FSB Topics

UMUC-Europe Faculty Speakers Bureau members have volunteered to speak on the following topics. Each topic is listed only once even though it may fit in more than one category. Thus, you should browse several categories to find topics of interest. Participants may be willing to speak on additional subjects related to the topics they have listed. Link to the speaker's name in parentheses after the topic for more information about the speaker, including an e-mail address for contacting him or her. For more information about FSB, please visit our main FSB page.

Topics by Category

The Arts

War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
Neapolis, Athens of the West (Nucci)
Tales of Amphitheaters, B.C. (Nucci)
Documentary or Posed Art?: The Techniques of Robert Mapplethorpe's Photography (Powers)
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Business and Economics

American Mistakes Concerning the International Cultural Environment (Henderson)
Constructing a Business Plan (Tevis-Noelting)
Development of Strategies for Personal Investment and Wealth Maximization (Massey)
Economic Restructuring and Liberalization in the Eastern Block (Massey)
International Business and Marketing (Brod)
International Law Applied to Business (Henderson)
Issues in Small and Personal Business Management (Tevis-Noelting)
Issues in Transitional Litigation (Henderson)
Leading and Managing in International Business (Henderson)
Performance and Motivation (Rambow)
Quality Management System of Dr. S. Edward Deming (Rose)
Soviet/Russian Economics (Colegrove)
Starting a Business, in Germany vs. in the U.S. (Tevis-Noelting)
Teamwork and Leadership in Organizations (Rambow)
Ten Ways to Improve Your Business Writing (Powers)
World Business (Ertl)
World Economic Change (Ertl)
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Education

Affective Variables in Foreign Language Learning (Taubitz)
Contemporary Trends in Language Teaching (Taubitz)
Education in Eastern Europe (Johnson)
Education Italian-style (Nucci)
Meeting the Challenge Transitioning from Classroom to Online Instructor: Myths and Tips (Powers)
Psychodynamics in the Classroom (Taubitz)
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Ethics

Business Ethics and Society (Brod)
Selected Topics on Medical Ethics (Melley)
Truth-telling and Perceived Incompetence (Melley)
Why Be Ethical? (Melley)
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Europe

Business and Economics in the European Union (Rambow)
The Challenge of European Integration: Introduction of a Common Currency (Massey)
Economic and Political Unification of Europe (K. Hoepffner)
The Enlargement of the European Movement (K. Hoepffner)
Euro Interaction (Ertl)
Euro: Money in Europe (Ertl)
European Union (Brod)
The Single Currency - a Milestone to a United Europe (K. Hoepffner)
Russian history (Hatlie)
German history (Hatlie)
Baltic history (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
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Government and Politics

The Constitutional System of the Federal Republic of Germany (K. Hoepffner)
The Rule of Law as a Foundation for Germany's Democracy (K. Hoepffner)
Electing the President (Schlundt)
John F. Kennedy in Historical Perspective (Schlundt)
U.S.A.: World Leader? (Ertl)
U.S. Electoral System (Rose)
U.S. Foreign Policy Interest (Rose)
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Health

Getting Nations on Their Feet: A Cross-cultural View of Efforts to Promote Health-enhancing Physical Activity (Jones-Palm) Healthy Aging in a Couch Potato World: The Importance of Physical Activity in Maximizing Health (Jones-Palm)
Keeping Kids Healthy: Health Risks Behavior of Youth (Jones-Palm)
The Marlboro Man vs. the Public Health: International Perspectives on the Health Consequences of Tobacco (Jones-Palm)
Social Factors in Health and Illness (Jones-Palm)
When Injury is No Accident: A Look at Social-psychological Factors in Injury in Youth and Young Adults (Jones-Palm)
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History

Russian history (Hatlie)
Baltic history (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) (Hatlie)
German history (Hatlie)
Is America an Empire? (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
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Law

Property Issues: How to Hold Property, the Effect of Community and Separate Property(Tevis-Noelting)
Women, Business, and the Law (Tevis-Noelting)
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Literature

Agrarian Metaphors in Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Powers)
Critical Approaches to Literature (Taubitz)
Europe Through American Eyes: What Edith Wharton and Henry James Have to Say (Powers)
Killing the "Angel Within": What Virginia Woolf Offers Contemporary Women's Groups and Feminism (Powers)
Poetry and Prose for the Classroom (Taubitz)
Style in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Powers)
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Military

War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
Effective Military Writing for Staff Officers and Senior NCOs (Powers)
Women in the Military (Johnson)
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Miscellaneous

Atheism (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
Interviewing Skills and Résumé Writing (Rambow)
Religious Cults (Rose)
UFOs (Rose)
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Multiculturalism

American Mistakes concerning the International Cultural Environment (Henderson)
Comparative European and American Legal Systems (Henderson)
Education Italian-style (Nucci)
German Christmas Customs (H. Hoepffner)
German Easter Customs (H. Hoepffner)
International Law Applied to Business (Henderson)
The Italian Family: Yesterday and Today (Nucci)
The Italian Woman: Who Is She? (Nucci)
Leading and Managing in International Business (Henderson)
Multiculturalism Toward the Year 2000: A Brief Survey of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature (Powers)
Outside-Inside: Coping with Multicultural Challenges of Family and Life as a Foreigner (Jones-Palm)
These Strange German Ways (H. Hoepffner)
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Philosophy

How Can a Philosopher Help Others in an Organizational Setting? (Melley)
Therapeutic Uses of Philosophy (Melley)
Atheism (Hatlie)
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Psychology

Worldwide Trends in Aging and How They Promise to Transform and Challenge Our Future (Jones-Palm)
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Science and Mathematics

Acoustic Propagation in the Ocean (Ruiz-Canavate)
Air-sea Interaction (Ruiz-Canavate)
Cauchy-Navier Splines (Brudowsky)
Climatic Change: The Greenhouse Effect (Ruiz-Canavate)
The Strait of Gibraltar: Oceanographic and Acoustic Variability (Ruiz-Canavate)
Vector: Spherical Harmonics (Brudowsky)
Vector: Spherical Splines (Brudowsky)
What Is Oceanography? (Ruiz-Canavate)
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Sociology

Future U.S. Issues: Work, Families, Education (Johnson)
Graying in America (Johnson)
Media as Socializer (Johnson)
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Travel

Guided Tours of Würzburg (H. Hoepffner)
Travel Photography (Colegrove)
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United States

Is America an empire? (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
Sport in the U.S. vs. Sport in Europe: Differences in Organization, Meaning, Opportunity (Jones-Palm)
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Last updated: 23 August 2007