WR 122 open/free syllabus

Course description: WR 122 continues the focus of WR 121 in its review of rhetorical concepts and vocabulary, in the development of reading, thinking, and writing skills, along with metacognitive competencies understood through the lens of a rhetorical vocabulary. Specifically, students will identify, evaluate, and construct chains of reasoning, a process that includes an ability to distinguish assertion from evidence, recognize and evaluate assumptions, and select sources appropriate for a rhetorical task. Students will employ a flexible, collaborative, and appropriate composing process, working in multiple genres, and utilizing at least two modalities. They will produce 3500-4500 words of revised, final draft copy or an appropriate multimodal analog for this amount of text. If the focus is primarily multimodal, students will produce at least one essay of a minimum of 1500 words, demonstrating competence in both research and academic argumentation.

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Author: Amy Beasley

RC 631 Syllabus

Syllabus of open, free, and low-cost readings. Course description: Professional rehabilitation counselors who work with clients who are Deaf or have disabilities at various points in their lifespan will often also work with family members. Therefore, the purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with information that will provide an understanding of the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels, from birth to old age. Family systems and how families who have members who are Deaf or who have disabilities will be explored. Topics for this course will include the following: (a) a general overview of the expanded family life cycle; (b) an explanation of six developmental stages; (c) an introduction of family counseling theories and clinical application; (d) a demonstration of how to use genograms to track family history through the family life cycle; and (e) an understanding of how diverse characteristics including gender, spirituality, age, ethnic or cultural background, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status impact the family throughout the lifespan.

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Author: Chungfan Ni

IS 278 Syllabus: Networks

Texts: Bonaventure, O., Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, Release 0.25, Saylor Foundation, 2011. http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Computer-Networking-Principles-Bonaventure-1-30-31-OTC1.pdf Dordal, P., An Introduction to Computer Networks, Release 1.9.16, 2019. http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current/ComputerNetworks.pdf Course description: A comprehensive examination of how computers can be linked together to share resources and information. Emphasis will be given to understanding packet switched networks and how they enable contemporary enterprises. Topics include network hardware, software and protocols. Prerequisites: CS13X or CS161 (or concurrent). Learning Outcomes: After completing this course: Students will have practical experience using protocols to enable communication between computing devices connected to each other, Students will have configured an IT infrastructure solution for a small organization, including a network based on standard technology components, servers, security devices, and several different types of computing clients, Students will apply core concepts underlying IP networks to solve simple network design problems, including IP subnetting.

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Author: Thaddeus Shannon

WR 121 Reading List

Reading list and schedule for introduction to composition.

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Author: Kristin Dorsey

Public Speaking Course Documents

Folder of documents includes syllabus, readings, activities, worksheets, and videos. COCC Catalog’s Course Description: “Emphasizes enhancing the relationship between speaker and audience through the content, organization and delivery of short oral presentations. Helps relieve student speech anxiety.” Comm111 offers basic instruction in public speaking. The ability to speak successfully in public will benefit your professional, academic, and social life. Much like good writing, good public speaking requires preparation, organization and structure. This course will provide you with the tools for presenting your thoughts and ideas to others, orally, as you practice speaking to your peers. This course will also enable you to become a more discerning consumer of speeches – including political oratory.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Syllabus

Author: Lilli Ann Linford-Foreman

OER Syllabus for WR121

Course Description: Introduces academic writing as a means of inquiry. Employs critical reading, discussion and the writing process to explore ideas, develop cultural awareness and formulate positions. Emphasizes development of a variety of strategies to present evidence in support of a thesis.

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Author: Jenn Kamrar

Open Women's Health Syllabus and Reading List

Course Description: This course examines selected health issues and their physical and emotional effects on women. Examples of topics include: body image, eating disorders, reproductive life, violence, menopause, cancer, depression, heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and the politics of women’s health. Performance Based Learner Outcomes Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to: 1. Identify key health issues as they relate to women. 2. Access community resources as they relate to women’s health issues. 3. Differentiate women’s chronic conditions from a treatment and prevention perspective. 4. Identity the components and influences of psychological health from a gender perspective. 5. Contrast current and historical treatment of women in the health care system.

