Spring 2025 New & Trending Online Courses

Instructor: Jessica Magnu

Class size: 30 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: This course will examine the role of basic nutrients in health and wellness. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of nutritional information and messaging as well as social determinants to health and nutritional wellness. This course is appropriate for students completing the Pre-Physician Assistant track in the CGS Natural Sciences major and the Community Health Assessment track in CGS Health Services Programs.

 

Instructor: Cordelia Brazile

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: The history of sport and global capitalism is designed for students seeking to make their way as professionals and/or for those interested in global sport as a social and political force both in the US and around the world.  Focusing on the evolution of sport as a global industry and the creation of an imposing scholastic, community, and non-profit infrastructure, it equips students to understand and navigate those arenas. 

If, after graduation, students venture into the sports industry, scholastic sport, or sport for development, they should do so with their eyes wide open.

 

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Liberal Studies BA (self design); General Education Requirements for Global Issues & Historical Analysis.

 

Instructor: Klaus Libertus

Class size: 30 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: This course will be devoted to a discussion of psychological theory and research in ASD.  Topics to be covered include the early history of the study, diagnosis, and treatment of autism; current classification and diagnostic issues and techniques; epidemiological and etiological issues; major neurological and psychological theories of ASD; research on sensory atypicalities and stereotyped and repetitive motor behaviors, early identification, early social and

 

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Natural Sciences BS, Liberal Studies BA (self design).

 

Instructor:  Grace Bonaventura

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: This introductory course covers fundamental concepts in global public health, including determinants of health, key health indicators, global burden of disease, and the relationships among health status, education, and poverty, cross-cutting issues such as culture, ethical and human rights aspects of health, and key actors in global health will also be explored.

 

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Health Services BA, Liberal Studies BA (self design); Certificate - Community Health Assessment.

 

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Instructor:  Dave Coplan

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: This course is an introductory survey of the understandings and skills needed by both managers and employees to cope with the myriad human resources management systems in non-profit organizations. Specific topics include the history and evolution of human resources management, the legal environment, human resources planning, position classification and compensation, recruitment, promotion, termination, performance evaluation and training.  Integrated with these topics will be the technical and legal concerns of labor relations, equal employment opportunity and volunteer management.

 

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Public Service BA, Liberal Studies BA (self design); Certificate - Nonprofit Management.

 

Interested in Public Service?  Visit the Graduate School of Public & International Affairs »

Instructor: Margarita Delgado Creamer

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: Few countries can boast such an extensive and diverse religious heritage as can India. It is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, home to a large Muslim community, as well as to small, but ancient, communities of Syrian Christians, Parsis, and Jews. The course gives a brief historical overview of these religious traditions, introduces students to basic concepts related to each of them, and illustrates their rich practices through primary and secondary readings, films, art, and music.

 

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Liberal Studies BA (self design); General Education Requirement for Geographic Region.

 

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Instructor: Jonathan Zisook

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: The holocaust - that is, the genocide of six million Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II - was a critical event of the early twentieth-century that continues to resonate today. Our historical survey will look at the holocaust primarily through the experiences of its Jewish victims, though we will discuss some of the other groups, such as the roma, disabled people, and gay men, who were also targeted and systematically murdered by the Nazis.

Additionally, we will think about the perpetrators of the holocaust and the ideologies that led to the genocide, such as racism, nationalism, and antisemitism.

Finally, we will move beyond the history of the holocaust to think about the ways that this event has been remembered and reconstructed by survivors, nations, institutions, museums, the arts, popular culture and the media. Looking at how institutions here in Pittsburgh commemorate the holocaust will offer us local, concrete examples of how people continue to grapple with this history.

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Liberal Studies BA (self design); General Education Requirement for Geographic Region & Historical Analysis.

 

Instructor: Nancy Fultz

Class size: 25 students

Frequency: Spring

Class Format: Web / Asynchronous (no scheduled meetings)

 

Description: This course studies the fate of being old in American society in terms of income-adequacy, participation in political life, family relations, the status of retirement as an institution, health, the loss of independence and life in nursing homes.  These and related issues are examined in cross-national perspective to assess the level and some nationally distinctive ways in which modern society cares for its elderly.

What does this course count for in CGS: Major - Liberal Studies BA (self design)