Course Catalog: 2025 Summer Session 2
Accelerated Summer College students can take up to two of the courses below, each course is worth four credits (unless otherwise specified). Students should be advised that credits earned at Saint Michael’s College are transferable at the discretion of the receiving institution. All courses meet 100% online (asynchronously) for all 6 weeks.
Accelerated Summer College Catalog – Summer Session 2: June 30 – August 8, 2025
Applied Linguistics
AL 101 Introduction to Language and Linguistics – Professor April Shandor
This course provides an introduction to the nature and structure of human language, as well as the basic methods of its scientific study. The course is framed in terms of four guiding questions: what are the components of the language system; how do we acquire this system; how is this system used in society; and how is this system represented in the brain.
CORE: History & Society
Note: Optional Applied Language Component
Biology
BI 108 Topics: Human Nutrition – Professor Jim Willard
This lab science course is designed to provide you with the tools necessary to study and comment intelligently on the role of nutrition in the total human life cycle. We will examine human physiological requirements for and the chemistry of the nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, lipid, minerals, vitamins, and water. Each chapter lists specific objectives to be met. The laboratory component of the course consists of experiments that apply these tools to real nutritional situations.
CORE: Scientific Inquiry
Business Administration
BU 110 Personal Financial Literacy – Professor Alaba Apesin
This course covers key principles, processes, and techniques related to managing one’s own personal finances. The goal is for students to make more informed personal finance decisions and be wiser money managers and consumers of financial services and products.
CORE: Quantitative Reasoning
Restrictions: Open to First-year and Sophomore Students Only.
Note: Does not satisfy BU elective. Students cannot take both BU-110 and BU-310.
BU 214 Management – Professor Karen Popovich
This survey course covers the basic principles and management fundamentals of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Topics covered include leadership, group dynamics, team management, motivation, and communication skills.
Restrictions: AC/BU Majors and Minors and IS Majors Only.
Classical and Modern Languages and Literature
CL 118 Ancient Medicine and the Greek & Latin Roots of Scientific Terminology – Professor Keeley Schell
In this course you will study the origin and development of Western medicine in ancient Greece and Rome while you are learning to crack the international code of scientific language by studying the Greek and Latin roots of modern scientific terminology.
Digital Marketing
DMK 150 Introduction to Marketing Communications and Social Responsibility – Professor Sebastiaan Gorissen
This class helps students navigate the contemporary marketing landscape through the application of critical theories of communication. Introducing a range of promotional techniques and tools to communicate with consumers about brands, students will increase their sensitivity to the role of integrated marketing communications in local and global societies.
Restrictions: Not open to students who have completed BU-215: Marketing.
Interdisciplinary
ID 498 Internship Practicum – Professor Ingrid Peterson
This course offers opportunities for supervised work experience. Interns focus on integrating theory and practice while developing skills required for success in a business environment. This course is designed for a student’s first internship experience. Students must have an internship in place by the second week of the semester. They can contact the instructor for guidelines, or the Career Education Office by making an appointment in Handshake.
Prerequisites/Restrictions: 2.0 GPA or higher; Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors only. Not open to students who’ve already completed an academic internship, ID-498. Students who have completed or are currently enrolled in ID-498 should meet with a Career Coach to learn alternatives to receive credit for an additional internship.
Notes: Make an appointment with a Career Coach via Handshake for help securing an internship and to have it approved for academic credit. Completed Handshake forms required after meeting with a Career Coach.
Music
MU 247 History of Rock – Professor William Ellis
This course examines the historical, social, cultural, and musical forces that contributed to the emergence and subsequent development and impact of rock and roll as an enduring form of popular music. Performers, genres, song and style analysis, regional distinctions, and more are addressed with contextual depth and nuance.
CORE: Literature & The Arts
Political Science
PO 340 Social Movements and Contentious Politics – Professor Jeffrey Ayres
This course provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of social movements and contentious politics. We will focus especially on North American and European approaches to social movement theory and study a variety of cases of national and transnational mobilization and protest, from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to the global justice movement.
CORE: History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Statistics
ST 120 Elementary Statistics – Professor Warren Sides
Description of sample data; probability distributions including the Normal distribution; correlation and regression; sampling; hypothesis testing; statistical inference; other topics may include Chi-square tests, multiple regression, and ANOVA.
CORE: Quantitative Reasoning