This book provides an overview of lifespan developmental tasks (physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional) examined from individual and family theoretical perspectives. It covers topics related to families, diversity, individual and family health and well-being, and reciprocal relationships as affected by external factors.

This class develops basic concepts for understanding individual, group, and organizational behavior through the critical analysis of important works in the field. Among the areas covered are: individual affect and cognition; group process and performance; and organizational culture and adaptation. The class also emphasizes the use of behavioral science concepts for stimulating new and useful organizational behavior research.

This course explores how information technology is reshaping different dimensions of the U.S. labor market: the way work is organized, the mix of occupations, the skills required to perform in an occupation, economy-wide labor productivity, and the distribution of wages.

This practicum subject integrates theory and practice through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive community information infrastructure that promotes democratic involvement and informs community development projects. Students work with Lawrence Community Works, Inc. to involve constituents and generate solutions to an important planning problem in the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Final project presentations take place in a public forum, and serve to inform future development of the information infrastructure. Subject begins with an overview of the digital divide, e-government, public participation GIS, and neighborhood information systems. Subject includes a reflection component and a deliberate investigation of race, class, and gender dynamics.

This page hosts training materials associated with the Northern Academy's Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) training. 

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ISBN: 978-1-55195-470-7

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During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). He provided new perspectives on issues of access, privilege, and the global water crisis through a series of seminars, performances, and workshops. Carpenter’s seminars illustrated ways of disrupting systems of oppression and ways to increase access to potable water in politically marginalized communites in the United States and abroad.

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This "textbook" is interactive, meaning that although each chapter has text, they also have interactive HTML5 content, such as quizzes, simulations, interactive videos, and images with clickable hotspots. Students receive instant feedback when they complete the interactive content, and therefore, can learn and check their understanding all in one place. The first unit introduces students to the nature of science, including scientific controversies, and information literacy, including how to analyze literature and identify stakeholders. Unit 2 is organismal biology, including carbon cycling and population growth, and unit 3 is molecular biology with a focus on gene expression.

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This “textbook” is interactive, meaning that although each chapter has text, they also have interactive HTML5 content, such as quizzes, simulations, interactive videos, and images with clickable hotspots. Students receive instant feedback when they complete the interactive content, and therefore, can learn and check their understanding all in one place. I still consider this textbook to be fairly text-heavy and will continue to make it even more interactive content!

The image on the cover represents the creation of this book. I pulled most of the content from open resources, modified them, added questions, and now offer them for you to use!

I chose the content to align with two courses that I teach: environmental and organismal applications and biomedical applications. Unit 1 introduces students to science, which both courses use. Unit 2 covers content necessary for understanding conservation implications (the underlying theme of the course is de-extinction), and Unit 3 focuses on proteins so that students can understand the implications of modifying DNA (the underlying theme is CRISPR).

Please use this book as you see fit for your classes. I look forward to hearing how to make this book even more useful in the future!

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ISBN: 978-1-62610-106-7

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Short Description:
This "textbook" is interactive, meaning that although each chapter has text, they also have interactive HTML5 content, such as quizzes, simulations, interactive videos, and images with clickable hotspots. Students receive instant feedback when they complete the interactive content, and therefore, can learn and check their understanding all in one place. The first unit introduces students to the nature of science, including scientific controversies, and information literacy, including how to analyze literature and identify stakeholders. Unit 2 is organismal biology, including carbon cycling and population growth, and unit 3 is molecular biology with a focus on gene expression.

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This “textbook” is interactive, meaning that although each chapter has text, they also have interactive HTML5 content, such as quizzes, simulations, interactive videos, and images with clickable hotspots. Students receive instant feedback when they complete the interactive content, and therefore, can learn and check their understanding all in one place. I still consider this textbook to be fairly text-heavy and will continue to make it even more interactive content!

The image on the cover represents the creation of this book. I pulled most of the content from open resources, modified them, added questions, and now offer them for you to use!

I chose the content to align with two courses that I teach: environmental and organismal applications and biomedical applications. Unit 1 introduces students to science, which both courses use. Unit 2 covers content necessary for understanding conservation implications (the underlying theme of the course is de-extinction), and Unit 3 focuses on proteins so that students can understand the implications of modifying DNA (the underlying theme is CRISPR).

Please use this book as you see fit for your classes. I look forward to hearing how to make this book even more useful in the future!

