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Lighting And Sound Tech

An introduction to lighting and sound practice in today's theatre. Lighting topics include use and maintenance of lighting equipment, photometrics, basic theatrical wiring and modern theatre systems. Sound topics include use of sound equipment for enhancement and reinforcement of theatrical productions and basic sound editing.

Biomedical Engineering Ethics

This course presents an engineering-based approach to study the system of ethics applicable to biomedical engineering. This course will describe and examine the responsibilities of biomedical engineers to stakeholders, e.g. patients, research subjects, and engineering clients as well as to the legal system (where applicable) and the profession as an entity. As a scholarly discipline, biomedical engineering ethics draws upon principles from subjects such as: the philosophy of science, the philosophy of engineering, and the ethics of technology.

Steel Structures

Behavior, analysis, and design of compression members, laterally braced and unbraced beams, beam-columns, composite beams, tension members, directly loaded bolted and welded connections, and column base plates. Evaluation of frame stability. Prerequisite: CE 382 and engineering standing, or consent of instructor.

Ouita Papka Michel (Political Science B.A. ’87)

Since 2001, when Ouita Michel and her husband, Chris, opened their flagship Holly Hill Inn in Midway, Kentucky, she has made locally grown ingredients a priority in her cuisine. Michel’s restaurants have bought $3 million of Kentucky-grown meats, dairy and produce. She has been a James Beard Foundation Award nominee numerous times; her most recent nomination was in 2020 for Outstanding Restaurateur.

Dr. George C. Wright (History B.A. ’72; Sociology M.A. ’74; Honorary Doctorate ’04)

George C. Wright received his bachelor’s degree in history from UK in 1972, his master’s degree in history from UK in 1974 and his Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 1977. Wright’s teaching experience began in 1997 as an assistant professor of history at UK. In 1980, he started teaching at the University of Texas at Austin, where he eventually became a full professor and the holder of the Mastin Gentry White professorship of Southern History.

Dr. Patricia A. Cooper (Gender & Women’s Studies)

Patty Cooper, born in 1949, grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her feminist consciousness and anti-war activism arose while she was an undergraduate student at Mary Washington College and Wittenberg University from 1967 to 1971. Eager to help rewrite the conventional narrative of U.S. history, Cooper started graduate studies in 1972 at the University of Maryland. She focused on women’s, Black and working-class history and held assistantships with the Booker T.

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