Understanding the "real world" requires integrating knowledge from different points of view. Learning Communities link two or more courses and foster integrated understanding and competencies. Students in Learning Communities get to know their professors and other students even better than they would by taking the courses alone. Learning Communities provide multiple credits and fulfill several degree designations for the Associate of Arts & Science degree.
Fall 2007
The American Civil War: 150 Years on the Battlefield, Page, and Screen
Perhaps no other event in American history has received as much attention than the American Civil War (1861-1865). Interest in the history of the Civil War
shows no sign of abating as Americans read avidly historical books and magazines devoted to the War, flock to national parks and Civil War interpretive
centers, join societies to preserve battlefields, and even participate in reenactments of battles. Because the Civil War is very much alive in American memory,
creative writers and filmmakers also continue to turn to it for inspiration. In addition to covering the history and literature/film of the War, this Learning
Community will give students the opportunity to integrate the historical understanding and literary insight gained from HIS 293 and ENG 370. Specifically, the
Learning Community will emphasize discussion of common ideas presented in HIS 293 and ENG 370, group presentations, and a research project in which
students will examine a Civil War film.
- INT 290-01 The American Civil War: 150 Years on the Battlefield, Page, and Screen (IS), 1 credit (Emmert/Sheehan), M 04:00PM – 04:50PM
- ENG 370-01 The American Civil War in Literature and Film (HU,) 3 credits, TR 01:00PM – 02:15PM
- HIS 293-01 Civil War and Reconstruction (SS), 3 credits, TR 02:25PM – 03:40PM
Engineering and Public Speaking
This learning community course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of both practical engineering and speech communication. The 6 credit course will be taught by engineering and communications faculty. The practical engineering elements of the course will be enhanced by 4 hours of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and on-site “job shadowing” with a practicing engineer. The presentation/communication component of the class will culminate in the preparation of an “Engineering Day” at UW Fox, where class members will promote the idea of a career in engineering to local elementary school children.
- EGR 105 Engineering Fundamentals (AP/IS), 3 credits, MWF 10:00AM – 10:50AM
- COM 103 Introduction to Public Speaking (AP/IS), 3 credits, MWF 09:00AM – 09:50AM
Spring 2008
Fooling with Nature: Agriculture and Your Food
Through coordinated lessons in the Biology and Political Science classes, students will have the means to make connections among academic ideas. They will
relate those ideas to the real world of government policy, and the impact of regulation on food production systems and the wider environment. This Learning
Community draws from the two academic areas and presents students with ideas and philosophies to enrich their university experience and take to their families
and communities.
- INT 290-01 Fooling with Nature: Agriculture and Your Food (IS), 1 credit, (Perry*/Waller),
T 10:50 - 11:40AM - BIO 103 Human Environmental Biology (NS/LS), 4 credits, LEC 01 MW 02:30PM - 03:45PM & LAB 41 T 1:00PM - 04:00PM
- POL 219 Public Policy (SS), 3 credits, MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
The Body & Its Care
This learning community connects a scientific study of the human body to an exploration of the literary theme of the human body and its care. Especially designed for students pursing health care majors, this learning community offers students the opportunity to think about the human body as not only a specimen of scientific study but also as a social construct, the understanding of which is affected by cultural expectations and beliefs and individual experiences and tastes. In INT 290, students will be asked to complete a semester-long research project in which they explore some aspect of health or health care first from a scientific perspective and then through an exploration of cultural and literary representations of this topic.
- INT 290-01 The Body & Its Care (IS), 1 credit, (Gonya/Williamson*), R 06:40PM – 07:30PM
- ENG 370-01 The Body and its Care: A Multicultural Exploration of Literature of the Body (HU/ES), 3 credits, TR 05:15PM – 06:30PM
- PHS 235-02-42 Human Physiology (LS/NS), 5 credits,
TR 08:30AM – 09:45AM,
TR 09:55AM – 11:55AM
OR - BIO 109-01-41 Concepts of Biology (LS/NS), 5 credits, MWF 11:00AM – 11:50AM T 01:00PM – 01:50PM