In this half-semester course, students will learn the basics of canoeing. We will cover the strokes needed to propel and steer a canoe and basic rescue and safety knowledge. The focus of this course is flat water canoeing, but depending on the group's ability and interest, we may also cover basic moving/whitewater maneuvers and rescue. No canoeing experience necessary- complete beginners welcome!

Increasingly, it would seem to be the preference of readers in our neo-narrative age-age of biography and memoir, age of the talk show, the podcast, and TTRPG actual play-an appetite for story. Or narrative. Which also applies to poetry. Though, the lyric poet might just as easily argue that every narrative poem obscures a lyric, which itself slows or suspends time. What occurs when a poem is more concerned with "how something felt" than "what happened"? What use is the lyric in poetry?

This is a hands-on video production course designed for students to find and develop their own personal voice through moving image work. Through readings, discussions, screenings, technical workshops, critiques and the creation of two films, students will explore traditional narrative frameworks and expand on these frameworks to push the boundaries of the conventional film narrative. This course will cover all stages of pre-production including, lookbooks, storyboards, shot lists, casting, screen tests, location scouting and production scheduling.

Chances are you will be involved in a nonprofit organization at some point as a director, employee, volunteer, customer, funder, or founder. This course will put you in the shoes of a nonprofit leader as you learn about the opportunities and challenges that nonprofits can face. It is designed to provide an overview of issues related to the strategic management of nonprofit organizations? internal decisions related to programs and services.

What are the likely effects of proposed social policies? Should an environmental pollutant be considered a health risk? How can one manage to sensibly synthesize multiple strands of evidence of criminal wrongdoing, discrimination, or liability to reach a sound judgment? Human intuition is easily led astray when tasked with judging probabilistic and causal arguments at the heart of these and other such questions. In some cases, mental training may help us better avoid the pitfalls to careful reasoning under uncertainty.

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This course presents poverty as a challenge to education with management as a common element of solutions to address poverty. The course is designed to explore the development, persistence, and broad range of impacts of poverty across multiple disciplines. The contents cover poverty research and practices, management, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, marketing, economics, education, and families, among others. Students will use this multidisciplinary perspective to develop a transdisciplinary research proposal to develop solutions to mitigate and eliminate the challenges of poverty.