This course is designed to meet the needs of intermediate-level students of Arabic as well as members of the business community who wish to learn Arabic for professional purposes. The topics cover travel, social, and business interactions. The course also introduces and engages with a variety of current, authentic and primary Arabic materials through the language of the newspapers, magazines, Internet news sites, and TV news. Some of the media topics that will be covered are meetings and conferences, elections, and demonstrations and social protest.

This course builds on and expands the business, travel, and social topics covered in AIS 311 through additional and more complex situations and interactions, such as shopping, going around town, at the sales office, at the post office, at the bank, renting and buying a house and a lot of land. The course also expands on the media topics covered in the first part of this course, in terms of both variety and difficulty. Some of the new topics will be elections, conflict and terrorism, business, cultural and social news.

Health care reform is often in the news, and everyone has an opinion on why the system is broken, how to fix it, who should have access to good medical care, under what circumstances, and what constitutes "good care." This online, multi-format course will consider what it has meant to be a good patient or a good doctor at various points in U.S. history, who was included or excluded in each group, how medicine became professionalized, and how people have organized around health issues.

Health care reform is often in the news, and everyone has an opinion on why the system is broken, how to fix it, who should have access to good medical care, under what circumstances, and what constitutes "good care." This online, multi-format course will consider what it has meant to be a good patient or a good doctor at various points in U.S. history, who was included or excluded in each group, how medicine became professionalized, and how people have organized around health issues.

This course is especially designed for music teachers who wish to acquire knowledge and skills in Dalcroze pedagogy and musicianship. There are two parts of this course: on-site participation and a Blackboard component. Students will be immersed in the principal subjects of the Dalcroze approach: eurhythmics, solfège, and improvisation. The on-site session provides creative experiences of hands-on activities and the Blackboard component covers assignments related to the philosophy, history, composition, lesson designs, and discussion of the Dalcroze approach in music education.

This is an introductory/intermediate level course on the relationships between environment and economic development. While this course emphasizes environmental concerns of the 'Global South,' this course will also cover instances of 'Global Northern' peoples and places, particularly in less privileged areas such as Appalachia. The course examines the political economy of environmental destruction by asking why, despite much significant research, environmentally destructive development schemes continue.

An introductory course of an interdisciplinary, topical, or experimental nature which may be used toward partial fulfillment of the Natural, Physical, or Mathematical Sciences requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences. Each pilot or experimental course must be approved by the department chair and by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; a particular title may be offered no more than three times under this course number. Open to all university students, subject to controlled enrollment or prerequisites as set by the instructor.

An introductory course of an interdisciplinary, topical, or experimental nature which may be used toward partial fulfillment of the Natural, Physical, or Mathematical Sciences requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences. Each pilot or experimental course must be approved by the department chair and by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; a particular title may be offered no more than three times under this course number. Open to all university students, subject to controlled enrollment or prerequisites as set by the instructor.

An introductory course of an interdisciplinary, topical, or experimental nature which may be used toward partial fulfillment of the Humanities requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences. Each pilot or experimental course must be approved by the department chair and by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; a particular title may be offered no more than three times under this course number. Open to all university students, subject to controlled enrollment or prerequisites as set by the instructor. May be repeated under different subtitles up to 12 SCH.

An introductory course of an interdisciplinary, topical, or experimental nature which may be used toward partial fulfillment of the Social Sciences requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences Each pilot or experimental course must be approved by the department chair and by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; a particular title may be offered no more than three times under this course number. Open to all university students, subject to controlled enrollment or prerequisites as set by the instructor. May be repeated under different subtitles up to 12 SCH.