Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
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Rice Course Schedule as of 03/20/2002.
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UNIV 113 TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES Credits 3.00 Spring 02
UNIV 113 TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Open only to freshman. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 KH 101 - TTH 02:30PM - 04:00PM Brito, Dagobert L. Enr: 9 Max: 20
Curl, Robert F.
UNIV 117 THE EVOLUTION WARS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
UNIV 117 THE EVOLUTION WARS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course will examine the concept of evolution from scientific, historical,
cultural, social, and religious viewpoints. We will enter into these debates
with the understanding of evolution not simply as a scientific paradigm, but
also as a central, world-shaping idea with profound implications for social
organization, theological discourse, and cultural self-awareness. Enrollment
limited to 15. Open only to Freshmen.
001 KH 107 - MW 04:00PM - 05:15PM Oliver, Robert D. Enr: 7 Max: 15
UNIV 118 THE CLASSIC OF CHANGES IN ASIAN & WORLD Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Over the past two millennia or so, the Yijing (I-ching; Classic of Changes) has
been, with the notable exception of the Bible, the most widely read and
extensively analyzed book in all of world literature. How do we account for
its transcultural spread and enduring influence? What aspects of it can it be
compared to other "classic" works as a document of truly global significance?
Enrollment limited to 15. Open only to Freshmen.
001 HUM 120 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Smith, Richard J. Enr: 4 Max: 15
UNIV 119 ADVANCES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: SCIENCE FACT Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Recent progress in biotechnology and bioengineering is dramatically changing
our lives. This course will discuss examples from science fiction literature
and movies, such as cloning, tissue engineering, and bionanotechnology. We
will examine how these new biosciences really work and what societal impact we
might expect to see from them in the future. As a final project in this
course, students will write a short story featuring a biotechnology.
Enrollment limited to 15. Open only to Freshmen.
001 KH 101 - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM West, Jennifer Enr: 14 Max: 15
UNIV 120 THE PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS OF TIME TRAV Credits 3.00 Spring 02
UNIV 120 THE PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS OF TIME TRAV Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Time travel has long been a popular notion of science fiction. We will try to
understand some of the various things "time travel" might be taken to mean, and
we will discuss and write about a variety of arguments concerning the
possibility of time travel. We also will touch on issues of causation,
explanation, physical laws, personal identity, and other matters of mutual
interest to physicists and philosophers. Enrollment limited to 15. Open only
to Freshmen.
001 HZ 117 - TH 02:30PM - 05:00PM Jeffries, Paul Enr: 13 Max: 15
UNIV 200 INTRODUCTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT: ENVIRON Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I, II
This course is intended as an introduction to environmental
studies from all
divisions of the campus. The course focuses on attitudes and values relating to
the environment as represented in environmental history and environmental
literature.
001 DH 1046 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM Isle, Walter W. Enr: 14 Max: 0
UNIV 300 INTRODUCTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT: ENVIRON Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I, II
This course is intended as an introduction to environmental
studies from all
divisions of the campus. The course focuses on attitudes and values relating to
the environment as represented in environmental history and environmental
literature.
001 DH 1046 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:15PM Isle, Walter W. Enr: 5 Max: 0
UNIV 303 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: RICE INTO THE FUT Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course addresses science, technology, and policy elements of environmental
issues. Students use the campus and local community as a laboratory in which to
do projects to reduce eviron-mental impacts, enhance sustainability, or resolve
environmental problems.
001 SH 562 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Harcombe, Paul A. Enr: 14 Max: 0
Ostdiek, Donald H.
UNIV 309 CREATING & MANAGING CHANGE: PRINCIPLES O Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course is the first in the current Leadership Rice sequence. Taught by
Rice faculty from across the disciplines and leaders from the Houston business
community, it introduces students to leadership issues and team skills by
drawing on material from each lecture's area of expertise. George Martinez, a
Rice graduate who is Chairman of Sterling Bank and President of Chrysalis
Partners, leads a series of seminars on how to create and sustain a powerful
team, lessons which are put to work as students apply the concepts from the
class to the major class assignment: a team project. Students who prefer to
have their lessons carefully delineated may not find this class satisfying.
Those who are willing to receive highly stimulating material in different
formats and do the work of soritng and sifting its relevance for themselves
will be challenged and, we hope, deeply satisfied by this interdisciplinary
opportunity. Students in this course are guaranteed an interview for the
Leadership Rice Summer Mentorship Experience. Enrollment limited to 50.
001 HB 227 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Staff Enr: 16 Max: 0
UNIV 311 Creativity Seminar Credits 1.00 Spring 02
The purpose of this seminar is to deepen our understanding of the creative
process and to explore ways in which individuals can mine their own creative
capacity. Through reading, class exercises, discussions and individual
assignments, the goal is that each participant will discover some ways that
help him or her be more creative in whatever is of importance to that
person.
Students from all years and all disciplines are welcome. In addition
to weekly assignments, which are designed to take no more than one hour, you
will be asked to design a creative project that grows from your own interests
and to develop it during the semester. You will present the project and
reflect on the process in the context of what was discussed in the class during
the final sessions.
001 KH 101 - W 04:00PM - 05:30PM Lieberman, Susan Enr: 4 Max: 0
UNIV 313 ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP Credits 1.00 Spring 02
This course is a continuation of the Leadership Rice's UNIV 310, section 2 and
is only open to students in Leadership Rice. It involves a few practical
challenges. Students will develop the program rules for Leadership Rice's KEIP
Start-up Grant; work with Leadership Rice staff to identify new start-up
mentorships; and develop a business plan, not for their own business but for a
Leadership Rice business that can help support continuation of KEIP and develop
entrepreneurial skills in other Rice students.
001 HUM 120 - TH 04:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 10 Max: 0
UNIV 322 CROSS- CULTURAL AWARENESS: CULTURES OF T Credits 1.00 Spring 02
A team-taught course that addresses important issues in understanding the
difference of other cultures and looks at the most fundamental of cultral
identity. Examples taken from a variety of the non-U.S. cultures. Emphasis on
experimental learning.
Prereq- UNIV 311 or permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TTH 03:30PM - 04:45PM Gaug, Christa Enr: 0 Max: NA
Sato, Hiroko
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