Signature course stories : transforming undergraduate learning /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Steiker, Lori Holleran (Editor), Powers, William C., Jr (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : Distributed by Tower Books, an imprint of the University of Texas Press, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	University of Texas at Austin > Curricula. College teaching > Texas. Academic achievement. College teachers > Texas. Learning and scholarship > Texas.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / William C. Powers, Jr.
Introduction / Lori Holleran Steiker, Patricia Moran Micks, and Signature Course Advisory Committee
Critical thinking
Life and death decision / Sheldon Eckland-Olson
Medical ethics / William J. Winslade
Creative problem solving / Lawrence Speck
Elements of effective thinking / Michael Starbird
Dante's hell and its afterlife / Guy P. Raffa
Information literacy
From Gutenberg to your iPod: mass media and society / Brad Love
The history of world cinema / Charles Ramírez Berg
The good, the bad, and the ugly in Chinese literature and culture / Chiu-Mi Lai
Oral communication
Hidden treasures of plants / Stanley J. Roux
Really bad bugs: historical and emerging infectious diseases / Patrick J. Davis
Writing improvement
The discovery of freedom / Paul B. Woodruff
Modernity, anxiety, and the art of the uncanny / Elizabeth M. Richmond-Garza
Postracial America: race and culture in contemporary America / Ban Carrington
Interdisciplinary approaches
How to change the world / Yolanda C. Padilla
Disability and the media / James R. Patton
How things work / Michael E. Webber
Experiential learning
The Pope's city: the Vatican and St. Peter's through the millennia / Ann C. Johns
Pathways to civic engagement / Lee Walker
Sleep: are we getting enough? / Patricia A. Carter
Contemporary content
Sexual violence across Mexican cultures / Gloria González-López
Spies, espionage, and treason / Robert D. King
Young people and drugs / Lori Holleran Steiker
Epilogue
The story behind the stories: history, assessment, and a recipe for success / Andrew Clark, Patricia Moran Micks, Lori Holleran Steiker, and Leslie Kavanaugh
Contributors
Acknowledgments.