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Author: Raschel Larsen

WR 121—Academic Composition, Schedule and Readings

Syllabus of free/open course readings. Course description: WR 121 focuses on rhetorical reading, thinking, and writing as a means of inquiry. Students will gain fluency with key rhetorical concepts and utilize these in a flexible and collaborative writing process, reflecting on their writing process with the goal of developing metacognitive awareness. They will employ conventions, including formal citations, appropriate for a given writing task, attending to the constraints of audience, purpose, genre, and discourse community. Students will compose in two or more genres. They will produce 3000-3500 words of revised, final draft copy or an appropriate multimodal analog for this amount of text. If the focus is primarily multimodal, students will produce at least one essay that integrates research and demonstrates an understanding of the role of an assertive thesis in an academic essay of at least 1000 words.

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Author: Jennifer Forbess

ED 651 Reading and resource list

Course description: A research-based course on the use of language for thinking, problem-solving and communicating across subject areas. Includes best-practice teaching strategies that will enable all students to become independent learners.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Melanie Landon-Hays

Open WR 300 Workplace and Technical Writing Syllabus Documents

Folder of openly licensed course documents including syllabus and assignment prompts. Course description: Instruction and practice in professional workplace writing, with emphasis on genre, audience and collaboration.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Syllabus

Author: Lars Soderlund

Shakespeare: The Later Plays - Syllabus

Course description: Provides a sampling of Shakespeare’s contributions to the three primary genres of early modern theater with a focus on the later comedies, tragedies, histories, and non-dramatic poetry. Introduces the study of Shakespeare’s dramatic techniques, character development, historical and cultural setting, and language. Explores interpretations of Shakespeare’s works by contemporary filmmakers. Prerequisite: MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Prerequisite/concurrent: WR 121. Audit available.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Katy Jablonski

BI 101 OER Syllabus and Lab Pack

Syllabus and lab manual to accompany course using OpenStax Concepts of Biology (https://openstax.org/details/books/concepts-biology). Course description: Centers on concepts of unity of living organisms including evolution, biochemistry, cell biology (morphology and physiology), genetics and development. Lab manual begins on p. 11.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Syllabus

Author: Laurie Harrer

CSE 624: Internet for Educators Reading & Resource List

Materials below are selected for a graduate level course, CSE 624: Internet for Educators. The course is intended for MS: Education students who require a course that gives them an overview of diverse, and primarily web-based, technologies. A second goal is to offer hands on experience working with web technologies and curating content directly relevant to graduates’ teaching/learning environments. Additionally, this course is meant to help address a sore point for many educators: understanding copyright and related issues. Thus determining which resources (books, movies, videos, etc.) they can use, as well as learning about alternative sources of content and resources, are key components of this course. Since different people teach this course, this collection of resources is meant to suggest a set of common resources for faculty to integrate into their courses while allowing them to personalize themes and emphases. Hopefully, faculty will also add materials to this content as well.

Material Type: Syllabus

WR 122 Syllabus – Argument, Research, & Multimodal Composition

Course Description WR 122 continues the focus of WR 121 in its review of rhetorical concepts and vocabulary, in the development of reading, thinking, and writing skills, along with metacognitive competencies understood through the lens of a rhetorical vocabulary. Specifically, students will identify, evaluate, and construct chains of reasoning, a process that includes an ability to distinguish assertion from evidence, recognize and evaluate assumptions, and select sources appropriate for a rhetorical task. Students will employ a flexible, collaborative, and appropriate composing process, working in multiple genres, and utilizing at least two modalities. Prerequisites: WR 121.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Mike Cooper

BI 234: Microbiology

Syllabus for Microbiology course at Clackamas Community College. Course Description: An introductory microbiology lab course required for health science and science majors. Includes characteristics, physiology and growth requirements of microorganisms, interactions between humans and microorganisms, immunology, infection, and principles of microbial control. This course emphasizes critical thinking and analytical skills in a collaborative laboratory environment.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Polly Schulz

