| FYS: Cultures of College | 14436 | MWF | 11:00-11:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Cultures of College" | (CRN:14436) | Days: MWF - Time: 11:00-11:50 am | Location: Ross Hall - Room 109 | Fall 2017
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This course introduces students to the history, spaces, conditions, and assumptions that shape our experience of an important cultural institution: higher education. AMST 1101 actively engages the places and meanings of education as an object of study, and introduces students to interdisciplinary ways of asking questions about any object of study.
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Beth Loffreda
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| FYS: Anthropology of Monsters | 14183 | T/Th | 1:20-2:25 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Anthropology of Monsters" | (CRN:14183) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:25 pm | Location: Anthropology - Room 150 | Fall 2017
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Are you interested in monsters? Things that go bump in the night? Why there are so many movies, books, and TV shows on zombies and vampires? The Anthropology of Monsters will look at scientific evidence for the existence of monsters and why humans have always imagined them.
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Michael Harkin
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| FYS: Paleo’s Great Debates | 18117 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Paleo’s Great Debates" | (CRN:18117) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Biological Sciences - Room 309 | Fall 2017
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Wooly mammoths! Dinosaurs! Hallucigenia! These wild and wonderful extinct animals fascinate scientists and the general public, alike. BOT 1101 investigates scientific debates that surround their origins, lives, and/or extinctions using primary scientific literature, topic reviews, popular press articles, and video resources. Students will then choose a paleontological controversy of their own interest to present in poster format. Throughout the semester, students will also become familiar with how scientific research works and the characteristics and trajectory of a career in research science.
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Ellen Currano
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| FYS: Weather, Climate & Change | 16910 | MW | 10:00-11:15 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Weather, Climate & Change" | (CRN:16910) | Days: MW - Time: 10:00-11:15 am | Location: Engineering - Room 6085 | Fall 2017
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Weather remains the most significant source of uncertainty in our collective day-to-day life, impacting transportation, our leisure time, the economy. You will be challenged to think critically using rich visualizations, and to use basic principles from physics, chemistry, and even biology to understand the workings of the Earth system and its atmosphere.
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Bart Geerts
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| FYS: Decision Making in BUSN | 14609 | F | 12:00-12:50 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Decision Making in BUSN" | (CRN:14609) | Days: F - Time: 12:00-12:50 pm | Location: Business - Auditorium | Fall 2017
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Robert Godby
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| FYS: A Taste of China | 18055 | MW | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: A Taste of China" | (CRN:18055) | Days: MW - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Classroom - Room 137 | Fall 2017
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Through readings, movies and variety of classroom activities, this class is designed to prepare students to be familiar with seminar presentation and basic research in studying Chinese culture. Students will learn about traveling to well-known historic Chinese sites, cooking Chinese food, eating etiquette, critically evaluating the differences in food culture and how these differences developed and influence the modern Chinese lifestyle.
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Yan Zhang
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| FYS: Power of Play | 14724 | MW | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Power of Play" | (CRN:14724) | Days: MW - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Classroom - Room 137 | Fall 2017
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Students will read controversial positions and opinions about the role of play in children's learning, development, and identify formation. Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about these meaningful, relevant issues. FIG students are to receive priority registration. This course fulfills the First-Year Seminar (FYS) requirement of the 2015 University Studies Program. Students will read controversial positions and opinions about the role of play in children’s learning, development, and identify formation. Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about these meaningful, relevant issues. During class sessions students will be actively engaged in constructing meaning and knowledge through engagement with peers. Students are expected to share diverse perspectives, work collaboratively to process ideas, creatively represent their thinking, and examine pressing issues related to the importance of play.
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Tricia Johnson
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| FYS: Citizen Factory | 13891 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Citizen Factory" | (CRN:13891) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Ed Annex - Room 304 | Fall 2017
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In The Citizen Factory, students will be introduced to active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas. Open to all, the course will appeal to any student with an interest in the public schools or schooling for democracy.
Introduces active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas through the curriculum, skills which will be reinforced throughout the baccalaureate experience. Open to all, the course appeals to any student with an interest in the public schools or schooling for democracy.
