Students perform basic organic lab techniques synthesis, recrystallization, separations,extraction, chromatography; introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity in Western Experience (Y), "W" (State-Mandated Writing). Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency, Computer Competency. (ἀνδρίζεσθαι) in ancient Greece. Topics covered will provide an overview of biological processes and function at the molecular, cellular and organismal level: 1) Atoms and Biological Molecules, 2) Cellular Biology, 3) Biochemistry and Energy Transformation 4) Molecular Genetics and 5) Physiology. Issues of tradition and innovation in select dance phenomena are especially explored through readings, discussion, media presentation, embodied experiences, and movement laboratories. Broad Curriculum Program in London." At the end of this course students will have constructed a thoughtful discourse around their art practice, gained exposure to a range of future prospects, outlined a future direction artistically and professionally, and developed specific materials in application for personally defined opportunities. This course acquaints students with the selected literary works from early China to the nineteenth century. The topics deal with various socio-cultural realities of today’s Francophone world and are chosen for their general interest (allowing us to expand on some global issues and make comparisons with the US), and their relevance to you. The internship experience provides students with professional experience related to their field of study. Religious communities have had some very specific insights about money, how we pursue it, and what we do with it. Students will receive hands-on training in a variety of different data recovery, cataloguing, and analytical procedures commonly employed in modern archaeological studies. Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, Cross-Cultural Studies (X), "W" (State-Mandated Writing). This liberal studies course examines Robin Hood stories, their appeal, and their legacy in medieval Europe and beyond. This course focuses on selected topics dealing with biblical writings in their ancient historical contexts and/or their interpretation in later period. Developed by: Kimberly Hunter Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency. The course also will focus on how student’s experiences can put theory into practice within their intended post-baccalaureate work settings. The purpose of this course is to prepare students for further study and job preparation in the field of Natural Sciences. Supporting areas of study within the festivals will be dedicated to the music, literature, performing and plastic arts that contribute to the overall scope of the festivals covered in the course. Instruction covers general information needed to support the values of this unique liberal arts educational endeavor. This course strives to show chemistry as a human endeavor that provides insight into the natural world and informs our decisions as citizens and consumers. To be literate in the 21st century means to understand not only characters on the page but also the bits and bytes of the digital world now permeating every human activity. We will also explore the motives for making him or remembering him as “Chief.” In the process, we will grapple with the connections between modern memory and historical evidence. What Is The Difference Between “It’s” And “Its”? Developed by: Kenan Fishburne Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency. We will also discuss ephemeral (i.e., temporary) art and art forms that were never meant to hang in a museum. Developed by: Kathleen Erndl Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Cross-Cultural Studies (X), "W" (State-Mandated Writing). Speaking skills will be applied in informal presentations, formal presentations, and interviews. Students will emerge from this class with a greater understanding of the cultural, ideological, and artistic directions taken by modern Western culture. We will explore a variety of topics including: demographic trends in fertility, the social construction of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights and child health movements, the medicalization of sexual functioning, and the effects of racism, poverty and sexism on sexual health and reproduction. Students gain valuable work experience, develop professional skills, cultivate valuable contacts and investigate career options. Today Britain is a center for finance and tourism, with rich multicultural mix. This course also will convey an appreciation for utilizing critical thinking and scientific knowledge when making important decisions. The course focuses on methods of film analysis and on film criticism. This course is a survey of selected masterpieces of French literature, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Again and again Greeks told stories—in Greek, mythoi—about a hero’s return home to his family and city after war and other adventures abroad. This course focuses on reproduction and development, transmission (Mendelian) genetics, population biology, ecology, and evolution. The house, which we had seen only from a distance, impressed us even more as we approached. Tests and critical papers. This course is an introduction to philosophical and methodological issues in the empirical study of psychology. Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to improve your writing through instruction and assigned papers. Note: This course is NOT a part of the Honors Experience Program even though it currently has the IDH prefix. Why do Haunted Houses scare us and why do we want to be scared? This course examines the involvement of minorities, especially African-Americans, in crime and in the criminal justice system. Developed by: Martin Kavka Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing). Students develop the foundational skills such as rapport-building, information-gathering, and record-keeping in order to conduct interviews with clients. These controversies helped shape the landscape of medical professional ethics as we now understand it. We’ll explore two major themes: Our bodies bear the imprint of gender inequalities, and efforts to control or contain bodies—as well as resistance to these efforts—reflect gender politics. What are notable strategies used by artists/designers in this field? Students also gain an understanding of team membership and are introduced to the skills necessary for team building. Class will focus on the necessary collaboration across disciplines for success in the field, the "human" part of all experiences, and will include individual evaluation of a variety of scenarios as well as original proposals / designs of visitor experiences. Intensive focus on aspects of orality in Shakespeare's Sonnets, with some complementary work in theory, acoustics, and rhetoric. Prospects for future growth and change are considered in light of demographic, cultural, economic, and political trends. This course will discuss how having language influences other cognitive processes, such as vision or memory. Students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree in the sciences are expected to have learned valuable quantitative, scientific, and analytical skills in the classroom and in the laboratory. “Definitely” vs. “Definitively”: Be Certain You Know The Difference. Specifically, this course has been designed to provide students with information about trends and patterns of racial inequality in the U.S. today, allow them to explore competing explanations for continuing racial inequality, and challenge them to propose and critically assess ideas about potential mechanisms for change. This internship course is designed for on the job experiential learning between the student and an internship provider, vetted by the Department of Interior Design. This course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of digital imaging. Finally, and perhaps most intriguingly, many thinkers now suggest that agnostics and atheists can have a religious attitude of awe and reverence to the universe, and find life fully meaningful, without any belief in supernatural beings. What are the ethical issues surrounding the farming, hunting, and eating of animals? This course provides a survey of Western traditions from the beginnings through the end of the Middle Ages. In addition to experience in the field, class discussions focus on topics relevant to work with children and families. Students will also have opportunities to participate in communication-related activities and events occurring during the semester. This course introduces basic chemistry, energetics, metabolism, and cellular organization; molecular genetics and information flow; animal and plant function. The course provides a foundation of ethical perspectives that relate to sport such as the nature of sport, fundamentals of a game/competition, and the quest for excellence. Students examine social justice in the context of leadership and come to understand their unique role in creating social change on campus, in their academic discipline, and within our larger society. Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity in Western Experience (Y). What can I know about it? Each session will cover a different aspect of chanoyu, focusing on a rigorous analysis of historical texts (primary sources) and of modern studies and current research (secondary sources). Reflection, introspection, and personal engagement aimed toward a richly layered encounter with the lives of leaders contributes to the formation of a more enduring and authentic leadership response to personal, organizational, and global complexities. Our main topics of focus will therefore be formal literary texts and monuments, but also the contemporary debates surrounding how to construct memorials to remember the victims and events of 9/11. This course is an introduction to the study of planet Earth, its internal dynamics, and surficial weathering, erosion, sedimentary processes, the composition and motion of its oceans and atmosphere, and its origin as part of the solar system. Developed by: Azat Gundogan Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice. Our aim is to understand how definitions of religion, as well as the methods and theories for studying it, determine one another, making every scholar’s—and politician’s—use of “religion” anything but neutral. This course examines the reciprocal relationship between Hip Hop culture and the broader American society, through engagement with scholarly literature, examination of empirical evidence and execution of student research projects. This course will challenge you to relate Greek myth to your own life in both creative and analytic writing assignments. By watching movies with a better understanding of their biases and prejudices we may confront them and contest them in order to celebrate the cultural diversity of the United States. For too long the canon of American Literature marginalized the works of minority writers who bore witness to the rich and essentially diverse American experience as well as the struggles and contributions of the marginalized. The emphasis and focus of these research presentations will be on a branch of science appropriate to the Park assigned. It introduces you to the major literary genres (poetry: lyric poetry, the sonnet, the fable; theater: comedy and tragedy; prose: the letter, the epistolary novel, the fairy tale) and aesthetic movements of each period, while perfecting your command of written and spoken French. In this course, we will read and discuss classic theories by anthropologists, historians, philosophers, psychologists, religion scholars, and sociologists while exploring contemporary issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. FSU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program aims to help students become these types of thinkers. Students in this course will be introduced to and discuss some of the social, psychological, and cognitive realities of Black males in America. Every miraculous task that a technological invention performs to facilitate and ease our existence deprives us, in turn, also of some of our actual skills or potential capabilities. This course is a continuation of general chemistry for honors students. A short paper is required. The course will emphasize learning, analyzing, and practicing practice methods and techniques of the important