Elmira College offers a number of online, for-credit summer courses that are open to both college students and working professionals who are interested in advancing their careers.

Enrollment for summer courses begins in March each year. 

Keep checking back for new program announcements as they are made available.

Summer 2023 Courses

Summer 2023 provided a variety of exciting credit-earning opportunities over six-week or nine-week terms. 

American Art: Colonial Period Through the Gilded Age

Lessons covered the cultural, social and political history of American art from the colonial era through the Gilded Age with a focus on the major movements, styles, and artists of the period, particularly relating to portrait painting, history painting, genre painting, and landscape.

Cultural Anthropology

Students explored the basic concepts, theories, and research methods of Anthropology. Our introduction covered a wide array of topics: family, kinship, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, political and social organization, healthcare, art, religion, and magic, among other things. Lessons covered the interconnectedness of all social groups, and the different lifeways and historical experiences of people in our own local communities and in other parts of the world.

Native Peoples of North America

This course examined the diversity of Native American cultures from the Arctic to Panama, including their origins, formation, and development, and included a comparative focus utilizing ethnographic, ethnohistorical, ethnological and archaeological materials.Considerable attention was devoted to understanding the nature of the past and present relationship between Native Americans and Whites.

Anatomy & Psychology (with lab)

By the end of this course, students were prepared to identify the gross and microscopic morphology of the following systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous. The course explained the mechanism and physical bases underlying the functioning (physiology) of these systems, the control mechanisms that are involved in the interactions of the systems to maintain homeostasis, and ways in which the systems might malfunction.

Principles of Microeconomics

This course introduced students to the fundamentals of microeconomic theory. The basic tools of economics were presented and then applied to specific issues, with a focus on the decision-making behavior of consumers and firms. 

World Science Fiction and Globalization

This course offered an intensive comparative study of the science fiction genre in a global context. It looked at the most accomplished examples of the genre as a unique form of imaginative writing that draws on science and the modes of realism and fantasy to examine the global impact of modernity and related political and economic issues.

Ethics

This course covered a number of moral theories and several contemporary moral problems, such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, the environment, and world hunger. The primary aim of this course was to help all of us gain a rational perspective on the pros and cons of different positions toward difficult moral issues.

College Writing: Zombies

Over the past couple of decades or so, zombies have enjoyed unprecedented popularity and are depicted in movies, video games, graphic novels, comics, music videos, and television series. Though reading, thinking and writing, this course explored the questions: What is it about these gruesome, flesh-eating, walking corpses that enthralls so many? What do zombies say about us, our culture, and our society? What does it mean to be a zombie and how is the term used in contexts other than for the undead? 

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