Fall ProgramAugust 30–December 21, 2012Professor Brian Donahue with Michael Harrity, Hannah Ramer and Emily Silver 20 credits (no prerequisites)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Explore the stewardship of land and other natural resources,

using conservation land in Weston, Mass., as your living

laboratory. Learn about and practice sustainable community

farming and forestry. Look at the forces driving and

attempting to control suburban development. Delve into

the history, ecology, economics, law, conservation and

stewardship of land and communities in New England.

Gain critical knowledge and practical skills in research,

writing, geographic information systems (GIS), presentation

and management that create effective environmental

protection and sustainable engagement at the community

level. Tackle real issues — all as you learn!

Environmental Field SemesterCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJUSTICE BRANDEIS SEMESTER

CURRICULUM

AMST 104bj Boston and Its Suburbs: Environment and History

BIOL 32aj Field Biology

NEW! ENVS 20aj Sustainability in Suburbia

ENVS 100ej GIS and Field Methods:

The New England Landscape

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“The JBS experience is like no other

college experience: a chance to really

get to know both your peers and

professors while engaging in hands-on

learning and social justice work. At the

end of the semester, I felt that we had

accomplished something great: in the

community and also in ourselves.”

Emilie Schuler ’11, JBS Environmental Field Semester fall 2010

www.brandeis.edu/jbs ABOUT JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to engage fully in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS ALLOWS YOU TO:

› earn 12–20 credits

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships with faculty

and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 16, 2012

Applications are reviewed

on a rolling admissions basis

until the closing deadline.

Financial aid is available.

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Summer Program with Optional Fall Extension May 29–August 3, 2012Professors Tim Hickey and Pito Salas12–20 credits (prerequisites: COS11a and 12b, or 21a)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Are you an innovator? Here is your chance to prove it.

Engage in the cutting-edge theory and practice of developing

Web-based applications in this start-up-style computer

science program. Each week brings a diverse schedule of

lectures, hands-on lab work, discussions, student presenta-

tions and talks by guest lecturers from the Greater Boston

tech community. Learn the foundations and pragmatics

of engineering a serious bit of software through the use

of Ruby on Rails, Pivotal Tracker, Eclipse, GIT and all the

modern tools of the trade. Experience the excitement of

conceiving, designing and actually building a cool and real

software product!

Web Services and Social NetworksCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJUSTICE BRANDEIS SEMESTER

CURRICULUM

COSI 152aj Web Application Programming

COSI 152bj Engineering Social Networks

COSI 154aj The JBS Incubator

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“To all of my friends who have even a

peripheral interest in Web development,

I would recommend this program

enthusiastically.”

JBS summer 2010 student

www.brandeis.edu/jbs ABOUT JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to engage fully in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS ALLOWS YOU TO:

› earn 12–20 credits

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships with faculty

and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 16, 2012

Applications are reviewed

on a rolling admissions basis

until the closing deadline.

Financial aid is available.

Summer ProgramMay 29–August 3, 201210 weeksProfessor Elizabeth Ferry12 credits (prerequisites: one anthropology course or permission from instructor)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Here is your chance truly to take the reins of your academic

career. Learning along with your peers under the guidance

of a professor, you will design and conduct an independent

field research project of your own choosing in the Boston

area. Learn and practice interview techniques, field note

taking and management, and participant observation, all

while exploring a topic you are passionate about. The final

project will be tailored to your research and might be

a proposal and chapter for a senior thesis, short video,

website design, PowerPoint presentation, podcast,

curriculum or other project.

Ethnographic Fieldwork

COLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJUSTICE BRANDEIS SEMESTER

CURRICULUM

Enroll in the first two courses:

ANTH 183aj Anthropological Inquiry

NEW! ANTH 181aj Ethnographic Research

And choose one of the following:

ANTH 98aj Individual Readings and Research in Anthropology

ANTH 99aj Senior Research

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“This learning environment is much

more conducive to gaining fuller, more

rooted knowledge, as it enables students

to make personal connections with the

course material.”

JBS summer 2010 student

ABOUT JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to engage fully in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS ALLOWS YOU TO:

› earn 12–20 credits

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships with faculty

and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 16, 2012

Applications are reviewed

on a rolling admissions basis

until the closing deadline.

Financial aid is available.

Fall 2011September 1–December 21, 2011Professor Laura Goldin, with Dr. James Stewart, Ted Myatt, Joseph Allen, Matt Fragala16 credits (no prerequisites)

Program overview

Engage directly with the community as you delve into the

law, policy, social impacts and science of environmental

health challenges facing individuals and families today.

Focus on low-income, diverse communities burdened by

pollution and lack of access to safe housing, healthy food

and open space. Alongside community members and at-risk

youth, students will work to reduce childhood lead exposure,

prevent homelessness, create urban gardens and produce

an environmental health study addressing key questions.

Gain critical knowledge and practical skills on housing and

toxics law, negotiation, advocacy, client counseling, study

design and much more. Tackle real issues — all as you learn!

