12 courses with the subject CAPS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CAPS 111Introduction to Biomimicry
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to the field of biomimicry. "Biomimicry" (from Bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Biomimicry asks the question: What would nature do? The goal is to create sustainable products, processes, and policies by learning from and "listening to" nature, to the wisdom held in biological and ecological systems that has been evolving and accumulating over the past 3.8 billion years. Natural systems and organisms provide stunning examples of effective communication, resource production and storage, and energy efficient design. Animals, plants and microbes are consummate engineers; they have found what works, what is appropriate, and most importantly, what is sustainable. Biomimicry might help create a solar cell that is inspired by a leaf with chloroplast and chlorophyll, a passive cooling system for buildings inspired by a termite mound, or find new strategies for restoring degraded ecosystems. People are nature, too. Human cultures with long term residency 217
Credit(s): 1 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed for students in the one-semester University Pathways program to aid in their transition to the college and campus environment. Through class activities, assignments, workshops and discussions students become oriented to the various campus resources and services available and begin to develop the academic skills necessary to excel at the university level. Topics will include academic expectations, UMass Boston's institutional policies and procedures, goal-setting, academic fundamentals including critical university skills, major and career exploration, and finding balance between personal, social and academic life. Course Catalog ID: 040601 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 1-4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: The study of special topics in general Education. Consult college's description of current offerings to find out about the topics being explored this semester. Course Note: May be repeated for credit. 218
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The course will review the basic economic concepts of supply and demand, elasticity, monopoly, and competition and show how these concepts apply to professional sports, including broadcast contracts, merchandising venue stadium sponsorships, and trades. The course looks at the role of government in financing stadiums and the impact of professional sports leans on local economies and will also cover labor markets for professional athletes, college athletes, non-professional sports, and the increased participation of women in sports, professional and amateur. Course Catalog ID: 039161 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course investigates relationships between human cultures and the natural world. Linkages between the two are increasingly seen as keys to sustainable development and addressing world issues such as poverty and food supply. Over time, man's relationship with nature has changed, especially as technology plays a greater role in our lives, and globalization begins to homogenize cultural views. Emerging areas of study focus on the links between culture and biodiversity. Definitions of culture reflect this connection by including the co-evolution of the natural environment and the shared systems of beliefs, values, norms, artifacts and institutions that commonly are part of the definition of culture. By exploring our changing cultural attitude towards nature through the built environment, agriculture, transportation, tourism, and the economy, the importance of cultural as well as biological diversity will be established. Course Catalog ID: 040985 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3 Description: Various interdisciplinary special topics offered experimentally, once, under this heading, taught at the 200's-level. Topics are announced each semester this course runs, during pre-registration. Course Catalog ID: 040729 Course Offer Number: 1 221
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3 Description: Various interdisciplinary special topics offered experimentally, once, under this heading, taught at the 300's level. Topics are announced each semester this course runs, during pre-registration. Course Catalog ID: 040730 Course Offer Number: 1 INFOTECH 022 - Foundational in Data Visualization Credit(s): 0 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Credit/no credit Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The study of foundational information processing through data visualization technologies designed as a non-credit offering for students of the Boston Public School System. Course Catalog ID: 041300 Course Offer Number: 1 PRFTRN 256 - Therapeutic Mentoring Credit(s): 1.6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Credit/no credit Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 222
