If you are willing to commit the two weeks in May to GEO 320L (for non-majors), you can pick up three hours of science by going hiking around Central Texas. The prerequisite is not strictly enforced, if a student hasn’t taken a Geology class before they should just email Dr. Cloos, but it’s most likely fine. The pass/fail aspect is actually ok too, as this course is the exception to that rule. See the attached flyer for more details: geo-320l-course-description

We’ve gotten an early start on promoting Summer 17! Even though the course schedule won’t be published until next Tuesday, our college’s course descriptions are now live, http://bit.ly/LibArtsCourses! The “Courses” link on each department’s website are defaulting to Summer 17. Only courses with descriptions in the system, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/_db/courses/, will appear so populate any “missing” courses soon.

Fall 17 course descriptions will be posted a week before the course schedule is due to go live on Wed., Mar. 29.

We’ll also be highlighting courses through flyers, blogs, videos, and social media posts.

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This course is now open to non-business majors.

STA 372 5-Financial/Econometric Time Series Modeling

Applied skills course that focuses on statistical forecasting methods used in business. Subjects may include Box-Jenkins models; exponential smoothing models; ARCH/GARCH models for varying volatility in financial returns; seasonal adjustment of time series; tests for non stationarity of time series; and modeling multiple time series. Each subject is illustrated with real data using series such as interest rates and stock returns.

Prerequisites:  Upper-division standing, and Statistics 309 or 309H with a grade of at least C-; Additional prerequisite: Statistics 371G, 371H, 375, or 375H.  Will accept other courses to satisfy prerequisites, but the student must contact Professor Shively directly (see below) for permission to register for this course if they don’t have the ones listed above. 

Tom Shively  Professor
Information, Risk, and Operations Mgmt.

tom.shively@mccombs.utexas.edu
CBA 6.446    (512)471-1753

Research Areas: Marketing Models, Statistical Analysis.

The Department of Accounting is really trying to increase enrollment in ACC 366P – Accounting Practicum, a service learning course in which UT students help low-income families prepare their taxes.  In the coming spring 2017 semester, this course will be available to non-business students through our Enrollment Control Petition (ECP) process.  The online ECP will be open the last week in October for students to submit.  In addition to this video, attached are a number of items to learn more about this course and help promote this incredibly worthwhile opportunity to your students.  Not only do students benefit from the intrinsic rewards associated with giving back to the Austin community, but they can also become certified tax preparers through this experience! 

DOCUMENTARY FILM AND INQUIRY

Course Description

EDP 369K & LAH 350

Ricardo C. Ainslie, Ph.D.

T-Th 11:00 – 12:30, SZB439B

The primary focus of this course is teaching students to make short documentaries on their chosen topics. Documentary projects will also be the vehicle for exploring methodological issues over the course of the semester in relation to qualitative methods and the use of media as a tool. We will also learn about the elements that make documentaries effective as a means for communicating ideas and issues.

Students will develop and carry out 20-minute documentary video projects around topics that they select. In the process, they will learn about interviewing, filming with video cameras, lighting, and sound, in addition to learning the basic elements of editing. The projects will be selected from idea proposals submitted by students. Working collaboratively in teams (occasionally, students chose to do solo projects), your team will conceive of the project, research it, film interviews related to it, and edit your material into the 20-minute documentary. I will provide ongoing consultation on your project and the documentaries will be screened at the end of the semester. No previous experience with documentary work is required.

The primary thesis underlying this course is that documentary film is an example of qualitative approaches to inquiry, including ethnography, interviewing, and narrative description. It is a unique methodology that can help us examine and understand the meaning of social incidents and controversies, cultural transformations, and other questions of interest.

The major restricted DES courses below will be open to non majors, depending upon available seats.  Please check with Linda about the course registration process.

DES 308 would be a great class to take for potential major change applicants. 

DES 308   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN THEORY/CRITICISM                               

ART 3.218

Gorman

TTH      11:00-12:30 PM  *Current course schedule lists a different, incorrect time.  TTH 11-12:30 is correct and will be updated soon.         

20450

Either section of DES 309 would be a great class to take for potential major change applicants.  

DES 309   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN

ART 2.212

Catterall                                  

MW      8:00-11:00 AM

20455

DES 309   INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN   

ART 3.218

Catterall                                  

MW      2:00-5:00  PM

20460

DES 336  History of Design 

ART 3.218

TTH 2:00-5:00 PM

20480

The History and Future of Higher Education

EDA 391S and AMS 370

Julia Mickenberg (American Studies) and Rich Reddick (Educational Administration)

mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu                  richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu

This experimental and experiential course examines the university in American life, past and present, as a means for imagining its possible futures.

This course is a prototype for the type of research-based learning community that we hope to foster through a new Innovation Center on campus. Working collaboratively, undergraduates and graduate students will conduct original research on the role of colleges and universities in American life, past and present. Students will also engage with members of the university community and beyond through guest speakers, and a culminating conference during which class members will present their research to the public. Students will be active players in all aspects of the course. Admission requires permission of instructors. Qualifies for writing and independent inquiry flags.

Likely course texts:

Andrew Delbanco, College: What it Is, Was, and Should Be

Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Lucas, C.J. American higher education: A history

Additional readings as assigned

Requirements:

Active participation

Two short papers

Research paper

Reading/research diary

Public presentation

ARC 342E, History/Theories of Landscape Architecture I (Antiquity to 1700), will be available to upper-division non-majors; the only pre-req for non-majors is the consent of the instructor. The instructor is Landscape Architecture professor Mirka Benes. Interested undergrads should contact Professor Benes directly at mirkabenes@utexas.edu. A course description is available at https://soa.utexas.edu/courses/fall-2015/historytheories-landscape-architecture-i.