This semester, students can analyze popular films, study Shakespearean plays, and learn programming for Droid applications as the University offers a variety of new courses for the fall. The last day to register for fall classes is August 28. For more information about registration, click here.<\/p>\n
USTU 1999<\/strong> Description: \u00a0College students watch and discuss feature films with themes about college life, and relate them to their own experiences. Films include Animal House<\/em>, School Daze<\/em>, Rudy<\/em>, The Social Network<\/em>, Legally Blonde<\/em>, and Accepted<\/em>. Popcorn optional.<\/p>\n CPSC 4999 and 5910<\/strong> These courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate level will explore mobile computing and will concentrate on Droid programming. We will explore current issues in mobile computing including security issues as well as develop a Droid application. Some programming experience is necessary.<\/p>\n ENGL 4980 <\/strong> <\/strong> As a capstone experience for senior English majors, this course considers the culture of literary prizes and the politics of literary competition, taking the\u00a0prestigious\u00a0Booker\u00a0Prize as its primary example. Students will review the 40-year history of the\u00a0prize, but focus on a few particularly intense, instructive\u00a0prize\u00a0years that help define the idea of literature as a commercial and political commodity.\u00a0Students will read novels by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day<\/em>), Martin Amis (Time’s Arrow<\/em>), Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient<\/em>), Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin<\/em>), Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang<\/em>), Zoe Heller (Notes on a Scandal<\/em>), and Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children<\/em>). By emphasizing\u00a0research in the popular press, literary scholarship, and marketing campaigns, the course is especially valuable for students of contemporary literature and cultural rhetoric, creative writers, journalists, and more.<\/p>\n ENGL 4970<\/strong> ENGL 4870<\/strong> There is a rich literary and rhetorical history in the United States surrounding the subject of\u00a0nature and the natural environment.\u00a0 The texts that punctuate\u00a0this history\u2014film, speeches, poetry,\u00a0essays, letters, works of fiction as well legal treatises and policies\u2014are the focus of this course.\u00a0 This course, focused on uniquely-American conversations about environmental issues, challenges students to read and analyze a variety of texts that fall under the rubric of environmental rhetoric as it invites students to become proficient at analyzing past and current environmental conversations as they read historical documents, as they study environmental organizations and campaigns, and as they read works of fiction and non-fiction to determine how rhetorical patterns within these environmental texts have influenced contemporary thinking about human\/nature relationships.\u00a0 Students will read works from writers including Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Barbara Kingsolver, Rick Bass, and Terry Tempest Williams.<\/p>\n PSYC 4999 This course is an evidence-based approach to the positive possibilities in our adult lives. Key words for the course are well-being, meaningfulness, interest, efficacy, positive regard, optimism, flow, love and happiness. The nature, process, effects and sustainability of each of these nine concepts will be studied and applied. Our culture’s regard for these phenomena is mixed; there is a good deal of implicit suspicion of things positive, and a strong belief in the reality and predominance of things negative. This course challenges this self-fulfilling cultural presence. The course process includes topical power-points, key word specialist guest speakers, large and small group discussion and in-class activities.<\/p>\n SPAN 4000 <\/strong> UTSM 2010<\/strong> UTSM 2020<\/strong> Principles of delivering effective instruction in various formats (lecture, lab, cooperative settings); examination of gender, class, race, and culture in mathematics and science education; overview of policy related to mathematics and science education.<\/p>\n PHYS 4300<\/strong> Introduction to basic biophysical processes occurring at the cellular level. Emphasis on energy transformations, and survey of experimental techniques of biophysics.<\/p>\n BIOL 4999<\/strong> A comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy and electron microscopy. This course provides a systematic and in-depth examination of the physics of optics; history, construction and application of light microscopy, and the development of microscopy beyond visible light and light emissions altogether.<\/p>\n BIOL 4999, ESC 4999, ESC 5010<\/strong> Global change biology is thestudy of interactions between organisms and current environmental changes. It may be considered a sub-discipline of ecology, which is more basically the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Such interactions work both ways, meaning that the environment influences organisms and that organisms influence their environment. Understanding such interactions currently is very important given the increasing role of human activities in producing unprecedented environmental changes. Although we will focus largely on global climate change in particular, this course will also cover other aspects of global change, including habitat destruction and the availability and quality of the earth\u2019s resources. During class, we will focus on how biological communities in a variety of ecosystems have changed with global environmental change from an historical perspective and how they are projected to change in the future. Specifically, we will investigate the use of various proxies to learn about the earth\u2019s environmental and biological past and discuss various models that are being used to predict the earth\u2019s environmental and biological future.<\/p>\n
\nTitle: College Movies<\/strong>
\nDr. H. Lyn White Miles, <\/strong>425-4440, <\/strong>Tuesday 3:00 \u2013 3:50 p.m., Brock 403<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle:\u00a0 Group Studies & Special Topics<\/strong>
\nKatherine Winters, 425-4378, <\/strong>Thursday 12:15 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLiterature, Commerce, Culture:\u00a0 The Booker Prize and Contemporary Fiction (Senior Seminar) <\/strong>
\nDr. Greg O\u2019Dea, <\/strong>425-4116, Thursdays, 1:40-2:55 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Hamlet’s Cousins: Renaissance Revenge Tragedy <\/strong>
\nDr. Bryan Hampton, <\/strong>425-2274, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-1:50 p.m.<\/strong>
\n <\/strong>Shakespeare’s Hamlet<\/em> is considered by many to be the finest early modern play. This course seeks to place it within its cultural and literary moment, by examining the genre of Revenge Tragedy.\u00a0Reading will begin with the Roman playwright Seneca, whose plays influenced the genre in Shakespeare’s day. Hamlet<\/em>, in its different quarto versions,\u00a0is the centerpiece of the course, but students will consider\u00a0Hamlet<\/em>‘s “cousins,” including Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy<\/em>, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus<\/em>, Chapman’s\u00a0The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois<\/em>,\u00a0Tourneur’s Revenger’s Tragedy<\/em> and The Atheist’s Tragedy<\/em>, Webster’s White Devil<\/em>, and Middleton & Rowley’s The Changeling.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Environmental Rhetorics <\/strong>
\nDr. Joe Wilferth, 425-4621, Tuesday, Thursday, 9:25-10 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Group Studies: Positive Psychology
\nDr. Lynn Ourth, MWF 1:00-1:50 p.m., Holt 124<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle:\u00a0 Spanish\u00a0Modernism & Post-Modernism <\/strong>
\nDr. Lynn C. Purkey, 425-4147, BROCK 206, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: \u00a0Knowing and Learning<\/strong>
\nDr. Richard L. Metzger, 425-5472, Tuesday and Thursday 9:25 -10:40 a.m. <\/strong> <\/strong>
\nPsychological foundations of learning; problem solving in mathematics and science education utilizing technology; principles of expertise and novice understanding of subject matter; implications of high stakes testing; and foundations of formative and summative assessment.<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Classroom Interactions<\/strong>
\nDr. Janetta L. Bradley, <\/strong>425-4789, <\/strong>Monday 2:00 -4:30 p.m.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Physics of Living Systems<\/strong>
\nDr. Kristin B. Whitson, 425-1766, Tuesday and Thursday, 10:50 a.m.-12:05 p.m.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Microscopy
\nDr. Ethan Carver, Tuesday\/Thursday 9:25-10:40a.m., Holt 305<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Global Change Biology<\/strong>
\nDr. Jennifer Boyd, 425-5638, Tuesday and Thursday 9:25-10:40 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n