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Biochemical metabolism of macronutrients and key micronutrients — digestion, absorption, transport, utilization, and excretion — with emphasis on the pathways that matter for dietary-guideline debates (insulin response, lipoprotein metabolism, one-carbon…
Foundational concepts in nutrition science — macronutrients, micronutrients, energy balance, Atwater factors, reference intakes (DRI/RDA/AI/UL), food composition tables, and the methods of human nutrition research. Grounds the rest of the department in a…
Comparative religion as a scholarly discipline — cross-tradition analysis of doctrines, practices, and experiences without collapsing traditions into each other or ranking them against a normative standard. Covers the history of the discipline (from Max…
Religious ethics and practice across traditions — moral theology and its sources, the role of virtue, law, and narrative in ethical formation, ritual as ethical shaping, the relation of contemplative practice to ethical life, and comparative work on shared…
Mysticism and contemplative practice across traditions — apophatic and kataphatic theology, the major maps of the mystical path (purgation, illumination, union; fana and baqa; jhana and vipassana; the stages of neo-Confucian self-cultivation), and the…
Philosophical theology — the use of philosophical tools to analyze and evaluate theological claims. Covers classical arguments for and against the existence of God (cosmological, ontological, teleological, moral, evil), the divine attributes (simplicity,…
Scripture interpretation across traditions — hermeneutics, exegesis, textual criticism, canonical formation, and the history of reading practices. Covers Jewish (Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash), Christian (Old and New Testament, patristic and medieval senses),…
Systematic theology as a method — the organization of doctrine into a coherent structure with defined loci (God, creation, humanity, sin, Christ or analogous figure, salvation, church, last things, where applicable to tradition). Covers creedal formation, the…
Apprenticeship pedagogy for the trades — how craft is actually taught, which is almost nothing like how classroom subjects are taught. Covers the observe/practice/correct loop, the role of the master as model rather than lecturer, the ladder from sweeping the…
Craft methodology for the trades — how skilled work is organized, decomposed, sequenced, and evaluated from first principles through finished artifact. Covers the craft arc (intent, layout, roughing, fitting, finishing, inspection), the distinction between…
Materials and fit for the trades — how wood, metal, stone, fabric, and composite materials behave, how they move with humidity and temperature, and how "fit" between parts is achieved in the presence of material behavior. Covers moisture content, thermal…
Measurement and tolerance for the trades — how dimensions are specified, measured, and verified, and how real parts are allowed to deviate from their specifications. Covers tolerance stacks, reference surfaces and datum chains, the difference between accuracy…
Tools and machines as the leverage-amplification layer of the trades — how hand tools, powered tools, and programmable machines differ in what they amplify, what they constrain, and what skill they demand. Covers the tool-to-machine progression, the Nasmyth…
Workshop practice for the trades — layout, setup, safety, sequencing, and the practical discipline of running a shop. Covers bench organization, jig and fixture thinking, lighting and power, dust and noise, tool maintenance cadence, and the apprenticeship-era…
Celestial coordinate systems and sky positioning. Covers horizon (altitude-azimuth), equatorial (right ascension-declination), ecliptic, and galactic systems; epoch and precession; coordinate transformations; planisphere use; and practical sky-locating from…
Observational cosmology from Hubble's law to the CMB. Covers redshift, Hubble expansion, the cosmological parameters, the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, galaxy rotation curves and dark matter, Type Ia SNe and dark energy, and the current…
The cosmic distance ladder from radar ranging to Hubble flow. Covers parallax, spectroscopic parallax, cluster main-sequence fitting, Cepheid and RR Lyrae period-luminosity relations, Type Ia supernovae, Tully-Fisher, surface brightness fluctuation, and…
Practical naked-eye and binocular sky observing. Covers dark adaptation, limiting magnitude, constellation recognition, star hopping, the messier and Caldwell catalogs accessible without a telescope, the Moon, planets, meteor showers, aurorae, and the ethics…
Classical orbital mechanics from Kepler to Hohmann. Covers the six orbital elements, Kepler's three laws, vis-viva, orbit types (circular, elliptical, parabolic, hyperbolic), transfer orbits, gravity assists, the two-body problem, and practical methods for…
Stellar spectral analysis from first light to chemical abundance. Covers continuum emission and absorption, the OBAFGKM classification sequence, luminosity classes, line identification, Doppler shifts, curve-of-growth abundance analysis, and the astrophysical…
Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and water cycles — pools, fluxes, residence times, and anthropogenic perturbations. Covers the fast and slow carbon cycles, the Haber-Bosch disruption of the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorus bottleneck, the hydrological…
Climate physics, forcing, feedback, and attribution. Covers the greenhouse effect and radiative forcing, climate sensitivity, fast and slow feedbacks, the paleoclimate record, detection and attribution science, regional climate impacts, and the distinction…
Ecological organization, energy flow, food webs, biodiversity, succession, and species interactions. Covers trophic structure, primary productivity, nutrient transfer efficiency, keystone and foundation species, ecosystem services, carrying capacity,…
Distributional analysis of environmental benefits and burdens across communities. Covers the historical origins of environmental justice in the U.S. civil rights tradition, siting and exposure disparities, indigenous rights and land stewardship, climate…
Assessing anthropogenic environmental impacts — pollution pathways, habitat destruction and fragmentation, land-use change, invasive species, overharvest, and extinction debt. Covers environmental impact assessment (EIA) methodology, exposure-effect…
Designing interventions, systems, and policies for sustainability. Covers renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal), sustainable agriculture (agroecology, permaculture, integrated pest management), conservation strategies (protected areas, corridors,…
Birding by sight and sound — gestalt, song and call vocabulary, behavioral and habitat clues, and the discipline of producing eBird-grade records. Covers the vocabulary of bird field marks, the primary categories of vocalization, the habits of…
Reading a habitat — identifying biome, plant community, food web structure, successional stage, and the keystone species that hold the system together. Covers the elevational and latitudinal gradients that Humboldt first mapped, the structural vocabulary for…
Identifying species in the field using dichotomous keys, gestalt recognition, diagnostic features, and habitat context. Covers the working identification protocol from first encounter through confidence-rated record, the vocabulary of field marks, the…
The discipline of keeping a field notebook — words, pictures, numbers, metadata, and questions captured during sustained outdoor observation. Covers the Laws notebook method, the sit-spot practice, phenology recording, sketch-first-name-later discipline, and…
Following what organisms do — behavior, metamorphosis, host-plant relationships, social dynamics, and the long-form ethograms that reveal how species actually live. Covers the vocabulary of ethology, the structure of a life cycle, the classic categories of…
Naming and classifying organisms through binomial nomenclature, the Linnaean hierarchy, type specimens, and the rules governing taxonomic authority and revision. Covers the structure of a scientific name, the ranks from domain to subspecies, the codes (ICZN,…
Design heuristics for three-dimensional interaction — input modalities (6DoF controllers, gaze, gesture, voice), selection and manipulation techniques (ray-cast, virtual hand, go-go, world-in-miniature), navigation (teleport, continuous, redirected walking),…
Tracking and registration fundamentals for augmented reality. Covers the six classes of tracking (marker, markerless, inertial, SLAM, outside-in, inside-out), registration error sources (calibration, latency, drift, distortion), the Azuma definition of AR,…
Embodied computing and constructionist pedagogy for spatial computing education. Covers Papert's constructionism, Logo's turtle geometry, body-scale learning, Krueger's responsive environments, microworlds, and the translation between physical action and…
Design heuristics for immersive environments — VR worlds, AR scenes, CAVE installations, responsive rooms. Covers scale and presence, lighting and atmosphere, sight-line composition, acoustic design, comfort-first layout, player/visitor flow, environmental…
Spatial reasoning fundamentals for three-dimensional thinking, coordinate navigation, mental rotation, cross-section visualization, and voxel geometry. Covers the cognitive primitives that underlie block-based world-building, CAD modeling, volumetric design,…
Block-based world-building paradigms — voxel grids, modular prefabs, LEGO/Minecraft-style assembly, parametric voxel art, and the engineering mindset of building from discrete units. Covers load-bearing patterns, spanning gaps, blueprint-to-build translation,…
Understanding how algorithmic systems shape what users see, know, and do -- from recommendation feeds to search ranking to credit scoring to hiring software. Covers the mechanics of recommendation systems, algorithmic bias and its sources, personalization's…
Understanding how digital systems actually work -- hardware, operating systems, networks, and information representation -- at a depth sufficient to reason about them rather than just use them. Covers CPU/RAM/storage/GPU roles, what an OS does, how packets…