10:00A-12:30P (YEARLONG)

The course is designed to introduce students to a learning experience mirroring the 1st year of law school.

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Global Burden of Diseases- The Patient Illness Experience

Anthoni Llau Jr

Online

Students will first learn about current diseases and conditions of global health significance from a public health perspective. They will familiarize themselves with the determinants, risk factors, symptoms, and consequences of diseases and conditions in global populations.

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The Political Cycle

Anthony Rionda

Wed., 6:00P - 8:30P

The organization of this course leverages a unique interdisciplinary approach to politics, government, civic engagement, policy analysis, and advocacy.

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Save our Parks: Environmental Law, Policy and Politics

Anthony Rionda

Mon., 6:00P-8:30P

Our National Parks are America’s Crown Jewels. They are worshipped by avid adventurers, campers, road-trippers and the former students of FIU Honor’s Everglades course. The aim of this course (Save our Parks) is to focus on how politics, policy, and law have shaped, saved, and at threatened our most beautiful natural legacy.

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Global Social Entrepreneurship

Barbara del Cotto Jimenez

Tues., 10:00A-12:30P

This course introduces the key skills, tools, and mental frameworks required to solve the world’s most complex and pressing challenges through social entrepreneurship, including those needed to launch, grow, and sustain a social enterprise venture.

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Challenges in Healthcare

Barbra Roller

Mon., Wed., 5:00P - 6:15P

This course is an overview of the healthcare system. Sessions are presented by the course director as well as by guest speakers who are prominent physicians with expertise in different areas of medicine and healthcare.

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Global Environmental Health and You

Brenda Luna

Thurs., 11:00A-12:15P (Hybrid)

This course examines the relationships between human health and the environment. Students will explore the role of the natural and built environment and their impact on their health, as well as their local and global community’s health.

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Tolkien and Imagination

Natalie Yagual March 5, 2023 History Culture and The Arts

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