Projects
To apply, please go to the Proposals page.
Sample projects are located on the Sample Projects page.
Projects from the past cycles:
Fall 2005
- Econ 102 - Econometrics
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department:
- Learning Objectives: In Intermediate Macroeconomics, (sophomore) students learn how to model the stylized facts of economic growth and the business cycle. Subsequently, this allows them to study policy options to improve the general state of the economy (economic well-being), if necessary. Traditionally this has been done using simple fictional data, both in the lecture and exercises. I intend to change this practice by incorporating FITness concepts into the lectures and problem sets.
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- Econ 50 - Principles of Economic Analysis
- Faculty Member: Leopoldo E. Soto Arriagada
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to present economic concepts in a concise and logical manner, how to describe economics tools using plain English rather than mathematics, and how to edit scientific writing for precision and accuracy.
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- Psychology 30: Introduction to Psychology -
- Faculty Member: Kathleen Brown
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Working collaboratively, students build web pages that present psychological research of direct relevance to college students. The field of psychology has much practical advice to offer students, including research on stress, time-management, family support, sexuality, substance use, and relationships. Students will learn to gather electronic resources and critically evaluate the credibility of each source. The information will be organized on a web page of their own design. The students will share their web pages via in class presentations.
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- RLST 173 - U.S. Latino Religions and Politics
- Faculty Member: Gaston Espinosa
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: The two primary goals of this FITness module are:
1. The disciplinary purpose of the module is to enable and empower students to use technology to access and analyze The Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation 2004 National Survey of Latinos database in order to perform data analyses and to move from being passive recipients of secondary social science information to proactive interpreters of U.S. Latino religions and politics through basic online computational data analyses.
2. Students will learn how to identify, access, and analyze national survey data from The Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation 2004 National Survey of Latinos.
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- RLST 175 - Visions of the Divine Feminine
- Faculty Member: Deepak Shimkhada
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: The objective of this project is to examine Websites that deal with Tantra in many forms. The students will be asked to choose keywords containing Tantra in various forms and surf the Internet to see how it is represented by various groups.
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- RLST 21 - Introduction to Judaism
- Faculty Member: Russell Arnold
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: Students will present research on one of Judaism\'s major holidays through a group web page and oral presentation. Each site will contain images, hyperlinks to pages on various aspects of the holiday and links to further information. The sites will be presented to the class.
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- Spanish 107 - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
- Faculty Member: Delia Greth
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will search the WWW for information relevant to the foreign language they are learning, send and receive this information via email, and collaborate online by means of the course bulletin board and discussion forum.
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- Spanish 139 - Spanish Phoenetics and Phonology
- Faculty Member: Delia Greth
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to search for specific information within relevant linguistic databases. They will also use the information they find to create a PowerPoint presentation and load it onto the course website as part of their final project.
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- Spanish 22 - Beginning Accelerated Spanish
- Faculty Member: Erin M. Rebhan
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students in Spanish 22 complete the equivilent of Spanish 1 and 2 in one semester and they focus on building vocabulary, learning important grammatical structures, and reading, writing and oral communication. The learning objectives for the proposed project, then, are four fold: 1. to help students retain what they learn throughout the semester - especially as it relates to vocabulary and grammatical structures; 2, to improve their reading, writing, and oral communication skills in Spanish; 3, to introduce them to a different culture in a fun and creative manner; 4. to establish good research habits as it relates to bibliography, plagiarism, the Internet, etc.
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- Spanish 33 - Intermediate Spanish
- Faculty Member: Erin M. Rebhan
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will improve their researching, writing and editing skills in a semester-long, on-line writing project.
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Spring 2005
- Econ 114 - The Development of American Markets
- Faculty Member: Marc Weidenmier
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: To provide students with the complete experience of conducting, presenting, and critiquing research in a seminar vetting with a concluding two-day conference. This will enhance their online research and presentation skills as well as expose them to peer-review processes.
