Teaches foundational concepts for intellectual exploration and personal development within an academic community: analysis, critical thinking, metacognition, engagement with others across difference, and self-efficacy. Examines how technological revolutions happen, how they transform societies, and how these changes generate new ideological narratives.
Explore leadership as it relates to student development at Crown College. Examine how values, ethics, involvement, identity, and theory affect leadership in a variety of content areas. Evaluate student's leadership strengths to determine objectives for improvement.
Focuses on developing and establishing leadership skills and styles for new leaders at Crown College. Explores communication styles, group dynamics, community development, programming, moral development and conflict resolution concepts and strategies. Applies theory to action. Enrollment limited to college members and by permission of instructor.
Students in this course explore and discuss the applicability of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (Wagner, 1996) within the immediate UCSC, Crown College, and Merrill College communities. Students draw connections between concepts of leadership, community development, and community service. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Students must have a leadership role (e.g., R.A., student government) with Crown College or Merrill College.
Examines the overt as well as the subtle cinematic elements that depict, ponder, and persuade concerning issues of the environment and the role of humans regarding nature, animals, and the human-made landscape.
Comprehensive history of noncommercial radio as a mass-communication medium. Course also serves as an introduction to UCSC's radio station KZSC-FM and broadcasting. Through lectures, hands-on instruction, and written assignments, students learn the fundamentals of program presentation and audio production. Prerequisite(s): After completing 20 hours of orientation volunteering at KZSC, students apply to the instructor. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Concurrent enrollment in course 70L is required.
Practical application of technical and creative skills in the KZSC studios. Production of audio content and promotional materials for broadcast. Critical evaluation in a workshop setting. Assignments require original research, professional writing, and the operation of complex technology. Prerequisite(s): After completing 20 hours of orientation volunteering at KZSC, students apply to the instructor. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Concurrent enrollment in course 70 is required.
An introduction to the theme of Crown College, "Social and Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies". Taught in a small class format and articulated around a group project, both of which help generate sense of belonging, and is the key to the success of our transfer students. The group project will be used to introduce academic research and also strategies for effective work in groups, which is an essential skill in most fields, and of particular relevance to STEM disciplines.
Examines how science fictions have imagined better and worse worlds, social relations, and identities by using science and technology. Students read novels and short stories from the 19th Century to the present and discuss and debate questions of justice, freedom, difference, and identity. (Formerly Seminar in Science Fiction.)
Examines content and methodologies of the emerging field of cyborgology. Includes social studies of science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, politics, art, biology, and informatics.
In recent years, outbreaks of food-borne illness have alarmed farmers and consumers alike. This course examines the complexities of ensuring food safety in the complex natural, economic, and social settings that characterize U.S. food-production systems.
An honors seminar for first year students on selected topics that examine the relationship between science, technology, and society. Precise focus of each seminar varies and is announced by the college.
Investigates visual perception as an example of the correlation of brain and behavior. Uses a multidisciplinary analysis of the optical, biochemical, and neural components of the visual pathway leading to the perception of form, color, etc. Discusses the applications of neuroscience in the social sciences, the humanities, engineering, and the arts.
Provides advanced training in communication strategies. Students learn to combine narrative theory with digital technologies to achieve effective communication in a variety of contexts including social media, instructional information, and product design. These elements will be integrated into an individual and a group project.
Provides tools to critically assess the current debate on the implications of global warming and to communicate the issues to the public effectively. Examines how questions are framed and addressed by scientists in general and how they are framed and addressed given our current understanding of the problem of global warming based on basic physics and statistical analyses of climate data. Includes practical assignments and guest lectures by local UCSC experts.
Investigates statistical and computational methods for the prediction of human activity, both at the individual and at the collective level. Students learn to evaluate and critique famous predictions, and consider the ethical and social implications of predictive technologies. Articulated around a creative group project to integrate concepts learned in the course.
Designed to engage students with training in areas related to computational biology. Covers basic biological, statistical, and computational concepts needed for hands-on research; training students to read primary literature and do collaborative work in an interdisciplinary setting. Enrollment restricted to students with some background in programming, math or biology and by permission of instructor.
Introduction to the basics of setting up a start-up company using the Lean Launchpad/NSF I-Corps model of instruction. Students learn principles of data collection, marketing processes, and resources needed for new companies. The class is articulated around the design of a business plan, in groups of 4-5 students coached by a successful entrepreneur, and culminates in a presentation. The market research for the project involves talking to at least 5 potential customers, partners, channels and/or related experts each week. (Formerly, Summer Entrepreneurship Academy: Discovering and Launching a Business.)
Helps students discover and develop their own business idea that does the world good. Examines leadership and provides tools to research community issues and to develop sustainable business models. Guest lecturers and project mentors introduce students to business and civil leaders.
Provides for individual programs of study sponsored by the college and performed off campus. Students should review plans with an appropriate fellow of the college. A proposal should be presented to the college academic preceptor no later than the seventh week of the preceding quarter. Credit is granted by the sponsor upon approval of the work performed. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Provides for individual field study in the vicinity of the campus under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Teaches different interpretation tools to be applied to a selection of dramatic literature in discussions. Students integrate these skills and develop their creativity through mounting a production of the play R.U.R., which addresses the impact of technology in society.
Various topics to be arranged between student and instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.