Burmese IV is the fourth part of a four-part elementary course sequence in Burmese. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Burmese develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in Myanmar (Burma) and to support course work in Southeast Asian Studies.

This course will explore what it means to engage in public health interventions with different groups of people and communities. As professionals in communication disorders, kinesiology, nutrition, and public health, many different types of people will be around and learning how to engage in them in a respectful and culturally competent way. This course will examine the historical connection between religion and health. The curriculum will take a current-event lens to realize what work still needs to be done and which health prerogatives are best served by using religious affiliations.

This course introduces students to activist, alternative, and community-based media projects that address challenging civic problems, and promote sustainable social change. Following a studio-lab approach, this course uses collaborative and cooperative learning to explore various forms of mediated expression, "old" and "new" media tools, and communication tactics to promote citizen participation and problem solving in social problems that affect local communities elsewhere.

Relevant forms of Black cultural expressions contributing to the shape and character of contemporary Black culture; the application of these in traditional Black writers. Includes: West African cultural patterns and the Black past; the transition-slavery, the culture of survival; the cultural patterns through literature; and Black perceptions versus white perceptions. (Gen.Ed. AL, U)

In this class we examine the changing role and significance of interest groups, nonprofits, and, to a lesser extent, political parties, in politics and society. We consider the extent and nature of group influence in government and policy making and how this has changed over time.

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This interdisciplinary project-based course emphasizes human-centered design process as well as critical social theory on the relationships between humans and designed things. Through hands-on, individual, and collaborative making students will learn design thinking skills such as: user-experience research, rapid idea generation techniques, prototyping and iterative implementation. This learning will happen alongside rich class discussions of both seminal and contemporary scholarly work on design’s role in shaping the lived experience.

This interdisciplinary project-based course emphasizes human-centered design process as well as critical social theory on the relationships between humans and designed things. Through hands-on, individual, and collaborative making students will learn design thinking skills such as: user-experience research, rapid idea generation techniques, prototyping and iterative implementation. This learning will happen alongside rich class discussions of both seminal and contemporary scholarly work on design’s role in shaping the lived experience.

This course is designed for intermediate and advanced hip hop dancers interested in performing a premiere hip hop work for the Faculty Dance Concert, November 10, 11, and 12, 2017.