This course will introduce students to the tradition and fundamentals of representational drawing. Emphasis is placed on drawing practice as a mental and physical activity with a holistic approach to the landscape as a source and content for the course work. Fulfills General Education requirement in Art. Instructor Robin Eldridge

An introduction to major environments and their resident populations in Northern New Mexico. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Includes equivalent of one laboratory session each week. Instructor John Ubelaker

A course in business survival, providing students an understanding of legal issues affecting business. Business Core Requirement. Students may not receive credit for this course if they received credit for LT 4335. Instructor Barbara Kincaid

CF3401/HIST3401 The Good Society: Utopian Perspectives on the American Southwest

The course will examine forms of artistic,  literary, scientific, and personal creativity that have taken root and flourished in Northern New Mexico.  The topics will extend from the founding of the Taos Artists’ Colony in 1898 to the growing attraction of Santa Fe and Taos to literary visitors after World War I. It will then turn to Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project, concluding with an examination of the counter-culture of the 1960s. The purpose of the course is to provide an engaged understanding of the historical, ideological, and multi-cultural experiences of the region’s life. Fulfills the General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Instructor Jim Hopkins

Focuses on the voting tendencies of Latinos in the Southwestern states. Course relies on films, documentaries and news clips as well as field trips and guest lecturers. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Instructor Harold Stanley

This course will explore the representations of Southwestern Indians in 20^th Century U.S. works of fiction and film that have been understood against a long history of "playing Indian," of romanticizing the "vanishing American" and of using imaginary Indians to think through the very real problems of race. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Steven Weisenburger

Survey of the environmental history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present, with a heavy emphasis on the area that is now the American Southwest. Readings, field trips and lectures will expose students to a variety of ways to approach environmental history. This course does not fulfill the co-requirement in Human Diversity. Instructor Ben Johnson

A structured service learning opportunity that fosters academic growth, citizenship, leadership and civic responsibility. Readings and course activities relate to the relationship between literacy and society. Throughout the course, students tutor local elementary or secondary school students as well as complete related assignments. All literacy classes require field experience in local schools. Instructor Barbara Morganfield

This course is intended to give non-theatre majors an introduction to the craft of acting with emphasis on a student’s willingness to explore his/her creative self. The class will embody the basic principles of technique covered in class through the rehearsal and performance of monologues and scenes. Students will be required to rehearse outside of class. Instructor Cecil O’Neal

WELL 2131A and B Choices II: Mountain Sports Prescription and implementation of an effective conditioning program. Must be taken with another May term course. Satisfies GEC Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor A Anne Weil or Instructor B David Bertrand

An intense experience in sculpture, drawing and printmaking, emphasizing the physical forms and resources of Northern New Mexico. Additional hours by arrangement. Instructors Jay Sullivan/Philip Van Keuren

Drawing, painting, printmaking or sculpture emphasis. Additional hours by arrangement. Instructors Jay Sullivan/Philip Van Keuren

ASPH 1300 Basics of Photography

Lectures, field trips, assignments and critiques designed to take advantage of the Taos landscape, light and culture. A thorough introduction to digital cameras; either "DSLR" or point and shoot models. Field trips. 3 credit hours; additional hours by arrangement. Meets requirement for GEC Arts Perspective. Instructor Debora Hunter  

Intermediate and advanced photography course designed to allow students to develop a photographic portfolio; work in either black and white darkroom or digital lab. Field trips. 3 credit hours; additional hours by arrangement. Instructor Debora Hunter

Introduction to the unusual flora of Northern New Mexico stressing plant collection, identification and medicinal uses by Native Americans. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Field trips. Instructor John Ubelaker

CCPA 3385/4325 Nonprofit Internships in Taos

This course offers students opportunities to develop and apply business and professional communication skills in a not-for-profit environment. In addition to class lectures, each student works with an organization to develop a comprehensive communication plan with additional materials that will be combined into a portfolio; work will be summarized in an oral presentation at the end of the term. 6 hours must be taken concurrently. Instructor Nina Flournoy

Drawing on the works of major intellectuals and artists, this course explores the crises of identity in Western culture and how that was manifested in Taos, New Mexico in the decades prior to World War I. Instructor John Mears