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The aim of this course is to introduce and analyze the international relations of East Asia. With four great powers, three nuclear weapons states, and two of the world’s largest economies, East Asia is one of the most dynamic and consequential regions in world politics. This course will examine the sources of conflict and cooperation in both periods, assessing competing explanations for key events in East Asia’s international relations. Readings will be drawn from international relations theory, political science and history.

WIP: This text takes six important variables that go into the making of Gujarat as a region: political, social, cultural, religious, economic and linguistic. These six variables are taken as ‘frameworks’ to explore the uniqueness of Gujarat as a region. There are various ways of understanding and interpreting Gujarat. This text seeks to interpret Gujarat through the framework of the above six variables. Through these variables, we shall try to understand the unique features, dynamics and characteristics of a region called Gujarat. It must be noted that this text is not a straightforward history of Gujarat. Rather, it is a way of interpreting Gujarat, its past and present by exploring different variables that makes Gujarat a unique region. In these chapters you will find multiple voices history, silent voices of society, cultural dynamics which have shaped Gujarat, political configurations and its relation to identity. Here you will find the contribution of the dynamics of Gujarati language in shaping the regional and cultural identity of this region. Finally, you will find here how the economic history has given Gujarat a particular slant. The author of this book is Dr. Fr. Sebastian Vazhapilly, SJ.  

Examines the various forms of intimate partner relationships that exist within a diverse, multicultural society. Social, cultural, and political constructs that apply to the definition, status, and legality of human partnerships are analyze.

This course provides an overview of Asian American history and its relevance for contemporary issues. It covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans during WWII, the emergence of the Asian American movement in the 1960s, and the new wave of post–1965 Asian immigration. The class examines the role these experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity. The course addresses key societal issues such as racial stereotyping, media racism, affirmative action, the glass ceiling, the “model minority” syndrome, and anti-Asian harassment or violence. The course is taught in English.

In this course, you will learn about opportunities in behavioral health and human services through career explorations, self-assessments, and charting your personal academic and professional plan. You will also learn about mental health disorders and first responder skills in a mental health crisis.

Why do affluent, liberal, and design-rich cities like Minneapolis have some of the biggest racial disparities in the country? How can designers help to create more equitable communities? Introduction to Design Equity, an open access book for students and professionals, maps design processes and products against equity research to highlight the pitfalls and potentials of design as a tool for building social justice.

This is a comprehensive overview of eating disorders and associated issues, containing 13 chapters and aimed at an undergraduate psychology or sociology audience.

An Anthropological and Comparative Approach

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This Introduction to Field Placement resource includes three interactive online modules designed to prepare community services students, specifically Child and Youth Care students, for field placement. The modules are: Professionalism, Cultural Competence, and The Self.

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This Introduction to Field Placement resource includes three interactive online modules designed to prepare community services students, specifically Child and Youth Care students, for field placement. The modules are: Professionalism Cultural Competence The Self

This Introduction to Field Placement resource includes three interactive online modules designed to prepare community services students, specifically Child and Youth Care students, for field placement. The modules are: Professionalism, Cultural Competence, and The Self Each module is designed to augment the content delivered in students’ face-to-face classes. Students will work through the material online and then connect their learning to in-class discussions. With this resource, learners will practice new skills, techniques, and critical thinking in a virtual environment. The modules and interactive activities have the potential to improve the learners’ retention of knowledge and promote active learning, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

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This course examines major social and political trends, events, debates and personalities which help place aspects of contemporary French culture in their historical perspective through fiction, films, essays, newspaper articles, and television. Topics include the heritage of the French Revolution, the growth and consequences of colonialism, the role of intellectuals in public debates, the impact of the Occupation, the modernization of the economy and of social structures. The sources and meanings of national symbols, monuments, myths and manifestoes are also studied. Recommended for students planning to study abroad. Taught in French.

As an introduction to the field of Housing, Community, and Economic Development (HCED), the course is structured to:

Advance student’s understanding of how public policy and private markets affect housing, economic development, the local economy, and neighborhood institutions;

Provide an overview of techniques for framing public and private interventions to meet housing and community development agendas, broadly defined, of inner city and low income neighborhoods;

Review and critique specific programs, policies and strategies that are (and have been) directed at local development and neighborhood regeneration issues;

Give students an opportunity to reflect on their personal sense of the “housing, community, and economic development” process and the various roles that planners play in implementing the elements of that agenda.