The landscape media of plants, landforms, structures, and water. Graphic techniques, including modeling, drafting, and plan and cross-section drawings initiated. Examination of built landscape designs in the field and on paper.
This course offers students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of heritage management generally and specifically in its application to the management, interpretation, and design of culturally significant landscapes, including urban landscapes, parks, gardens, historic sites, and agricultural landscapes all over the world.
The intent of the course is to enable them to better understand energy-related issues at the local, national, and global levels both in terms of the technical side but also the economic and policy influences and implications.
this FFYS is to provide weekly topical discussions on different types of bio/nanotechnology. This includes how they are developing in the research community as well as how they are being incorporated into our daily lives (see Table). Examples include genetically-modified proteins (which might be in foods), the engineering of microbes to produce therapeutics or liquid fuels, and the development of novel drug delivery vehicles and biosensors.
Russian, Czech, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, American, and Latin-American stories from Romanticism to the present. Fantastic tales, character sketches, surprise endings; main types of the short story. (Gen.Ed. AL)
This course seeks to introduce and familiarize students to the concept and field of public health as distinguished from clinical medicine and healthcare by focusing on current national and local public health news. Through identification and critical examination of public health current events, students will be able to conceptualize and contextualize the relevance of core public health principles for society and their lives. Historically significant events and trends will be linked to current public health issues.
There are implicit assumptions and economic theories behind much public discourse on issues ranging from unemployment insurance to social welfare policy, health-care reform, and foreign trade policy. We will select one news story each week on a subject of popular debate and we will discuss the economic theory behind the different sides and the empirical work done by economists.
Are you willing to let go of your smart phone or laptop for a week, a month, a year, perhaps even longer? What if you were not even permitted to use the telephone or to write letters? If not, why not? What do you think you might lose in these situations? What would your life be like? Would it be better or worse and why? It seems clear that we now live in what is called network society: we live in networks; we work hard to network with one another; and perhaps we have become networks in some way. More than that, we are also surrounded by talks about networks. I call this