Lewis & Clark Moodle

Through lectures, assigned readings, and hands-on
activities, students learn about the parallel and
synergistic processes of scientific discovery and
engineering innovation. Open-ended projects give
students experience in mutualistic teaming,
technology transfer, product development, and
marketing, as well as opportunities to learn and
apply methods inherent in effectual
entrepreneurial activities. Team-based laboratory
projects focus on the process of technology
transfer (utilizing scientific research in
commercial product development).

Study of the literature and culture of the, Victorian period (1837-1901). Juxtaposes fictional, and nonfictional depictions of urbanization and, class conflict; considers how the information, explosion, industrial revolution, and resulting, commodity culture created new anxieties about the, meaning of art; examines tensions between, Darwinian scientific theory and religious faith;, explores the gender politics of Victorian, sensation fiction and children's fiction; and, investigates how imperial expansion informed the, literature of the period. Authors may include, Charles Dickens, the Bronts, Robert and Elizabeth, Browning, Wilkie Collins, Matthew Arnold, Lewis, Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti,, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar, Wilde.

The process of spatial thinking while analyzing, and communicating data with cartographic tools., Students will work hands-on with geographic, information system (GIS) software to collect,, store, query, analyze, and display spatial data., Fundamental GIS concepts and skills through lab, exercises, lectures, readings, class discussions,, and other activities. Topics include understanding, coordinate systems, cartographic design principles, and map production, exploring and modifying, geospatial data, and creating and analyzing vector, and raster data and models.

Development of research and analytical skills in, environmental studies as preparation for, upper-division work by majors and minors. Emphasis, on formulation, practice, and communication of, research. Skills span full range of allied fields,, including descriptive and inferential statistics,, geographic information systems, survey and, interview techniques, qualitative data analysis,, and bibliographic research. Lectures, individual, and small-group assignments, and course project., Accompanying lab provides opportunity for students, to build analytical skills via real-world, research.