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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Anth 101: Introduction To Cultural Anthropology, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
Anth 101: Introduction To Cultural Anthropology, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human through a comparative study of different cultures. Anthropology seeks to understand how culture both shapes societies, from the smallest island in the South Pacific to the largest Asian metropolis, and affects the way institutions work, from scientific laboratories to Christian mega-churches. It provides a framework for analyzing diverse facets of human experience such as gender, ethnicity, language, politics, economics, and art.
Las 101: Latin American And Caribbean Cultures, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
Las 101: Latin American And Caribbean Cultures, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
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Introduces texts and media from Latin American and Caribbean cultures, including film, music, and performance. Analyzes the distinguishing features of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures through the study of cultural artifacts and issues related to history, politics, customs, and art. Requires research on selected topics.
Lang 201: Language In A Multicultural Setting, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
Lang 201: Language In A Multicultural Setting, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
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Introduces the foundations of linguistics and language acquisition. Analyzes language in multicultural American urban settings. Critiques bilingual/bidialectal families and bilingual education; language and gender; literacy in a changing, technological society; and different dialects and registers of American English. Appraises recent and classic scholarship in linguistics, literature, and related fields. Requires reflection and analysis of personal linguistic experiences and backgrounds.
Com 210: Writing At Work, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
Com 210: Writing At Work, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
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An overview of professional workplace writing, including audience assessment, preparation for writing and research, design, editing, and collaborative writing. Models of effective writing and practice in preparing business correspondence, reports, instructions, proposals, presentations, and web content, development of competence in creating documents routinely required of professionals in organizations. Relevant for a wide variety of professions.
Psychology And The Black Experience, Donna Gooden
Psychology And The Black Experience, Donna Gooden
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No abstract provided.
Assisting Nursing Students In Their Development Of Empathy: A Guide To Fostering Requisite Skills For The Art Of Empathetic Communication, Susan Mee
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This 7-week lesson plan is designed for use in clinical nursing courses. It is designed specifically for use by Nursing faculty teaching in the absence of state required patient facing clinical opportunity due to COVID restrictions. The lesson plan describes pedagogical techniques and provides video and education OER resources designed to help support the development of empathetic communication skills over 7 weeks. Refection and video debriefing techniques will be employed. Role play will culminate in the group presentation project of a brief video modeling effective therapeutic empathetic communication.
Evaluating Brain Performance Enhancing Drugs, Kristina Toropova
Evaluating Brain Performance Enhancing Drugs, Kristina Toropova
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Students read about drugs which enhance student academic performance.They will connect the found information to prior course material, addressing neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as well as connect to the attention course chapter. Students will also delve into the ethical components of the use of brain enchasing drugs and compare them to sports performance-enhancing drugs.
Environmental Psychology: Open Syllabus, Valkiria Duran-Narucki
Environmental Psychology: Open Syllabus, Valkiria Duran-Narucki
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This is a syllabus designed to work as a "frame" that you can use and populate together with students. The goal is to provide a perspective from environmental psychology.
Swk 600: Research Methods I, Barbra Teater
Swk 600: Research Methods I, Barbra Teater
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This course syllabus is for a Master level social work course on research methods. This course is the first in a two-part series where the end product is a research proposal in this course that is then carried out in the subsequent course. This course could also serve as a stand-alone course ending with the research proposal. The course uses an OER textbook resulting in a zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) for the students.
Mapping Staten Island: A Field Study Guide, Nerve Macaspac
Mapping Staten Island: A Field Study Guide, Nerve Macaspac
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This is a guide for the field study and urban lab as partial requirements for GEG 260 Urban Geography at CUNY College of Staten Island. The field study introduces students to spatial ethnography and offers an opportunity to observe, experience and examine a range of spatial urban phenomena that they have learned in the classroom within actually-existing urban environments. Designed as a collaborative activity, students will work in teams in exploring and examining the built environment on-site and then produce multimedia deliverables to capture their reflections throughout the field study using creative and experimental methods. The collaborative and experimental design …
Global Perspectives, Cecilia Salvi
Global Perspectives, Cecilia Salvi
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A syllabus for an introductory course in global studies.
Ant-37 Open Assignments, Jill L. Siegel
Ant-37 Open Assignments, Jill L. Siegel
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The following activities use open educational practices to engage students in active and shared learning. The first section discusses a model for creating a more open syllabus, the second section is an assignment where students create a collaborative bulletin board, and the third section is an activity where students first create presentations that are added to an online “video text.” All of these activities are buildable and can be shared with new classes over time, building a larger repository of class materials that are based on students' active participation and authoritative knowledge. While these are intended for an Introductory class …
Spe-29 - Voice & Articulation (Intro Assignment), Laura Spinu
Spe-29 - Voice & Articulation (Intro Assignment), Laura Spinu
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This assignment is asking students to collaboratively create a database of "good" and "bad" voices for subsequent analysis.
Spe-41 - Language Development (Intro Assignment), Laura Spinu
Spe-41 - Language Development (Intro Assignment), Laura Spinu
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This assignment is asking students to collaboratively create a database with videos illustrating differences in the speech production of young children compared to that of adults.
Spe-29 - Voice & Articulation (Advanced Assignment), Laura Spinu
Spe-29 - Voice & Articulation (Advanced Assignment), Laura Spinu
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This two-part assignment introduces students to spectrogram reading by asking them (1) to explore a set of spectrograms representing the days of the week, and then (2) record their own spectrogram and add a picture of it to a common "Mystery Spectrograms" folder for use in a subsequent assignment (and also in classroom activities).