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John Kambutu
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| FYS: Bits & Bytes | 17046 | T/Th | 1:20-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Bits & Bytes" | (CRN:17046) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:35 pm | Location: Engineering - Room 5054 | Fall 2017
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Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about meaningful, relevant issues related to Electrical and Computer engineering. Students will be introduced to active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas. In addition, students will be introduced to Electrical and Computer engineering areas using hands-on experiments. This course involves problem solving, critical thinking and ethics, team work skills, hands-on experiments, as well as activities to help transition to university environment.
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Eva Ferre-Pikal
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| FYS: Energy Environ Econ | 18526 | T/Th | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Energy Environ Econ" | (CRN:18526) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Energy Innovation Center - Room 201 | Fall 2017
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Introduces our past, present, and future sources of energy and their advantages and limitations. Discusses society’s current, non-sustainable pattern of energy use from a supply and environmental perspective. Investigates the technical, environmental, political, and societal problems associated with the eventual conversion to renewable energy resources.
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Craig Douglas
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| FYS: Intro Engr | 14448 | MWF | 9:00-9:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Intro Engr" | (CRN:14448) | Days: MWF - Time: 9:00-9:50 am | Location: Engineering - Room 2101 | Fall 2017
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Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about meaningful, relevant issues related to engineering and computer sciences. Students will be introduced to active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas. Involves problem solving, the design process, critical thinking and ethics, time management, team work skills, as well as activities to help transition to university environment.
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| FYS: Intro Engr | 14449 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Intro Engr" | (CRN:14449) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Engineering - Room 2101 | Fall 2017
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Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about meaningful, relevant issues related to engineering and computer sciences. Students will be introduced to active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas. Involves problem solving, the design process, critical thinking and ethics, time management, team work skills, as well as activities to help transition to university environment.
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Dennis Coon
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| FYS: Intro Engr | 15385 | T/Th | 1:20-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Intro Engr" | (CRN:15385) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:35 pm | Location: Engineering - Room 2101 | Fall 2017
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Students will critically examine and evaluate evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about meaningful, relevant issues related to engineering and computer sciences. Students will be introduced to active learning, inquiry of pressing issues, and individual and collaborative processing of ideas. Involves problem solving, the design process, critical thinking and ethics, time management, team work skills, as well as activities to help transition to university environment.
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Leonard Lutz
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| FYS: Zombies | 13865 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Zombies" | (CRN:13865) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Hoyt Hall - Room 142 | Fall 2017
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You may know how to survive the zombie-pocalypse, but do you know that when they aren’t trying to eat your brains, zombies CAN be good teachers? In this class, we will use zombie films and television shows to explore issues that are important to the non-zombie: gender, class, race, environment, science and technology, corporate control…just to name a few.
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Valerie Pexton
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| FYS: U.S. Latina Writers | 18715 | T/Th | 1:20-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: U.S. Latina Writers" | (CRN:18715) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:35 pm | Location: Engineering - Room 1055 | Fall 2017
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In this exciting course, participants will discuss literary works from various U.S. Latina writers: Salvadoran, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Chicana, Mexican-American and Dominican. There will be opportunity to write literary reflections and create a final digital group film concerning themes analyzed in the course and how it relates to present Wyoming 2017 world view.
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Margarita Pignataro
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| FYS: Thinking Like a Mountain | 15648 | T/Th | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Thinking Like a Mountain" | (CRN:15648) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Classroom - Room 137 | Fall 2017
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Required field lab August 23-27, 2017, in the Snowy Range near Saratoga, WY. Deposit required. Financial assistance available. Enrollment is restricted to ENR FIG students. Contact 307-766-4322.
What is the nature of environmental problems? Pioneering environmental thinker Aldo Leopold proposed that we "think like a mountain" in order to understand our interconnected world. In this course, you will gain the interdisciplinary skills needed to solve complex problems, using an approach that considers multiple perspectives: scientific, economics, ethical, cultural, and legal/political. From water scarcity in the West to energy development, wildlife impacts, climate change, and global population growth, you will be challenged to think holistically, critically, and across disciplinary boundaries in order to understand and create solutions t our world's most pressing and complex environmental natural resource challenges.
