Spring Pre-Session

Learn about gods and goddesses, monsters, and heroes while studying literary and artistic sources within classical mythology.

Public speaking may be intimidating, but this course will help students become comfortable with this important, desirable, and marketable communication skill for public and professional life.

Students will learn to advocate for themselves in team settings, negotiate with others, and understand how teams relate, making group work more productive and enjoyable.

Students will be able to understand the consequences of macroeconomic policies, consequentially anticipate outcomes, and make better decisions in their personal and professional lives.

This course prepares students for success in a complex world by exploring the interrelationships between people, place, and environment, across space and time.

Indigenous women's history offers a unique perspective on Native nations, colonialism, and modern movements toward decolonization and repatriation. Themes include ethnohistory, law and policy, reproductive rights, sovereignty, and women's activism.

This course will introduce applications of quantitative reasoning and methods for problem-solving and decision-making in the areas of management, statistics, and social choice to students who are not in mathematically intensive fields.

Explore psychological themes in human music making — including motivation, creativity, and anxiety — which will provide a lens to better understanding yourself and your world.

Students will learn how to use digital audio workstation (DAW) software and gain knowledge and experience in learning how to compose music with that medium.

Students will learn about diverse aspects of Asian cultures through exploring Asian languages, histories, religions, and other topics.

This course serves as a gateway to experiences meant to help students reflect, explore, and grow as future educators and speech language pathologists within a technological world.

In this course, students will analyze media attention to the current debate about what should or shouldn't be happening in public, K-12 education to consider this question: What is the purpose of schools?

Schools can and have discriminated, stratified, and impeded chances for ethnic minority groups. This class focuses on how schooling can and should be a means of equity and opportunity.

Revit features a broad range of conceptual design and analysis features that make it an ideal platform for exploring early design concepts within a BIM environment. This course will explore the uses of Revit for conceptual design, and students will design and develop an architectural massing concept using its creation tools.

The architecture, engineering, and construction industry continues to build new workflows and feedback loops that allow designers and engineers to create seamless feedback loops between design and production. This course will explore how to connect data and geometry using Building Information Modeling.

Conduct Bayesian analysis and free your research from the constraints of classical analysis. Students will customize distributions and structure their analysis hierarchically to reflect their system.

This course will cover the fundamentals of network theory as it applies to ecology and evolution. Students will gain a conceptual foundation for analyzing relational data and practical computational skills in generating, visualizing, and analyzing network data.

In this introduction to R — one of the most in-demand programming languages for data analysis — students will learn the basics and apply them to a series of short projects.

This course will explore infrastructure sustainability using the Envision framework, a system used to assess and recommend improvements to the sustainability of a real project. Upon completion, each student will become a certified Envision Specialist (ENV SP). All students interested in sustainable infrastructure are welcome.

Students can explore the linkage between STEM, policy, and communication. This course can be taken with two CIVE 1-credit courses available to fulfill an elective.

Students will learn uncrewed aerial systems (drones) for the built and natural environment. Experiential learning focuses on platforms, planning/collection, and analysis techniques within software platforms.

This course will familiarize students with common instrumentation components used in measurement and monitoring of civil infrastructure, procedures for their use, and methods to acquire and process data.

Learn how to draft a manuscript from research data for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or conference paper. Peer and instructor feedback will be provided in a workshop format. Also covered will be metrics describing publication and journal impact, writing for various audiences, and how to write research proposals for various funding agencies.

Students will gain foundational knowledge of how the built environment impacts public health and active living. With the knowledge earned, they will have the ability to develop strategies to create vibrant, safe and healthy communities and be better prepared to advance in this growing field.

This course is an introduction to the College of Architecture's Metals Shop and equipment. Students will learn techniques for processing various metals, some of the most common welding methods, and how to assemble metal projects and prototypes. Students will gain knowledge of how and why metals are used in the design industry.

Plastics fabrication will acquaint students with some of the most common types of plastics used in 21st-century industries and design firms. Students will learn techniques for machining plastics; types of fastening, selecting, and using appropriate adhesives for plastics; and assembling plastic to wood projects, prototypes, and models.

This practical course will introduce students to the methods, tools, and principles used in developing games, virtual reality, and cinema using Unreal 5 to bring amazing real-time experiences to life.

Do you love video games? Students in this course will learn how to design, prototype, and make playable video games with or without previous programming or design experience.

Learning improvisation skills will help course participants to become better at giving presentations, leading team meetings, listening to others, communicating their research and science, and more.

