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Following are courses for the spring and "sprintersession" terms
conducted by the New School for Social Research's online program.
For more information, contact Paul Levinson at
levin@dde1pl.das.net or write to the following address: 

Connected Education, Inc., 92 Van Cortlandt Park South, #6F, 
Bronx, NY 10463

               Connect Ed - New School OnLine Courses
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Director: Paul Levinson, Ph.D.
Associate Director: Tina Vozick
 
Each course carries three graduate or undergraduate credits. Graduate
credits applicable to New School MA in Media Studies Degree upon
matriculation; awarding of graduate credit assumes possession of
earned bachelor's degree and completion of New School registration.
Connect Ed students may pursue MA in Technology and Society awarded
by the New School entirely online (39 credits including thesis).
Special half-tuition audit rates available for some courses.
The courses below are for Spring 1993 (February-March).
 
          ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND REAL LIFE  (Paul  Levinson)
     What  are  the  prospects  and  limitations of machines that
     purport to "think"? This course  examines  the  claims,  pro
     and  con,  about  current  artificial intelligence programs.
     Issues  include:  Is  protein   a   necessary   tissue   for
     intelligence?  What  is  the  connection  between biological
     evolution and intelligence?  Can reason  be  designed?  What
     are  the  differences  between  expert  vs.  human  systems,
     artificial  vs.  auxilliary  intelligence,  ai  vs.   neural
     networking,  and  talking  to vs. talking through computers?
     Specific applications of ai are addressed in such  areas  as
     medicine,  law,  and education. The course culminates with a
     mock trial of a person accused of murdering an android.
 
          PRACTICUM  IN  ADVANCED  ONLINE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS (Gail
     Thomas) This  course  focuses on the critique and design  of
     commercial  and scholarly online interactive databases, with
     special  attention   to   advanced   searching   techniques.
     Students  analyze  and design plans for  online  interactive
     databases  applicable  to their current   or    contemplated
     work    situation  or  community  needs.  Direct  "hands-on"
     experience in  online   searching    is    provided      via
     connection   to  Vu/Text's    Practice  and  Dialog's  ONTAP
     training   databases.    The  course  explores  and  applies
     current  theories  of  information management and networking
     to assessment of retrieval  systems.
 
          TECHNOLOGY AND  CRIMINALITY    (James  Duggan)     This
     course  focuses  on the impact  technology  has on producing
     new forms of criminal  behavior.  The course begins  with  a
     consideration  of  criminality  as  a  way  of  thought  and
     considers how aspects of the   high-tech  world   view  have
     sustained  the  creation  of  new  and  emergent   forms  of
     criminality  A  brief  history  of    crime  relative     to
     technology    is  provided.  The course progresses through a
     discussion  of  modern high-technology crimes and  concludes
     with   speculative   suggestions   about   future  forms  of
     criminality  made possible  by  developing technologies  now
     on  the  horizon.   The efforts  of  enforcement agencies to
     keep  pace  with  sophisticated  and  imaginative   criminal
     perpetrators   are   discussed,  along  with    the  various
     legislative efforts which have been  made  to    stem    the
     growth    of  high-tech crimes.   Computer crimes, including
     fraud, data manipulation and  destruction  (viruses),  etc.,
     are    highlighted, and  suggestions for improving corporate
     and personal security are offered.
 
 
          ELECTRONIC  FEATURE  WRITING  (Cathryn   Conroy)   This
     course  focuses  on  the  practice  and  principles of good,
     solid feature  writing,  especially  as  it  is  applied  to
     electronic  text  media. Students learn how to write several
     specific  types  of  electronic  feature  articles   through
     weekly  writing  assignments  and  the creation of their own
     electronic magazine.   Emphasis  includes  writing  of  book
     reviews  and  software  reviews, restaurant and tourist site
     reviews, "how-to" articles for  computer  magazines,  online
     columns, and interview techniques.
 
          ONLINE  WRITER'S  WORKSHOP  (Sharon  Lerch) This course
     examines the ways that  computer  networks  can  assist  the
     process  and  placement  of  writing.    Issues  such as the
     individual author in  a  group  process  and  the  roles  of
     criticism  and  direction  in  writing  are explored through
     discussion and writing  of  fiction  and  nonfiction  in  an
     on-line  environment.  Participants are expected to interact
     generously with  one  another,  reading  each  other's  work
     carefully  and giving thoughtful, constructive comments with
     the guidance and participation of the instructor.  The  role
     of  computer network "contacts" in placement and publication
     of works is explored, with special attention  to  submission
     and editing of manuscripts online.
 