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Maggie Bourque
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| FYS: Sustainable Built Environ | 15221 | T/Th | 1:20-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Sustainable Built Environ" | (CRN:15221) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:35 pm | Location: Agriculture - Room 3028 | Fall 2017
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A survey of practices in the built environment that can lead to greater sustainability for the community and well-being for the individual. Research related to environmental (place), economic (profit), and social (people) components of sustainability will be examined. Political pressure and its effect on public policy making will be analyzed.
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Treva Sprout
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| FYS: Surviving the Apocalypse | 15625 | N/A | N/A | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Surviving the Apocalypse" | (CRN:15625) | Days: N/A - Time: N/A | Location: N/A | Fall 2017
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This course will examine the natural and human dimensions of hazards by focusing on the environmental settings of hazards, risk assessment, and steps taken to reduce the impacts of environmental hazards and disasters globally. Each class discussion will consider human vulnerability, mitigation, protection and adaptation to different hazards in both more developed and less developed nations. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to understand the physical settings of natural hazards and societal responses to such hazards at multiple spatial and temporal scales (e.g. global-regional-local and annual-seasonal-daily). In addition, students will gain experience in developing individual and team-working skills in field techniques; data analysis; written; and oral communication styles.
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Jacqueline Shinker
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| FYS: Creating in Modern World | 15222 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Creating in Modern World" | (CRN:15222) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Education - Room 4 | Fall 2017
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The path to designing and implementing solutions to real world problems or even little projects that challenge us from day to day is messy. What information is necessary to see the big picture? How many different solutions are possible? What tools are available to solve the problem? Will our solution work? Together, we'll tackle these questions on the road to making, hacking, and tinkering our way through problems facing Laramie, UW, and the state of Wyoming.
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Tonia Dousay
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| FYS: Kin-The Sci of Human Mvmt | 14330 | MWF | 9:00-9:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Kin-The Sci of Human Mvmt" | (CRN:14330) | Days: MWF - Time: 9:00-9:50 am | Location: Corbett PE - Room 103 | Fall 2017
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Kinesiology – What is it? How is it studied? Who studies it? Why is it studied? What are its sub-disciplines? To which professions is kinesiology applicable? The foundation or building blocks for professions like physical therapy, occupational therapy, medicine, chiropractic, teaching physical and health education, community health, athletic training, strength and conditioning, and personal training, among others, revolves around kinesiology. If any of these questions or any of the careers that involve the study of human movement are of interest to you, then this is the course for you.
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Mark Byra & Marci Smith
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| FYS: Taking Control Dig Imag | 17770 | MWF | 11:00-11:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Taking Control Dig Imag" | (CRN:17770) | Days: MWF - Time: 11:00-11:50 am | Location: Education - Room 4 | Fall 2017
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Search and purchasing habits, social network posts, friend initiated tags, and other information generates a semi-permanent digital image that corporations mine to sell products and services and make hiring decisions. How accurate is your digital profile? Does it include the information you want to share? This course explores digital profiles, how information is collected and interpreted, and develops management plans so students can take control of their personal and professional identities.
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Craig Shepherd
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| FYS: Kin-The Sci of Human Mvmt | 14331 | MWF | 10:00-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Kin-The Sci of Human Mvmt" | (CRN:14331) | Days: MWF - Time: 10:00-10:50 am | Location: Corbett PE - Room 103 | Fall 2017
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Kinesiology – What is it? How is it studied? Who studies it? Why is it studied? What are its sub-disciplines? To which professions is kinesiology applicable? The foundation or building blocks for professions like physical therapy, occupational therapy, medicine, chiropractic, teaching physical and health education, community health, athletic training, strength and conditioning, and personal training, among others, revolves around kinesiology. If any of these questions or any of the careers that involve the study of human movement are of interest to you, then this is the course for you.
