Post Tagged with: "curricular themes"

The Knowing the Future theme launches a new course on “Knowing What We Know” in Spring 2015. “The theme includes a broad range of classes that teach and discuss the tools that are used to make predictions in disciplines from Mathematics to Population Biology to History,” says theme leader Dr. Daniel Phillips, […]

The Sustainability Studies theme is offering a new course—CAS 1415: Introduction to Sustainability—in Spring 2015. This multidisciplinary course introduces students to sustainability concepts, issues, and trends from the local to the global levels. Students will investigate the interrelationships between biophysical limits, human welfare, and social justice by analyzing several major […]

The Food for Thought Speakers Series presents Dr. Kristen Gremillion on “Multiethnic Communities and the Evolution of Southern Cuisine” on Tuesday, Sept 16, at 5 p.m. in Alden Friends of the Library Room 319. Refreshments will be served following Gremillion’s talk. Gremillion is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State […]

The Ohio: Sense of Place field trip series kicks off with the Ohio Tree and Plant Tour on Saturday, Sept. 28. Participants will  get a guided look at the forest communities of Athens County at Stroud’s Run State Park on Sunday, Sept. 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. Two different […]

The Wealth and Poverty Theme is sponsoring a public lecture with Mike Goldberg of the World Bank on Tuesday, March 18, at 1:30 p.m. in Baker Theater. Goldberg, Operations Adviser to the Regional Vice President oft the Africa Region at the World Bank, will discuss “Do institutional solutions for poverty […]

All Ohio University faculty are invited to a breakfast gathering on Monday, April 14, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Baker Center 240-242 to mark the first anniversary of the Themes initiative. Breakfast items are catered by Village Bakery. For planning purposes, RSVP at www.surveymonkey.com/s/themesanniversary. Faculty who stop can can learn […]

College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. From Fire to iPhones, human beings have always engaged in developing new technologies to improve their work, quality of life and relationships with […]