Undergraduate students at USG have the unique opportunity to expand their experience and education by enrolling in one of fifty-seven shared courses offered in collaboration with four universities at USG. Students may earn elective credit toward their degree in universal subjects ranging from business to healthcare, history, social networking, and more.
View the Fall 2013 Course Sharing Schedule at shadygrove.umd.edu/academics/course-sharing
To register, contact your Program Director today or email usg-coursesharing@umd.edu for more information! Registrations must be complete before the drop/add date of your home institution.
Featured Fall 2013 Shared Courses:
View full schedule here.
Committee for Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Education Strategies (CIPES)
Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation (BMGT461, SG92)
Process of creating new ventures, including evaluating the entrepreneurial team, the opportunity and the financial requirements. Skills, concepts, mental attitudes and knowledge relevant for starting a new business.
Salisbury University
Nutrition, Health and Human Performance (HLTH317, 370)
Examines human metabolism in relation to health and human performance. Analysis of nutrient pathways from ingestion, digestion, absorption and utilization provides the foundation for an understanding of nutrition, weight control, eating disorders and thermoregulatory processes.
UMBC
History of the Holocaust (HIST373, 2)
Prerequisite: Any 100-level Social Science course or Junior/Senior status An interdisciplinary examination of the attempted destruction of the Jews of Europe and their culture, as well as the persecution of others on the basis of physical and emotional disabilities, ethnicity, politics, religion and sexual orientation at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during WWII. The course will briefly survey the migration of Jews to Europe, the history of anti-Semitism and "scientific" racism the circumstances in Europe that allowed the rise of the National Socialist movement and the pre-WWII Nazi policies of discrimination. It then will focus on the perpetrators, victims and bystanders of the "Final Solution" and conclude with an analysis of the legacy of the Holocaust.
University of Maryland, College Park
Social Networking (COMM398X, SG91)
Topical study of contemporary issues in communication.
University of Maryland University College
Sociology of the Family (SOCY443, 5155)
Prerequisite: SOCY 100. An advanced examination of the family in society. The aim is apply major sociological theories to understand family as a social institution; describe the changing definitions of family; examine demographic changes in marriage and family patterns; contrast micro- and macro-level interactions among individuals, families, and society; and evaluate the influence of media and technology on the perception and cohesion of the modern family. Topics include family research, single parenting, blended families, cultural differences in families, families over the life course, and governmental policies regarding families.