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Courses numbered below 200 are undergraduate-level courses; those numbered above 200 are graduate-level courses; those in the 400s are for doctoral students. Courses with two numbers are appropriate for both levels indicated.

BOOK 180B - Research Poetics (1 credit)
Instructors: Stephanie Young, Lara Durback
Class meetings: Tuesday and Wednesday, 12 noon–4:15 pm
Location: CPM 118 and MH 128
Special course fee: $100.00
Note: Space for auditors is limited, and will only be open once the class has reached its minimum enrollment of ten for credit students.
Course Description: From Charles Reznikoff to Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes, documentary and research-driven poetry has generated a diverse body of work. In this intensive class, we will read, discuss, and create writing projects in which the visual appearance or materiality of research materials plays a central role. Whether you are a beginning writer, have never taken a book art course, or regularly engage with these issues, this course should be a useful place to conceive of and create a new project.
We will read and discuss poetry projects that work with research and documentation in diverse ways, such as Mark Nowak, Coal Mountain Elementary, Lisa Linn Kinae, Sista tongue, Liz Rywelski, The SEPTA Letters, Jen Bervin, The Dickinson Composites, Walter K. Lew, Excerpts from IKTH/DIKTE for Dictee. We will look critically at the visual and sequential choices made in these works along with the labor, materials, publication, and distribution that went into their making. Work in the studio with book art structures will proceed directly from these considerations.
At the beginning of course, students will determine a research area they want to work on (and ultimately create a project around). Students may arrive with clearly defined research areas in mind (gentrification in Oakland, the letters of Sylvia Plath, family history) or a more general sense (something about farming or gothic literature). Each week, students will turn in (and workshop) 5-10 pages of writing on their research area. A culminating final project will take the form of a chapbook that integrates student research, materials, and visual considerations.

CHEM 017 AND CHEM 017L - General Chemistry (1.25 credits)
Instructor: Lauren Comfort
Lecture: Monday-Thursday, 10:00 am–11:30 AM (Tentative Schedule)
Laboratory: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 pm–3:30 pm (Tentative Schedule)
Location: TBD
Special course fee: $50.00
Course Description: A broad overview of chemical principles. topics include atomic structure, chemical bonding and molecular structure, chemical periodicity, stoichiometry, and nuclear chemistry. Lecture and laboratory.

ECON 073/MGMT 214 – Financial Accounting (1 credit)
Instructor: Mark Bichsel
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: GSB 118
Note: Open to Mills students and Mills MBA alumnae/i only.
Course Description: Elementary accounting theory, with emphasis on the preparation and interpretation of financial statements.

EDUC 180/280 - Research Seminar in Child Development: Cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1 credit)
Instructor: Priya Shimpi
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Education Bldg. 109
Course Description: This seminar and workshop-based course would be open to undergraduate and graduate students. Students will read, view, and discuss cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research in Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, and Cultural Anthropology. Students will learn to critically evaluate research on children's learning and development. In addition, students will have the opportunity to actively engage in a mentored research project, by receiving support for thesis projects, or by participating in ongoing developmental studies. By the end of the course, students will gain key skills in observation, interviewing, experimentation, and survey design. The format will include discussions, student presentations, and guest lectures, using a multi-media format.

EDUC 180B/280B - Studying Diaries (0.5 credit)
Instructor: Diane Ketelle
Class meetings: Thursday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Education Bldg. 207
Course Description: In this course students will study how diaries provide opportunities to investigate everyday social, psychological, and physiological situations. This will include how diaries capture the ordinary experiences of everyday life that consume the vast majority of our conscious attention. This course will focus on the diaries kept by ordinary people as records of their experience. In a diary, the writer tells her story as it happens, unmediated by nostalgia or the treacherous editing of time. Diarists have power in that they can start and stop keeping diaries and can write whatever they please. Diarists can keep their diaries completely private, share them with friends, aspire to publish, or share them with the world on the Internet. Diaries are not literary documents, even though they can have aesthetic merit. Diaries are documents of life process, rather than finished narratives about a life. The essential goal of a diarist is to process time in order to capture plain action and places. Students will be exposed to diary theory, narrative theory, and theories of everyday experience.

