Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
University (UNIV)

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some UNIV courses.

UNIV 115   SOUND                                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Acoustics is on one level an exact science, to the extent that sound can
be
readily measured, analyzed and objectively understood. At the same
time,
acoustics is a highly subjective field of study, open to an
infinite variety of
interpretations when we ourselves are the instrument
of measurement. This
course will examine the unambiguous realm of
physical acoustics, but it will
integrate that understanding with the
particular insights to be derived from
studying acoustics as it relates
to music, architecture, biomedicine,
psychoacoustics, the environment,
and other fields besides.
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:30PM         Carroll, Michael M.       Enr: 0 Max: 20
                                        Gottschalk, Arthur W.

UNIV 116   THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: A FIRST YEAR SEMINAR Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
The age-old mystery of the origin of life has,
in recent decades,
matured into an area of active scientific inquiry and
discourse. This is
principally due to an increased understanding of the
chemisty underlying
the basis of life, and of new organizing principles in
complex systems.
This course will pursue a critical examination of the central
physical,
chemical and biological questions and their proposed solutions for
how
life began.
001 TBA - TBA                           Smalley, Richard E.       Enr: 0 Max: 20

UNIV 302   COMMUNICATION, COGNITION AND CULTURE     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
A team-taught course that addresses the nature of information technologies and
their influence on culture.  It focuses on orality, the manuscript culture, the
print revolution and the electronic communication which culminates in
high-speed powers of computation and simulation, and the creation of global
information structures.  The influence of these modes of communication on the
following issues will be explored:  imaging and visualization, memory, self and
community, censorship and social control, authority, science and medicine,
education, nationalism and ethnicity, and virtual reality.  This is strictly a
discussion course.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

UNIV 303   THE IMPACT OF C02: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND Credits 3.00  Spring 00
This class integrates scientific, societal, and policy perspectives to address
implications of the Kyoto Accords on carbon dioxide reduction.  The focus of
the course is a group project to develop a carbon dioxide reduction plan for
Rice University; class time will largely be devoted to projects, discussions
and progress reports.
001 TBA                                 Harcombe, Paul A.         Enr: 0 Max: 20
                                        Ostdiek, Donald H.

UNIV 309   CREATING & MANAGING CHANGE               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
A team-taught course that addresses topics including the ethics of leadership,
historical and cultural perspectives on leadership, paradigms of leadership,
and communication skills with an emphasis on group work.  This course includes
a 2-hour lab session.  Hours TBA.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

UNIV 311   Creativity Seminar                       Credits 1.00  Spring 00
Leadership Rice offers an opportunity to develop one's personal understanding
of creativity and find one's own creative language. Limited enrollment to 15.
001 TBA - T 04:00PM - 06:00PM           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 15

UNIV 322   CROSS- CULTURAL AWARENESS: CULTURES OF T Credits 1.00  Spring 00
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 04:00PM - 05:15PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 50