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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Each Fall and Spring Semesters Introduction to Latin grammar and pronunciation. Development of listening, reading, and writing skills, and of the crosscultural effects of Latin on the English language and of the Romans upon American life. No previous experience necessary.
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Three Credits Each Fall and Spring Semesters Intensive review of Latin grammar with an emphasis on the development of reading comprehension. Materials used will include a variety of readings in Latin. For students with 2-3 years of high school Latin or LA 131-LA 132
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3.00 Credits
Three credits These seminars form the third course of each sophomore Learning Community. The two faculty guide students in the integrated use of the knowledge gained from each disciplinary course to better understand an issue or solve a problem. This active integration by the students may be prompted by a variety of teaching methods, including traditional seminar methods, independent research, community-based learning, or short-term travel.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters The seminar addresses medical issues of widespread concern: how diseases are diagnosed and treated; how structures of health care delivery affect health status; and, how to develop appropriate assertiveness intervention skills for success as a patient in the modern health care system. Class involves guest lectures, visits to health care institutions, travel to the state house to see the legislative process at work, and team exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Computers provide us with tools to explore mathematics in deeper ways than ever before. They allow empirical testing of mathematical conjectures with elusive proofs. Computers enable us to experimentally analyze algorithms whose performance defies theoretical analysis. This LC focuses on the delicate balance between theory and practice in computer science, revealing the dual and sometimes contradictory nature of computer science as both an engineering and a mathematical discipline.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Students select, read, and critique primary literature that ties together topics currently being learned in Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry II in order to develop their abilities to understand and critically analyze the literature. The seminar culminates with student teams proposing an experiment or series of experiments that addresses a specific area of interest on the boundary between organic chemistry and cell biology. These proposals are presented in both written and oral forms allowing fellow students to evaluate and expand upon the proposed ideas.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 This LC considers the implications of evolutionary theory for a wide array of social and scientific problems affecting children. Until recently, Darwin's idea has had a more direct impact on biology and "hard" sciencethan on psychology, sociology and cognitive science. This learning community engages students' curiosity about and understanding of new applications of evolutionary thinking in the latter areas. It explores the serious consequences (Kansas, the Bell Curve) for public policy when evolutionary theory is poorly understood.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 In this LC, students uncover and experiment with the relationship between writing and visual art; explore how the two create a synergy, each expanding and complicating the mystery of the other. Students meet working writers and visual artists, take field trips, view films, and make a happy mess in the studio. They keep notebooks of their own verbal and visual discoveries, and as a class, read, discuss, brainstorm, dialogue, critique, and encourage one another in this colorful adventure.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 In this LC, students will apply knowledge from the disciplinary courses to serve organizations addressing environmental and social justice problems. Such community-based learning will help each student understand the challenges and rewards of attempting to 'change the world' as well as develop avariety of transferable skills in leadership, organizing and communication.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 The third course in this LC is a travel course - students travel to Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow), the Czech Republic (Prague), and Germany (Berlin). There, they examine historical sites associated with the Nazi Holocaust, sites significant to and representative of Jewish life and religious experience in Europe before the Holocaust, and those that demonstrate the rejuvenation of Jewish life in the locations today.
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