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2.00 Credits
In this class, students will be introduced to topics to prepare them for success in STEM fields. Seminars may include: Research Methods; Introduction to Specialized Equipment (e.g. LightScanner for high resolution DNA melting, Mass Spectrometer, Event Related Potentials neural net, etc.); Introduction to Specialized Computer Programs (e.g. SPSS); Maintaining a Lab Notebook; Ethics in Research; Careers in Science; Study Skills; Reading Scientific Literature; Finding the Help You Need; and Preparing a Poster Presentation. TBD
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1.00 Credits
An intensive field trip experience held during May Term. Term. Students and faculty advisors invite alumni or others to join them in visiting other regions of the U.S. or a foreign country. Tour leaders are drawn from several programs at the college.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce McNair Scholars to basic concepts of research from an interdisciplinary approach. Such concepts will include both empirical and more "library-based" research strategies. In addition, scholars will develop skills in both searching for and reading research materials from a number of disciplines, as well as writing for such disciplines.
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2.00 Credits
This interactive course is designed specifically for sophomores as they make important decisions about major choices and career directions. Students begin matching skills with major areas of study and possible career objectives and prepare a comprehensive academic plan and portfolio to help them achieve these goals. This course will help students determine interests and explore strengths and weaknesses to help identify majors of interest. Through assessment, reflective writing, career exploration, and discussion, students will articulate goals, skills, interests, and competencies to provide a better understanding of what is important as they move toward formally declaring a major.
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2.00 Credits
In this course, we will: .study the history of nonviolent activism. .focus on specific activists who developed and practiced nonviolent strategies. .learn about research that supports the efficacy of nonviolent movements. .develop personal practices designed to sustain us emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. .create and engage in nonviolent activism projects within our community/campus/world. We will center our learning on ways to inspire positive social change through insights gained from various fields including: peacebuilding studies, neuroscience and spirituality.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce you to the composing processes and practices necessary for successful professional research. To that end, you will learn and practice rhetorical analysis and principles of organization as they pertain to discipline specific research writing. You will learn strategies for the use and integration, as well as the analysis and synthesis, of primary and secondary sources. In addition, you will learn various techniques and strategies for successfully reading, addressing, and composing responses to timed-writing prompts.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to of link general principles global curriculum to the various fields of study offered at the college by providing student with an understanding of the evolving role of how one engages the world. This semester we will explore the meaning of global citizenship by engaging ourselves more fully in the confluence of global citizenship, civic engagement, and diversity and intercultural knowledge. Secondly, this course will provide students an opportunity to reflect on the questions of personal and social responsibility. This course is a practicum that centers on learning by doing. Prerequisite: Completion of a Writing Emphasis course.
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4.00 Credits
The course on Advanced Interdisciplinary Global Studies (Advanced IGS) endows students with the tools and opportunities to develop and propose concrete solutions and alternatives to complex contemporary global problems. This course will unfold as follows. First students will be presented with a delimited set of highly complex global problems known to scholars in trans-disciplinary and global studies as seemingly "intractable problems". These problems come from the different spheres of ecology, economy, politics, health, and culture, and the interaction among them. Examples of such seemingly "intractable problems" may include the following: the global environmental crisis as evident, for instance, in climate change or the mass extinction of species due to the expansion of human civilization; the global crisis resulting from energy and resource depletion due to overexploitation and overconsumption; the global crisis in the food and water systems due to unsustainable land and water use that leads to soil erosion and water pollution, maldistribution of food and water, and excessive waste; the crisis in the global economic system due to growing concentration of wealth, deepening inequality, continuing poverty, financial volatility, and demographic displacement; the global challenges in health due to the correlation between material deprivation, environmental degradation and proliferating illnesses; or the global crisis of (in)security due to responses to injustice, oppression, exploitation, and violence, or to the rising manifestations of militarism, war, terrorism, conflict and the like, especially as reinforced (or propelled) by misunderstandings and distrust among social groups along categories such as nationality, culture, religion, civilization, race, gender, class and other types of identity. Students will then explore how these problems can actually interact and reinforce each other across different spheres in "perverse" ways that make challenges even more complex and seemingly intractable. Afterwards, students will be challenged to develop a deep critical understanding of the structural and agential drivers behind these problems and to collaboratively find creative ways to overcome such complex challenges, using interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intersectional approaches with global perspectives. The professor will closely mentor throughout the process to guide students in the effort to analyze and deconstruct these seemingly intractable problems and to explore, develop, or creatively prefigure globally inclusive, healthy, socially just and environmentally sustainable alternatives and solutions for one or more of these intersecting issues. In order for students to conduct proper research geared towards the development of solid proposals for alternatives and solutions to global problems, during this seminar students will be exposed to some of the cutting edge in-depth scholarly research and policy work on contemporary global problems, and will be trained in some of the most useful interdisciplinary approaches, theories and methods to address these global problems. Students will also work closely with the professor during the second half of the course to tailor a personalized research agenda containing research materials in accordance with the unique skills and interests of each student. Finally, students will develop as a project a proposal based on substantial scholarly research and geared towards understanding, addressing, and overcoming a specific global problem, or small set of global problems, through concrete solutions or alternatives. The project may result in a research paper or a policy proposal, but may also result in a documentary film, a webpage or another artifact of scholarly quality.
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4.00 Credits
Drawing on multi-faceted concepts ranging from process drama (or other art forms), learning theory, and global learning, this course is an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a civically informed and engaged citizen while making valuable local connections. This team-taught course will emphasize hands-on experiential opportunities to bring process drama (or other art-forms: visual arts/music/movement) classes and activities to local immigrant school-age children. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement.
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1.00 Credits
Allows students to initiate proposals for intensive tutorial-based study of topics not otherwise offered in the Interdisciplinary/ Custom Major Program. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and school dean.
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