Courses

3-Credit Courses | 1-Credit Courses | Textbooks | Changing Courses | Grades

You take one 3-credit course and one 1-credit course. Course selections are listed below.

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3-Credit Courses

BMGT289I Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions

GenEd: Distributive Studies – Scholarship in Practice; Signature Courses – I-Series

Why do smart managers make flawed decisions? Why do managers keep believing they have made the right choice, even with disastrous results staring them in the face? Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions will address how evidence-based management and other decision-making tools can be used to uncover hidden assumptions in the corner offices of great corporations. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

ENGL245 Film Form and Culture

GenEd: Distributive Studies - Humanities.

Introduction to film as art form and how films create meaning. Basic film terminology; fundamental principles of film form, film narrative, and film history. Examination of film technique and style over past one hundred years. Social and economic functions of film within broader institutional, economic, and cultural contexts. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

GVPT282 Politics of the Developing World

GenEd: Distributive Studies - History and Social Sciences; Diversity - Understanding Plural Societies.

A study of the domestic governmental institutions; processes and problems such as conflict and economic development; and the socio-economic environments that are common to developing countries of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

JOUR175 Media Literacy

GenEd: Distributive Studies - Scholarship in Practice; Diversity – Understanding Plural Societies.

An analysis of the information, values and underlying messages conveyed via television, newspapers, the internet, magazines, radio and film. Examines the accuracy of those messages and explores how media shape views of politics, culture and society. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

KNES287 Sport and American Society

GenEd: Distributive Studies – History and Social Sciences; Diversity – Understanding Plural Societies.

Sport will be related to such social problems as delinquency, segregation, collective behavior, and leisure; to social processes such as socialization, stratification, mobility, and social control; and to those familiar social institutions the family, the school, the church, the military, the economy, the polity, and the mass media. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

PSYC100 Introduction to Psychology

GenEd: Distributive Studies - History and Social Sciences or Distributive Studies - Natural Sciences.

A basic introductory course, intended to bring the student into contact with the major problems confronting psychology and the more important attempts at their solution. Enrollment limit: 10. Click here for course meeting times.

1-Credit Courses

KNES157N Physical Education Activities: Coed: Weight Training (Beginning)

Enrollment limit: 32. Click here for course meeting times.

KNES157T Physical Education Activities: Coed: Fight the 15: Introduction to fitness and an active lifestyle

Enrollment limit: 32. Click here for course meeting times.

Please note:

The fall or spring semester lasts approximately 15 weeks; courses in Freshmen First cover the same amount of material in only 3 weeks. One day of class during Freshmen First is the equivalent of one week of class during the fall or spring. Coursework is designed to be challenging and the pace is fast!

Courses offered in Freshmen First are part of the University’s Summer Term. These courses follow University policies and procedures and are subject to change. The University reserves the right to cancel courses due to insufficient enrollment or for other reasons it deems necessary.

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Course Textbooks

Textbook requirements are posted by the instructor, usually three weeks prior to the course start date. Your course may or may not require a textbook, and you will need to periodically check the link below to see if the instructor has posted a textbook.

  • Visit: www.testudo.umd.edu
  • Select Schedule of Classes
  • Select Summer Term
  • Select Course Listing
  • Select the course/department acronym, e.g., ARTT for Art Studio.
  • Find the course you are registered for with the section number of “FF61”
  • Select Books

Textbooks may be purchased from any textbook store or online vendor. For those students who have determined the need for a textbook, you may use one of the following online resources:

For those interested in purchasing their textbook in person, the University Book Center is located on campus and the Maryland Book Exchange is located on Route 1 in downtown College Park.

Changing Courses

You have until July 14, 4:30 p.m., to change your course selections. A request must be sent via e-mail to ff@umd.edu and include:

  • Your full name, University ID # (not your SS#), date of birth and
  • Your new course information. You can only change registration if the new course has available seats.

On or after July 15: No participant will be permitted to change their registered courses. You may not attend a course for which you are not registered. Should a student attend a course other than their approved courses, s/he will receive a zero for the registered courses.

Course Grades

Course grades post to the student’s unofficial transcript and are not mailed. For the exact posting date, refer to Calendar & Deadlines.