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Mark Byra & Marci Smith
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| FYS: Food, Culture, Language | 15726 | T/Th | 2:45-4:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Food, Culture, Language" | (CRN:15726) | Days: T/Th - Time: 2:45-4:00 pm | Location: Hoyt Hall - Room 011 | Fall 2017
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What judgments do we hold about food, language surrounding it, and culinary customs? This course introduces culture and language surrounding global cuisines. You will critically evaluate differences and how they developed. You will see how these ideas are reflected in popular culture and how this relates to your own experiences.
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Mollie Hand
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| FYS: Latina/o Popular Culture | 15092 | T/Th | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Latina/o Popular Culture" | (CRN:15092) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Hoyt Hall - Room 011 | Fall 2017
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Students will examine contemporary Latina/o popular culture in the United States and discuss various forms of Latina/o cultural expression, as well as media representations of Latina/o people. Course topics include: el Movimiento Chicano; music, art, and theater; gender and sexual politics ; ethnic stereotypes and media representations; immigrant narratives.
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Margarita Pignataro
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| FYS: Neanderthal and Nucleus | 14011 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Neanderthal and Nucleus" | (CRN:14011) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Aven Nelson - Room 223 | Fall 2017
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Explores molecular biology studies of human evolutionary biology and cell biology, how these studies are altering our concept of human identity, and controversial ethical issues in these fields. Students will also become familiar with how scientific research works, and the characteristics and trajectory of a career in research science.
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Naomi Ward
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| FYS: One Health | 14665 | T/Th | 1:20-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: One Health" | (CRN:14665) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:20-2:35 pm | Location: Geology - Room 216 | Fall 2017
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One Health is a philosophy centered on the fact that the health of people, animals, and the environment are inextricably connected. People working in One Health come from a variety of scientific and medical disciplines, and share an interest in working somewhere at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment to solve problems that impact health and sustainability. One Health affects us locally and extends to issues of global significance, spanning the gamut from environmental issues (water and air quality, contaminants and pollutants, functioning healthy ecosystems including agricultural systems, and climate change) to emerging and zoonotic diseases (like Ebola virus and avian influenza) to comparative medicine (ways to detect and combat diseases like cancer in humans and animals) and includes many other disciplines including food safety, biosecurity, delivery of healthcare, and more. We will use topics in One Health (some chosen by you) as tools to meet the student learning outcomes
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Todd Cornish
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| FYS: Navigating Survival | 14581 | T/Th | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Navigating Survival" | (CRN:14581) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Engineering - Room 3110 | Fall 2017
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“Let’s all make it out alive!” This course is dedicated to teaching the very essential topic of mental health amongst college students. We will explore college campuses together and create ‘The Ultimate Resource’, to create a safer campus community for you and your friends. We will have assignments that use primary interviews and 'scanning the environment' presentations to help you discuss and reflect wisely on this topic with your peers and anyone else you want to impress! An exciting array of faculty researchers and mental health professionals has been engaged to speak in this course! So, please join me in navigating and surviving the journey that is Campus Mental Health.
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Reshmi Singh
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| FYS: Scientific Theories | 18322 | T/Th | 1:10-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Scientific Theories" | (CRN:18322) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:10-2:35 pm | Location: Enzi/STEM - Room 195 | Fall 2017
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The course investigates the historical development of physical theories, using the examples of Newtonian Absolute Space and the development of the Kinetic Gas Theory and the decline of caloric theory in thermal physics. Although there is no math pre-requisite, some math will be used in the course work.
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Rudi Michalak
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| FYS: Eating as an Agri. Act | 17926 | T/Th | 11:00-12:15 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Eating as an Agri. Act" | (CRN:17926) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-12:15 pm | Location: Agriculture - Room 2024 | Fall 2017
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Students will explore the connections between eating, something we all do, and management of agricultural land. Roughly half of the land in the US is used for agricultural production. The decisions "eaters" make about the food they consume have direct implications for how land is managed. In exchange, agriculture influences the quality of air, water, and soil that we all rely on. In this course, students will begin at the supermarket. They will work in groups to learn about the actual meaning of those terms that we hear about and use in our society - i.e., organic, GMA, and cage-free. Students will explore the diversity of agricultural practices employed within Wyoming, the US, and globally. Finally, students will complete a major project creating a "public service announcement" in the form of a pamphlet, video, or e-book which uses their semester-long work to present an informed position regarding prevailing popular opinions regarding eating as an agricultural act.