This course prepares seniors for professional licensure, including the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. Online the first two weeks and choice of in-person or web conferencing the last week.

This course offers a fun way to look at the cultural history of America through its national pastime: baseball.

Students in this course will learn to understand the FFA requirements to fly drones for media production purposes and will understand the process to obtain appropriate licenses to fly drones professionally.

In this course, students will take a deep dive into the Instagram platform researching best practices, ethics and learning the ins and out of how to create and measure content. Students will learn and create content for the grid, stories, IGTV, reels, Instagram live and eCommerce to best leverage the platform to accomplish strategic communication goals.

Learn how to formulate your own value proposition and convey your knowledge, skills, and abilities to prospective employers and sponsors. This course will leverage relevant social and media platforms and other digital tools to help you frame your personal brand.

Explore how information works and learn strategies to harness the power of information to the benefit of our world and our own lives.

By combining numerical models with experimental data, this course prepares students for real-world decision making based on validated simulations of critical engineering processes and devices.

Learn tools and techniques from award-winning Project Learning Tree and Project WET Curriculum programs to help engage youth in quality environmental learning experiences.

A combination of agriculture and forestry (agroforestry) optimizes land use for both production and environmental conservation purposes. This course will help students understand the environmental, social, and economic foundations of agroforestry practices and explore natural resource concerns as they relate to conservation forestry practices.

The course enhances career-readiness for interdisciplinary research in emerging fields that lie at the intersection of computer vision, artificial intelligence, data science, agriculture, and genomics.

Explore the culture and history behind agriculture in the United States. Learn how this history and culture has simultaneously supported and inhibited inclusivity in the field through readings, audio/video materials, and discussions.

This course will provide students working knowledge of tools and concepts that are central to understanding the complex structure and diversity of plants.

An introduction to blockchain and some of its applications (cryptocurrency, dAPPS, DeFi, NFTs, metaverse, Web 3.0) that will teach the fundamentals and some of the jargon of this very new and advanced technology.

This course provides an overview of research regarding police reforms, structural racism and policing, myths and facts about policing, and public opinion about policing. Students will connect research to conversations about police reforms with the public, campus community, policy makers, and/or community groups.

Teachers and preservice teachers will gain practical strategies for navigating student behavior challenges, improving learning outcomes, and creating positive learning environments in the K-12 classroom.

Students will gain essential skills in project management and implementation for purpose-driven work, setting them up for success in their spring internship.

Accounting is an information system, and as Warren Buffet is fond of saying, the language of business. This course introduces the fundamental concepts and terminology of accounting and financial reporting. Learn where the numbers come from and how to analyze and interpret accounting information to make decisions.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of accounting, reporting, and analysis to understand financial, managerial, and business concepts and practices.

Students will learn about the foundational principles of advertising and public relations in this course, as well as the processes underlying integrated marketing communications in a global market place.

Students will build their understanding of the economic behavior of consumers, individual firms, markets, and sectors of the economy, and build a foundation for the further study of business, law, economics, and other social sciences.

An introduction to concepts and techniques that form the foundation of modern finance, this course will teach students the time value of money, stock and bond valuation, risk analysis, cash flow estimation, and capital budgeting.

Whether you like hip hop or not, it is a global phenomenon. In this course, students will learn about the history of and major issues about this genre.

Scared to take Math 104? This course will help students learn the skills needed to be successful in calculus.

Scared to take Math 106? This course will help students learn the skills needed to be successful in calculus.

Spreadsheet skills are essential for careers in any area of business. This course provides students with critical analytical skills that leverage spreadsheet capabilities.

An introduction to how goods and services are made, this course covers analytical management techniques for both large and small organizations, private and public enterprises, service, and manufacturing organizations.

This course will provide students with the skills and knowledge for making a successful transition from a bachelor’s program to meaningful, career-oriented employment. Students will develop the critical skills needed to thrive in the dynamic, ever-changing contemporary workforce.

Like food? Of course you do! Like fungi? Who doesn't? Students can earn two credits in three weeks exploring how molds can make tasty food.

This course will provide students with an understanding of AFM-based instruments available at the Nano-Engineering Research Core Facility, help them learn experimental skills for their own research area, and broaden their horizons in the tools for manufacturing and characterization on microscale and nanoscale.

Students will have a great opportunity to connect with international individuals and gain an in-depth understanding of how small businesses try to connect with their international customers.

Students will explore the Costa Rican healthcare system through lectures, hospital and clinic visits, observations, and hands-on activities and will analyze its strengths and challenges compared to the U.S. system.