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	Complete Course Offerings for Fall 2011 Semester English Language Community This seven-unit program for non-native speakers of English combines English 1101 or 1102 with English 1161 and one hour of individualized instruction in the Center for Independent Learning. Students with international backgrounds work together in a dynamic interdisciplinary community of learners setting to improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, while also learning about global cultures from each other and from literature. Information: Irene O’Conner, (630) 942-3403. For a permit to register, go to the Field and Interdisciplinary Studies office. Students MUST register for English 1101 or 1102 AND English 1161, and commit to one hour of individualized instruction per week in the CIL. English 1101-FS001 Composition I Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. O’Connor 3 credit hours OR English 1102-FS001 Composition II Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. O’Connor 3 credit hours AND English 1161-FS001 Multicultural U.S. Literature Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. O’Connor 2 credit hours Business Simulation The Business Simulation Project links courses in management, sales, advertising, marketing, production management and human resource management through a specific business project that changes each semester. Students in each class work collaboratively with students in the other classes to solve problems as they would in a real business setting. For more details, contact Mike Drafke at (630) 942-2075 or drafke@cod.edu. Classroom Version (12 Weeks) All sections taught Tuesday/Thursday, 10 to 11:50 a.m. H. Smith, C. Hohner All sections 3 credit hours BUSIN-1111-SIM01 Customer Service BUSIN-2200-SIM01 Business Budgeting MANAG-2210-SIM01 Principles of Management MANAG-2240-SIM01 Human Resource Management MARKE-2210-SIM01 Principles of Marketing MARKE-2230-SIM01 Retailing MARKE-2240-SIM01 Advertising Classroom Version (16 Weeks) All sections taught Tuesday, 12:30 to 3:20 p.m. H. Smith All sections 3 credit hours BUSIN-1111-SIM02 MARKE-2210-SIM02 MARKE-2220-SIM02 MARKE-2240-SIM02 Hybrid Version (12 Weeks) All sections offered Wednesday 6:30 to 9:20 p.m. A. Kaiser and R. Zentner All sections 3 credit hours. BUSIN-2200-SIM03 MANAG-2210-SIM03 MANAG-2230-SIM03 MARKE-2210-SIM03 MARKE-2220-SIM03 MARKE-2230-SIM03 MARKE-2240-SIM03 Honors Seminar England: The Idea, The History, The Literature The demands of increased globalization of our time tend to make us oblivious to England’s multifaceted legacies to America’s national origin. With a renewed recognition of England’s role in America’s national life, this honors seminar makes a close intellectual nexus between British literature and British history as students’ significant mode of academic inquiry. Under our overarching theme, “What is England?”, students will purposefully study English history from Romano-Britain to ca.1800 and the corresponding periods of English literary history and its key literary works. As in other honors courses, this integrative seminar emphasizes students’ advanced thoughts and actions and the concept of connection across disciplinary perspectives. The seminar’s goal is one where students will have cultivated critical and creative minds while harvesting mutually illuminating and enriching knowledge, understanding, mastery, and literacy of British history and British literature. Students will do several shared assignments. English 2220-HON01 British Literature to 1800 Tuesday/Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Kumamoto 3 credit hours History 2245-HON01 History and Culture of England Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Feng 3 credit hours First Year Experience Learning Communities Global Problems: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives Exchange ideas directly with your Japanese peers through a live video-link for six class sessions. Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin University and COD will prepare presentations on the same topics and present and discuss findings with each other. Recognizing that different viewpoints can be presented with equal validity and exploring what factors shape people's perceptions of social and international problems is a huge step toward a deeper understanding of the challenges a globalized world faces. Information: Chris Goergen, (630) 942-2012, email: goergen@cod.edu or Shingo Satsutani, (630) 942-2019, email: satsutan@cod.edu. Must co-enroll in Political Science 2220 and Japanese 1100. Political Science 2220- FS001 World Politics Tuesday, 6 to 8:50 p.m. Goergen 3 credit hours Japanese 1100-FS001 Civilization and Culture of Japan Thursday, 6 to 8:50 p.m. Satsutani 3 credit hours Seed, Soil, and the Soul: A Critical Analysis of World Food Practices Explore food as a key to understanding human cultures and human relationships with the environment. Through topics relating to the production and consumption of food, we will explore the similarities and differences in the ways the disciplines of biology and literature account for the most fundamental of human activities: feeding ourselves. Ethical considerations regarding food production, hunger, poverty, and the impact of globalization on food are part of the discussions. The course includes field trips and service learning. Information: Deborah Adelman, (630) 942-3406 or Shamili Sandiford, (630) 942-2123 Biology 1110-FS015 Environmental Biology Monday/Wednesday, 12 to 1:15 p.m. Sandiford 4 credit hours English 1154-FS015 Film as Literature \| Monday/Wednesday, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Adelman 3 credit hours Charting Your Course: Careers and Communication Develop a clearer sense of your college and career direction while building stronger communication skills in this First Year Experience learning community. By combining a general education course, Speech 1100, with Career Development, Education 1105, you will map out a pathway to college and career achievement and instill yourself with the confidence and communication competence to succeed in the 21st century. Information: Joyce Fletcher, (630) 942-2541, email: fletcher@cod.edu, or Lauren Morgan, (630) 942-2007, email: morgan@cod.edu Education 1105-FS001 Career Development Tuesday/Thursday, 10 to 10:50 a.m. Fletcher 2 credit hours Speech 1100-FS001 Fundamentals of Speech Tuesday/Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Morgan 3 credit hours Education: The Rhetoric of Reform This learning community explores the basic principles, practices and issues regarding education while developing the skills needed to argue in writing about how these principles and practices might be reformed. This learning community is intended for education majors but is open to those interested in education. Co-enrollment required. Information: James Allen (630) 942-3421 or Lois Stanciak (630) 942-2974 Education 1100-FS019 Introduction to Education Monday/Wednesday, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Stanciak 3 credit hours English 1101-FS019 Composition I Monday Wednesday, 12 to 1:15 p.m. Allen 3 credit hours	For more information about Learning Communities, contact James Allen (630) 942-3421