Experiential Education: Process And Practice
This course is designed for students to examine and apply theoretical and practical foundations of Experiential Education within classroom and community-based educational environments.
This course is designed for students to examine and apply theoretical and practical foundations of Experiential Education within classroom and community-based educational environments.
The purpose of this course is to develop an applied humanistic understanding of communication and life skills for high-stress situations. Using the apocalypse as a metaphor for all-hazards scenarios, historical narratives of disaster and films and novels in the zombie genre are used to discuss emergency preparedness and survival strategies.
This course provides students with basic knowledge about the issues of global public health and its importance to all peoples of the globe. After receiving an introduction to the principles and goals of global public health, students will begin to acquire functional knowledge of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of global public health practice.
This course will acquaint students with the major issues and challenges for public health in a variety of wealthy, emerging, and impoverished nations and with the impact of local or regional issues on national and/or global levels.
Course participants will develop leadership skills in curriculum and instruction through a variety of research-based analytic practices such as lesson study, observation, mentoring, dialogic and collaborative work in the context of a school learning community. Clinical/field/practicum experiences provide experience identifying a research problem, planning a course of action, and implementing and evaluating the action plan to improve learning results in K-12 classrooms. This course is designed as a hybrid workshop as follows. The class begins with a one-week intensive summer experience.
This course provides an overview of micromachined structures with an emphasis on operational theory and fabrication technology.
Engineering Exploration I introduces students to the engineering and computer science professions, College of Engineering degree programs, and opportunities for career path exploration. Topics and assignments include study skills, team development, ethics, problem solving and basic engineering tools for modeling, analysis and visualization. Open to students enrolled in the College of Engineering. Students who received credit for EGR 112 are not eligible for EGR 101.
A course investigating contrasting traditions of American poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several poets are examined within historical and literary contexts, and their poems examined in detail through close reading, with attention paid in particular to stylistic/formal characteristics. Poets studied may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Readings in the poetry and prose non-fiction of the period with relevant scholarship.
This course deals with chemical, biochemical, and enzymatic significance of proteins in food systems; physicochemical and functional properties of animal and plant proteins, their interactions with lipids, carbohydrates, flavors, minerals and other food components during processing and storage, and resulting modifications of food quality.