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INTD 101-22 - A Brief History of Inventions
Tuesdays & Fridays 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.
CRN 40286
Daniela Buna
Professor of Physics
This course covers a selection of ground breaking inventions that advanced scientific discoveries, economics and medicine.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-23 - The Digital Frontier: Exploring AI, Cybersecurity, and the Future of Computing
Tuesdays & Fridays, 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.
CRN 40173
Ali Al-Juboori
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
This course explores the impact of AI, cybersecurity, and computer science on society, covering topics like privacy, ethics, and the digital divide. Through hands-on activities and case studies, students will develop technological competency, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills while examining real-world applications and challenges.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-24 - Community Engaged Learning
Tuesdays & Fridays 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.
CRN 40079
Gina McCormack
Adjunct Faculty
Community Engaged Learning is a freshman seminar course designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop and apply critical reading and writing skills while engaging in the examination of issues impacting both local and global communities. Through the combination of classroom discussions, hands-on service projects, reflective exercises, and research, students will develop a deeper understanding of communities and the issues facing them.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-25 - K-Pop and Its Global Influence
Tuesdays & Fridays, 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.
CRN 40435
Yanghwan Choi
Adjunct Faculty
This class aims to help students understand Korean culture, a significant feature of the 21st-century cultural code: Postmodernism and fusion. Korean culture has developed rapidly over the past 30 years. Through three inflection points of substantial change(K-Wave), Korean pop culture made changes that expanded geographical and cultural diversity. This class will provide an opportunity to examine the transformation process in Korean culture from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. In addition, it will focus on broadening the perspective on cultural fusion in the future.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-26 - U.S. Rights and Liberties: Contexts and Threats
Tuesday & Fridays 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.
CRN 40178
Laura Valente
Adjunct Faculty
State laws and U.S. Supreme Court decisions have a tremendous influence on your liberty and safety. Increasingly, Presidential Executive Orders and actions taken by federal agencies are also having a profound impact on the rights of those within the U.S. Recent laws, Executive Orders, and federal court decisions have restricted access to reproductive rights, limited voting rights, permitted book banning and removal of museum exhibits, reduced environmental protections, taken action against transgender people, made it easier to obtain assault style weapons, and perhaps most publicly, expanded federal action against immigration. This course will explore the foundations of rights and liberties in the U.S., and the ways in which those rights can be threatened.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-27 - The Medium is the Message
Tuedays & Fridays, 9:55 – 11:35 a.m.
CRN 40376
John Peffer
Professor of Art History
In this class we discuss how mediums affect us, and we explore the human senses of sight, space, and sound through which we perceive the world. Mediums are what we use every day to exchange information, ideas, pictures, feelings, wealth, and things we want. A medium is something made into an image: your self dressing up, the pencil that makes a drawing, typed words of a story, a disk with music, a computer and screen. Mediums alter the messages they carry. A human face is not a painted face. A song about a mountain is not a mountain. Online news enables proliferation of deep fakes. Barter, paper money, and bitcoin– each creates a different kind of value. These mediums we use to communicate influence our thoughts and behavior whether one is aware of it or not. Thinking about them can lead to deeper understanding of how art, culture, politics, and economy work in society.
Peer Facilitators
INTD 101-28 - TBA
Tuesdays & Fridays 9:55 – 11:35 a.m.
CRN 41000
TBA
Adjunct Faculty
TBA
Peer Facilitators
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