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- Econ 149 (continuation) - International Accounting, Taxation and Transfer Pricing
- Faculty Members: Marc Massoud and Jim Taylor
- Department: Economics/Accounting
- Learning Objectives: The essence of our proposal is to continue and indeed hopefully enhance the students’ database and presentation skills learned in the earlier introductory course in accounting. We believe it is important to apply an economics approach to international business transactions and develop in students an ability to look at the impact these transactions have on the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows.
- Econ 50 - Principles of Economic Analysis
- Faculty Member: Leopoldo Soto Arriagada
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to run experiments, collect and analyze the resulting data, and present their results to the rest of the class.
- Gov 173 (continuation) - Democratization in Eastern Europe and Russia
- Faculty Member: Hilary Appel
- Department: Government
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to make effective presentations using electronic media, especially Power Point. Each student will apply this new skill by making a formal presentation to the class based on their research project. Students will also participate in special sessions designed to help them find and evaluate on-line materials in their research projects.
- History 123 - History of the American West
- Faculty Member: Herb Ruffin
- Department: History
- Learning Objectives: Students will acquire IT fluency using electronic media such as Dreamweaver and learn online research to create online structured documents. Each student will apply this new skill by making a formal presentation to the class based on his/her project. Students will also participate in special sessions designed to help them use Dreamweaver and evaluate online materials considered for use in their research projects.
- Lit10 (continuation) - Online Collaborative Research
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: This is being developed into an exportable module for use in other classes - Students in an introductory literature course will be introduced to the use of online tools for collaboration in pre-writing and research during essay \"writing workshop\" assignments.
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- Lit10 (Continuation) - Online Presentations
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: This is being developed as an exportable module - Students in three annual sections of Lit 10 will create presentations in Power Point. Following in-class presentation, students will publish a web-based version of the presentation, with supplementary materials, to the course WebCT page.
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- Psych 109 - Statistics for Psychologists
- Faculty Member: Bettina Casad
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Compute descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS. Present statistical results in graphcs and tables. Annotate SPSS output with interpretations. Apply knowledge of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics by evaluating a research article.
- Psych 110 (continuation) - Research Methods
- Faculty Member: Chris Chase
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Students will gain proficiency in working with internet databases (PsycINFO,
Web of Science, Medline) for conducting psychological research.
- Psych 180 - Forensic Psychology
- Faculty Member: Daniel Krauss
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Increase students’ awareness of legal databases as well as augment their online research skills. Increase their ability to present technologically advanced Power point presentations with appropriate content.
- Psych 30 (continuation) - Introduction to Psychology
- Faculty Member: Kathleen Brown
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Working collaboratively, students will build web pages that provide an introduction to specialized branches of psychology. Students will learn to gather electronic resources and critically evaluate the credibility of each source. Students will then organize the information on a web page of their own design (although templates may be provided). The students will share their web pages in class, and on WebCT.
- RLST 138/ History 153 - History of World Christianity
- Faculty Member: Gaston Espinosa
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: This project is an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students
to learn how to analyze the quality of websites, help create a website, post hyperlinks, scan and post primary and secondary source documents, and learn how to conceptualize and design a webpage. Eighteen to twenty students will participate in this module annually. Unlike other courses, this course will be taught every year.
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- RLST 175 - Visions of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism and Buddhism
- Faculty Member: Deepak Shimkhada
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: I am proposing to interface technology in my RLST 175 course so that the students can take full advantage of the Internet in doing their group projects. Because we live in the age of the Internet, its use is likely to grow, especially after Google added the ‘Beta Scholar’ search tool to its arsenal. Such Beta and Meta data will serve to make our academic lives easier and significantly better. Hence, college instructors should use technological innovations with their courses in which the students are introduced to assignments and projects that use, in part, technology.
- Spanish 33 - Intermediate Spanish
- Faculty Member: Erin Rebhan
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will improve their reading skills by researching a specific Spanish-speaking country using the WWW (Spanish-language search engines); Students will improve their writing skills by creating a website that focuses on a given country; Students will improve their speaking skills by presenting their final project, the web site, to the class.
