Level Up with Liberal Arts Summer Offerings

MUSC 2800: Intro to Music Business
Instructor: William A. Taylor & Anders Osborne | 3 credits | May 15-May 26 (hybrid) | M-F 9:30-1:00 pm
Join legendary singer-songwriter Anders Osborne and New Orleans music industry veteran Bill Taylor to learn the history of the business, build leadership skills, and explore diverse professional pathways under the guidance of special in-class guests.

SLAM 3030: Principles of Marketing: Innovative Strategy in Creative Arts Industries
Instructor: Lindsay Moylan Adler | 3 credits with service-learning option | May 15-May 26 (hybrid) | M-F 1:30-5:30 pm
Analyze best-in-class strategies for marketing cultural arts while sharpening your skills in writing, collaboration and ideation under the mentorship of New Orleans creative and nonprofit professionals.

SLAM 3070: Non-Profit Development
Instructor: Leslie Scott | 3 or 4 credits with service-learning option | May 30-June 30 (online) | M-F 1:00-2:30 pm
Explore the historic impacts of arts organizations on communities and study fundraising and marketing strategies employed by successful local NFPs who drive social change.

SLAM 4010: Leadership Strategies for Creative Industries
Instructor: Ashley Shabankareh | 3 or 4 credits with 1-credit internship | May 30-June 30 (hybrid) | M-F 9:00-10:30 am
Gain the perspective needed to develop—and skills needed to lead—a diverse team, and examine the creative industries through the lens of social justice and racial reconciliation.

SLAM 4020: Branding and Storytelling for Creative Industries
Instructor: Nicole Robinson | 3 or 4 credits with 1-credit internship | May 30-June 30 (hybrid) | M-F 11:00-12:30 pm
Harness branding, media and storytelling tools to develop your public relations skills as an artist, and learn how to meaningfully connect with your consumers wherever they are.

SLAM 4030: Monetization of Data
Instructor: Allyson Heumann | 3 or 4 credits with 1-credit internship | July 3-August 4 (hybrid) | M-F 11:00-12:30 pm
Learn how to strategically use data to monetize social media, from effectively crowdsourcing and boosting transactions to building a successful and consistent revenue stream.

SLAM 4040: Legal Strategies for Businesses and Creatives
Instructor: Wayne R. Gard | 3 or 4 credits with 1-credit internship | May 30-June 30 (hybrid) | M-F 3:00-4:30 pm
Understand the legal principles needed to grow a successful business as a creative, including how to develop and negotiate contracts, and monetize (and protect!) your intellectual property.

COMM 3520: Environmental Crisis in World Cinema
Instructor: Antonio Gómez | 3 or 4 credits | July 3-August 4 (online) | M-F 11:00-12:30 pm
As you watch, analyze and consider if these global films about environmental disasters, ecological issues, and climate change promote activism or contribute to the crisis.

COMM 3730 / EVST 3950: Race, Nature & Disaster
Instructor: Clare Daniel | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (online) | M-F 11:00-12:30 pm
Examine the intersection of these concepts in global politics and economic policy, and how structural racism has made marginalized groups disproportionately vulnerable to wide-scale disasters.

EVST 3951: Home Truths About Climate
Instructor: Chloe Tucker | 3 or 4 credits | July 3-August 4 (hybrid) | M-F 3:30-5:00 pm
Read and write about the practical realities and emotional truths of a future shaped by climate change, exploring what it will mean to dwell, work, and even thrive in communities increasingly altered by the challenges it brings.

EVST 4210: Environmental & Social Justice in NOLA
Instructor: Christopher Oliver | 3 or 4 credits | May 30-June 30 (hybrid) | M-F 2:00-3:30 pm
Frame and analyze environmental and social justice issues while engaging in impactful field research within the Greater New Orleans region.

