Pre-College Students

Get a jump start on your college career! Students who live within commuting distance from Mount St. Mary's are welcome at Mount Summer. You may take as many as two courses per session. Most credits will easily transfer to the four year university of your choice.

You must meet all prerequirements for these courses, as found in the detailed course descriptions below. Most summer school students are rising juniors and seniors with a 3.0 GPA or equivalent. Rising sophomores are allowed to take courses as well, but you should be a serious student who is comfortable taking courses with current Mount St. Mary's undergraduates.

Session I: May 29 - June 29, 2012
ASL 101A Beginning American Sign Language I  (3 CREDITS) - Marjarum, M/W - 1 to 4 p.m.
This introductory course is aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in American Sign Language, and also offers insight into Deaf culture and Deaf community. This course does not fulfill Mount St. Mary's University's core language requirement.

GNSCI 101A General Sciences    (4 CREDITS) -  Solis, M/W/F - 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Examines the concepts underlining modern sciences, focusing on physics, chemistry and biology, aiming in the understanding of the nature of science and the factors that affect our daily life, including a survey of relevant biological and chemical principles and processes.  Designed as an introduction to physical and biological sciences for the non-science major.This course includes demonstrations, laboratory experiments and videos illustrating the material.
Prerequisites for pre-college students: GPA of 3.5 or equivalent and 1 year of high school physics, chemistry, or biology.

MATH 105A Elementary Statistics - (3 CREDITS) - Butler - T/TH - 6 to 9 p.m.
A noncalculus introduction to the fundamental concepts of probability and statistics. Topics include data collecting, displaying, summarizing, drawing inferences, set theory, probability, permutations and combinations, expectation, normal distribution, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, significance testing and simple linear regression.  Appropriate application software utilized.  Prerequisite: MATH 101 or placement by department.

PSYCH 100A Foundations of Psychology - (3 CREDITS) - Craney - M/W - 5 to 8 p.m.
Addresses psychology’s emergence as a social and natural science in the development of Western thought. Emphasizes scientific thinking about perception, development, learning, motivation, social processes, behavioral disorders and psychotherapy. Fulfills the social science requirement of the core and is normally the prerequisite for all other psychology courses.

SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I - (3 CREDITS) - Rodriguez-Lozano - M/T/W/Th/F - (5/29 to 6/11) - 1 to 5:30 p.m.
SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II - (3 CREDITS) - Tsoukatos - M/T/W/Th/F - (6/12 to 6/25) - 1 to 5:30 p.m.
These introductory courses are aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in Spanish and also offer insight into Spanish-speaking cultures. NOTE: During Mount Summer both courses are offered in a highly compressed, two week format during Summer Session I.
Prerequisite for high school students: Students wishing to enroll in SPAN 101 must have successfully completed 1 year of high school Spanish. Students wishing to enroll in SPAN 102 must have successfully completed SPAN 101 or 2 years of high school Spanish.

Session II: July 2 - August 3, 2012
ASL 101A Beginning American Sign Language I  (3 CREDITS) - Marjarum, M/W - 1 to 4 p.m.
This introductory course is aimed at developing basic communicative proficiency in American Sign Language, and also offers insight into Deaf culture and Deaf community. This course does not fulfill Mount St. Mary's University's core language requirement.

ECON 102A Foundations of Economics II : Microeconomics - (3 CREDITS) - Larrivee - M/W - 6 to 9 p.m.
This course introduces students to microeconomics: examination of economic behavior of individuals, firms, or markets. It begins with consumer theory, examining why people like goods and services and how they behave. It progresses to firm theory, e.g. production and costs, exploring such concepts as diminishing marginal productivity and economies of scale, as well as examining particular market types such as price takers, monopolies, and oligopolies. The course closes with capital and resource markets (e.g. wages, benefits, income, as well as natural resources). It often includes special applications such as market failures (e.g. externalities, public goods, information problems which are at the heart of many business/government and environmental issues), poverty, health care, education, social security, etc.  There are NO prerequisites for this course.

GNSCI 102A Discovery in Science: Sociobiology  (4 CREDITS) - Bolen - M/W/F - 9 to 12 p.m.
This course is designed to fulfill the core science requirement, exploring the nature of science through in-depth discovery of contemporary issues in the discipline of Sociobiology, which is the study of the evolution of social behavior in animals and humans. Students will gain an understanding of the scientific worldview, the process of scientific inquiry, the enterprise of science, and the role of science in history and society. By using quantitative reasoning and critical thinking, students will solve problems in an integrated lecture and lab setting. Specific issues addressed in this course include evolution of mate preferences, parental care, cooperation and conflict, learning and morality.
Prerequisites for pre-college students: GPA of 3.5 or equivalent and 1 year of high school biology.

SOC 100 Foundations of Sociology - (3 CREDITS) - Hansen - M/W - 6 to 9 p.m.
A course designed to place sociology’s development as a social science in the evolution of Western thought; it will also cover the elements of social scientific thinking. Major emphasis will be given to the analysis of culture, social structure, socialization, institutions, social inequality and social change. This course fulfills the social sciences requirement for the core curriculum and is normally a prerequisite for all 300- or 400-level courses in sociology.