Fall 2004
- Economics 102 - Intermediate Economics
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: In Intermediate Macroeconomics, (sophomore) students learn how to model the stylized facts of economic growth and the business cycle. Subsequently, this allows them to study policy options to improve the general state of the economy (economic well-being), if necessary. Traditionally this has been done using simple fictional data, both in the lecture and exercises. I intend to change this practice by incorporating FITness concepts into the lectures and problem sets.
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- Economics 125 (continuation) - Econometrics
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: : In econometrics, students are taught how to quantitatively analyze and interpret data from many aspects of life. This involves both describing data and, through the use of probability theory, to infer population behavior from samples. The course taught in the economics department emphasizes use of data primarily involving public policy problems. The nature of the subject and the lecture hall/lab environment (RN012) naturally lend themselves to combine these primarily statistics learning objectives with the assignment to “actively engage the student in the learning process.”
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- Economics 50 (continuation) - Online Stock Tracking, Analysis and Trading
- Faculty Member: Marc Weidenmier
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: To teach students to learn how to make basic investment decisions using financial market theory and internet sites on the web. Students will learn how to download and analyze data off the internet as well as conduct research on the internet. (The proposal covers points 3, 4, 5, and 7 on the FITness Goal Sheet).
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- Government 109 - Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy
- Faculty Member: Fred Lynch
- Department: Government
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to conduct electronic database research for support of two 10-12 page research papers relevant to assigned position on two juvenile justice policy debates. (See attached syllabus.) They will attach supportive detail and evidence of their online database searches (including a copy of one professional journal paper) with each paper.
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- History 111 - The Age of High Imperialism and its Legacies
- Faculty Member: Amelia Lyons
- Department: History
- Learning Objectives: Students will be able to do research on-line using both traditional academic sources and sources on the World Wide Web effectively, to know what resources our available to them, and to be able to judge a source’s quality (and avoid using the first and likely poor source they find).
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- History 61 - The New Asia
- Faculty Member: Arthur Rosenbaum
- Department: History
- Learning Objectives: Students will produce a group web site focusing on a specific theme or issue central to contemporary Asia (China, Japan, and Indonesia). The assignment is designed to encourage students to think about the historical roots of contemporary issues and to employ a comparative perspective. In addition, the students learn to conduct research using a variety of electronic and printed sources.
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- History 76 - The Making of Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present
- Faculty Member: Amelia Lyons
- Department: History
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to make effective presentations using PowerPoint. They will learn how to evaluate and utilize resources on the web. They will learn to do this in a group project that will encourage cooperation, collaboration, and time management. They will learn how to research and present the subject matter to classmates effectively and efficiently using this technology. Part of the preparation will include in-class time devoted to better understanding how to use this technology.
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- History 77 - European Social History, 1347-1815
- Faculty Member: Lisa Cody
- Department: History
- Learning Objectives: The technological goals of this module would include working with students to do better research online, to post materials on web pages, to take part in web discussions, and to make in-class presentations tapping these materials. Students will analyze how a heterogeneous population of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean world interacted with one another both positively and negatively through readings, images, and online resources
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- Literature 10 - (continuation) Ethics and Plagiarism Module
- Faculty Member: various
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn the basics of copyright and plagiarism and apply them in creating and using electronic materials and research. They will become aware of ethical issues in the information technology field and be aware of its content.
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- Mathematics 32 (continuation) - Multivariable Calculus
- Faculty Member: Jorge Aarao
- Department: Mathematics
- Learning Objectives: Use of mathematical software, Maple, as a tool to visualize complex structures in three-dimensional space; as a tool to produce documents with embedded mathematical graphics; and as a tool to generate conjectures and test hypotheses.
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- Philosophy and Religious Studies 37 - American Religion and Politics
- Faculty Member: Gaston Espinosa
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to identify, access, and analyze data from the American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) (http://www.arda.tm/). ARDA allows students to search data from a list of national surveys on American religions and politics. It is the largest and most reliable data base bank in the United States.
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- Psychology 30 - Introduction to Psychology
- Faculty Member: Kathleen Brown
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Working collaboratively, students will build web pages that provide an introduction to specialized branches of psychology. Students will learn to gather electronic resources and critically evaluate the credibility of each source. Students will then organize the information on a web page of their own design (although templates may be provided). The students will share their web pages in class, and on WebCT.
