New Bedford Center

800 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: 508-990-1160

The New Bedford Center for Professional and Continuing Education is an outreach facility of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Division of Professional & Continuing Education, which serves as the community's outreach and recruitment resource for Life-Long Learning. The Center serves the community through outreach and recruitment for adult and youth educational programs, job training and skills development opportunities. The facility, located in a central city location and accessible by public transportation, is an environmentally friendly atmosphere for all students, is responsive to the needs of persons with disabilities, and is a caring learning environment.

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Non Credit Courses

There are many non credit courses offered at our New Bedford Center, please consult the Non Credit Course Descriptions for dates, times, location and detailed course and registration information.

For more information about the New Bedford Center, please contact: Robert Fortes, Assistant Dean at 508-990-1160 or email him at rfortes@umassd.edu.

Credit Courses at the New Bedford Center

Please consult the Credit Course Descriptions for detailed course information. You may register for semester courses currently at our Dartmouth campus or our Fall River campus; or by phone with a major credit card at 508-990-1160 or 508-999-9129. For text book information, please visit our General Information page.

Click here for a complete list of Upcoming PCE Courses.

Attention Students: The courses below do not include the $30.00 registration fee, a one time charge per semester. Please visit our Tuition & Fees page for detailed information.

ANT 350 Read Soc & Anthro Lit
CJS 350 Read Soc & Anthro Lit
CJS 357 Justice & Society
EDU 551 Contmp Issu & Challenges
ENL 200 Studies In Literature
HST 323 Europe In 19Th Century
PHL 326 Philosophy Of Law
PSY 215 Adolescent Psychology
SOC 350 Read Soc & Anthro Lit
SOC 357 Justice & Society

SPA 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPA 102 Elementary Spanish II

Course Descriptions

ANT 350 - Read Soc & Anthro Lit

3 credits
Directed readings and analysis in selected sociological topics. Cross-listed as WMS 350 with appropriate topic.

Section 5102 - Topic: Maritime Communities
Class #: 2730
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Cabral, Stephen L
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 7 Week, 06/02/2008 - 07/22/2008
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Thursday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Anthropological perspective on New Bedford and Fairhaven waterfronts and historical connections with other maritime communities. Examination of historical whaling and modern fishing industries.

CJS 350 - Read Soc & Anthro Lit

3 credits
Directed readings and analysis in selected sociological topics. Cross-listed as WMS 350 with appropriate topic.

Section 5101 - Topic: Psychiatry, Crime & Law
Class #: 2573
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Roderick, Dennis B
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 1st 5 Week, 05/27/2008 - 06/30/2008
Monday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

CJS 357 - Justice & Society

3 credits
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: SOC 101 or equivalent; Junior standing or permission of instructor
An introduction to the wider cultural and legal contexts of the criminal justice system. The course draws on the sociology of law and the police, as well as the functioning of the courts in order to understand the concept of law, the notion of the rule of law, due process, and the role of constraint in law enforcement in a democratic society. Cross-listed as CJS 357.

Section 5101
Class #: 2668
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Roderick, Dennis B
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 2nd 5 Week, 07/07/2008 - 08/06/2008
Monday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

EDU 551 - Contmp Issu & Challenges

3 credits D
Education topics of current interest. Recently offered topics include authentic assessment, leadership mentoring, and teaching and learning. May be repeated with change of content.

Section 5101 - Topic: Math in Motion
Class #: 2673
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 843.00
Instructor: L'Homme, Joan M
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - Unique Start Dates, Special Dates: 07/14/2008 - 07/18/2008
Monday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Thursday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Friday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Mathematics learning comes to life in the original standards based classroom. Lessons taught will encourage practice in collecting and organizing data, measuring and scaling objects, patterning, counting, estimating and more. Hands-on creative and interdisciplinary approaches to connect language arts, math, and the arts will be presented. Teaching shapes, proportion, geometric shapes and patterns, connections, mathematical themes and designs are included. Community based art partnerships exploring the world of math and its impact across the curriculum will be explored and taught. The following course has very unique meeting dates & times and may also have unique costs. Please contact the University Enrollment Center for specific cost information. 508-999-8775. Thank you.

Section 5102 - Topic: Character & Self Esteem
Class #: 2674
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 843.00
Instructor: L'Homme, Joan M
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - Unique Start Dates, Special Dates: 08/11/2008 - 08/15/2008
Monday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Thursday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Friday, 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
This course is designed to provide experienced teachers with the skills and knowledge base needed to address instructional issues in the classroom. Based on their diverse teaching and learning experiences, teachers ill work in their specific areas of the expertise and in their understanding of the teaching and learning process as part of an interdisciplinary, character and self esteem connection to the language arts, health, reading, the arts and the collaborative community. The connection will bridge the curriculum through hands-on student centered activities. Teachers will explore ways to integrate content for meaningful learning and will teach language arts and reading in all the content areas listed using the language arts, health, music, and the E.L.A. and Massachusetts Arts Framework as a basis for bridging curriculum. This course has unique meeting dates & times and may also have unique costs. Please contact UEC for specific cost information, 508-999-8775.

