An introduction to biology intended for non-science majors. Focus areas include chemical foundations, cell structure and division, genetics, and evolution.

This course provides an opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them, meeting the scope and sequence of most general chemistry courses.

This is the full course content for a course on General Psychology. It contains eight modules: Foundations of Psychology; Biopsychology; Consciousness and Sleep; Sensation and Perception; Learning, Memory, and Intelligence; Motivation and Emotion; Personality, Developmental Psychology, and Social Psychology; Psychological Disorder and Treatment, Abnormal Behavior and Health Psychology

This course was created specifically for the study of music, but the contents can be adapted for internships in most curricula.

This textbook introduces students to the role of interpersonal relationships in business, with an emphasis on communication.

This textbook and course material introduces various concepts within the study of arts at a university level.

This textbook is an introduction to college mathematics. It covers set theory, logic, numeration systems, probability, modular arithmetic, and measurement.

This textbook is an introduction to Ethics. It covers the origins of ethics, ethical judgment, decision making, mistakes in reasoning, rethical theories, and contemporary ethical issues.

This textbook is an introduction to Philosophy. It covers the nature of philosophy, logic, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.

Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book’s conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today’s students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface.

This course provides an opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them, meeting the scope and sequence of most general chemistry courses.

This curriculum covers a broad range of economic concepts and models. Students will learn foundational concepts like scarcity, opportunity cost, marginal analysis, and distinguishing between positive and normative claims. Core microeconomic topics include supply and demand, elasticity, market efficiency, consumer/producer surplus, and government intervention. Macroeconomic topics span GDP, unemployment, inflation, business cycles, growth, fiscal policy, monetary policy, and stabilization tools.

The microeconomics section builds an understanding of how individual buyers and sellers interact in markets. Students analyze supply and demand equilibria, surpluses, and shortages. Elasticity concepts are applied to understand how quantity supplied and quantity demanded respond to price changes. Market outcomes are evaluated using consumer/producer surplus and efficiency criteria. The effects of government price controls and taxes are analyzed.

The macroeconomics portion develops models to explain economy-wide outcomes. Students learn to calculate GDP, unemployment rates, inflation, and price indices. The AD-AS model illustrates macro equilibrium and the causes of business cycles, inflation, and stagnation. The Keynesian and Neoclassical frameworks are compared. Fiscal and monetary policies are explored as stabilization tools, with analysis of their mechanisms, limitations, lags, and appropriate applications.

International economics connects micro and macro concepts. Using theories of comparative advantage, students evaluate the impacts of trade and trade policies on consumers, producers, and the macroeconomy. The determinants of exchange rates and trade balances are analyzed.

This curriculum provides both theoretical frameworks and practical applications of economics. Students build analytical and mathematical skills for modeling and evaluating economic outcomes. Policy tradeoffs are examined from multiple perspectives. Upon completion, students will be equipped with core microeconomic and macroeconomic ways of thinking to apply in their careers and lives.

This introductory level course provides an overview of core concepts and theories which contribute to our understanding of intimate relationships and families. The text provides a structure and sequence of issues for the course, but the students will contribute much of the content. A heutagogical instructional design allows students in the course to provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence. Student led class discussions provide the opportunity for an engaging and personally relevant exploration of the material.

Welcome to MUSI 1306, Music Appreciation. I think you’ve made a smart choice to spend some weeks studying some of the greatest music ever written. Consider for a moment how quickly a hit pop song passes from fashionable to forgotten. Those of us that have been out of high school or college more years than we care to remember have certainly had the experience of hearing a favorite anthem of our youth and thinking, “Oh yeah, that song! I’d forgotten that one.” Think about that: the song was totally loved, then completely forgotten within a matter of just a few years. Then consider that many of the composers that we will study have been dead for over two hundred years, and yet their music has never been forgotten and never stopped being performed and loved. That, quite simply, is amazing.

Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. Many state education agencies now have offices devoted to identifying and using OERs and other digital resources in their states. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community.

This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.

This textbook is an introduction to philosophy in the humanities. It covers the foundations of philosophy, axiology, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy in practice.