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Introduction to Archaeology Course Docs

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Course readings and assignments for Introduction to Archaeology course. Readings are from the library ebook World Prehistory: a brief introduction by Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani. Taylor and Francis 2016 9th ed. ISBN 9781315641133. Course Description Introduces archaeology as the anthropological study of humans in the past and the present through the examination of cultural materials and human remains. Considers archaeological theories and methods and ethical issues related to cultural resource management and excavation. Examines systems of power and social justice related to ancient societies and compares them wit h similar systems and issues in contemporary societies from an anthropological perspective. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available. Intended Outcomes for the course Upon completion of the course students should be able to: Use an understanding of archaeological methods and theories to evaluate artifacts and other data. Describe the impact of human beings on the environment over time and in different ecological settings. Discuss ethical issues related to cultural resource management and the excavation and study of human remains associated with indigenous societies from an anthropological perspective. Examine systems of power and social justice related to ancient societies and compare them with similar systems of power and privilege in contemporary societies from an anthropological perspective.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Mary Courtis

Introduction to Composition Syllabus

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My interest in re-designing my Writing 115 classes to utilize Open Educational Resources grew out of the reality that many students on this level are often challenged by a lack of money. This class is one more that they must take before they even start transfer-level writing. They are also challenged to pay for tuition, fees, and everyday living expenses. When a student chooses food over books because the books are unaffordable, their chances of success go down. I started my re-design with the textbook I had been using and chose readings from it. Since most are previously published pieces available on the Internet, it’s easy to locate them and provide a link to them. If I had a reading that wasn’t as readily available, I consulted my friendly neighborhood reference librarians. For readings on writing instruction and grammar, I relied on the titles from the Open Oregon project. My students have enjoyed these books for their readability, general usefulness, and portability. In addition to a course syllabus, I have included activities in this document that I developed to use in my writing classes. Please feel free to use any of them that fit the needs of your students. I would love a shout-out if you do, and I also welcome questions and suggestions.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Jean Mittelstaedt

Psychology and Human Relations Course Outline

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Course readings from openly licensed Saylor and Noba sources. Psychology and human relations focuses on practical applications of psychology to relationships. Topics include models for understanding individual and social behavior, self and social perception, emotional self-regulation, physical and mental health, addictions, attraction, relationship formation and maintenance, leaders and followers, stress, work, leisure time, sexuality, commitment, and brief introduction to the clinical aspects of human behavior. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Understand themes of personal growth, self concept, and self estee.|Know the interrelationship between physical health and mental health.|Manage personal decision making, motivation, and emotion.|Identify one's own capabilities as leader or follower.|Intergrate sexuality, love, and commitment.|Understand personal stressor and manage one's response to stress.|Know the factors and outcomes for addictive behaviors and how to seek help.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Reina Daugherty

College Composition Syllabus

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This syllabus relies on three openly licensed textbooks: Gagich, Melanie and Emilie Zickel. A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing. Priebe, Sybil, Dana Anderson, and Robin Marman. Writing Unleashed. Wangler, Sarah and Tina Ulrich, editors. 88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition and Literature. Course Description Offers broad preparation for both academic writing and professional communication. Includes composing for a variety of rhetorical situations, writing for both oneself, and for external audiences. Provides self-guided learning opportunities alongside more structured opportunities for practice with support as needed. Intended Outcomes for the course Upon completion of the course students should be able to: ADAPT: Experiment with different genres. INQUIRE: Locate relevant information sources in a process of inquiry. CONNECT: Use rhetorical tools to convey and support a perspective. REFLECT: Analyze their own learning in writing.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Elizabeth Phillips

Spring 2020 CSE 619: Big Thinkers in EdTech Reading & Resource List--working OER

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Materials below are selected for a graduate level course, CSE 619: Big Thinkers in Educational Technology. The course is intended for MS: Education: Educational Technology students. The goal of the course is to provide students a chance to read, study, discuss, and write about one or several currently popular topics or concerns regarding the use of educational technologies. Sometimes these are new issues, like MOOCs or the Internet of Things. Other times, the issues are long standing, such as Internet security, student data and privacy, what EdTech actually is, or emerging ways to use educational technology. This course is broken down into several component parts. These are meant to emphasize skills of reading, writing, analysis, and multimedia composition as well as writing a graduate level paper. For the first eight weeks of the course, students read, review, present, and discuss the four books or curated selection of articles. Each book is given two weeks. In the first week there is a short reflection and discussion; in the second week there is a longer, more focused analysis and discussion. One or two of the responses or analyses are expected to be presented in audio, video, infographic, or PowerPoint/slide format. The goal is to not only integrate their technology skills, but to provide students a chance to express their understanding in different modalities and work towards understanding how digital composition impacts communication. In addition to interacting with other students’ posts and sharing their learning, students are also expected to locate and share five resources relevant to the readings. Ideally, this helps give breadth and depth to their readings while potentially locating sources that they can use in their final paper. Students’ final papers are usually used, albeit in an improved form, as part of their graduating portfolio. I also encourage students to submit their strongest work for publication in open, accessible journals like Hybrid Pedagogy. 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. If you have suggestions or additions, please contact me.

