Reading, Writing and… Forensic Anthropology?
Students at C.W. Post Taking Cool New Courses This Fall

July 30, 2003 - Is CSI your favorite show? Can’t get enough of crime mysteries? A new course in forensic anthropology may be just what you’re looking for. This contemporary course - which explores the techniques and theories behind investigations into death and the circumstances surrounding it - is just one of several intriguing courses being offered this fall at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, where a liberal-arts foundation gives students in all majors the opportunity to take a wide range of courses and explore different career paths - or just learn something new.

Undergraduate courses included on the Fall 2003 calendar include "The Abbeys and Cathedrals of Medieval England" - where students explore the architecture of magnificent medieval English abbeys and grand cathedrals from Canterbury - and a class in "Popular Writing and the Reading Community," which discusses, among many other trends in literature today, how popular TV book shows like Oprah’s Book Club influence people’s literary tastes. A more historic look at how arts and entertainment can influence society will take place in "Cinema in Weimar and Nazi Germany." This course will delve into how film influenced the social, political and cultural issues in Germany from 1919 to 1945 in Nazi Germany.

Moving further back in history, students in "Pyramids of the World" will explore the world’s most intriguing structures - pyramids in China, Guatemala, Sudan and Peru with world-renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier. Other C.W. Post courses, such as "The American Religious Imagination," span the centuries and cross many disciplines. This course takes students on a journey through the roots of the American religious imagination with explorations of the writings, music and art of assorted theologies. Topics include spiritual traditions, utopian communal experiments, paganism, and the rising tides of Buddhism and Islam, emancipatory strains of American Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism, and the American traditions of unbelief, from Thomas Paine to the present debates between religion and science.

These courses, and many more, are offered through C.W. Post’s prestigious Honors and Merit Fellow Program. Classes begin on September 8. For additional information contact the Honors Office at 516-299-2840 or email jdigby@liu.edu.

C.W. Post is one of six campuses of Long Island University, the seventh largest private university in the United States. With more than 13,000 full- and part-time students, C.W. Post offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in accountancy, business (AACSB accredited), computer science, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science, education, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. C.W. Post also offers doctorates in information studies and clinical psychology as well as an extensive continuing education program. The C.W. Post Campus is located at 720 Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville, New York.