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Thank you for your interest in a class visit! This visit option will allow you to join a class of your choice with a current student and provide the opportunity to grab a beverage in one of our cafes afterwards for a follow-up discussion. A drink voucher will be provided. An optional campus tour before or after your class is also available. Please contact our Welcome Center with any questions regarding these visits.
Please see the full list courses and their descriptions offered below and use the calendar to the right to request a date for your visit..
The History of Rap, Hip Hop, and Popular Culture: Monday’s & Wednesday’s & Friday’s: 11:10am-12:00pm
Finding Your Creative Voice: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 12:30pm-1:45pm
Philosophy in the City: Mondays & Wednesday’s: 2:00pm-3:15pm
Sinatra: Voice of the 20th Century: Tuesday’s & Thursday’s: 9:30am-10:45am
Introduction to Business Communication: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 9:30am-10:45am
Business Foundations: Navigating the Fast Paced Business Landscape: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 2:00pm-3:15pm
Please see the full list courses and their descriptions offered below and use the calendar to the right to request a date for your visit..
The History of Rap, Hip Hop, and Popular Culture: Monday’s & Wednesday’s & Friday’s: 11:10am-12:00pm
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to rap music and hip hop culture and examine it as a cultural critical and historic phenomena. This course explores the connection of rap music to social movements/social justice as well as to understand it in the context of its place in pop culture. The objective is to be able to critically and historically understand rap music in the context of the social political economic and cultural environment of the time during its rise.
Finding Your Creative Voice: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 12:30pm-1:45pm
Schools and workplaces are becoming increasingly demanding and competitive, relying on unique ideas to continue innovation. Where do fresh ideas come from? This class will provide students with the tools they need to find creativity within themselves, and set them apart in the competitive arena. Students will explore who they really are at their core, identify their innermost thoughts and feelings, and uncover their creative identity while having fun! They will also learn to communicate, or "share their creative voice" clearly and honestly.
Philosophy in the City: Mondays & Wednesday’s: 2:00pm-3:15pm
Cities —says urbanist Jane Jacobs — are by definition full of strangers.Yet we come to them to find and build new social relations — to become neighbors and fellow citizens. Philosophy, too, starts in the city — in the agora (the market or town square). In this course we will explore philosophy by exploring the city of Boston in particular and cities more generally: the opportunities they afford, the challenges they face, and how people survive and thrive within them. Topics may include urbanization, racial segregation, community and citizenship, homelessness and housing insecurity, policing and safety, transportation and (dis)ability, belonging, budgets and taxation, gentrification, architecture and urban aesthetics, planning, urban ecologies, tourism, economic opportunity, and more.
Sinatra: Voice of the 20th Century: Tuesday’s & Thursday’s: 9:30am-10:45am
Before Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Beyonce and Michael Jackson came Frank Sinatra: America's first pop superstar. When he died in 1998 at age 82, his obituary in The New York Times noted that "Sinatra stood as a singular mirror of the American psyche." Students will explore the 20th century through Sinatra's life and six-decade career; his parent's emigration from Italy; his rise as a singer who reinterpreted the Great American Songbook into timeless classics; his films that reflected life in the wartime 40s, the Baby Booming 50s and Mad Men 60s but also addressed the then-taboo topics of drug addiction, government insurrection and homosexuality; his voice for racial and religious tolerance; and his association with presidents, industry giants, pro athletes and organized crime figures. Students will listen, watch, write, read, research, share and understand why Sinatra remains popular today.
Introduction to Business Communication: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 9:30am-10:45am
Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) are top requirements for professional roles. To succeed in a professional role and to effectively leverage future communication technologies and media, you must be a critical reader, have strong foundational writing and editing skills, and be able to effectively incorporate data and support evidence for persuasive story telling. In this course, you will learn to write effectively for business by: focusing on your audience, purpose, and tone; learning to design various business documents; revising and refining your writing and improving your professional vocabulary; and by crafting strong ideas and arguments that incorporate support evidence and data visualization.
Business Foundations: Navigating the Fast Paced Business Landscape: Monday’s & Wednesday’s: 2:00pm-3:15pm
This course introduces students to foundational concepts in business, including functional areas, the life cycle, competition, stakeholders and ethical considerations. Students develop critical thinking by learning and using a problem solving process through a business situation analysis model to analyze various situations that confront managers and founders of small, medium, and large organizations. Students will also develop tools for analysis, allowing them to critically view business in a new and thoughtful way. The class culminates with student- teams presenting a detailed analysis and recommendations to a panel of executives and persuading them that the recommended strategy is not only feasible, but also practical for the stakeholders involved.
Tackling Wicked Global Problems: Tuesday’s & Thursday’s: 11:00am-12:15pm
SBS 298 will focus on addressing wicked problems, understanding the challenges they pose, and working towards creative solutions. SBS 298 will integrate freshman level business skills giving students a forum for practicing business decision-making in the context of solving global social challenges. Students will consider problems that the private sector can solve with innovation and focus on "no further harm." Potential solutions such as these are hotly debated and give the perfect setting to practice recognizing and evaluating facts, ideas, opinions and arguments. Students will define the goals, interests and concerns of multiple stakeholders using research skills, entrepreneurial thinking, public policy, and other skills developed during their freshman and early sophomore years. Using storytelling and data visualization, students will pitch their solutions. Students will work in an experiential and collaborative learning environment as they develop the skills and knowledge to identify, conceptualize, and working on a wicked problem. Students can apply the skills built here on their major classes in subsequent semesters.