Material Type: Reading, Syllabus

Author: Greg Zobel

Intro to Entrepreneurship Canvas Course Shell

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Whole course in Canvas that utilizes OpenStax Entrepreneurship: https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship Course Description: Students will learn the basics of entrepreneurship, including the personal aspects of entrepreneurs, opportunity identification, and organizational structuring. This course will introduce information on becoming an entrepreneur, selecting a type of ownership, developing a business plan, marketing a business, hiring and managing a staff, and financing, protecting, and insuring the small business.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Linda Williamson

Psychology and Human Relations spring syllabus

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Syllabus and reading list of openly licensed materials. Course Description Applies psychological principles to relationships in both personal and professional environments. Includes an overview of basic personality and social psychology concepts, as well as specific skill development in the areas of communication, listening, and conflict resolution. Learning Outcomes Apply an understanding of psychological and social influences on human behavior to objectively analyze one’s own interpersonal experiences and relationships. Utilize intra- and interpersonal management skills to increase effectiveness in personal and professional relationships. Use knowledge of culturally diverse practices to increase sensitivity and competence in a variety of social and cultural interactions. Communicate, listen, and manage conflict more effectively in personal and professional relationships.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Peter H Addy

OER and Public Domain List for Introduction to Mythology and Folklore

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Explanatory Note: This is a lightly annotated list of sources for critical, pedagogical, and primary texts for the class. Since I teach the class with variations, I have included sources for the different myths/folklore I tend to teach (see categories below). I intend to use this list as a starting point each time I teach the course—but to make decisions about individual texts/regions on a case by case basis. This list may also be useful to others teaching the course—many of the sources below have myth and folklore from other regions as well as the ones I have listed.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Kristin Dorsey

Environmental Biology OER materials and links

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Environmental Biology, by Matthew R. Fisher, Editor, and supplemental resources specific to the Pacific Northwest. See https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/envirobiology/ Course Description Covers environmental topics that are primarily biological in nature. Includes human population issues, matter and energy resources, ecosystems, environmental ethics, and food and land resources. 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 and functions of ecosystems. Identify and express interactions of humans and the environment. Utilize field and laboratory methods and technologies to measure and describe ecosystems. Demonstrate an understanding of ecosystem functioning and human effects upon ecosystems.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Alexie McKee

Course documents for PHY 201: General Physics (Algebra) I

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Folder with syllabus and course outline for General Physics (Algebra) I course that uses Openstax College Physics as textbook (https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics). This course covers classical mechanics, which essentially means the physics of forces and motion that was developed before the start of the 20 th century. This physics accurately describes the behaviors of objects that are: large enough to be seen with microscopes but smaller than planets or moons, roughly room temperature (give or take a few hundred degrees), and traveling much slower than the speed of light—in other words, most of our everyday experience. The classical mechanics covered in this course can be boiled down to seven key concepts: Newton’s three laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation, and the laws of conservation of momentum, energy, and angular momentum. We’ll be focusing on these central ideas and how they apply to practical examples. Course Content and Outcomes After completion of this course, students will 1) Apply knowledge of motion, forces, energy, and circular motion to explain natural physical processes and related technological advances. 2) Use an understanding of calculus along with physical principles to effectively solve problems encountered in everyday life, further study in science, and in the professional world. 3) Design experiments and acquire data in order to explore physical principles, effectively communicate results, and critically evaluate related scientific studies. 4) Assess the contributions of physics to our evolving understanding of global change and sustainability while placing the development of physics in its historical and cultural context.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: John Allan

ESOL 44 Presentations

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Materials for student presentations in ESOL course that uses the open textbook Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners by Della Jean Abrahams (http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=pdxopen). Course Description Presents oral communication as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, comprehension checks, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the communicative purpose. Develops listening comprehension and speaking skills at a low intermediate level. Addresses use of important language functions, such as asking for clarification, agreeing, and negotiating meaning. Includes one prepared speech. Introduces the English stress system, intonation, and certain consonant and vowel sounds. Places communication in the context of adult life roles. Intended Outcome(s) for the Course: Understand oral communication as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, comprehension checks, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the communicative purpose. Use knowledge about language, culture, and context to prepare for and accomplish communication tasks at the low intermediate level. Use listening skills to understand and respond to different types of discourse. Produce spoken English that is mostly understandable with some repetition or clarification. Begin to identify and correct basic pronunciation problems. Deliver a planned presentation on a familiar topic.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Sarah Bauer

Introduction to Jazz History syllabus

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Syllabus with listening links for Introduction to Jazz History course that uses a library ebook as primary textbook: Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford, 2011). Covers the 90-year history of jazz, a truly American art form. Examines and analyzes eras, styles, and significant artists. Upon successful completion students should be able to: Understand that the study of jazz involves an analysis of what motivates humans to create and how their creations reflect their values and world views Experience jazz music “dynamically,” that is, to appreciate simultaneously the uniqueness of a work, its origins and precedent, its potential as an inspiration and influence on later music and its relationship to a particular cultural moment Critically examine the impact of jazz on social interaction so as to encourage sensitivity and empathy toward people with different values or beliefs.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Sean Peterson