ENL 200 - Studies In Literature

3 credits C
Prerequisites: Prereq: ENL 102
A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children's Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as AAS 200; LST 200.

Section 5101 - Topic: Read / Write about the Ocean
Class #: 2677
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Waxler, Robert P
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - Unique Start Dates, Special Dates: 07/07/2008 - 07/11/2008
Monday, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Thursday, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Friday, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
A study of the ocean through reading of novels, short stories and through writing. Focus on Melville, Conrad and Hemingway, with field trips to historic sites.The following course has very unique meeting dates & times and may have unique costs. Please contact the University Enrollment Center for specific cost information. 508-999-8775. Thank you.

HST 323 - Europe In 19Th Century

3 credits C, G
Prerequisites: Prereq: Course not open to Freshmen students
The major political, economic, intellectual and social developments in Europe from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I.

Section 5101
Class #: 3001
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Baden, Steven J
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 7 Week, 06/02/2008 - 07/22/2008
Monday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

PHL 326 - Philosophy Of Law

3 credits C
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Semester course in Philosophy or permission of instructor
Approaches to the philosophy of law. The course addresses questions like, What gives meaning to law? How is the law interpreted, or how are judicial interpretations justified? What is the relationship between law and morality, or law and culture or custom? The course examines a number of state and Supreme Court opinions (on issues like free speech and expressive liberties, reproductive issues, obscenity, legal ethics, jury nullification, and hate crime legislation) with a critical eye toward their philosophical or juridical soundness. This course is valuable for those considering careers in law, public affairs or politics.

Section 7501
Class #: 2705
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 744.00
Instructor: Rowland, Mia Donna
This section is a blended course.
Summer 2008 - 2nd 5 Week, 07/07/2008 - 08/06/2008
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
To view DETAILED COURSE INFORMATION and/or COURSE SYLLABUS click here (opens as a .pdf file)

PSY 215 - Adolescent Psychology

3 credits
Prerequisites: PSY 101
A survey of theories of adolescent personality development, psychopathology and current issues in the field.

Section 5101
Class #: 3136
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Burr, Robin C
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 2nd 5 Week, 07/07/2008 - 08/06/2008
Monday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

SOC 350 - Read Soc & Anthro Lit

3 credits
Directed readings and analysis in selected sociological topics. Cross-listed as WMS 350 with appropriate topic.

Section 5101 - Topic: Psychiatry, Crime & Law
Class #: 2638
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Roderick, Dennis B
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 1st 5 Week, 05/27/2008 - 06/30/2008
Monday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

Section 5102 - Topic: Maritime Communities
Class #: 2745
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Cabral, Stephen L
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 7 Week, 06/02/2008 - 07/22/2008
Tuesday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Thursday, 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Anthropological perspective on New Bedford and Fairhaven waterfronts and historical connections with other maritime communities. Examination of historical whaling and modern fishing industries.

SOC 357 - Justice & Society

3 credits
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: SOC 101 or equivalent; Junior standing or permission of instructor
An introduction to the wider cultural and legal contexts of the criminal justice system. The course draws on the sociology of law and the police, as well as the functioning of the courts in order to understand the concept of law, the notion of the rule of law, due process, and the role of constraint in law enforcement in a democratic society. Cross-listed as CJS 357.

Section 5101
Class #: 2725
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Roderick, Dennis B
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 2nd 5 Week, 07/07/2008 - 08/06/2008
Monday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

SPA 101 - Elementary Spanish I

3 credits C, G
Essentials of aural-oral, reading and writing with intensive drilling on pronunciation, intonation and grammar.

Section 5101
Class #: 2640
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Massano, Giulio
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 1st 5 Week, 05/27/2008 - 06/30/2008
Monday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

SPA 102 - Elementary Spanish II

3 credits C, G
Prerequisites: SPA 101 or equivalent
Continuation of SPA 101.

Section 5101
Class #: 2727
Status: Enrolling
Tuition & fees: $ 636.00
Instructor: Massano, Giulio
This section is a classroom course.
Summer 2008 - 2nd 5 Week, 07/07/2008 - 08/06/2008
Monday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Tuesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000
Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, New Bedford Center, NBCE 000

Contact Info:

Email: continuinged@umassd.edu
New Bedford: 508-990-1160 ~ Fall River: 508-678-3636 ~ Dartmouth: 508-999-8071 ~ Fairhaven: 774-929-3002