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Randa Jabbour
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| FYS: Worlds of Religion | 17893 | T/Th | 2:45-4:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Worlds of Religion" | (CRN:17893) | Days: T/Th - Time: 2:45-4:00 pm | Location: A&S Bldg - Room 209 | Fall 2017
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I’ve designed this first year seminar as an exploration of some of the ways religion works in the world. Rather than taking a systematic approach to each religion’s major doctrines, rituals, scriptures, and history (take RELI 1000: Introduction to Religion if you are interested in that), we will use texts drawn from world literature to examine how religion influences intellectual orientations, how it affects social ethics and behavior, how it has informed notions of justice, and how it has been interpreted and criticized in the modern world. The readings for this course are diverse: drama, poetry, political theory, novels, and essays. They are also drawn from different time periods and reflect different religious traditions. The goal of this course is to think analytically, imaginatively, and creatively about the different dimensions of religion with particular emphasis on how it is lived, how it deals (or fails to deal) with questions of meaning and value, and how it continues to shape (and to be shaped by) the modern world.
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Tyler Fall
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| FYS: Gilgamesh | 14043 | Online | Online | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Gilgamesh" | (CRN:14043) | Days: Online - Time: Online | Location: Online | Fall 2017
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What can we learn about the relationship of religion, politics, governance, and violence by studying the first stone tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Laws of Manu to contemporary blogs in which political scientists consider India’s naming of its atomic program with the term “shakti” meaning religious power? This class moves swiftly across time and cultures, but hones in on the basic tools of comparative study to consider how divine authority and human governance are described in each example. Stops include The Venerable Bede, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, selections from the Age of Reason (Des Cartes, Hume Wollstonecraft, Locke), to the transitions in globalized community (W. E. B. Du Bois, famous speeches of the 20th century, and blogs). Throughout we’ll use “Rules for Writers” to develop your research and writing skills for the rest of your career at UW. You’ll finish this class able to write an informed analysis of the tricky issues involved when people invoke divine power and political claims, issues that impact daily life across time and culture.
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Mary Keller
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| FYS: Reading Text(iles) | 17661 | T/Th | 11:00-1:20 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Reading Text(iles)" | (CRN:17661) | Days: T/Th - Time: 11:00-1:20 pm | Location: Visual Arts Facility - Room 109 | Fall 2017
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Are you visually literate? This course will enable students to navigate our image-rich society by focusing on the role of textiles in contemporary art and culture. Themes such as narrative, community, gender and activism (or in this case, craftivism) will be explored through the lens of fabric. Reading Text(iles) will integrate hands-on creation of textiles (weaving and felting) with critical analysis of images and text. The course will culminate in a collaborative project where students use textiles to serve a social purpose. As such, students must consider how an everyday medium like fabric might be used as a means of art-making, communication and social change.
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Diana Baumbach
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| FYS: The Power of Confidence | 14564 | MWF | 12:00-12:50 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: The Power of Confidence" | (CRN:14564) | Days: MWF - Time: 12:00-12:50 pm | Location: Ed Annex - Room 211 | Fall 2017
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The world is based on specific rules which no one actually knows. Your opinions about how life works are molded from your experiences. That belief then shapes your decisions. Power is the ability to know when it is time to upgrade your model of the universe, while confidence is moving forward with what you believe to be true. Others may try to fool you into believing what they want with carefully crafted data. This non-mathematical class explores the process of making choices in a world filled with errors and uncertainty, also known as statistical analysis.