Stress Management Syllabus

Openly licensed syllabus assigns low-cost textbook (The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal, ISBN: 9781101982938) Course description: Course Description: The course is designed for students interested in a comprehensive approach to the management of stress. The class will examine the historical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and physiological foundations of the stress concept. This broad understanding of stress will be the basis for the study of the role that stress plays in health and disease. Students will explore a wide variety of stress management/relaxation techniques. The course will include lectures, critical thinking exercises, class discussions, workbook activities, quizzes, exams, and practical applications of various stress management techniques.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Daniel Montoya

PS 201: Introduction to United States Government and Politics

Course documents for Introduction to United States Government and Politics. The following sections are included: 1) Syllabus for the course 2) Tentative schedule of activities for the course 3) Five Units of study with all reading and writing assignments linked on the activity sheets. Course Description: Political Science 201 examines the Constitution and its major themes: separation of powers, federalism, judicial review, checks and balances, limited government, and individual liberties. The course includes examination of the basic principles of American democracy, the philosophical and historical roots of the American political system, and the relationship between the major institutions of our government with each other and the people. The politics of American democracy will be explored through an analysis of political ideology, political parties, voting, special interest group behavior, and public opinion. Individual liberties and civil rights will be examined in the context of the evolving American nation.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Rodney Hanson

Introduction To International Studies Syllabus

Course syllabus relies on library ebook, Shawn Smallman and Kimberley Brown’s Introduction to International Studies, (University Of North Carolina Press, 2015). Course Description: International Studies is a multidisciplinary study of the major geographical, political, economic, social and cultural issues that dominate the international agenda. This is an introductory course to international studies where the contemporary and historical relationship between countries and complex global forces are analyzed. Several global issues, such as migration, security, food, health, and climate are the major topics to study the increasing global interconnectedness and the political, economic, and cultural globalization. At the end of this course: Students will acquire the foundational knowledge in the field of international studies. Students will demonstrate an ability to think globally and use multidisciplinary perspectives to analyze global phenomena. Students will be challenged to think critically about their own lives and their connection to other cultures, places and peoples in the world.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Tuba Kayaarasi

Course documents for Environmental Science 173: Geological Perspectives

Course outline and reading list; spreadsheet with list of readings by topic with licensing info for each. Course Description: Covers environmental topics that are primarily geological in nature. Includes geology basics, soil resources, hydrogeology, nonrenewable mineral and energy resources, perpetual energy resources, and solid waste. The associated laboratories will illustrate these topics and may include fieldwork. Upon completion of the course students should be able to: Express graphically, orally or in writing, basic elements of environmental earth-sciences. Identify and express geological interactions of humans and the environment. Utilize field and laboratory methods/technologies to measure and describe environmental factors. Demonstrate an understanding of geologic time scales and processes.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Taryn Oakley

Yoga Syllabus

Syllabus for two courses: Yoga for Wellness and Yoga All Levels. Both courses make use of a free online text: https://yoga.dasa.ncsu.edu/ Course Description: Appropriate for all levels. A dynamic, flow-style Vinyasa practice linking breath and movement with modifications for all levels offered. Focus will be on traditional postures for functional use and comfort in daily life as well as an introduction to a restorative, deep-stretching style of yoga. Learning Outcomes & Course Competencies: At the completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Explain the relationship between human behavior and health. 2) Understand the basic concepts of the mind-body-spirit connection. 3) Have a basic awareness and understanding of the historical importance of yoga. 4) Understand the concepts of yoga off the mat. 5) Learn and demonstrate the basic use of yoga props. 6) Learn and demonstrate the basic use of restorative postures. 7) Understand and demonstrate the concept of “intention”. 8) Learn and demonstrate the importance of “safe” yoga postures. 9) Understand and demonstrate basic breathing techniques and how it relates to a meditative state. 10) Show respect for yourself and fellow classmates by contributing to an open, non-threatening, non-judgmental, ego free atmosphere. 11) Understand the concept of “being present”.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Daniel Montoya