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ARTH101: Art Appreciation

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ARTH101: Art Appreciation

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This course is an exploration of visual art forms and their cultural connections for the student with little experience in the visual arts. It includes a brief study of art history, and in-depth studies of the elements, media, and methods used in creative thought and processes. It is the only resource I have found that approximates techniques, media, and an overview of different processes that is usually the first half of a printed text on art appreciation or an introduction to art. This is geared toward an undergraduate, lower-level student population. The art history survey is inadequate, but combined with another source, like Boundless' art history, this can be a complete text for an Art 100 course.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture; Module; Reading; Syllabus; Textbook; Unit of Study
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Author:: Afshan Bokhari; Amy Gansell; Andrew E. Hershberger; Andrew Marvick; Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap; Denise Rogers; Hilda Werschkul; Jelena Bogdanovic; Jennifer Palinkas; Jill Kiefer; Lynn E. Roller; Marjorie Munsterberg; Michelle Greet; Shaoqian Zhang; Tracy Musacchio; William V. Ganis
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

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Acceso

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Acceso is a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish. The materials on the site are provided freely to the public and are intended as a replacement for commercial textbooks, which are generally ill-suited to the learning outcomes now considered crucial to successful language study. These materials are supplemented by an online workbook built on the MySpanishLab platform of Pearson Education, Inc., as well as detailed lesson plans, rubrics for the evaluation of student work, and reliable instruments for measuring student progress and learning outcomes.Winner of 2012 Computer Assisted Language Consortium (CALICO) Focus AwardReviewed in:CALICO Journal 29.2 (Jan 2012): 398-405.Hispania 95.2 (June 2012): 365-366

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Languages; World Cultures
Material Type:: Full Course; Textbook
Provider:: University of Kansas
Author:: Amy Rossomondo et al.
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

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Acceso

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The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Module; Primary Source; Reading
Author:: The University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center
Date Added:: 07/09/2020

Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español

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Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español

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Actividades de práctica con aprendices del español is an online corpus of videos of second language and heritage language learners of Spanish during oral interviews and provides supplemental activities to help viewers investigate learners’ language and proficiency levels.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: University of Texas at Austin
Provider Set:: COERLL
Author:: Dale Koike
Date Added:: 02/20/2019

Advanced Artificial Intelligence

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Advanced Artificial Intelligence

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This course will present advanced topics in Artificial Intelligence (AI), including inquiries into logic, artificial neural network and machine learning, and the Turing machine. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: define the term 'intelligent agent,' list major problems in AI, and identify the major approaches to AI; translate problems into graphs and encode the procedures that search the solutions with the graph data structures; explain the differences between various types of logic and basic statistical tools used in AI; list the different types of learning algorithms and explain why they are different; list the most common methods of statistical learning and classification and explain the basic differences between them; describe the components of Turing machine; name the most important propositions in the philosophy of AI; list the major issues pertaining to the creation of machine consciousness; design a reasonable software agent with java code. (Computer Science 408)

Subject:: Computer Science; Philosophy
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008

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Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008

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" This course is a workshop for students with some experience in writing essays, nonfiction prose. Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other categories of identity, either our own or others', in prose that is expository, exploratory, investigative, persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will read nonfiction prose works by a wide array of writers who have used language to negotiate and represent aspects of identity and the ways the different determinants of identity intersect, compete, and cooperate."

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Faery, Rebecca Blevins
Date Added:: 01/01/2008

Advanced Japanese I, Fall 2005

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Advanced Japanese I, Fall 2005

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Systematic development of reading, writing, and oral communication skills. Introduction to advanced grammar that deepens the understanding of Japanese culture and society through reading and discussion. Lab work required. This course covers lessons 22 through 27 of Japanese: The Spoken Language by Eleanor H. Jordan with Mari Noda. The goal of the course is to continue to build oral proficiency by expanding your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. Class hours will be devoted to developing speaking skills in a variety of circumstances; making requests, invitations, apologies, suggestions, dealing with problems, expressing your opinions, etc. Grammatical and social appropriateness on your utterances will be stressed. Keep in mind that daily tape-work is essential.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Nagatomi, Ayumi; Nagaya, Yoshimi
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

Advanced Japanese II, Spring 2005

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Advanced Japanese II, Spring 2005

