ENG 371/372: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
Self-examination, reflection, and observation are essential to the craft of writing. The sharing of the self allows stories to impact others. The work that students produce in this course is based on personal experience. This course immerses students in the written and spoken word, develops their writing skills, and produces a variety of work that […]
ENG 361/362: Creative Writing: Fiction
Self-examination, reflection, and observation are essential to the craft of writing. The sharing of the self allows stories to impact others. The work that students produce in this course is grounded in imagination, as students learn to craft fiction. Utilizing workshop and writing group techniques, students work to develop their writing skills, and produce a […]
SEM 131/132: The Science of Emotions
This course uses cutting-edge research on the brain to explore the ways in which we experience, express, and understand our feelings.
SEM 121/122: Lyrics, Pop Music, & Empathy
This course explores the intersection between words, melody, and emotional experience.
SEM 111/112: Heroes, Quests, & Rites of Passage
This course explores rites of passage through anthropology, psychology, literature, dreams, and popular culture.
SEM 101/102: The Environment, Justice & You
This course demonstrates the ways that environment and justice intersect, and how individuals can work to understand and take action against injustice.
SCI 100: Integrated Science I
In this course, students uncover the patterns that characterize the universe, life, and the physical world. They learn to think like scientists, inquiring into systems, processes, and interactions by directly observing, questioning, and analyzing the world around them. This course covers the spectrum of scientific fields, from biology to chemistry, from earth science to physics, […]
CSC 331/332: Big Data
What do Google and Amazon do with all the data they collect every day? Data science is booming. Fundamental to this course is the difference between scientific experimentation, statistics, and big data. Students in this course learn some of the tools that data scientists use to get value from huge amounts of data. Students complete […]
CSC 321/322: Coding
This course is an introduction to the exciting, rapidly growing world of coding and teaches structured program logic. Students discover the role computation and analysis of animation can play in solving problems. They learn the process of writing and debugging a program through algorithms and simulation. Good style and logical thinking will be emphasized throughout […]
CSC 311/312: Web Design
We spend tremendous amounts of our lives surfing the web, but what is it, and how do the pages we work, shop, share, read, fight, and get information on come to be? This course explores the inner workings of how websites come to be and operate. This project-based course introduces students to the wide world […]