COMM 3810: Race & Prison in Public Policy
Instructor: Jerome Dent | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (online) | M-F 9:00-10:45 am
Knowing that black and brown folks are overrepresented in our prisons, this course explores the policies responsible for U.S. incarceration rates, with a particular focus on the history of The Louisiana State Penitentiary.

COMM 3811: Media & Internet Policy
Instructor: Ben Pearson | 3 credits | July 31-August 11 (online) | M-F 9:30-1:30 pm
Deep dive into one of the largest, most politically and culturally influential AND most profitable infrastructures in the world—the American media & communications ecosystem.

PECN 4970: Political Economy and Public Policy
Instructor: Kathleen Weaver | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (in-person or online) | M-F 11:00-12:45 pm
Explore how political economy shapes American public policy and distribution of power, focusing on case studies of economic inequality and proposed solutions.

POLA 3240: Public Policy
Instructor: Anna Mahoney | 3 credits | May 15-May 26 (in-person or online) | M-F 9:30-1:30 pm
Study why some domestic problems reach the political agenda and others do not, with a deep dive into the actors, processes and values that shape our public policy.

POLA 4110: Policy Research Shop
Instructor: Brian Brox | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (in-person or online) | M-F 1:00-2:45 pm
Produce a product for city government officials while expanding your knowledge of urban politics, governance, public policymaking and policy research.

BEMH 6002: Foundations in Bioethics
Instructor: Valerie Holliday | 3 credits | June 05-July 28 (online) | T&TR 4:00-6:30 pm
Consider questions about the foundations of medicine, illness and the physician-patient relationship while debating how to solve urgent moral and social justice issues.

BEMH 6013: Medicine and Identity
Instructor: Ben Saxton, Cathy Lazarus & Kristi Anderson | 3 credits | June 05-July 28 (online) | T&TR 1:00-3:30 pm
Explore how social identities of race, gender and ability affect medical experiences from the perspectives of: historical context & framing, first- & third-person; fiction & nonfiction; and contemporary voices.

BEMH 6810: Bioethics at the Movies
Instructor: Stephen Hanson | 3 credits | June 05-July 28 (hybrid) | M&W 1:00-3:30 pm
Examine and debate issues of bioethics portrayed in films, covering concepts from medical research and healthcare policy to end of life care.

COMM 3730 / EVST 3950 / BEMH 6812 (SOM): Race, Nature & Disaster
Instructor: Clare Daniel | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (online) | M-F 1:00-12:30 pm
Examine the intersection of these concepts in global politics and economic policy, and how structural racism has made marginalized groups disproportionately vulnerable to wide-scale disasters.

HISL 2914 / BEMH 6811 (SOM): Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
Instructor: Felipe Cruz | 3 credits | May 30-June 30 (online) | M-F 10:00-11:30 am
Explore Latin America's fascinating history of medicine and global impact, from early Indigenous, African and European healing practices to the 20th century's greatest public health challenges.

HISU 3500 / BEMH 6535 (SOM): Contagious Surveillance
Instructor: Jacquelyne Howard | 3 credits | May 15-May 26 (online)) | M-F 1:00-4:00 pm
Examine past and present relationships between contagions and their surveillance practices in the U.S., exploring how patriarchal power and racialized systems have been used to promote perceptions of security, fear, exposure and control.

ANTH 1101: Introduction to Native American Studies
Instructor: Christopher Wheatley | 3 credits | July 31-August 11 (online) | M-F 9:00-1:00 pm
Explore the historical and modern issues of Indigenous peoples, focusing on vignettes of the cultures, languages, philosophies and lifeways of Native American groups in the U.S.

LING 3000: Tunica Louisiana's Sleeping Language
Instructor: Judith Maxwell | 4 credits | June 05-June 09 (in-person) & June 12-June 15 (Marksville, LA) | M-F 9:00-12:00 pm
Address the processes of language death and second language teaching methods before participating in the Tunica-Biloxi tribe's Language Summer Camp in Marksville, Louisiana, learning elementary Tunica while facilitating Indigenous sports and craft activities.