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Continuation of 21F.505. Further development of reading, writing, and oral communication skills. Extension of advanced grammar and further enhancement of advanced vocabulary. Variety of cultural elements studied through readings, video, and discussion. Lab work required. This course covers Lessons 27 through 30 of Japanese: The Spoken Language by Eleanor H. Jordan with Mari Noda. The goal of the course is to continue expanding grammar and vocabulary by further developing four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The goal is to acquire the ability to use Japanese appropriately with increasing spontaneity emphasized, and to be prepared to become an independent learner to the point where you are capable of handling authentic Japanese by yourself, without fear or hesitation.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Languages; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Nagaya, Yoshimi
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

Advanced Phonology, Spring 2005

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Advanced Phonology, Spring 2005

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This course focuses on phonological phenomena that are sensitive to morphological structure, including base-reduplicant identity, cyclicity, level ordering, derived environment effects, opaque rule interactions, and morpheme structure constraints. In the recent OT literature, it has been claimed that all of these phenomena can be analyzed with a single theoretical device: correspondence constraints, which regulate the similarity of lexically related forms (such as input and output, base and derivative, base and reduplicant).

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Linguistics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Albright, Adam; Steriade, Donca
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative, Spring 2004

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Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative, Spring 2004

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Investigates conceptual and formal issues in different media or between media such as sculpture, photography, and video. Explores issues of representation, interpretation, and meaning, and how they relate to historical, social and cultural context.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Visual Arts
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Gibbons, Joe
Date Added:: 01/01/2004

Advanced Spanish Composition II

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Advanced Spanish Composition II

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As part of the Worcester State University OER initiative in Spring 2017, Dr. Elizabeth Osborne created and translated course materials for her SP 322, Advanced Spanish Composition II, course. Materials have been divided into peer review (revisión por pares) handouts, close reading activities (actividades de lectura detallada) and other miscellaneous materials. The materials included here are by no means exhaustive, but they serve as a starting point to making education affordable and to filling the gap in Spanish-language OER for upper division courses.

Subject:: Spanish
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Reading
Author:: Elizabeth Osborne
Date Added:: 06/23/2020

Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition, Spring 2014

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Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition, Spring 2014

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En este curso el estudiante perfeccionará su comunicación oral y escrita mediante el estudio y la discusión de temas relacionados al impacto social y cultural de la ciencia y la tecnología en ciertas sociedades hispanas. Algunos de los temas a tratar son los efectos de los cambios tecnológicos en la estructura familiar y comunitaria, en las relaciones entre los sexos, en la identidad personal y cultural, en el mundo natural y en los sistemas de valores, la religión, la educación y el trabajo. También se examinan y discuten diversas actitudes hacia la innovación tecnológica y científica así como las ramificaciones éticas de las decisiones tecnológicas.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Margarita Ribas Groeger
Date Added:: 03/01/2014

Advanced Syntax, Spring 2007

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Advanced Syntax, Spring 2007

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This course is a continuation of 24.951. This semester the course topics of interest include movement, phrase structure, and the architecture of the grammar.

Subject:: Architecture and Design; Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Fox, Daniel
Date Added:: 01/01/2007

Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture, Spring 2004

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Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture, Spring 2004

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This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition, and revolution. Reaching back to the foundational representations of anarchism in nineteenth-century Europe (Kleist, Conrad) the curriculum extends through the literary and media representations of militant organizations in the 1970s and 80s (Italy's Red Brigade, Germany's Red Army Faction, and the Real Irish Republican Army). In the middle of the term students will have the opportunity to hear a lecture by Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most important filmmakers who has worked on terrorism. The course concludes with a critical examination of the ways that certain segments of European popular media have returned to the "radical chic" that many perceive to have exhausted itself more than two decades ago.

Subject:: World Cultures
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Scribner, Charity
Date Added:: 01/01/2004

Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced subject focusing on techniques, format, and prose style used in academic and professional life. Emphasis on writing as required in fields such as economics, political science, and architecture. Short assignments include: business letters, memos, and proposals that lead toward a written term project. Methods designed to deal with the special problems of those whose first language is not English. Successful completion satisfies Phase II of the Writing Requirement. This workshop is designed to help you write clearly, accurately and effectively in both an academic and a professional environment. In class, we analyze various forms of writing and address problems common to advanced speakers of English. We will often read one another's work.