EDUC 240/440 - Hip Hop Pedagogy (1 credit)
Instructor: Sabrina Kwist, Nolan Jones
Class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Education Bldg. 106
Course Description: This course will draw connections between popular culture and "liberal learning," examining how hip hop is related to the community while illustrating the principles of liberatory pedagogy. The course will examine theoretical and applied work that emphasizes education, hip hop and social capital.

EDUC 265 - Child Development for Educational Leadership (1 credit)
Instructor: Julie Nicholson
Class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Education Bldg. 109
Course Description: An overview of sociocultural and sociohistorical theories of human development and learning with a particular focus on the unique contribution of Barbara Rogoff’s theory of guided participation.

EDUC 425 - Introduction to Research Design (1 credit)
Instructor: Greg Tanaka
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Location: Education Bldg. 101
Note: This class is the first in a series designed to give doctoral students the skills and knowledge to design their dissertation research. Students will learn about a range of research methodologies and begin the process of formulating a research question and designing a research study.
Course Description: The course explores the challenges facing those working to design, implement, and evaluate educational policies and programs. Students will deepen their sense of the practical challenges of the policy process and their sense of the roles scholars have and can play in relation to these issues. Attention will also be paid to oral presentations of ideas and facilitation of classroom discussion.

ENG 180/280X - Banned Books: Reading the “Indecent,” “Objectionable,” and “Obscene”(1 credit)
Instructor: Tarah Demant
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: TBD
Notes: For current undergraduate students, this course counts as an upper-division elective, or as a literature elective for English majors; graduate students can take the course for 200-level elective credit. Space for auditors is limited.
Course Description: “Every burned book,” Emerson argued, “enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.” Yet communities worldwide have often violently disagreed, and books have been and are still challenged, censured, banned, burned, and even, like D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, put on trial. From The Canterbury Tales to Harry Potter, this class will examine a number of texts that have been banned in the United States, and consider the themes and cultural questions raised by the text as well as the moral implications of such themes and questions. Through written and discursive critical inquiry, we will explore what, if anything, such books have in common and what it is that these texts bring to bear on the question of censorship and literature.

ENG 180A/280A - Eco-Creative Writing (1 credit)
Instructor: David Buuck
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: TBD
Pre-requisite: Undergraduates should have completed at least one beginning level workshop class; graduate students, alumnae/i, and community members should have had at least one college or graduate-level workshop class.
Notes: Course counts as an advanced creative writing workshop for English majors; graduate students can take the course for 200-level elective credit (not workshop credit). Space for auditors is limited.
Course Description: This is a cross-genre creative writing workshop that focuses on critical thinking and writing about our environment, from the ecology of the Mills Campus to the global concerns of climate change and ecological crisis. In addition to exploring new techniques and methods for our own writing, we will study examples of ‘nature writing’ and ‘eco-criticism’ to trace how writers and thinkers have articulated our place in the natural world over time. We will also focus on the urban landscape, with its own set of environmental concerns and ways of re-thinking what is ‘natural.’ We will read from a variety of cultural and aesthetic traditions, from African creation myths and indigenous trickster tales to contemporary debates about nature in an age of environmental anxieties. Throughout, we will work on our own writing, seeking to investigate a wide range of methods and approaches to writing about place and environment. Rather than only sitting inside a classroom workshop, we will also actively engage our outside surroundings, writing, researching, and exploring the local environs as well as the ways in which we encounter our everyday landscapes and how we express those encounters in our writing.
Requirements will include intensive reading and weekly reading responses, several short creative exercises (both in class and out), and a final longer creative work. The reading list will include writing from: Henry David Thoreau, Wallace Stevens, Lorine Niedecker, Ursula K. LeGuin, Wang Wei, Inger Christensen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Amos Tutuola, Mark Nowak, Juliana Spahr, William Cronon, Mel Chin, Ellen Meloy, Jennifer Price, Lucy Lippard, Kaia Sand, C.A. Conrad, and many others.

