Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2003
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UNIV 113   TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II, III
Open only to freshman. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 BB 102 - TTH 02:30PM - 04:30PM      Brito, Dagobert L.        Enr: 10 Max: NA
                                        Curl, Robert F.

UNIV 114   WAYS THE WORLD IS WEIRD: PHILOSOPHICAL L Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Distribution Code: D1,D3
The "philosophy of physics" may sound abstruse or even intimidatingly
techincal, but the path we will investigate is one already well-trodden by all
of us. This course is not so much in physics as about physics: about how th
world astonishingly differs from our expectations. These expectations seem
trivial, obvious and beyond dispute. Consider: all events are caused, time
flows fowards, the past is fixed, the future is open, the world is a mechanism
made of autonomous bits existing independently of human thought. In a
non-technical yet scientifically rigorous, philosophically motivated, writing
intensice context, drawing on accessible essays from philosophers, scientists
and popular authors, we wil come to see that contemporary physics gives us food
reason to question every one of these commonplace ideas.
001 HB 427 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Jeffries, Paul            Enr: 11 Max: NA

UNIV 116   ISSUES IN ENERGY                         Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II, III
Energy lies at the heart of this century's humanatarian problems: energy is
central to improved quality of life, economic, social, geopolitical, and
environmental development. Prospects of forward looking and long-term solutions
to abundanct, cheap, efficient, safe and clean energy will require major
scientific and technological leaps. Using critical analysis and creative
thinking, students will be asked to address real world energy problems using
chemistry, physics, and engineering concepts as basis of their reflection.
Moreover, it will examine the social and economical nature of the energy
problems in the context of sustainable environment. The course will emphasize
activie participation of students to address ill-structured problems which
mirrors real-world problems in energy. Enrollment is limited to 15.
001 SS 337 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Smalley, Richard E.       Enr: 14 Max: 15

UNIV 201   CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM                 Credits 1.00  Spring 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 48 Max: NA

UNIV 303   ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:  RICE INTO THE FUT Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II, III
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. Also offered as ENST 302.
001 GRB 211W - TTH 04:00PM - 05:30PM    Harcombe, Paul A.         Enr: 17 Max: 0
                                        Ostdiek, Donald H.

UNIV 309   CREATING & MANAGING CHANGE: PRINCIPLES O Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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.
*SECTION 1 is 3 credit hours
and SECTION 2 is 1 credit hour.
001 BH 180 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Staff                     Enr: 87 Max: 0
002 HUM 118 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:00AM     Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

UNIV 311   Creativity Seminar                       Credits 1.00  Spring 03
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 HUM 118 - W 04:00PM - 05:30PM       Lieberman, Susan          Enr: 16 Max: 0

UNIV 313   ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP               Credits 1.00  Spring 03
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 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 0

UNIV 322   CROSS- CULTURAL AWARENESS: CULTURES OF T Credits 1.00  Spring 03
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 01:00PM - 02:15PM         Gaug, Christa             Enr: 1 Max: 0
                                        Narbona, Jose  Antonio
                                        Sato, Hiroko