Academic departments at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) are offering new courses for the spring 2013 semester. The six departments that participated in a university survey reported that 16 new courses will be offered to students. These  departments are communication and media studies, economics, English, history, Latin American and Latino studies, and theology.

The communication and media studies department is offering two new courses as well: “Writing About Theatre” (COMM-4705) and “The Director’s Vision” (COMM-3555). According to the flyer distributed by the communication and media studies department, the prerequisites necessary in order to sign up for “The Director’s Vision” include having completed the “Intro to Film” course or approval from an instructor.

The economics department is offering two courses. “Introductory Econometrics” will be instructed by Assistant Professor Jerome Lahaye, and Corporate Finance will be instructed by Assistant Professor Sean Collins. Lahaye said that his course in econometrics will provide students with tools that will assist them in their own research and work. “It will allow them to acquire tools for their own research and form their own empirical questions. It will also allow them to better understand and criticize empirical work that is performed within economic science,” Lahaye said.

The English department is offering three new courses, each taught by a faculty member that is also new to FCLC. The three courses are “Medieval Mystics” (ENGL 3136), “Theater and the Avant-Garde” (ENGL-3529) and “Literary Adaptations” (ENGL-3627).

Anne Hoffman, associate chair to the English department, said that the three new faculty members are teaching the new courses in their area of expertise. “These three really fine faculty members [Assistant Professor Andrew Albin, Assistant Professor Shonni Enelow and Assistant Professor Dennis Tyler] and they bring their areas of expertise. We were looking for somebody to teach drama, we were looking for somebody to teach African American literature. We needed a medievalist,” Hoffman said. “Once we hired them we gave them the challenge of coming up with elective courses in the major. And we are really thrilled with the courses they devised.”

The history department is offering five new electives for the spring semester. The five courses are “Medieval Feud: Ordeal and Law” (HIST-3014), “The Stuarts” (HIST-3418), “The American Indians” (HIST-3931), “Genocide” (HIST-4010) and “Antisemitism” (HIST-4308).

New faculty members to FCLC will also be instructing some of the history electives as well. “[Professor] Rebecca Slitt is a new instructor and she’s teaching Medieval Feud because that’s her specialty. [Associate Professor] Steven Stoll is a new faculty member that specializes in environmental history and American Indians. He was hired to teach Native American history because we didn’t offer that at Fordham before,” Professor Doron Ben-Atar said.

Being offered by the department of Latin American and Latino Studies department is a mini-course that will take place over the 2013 Spring Break. “The Puebla Study Tour” (LALS-3401) is a one-credit one-week course that will be held on March 10 until March 16.

The course is offered in conjunction with Universidad Iberoamericana of Puebla, a Jesuit university. Students taking the course will go on site visits to pre-Hispanic pyramids and baroque churches. There will also be service-learning projects that focus on migration of people from Puebla to New York.

The application deadline is Nov. 27 and the course fee is $1, 450.

The Theology department will also be offering three courses. These courses are “Theologies of Sexuality and Gender” (THEO-3857), “Human Nature After Darwin” (THEO-4848) and “Wartime Religion in U.S. History” (THEO-3993).

The last day for add/drop and late registration is Jan. 22, 2013.