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Transnational Europe
Examination of European history, society, and culture from multiple perspectives, featuring guest speakers from various departments across the college. Themes will include economic crisis, immigration from the south and east, and the role of Islam.
See Course DetailsScience and Human Values: How Things Are and Which Things Matter
A broadly interdisciplinary course in science as a human activity, emphasizing primary sources and using Science and Nature as textbooks. Students will be expected to develop their own answer to E.O. Wilson's question: "What is the relation between science and the humanities, and how is it important for human welfare?"
See Course DetailsBecoming an Effective Peer Learning Assistant
Introduces current research findings on how people learn, reviews proven strategies for engaging undergraduates in active learning in introductory STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) courses, and offers opportunities to model effective teaching practices with in-class group activities.
See Course DetailsThe Holocaust from the Victims' Perspectives
The Holocaust (1933-45) seen from victims' perspectives as represented through diaries, letters, testimonies, memoirs, fiction, and films. Interdisciplinary methods of studying modes of personal narratives and fiction. Materials by French, German, Hungarian, Yiddish, Polish, and other writers in English translation. Holocaust history, its memorialization, and its documentation.
See Course DetailsSocial Entrepreneurship in the Arts and Sciences
Tenets, models, best practices, and frameworks for social entrepreneurship and social enterprise; direct work with community partner agencies and development of social enterprise plans in support of organizational missions.
See Course DetailsLeadership and the Arts and Sciences
Students, drawing on multiple disciplines, explore the application of an education in the arts and sciences to practical issues, including those associated with leading efforts toward change in an increasingly interconnected world. Students examine theory related to leadership and apply these concepts through case studies and simulations.
See Course DetailsCapstone in Transnational European Studies
Special topics course focused on cultural, political, and historical relations between the countries of Europe.
See Course DetailsHumanities Internship Course
Students will partner with an internship sponsor with the purpose of obtaining practical applications for the skills they have developed as part of their humanities degree at UGA.
See Course DetailsDevelopment Engineering and Sustainability
Introduction to what you should (or should not) do to come-up with transformative sustainable technology-based solutions to problems at the nexus of water, energy, and food in low-resource settings.
See Course DetailsDevelopment Engineering and Sustainability
Introduction to what you should (or should not) do to come up with transformative sustainable technology-based solutions to problems at the nexus of water, energy, and food, in low-resource settings.
See Course DetailsFOCUS (Fostering Our Community's Understanding of Science): Service Learning Experience
This course facilitates a partnership between area public schools and the University of Georgia. Students enrolled in this course will spend significant time in a local elementary school assisting a classroom teacher in science instruction.
See Course DetailsFaculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research I
Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.
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