ENG 180C - Summer Grammar Camp for Academic Writers (1 credit)
Instructor: Kate Brubeck
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm
Location: TBD
Notes: For current undergraduate students, this course counts as an upper-division elective; graduate students can take the course for 100-level elective credit. Space for auditors is limited.
Course Description: This course provides a fun, creative, challenging and effective approach to strengthening your writing skills, skills you can easily implement, regardless of your field, through many examples and methods of practice. In this intensive but supportive workshop, students will have the opportunity to strengthen their writing and editing skills in a stimulating but pressure-free environment. Assisted by the instructor, all students will determine on the first day of class what particular writing skills they would like to focus on to improve their confidence, mastery, and performance at Mills and beyond. While the particular focus of the class will be determined by the needs and goals of the participants, you should expect to strengthen college- and graduate-level skills in grammar, punctuation, and editing, among others, while exploring your academic writing voice. You do not have to know a lot about grammar to take this class.

ETHS 180A/280A - Vampires, Monsters, and Saviors: Race and Sex In Literature and Popular Culture (1 credit)
Instructor: Vivian Chin
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: TBD
Notes: For Ethnic Studies majors and minors, this course counts as Ethnic Studies upper division elective, multi-ethnic elective. Can be taken as an elective for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies and English. General Education: meets the Multicultural Requirement.
Course Description: In this course we will examine the politics of horror. Tales of strange beings can serve to expose the fear, loathing, and desire that reside in commonly held beliefs about race, sexuality, class, and nation. When we read and watch stories about vampires and other monsters, exactly what are we frightened of, what do we find disgusting, and what attracts us? Popular culture presents us with a wealth of monstrous others as well as those who protect “us” from “them.” By considering a selection of bestsellers, less well-known writing, as well as examples from television and film, we will interrogate the role of evil other in representations by and about people of color. Looking at the figure of monstrosity and the character of the savior as embodiments of difference, we will seek to better understand the appeal of horror and what it reveals about our attitudes towards the unknown.

ETHS 180B/280B - Race, Gender, and the Internet (1 credit)
Instructor: Darshan Campos
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm
Location: TBD
Notes: For Ethnic Studies majors and minors, this course counts as Ethnic Studies upper division elective, multi-ethnic elective. Can be taken as an elective for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Queer Studies. General Education: meets the Multicultural Requirement.
Course Description: This course examines how the Internet and digital technologies are shaping and reflecting our lived experiences of race, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and globalism. As a class, we will examine the rise of the Internet as a major contemporary force in communication, politics, and trade. We will explore how and why people engage online, considering how, for example, we create and discard avatars as well as manage personal identities. We will also use the Internet as a site for research, community formation, and overt political mobilization, evaluating online activism campaigns such as Kony 2012 and political campaigns such as Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. In addition, we will look at some of the many social divisions that persist online, including limited access and digital literacy, and examine some of the varied approaches that communities, organizations, and corporations are using to promote greater access as well as a more diverse pool of engineers behind the screen. Questions will include: How are digital technologies such as personalized online maps changing our conception of the world and its peoples? In what ways does the Internet boost older and newer forms of surveillance? How are companies such as Yelp, Google, Facebook, and OkCupid using the personal information we store and share online? What are the consequences and possibilities of the Internet for social justice activism and academic scholarship?

MGMT 201 - Macroeconomic Theory (1 credit)
Instructor: Robert Kennedy
Class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: GSB 117
Note: Open to Lokey GSB students and Mills MBA alumnae/i only.
Course Description: Theory of income and employment; role of the monetary system; history of business fluctuations; analysis of the "cycle"; and fiscal, monetary, and direct measures for mitigating fluctuations.

MGMT 214/ECON 073 - Financial Accounting (1 credit)
Instructor: Mark Bichsel
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: GSB 118
Note: Open to Mills students and Mills MBA alumnae/i only.
Course Description: Elementary accounting theory, with emphasis on the preparation and interpretation of financial statements.