Subject:: Architecture and Design; Arts and Humanities; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Political Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Brennecke, Patricia W.
Date Added:: 01/01/2007

African American Literature: Course Readings for African American Literature

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African American Literature: Course Readings for African American Literature

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AAS 267, African American Literature, is a survey course that will take us from the early days of enslavement to the present. We will read, analyze, and discuss literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical and social context that informs these texts.

Subject:: Literature; African-American Literature
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Anne Rice
Date Added:: 10/04/2019

Algorithms for Computer Animation, Fall 2002

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Algorithms for Computer Animation, Fall 2002

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In-depth study of an active research topic in computer graphics. Topics change each term. Readings from the literature, student presentations, short assignments, and a programming project. Animation is a compelling and effective form of expression; it engages viewers and makes difficult concepts easier to grasp. Today's animation industry creates films, special effects, and games with stunning visual detail and quality. This graduate class will investigate the algorithms that make these animations possible: keyframing, inverse kinematics, physical simulation, optimization, optimal control, motion capture, and data-driven methods. Our study will also reveal the shortcomings of these sophisticated tools. The students will propose improvements and explore new methods for computer animation in semester-long research projects. The course should appeal to both students with general interest in computer graphics and students interested in new applications of machine learning, robotics, biomechanics, physics, applied mathematics and scientific computing.

Subject:: Computer Science; Literature
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Popovic, Jovan
Date Added:: 01/01/2002

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

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This text is the beta version of a participatory critical edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. By “beta version,” we mean “text in progress.”

Each chapter also includes an annotation layer that you can use to take private notes or reflect on the text in public with other readers.

We live in an exciting time for the digital humanities, and for those of you who enjoy viewing your text using digital analysis tools to see which words pop up the most frequently, we’ve included a Voyant Visualizer word cloud and link in an annotation attached to each chapter heading. (Here’s an example of a Voyant annotation link. Note that the annotation may take a few moments to load on your screen.)

This book also includes supplemental essays and interactive elements by students and scholars that reflect on print culture of the nineteenth century and the present day. Some of these essays are already published, while some will be published during the course of the year.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Literature
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Reading
Author:: Lewis Carroll; The 19th-Century Open Pedagogy Project
Date Added:: 06/07/2021

All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!

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All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!

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Students will observe dance movements depicted in a drawing and a painting. Partners will use simple lines to draw their partner's movements and paint dance costumes on the figures using various brushstrokes. Students will write a persuasive speech to the school superintendent explaining why they believe dance should be a regular part of the curriculum. They will then model dance movements for classmates in teams of four and recite their persuasive speech to the class.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Visual Arts
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:: Getty Education
Date Added:: 11/11/2019

American Authors: American Women Authors, Spring 2003

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American Authors: American Women Authors, Spring 2003

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Examines in detail the works of several American authors. Through close readings of poetry, novels, or plays, subject addresses such issues as literary influence, cultural diversity, and the writer's career. Topic: American Women Authors. This subject, crosslisted in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. It aims to introduce a number of literary genres and styles- the captivity narrative, slave novel, sensational, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction- and also to address significant historical events in American women's history: Puritanism, the American Revolution, industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, the 60s civil rights movements. A primary focus will be themes studied and understood through the lens of gender: war, violence, and sexual exploitation (Keller, Rowlandson, Rowson); the relationship between women and religion (Rowlandson, Rowson, Stowe); labor, poverty, and working conditions for women (Fern, Davis, Wharton); captivity and slavery (Rowlandson, Jacobs); class struggle (Fern, Davis, Wharton, Larsen); race and identity (Keller, Jacobs, Larsen, Morrison); feminist revisions of history (Stowe, Morrison, Keller); and the myth of the fallen woman (take your pick). Essays and inclass reports will focus more particularly on specific writers and themes and will stress the skills of close reading, annotation, research, and uses of multimedia where appropriate. A classroom electronic archive has been developed for this course and will be available as a resource for images and other media materials.

Subject:: Literature; Women's Studies
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Kelley; Wyn
Date Added:: 01/01/2003