OnLyon Distance Learning: Spring 2002

Take advantage of expert faculty, who can lead you through online learning that informs, captivates and enhances your academic and cultural interests: Head back to school with OnLyon and Wheaton's distance-learning program. (Already in enrolled in a course? You can access your Blackboard course materials here.)

This year, choose from our traditional, semester-long courses or our new short courses, which require online attendance at one to two classes, in addition to modest preparatory work.

In the semester courses, you can explore ethics (and how to defend their moral codes); gain insight into women's studies; or re-familiarize yourselves with myth and folklore and some of the world's earliest and best story telling.

Wheaton's short courses are designed to introduce you to a specific (and engaging) topic and lead you to additional resources. For 2001-2002, short course focus on: John Adams, a biography by Wheaton's 2002 commencement speaker David McCullough; Hollywood cinema and the Academy Awards; and an examination of the artistry or J.R.R. Tolkien and his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings, scheduled for a December 2001 film release.

Join Wheaton's graduates and friends in these distance-learning courses, beginning January 2001. (Short course start dates vary. Enrollment is limited.)

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COURSES AND FACULTY

Ethics An introduction to moral reasoning through the study of ethical theories and their application to practical problems.
Stephen Mathis
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Women's Studies Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary course of study that places womenand their experiences at its center.
Brenda Wyss
Assistant Professor of Economics

Myth and Folklore Myth and Folklore traces the development of the mythology and mythography of the Greeks and Romans.
Nancy Evans
Assistant Professor of Classics

J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien was not only one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, but he was also one of the greatest scholars of medieval literature, ever.
Michael Drout
Assistant Professor of English

And the Winner is... On Sunday, March 24, 2002, we welcome the 74th annual Academy Awards ceremony. .
Josh Stenger
Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Literature

John Adams Read and discuss David McCullough's biography, John Adams, then come to Wheaton to hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian in May 2001
Kathryn Tomasek
Assistant Professor of History