UNIV 349 - Transfer Year Seminar: Problems in Energy and Society

Class Number: 1714

Description: Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor Description: This interdisciplinary seminar for first year transfer students promotes successful intellectual and social transition to CSU Channel Islands through a problem-based approach. Students examine the modern world and issues facing societies from multiple perspectives, and develop and convey to others analyses of and solutions to problems using the methodologies, tools and techniques of academic disciplines. Students will develop inquiry skills that emphasize critical thinking and independent learning as well as identify how universities and specific disciplines relate to social problems. The seminar promotes student reflection on prior learning at other institutions and its relationship to the CI mission and their degree program, and aims to increase student engagement in intellectual life at the university. Themes will vary. Students will meet outside of class for one hour on a bi-weekly basis in small groups with a peer leader.

Status: Open

Session: Regular Academic Session

Units: 3.00

Class Components: Lecture

Career: Undergraduate

Start Date: 08/22/2015

End Date: 12/21/2015

Grading: Letter Grade

Enrollment Total: 12

Available Seats: 13

Wait List Capacity: 10

Wait List Total: 0

Textbook Status: Required

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Author: McKibben, Bill

Publish: Penguin

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9780553379655

Title: My Ishmael

Author: Quinn, Daniel

Publish: Bantam

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9781400051571

Title: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight:

Author: Hartmann, Thom

Publish: Broadway

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9781568588247

Title: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Author: Hedges, Chris

Publish: Nation Books