We are offering two courses in the Spring 2009 term. The Spring term begins on January 14, 2009. Click here to view the LPS Calendar, which includes information about advance registration dates.

Please note that there is a $60.00 online course fee for all online courses.

BIOL 404 635 - Immunobiology 

Required live lectures meet Mondays 6:30pm-8:30pm

Note that the first class meets on Monday, January 19th (Martin Luther King Day).

Instructor: Mike Cancro 

$60 course fee

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 202 and BIOL 221

The course will begin with a general overview of immunity, followed by in depth considerations of the underlying cellular, molecular, and genetic events. Finally, later discussions will focus upon more specialized issues in immunology, such as disease states involving the immune system, as well as particularly interesting problems in modern immunology.

Required Textbook:

Immunobiology: The immune system in health and disease. 7TH edition, by Murphy, Travers, and Walport published by Garland Science (2007). Link to purchase

FOLK 541 640 - Academic Writing and Research Design in the Arts and Sciences

Crosslisted with MLA 541 640

Required live lectures meet Mondays 6:30-8:30 pm

Note that the first class meets on Monday, January 26th. 

Instructor: Kris Rabberman 

$60 course fee

Have you ever noticed that scholars in different academic disciplines seem to speak different languages? Have you wondered how scholars put together a plan for their research, explain their findings, and organize and write their papers? This class is designed to introduce MLA students and other advanced students to the research and writing conventions used by scholars in the arts and sciences. With attention to disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, we will identify and explore some of the theories, sources, language, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies that scholars use as they conduct original research in their fields. Throughout the class, we'll also discuss writing conventions across the arts and sciences, with special attention to the structure of argument; the use of evidence; voice and style in both traditional academic writing and more innovative forms of writing; and documentation conventions. Students will develop an original research project through incremental writing assignments, and will write a formal research proposal (15-20 pages), which can be used as their Capstone proposal if they wish.

Required Textbooks:

Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, 2nd edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Link to purchase

Mitchell Duneier, Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Link to purchase

Sonja Foss & William Waters, Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to A Done Dissertation. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Link to purchase

Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein, They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: Norton, 2006.  Link to purchase

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale. New York: Vintage, 1991. Link to purchase