Special Topics

About Special Topics

Special Topics courses are offered through several MCC departments and change regularly.To enroll for a special topic, you will need the course ID number and CRN.

Click on each listing’s ID and name to reveal the CRN and course details.

Spring 2025 Special Topics

Arts, Humanities, Communication & Design

CRN: 23418  |  Thursdays, 9-1:30am  |  Hybrid Class 

Meets on MCC campus from 2/10 to 5/10, 2025

Dive into the fundamentals of music production, including the use of DAWs (digital audio workstations), recording techniques, and collaborative project creation. This course combines hands-on practice with an exploration of how production influences music, fostering both technical skills and creative expression.  

CRN: 23383 |  Asynchronous Online

Class runs from 2/10 to 5/10, 2025

This course dives into North U.S. American representations of women’s bodies through two lenses: The perspective of entities that seek to control perceptions of and potentially oppress women, and the perspective of those women who protest, push-back, and shatter those oppressive expectations.  
Students will contextualize history and their own lived experience through responding to readings, experiencing art, and engaging in historical analysis. We will dive into women and medicine, the Equal Rights Movement, and LGBTQIA+ issues through modern critical and anti-colonial lenses. Students will complete a summative project in one of several formats such as art, poetry, the essay, or creative non-fiction.

Education, Behavioral and Social Sciences

CRN: 23432  |  Tuesdays, 2-4:30pm  |  Zoom Class

This course will be a wide-ranging exploration of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome with an emphasis upon the enduring impact of these civilizations in areas such as politics, philosophy, art, architecture, literature, and entertainment. 

CRN: 24903  |  Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am-1:30pm  |  MCC Campus  |  8-Week Class

This course will be an exploration on the history of the automobile and its long-lasting impacts on society. This course will not only understand how vehicles have changed, but also study the impacts of the Industrial Revolution, the assembly line, union history, and more.

CRN: 24289  |  Thursdays, 11am-1:30pm  |  MCC Campus

This course explores the structure and function of state and local government in the United States, with an emphasis on their roles as partners with the federal government in a system of cooperative federalism.  This course places a special emphasis on how the peculiar features of the American political system shape the ability of state and local governments to cope with issues of pressing public policy concern, such as educational quality, racial discrimination, poverty, criminal justice, and environmental protection.

CRN: 24902  |  Online Only

This course will focus on controversial issues in today’s contemporary American political landscape. Students will study some of the most significant Supreme Court Cases in US history, as well as learning the difference between the main schools of Constitutional interpretation (originalism, textualism and a living constitution) and how to apply them. Topics will be examined through a multiple of stakeholders and how their competing interests are fused together with concepts like the public good, political authority, liberty, justice, civil rights, and freedom.

CRN: 23069  |  Mondays, 11am-1:30pm  |  MCC Campus 

This course is created to help the student understand issues of health and wellness based on the triangle of health psychology: mind, body, and spirit. It is designed to have the student better understand the role that stress, mindset, positive and negative relationships, and life choices play in one’s overall health.  The course also addresses stress reduction concepts, positive coping styles, the formation of healthy relationships, and the building of healthy lifestyles, as well as the effect that all of these have on one’s overall quality of life.  This course brings to the students’ awareness the factors and behavioral methods that facilitate a resilient quality of life that is very different in nature and practice from the coping style of psychosocial survival. 

Other Information:

  • PSYC235M class can fulfill a Behavioral/Social Science elective.
  • HIST classes can count for a Social Science or Humanities elective.
  • POLS classes can count for a Social Science elective.
  • All of the above classes require College Composition I with a C or higher as a prerequisite. PSYC235M also requires Introduction to Psychology with a C or higher.
Placement testing is helpful for incoming students to feel confident with placement as they begin their studies.
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