This course is an exploration of visual art forms and their cultural connections across historical periods, designed for the student with little experience in the visual arts. It includes brief studies in art history, and in-depth inquiry into the elements, media and methods used in a wide range of creative processes. At the beginning of this course, you will learn a five-step system for developing an understanding of visual art in all forms, based on:

1. Description: A work of art from an objective point of view – its physical attributes and formal construction.

2. Analysis: A detailed look at a work of art that combines physical attributes with subjective statements based on the viewer's reaction to the work.

3. Context: Historical, religious or environmental information that surrounds a particular work of art and which helps to understand the work's meaning.

4. Meaning: A statement of the work's content. A message or narrative expressed by the subject matter.

5. Judgment: A critical point of view about a work of art concerning its aesthetic or cultural value.

After completing this course, you will be able to interpret works of art based on this five-step system; explain the processes involved in artistic production; identify the many kinds of issues that artists examine in their work; and explain the role and effect of the visual arts in different social, historical and cultural contexts.

An introduction to the main techniques of Artifical Intelligence: state-space search methods, semantic networks, theorem-proving and production rule systems. Important applications of these techniques are presented. Students are expected to write programs exemplifying some of techniques taught, using the LISP lanuage.

An introduction to the main techniques of Artifical Intelligence: state-space search methods, semantic networks, theorem-proving and production rule systems. Important applications of these techniques are presented. Students are expected to write programs exemplifying some of techniques taught, using the LISP lanuage.

Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will
- Identify an audience and tone for your writing as well as explain why identifying these components are important.
- Utilize the RAFT writing strategy to plan an appropriate style according to audience and purpose.

Author: Brandi Morley
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

With this graphic organizer, students gain practice identifying devices relevant to literary texts and reasoning through how these devices support the author’s purpose.

Author: Frances Santos
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

An examination of how companies manage processes to produce the products or services required by their customers, including product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
This course includes the following units:

Unit 1: Overview of Operations Management
Unit 2: Operations Strategy
Unit 3: Product Design and Process Selection
Unit 4: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Unit 5: Just-In-Time and Lean Systems
Unit 6: Capacity Planning and Facility Layout
Unit 7: Work Systems Design
Unit 8: Inventory
Unit 9: Quality Management

These recitation, lab, and chapter worksheet ancillary materials for basic chemistry courses were developed under a Round 13 Mini-Grant.

This resource contains a rubric, an activity handout, a facilitation guide, and tex files. The material is meant to be used for those teaching a college algebra course. The activities are meant to provide a deeper understanding (than a traditional course offers) of some of the topics covered in a college algebra course. The activities are intended for group activities and options exist for use in a single class or multiple classes.

By the end of this activity, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the First, Second, and Third Amendments of the Bill of Rights by completing a cloze exercise, using context clues and prior knowledge to fill in key terms without referencing their notes.

Author: Sharon Haigler
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

The course Bio-Inspired Design gives an overview of non-conventional mechanical approaches in nature and shows how this knowledge can lead to more creativity in mechanical design and to better (simpler, smaller, more robust) solutions than with conventional technology. The course discusses a large number of biological organisms with smart constructions, unusual mechanisms or clever sensing and processing methods and presents a number of technical examples and designs of bio-inspired instruments and machines.

Test anxiety is real. Millions of students all over the country experience this vague sense of unease when it comes to testing. Psychology gives us insight into what is going on with our bodies in response to something like test anxiety. In fact, when a person understands their body’s response to anxiety, it can be helpful in dealing with it. The purpose of this project is to better understand how the body’s structures (i.e., parts), functions (i.e., what those parts do), and systems operate when a student experiences test anxiety.

Abbreviated Directions: On a piece of very large paper or poster board, label and explain the role and/or process of biological structures, functions, and systems that are activated when a student is experiencing test anxiety.

The Boundless Art History textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that provides an overview of Art History from pre-history through to modern global art.

Each of the following essay prompts is suitable as a single midterm or late-semester writing assignment for sophomore-level British literature students. The essays themselves are intended as stand-alone key assignments, rather than a sequence. They are currently used on a rotating basis in British Literature I sections at Palo Alto College -- one per term. While they are designed to align with institutional learning objectives at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, the prompts are adaptable outside this context, and are available to instructors elsewhere for broader educational use. 

Each of the following essay prompts is suitable as a single midterm or late-semester writing assignment for sophomore-level British literature students. The essays themselves are intended as stand-alone key assignments, rather than a sequence. They are currently used on a rotating basis in British Literature II sections at Palo Alto College -- one per term. While they are designed to align with institutional learning objectives at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, the prompts are adaptable outside this context, and are available to instructors elsewhere for broader educational use. 

This book is based upon the edX MOOCs Engineering: Building with Nature and Beyond Engineering: Building with Nature. The Engineering: Building with Nature MOOC, explores the use of natural materials and ecological processes in achieving effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure designs, distilling Engineering and Ecological Design Principles. In the Beyond Engineering: Building with Nature course, the missing element of Social Design Principles is developed and taught.

Join us in exploring the interface between hydraulic engineering, nature and society!

This text provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of professional public speaking for students and instructors.

This resource is a Visual Template that can be used for providing the content and assignments for a module in a course.  This template has links for all of the required assignments that the student needs to complete in one visual document.

This guide is a helpful way of remembering the criteria you should consider when evaluating information: Currency, Authority, Relevance, Documentation, Information Type, and Objectivity. CARDIO.

This folder contains assignments for the COMM 1304 course at the University of Houston Downtown. There are three required assignments for this course: Individual Presentation, Teamwork Problem Solving, and A+CE (Academic Achievement through Community Engagement). Extra credit opportunities have also been developed and are included here.

Description: Overview of computer systems—hardware, operating systems, the Internet, and application software including word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, and databases. Current topics such as the effect of computers on society, and the history and use of computers in business, educational, and other interdisciplinary settings are also studied. This course is not intended to count toward a student's major field of study in business or computer science.Learning Outcomes:Upon successful completion of this Introduction to Computing course, you will be able to:Describe the fundamentals of computing infrastructure components: hardware, application software, operating systems, and data communications systems.Delineate and discuss societal issues related to computing, including the guiding principles of professional and ethical behavior.Demonstrate the ability to create and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases in order to communicate and store information as well as to support problem solving.Describe the need and ways to maintain security in a computing environment.Explain how networks work; implement a basic home network.Describe basic concepts/structures of computer programming, demonstrate an understanding of programming strategies and design an algorithm.