Teaching Excellence in Action: Spring 2013

Throughout the semester, CET Faculty Fellows open their classrooms to interested observers to share ideas, approaches and techniques for teaching in a collegial environment. Anyone may attend, provided the Fellow is emailed in advance to confirm the date.

Sharon Carnicke, email

Carnicke

THTR 302: Shakespeare in His World (TTH 3:30pm-4:50pm, KAP 140, 30 students)
The plays and theatre of Shakespeare, the influences on his work and his contemporary world. 
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THTR 403: The Performing Arts (TTH 2:00pm-3:20pm, KAP 163, 30 students)
An interdisciplinary inquiry into the aesthetics of the performing arts. Examines a dramatic classic and its adaptation into musical theatre, opera, ballet, and film.
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Frank Corsetti, email

Frank A. Corsetti

GEOL 125Lg - Earth History: A Planet and Its Evolution (TTH 11:00-12:20pm, SGM 123, 186 students)
Basic principles of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics used in evaluating clues written in the rock record, and the processes that have shaped our planet. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 2 hours. At least one field trip required.
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Steven Finkel, email

Frank A. Corsetti

BISC 485 - Advanced Seminar in Bacterial Survival and Evolution (TH 3:00-5:50pm, RRI 321, 20 students)
Literature-based seminar in current topics in microbial evolution and adaptation.
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Tom Goodnight, email

Thomas Goodnight

COMM 400 - Leadership, Philanthropy, & Fund Raising (T 2:00-4:50pm, ASC 223ABC, 15 students)
This class provides a forum to investigate the communication structures, strategies, and prospects for the development and strengthening of civil society.
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COMM 511 - Contemporary Rhetorical Theory(M 6:30-9:20pm, ASC 225, 12 students)
This course is a survey of major theorists contributing to the study of rhetoric and culture.
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Stephan Haas, email

Stephan Haas

PHYS 152L - Fundamentals of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (TTH 12:00-1:50pm, SLH 102, 94 students)
Electrostatics, magnetostatics, electrical circuits, wave motion, sound waves, electromagnetic waves.
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Jack Halberstam, email

Jack Halberstam

ARLT 101g - The Holocaust: The Politics of Representation (TTH 9:30-10:50am, SGM 123, 100 students)
Use a range of genres including fiction, autobiographical writings, film and theoretical essays to explore the challenges—aesthetic, political and pedagogical—in representing the Holocaust.
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Steven Lamy, email

Steven Lamy

IR 210 - Introductory Theory and Analysis in International Relations (MW 10:00-11:50am, THH 201, 251 students)
Comprehensive review of theoretical and analytical developments in the field of international relations.
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William McClure with Michael Jakowec, email

William McClure BISC 220 - General Biology: Cell Biology and Physiology (TTH 9:30-10:50am, THH 101, 350 students)
In-depth survey of key topics related to advances in our knowledge of cellular biology and physiology; cell composition/metabolism; gene action; organism structure and function.
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Geoff Middlebrook, email

Geoff Middlebrook

WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for Arts and Humanities (65210) (TTH 2:00-3:20pm, SAL 126, 19 students)
Instruction in writing for various audiences on topics related to a student's professional or disciplinary interests, with some emphasis on issues of broad public concern.
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WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for for Social Sciences (65190) (MW 2:00-3:20pm, KOH 208, 19 students)
Instruction in writing for various audiences on topics related to a student's professional or disciplinary interests, with some emphasis on issues of broad public concern.
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WRIT 340: Advanced Writing for Arts and Humanities (65250) (MW 3:30-4:50pm, KOH 208, 19 students)
Instruction in writing for various audiences on topics related to a student's professional or disciplinary interests, with some emphasis on issues of broad public concern.
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Erin Moore, email

Erin Moore

ANTH 101: Body, Mind, and Healing: Introduction to Medical Anthropology (TTH 12:30-1:50pm, GFS 104, 25 students)
This course introduces students to medical anthropology from a cultural perspective. This is not a class for healing ourselves but about the anthropology of the body, how different cultures interpret the body, illness and healing in a surprising variety of ways.
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ANTH 330m: Culture, Gender and Politics in South Asia: Afghanastan, India, Pakistan, Nepal (TTH 9:30-10:50am, GFS 229, 25 students)
Examination of violence, identity, law, religion, nationalism, development, caste, kinship, gender, and the South Asian diaspora.
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Tita Rosenthal, email

Tita Rosenthal COLT 374gm: - Women Writers in Europe and America (TTH 11:00-12:20am, THH 208, 70 students)
Examine the writings (poems, dialogues, letters, short stories, novels, speeches and essays) of a number of important women authors of the western world within the specific social, historical and cultural contexts in which their works were written and produced.
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Sam Safadi, email

Oussama Safadi

AME 403: Stress Analysis (MW 2:00-3:20pm, ZHS 163, 40 students)
Theories of failure, shear center, unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, torsion of non-circular sections; cylinders, rotating discs, thermal stresses, inelastic strains, energy methods.
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AME 525: Engineering Analysis (TTH 5:00-6:20pm, OHE 122, 80 students)
Typical engineering problems discussed on a physical basis. Vector analysis; functions of complex variables, infinite series, residues.
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AME 529: Aircraft Structures Analysis (TTH 2:00-3:20pm, OHE 132, 20 students)
The direct stiffness (finite element) method for analysis of semimonocoque structures; energy methods; elasticity, plates and shells, vibration, and stability; system identification.
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Rachel Walker with Elsi Kaiser, email

Rachel Walker LING 275lg: - Language and Mind (TTH 9:30-10:50am, GFS 106, 120 students)
Language within cognitive science: speech physiology and acoustics, language acquisition, reading, language disorders, perception and mental representation of words, linguistic diversity and computer analysis of speech.
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John Walsh, email

John Walsh

BISC 230Lg: Brain, Mind and Machines - Topics in Neuroscience (MW 12:00-1:50pm, SAL 101, 189 students)
This course is broad introduction into the brain, the mind, and their relationship to technology.
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GERO 414: Neurobiology of Aging (MW 2:00-3:50am, GER 124, 60 students)
Age-related changes in nervous system structure and function; relationship of brain changes to changes in cognitive function and perception; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Bruce Zuckerman, email

Bruce Zuckerman

REL 317: Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Literature (MW 2:00-3:20pm, VKC 257, 19 students)
A close consideration of ancient Near Eastern myths--especially those from Mesopotamia and Canaan--with special attention to their influence on the Bible.
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