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Staff
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| FYS: Spiritual Intelligence | 14606 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Spiritual Intelligence" | (CRN:14606) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Engineering - Room 3102 | Fall 2017
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This seminar addresses universal questions of human happiness: How do we open our minds and hearts to soar to our full potential? How to convert the anguish cycle into lasting happiness? The millennia-old human spirituality wisdom, which addresses such challenges, points to the critical need to understand who we are – Our true-self? Our ego? Or both? And what are these two faces of human being, our "true-self" and our “ego," to begin with? How to recognize them? This is important because our true-self is blissfully happy, always, no exceptions. Our ego – preoccupied with its lows, despite the short-lived highs that it seeks – is the sole source of human suffering. In an effort to understand and apply these ideas, the students will be required to participate in discussions, homework, and a team research project. The students will examine and evaluate historical concepts, evidence, claims, beliefs, and points of view relevant to human spirituality. Where appropriate, the students will also be provided practical hints of how to succeed in college, including study skills, taking notes, and campus resources. Above all however, the students will be expected to understand how Spiritual Intelligence can benefit their personal and professional growth.
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Maciej Radosz
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| FYS: Spiritual Intelligence | 15305 | T/Th | 2:45-4:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Spiritual Intelligence" | (CRN:15305) | Days: T/Th - Time: 2:45-4:00 pm | Location: Engineering - Room 3070 | Fall 2017
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This seminar addresses universal questions of human happiness: How do we open our minds and hearts to soar to our full potential? How to convert the anguish cycle into lasting happiness? The millennia-old human spirituality wisdom, which addresses such challenges, points to the critical need to understand who we are – Our true-self? Our ego? Or both? And what are these two faces of human being, our "true-self" and our “ego," to begin with? How to recognize them? This is important because our true-self is blissfully happy, always, no exceptions. Our ego – preoccupied with its lows, despite the short-lived highs that it seeks – is the sole source of human suffering. In an effort to understand and apply these ideas, the students will be required to participate in discussions, homework, and a team research project. The students will examine and evaluate historical concepts, evidence, claims, beliefs, and points of view relevant to human spirituality. Where appropriate, the students will also be provided practical hints of how to succeed in college, including study skills, taking notes, and campus resources. Above all however, the students will be expected to understand how Spiritual Intelligence can benefit their personal and professional growth.
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Maciej Radosz
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| FYS: Sustainability Challenges | 14607 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Sustainability Challenges" | (CRN:14607) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Business - Room 9 | Fall 2017
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What does a sustainable world look like, and how do we get there? In this course, students will explore these questions in multiple dimensions---social, cultural, political, economic, technical---and considering both individual and institutional behaviors. We will use traditional activities such as readings and discussions in combination with project-based learning activities which will emphasize new methods of research and creative approaches to presenting findings. This course fulfills the First-Year Seminar (FYS) requirement of the 2015 University Studies Program, and therefore students will develop several skills related to critical and creative thinking.
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Patrick Johnson
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| FYS: Academic Career Success | 14615 | MWF | 12:00-12:50 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Academic Career Success" | (CRN:14615) | Days: MWF - Time: 12:00-12:50 pm | Location: Coe Library - Room 121 | Fall 2017
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What’s your major? Why did you want to go to college? What do you want to do with your life? What can you do now to help you achieve your dreams? If you find yourself asking or being asked questions like this, this course is for you! This course is designed to prepare you for a new way of thinking and learning, using critical thinking and research skills that you will need throughout your college experience. It is also designed to help you learn about yourself through critical reflection so you can begin the major/career exploration process. In addition, the course is designed to expose you to success strategies that can greatly benefit you in college.
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Aaron Lozano
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| FYS: Academic Career Success | 14616 | MWF | 1:10-2:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Academic Career Success" | (CRN:14616) | Days: MWF - Time: 1:10-2:00 pm | Location: History Bldg - Room 155 | Fall 2017
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What’s your major? Why did you want to go to college? What do you want to do with your life? What can you do now to help you achieve your dreams? If you find yourself asking or being asked questions like this, this course is for you! This course is designed to prepare you for a new way of thinking and learning, using critical thinking and research skills that you will need throughout your college experience. It is also designed to help you learn about yourself through critical reflection so you can begin the major/career exploration process. In addition, the course is designed to expose you to success strategies that can greatly benefit you in college.