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- Span134 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- Faculty Member: Delia Greth
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to search for and compile relevant references on a specific linguistic topic. They will also create a collaborative linguistics Web site for the course which will be used as a permanent reference and each subsequent class will add new materials for a cumulative database project.
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- Spanish 107 - Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
- Faculty Member: Delia Greth
- Department: Modern Languages
- Learning Objectives: Students will search the WWW for information relevant to the foreign language they are learning, send and receive this information via email, and collaborate online by means of the course bulletin board and discussion forum.
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Spring 2004
- Chemistry 14 & 15 - Data analysis and organization
- Faculty Member: Kersey Black
- Department: Chemistry (JSD)
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to handle large data sets and perform statistical analyses to assess the accuracy, precision and reliability of data. This approach will allow them to also analyze their own experimental data for likely sources of error
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- Econ120 - (continuing) Data Analysis using Spreadsheets
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: The main idea is to teach students how to be fluent in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. A standard statistics course in economics will be adapted towards this goal. Written group projects and an electronic presentation will be used extensively throughout the course to reach the goal.
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- Econ86 - (continuation) Online Research, Online Communication, Databases and Data Analysis using Spreadsheets
- Faculty Member: Marc Massoud
- Department: Econ/Accounting
- Learning Objectives: Students will use technology to enhance their understanding of the accounting information presented in the course. The instructors expect students to prepare and present projects which will utilize information from government databases regarding public companies.
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- Govt144 - Political and Social Movements
- Faculty Member: Fred Lynch
- Department: Government
- Learning Objectives: Studnets will learn how to access and utilize web-based databases; formal paper presentations will compare powerpoint/non-powerpoint presentations
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- Govt144C - Democratization in Eastern Europe and Russia
- Faculty Member: Hillary Appel
- Department: Government
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn how to make effective presentations using electronic media, especially Power Point. Each student will apply this new skill by making a formal presentation to the class based on his or her research project. Students will also participate in special sessions designed to help them find and evaluate on-line materials in their research projects.
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- Lit10 - (continuation) Online Collaborative Research
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: This is being developed into an exportable module for use in other classes - Students in an introductory literature course will be introduced to the use of online tools for collaboration in pre-writing and research during essay \\\"writing workshop\\\" assignments.
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- Lit10 - Online Presentations
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: This is being developed as an exportable module - Students in three annual sections of Lit 10 will create presentations in Power Point. Following in-class presentation, students will publish a web-based version of the presentation, with supplementary materials, to the course WebCT page.
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- Lit10 - (continuation) Ethics and Plagiarism Module
- Faculty Member: Audrey Bilger (principle)
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn the basics of copyright and plagiarism and apply them in creating and using electronic materials and research. They will become aware of ethical issues in the information technology field and be aware of its content.
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Fall 2003
- Civ10 - Online Research
- Faculty Member: Deepak Shimkhada
- Department: Civ10
- Learning Objectives: Using today’s technology, it is an on-line research project designed specifically for the students in the CIV 10 course. One of the learning objectives of the project is that the students are required to navigate the Web in order to find as many sites as possible on which the film that they have just watched is reviewed. The students are expected to be judges by picking out one thread with which they disagree a nd write an essay explaining why. While writing their essay, they are required to cite at least three sources that contain the kernel of the thread with which they chose to disagree.
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- Econ125 - Data Analysis in Econometrics
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: In econometrics, students are taught how to quantitatively
analyze and interpret data from many aspects of life. This involves both
describing data and, through the use of probability theory, to infer population
behavior from samples. The course taught in the economics department
emphasizes use of data from economics and business. The nature of the subject
and the lecture hall/lab environment (RN012) naturally lend themselves to combine these primarily statistics learning objectives with the assignment to “actively engage the student in the learning process.”