NOTE: by the time this assignment is introduced, the students have already learned how to record themselves and save sound files using the Praat software for acoustic analysis. If they are not familiar with the procedure, this tutorial will help:
Accessibility: Disabilities Treasure Hunt, Devorah Kletenik
Accessibility: Disabilities Treasure Hunt, Devorah Kletenik
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This is a treasure hunt game that simulates various disabilities and gives a sense of how frustrating non-accessible content can be for people with disabilities. Suitable for a general audience, no programming experience necessary.
An editable copy is also given, along with ideas about how to make it more accessible.
Ant-3700 - Introduction To Anthropology, Igor Pashkovskiy
Ant-3700 - Introduction To Anthropology, Igor Pashkovskiy
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Movement away from the textbook model has potential to foster equitable access to course materials as well as reduce textbook costs for students. As such, transition to a zero cost/OER classroom included the curation of open access scholarly literature to cover the four-field approach presently taught in introductory anthropology courses.
Levels-Of-Analysis In International Relations, Anat Niv-Solomon
Levels-Of-Analysis In International Relations, Anat Niv-Solomon
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The objective of this assignment is for students to be able to apply the concept of Levels-of-Analysis to real-world events. The students are required to explain an international event with accounts and narratives that fit in the three different levels of analysis - individual, state, and system.
This assignment can be used in introductory classes to international relations and international politics, as well as in classes about foreign policy analysis or national and international security.
Developmental Psychology Syllabus, Rodina Sadek
Developmental Psychology Syllabus, Rodina Sadek
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No abstract provided.
Pol 372: Politics And Human Survival, Joseph Mohorčich
Pol 372: Politics And Human Survival, Joseph Mohorčich
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In this class, we’ll read contemporary political thought about what could happen in the future. We’ll pay special attention to the forces and feedback loops that threaten human life.
U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves
U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves
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This book is written for students early in college to provide a guide to the founding documents and structures of governance that form the United States political system. This book is called American Government and Politics in Principle and Practice because you will notice that what has been inscribed in law has not always been applied in practice-particularly for indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, immigrants and the working class within U.S. society. In designing this book, we have two goals. First, we want you to know what the founding documents …
Fundamentals Of Interpersonal Communication, Teresa Fisher
Fundamentals Of Interpersonal Communication, Teresa Fisher
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This textbook introduces students to fundamentals of interpersonal communication. It begins with a foundational chapter about communication including models of, definitions for, basic principles of, a focus on interpersonal communication, and the impact of social media on communication. It continues with chapters exploring various facets of interpersonal communication: intercultural communication, the self and communication, perception, verbal, nonverbal, and listening. The final two chapters look at interpersonal relationships and communication as well as conflict in interpersonal communication.
Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero
Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero
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The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.
Introductory Psychology Hidden Figures Poster – Online Group Presentation, Roderick Hurley
Introductory Psychology Hidden Figures Poster – Online Group Presentation, Roderick Hurley
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Students will work in groups to prepare poster presentations about underrecognized contributors or “hidden figures” in the field of psychology.
The Political Imagination: Introduction To American Government, Peter Kolozi, James E. Freeman
The Political Imagination: Introduction To American Government, Peter Kolozi, James E. Freeman
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The Political Imagination: Introduction to American Government provides realistic, critical analysis as well as a hopeful, engagement-oriented narrative that encourages students to understand the important role they can play in the political system and in crafting a society in which they want to live. The Political Imagination draws on social and political theory and history offering an analytical as well as normative framework to think about the substance of politics, the procedures and institutions of government, and a dynamic, socially contingent definition of political power.
Review Your Buddy's Paper, Andrés S. Besserer Rayas
Review Your Buddy's Paper, Andrés S. Besserer Rayas
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This is an assignment I gave undergraduate students. I split the class into pairs or groups of three and each had to review one of their "buddy's" paper. I think this exercise was successful becuase student improved their own writing through revising their peer's written work.
Anth 101: Introduction To Cultural Anthropology, Tomomi Emoto
Anth 101: Introduction To Cultural Anthropology, Tomomi Emoto
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No abstract provided.
Psychology Of Adolescence, Brent Maximin
Psychology Of Adolescence, Brent Maximin
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No abstract provided.
Democracy And Its Critics, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Democracy And Its Critics, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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This course proposes an introduction to some of the central questions in the political theory of democracy. It is based on readings from classical and contemporary authors in the field, but will also require students to engage directly with the material, by participating in a number of structured class debates around each of the questions addressed.
It is divided in three parts. The first focuses on debates that surrounded the theoretical elaboration of three key historical models of democratic government: the controversy over the relative merits of democratic rule in ancient Athens, the pre- and post-revolutionary debates over the notion …
Debating Political Ideologies, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Debating Political Ideologies, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
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This course aims to provide an introduction to the main ideologies that structure contemporary political conflict and debate. It is divided in two parts. After an introductory session on the definition of the concept of ideology, the first part is devoted to some of the ‘classical’ political ideologies that emerged over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries and still play a very prominent role in contemporary political conflicts and debates: liberalism, republicanism, socialism, conservatism and anarchism. The second part considers ideological currents that emerged most prominently over the course of the 20th century such as …