Lilly Courses with Ethics/Service Integration

Courses for 2006 - 2007

Biology 232. Human Health and the Environment
This course incorporates concepts of environmental and health science with emerging issues associated with environmental threats to human health.  Topics include human population growth and food security, toxicity and toxins, food borne illness, emerging disease, waste and wastewater, air pollution and assessing human risk.  Field trips provide applied learning experiences in the science underlying environmental stress and disease.  To explore the interaction of poverty, environmental degradation and disease firsthand, students take a one-week outreach trip over spring break to a developing country and participate in projects addressing local environmental problems. (Credit, full course.) McGrath

Art 263. Intermediate Documentary Projects in Photography
The course introduces students to documentary methods and issues pertaining to photography and related media used in the making of photo-documentaries.  Class projects and discussions examine the cultural and socio-political impact of this genre, as well as the genre’s core triangulation points of subjectivity, objectivity and truth. Class includes a photography project that follows both local families and ones established during a one week outreach trip over spring break to a developing country. (Credit, full course.) Malde

Greek 203. Intermediate Greek
Greek 203, traditionally an intermediate course in Xenophon's Anabasis, was slightly altered to work as a sophomore/vocation search course.  Changes included turning 203 into a course on the New Testament with readings in Luke, 1st Corinthians, and Apocalypse, with continued teaching on grammar and syntax. The course also included a guest lecture by Chris Brian, New Testament scholar and professor at the seminary.  The course attempted to lead the students to reflect on their vocations by examining Jesus’ search for his calling. (Credit, full course) Huber

Statistics 221. A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics.
This course introduces students to the language and principles of modern probability and statistics.The organizing principles of stochastic processes, simulation, the Poisson process, the law of large numbers, and the central limit theorem are presented as  formal mathematical models which give structure to the exploration and analysis of real world data sets. Computer techniques such as the bootstrap complement the more traditional approaches of normal approximation and large sample methods in the derivation of confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses. This course is particularly appropriate for students of applied mathematics, the physical sciences, and social sciences, and especially for students who aspire to become teachers in these areas. It assumes a working knowledge of calculus, such as one acquires in Math 101 or a rigorous high school course. (Credit, full course) Parrish

 

 

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