Research has shown that positive social networks and academic connections increase student retention and student success. This program pairs a freshman/ sophomore mentee with a junior/senior mentor. Students will meet weekly for a faculty-led mentoring session, engage in mentoring activities each week, including social and academic activities, and complete a brief report on your activities each week.

This course is designed for students who foresee starting a farming operation in the future or who currently own, manage or work on a small diversified farm. The complexity of whole farm planning is covered through agricultural business planning, organizational design, decision making, leadership and management of employees, production systems and record keeping.

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

This architecture studio is an investigation into architecture and the built environment. Students develop and apply digital architectural skills, including sketches, plans, elevations, models, and diagramming to design problems. The course focuses on the 3D modeling program Rhinoceros, but also introduces the Adobe Creative Suite and digital fabrication tools. Creative and indexical study are used to generate the concepts and language necessary to identify and define spaces.

This course will offer an integrative approach to the study of illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We'll begin with a unit on the invention and early history of the book, but the main focus of study will be 1350-1500, from the rise of the commercial lay manuscript industry in urban centers in Europe to the production of incunabula, early printed books. We will study books made for devotion, instruction, entertainment, and pleasure, including sacred and secular texts such as Books of Hours and vernacular literature, legends, and histories.