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Personnel Management for Public Libraries
by Josie Barnes Parker- 0.0
4 Weeks
Learn the foundational principles of personnel management and leadership. This course, part of the Public Library Management Professional Certificate program, will explore skills needed for hiring and evaluating personnel to reflect your library's mission through an organizational culture that will thrive in your community. Learners will understand the legal considerations when managing a diverse workforce....
$49
Infrastructure Management for Public Libraries
by Josie Barnes Parker- 0.0
4 Weeks
Learn how library managers and directors make key operational decisions regarding maintenance, insurance, technology, and more. In this course, part of the Public Library Management Professional Certificate program, we’ll explore the ongoing infrastructure support that library leaders must facilitate, including: maintenance insurance contract services patron privacy technology budgets policies You’ll learn how these decisions are made to ensure long-term sustainability....
$49
How to Write a Novel: Edit & Revise
by Nancy Lee , Annabel Lyon- 0.0
6 Weeks
Discover story analysis strategies and rewriting tools, develop a concrete plan for creating a more accomplished draft and explore what it takes to attract agents, editors and readers. Experienced writers understand that novels improve incrementally with each draft. This course teaches the skills of revision and the attention to detail it takes to make a good story great....
$295
Gender and Sexuality: Applications in Society
by Dr. Janice Stewart- 0.0
6 Weeks
Gender & Sexuality shape work, life and play. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to engage with key issues through key concepts and perspectives. Navigating through the complexities of Gender & Sexuality is a necessity in our world, now more than ever. Some questions we will address include: What is gender and sexuality?...
$50
How to Write a Novel: Structure & Outline
by Nancy Lee , Annabel Lyon- 0.0
6 Weeks
Learn the fundamentals of story structure from our MFA program faculty and complete a detailed, scene-by-scene outline of your novel idea. Have you always wanted to write a novel? Have you started a novel only to run out of steam halfway through? You will learn the fundamentals of character development, world-building and the basics of storytelling architecture....
$295
How to Write a Novel: Writing the Draft
by Nancy Lee , Annabel Lyon- 0.0
6 Weeks
Move from outline to draft writing with crucial craft lessons from MFA faculty on scene design, dialogue, character development and plot. Have you created an outline and now feel prepared to start writing your novel? Or have you started a novel draft only to find your interest or confidence waning? The elements of complex, dimensional characters...
$295
Plato, Socrates, and the Birth of Western Philosophy | 西方哲学精神探源
by Xiaochao Wang- 0.0
16 Weeks
Explore the works of Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus and other originators of Western philosophy in an immersive study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. 本课程通过讲述古希腊罗马哲学家丰富的思想和观点,探讨西方哲学精神的起源,揭示西方民族的精神取向,阐明西方民族思维方式的特征。 This philosophy course explores the origins of Western philosophy – a rich tapestry of ideas that began with the most noted ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. 本课程面向各专业本科生,通过课堂讲授与课外阅读讨论的方法,把握古希腊罗马哲学家丰富的思想,探讨哲学精神的起源,揭示古希腊民族的精神取向,阐明古希腊民族思维方式的特征,帮助学生把握哲学的基本精神,养成理论思维的能力,培养高尚的情操,提高人文素质。...
$139
Poetry in America: Modernism
by Elisa New- 0.0
8 Weeks
Reading works by Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, among others, learn how American Modernist poetry departed from past traditions and past forms. This literature course, the sixth module in the Poetry in America series, explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems....
$99
Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens | 全球化下的香港电影
by Aaron Magnan-Park , Stacilee Ford , Gina Marchetti- 0.0
6 Weeks
Explore globalization through Hong Kong film classics of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Maggie Cheung, among others. 透过李小龙、成龙和张曼玉等国际巨星曾演出的经典香港电影,探索全球一体化概念。 Hong Kong Cinema has a global reach. Let’s explore how it reached you… Perhaps you know the films of martial arts icons Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan or the heroic bloodshed films of John Woo....
$50
Poetry in America: Whitman
by Elisa New- 0.0
4 Weeks
This module, the third installment of the multi-part _Poetry in America _series, focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work continues to bear heavily upon the American poetic tradition. We will explore Whitman’s relationship to the City, the Self, and the Body through his life and poetry....
$99