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3.00 Credits
Identical to PORT 124.
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1.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the music and folk culture of the Southern Appalachians, including Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. It pays particular attention to the unique pre-World War II styles of rural dance music, social and religious music, and early commercially recorded music, including the old time string band, jug bands, clawhammer style of banjo playing, unaccompanied fiddling, shape note singing, and balladry. Students study the history, development, and structure of these regional music styles and are introduced to playing the music themselves in an old time string band or jug band. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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1.00 Credits
Introduces students to knitting techniques as well as historical and sociological aspects of the handcraft. Knitting has emerged as a social and commercial phenomenon, newly popular in particular with young people. At the same time, knitting is an ancient craft and part of a long preindustrial tradition of home production in Europe and North America. Students learn the basics of knitting, including choosing the right needles and yarn gauge for a pattern, casting on and off, the garter stitch, the stockinette stitch, following a pattern, and fixing mistakes. Students begin by completing a scarf, and then choose a simple project from the instructional book to complete individually. Meanwhile, class readings and discussions will explore the history and current sociological significance of knitting. Pass/fail grading. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to the history, technique, biology, and practices of apiculture. It is an introduction to the fundamentals and pleasures of keeping bees as either a hobby or a business. The long history of beekeeping around the world, the various metaphorical and cultural meanings assigned to bees and beekeeping over time, the development of the Langstroth hive, and the theories behind the most modern hive management practices are studied. Essentials such as building of hives, supers, and frames, the capture of swarms, the installation of packaged bees, management of the hive throughout the seasons, requeening, and the harvesting of a honey crop are also studied. The basics of bee biology and hive organization, and the critically important methods of preventing disease and maintaining a healthy, productive colony are also covered. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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3.00 Credits
On-site study of the Rocky Mountain environment. Students study the nature and interrelation of plants and animals of montane, subalpine, and alpine life zones; aquatic ecology; geological history; and the impact of humans, including native American cultures, mining, and recent environmental issues in this area. Combination lecture and field course with study trips to a mountain stream, glacier lake, beaver pond, the continental divide, and historic mines and mining towns and canyons of the Great Plateau. Offered each summer.
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3.00 Credits
The historical, philosophical, and sociological foundations of the instructional design based on assessment data (the relationships among assessment, instruction, and monitoring student progress to include student performance measures in grading practices, the ability to construct and interpret valid assessments using a variety of formats in order to measure student attainment of essential skills in a standards-based environment, and the ability to analyze assessment data to make decisions about how to improve instruction and student performance) are addressed. Cultural and contemporary issues of the school as a socializing agent are explored. Offered each semester.
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1.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to a career field of choice, an externship experience within that career field, and subsequent reporting and processing. Students spend the first week researching careers and the site at which they will extern. The second week consists of the on-site externship. The final week is used to document, process and present the lessons learned. Prerequisite: consent. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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3.00 Credits
Students explore, assess, analyze and apply feminist theories as they relate to themselves and to the women of the Caribbean. The course focuses on the social, political and cultural similarities and differences among American and Caribbean women. Students take a trip to one of the Caribbean islands for further research and study. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of some issue or aspect of culture from the perspective of more than one academic discipline. Often team-taught, and always created just for the honors program, these courses require significant reading, research, and writing. Exemplary work can receive an H (honors) grade. This course may be repeated for credit as the topic varies. Prerequisite: admission into the honors program or consent. Offered each year.
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3.00 Credits
A 15-day summer-study program based in Chamonix, France, in the heart of the Mont-Blanc region. The ecology, biology, geology and history of the Alpine region is studied. Included in the course is an examination (including ethical considerations) of the impact of humans upon this environment. Lectures and field course work with study trips to mountain peaks, lakes, rivers, meadows and villages are used to familiarize students with this majestic area. INST 290 students focus on the Chamonix/Mont-Blanc region with daily minibus excursions to the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. INST 292 includes daily (and possibly overnight) hikes in the Mont-Blanc region, taking students through the spectacular French, Italian and Swiss Alps. Prerequisite: consent. Offered summer of odd-numbered years.
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