This course will explore the integral role that creativity, imagination, and curiosity play in a fulfilling life and successful career. It will challenge you to move outside of your existing comfort zone through creative activities and discussions and help you recognize the value and power of being an imaginative, forward-thinking individual.

In this class, students will learn how to design multimedia products (eg: images, audio, video) that can be used to enhance teaching and learning.

What does it mean to be human? Where do men and women ?fit? in the universe? What is the good life? What is evil? What is the nature of the Divine? No matter what you choose as a major in college or your career plans, you will have to think about these questions sometime in your life. In this course we will join a great conversation and learn from Confucian, Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic-Sufi, Stoic, and Christian thinkers in a grand exploration of these questions and much more.

Chemists, biochemists, engineers, and computer scientists are using DNA as simple, yet powerful structural elements in building complex 3D nanostructures. Armed with ?A pairs with T, G pairs with C? and an understanding that double stranded DNA is a helix, simple and complex structures are being designed and created on paper and in the lab. Dynamic elements can be incorporated that yield robotic behavior and provide reactions that are treated as logic (AND, NAND, etc) elements in computation.

Learn science of cooking, food preparation, food supply and safety. This seminar
series will offer basic knowledge of food science that you recognize from food on
your plate. Learn traditional food science along with the latest food technology
trends. Topics include all fatty foods, sweeteners, genetically modified foods,
organic foods, food borne outbreaks, wine, chocolate, as well as consumer aspects of food development.

This course examines the influence of social constructions of ability and disability?hereafter, (dis)ability?in American civic life and higher education. Drawing on readings from psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, education, and disability studies, class discussions will focus on (dis)ability as a form of diverse identity and on the complex impact of (dis)ability in the lives of individuals. Considerable course time is devoted to developing a better understanding of how (dis)ability shapes the experiences of college and university students.

The seminar-style course will start with a brief history of Arabic and Hebrew from their origins in the Semitic language family to the present, an outline of the interaction between the two languages, and similarities and differences in their structures. We will then explore the roles of Arabic and Hebrew in their respective national narratives and in the religions they represent, and continue with description and analysis of attitudes and ideologies towards normative vs.

The seminar-style course will start with a brief history of Arabic and Hebrew from their origins in the Semitic language family to the present, an outline of the interaction between the two languages, and similarities and differences in their structures. We will then explore the roles of Arabic and Hebrew in their respective national narratives and in the religions they represent, and continue with description and analysis of attitudes and ideologies towards normative vs.

? and who doesn?t love a good shiver now and then?! -- Mystery novels by contemporary Icelandic authors have been widely praised for their realism and readability. In this course we will read and discuss crime novels written by four of Iceland?s most exciting crime authors and we will address such issues as: the portrayal of those who break the law and those who enforce it, whether justice is truly served in the end, and whether the narrative is believable. We will also investigate how these novels may reflect the society in which they take place as well as of western culture in general.

The rise of human civilization is marked by the development of ever more advanced materials: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. How will future historians refer to our time? The Silicon Age, or Perhaps the Age of Polymers? Polymers encompass a broad spectrum of our world from the mundane, such as plastics for packaging, to the cutting edge, such as the wings of advanced aircraft, or flexible electronic devices. The DNA that encodes the blueprints for life, and the proteins that build our bodies, are also polymers.