Upper-Division

COWL107 Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good People from the Bad

Students learn practical tools and techniques for assessing trustworthiness, including your own, and applying these tools in a variety of situations. Integrating insights from practical experience, philosophy, and psychology, this course teaches us how to pay attention to red flags in relationships and ultimately develop a network of trustworthy people that will help us succeed in work and in our personal lives. (Formerly Trust Rules: How to Tell Good People from Bad People in Work and Life.)

Credits

2

Instructor

Linda Stroh

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members or by permission of instructor.

Quarter offered

Fall

COWL110 Introduction to Mock Trial

Introduces Mock Trial, which is open to all students. Covers the basics of argumentation, cross and direct examinations, permissible evidence, witness testimony, and courtroom protocol. Special emphasis is on public speaking. Students write speeches for opening and closing arguments and create questions for witnesses. Students must read the Mock Trial handbook for examples and strategies. Each student has an opportunity for public speaking and creating a coherent legal argument.

Credits

2

Instructor

Dena Robertson

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

COWL111 Mock Trial Workshop

Mock Trial teaches public speaking in the context of law. Students learn direct examination and cross examination strategies, characterization, and different ways to improve your public speaking skills. Class is open to everyone regardless of experience in Mock Trial. Class is also a way to gain experience for students considering joining the Mock Trial team.

Credits

2

Instructor

Dena Robertson

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL118B Words & Music: Poetry, Musical Theater, Opera

Study of significant texts enhanced by music for performance. Topics vary annually. Course compares original texts in English translation with their adaptation to musical theater (My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, etc.) and opera (Carmen, etc.)

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

COWL122 United Nations Contemporary Issues

Introduces the Model United Nations through discussion of contemporary issues. Students learn parliamentary procedures and U.N. protocols, as well as how to work collaboratively to research and to present position papers. Students learn resolution writing, alliance building, and persuasive speech.

Credits

2

Cross Listed Courses

CRSN 122

Instructor

Dena Robertson

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Spring

COWL126 Trajectories of Justice: Standing Rock, Climate Change, and Trump's Potential Impeachment

Enables students to become expert on the potential impeachment of Donald Trump in the context of progressive American history, emphasizing his Neglect of Duty regarding global climate change through the lens of The Native Uprising against the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Formerly The Trajectory of Justice in America.)

Credits

5

Instructor

Daniel Sheehan

Repeatable for credit

Yes

COWL138A The Place of Higher Education in a Democratic Society

Centers around interviews of alumni and involves a reflective term paper on a specific topic having to do with the role of higher education in a democratic society. Teaches students how to conduct interviews.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): COWL 80A or COWL 80B.

General Education Code

PE-H

COWL138B Life Development

Visits from alumni form the centerpiece of this course. In teams, students study the lives and the issues of the visitors. The aim is to reflect on the meaning of education in adult development.

Credits

2

Instructor

Faye Crosby

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): COWL 80A or COWL 80B. Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior Cowell College members

COWL156M Medical Ethics and Justice in Literature and Film

Course approaches literature and literary devices in their capacity to address the patient's experience of illness, medical education and practice, and medical ethics and to understand and assess how considerations of justice impact these themes in medicine. Particular issues raised by a variety of topics are examined and discussed in the context of case examples as presented in literature and film, e.g., informed consent, the doctor-patient relation, withdrawing vs. withholding life-sustaining treatment, organ transplantation, health care reform, rationing/social justice, etc. (Formerly Arts and Sciences.)

Credits

5

Instructor

Dawson Schultz

Repeatable for credit

Yes

COWL158A Special Topics: Oral History

Introduction to the art and science of conducting and oral history. Readings include books that offer both theoretical and practical insights. Students conduct interviews and construct oral histories, focusing on the alumni of Cowell College.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior college members.

COWL161A Bards to Bloggers: Literature and Technology in Transhistorical Focus

Through study of ancient and contemporary forms (epics to e-literature), students study the connections that have tied literary reading and writing to specific technologies, including memory, the alphabet, pens, printing, radio, computing, the Internet, and handheld devices.

Credits

5

Instructor

Deanna Shemek

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior college members.

Quarter offered

Spring

COWL165 Fundraising Practicum

Covers the fundamental skills, ethics, and practices of crowd-sourced fundraising in the liberal arts. Students build a project portfolio that includes mission statement, donor-cultivation tools, and action reports. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Meet with the instructor to verify enrollment in a Giving Day campaign with liberal arts focus.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

HUMN 165

Instructor

Alan Christy

Quarter offered

Winter

COWL168 Social Change

How do you change the world, working alone and in concert with others? To find out, students work in groups with specific community partners who, in turn, help place students in social-change organizations in Santa Cruz County.

Credits

2

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Winter, Spring

COWL170F Freedom and Race

Interrogates the relationship between freedom and race in our current political moment by looking to historical and theoretical models that inform the present. Considers how race operates in legal, scientific, and visual discourses to shape individual and collective freedoms.

Credits

5

Instructor

Veronika Zablotsky, Bristol Cave-LaCoste, Alexandra Moore

General Education Code

ER

COWL184A Leadership and Institution Building

Through lectures by senior administrators and student consensus-and-recommendation teams, students learn how leaders work with constituent groups, build cooperation, and develop implementation plans in an institution such as the University of California, specifically, UC Santa Cruz. Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates accepted in the Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program. Students submit applications winter quarter for the following academic year.

Credits

2

Instructor

Todd Thorpe

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Fall

COWL184B Leadership and Institution Building

Through lectures by senior administrators and student consensus-and-recommendation teams, students learn how leaders work with constituent groups, build cooperation, and develop implementation plans in an institution such as the University of California, specifically, UC Santa Cruz. Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates accepted in the Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program. Students submit applications winter quarter for the following academic year.

Credits

2

Instructor

Todd Thorpe

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Winter

COWL184C Leadership and Institution Building

Through lectures by senior administrators and student consensus-and-recommendation teams, students learn how leaders work with constituent groups, build cooperation, and develop implementation plans in an institution such as the University of California, specifically, UC Santa Cruz. Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates accepted in the Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program. Students submit applications winter quarter for the following academic year.

Credits

2

Instructor

Todd Thorpe

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Spring

COWL192 Directed Student Teaching

Teaching of a lower-division seminar under faculty supervision. (See course 42.) Upper-division standing required and a proposal supported by a faculty member willing to supervise.

Credits

5

COWL193 Field Study

Program of study arranged between a group of students and an instructor, which may involve work with an off-campus or non-departmental agency (e.g., internship or field work). Interview only; prior arrangement with instructor. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL193F Field Study

Program of study arranged between a group of students and an instructor, which may involve work with an off-campus or non-departmental agency (e.g., internship or field work). Interview only; prior arrangement with instructor. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL194 Group Tutorial

A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and an instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL194F Group Tutorial

A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and an instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to juniors and seniors.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL195 Senior Thesis

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL198 Independent Field Study

Provides for college-sponsored individual study programs off campus, for which faculty supervision is not in person (e.g., supervision is by correspondence.) Up to three such courses may be taken for credit in any one quarter. Approval of student's adviser, certification of adequate preparation, and approval by provost required.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL199 Tutorial

Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

COWL199F Tutorial

Various topics to be arranged. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring