NSC301c and TC310 - Originality in the Arts and Sciences Fall 2009
Syllabus
Course Schedule
Handouts
- Daily Lecture Notes
- Inquiries
- Skill Modules
Contact Us
CNS Student Page
UT Austin

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 4 hours for each module. Additional skill modules will be added regularly..
Note: The files are in Adobe Acrobat format. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

Instructions for Skill Modules.pdf

Required OAS Skill Modules

 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 tow or three, the individual who will grade it is listed in parentheses

 Interview someone who has published a scholarly article (UGTA)
Learning to Use SciFinder Scholar, the science search engine (Vanessa Williams)
Developing the ability to estimate orders of magnitude, calculator-free (Pat Lawlor)
Isolating Microorganisms from the Environment(Grace Eckhoff)
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 (Pat Lawlor)
Using Excel to Manage Data and Perform Statistics Calculations (UGTA)
Using Applets to perform neat applied math operations (Omar Gonzales)
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 (Vicki Chang)
How to read an article in a scientific research journal (Prianka Singapura)
An introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Ivo Popov)
An introduction to LateX (Will Frierson)
Take an NIH on-line short course on ethical treatment of human subjects (Grace Eckhoff)
Thinking Inside the Pixel: Taking a tour of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (Elaine Sedenberg)
Understanding Social Insects--Everything you need to know about honors dorm behavior (Omar Gonzales)
Common biology laboratory problems and how to manage them (Alissa Shelton)
An Introduction to Probability (Pat Lawlor)
Getting to know a professor by chatting up an article he or she wrote (Meagan Keefe)
The Selfish Gene--Having a deep conversation about a controversial biology topic (Jennifer Wygoda)
An Introduction to Mathematica (Ivo Popov)
Applying mathematica to a Diffusion Simulation(Will Frierson)

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

Spend some time at TED listining to Inspiring talks by great minds (Maggie Cheu)
GramR R Good 4 U (Elaine Sedenberg)
Keeping that second language sharp (Meagan Keefe)
Using the Oxford English Dictionary (Alissa Shelton)
Visiting the HRC (Brooke Hunter)
Visiting the LBJ Library (Margaret Clemons)
Visiting the Blanton Museum (David Bistline)
Visting the Writing Center with your inquiry (Shreeya Popat)
Google Docs--Sharing is Caring (David Bistline)
Practice not going bankrupt in college--learning to manage your $40 a week budget(Margaret Clemons)
Study Abroad--Everybody's doing it, why not you (Christopher Smith)
Do you dare uncover your Texas legislature in action (Prianka Singapura)
Getting to know a professor by chatting up an article he or she wrote (Meagan Keefe)

Getting Out and About--choose one, the individual who will grade it is listed in parentheses

Embrace Austin--getting out and about the city(Chris Smith)
Losing the Freshman 15--Exercise with an Honors Student (Vicki Chang)
Take a trip to the Wildflower Center (Vanessa Williams)
Fight the Power--Watch and Join Social Activists (Maggie Cheu)
Partaking in Campus Culture--who says Paganini is dead (Shreeya Popat)