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The courses below are for Sprintersession 1992 (April-May).

 
          POPULAR CULTURE AND  THE  MEDIA  (Paul  Levinson)  This
     course  examines  current  and  past trends in TV, film, and
     print media,  and  relates  them  to  social  and  aesthetic
     theories   and   philosophy.   Issues  include:  connections
     between popular culture and socio-economic    class;  "high"
     culture  critiques  of  pop culture and their drawbacks; art
     vs. non-art vs. good vs. bad art; the search for  universals
     in  myths  and popular culture.  Each student specializes in
     one area of popular culture.  Access  to  television  and/or
     VCR  recommended.  Readings  in include Herbert Gans, Claude
     Levi-Strauss, and Marshall McLuhan.
 
          ADVANCED  APPLICATIONS   IN   TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Tom
     Hargadon)  This  advanced course examines selected cases and
     specific uses  of  current  sophisticated  telecommunication
     technology,  including use of CD-roms in academic, business,
     and library environments; electronic  delivery  of  computer
     software;  teleport construction; and integrated intelligent
     architecture. Students each specialize  and  report  to  the
     class on a specific communications technology.
 
          ONLINE  JOURNALISM  (Brock  Meeks) This course examines
     the growing  field  of  online  journalism  --  and  how  it
     differs   from   traditional   print  journalism.  Available
     markets and other outlets  for  electronic  journalists  and
     writers  are  explored.    Such  markets  include electronic
     publishing, videotext publications, electronic magazines.
 
          BOOK  PUBLISHING  FOR  THE  21ST   CENTURY   (J.   Neil
     Schulman)  This  course  examines  the  economic  and social
     impact in the  change  of  book  publishing  from  paper  to
     electronic  text  media.  Attention is given to economies of
     scale and the availability of  books;  how  electronic  text
     transforms   economies  of  scale;  and  the  marketing  and
     distribution of fiction and nonfiction books  in  electronic
     form.    Issues  include:  authors' rights and informational
     property in  the  electronic  age;  agents  and  editors  of
     electronic   books;  and  the  problem  of  maintaining  the
     authenticity of text in electronic media.   This  course  is
     especially  geared  towards  those  interested  in  pursuing
     careers in electronic book publishing.
 
          MEDIA  AND  PERESTROIKA  (Helena  Gourko)  This  course
     offers   a  philosophic  and  socio-linguistic  context  for
     understanding developments in the former Soviet  Union  and
     Eastern  Europe.  The introduction of free speech and a free
     press in totalitarian society  is  explored  from  from  the
     perpective   of   communication   as   a   paradoxical   and
     revolutionary act  in  all  societies.    Focus  is  on  the
     destructive  impact  of  closed systems on human thought and
     mentality, and the  unpredictable  consequences  that  arise
     when  these  systems are removed.  Readings include Husserl,
     Derrida, and original writings by  the  instructor  on  this
     subject.      Course   to   be   taught  directly  from  the
     instructor's office in Minsk, Belarus.
 
          COMPUTERS  AND  MINORITIES  (James  T.  Roberson)  This
     course  examines  the  challenges and opportunities that the
     personal computer revolution holds for  minority  groups  in
     America.    Strategies  are explored for increasing computer
     usage across all socio-economic  groups.    Issues  include:
     relationship  of  equipment sophistication, cost, and actual
     need;  computer  and  traditional  literacy;   technological
     elitism  and  access;  use  of computer networks by existing
     organizations  (e.g.,  Church  groups).    Emphasis  is   on
     technology  as a liberator not a dominator.
 
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     Connect Ed offers an entirely on-line MA in Technology and
Society (offered through the MA in Media Studies at The New
School for Social Research). We also offer non-credit On-Line
Writer's Workshops, tutoring in English as a Second Language,
Foreign Language Workshops, and a Workshop in OnLine DataBase
Searching.
 
     (The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919,
and is a fully accredited undergraduate and graduate level
institution.)

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