Professor David Laude

NSC301c and TC310 - Originality in the Arts and Sciences Fall 2008
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OAS Skill Modules

Here you will find the Skill Modules for OAS. You will need to complete about one per week and should allow about 2 to 3 hours for each module. Additional skill modules will be added regularly..
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Required OAS Skill Modules

Instructions for Required Skill Modules.pdf
Using statistics to determine something about your personality
Reading a popular book on academia
Attending a scholarly lecture and chatting about it with a friend
Learning to use the general libraries at UT Austin
Creating a bibliography, to be completed for the the humanitites inquiry
Learning to use a measuring device, to be completed for the science inquiry

Elective Math and Science Skill Modules--choose three, the individual who will grade it is listed in parentheses

 Interview someone who has published a scholarly article (UGTA)
Messing with a Mathematical Forumla That Interests You (Young Suk Lee)
Learning to Use SciFinder Scholar, the science search engine (Vanessa Williams)
Developing the ability to estimate orders of magnitude, calculator-free (Gene Dennis)
Isolating Microorganisms from the Environment(Jennifer Wygoda)
Things to Consider in Selecting a Freshman Research Initiative Research Group (Jennifer Wygoda)
Fermi Questions--Another take on estimation, so don't do both skill modules (Joyce Byun)
Using Excel to Manage Data and Perform Statistics Calculations (UGTA)
Using Applets to perform neat applied math operations (Melissa Brady)
A boring statistics homework set that will help you brush up on your statistics (UGTA)
Some Deep Thinking on How to Control Variables in an Experiment (Naeem Husain)
How to read an article in a scientific research journal (Naeem Husain)
Navigating the World of Abstract Mathematics (Gilbert Bernstein)
Modeling in the World of Biological Mathematics (Melissa Brady)
An introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Gene Dennis)
An introduction to LateX (Gilbert Bernstein)

Elective Arts and Humanities Skill Modules--choose three, the individual who will grade it is listed in parentheses

Spend some time at TED listining to Inspiring talks by great minds (Elaine Sedenberg)
GramR R Good 4 U (Elaine Sedenberg)
Attend a lecture in the Joynes Reading Room--this is in addition to the required scholarly lecture skill module (Srimoyee Ghosh)
Attend a Music Performance sponsored by the Butler School of Music (Charlotte Beall)
Keeping that second language sharp (Charlotte Beall)
Using the Oxford English Dictionary (Brooke Hunter)
Visiting the HRC (Brooke Hunter)
Visiting the Benson (Brooke Hunter)
Visting the Writing Center with your inquiry (Chris Smith)
Embrace Austin--getting out and about the city(Chris Smith)
Understanding Science Policy Issues (Richa Gupta)
Planning a Road Trip (Young Suk Lee)