Survey of Educational Research Methods syllabus

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Syllabus for Survey of Educational Research Methods course that uses the open textbook Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/oa_textbooks/3/ Course description: This course provides students with a survey of methods used in educational research, including qualitative, survey, quantitative group, correlational, single case, and action research. The role of systematic approaches to research in education is considered, and an overview of multiple ways of conducting research in education is provided. Emphasis will be placed on developing students’ competence in locating, evaluating and using published research to inform decision making in educational, clinical, and social settings. Guidelines for evaluating educational research that use the various methodologies are provided. Students will evaluate and critique published research articles.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Julie Alonzo

Political Ideology Reading List

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The following reading list provides a list of resources that are freely accessible for students of Lane Community College (LCC) through the LCC library or through the internet. Catalog description: Political Ideologies are comprehensive systems of political beliefs . More than particular opinions or suggestions for political programs, they contain interpretations of human nature, individual rights, and social life . They are oriented towards political action, containing particular programs for the structure of the state and authority, economic systems, and methods for solving political problems . This course focuses on the major ideologies of the modern era . These include liberalism, conservatism, fascism, Marxism, democratic socialism, anarchism, multiculturalism, feminism, and environmentalism . It examines the basic tenets of each ideology; the historical circumstances giving rise to their development and implementation, and their relevance to current political and social discourse.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Erika Masaki

Human Resources Management syllabus

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Openly licensed syllabus that uses the open textbook Human Resources Management: https://open.lib.umn.edu/humanresourcemanagement/ Course description: Covers principles and techniques of human resources management. Includes the following topics: hiring practices, orientation, training, job enrichment, motivation, and performance and review. Covers wage policies, benefits programs and how to comply with a myriad of legal requirements.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Laura Boehme

Political Science: Introduction to International Relations Course Materials

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Political Science: Introduction to International Relations Course Materials DESCRIPTION Introduces complex relations among the nations of a rapidly changing world. Focuses on the nature of the international system and factors affecting conflict and cooperation within the system. LEARNING OUTCOMES 1) Understand, analyze, and explain the relationships, interconnections, and divergences in the current international political system; 2) Understand, analyze, and explain the classic, contemporary, and alternative theories with which to analyze international relations; 3) Understand, analyze, and explain the ways in which international power, law, geography, culture, history, religion, and belief systems interact to shape world politics; 4) Understand, analyze, and explain the ideas that create controversies in international relations; 5) Understand, analyze, and explain the global interdependence that defines international relations; 6) Develop skills and appreciation of civic virtue as a well-educated, informed, and participating citizen in our national and international political system.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Rodney D Hanson

Communication Law Syllabus

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Communication Law Syllabus J 385: Communication Law Legal aspects of the media: constitutional freedom of expression, news gathering, access to public records, libel, privacy, copyright, advertising, electronic media regulation, and antitrust. It is important for all journalism and communication students to develop discerning knowledge of the legal protections and restraints placed upon freedom of the press in the United States. The (aspiring) journalism and communication practitioner should also be aware that far from being static, the law is an evolving set of formal principles, always subject to interpretation and application by the courts. Both statutory and judge-made law, federal and state, involving American media will be the primary focus of the course. In addition, given that U.S. communication law carries global implications, this course will examine press freedom issues from an international and comparative perspective. The comparative look at press freedom will lead you to think critically about U.S. communication law. The course will address the question of freedom of the press on three levels: (1) What are the legal limits on expression and how does a journalism practitioner avoid legal problems? (2) Why have courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies established the existing limits? (3) How does U.S. communication law interact with the laws of other countries in the unfolding era of global media?

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Bryce Newell

Explorations 1 Grammar for the Experienced Beginner Student Book and Teachers Guide

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Explorations 1 Grammar for the Experienced Beginner Student Book and Teachers Guide Pressbooks Version of Explorations 1 Grammar for the Experienced Beginner Student Book Available: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/explorations1/ ESL-020 Upper Beginning Grammar English language learners study and practice basic verb forms (simple present and present progressive), and adverbs of frequency in written and spoken English.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Authors: Jennifer Rueda, Kristee Emens-Hesslink, Susan Caisse

Curriculum Instruction and Assessment for CTE Syllabus

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Curriculum Instruction and Assessment for CTE Syllabus ED 429 Course Description Build knowledge and skills in curriculum design, instructional strategies, and assessment for successful teaching in a Career and Technical Education and other specialty areas: (a) Agriculture Food and Natural Resource Systems, (b) Arts, Information and Communications, (c) Business Management, (d) Health Sciences (e) Human Resources, (F) Industrial and Engineering Systems, (g) Family and Consumer Sciences, (h) Career Trades.

Material Type: Syllabus

Author: Carol McKiel

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