ideas of (modern) calculus, including methods of tangents, areas, general solutions, the infamous “calculus wars,” and the fast and furious development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There are two Project Gutenberg sets produced by David Reed of the complete “History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon: the 1996 edition (PG #731-736) has the advantage of including all the foonotes by Gibbon and others; the 1997 edition (PG #890-895) was provided at that time only … This course provides a survey and application of communication theory, including interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking. This course has a prerequisite of ANT2410 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. The course strives to show chemistry as a human endeavor that provides insight into the natural world and informs our decisions as citizens and consumers. Modern athletic practice and sporting events, including the modern Olympics, Extreme Fighting, and NASCAR will provide an implicit, and sometimes explicit, field of comparison throughout. The grade is assigned by a committee of three faculty members. Supervised internship. Topics covered will provide an overview of biological processes and function at the molecular, cellular and organismal level: 1) Atoms and Biological Molecules, 2) Cellular Biology, 3) … Developed by: Natalia Piombino Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing). It is a masterpiece of illumination art or early book illustration. Could be research/creative, pedagogy, service, or applied. This course is an analysis of the process of change, particularly from the standpoint of how communication is used in the introduction, spread, and adoption of new ideas, behaviors, and products within a society. It will introduce them to a rich tradition of critical and artistic work that tries to make sense out of sound, and that considers the relation between the musical arts and literary traditions. Course topics range from computer literacy basics, to today's technologies, end to the information systems on which today's businesses and organizations depend. Of particular importance in our culture is the interpenetration of aural and visual modes of perception. Intended for non-majors. Testing and debugging techniques. The concepts and theories discussed in this class are drawn from various disciplines including communication, information studies, human computer-interaction, medicine, psychology and public health. But what made Italian cinema so distinctive and popular? Developed by: Jeannine Turner Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing). This course is a line by line script examination, analyzing how playwrights of various periods achieved characterization, structure, and plotting. The question this course addresses is how do female friendship alliances affect the psychological well-being of women? These issues will be explored primarily through the literature, music, and graphic arts of the respective European aesthetic movements of the time, namely, Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism. Students will a) become familiar with the particular characters of dozen instances of a Middle Eastern domain, in this way learning something of the diversity of the region, b) encounter a variety of approaches to the study of the region, and c) develop deep knowledge of one instance, which they will study over the course of the semester. Through blindfold experiences, students will have opportunities to learn about braille and the activities of daily life necessary, learning that blindness does not change the ability to be independent, and that disability doesn't prevent anyone from being an equal player in our society. This course consists of preparing and presenting a formal recital of significant works in an applied music area. In this course, students will develop mathematical knowledge through problem posing, problem solving, extending problems, and developing profound understanding of fundamental mathematics concepts. Does all art by its nature have ethical content, or can art be amoral? Students will gain understanding of storytelling through designed placemaking. The course does not count as credit toward the history major. This course covers the solution of meteorological problems using computers. The Hispanic Marketing course provides students the opportunity to identify and embrace the differences and find the similarities at the same time by acquiring knowledge on (1) cultural theories associated with Hispanic values, artifacts, and traditions; (2) the acculturation processes; (3) socialization; (4) importance of diversity and culture as effective communication tools; and (5) the impact of religion, family formation, gender and sexual orientation, social mobility, and age groups on consumer behavior and media habits. Examples are drawn from Western democracies and developing countries. This course is a marketing and sales internship course designed for marketing and sales majors who want to gain real world experience in the marketing and/or sales field through on-the-job practice. Readings include texts of Robert Browning, T. S. Eliot, Matthew Gallaway, Eduard Hanslick, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Tim Page, Alex Ross, John Ruskin, George Bernard Shaw, and Virgil Thomson. Physics is based on problem solving and this class involves both solving word problems and performing laboratory exercises. Specific topics vary by semester. Developed by: Katie Flanagan Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing). Course Area: Quantitative and Logical Thinking. In addition, the student will be writing a pre-internship perception paper as well as a post-internship reflection paper on the internship experience. Developed by: Amy Kowal Course Area: History Designations: Cross-Cultural Studies (X). The overarching goal of the class is to discuss the relative influence of popular arguments in the shaping of global health policies compared with scientific discoveries and their analysis. This course covers techniques of integration; applications of integration; series and Taylor series; differential equations. No knowledge of the Chinese language is required.