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- Econ50 - Online Stock tracking, analysis and trading
- Faculty Member: Marc Weidenmier
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: To teach students to learn how to make basic investment decisions using financial market theory and internet sites on the web. Students will learn how to download and analyze data off the internet as well as conduct research on the internet. (The proposal covers points 3, 4, 5, and 7 on the FITness Goal Sheet)
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- Lit10 - (continuation) Online Collaborative Research
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students in an introductory literature course will be introduced to the use of online tools for collaboration in pre-writing and research during essay \"writing workshop\" assignments.
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- Lit10 (multiple) - Ethics and Plagiarism Module
- Faculty Member: Audrey Bilger (principle)
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn the basics of copyright and plagiarism and apply them in creating and using electronic materials and research. They will become aware of ethical issues in the information technology field and be aware of its content.
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- Math32 - Use of Maple for Multivariable Calculus
- Faculty Members: Jorge Aarao and Mario Martelli
- Department: Mathematics
- Learning Objectives: Use of Math software (Maple) as a tool to visualize complext structures in three-dimensional space; as a tool to produce documents with embedded math graphics and as a tool to generate conjecture and test hypothesis.
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- Neuropsychology - Online Research
- Faculty Member: Chris Chase / Meg Garrett
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Students will gain proficiency in working with internet databases for conducting psychological research. Four in-class modules will be developed, using instruction materials from the Honnold library or existing web-sites, to teach students on-line science research skills.
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- PSYC110 - Research Methods
- Faculty Member: Mark Costanzo
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Students will become familiar with appropriate Databases and how to effectively search them online; Students will learn to analyze data with SPSS; Students will learn to effectively give presentations using Powerpoint.
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- RLST 21 - Online Research and Presentations (continuing)
- Faculty Member: Gary Gilbert
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to gather reliable and relevant information. Then, as a group, work collaboratively to produce a web site that will become assigned reading for all students. Each student will then make an oral presentation based on their websites.
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Spring 2003
- Econ 120 - Data Analysis using Spreadsheets
- Faculty Member: Manfred Keil
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: The main idea is to teach students how to be fluent in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. A standard statistics course in economics will be adapted towards this goal. Written group projects and an electronic presentation will be used extensively throughout the course to reach the goal.
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- Econ 86 - Online Research, Online Communication, Databases and Data Analysis using Spreadsheets
- Faculty Members: Marc Massoud and Jim Taylor
- Department: Econ/Accounting
- Learning Objectives: Students will use technology to enhance their understanding of the accounting information presented in the course. The instructors expect students to prepare and present projects which will utilize information from government databases regarding public companies.
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- Lit 10 - (in development) - Ethics and Plagiarism module
- Faculty Member: Audrey Bilger
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn the basics of copyright and plagiarism and apply them in creating and using electronic materials and research. They will become aware of ethical issues in the information technology field and be aware of its content.
- Documents (Opens in a new window):
- Lit 10 - (continuation) Online Collaborative Research
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students in an introductory literature course will be introduced to the use of online tools for collaboration in pre-writing and research during essay "writing workshop" assignments.
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- Psych 146L - Data Analysis using Spreadsheets. Cookbook vs. Prescriptive Approach
- Faculty Member: Chris Chase
- Department: Psychology
- Learning Objectives: Students will gain proficiency in working with a spreadsheet to manage, analyze and graph experimental data. Students should be able to manipulate spreadsheet data to answer questions and display results.
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Fall 2002
- Lit10 - Online Collaborative Research
- Faculty Member: Jason Stiffler
- Department: Literature
- Learning Objectives: Students in an introductory literature course will be introduced to the use of online tools for collaboration in pre-writing and research during essay \"writing workshop\" assignments.
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- Population Economics - Stastical Analysis
- Faculty Member: Jennifer Ward-Batts
- Department: Economics
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to find and download demographic and economic data, import it into a spreadsheet, calculate various demographic rates, to present the data graphically and to calculate some useful measures.
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- Religious Studies 21 - Online Research and Presentations
- Faculty Member: Gary Gilbert
- Department: Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Learning Objectives: Students will learn to gather reliable and relevant information. Then, as a group, work collaboratively to produce a web site that will become assigned reading for all students. Each student will then make an oral presentation based on their websites.
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