MGMT 216 - Corporate Finance (1 credit)
Instructor: Martha Sellers
Class meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: GSB 117
Note: Open to Lokey GSB students and Mills MBA alumnae/i only.
Course Description: An introduction to the concepts and tools of corporate finance, and a discussion of the practical realities of financial decisions. topics, among others, include present value and the internal rate of return, portfolio theory, debt-versus-equity financing, and the efficiency of capital markets.

MGMT 280B - Gender and Leadership (1 credit)
Instructor: Stacy Blake-Beard
Class meetings: Friday, June 7 (5:00pm-9:00pm); Saturday, June 8 (9:00am-5:00pm); Sunday, June 9 (9:00am-5:00kpm); Friday, June 21 (5:00pm-9:00pm); Saturday, June 22 (9:00am-5:00pm); Sunday, June 23 (9:00am-5:00pm)
Location: GSB 109
Note: Open to Lokey GSB students and Mills MBA alumnae/i only.
Course Description: We will offer this special course in a compressed format with our Linda Pitts Custard Visiting Professor Dr. Stacy Blake-Beard. This course is highly recommended for students seeking to deepen their knowledge of leadership with particular attention to how specific dimensions of identity—gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation—shape women’s leadership opportunities, roles, expectations, and assessment of performance.

MGMTESC-PAU Study Abroad Program In Southern France
Internationalization has been a steady trend in graduate business education and the Lokey GSB is offering its first educational exchange opportunity with ESC-PAU, a business school located in Southern France. The ESC-PAU program is an international graduate program with instruction in English, with students from many countries in attendance. It has a rigid curriculum. The courses are very typical for a graduate business program, but are sometimes more international in their focus than those at Mills. Corporate visits as well as touristic site visits are incorporated in the ESC-PAU program. We will offer the following four special elective courses for students participating in the ESC-PAU Study Abroad Program.

Note: the MBA program does not offer 0.5 credit courses. It is therefore likely that taking a single 0.5 credit course for the study abroad program will surpass the 17 credits required for the MBA degree, unless a student plans to take both Project Management and Strategic Management for a total of 1 credit course.

MGMT 280C - Global Business through the Lens of Entrepreneurship (1 credit)
Instructor: Tim Pett, Wichita State
Location: Class offered on-site in France.
Note: Open to Lokey GSB study abroad students only.
Course Description: Students will work with a real company over the entire summer session. Steps, principles, and methods associated with the venture creation process and how to generate, evaluate and develop good business ideas are discussed. A major aspect of this course is developing a feasibility plan using cross-cultural teams.

MGMT 280D - International Strategy Entry Modes (0.5 credit)
Instructor: Jim Wolff, Wichita State
Location: Class offered on-site in France.
Note: Open to Lokey GSB study abroad students only.
Course Description: The readings and activities experienced during this course will provide students with grounding in why firms of any size internationalize and how small firms proceed toward international market entry.

MGMT 280E - Project Management (0.5 credit)
Instructor: X. Schneider
Location: Class offered on-site in France.
Note: Open to Lokey GSB study abroad students only.
Course Description: Students will learn how to plan, build and assess a project. They will gain an understanding of the issues of management in project mode, as they relate to multiple stakeholders.

MGMT 280F - Strategic Management (0.5 credit)
Instructor: P. Marin
Location: Class offered on-site in France.
Note: Open to Lokey GSB study abroad students only.
Course Description: Students will learn different types of strategy and understand how to face uncertainty within a company. Black swan and blue ocean theories are covered.

PSYC 180 - The Science of Intimate Relationships (1 credit)
Instructor: Dean Morier
Class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Location: TBD
Course Description: An interdisciplinary approach to the science behind the nature of human sexual relationships. The course will examine the latest findings in the fields of social psychology, evolutionary psychology, life-history theory, human sexuality, neuroscience and biology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and clinical psychology. Topics covered include intimate relationships in terms of both mind and body; bonding from infancy to adulthood; selecting mates; love; communication and interaction; sex; passion; relationship dissolution; jealousy; violence; and the role of intimate relationships for a meaningful life. The course will explore the scientific research on the initiation, maintenance, and termination of sexual relationships.