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Kristen Rigoni
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| FYS: Outdoor Leadership | 14640 | MWF | 1:10-2:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Outdoor Leadership" | (CRN:14640) | Days: MWF - Time: 1:10-2:00 pm | Location: Half Acre - Room 115 | Fall 2017
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*Enrollment limited to Outdoor Leadership FIG students* What is Outdoor Leadership? This seminar course will critically examine and evaluate two significant historical expeditions: the Everest disaster of 1996 and Earnest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Each expedition will be evaluated from multiple perspectives through active learning, ethical reasoning and group collaboration. In doing so, students will gain a better perspective on what outdoor leadership is and the content of the outdoor leadership framework.
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Dan McCoy
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| FYS: UW Veterans - Soc Struct | 17267 | T/Th | 2:45-4:00 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: UW Veterans - Soc Struct" | (CRN:17267) | Days: T/Th - Time: 2:45-4:00 pm | Location: Classroom - Room 147 | Fall 2017
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Aaron Lozano
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| FYS: Get a Life Discovr Yrslf | 17043 | Online | Online | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Get a Life Discovr Yrslf" | (CRN:17043) | Days: Online - Time: Online | Location: Online | Fall 2017
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What does it take to live a happy, fulfilled life? According to Gallup research, there are five essential elements of well-being: career, social, financial, physical, and community well-being. While the majority of people all over the world do well in at least one of these areas, only 7 percent of the population thrives in all five. You will explore these interconnected topics holistically through a mix of popular blogs, books, and TED talks, as well as personal exercises to discover your strengths, interests, values, and habits, This course is intended to help you discover new ideas to inspire you to be the best you can be. Not only will you better understand yourself so you can make important life decisions, you will practice writing, learn how to research, and discover how to critically evaluate new information and ideas. This course is online; however, you will be expected to participate in one weekly live discussion or chat at designated meeting times to be determined at the start of the semester.
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Erika Prager
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| FYS: Nat Hist Past, Pres, Future | 15275 | T/Th | 1:10-2:35 pm | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Nat Hist Past, Pres, Future" | (CRN:15275) | Days: T/Th - Time: 1:10-2:35 pm | Location: TBD | Fall 2017
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The study of Natural History has played an instrumental role in our understanding of the patterns and processes that have generated and maintained biodiversity and ecological systems. In this course we will dive into the history of thinking like a naturalist, how it has shaped our understanding of the organic world, how it helped bring humanity into the scientific age and how an appreciation of natural history shapes both our cultural and physiological evolution. Students will be trained how to think like a naturalist (including nature sketching and journaling) and how to identify and appreciate diverse organisms in Wyoming and beyond. Finally students will gain an appreciation of the many ways research and public collections impact science, art and culture.
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Brian Barber
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| FYS: Heard It Through Grapevine | 18478 | T/Th | 9:35-10:50 am | Fall 2017 |
"FYS: Heard It Through Grapevine" | (CRN:18478) | Days: T/Th - Time: 9:35-10:50 am | Location: Agriculture - Room 2024 | Fall 2017
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Do you sometimes wonder whether Marvin Gaye’s words could be altered slightly? “People say believe half of what you read, son, and none of what you hear.” In today’s 21st century, hyper-connected world, we are bombarded with information from all sides. Think of any topical issue - books, magazines, newspapers, television, film, radio and websites all have something to say on the matter. And yet these sources often provide conflicting information. How do we know what to believe? Can we know what to believe? Or does it simply come down to a matter of opinion? These questions lie at the heart of this course. Our aim is to help develop the skills needed to confidently evaluate the material presented to us and to find information that will accurately inform our developing viewpoints. To do so, we will select some current topics in medicine and science as they are portrayed in the media, and will engage in informed, lively and respectful discussion of the issues, as we explore these questions together.
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Meg Flanigan (Skinner)
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