This independent study course is intended for seniors participating in a year-long research project.

Principles of nutrition and the development of rations. Emphasis on the nutrient requirements and nutrient content of feeds.

Effective communication is not always easy or natural but it can be learned. This course introduces principles behind effective communication and the visual thinking skills that are required for connect with an audience. Participants will learn how to simplify language to make messages clear, accessible, and engaging, and how narrative works in effective communication.

This course will introduce primary aspects of sustainable building and smart growth certification systems (SBSG) such as the WELL Standard, the Living Building Challenge, Passivhaus and LEED for Neighborhood Development, Cities and Communities. Through instructor-led, individual and collaborative exercises, discover the core concepts and standards related to high performance building systems and interact with front-line practitioners and learn from case-study examples of high-performance buildings.

We cannot will the happy accidents that inform some of the best creative breakthroughs, but we can train ourselves to be perceptive and set up playful circumstances in which an unpredictable flow of creative making can occur. This seminar is an introduction to journaling, comic creation and other spontaneous art exercises as a practice in heightening awareness, memory and flexible creativity. We will learn to better open our eyes and ears, finding ways to translate our lived experience into creative work. We will take play seriously.

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with an introduction to anti-racist classroom assessment that includes a consideration of technical issues, as well as policy issues related to assessment use and misuse in American education. Drawing on Critical Race Theory as the central framework, this course focuses on classroom assessment practices from an anti-oppressive perspective.

The history of Capitalism has often been portrayed as having a singular origin in the process of enclosures in the English countryside and the rise of factories in English cities. This course explores the antecedents of institutions and instruments which have been widely associated with Capitalism but were in use in various part of the globe prior to the Industrial revolution in England. In examining these histories students get to understand our shared economic past and more critically appreciate the present.

Power is a central feature of political life and one of the key concepts of political science. This course will examine the main approaches and controversies in the study of power. We will investigate how these approaches help us to better understand how power operates in the real world by engaging with various case studies, including: how power works in prisons, schools, at home, in local and global politics, in an Appalachian mining town, a small village in Malaysia, and in countless ways in every day life. (Gen. Ed. DG, SB)