Level of CyberImmersion: exclusively cyber (no face-to-face)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: yes
Description: To introduce students to the world of
microorganisms and how they affect our lives. The study of
bacteria is primarily emphasized, but fungi and viruses are
also discussed.
Prerequisites: See undergraduate catalog for
prerequisites.
Notes: This will be the first offering, therefore, we will limit this experimental
class to about 20 students. Hopefully, about half of these will not be
physically located on the Blacksburg campus.
Level of CyberImmersion: minimum (normal classroom, minimal net resources)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: not appropriate
Description: Freshman overview course of computer science.
I will teach this for my first time next fall
and will use the web as a backup for distributing
handouts, I suspect.
Level of CyberImmersion: exclusively cyber (no face-to-face)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: yes
Description: Introduces the concepts, software, data organization and issues involved
with using networked information. Also covers file formats (as applied in
networked hypermedia and multimedia sound/video documents), local and
global (Internet) network access, electronic mail, transferring files,
network news, the World Wide Web, digital libraries, on-line public access
catalogs and electronic
journals, CD-ROMs and on-line databases and commercial and other networks.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of Operating System File Management, Familiarity
with Graphical User Interface Software and Word Processing ability.
Level of CyberImmersion: intensive (50% classroom, 50% net)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: These course materials is
in use at several different institutions, and in the Fall 1996 three institutions
participated in the on-line debates.
Description: This course studies the social impact, implications
and effects of computers on society, and the responsibilities of computer
professionals in directing the emerging technology. Includes examinations
of reliable, risk-free technologies, systems which provide user friendly
processes. Specific topics include an overview of the history of
computing, computer applications and their impact, the computing
profession, and the legal and ethical responsibilities of professionals.
Level of CyberImmersion: moderate (normal classroom, extensive net resources)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: Yes!
Description: Introductory graduate course in analysis tools
for computer science research, enhanced with online
lecture notes, homework assignments, solutions,
and other resources. Homeworks are submitted
electronically. This course has been taught
simultaneously in Blacksburg and at the Northern
Virginia Graduate Center from the same web site with
two different instructors. It has also been taken
by a Blacksburg student who was living in Boston
all last semester.
Level of CyberImmersion: moderate (normal classroom, extensive net resources)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: not appropriate
Description: Course examines historically constructed definitions of
health and disease, the impact of disease on history, and the history of
modern medicine. Focus is 19th and 20th-century US.
IDST 2984: Methods in Interdisciplinary Studies:
Community, Creativity, and Social Change
Level of CyberImmersion: semi-moderate (70% classroom, 30% net)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: Yes--for 1 or 2 credits
Description: A variable credit course (1-4) exploring community-based
social change through readings, discussions, study of Eyes on the Prize
(video series on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement), creative projects and
involvement in community-based social change projects.
Level of CyberImmersion: low (normal classroom, few net resources)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: not appropriate
Description: For this class of 350 students, the syllabus, lecture
notes, study guide, and instructions on writing assignment are available on
the web. In addition we are running two web chats and posting news. For
students who volunteer, writing assignments are done through Daedalus in
the Major Williams computer lab. Most in class presentations make use of
Power Point.
Level of CyberImmersion: moderate (normal classroom,
extensive net resources)
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: Not appropriate
Description: This discussion oriented course focuses on
issues of representation (what does it mean to be represented? how
does it matter that women are largely absent from formal political office?
why are women largely absent from political office?)
the roles that women play in international relations (how do we define
security? the role of women in the military, war, peace, and the global
system)
the politics of reproduction (how reproductive rights are defined, the
politics of new reproductive technologies, why the abortion issue has
become the most salient reproductive controversy, and the ways that
"motherhood" is culturally defined and politicized--for a range of things
including nationalism and race hate-movements).
Appropriateness for Off-Campus Students: Not appropriate
Description:
An elective in the Department of Theatre Arts, this course is
intended for any student wishing to learn more about
management of not-for-profit arts organizations. It typically
is taken by upper-level students from theatre, music, art,
communications, and business areas, as well as many other
majors.