This course will offer writing as an exploration, as adventure, as cultural excavation. If you have never written poetry before, here you will find freedom in free verse, cast spells with couplets and follow in the footsteps of other artists in discovering new worlds both on and off the written page. Field trips. Instructor Jennifer Key

Practice of the scientific method by investigation of the processes affecting geologic and environmental change in the southwestern United States. Course will satisfy either the laboratory science requirement (2320) or the second-term writing requirement (2321). Either course can fulfill a 1300-level geology major or minor course requirement. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Field trips. Instructor Neil Tabor

This course will offer a rigorous study of the field of organizational behavior. Topics addressed within the contexts of issues such as ethics, interpersonal dynamics, and cultural diversity will be explored. The fundamental purpose of the course is to further develop understanding of factors to enhance effectiveness as a leader in a world-class organization. PREREQUISITES: MNO 3370 for Cox students OR six credit hours of social science courses for non-Cox students. Instructor Don VandeWalle

This is a special Mountain Sports/Group Fitness class in which students will choose from a variety of mountain sports and other fitness activities. The course is specially designed to meets the needs of students attending June term in Taos. Activities include strength training, pilates, hiking, jogging, horse-back riding, mountain biking, whitewater rafting and rock climbing. Satisfies Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor Anne Weil

This is an intermediate level painting class with focus on landscape in the Southwest. Students will draw and paint in gouache (water based media) with short reading and writing assignments designed to challenge thinking differently about the landscape that surrounds them. Prerequisite ASPT 1300 or Foundations. Instructor Susan Barnett

Introduction to the unusual flora of Northern New Mexico stressing plant collection, identification and medicinal uses by Native Americans. Fulfills General Education requirement for Science/Technology. Instructor John Ubelaker

BL 3335 Business Law

A course in basic legal survival, providing students an understanding of legal issues affecting business. Business Core Requirement. Students may not receive credit for this course if they received credit for LT 4335. Instructor Barbara Kincaid

A study and exploration of women writers, artists, and thinkers in the American Southwest and their vision of this region as singularly hospitable to women's culture. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Martha Satz

This course will survey Mexican history and, within it, New Mexican history, from first human presence until new Mexico's incorporation into the United States. Architecture, sculpture, paintings and crafts that draw heavily on Mexican (and remotely, Spanish) sources will be explored to show linkages over time and among cultures. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Co- instructors Peter and Susan Bakewell

This course will provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the importance societies place on knowing, preserving and altering evidence of the past. Special emphasis is placed on archaeology’s role in understanding and preserving the past. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips. Instructor Susan Bruning

This course examines the experiences and identities of women in the region known as the American Southwest from pre-colonial times to the late twentieth century. Students will gain an understanding of the major themes, theories and trajectory of American women’s history. Instructor Christienne McPherson

MKTG 3340 Fundamentals of Marketing

This course examines three major areas: the nature of marketing decisions, the environment in which these decisions are made and the relationship of these decisions to the firm, business and society. Prerequisites: ECO 1311, 1312; ACCT 2311; and ITOM 2305 or STAT 2301.  Instructor James Kindley

This course will focus on the analysis of environmental variables in the foreign market context. The first half of the course combines lectures about the challenges of working in foreign business environments and the second half involves a simulation wherein students act in the capacity of brand and product managers engaged in developing new markets for products. Prerequisite: MKTG 3340 Instructor Charles Besio Tuition

The history of Jazz is taught on the main campus but this course will have a creative twist binding it to the Taos environment. Discussions of the nuts and bolts of Jazz, its major stylistic eras and dominant artists will combine with learning that Jazz is discipline, energy, improvisation and performance. Fulfills General Education requirement for Art. Instructor Kim Corbet

This course will encourage you to maintain optimal fitness for life, helping improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition. Different classes each day including step aerobics-boot camp style, power yoga, body sculpting and mountain biking as well as prescription and implementation of an effective conditioning program. Must be taken with another August term course. Satisfies General Education Wellness Choices II requirement. Instructor A Lynn Romejko Jacobs Instructor B Anne Weil