Environmental Health and JusticeCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJuSTicE BrAnDEiS SEMESTEr

CurriCulum

amST 102aj Environment, Social Justice and

Empowerment

BiSC 6bj Environmental Health

New! eNvS 102aj Field research and Study Methods

aBouT JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to fully engage in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS allowS you To:

› earn 16 credits

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships

with faculty and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

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Financial aid is available.

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“Everything we did — learning in the classroom,

studying books and other writings, visiting

and working with organizations, meeting with

professionals — blended together to form an

almost seamless whole, and i left the program

feeling that i learned an interconnected

system rather than just one part of it.”

JBS Environmental Health and Justice summer 2010 student

Summer ProgramMay 31—July 22, 2011Professor David Cunningham12 credits (no prerequisites)

Program overview

Students will spend eight weeks in Mississippi immersed

in the legacy of the civil rights struggle. In collaboration

with the University of Mississippi’s William Winter Institute

for Racial Reconciliation and the Mississippi Truth Project,

students will provide research support for Truth Project

participants as they establish an oral history initiative that

creates a space for both victims and perpetrators to tell

their stories and for communities to work toward racial

justice and reconciliation. Engaging with local residents

around the state, students will have the unique opportunity

to apply cutting-edge historical, theoretical and method-

ological techniques to produce original research.

Civil Rights and Racial Justice in MississippiCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJUSTICE BRanDEIS SEMESTER

CurriCulum

SoC 156aj Social Change in american Communities

SoC 97bj Group Readings and Research

SoC 182aj applied Research Methods

aBout JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to fully engage in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS allowS you to:

› earn 12 credits in just eight weeks

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships

with faculty and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

aPPliCation deadline

march 15, 2011

Financial aid is available.

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“Through direct community engagement,

we were able to see the reasons for our

work and possibilities of what our work

could accomplish, which, to me, was highly

motivating and essential in discovering

connections that one would not see or

understand without the experiential learning.”

JBS summer 2010 student

www.brandeis.edu/jbs

Summer ProgramMay 31–July 22, 2011Professors Tim Hickey and Pito Salas12 credits (prerequisites: COS11a and 12b, or 21a)Optional fall extension available

Program overview

Are you an innovator? Here is your chance to prove it.

Engage in the cutting-edge theory and practice of

developing mobile and game applications in this start-up–

style computer science program. Each week brings a diverse

schedule of lectures, hands-on lab work, discussions, student

presentations and talks from guest lecturers from the

Greater Boston tech community. Learn the foundations and

pragmatics of engineering a serious bit of software through

the use of Android, Eclipse, Java, Test Driven Development,

GIT and all the modern tools of the trade. Experience the

excitement of conceiving, designing and actually building a

cool and real software product!

Mobile Applications and Game DevelopmentCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJuSTIcE BrAnDEIS SEMESTEr

CurriCulum

CoSi 153aj Mobile Application Development

CoSi 154aj The JBS Incubator

New! CoSi 153bj Mobile Game Design

aBout JBS

JBS takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to fully engage in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS allowS you to:

› earn 12 credits in just eight weeks

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships

with faculty and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

aPPliCatioN deadliNe

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Financial aid is available.

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“This is an experience that you wouldn’t be

able to get in one semester anywhere else.”

JBS Web Applications and Mobile Development summer 2010 student

www.brandeis.edu/jbs

Summer ProgramMay 31–July 22, 2011Professors Mark Dellelo and Marc Weinberg12 credits (no prerequisites)

Program overview

Have you ever wanted to create a movie? Here is your

chance to explore all phases of the filmmaking process —

screenwriting, production and editing. Working as part of a

team to write, produce, direct and edit a 20- to 30-minute

film, you’ll experience both the elements of narrative

moviemaking and the rigors of a collaborative enterprise that

requires intensive planning, organization and communication.

You’ll receive hands-on instruction in scriptwriting; in the

techniques of movie shooting, including camerawork,

image composition, lighting and cinematography, and

sound recording; and in specialized postproduction tasks

such as trimming, compositing, mixing and color-grading.

Filmmaking: From Script to ScreenCOLLEGE CREDIT. REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.

JBS | BrandeisJustice BranDeis seMester

CurriCulum

eNg 49aj scriptwriting for the short Film

Film 110aj Film Production i

Film 110bj Motion Picture editing

aBout JBS

JBs takes two methods of

study — classroom training and

experiential learning — and joins

them in a unique curriculum that

enables you to fully engage in a

topic you are passionate about.

JBS allowS you to:

› earn 12 credits in just eight weeks

› fulfill many university requirements

› build close relationships

with faculty and peers

› engage with the community

› open avenues for internships

› expand your network

› acquire skills for your future

aPPliCatioN deadliNe

march 15, 2011

Financial aid is available.

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“JBs helped me gain useful skills that

i can apply in a real-world job.”

JBS summer 2010 student

www.brandeis.edu/jbs